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china has plans for 22 new strat fearic sky scrapers in the next five years.ut with the exception of the new one world trade center and the just-begin two world trade center, no super tall buildings are planned for the u.s.. >> it's extraordinary how the export of this building type that was born in the invention of the american city has now... is now being embraced around the world. >> osgood: but of course means no matter where on earth the next tallest building stands, its foundation will be here. in america. >> we are in the toilet, my friend. >> osgood: next, you think you've got a tough job. >> the toilet. think maui. hey, you made your own lunch. yep! (mom) i'm so proud of you. the bus is here, gotta go mom. okay hunny, have a great day. look in your bag, made you something. (announcer) it's more than just that great peanut taste, choosing jif is a simple way to show someone how much you care. choosey moms, choose jif. we're obsessed with giving our clients an amazing mortgage experience. [ joe ] we're the madonias from macomb township, michigan. we nee

replacing the empire state building as the tallest sky scraper in the world.er six feet shorter completed in 1973. the main architect drew up more than 100 conceptions before his plans were accepted. >> it is interesting to trace the critical opinion of the world trade center which started out excited at the ambition and the scope and the minimalist expression of modernism. once the complex was completed it was rather negative. the architectural community began to just simply ignore the towers rather than to appreciate them for their great moment in american history. >> donald trump agrees. >> the world trade center was not appreciated as architect . but in my opinion, it was appreciated as substance. it was big, powerful, bold. it really represented a stronger time for the country. >> there were people who thought they were too stark. nothing ornamental about them. but i think the city of new york came to love 'em. i certainly did. >> going to the top of the trade center became a part of the experience of new york. the idea of seeing out to infinity had a pop

your screen, scraper, a bulldozer, and then you have to pay the individual to operate. i am just hoping that h r c or someone overseas this project. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is dan oliver. i wanted to show my appreciation. in 2008 we had 60 employees. over the past two years we have had to cut back because of the economy. we're down to 20 employees right now. i appreciate that. a lot of work at san francisco general. carrying on what mike said, last year we had a charles schwab cup project. it was a situation where we did 20 percent of the work, and 80% of the work came out of town. they are making $10 per hour and we got the prevailing wage union pay. it sounds like you guys are going the right way. it makes a huge difference for us. without this we would not be here. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am with bright line. i want to thank supervisor avalos and the supervisors for calling this meeting because what we have is a very local interests for it the community partners and la

or three guys a time sitting around on a bed around guys beds and stuff like that checking out the scraper what i liked about it was the fact that the officers hated the. everything had to be good they had been going to have to do something about this that was cooked tight mimeographed printed the g.i. underground press exploded. the time travel adventure ordered jordi last harass washington fort benning georgia air force for your bomb or text or just for the texas team press it's published by a group of radicals soldiers stationed at this army base and we used to distribute it clandestinely on bags from all around and leave bunches of them in barracks is would go through the night and leave month footlockers if you were caught distributing literature there was a court martial friends shortly after the first issue was published the g.i. who founded the press gypsy peterson was pulled over by fort hood police and a vacuum. and claimed to follow the remnants of a marijuana arrested him for possession of marijuana in an attempt to suppress his move following it turned a trial in the texas cou

> new york's grand new skyline will be complete in 2015 with five architecturally innovative sky scrapers forming the revitalized commercial hub. at the center, the 9/11 memorial and museum. >> a constant reminder of not only what we have endured, but also of our ability to come together in the wake of tragedy in support of the bonds we all share. >> in the footprints of the towers two enormous pools. each one ache neither size with 30-foot water falls on all sides. >> i imagine the surface of the hudson river being torn open and the water rushing into these two voids. they are makers of absence. >> the names of those lost on september 11th including in washington and shanksville as well as in the 1993 attack on the towers are listed in bronze. the site will also include a performing art center. but it is the museum which will open next year and the memorial to be dedicated sunday which are expected to draw millions of visitors every year. abc7 news will cover special coverage of the commemoration all weekend. starting on friday, wayne freedman will report from new york city and lilian ki

competition for the world's tallest building is really a part and parcel of the history of the sky scraperspecially the romance ever the skyscraper. >> carol willis is the curator of new york's skyscraper museum. >> the skyscraper is an urban building that contains the the commodity of space that can be used for businesses or residences or hotels and tourism in the kind of economic mix of a city, a great city like new york. >> when the great depression struck, companies and the arc text they hired scaled back their more grandiose plans. the empire state remains the tallest skyscraper in new york, not to mention the world, for more tn 40 years. but my mid-century people were thinking to build big again." there had been plans to develop some sort of world trade center in lower manhattan since the 1940s, but it wasn't until the early '60s that the location of the world trade center was finally agreed upon. >> essentially it was the electronics district for new york city, called radio row. that's what had to be displaced to create the world trade center. >> dr. sarah henry, chief curator of th

you can see where the flag is at the base and the beautiful sky scraper that's going up right now. they are expected to unfurl another flag, a large flag, any time now that will be there. the workers were here for a moment of silence yesterday so they can be a part of the commemoration ceremonies as well. so many will not be present for tomorrow's event. alex? >> peter alexander wigt there at ground zero. thank you very much for that comprehensive report, peter. >>> former president george w. bush took part in a dedication at the pentagon this morning. it happened just a short time ago. former defense secretary donald rumsfeld and his wife were also present. president bush will be attending the flight 93 memorial dedication later on today near shanksville, pennsylvania, and he'll also be joining in tomorrow's service at ground zero here in new york. >>> the official dedication ceremony for the national memorial to the victims of united flight 93 take place this afternoon. 40 passengers and crew members died there. we are live in shanksville. mara, tell us what's planned there, just

i mean right now asian countries are doing the most advanced skyd can scrapers and this would you berfect moment to says this is an american building on this piece of land where americe was attacked. why don't we respond with theap most advanced skyscraper in the world. we haven't quite doneth that.n everything there is so much better than the handling building in new york. r and given the reality of life that this has to be economicall viable and there have been so many players and so many forces that work here, i think it's actually pretty remarkable that it has come off as it appears to be. >> i would add to this and i agree with much of what you say, all of what you say actually, and what is architecture? is it a building?ur is it a room? is it a facade of an object? or is it a piece of the think is? c they're just different scales of the same design problem. i think that we ought to feel really good that we advanced the nature and the scale of architecture at its biggest level which is city building and that was remarkable and it's been done in a way that we should feel extremel

and it will soon be the tallest sky scraper in the country rising next to where the twin towers onceng at all of the development that is going on speaking of the developer of the world trade center, larry silver stein. i asked him what he thinks now when he looks out the window at the rebirth. >> the progress that is being made it's very exciting, stimulating, encouraging, and i think every once in a while back to the challenges that existed and those going forward, it's really an enormous pleasure and satisfaction to see what is happening. it's taking place, the shape of it, the size of it, it's very encouraging. martha: a lot of people felt that nothing should be built here, that the whole area should be a memorial. what were your thoughts on that? >> martha, i remember speaking to many of the members of the different families who lost loved ones and the fact that they had no remains because their bodies were vapor rised this is hallowed ground. and nothing could be built on this site. it was brutal, absolutely brutal. i had so many new yorkers say, you have to rebuild this, you ca

. >> and sky scraper is the hit single. you said this was special for you.been fine. but it was important to you about this one, the words in particular. >> skyscraper symbolized the journey i was on. i'm standing here today, tall and confident, like a skyscraper. i wanted to come out with a song that explained my journey, rather than coming out with a dance song that wasn't going to say anything to my fans. this song, it inspired my fans. >> i know sitting with you and hearing from your fans the lovatics, you must have heard from them, too. so many especially girls, who said, somebody finally understands me. an eating disorder. bipolar, cutting. all those things. it's something that -- how has it helped you being so open about it? >> coming forward and talking about it has not only helped me personally, because -- you know a lot of times when you have a problem or an issue, it becomes the elephant in the room. now it's like hey, i'm eating now. you know it's like not awkward. it's easy for me to joke about and for me to really have that sense of i don't kno