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>> trace gallagher, thank you. >> jon: well be back with a look at the sky scraper that was the tallest building for decades and opened on this day in history. y three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do? drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement™, youd get your whole car back. i guess they dont want you driving around on three wheels. smart. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, well replace the full value of your c...

The life size market is offered of the villain. theyre made of 24 karat gold and weigh 33 pounds. it took a team 33 months to make the prototype. the store is selling the mask to mark 40 years of the release of the movie. on this day in 1931, the empire state building opened in midtown manhattan. it rose 102 floors. the heads of g.m. and chrysler are have said to make a bet who could build a taller sky scraper. despite a late start, the empire state building won. they added more than four storie...

Today was the deadline for the department of justice to give evidence of president trumps unproven claim that president obama ordered president trumps sky scraper to be wiretapped. what are you hearing from the house intelligence committee and the department of justice. >> reporter: the department of justice asked for more time. they said they simply were not ready to tump over more evidence. the house intelligence committee said they could have at least a week but no more than that or they woul...

This next month. the president believes that this is not an issue for the federal government. its an issue for the states to decide. the human rights campaign, the largest lgbtq organization in the country believes this is indeed a civil right and as such it belongs in the purview of the federal government. i asked sean spicer about that. he said its not whether its a civil right. its the appropriate venue. that believe its the states. >> thanks, john roberts. about 20 years ago or so, a small g...

Residents of trump tower is a fortress ringed by tight security, the center of an increasingly worrisome question. how do you secure a 58-story sky scraper smack in the center of one of the worlds busiest cities? it is a question made even more difficult by the fact the builds atrium is a public space, increasingly difficult to monitor, law enforcement officials say. and the building itself, a target as recently as this year of a suction cup climber. seen as potential vulnerable from any number ...

You can expect volatility between now and the inauguration. every time donald trump comes up with a policy. everybody looks at it and determines which companies will do well and which will suffer. >> trumps transition website now a .gov address. you look at the bio and it talks about his trump properties around the world, his hotel, golf courses. thats not something we necessarily saw back when president obama first took office. his bio didnt mention the books. >> yeah. >> do you see conflict of...

An orderly process and dread ited emergency officials. but we are hearing the story of people escaping. one guy reportedly said he strapped his disabled mother to his back as was trying to escape the building as well. >> the fireworks celebrations went on as planned after that. reporter: they did. the show did go on. it was certainly quite the contrast. on one side of what is called the khalifa lake, you have the towering inferno, if you will, on the other side of the way you have the tallest sk...

Down two train stations in the process. and smoke and flames still rising at this hour after that massive sky scraper in dubai, the fire that happened there. coming up, a building developer who lives in abu dhabi joins me with insight into what she saw in that video. sure, tv has evolved over the years.

Mexican authorities said the blast and flames have killed at least four. dozens more were hurt and 300 evacuated. the mexican oil authority said cruise ship size fire boats have been dousing the flames the giant arcs of water apparently doing little. the oil authority did not say how the fire broke out on what it called a processing platform and said the platform was not pumping directly from the seabed. the blast just days before the fifth anniversary of the deep water horizon explosion. the pi...

Many men leaping in to the water. mexican authorities said the blast and flames have killed at least four. dozens more were hurt and 300 evacuated. the mexican oil authority said cruise ship size fire boats have been dousing the flames the giant arcs of water apparently doing little. the oil authority did not say how the fire broke out on what it called a processing platform and said the platform was not pumping directly from the seabed. the blast just days before the fifth anniversary of the de...