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Efforts if u.s. companies want to offer money and help and expertise. >> it depends. everybody finds a different way that they want to give. and, you know, so many rules and regulations, obviously, even for giving money away that everybody really to look into the best way to do it for themselves and, of course, the friends of notre dame, the american friends and all sorts of friends of nonprofits. so, i think that people are already involved. >> as you probably heard, hallie, the commitments for...

According to the fire officials here, the estimate at least two years to even come up with a plan for how theyre going to do the restoration. what that renovation would look like. would a new cathedral look like the old cathedral? they just dont know yet. so, when i asked the u.s. ambassador to france about that, she said it is impossible to tell until they finish the assessment. the folks in here are working on that. i also asked her about what she describes as a dueluge of offer from americans...

Rob: we are getting a firsthand look how one company says they would build donald trumps southern border wall faster, better and cheaper. jillian: construction could take only 14 months, saving american money. >> reporter: 219 miles of border fence, $3 billion, that is what this arizona company promises to build in 14 months. >> we have the technology to produce a mile a day and if the contracts are bigger we could gear up to our threshold of two miles a day. >> reporter: that compares to a mile...

>> laura: quoted in rolling stone today, a harvard >> quoted in rolling stone today at harvard architectural historian said the following. the building was so overburdened

The most modern methods to protect into this ever happening again. heather: how do you rebuild it but at the same time give credence to the beautiful architecture and what they were able to do 800 years ago with that roof? >> the artisans who worked on the original notre dame cathedral new when they were going into stonemasons and woodcarvers, knew this would be a project they would never see completed in their lifetime. we are talking about construction that took two centuries. with the technol...

>> reporter: in many ways, the rescuers did gods work, rushing to save the irreplaceable relics ensconced at notre dame, some 2,000 years old. the rector says they had to break open a chest in the treasury to get the objects. paris mayor describing a human chain of first responders passing the tunic of st. louis, a nail and piece of wood said to be from christs cross, as well as the crown of thorns. relics among the rescued artifacts transferred today to the louvre for restoration. amazingly, th...

Its frame largely decimated. the fire mercifully spared the churchs famous facade, the rose windows, the bell towers and the gargoyles, already, hundreds of millions of euros have been donated from across the world to rebuild notre dame, rebuild because that is what the french expect. as the washington post james macaulay writes, the challenge now will not be to rebuild the structure, but what it represented, the security, the safety the eternity, it may be only partially possible as victor hugo...

Forest of timber that was in there to hold the structure up. and great heat will damage stone badly. it will make it friable, and it will make it soft and powdery. so, they are going to need to assess all the upper parts of the building that were exposed to the fire and understand how long they will last. how badly they were damaged. >> you said there might be a silver lining here. that this tragedy really could help people realize that monuments like this cathedral are fragile. what do you hope...

Its frame largely decimated. the fire mercifully spared the churchs famous facade, the rose windows, the bell towers and the gargoyles, already, hundreds of millions of euros have been donated from across the world to rebuild notre dame, rebuild because that is what the french expect. as the washington post james macaulay writes, the challenge now will not be to rebuild the structure, but what it represented, the security, the safety the eternity, it may be only partially possible as victor hugo...

In the second world war when the cathedral was damaged, a bomb hit the roof and the entire roof melted and the church burned on the inside much like this one, it was the rockefellers and other wealthy families and other americans who really stepped up to help rebuild the churches. we have a great history in many different places. >> all right. liz, chris, thank you both so much. we just looked at live images and we can see the tour boats are just starting up again. this being holy week, there ar...