hickey attempts to dispel the many myths intertwined with the history of 1812. this event took place at the detroit historical museum. >> good evening. my name is toby voight, and i am the director of education and interpretation here at the detroit historical society, and on behalf of the society, i would like to welcome you to tonight's very special presentation. since 1921, the mission of the detroit historical society has been to educate and inspire members of our community by preserving and portraying our region's shared history. we do this on a daily basis with our dynamic visits at our museum and at the dawson great lakes museum on belisle. we also do this through program experiences, like tonight's by centennial of the war of 1812 lecture series. lastly, we're also the stewards of over 250,000 artifacts related to the history of detroit and the region, so thank you for joining us tonight, and, again, welcome. now, it's my pleasure to introduce to you the person that made today's presentation possible, dr. jim mcconnell and his wife have been active in hi

i'll ask secretary hickey to provide some detail. but i, like you, i think when a veteran picks up a phone and calls v.a. there ought to be someone there that answers or if he or she chooses to come in on line that it ought to have information that's useful to them. that's easily discovered so they don't have to run through a series of traps to find what they're looking for. we owe them and that's the first step of any service organization. that's our intent here. so let me call on secretary hickey. >> senator johans, thank you for your question, and i appreciate your comment earlier about e-benefits. that is part and parcel of our multipronged approach in our capability about being able to converse with that veteran and the time and the method they choose. we have surveyed our veterans and 73% of them want to meet us on line and that's part of that. let me tell you about the two new pieces of functionality that we have measured outcomes from our j.d. powers voice of the veterans survey. the first is virtual hold. that means in a vet

here tommy hickey and michael -l owe riley spend their days scaling two foot wide steel beams.of an elite four-man crew of iron workers called connectors. >> we connect the actual steel structure of the building. the steel skeleton and all the other iron workers come in behind us. >> reporter: two enormous cranes lower the beams into police and then hickey and o'reilly bolt them together. >> what are we doing now? sitting at the 100th floor. >> reporter: how dangerous is it being up here? >> anything can happen. especially with us. fingers, toes, falls. it's very dangerous. and the heights. we've just got to watch each other's backs. that's why i say they're like my brother. i'm with them more than my wife. >> reporter: the day we visited they were raising the cocoon, a steel and net structure that surrounds the building for safety so debris doesn't drop 1, 200 feet to the street below. working seven days a week, they are now just six feet away from overtaking the empire state building as the tallest skyscraper in new york-- a status the twin towers held before they fell. >> it

>> well, i'll turn to secretary hickey for the details. i would say what these charts don't reflect, senator, is that in the last three years we've taken on some other projects that aren't accounted for here. gi bill. requirement to get that program up and running. and today we have over 600,000 youngsters in college under an automated system that didn't exist in 2009. and i think we all recall that first semester we had to do everything manually and it was not the prettiest processing event. but we did that manually, got 173,000 youngsters in a school and on their path to the future. at the same time we began building this automation tool for the g.i. bill. by april we had the first part of that tool out fielded, and we've added four or five more programs to make it more productive. we'll get better over time. it's hard for me to give you a day and a month when this quality factor will meet any of our expectations. but we set 2015 as the date in which we would have the backlog solved and the quality at 98%. that's what we're focused on. i

hickey will be able to join us again on july 17th when it is once again surrendered to the british. we were with bill porter this afternoon. the director of the state historic part. when professor hickey and his wife are there they can drink coffee with official michigan war of 1812 by centennial coffee mugs. there's one for he and his wife. and in answer to a shameless plug. we have them available for purchase for only $7. we'll be at the table in the back. more importantly, please buy the forgotten conflict: the war of 1812. by centennial edition. wonderful book. also, i absolutely love don't give up the ship. it's a fascinating read with more than he could tell us here this evening. >> on the myths. >> on the myths. >> i'll have four or five books up for sale if you're interested. i'll be happy to sign and inscribe. >>> the single largest and most impressive civil war monument in washington to a military officer is the statute of general grant. ian though he was president of the united states, it's really his service as the commanding yen of the union army that made him famous it

when professor hickey and his wife connie are there they can drink coffee on the grand hotel porch with official michigan war of 1812 by centennial coffee mugs. there's one for he and his wife. and in answer to a shameless plug. we have them available for purchase for only $7. and david hales and i will be at the table in the back. more importantly, please buy the forgotten conflict: the war of 1812. buy centennial edition. $20. wonderful book. also, i absolutely love don't give up the ship. it is just a fascinating read with more than he could tell us here this evening. >> on the myths. >> on the myths. >> i'll have four or five books for sale out there if you're interested. i'll be happy to sign and inscribe. >>> from the colonial era prohibition to today, drinking for better or worse has always been a part of the american landscape. tonight, live on american history tv, a history of alcohol in america. watch our simulcast of "back story" with ed ares, and brian gallow regale of tales of beer and spirits in america. tonight at 8:00 eastern, part of american history tv this weekend on

they told me i was going to do this, >> reporter: hickey is a fourth generation iron worker.ey's father was injured building seven world trade center in 1985. >> that ended my dreams of being an iron worker right then and there, and then 9/11 changed all that. >> reporter: that's because seven world trade also fell that day. >> when the building came down, it happened for no reason, so let me go in and rebuild it to honor him, you know. >> reporter: the higher they go, the more punishing the conditions become. it's 10 to 15 degrees colder here than at street level. high wind and fog often halt construction. down below, 3500 workers are welding beams, laying metal rods and pouring concrete, building what the architects say will be the strongest skyscraper in the world. >> a lot of pride, yeah. and all these workers. everybody is proud of what they're doing. >> reporter: nancy cordes, cbs news, atop one world trade center. >>> coming after your local news on "cbs this morning," more on the murder charge against george zimmerman we'll hear from zimmerman's attorney as well as pa

i don't have quite as pungent a metaphor as the hickey one, butly in fact say that you had this hugef that began in the morning in europe, which was more dramatic than we've seen in months. the european markets are off 2 to 2.5%. that triggered a lot of future selling, that kind of set the market up. yes, there has been this sort of spring correction, you know, the opposite of the spring fling, but as you said, profits have been stronger than expected and i think they're going to continue to be stronger than expected for a very, very long time. and i don't see in the economic data, other than, yes, a lack of unbelievably robust job creation, which has never been the case in the prior months, so i do think this is kind of a november redux. we're going to have these moments where financial markets globally get spooked by the civility of the european system. it triggers an unnecessary and an unwarranted sell-off in the u.s. and in some degree to asian equities you have to ride that out. >> okay, ride it out. phil, are you bull or a bear right now? i'm going to stick to my guns. you saw

i will miss the fact that i can easily park on hickey walk because it is a ghost town. when i go downtown, i drive right to that spot where the tennis club is, because i know there's a spot available to me almost every time of the day, because that area is not used at all. the environmental impact of that is right now is far worse than any impact that is going to come from this fabulous development that will create jobs. the stranglehold that is held on all these projects that come before you through every single step of the way -- e.r. are -- eir , planning commission, board of supervisors, that hold up the job for years and years and years, that keeps workers from working, keeps revenue from being built, it is just devastating. that these projects can be held for so long until they become economically unviable or until developers throw up their hands and say, you know, is that worth it to me to go through all of this, the hearings, the court proceedings, the supervisors. is just incomprehensible that this could happen -- it is just incomprehensible that this could hap

. >> reporter: tommy hickey ask his partner, michael o'reilly are part of a small team of ironworkers the first fastenering after two giant cranes lower steel beams into place. >> all the other ironworkers come in behind us, bolt it up, weld it, plumb it up, get everything nice, deck it. >> reporter: thanks to their labor, the building is now 1244 feet high, just 6 feet shy of overtaking the empire state building as the tallest building in new york. obviously, you don't have a fear of heights but was there ever a moment where you went, woe? >> i have an understanding with gravity, i'm not going to test it out and it's not going to pull me down. >> reporter: the reward is the best view in the city with all of manhattan spread out to the north. to the west on a clear day, they can see past new jersey to pennsylvania. on the floors below, 3500 workers are laying cement and marble, welding floors and installing windows. the project, once estimated to cost $2 billion, has risen to $3.8 billion. >> they're erecting perimeter columns, internal columns. >> reporter: patrick foye is director o

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a shout out to hickey freeman. that was nice to mention them. great job.n usa to make the nice threads there. okay, skip, another american guy. thank you for watching us tonight. i'm bill o'reilly. remember the spin stops right here we are definitely looking out for you. captioned by closed captioning services, inc

a shout out to hickey freeman. that was nice to mention them. great job.n usa to make the nice threads there. okay, skip, another american guy. thank you for watching us tonight. i'm bill