nbc's joe fryar gives us a look at the apple campus 2. >> reporter: from high above, it looks like a giant spaceship that has come to rest in the heart of silicon valley. but no need to worry. this is an earthly creation, the soon to be home for thousands of apple employees. >> some people would say that it is overboard but i think it is fitting for are apple to do something like this because they consider themselves trend setters and innovators within the tech industry. >> reporter: matthew roberts took the video with his drone. he has been documenting the construction of apple campus 2 for nearly a year posting new footage each month. his latest video shows the main office building, that that massive circle, is coated with solar panels. roberts says a majority of the roof now appears to be covered. progress is apparent across the campus with the buildings largely built, crews are focusing on cosmetic features, new walkways and lighting poles and rows and rows of trees. these grounds are designed to feel less like an oe more like a park, the wish of apple's late founder, steve jobs.

here in couper tin owe actually known as apple campus 2. >> ac 2. the company said employees will be moving into the new office sometime this year, and now new footage taken from drone giving us a stunning new view of the tech giant's futuristic house. here is nbc's joe with more. >> reporter: from high above it looks like a giant space ship that has come to rest in the heart of silicon valley. but no need to worry, this is an earthly creation the soon to be home for thousands of apple employees. >> some people would say that it's over board, but i think it's fitting for apple to do something like this because they consider themselves trend setters and innovators within the tech industry. >> reporter: matthew roberts took the video with a his drone. he has been documenting the construction of the campus for nearly a year posting new footage each month. his latest video shows the main office building, massive circle coated with solar panels. roberts says a majority of the roof now appears to be covered. progress is apparent across the campus with the

. >>> apple's ceo tim cook said that apple employees would start moving into the massive new spaceship campus in cupertino sometime in 2017. well, of course, it's january. we wanted to find out just what's going on. kpix 5 reporter betty yu has answers. >> reporter: allen, i learned from city officials today that this apple spaceship campus behind me will be ready for its first employees to move in, in the spring of this year. locals have been driving by this massive project for about three years now with a lot of curiosity and in the latest drone video, you can check out this monstrous complex and all of the progress it's made. it is soon to be finished without a doubt. today the cupertino vice mayor tells me that this move will happen in phases in a ramped up fashion to eventually house more than 10,000 apple employees. now, we reached out to apple, and it wouldn't comment on the specifics of the move and also wouldn't commit to a specific move-in month or season but did say it expects this spaceship to be ready for workers in, quote, early 2017. i also learned from city officials today tha

he has been documenting the construction of apple campus 2 for nearly a year posting new footage each video shows the main office building, that massive circle is coated with solar panels. a majority of the roof now appears to be covered. progress is apparent across the campus with the buildings largely built, crews are focussing on cosmetic features, new walk ways and lighting polls and rows and rows of trees. they're designed to feel less like an office and more like a park. the wish of apple's late founder steve jobs. >> apple has grown like a weed. >> he personally visited the city council to pitch the campus in 2011 shortly before his death. >> and it's clear that we need to build a new so we're just out of space. >> in all, they house at least 12,000 employees with 2.8 million square feet of office space. the land spans 176 acres, enough territory to house about 133 football fields. a work place unlike any other quickly take shape and from above that shape looks just like a ufo. apple has not released any information about exactly when new employees will start moving into the ne

. >> at that time one of the drivers ferrying apple employees to their campus was scott peebles.was trying to save money for a rental apartment nearby but at the time he was living in his car using an inflatable mattress. >> if people would know this, the corporations they work for, they would be aghast that their employees living in a car or van. >> i just close this door and say good night. >> we saw the parallel lives. near luxury houses, trailers parked in the streets. service employees living so differently from the people they serve. and all over the country there are business leaders saying there are times on bring new ideas to american workers and their wages. and this is a man named mark bertolini. he is the son of an auto worker, successful ceo of a goliath company, etna health care. he says it has to begin with corporate leaders who want to learn the lives of their workers. >> where do they live? what are their lives like? it took six months to get the data. when i did, i was embarrassed. >> he said he was surprised to discover that some of his full time employees were

drone video of apple's new campus. looking to make it completely sustainable on renewable energy.nd that's the news update this hour. i will send it back to you, brian. >> cool headquarter building. >> it is. it's beautiful. >> you could run laps all day. >> all day. round and round and round. >> never get anywhere. thanks. >> it's huge. >> now i'm depressed. the dow is down triple digits right now, off 165 points. keep in mind, five or six companies are responsible for the majority of the losses in the dow. industrials, however, are amongst some of the worst performing groups. big industrial etf is down about 1%. meantime, the oil market closing for the day. who better to take us through it than jackie d at the cnbc commodity desk? >> unimpressive close for crude oil here, slightly higher on the session. we've got a tightened range here. the support is around 52. the resistance is coming in around 54. what's going to get us out of this range? some traders telling me some details out of opec, that the follow-through is happening with that production cut. that could potentially tak

. >> reporter: at that time one of drivers ferrying apple employees to their campus was scott peebles to save money for a rental apartment someplace nearby. but at the time was living in his car using an inflatable mattress. >> i have the air pump right here, and i just turn the ignition switch on to accessory. and th i would pump up the -- it always needs air. i have my blanket he in case it gets cold and i put the visor in the front so it blocks out some of the light. i mean, if people would know this, if corporations or businesses they work for, they would probably be aghast that their employees were living in a car or van. >> he used to be one of the high-tech employees, and wrote a kind of apology. >> i take off my glasses. put the cover on. and then i just close this door and say good night. >> we're a company's ambassador, we're welcoming all their customers, we treat their employees well. >> when i first started, there were paid holidays, a lot of times you got bonuses. some of them, it's like a regular job, it's just that you're a contract worker. you were treated like one of

. >>> apple's ceo tim cook has said apple employees would start moving into the massive new spaceship campus in cupertino sometime in 2017. we sent betty yu to find out when it could begin. >> reporter: city officials say this campus will be ready for its first employees to move in, in the spring of this year. locals have been looking at this complex for three years with curiosity. in the latest video you can see that this monster complex is about to be finished. today cupertino's vice mayor says it will happen in phases to eventually house more than 10,000 apple employees. apple had no comment on the specifics of the move and also would not commit to a specific move-in date but it did say it expects the spaceship to be ready for workers in, quote, early 2017. in cupertino, betty yu, kpix 5. ♪[ music ] >>> it's 4:44. let's get another check on weather with roberta. >> we're just focusing on what's going to happen this weekend. good news about all this is we have some major rain coming but it's not a commute warning. >> yeah. >> so that's going to be really beneficial because you don't want t

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