actually, before that i had woken up to the radio that had broken news that a plane ran into one of the towers. a secret service man came to the door and he didn t know. it became every minute new information came out. so we ended up leaving campus because my entire detail was very aware that we could possibly be an outsider in that. so we left and went to a day s inn in new haven. for me my secret service were all out of new york, and one of the their office was in world trade center 7, tower 7. so it was an extremely humanizing moment for all of us where we were all watching this unfold and they were calling their families and crying together. people often say kind of snide things about having security and they became my brothers all of a sudden because we were going
feeling of progress. past the marble walls of ground level it s a quick elevator ride to the sky lobby on the 64th floor, the spectacular views a big reason why the tower is now about 60% leased, just months away from opening as the rest of the 16-acre site takes shape. from this 20th floor construction elevator platform we get an excellent bird s eye view of the site including tower 7 completed in 2006 and 100% under. down below tower two has been stopped at ground level, they are waiting for the other buildings to fill before they begin construction on that. next to that is the transportation hub. you see the beginnings what are described as soaring arches meant to invoke a bird in flight. beyond that is tower 3, now 11 stories tall and still under construction. next to that is tower 4. which is essentially finished. up pants can begin moving in this coming november. towering over it all one world trade. there is no decorative cladding around the antenna on top scrapped to save
out of there. we go on to the next. o reilly s father was also a iron worker who helped build the original. he took a fall doing what i do now connecting. and he was actually ultimately paralyzed from that fall. i worked on tower 7 before he passed away. i mean, i made him proud about shepard: the job hasn t changed much since their fathers worked on the twin towers nor since iron workers first rested on the beemtion of the empire state building. they are constructing this sky scraper two stories at a time. whenever they move up, they begin raising the interior core. they then bring in the perimeter columns and secure them with connecting beams. finally they add the framing which will support each floor. it s dangerous work. i mean, with us, we are look a team so it rarely happens that any of us get hurt. but accidents do happen around
shifted to the field now, now that it s under construction. she reviews the reinforced concrete every step of the way, make sure it s all done according to specifications. a project like this stretches the capabilities of engineers, but she wouldn t have had it any other way. the hours that i have spent and the depth to which i have been involved, and the insides and the outside, you know, the guts of what went into the building, you can t come out of the other end of that experience without having that really feel like a piece of you. humbling to be able to be a part of this. people from all different fields that are coming together to see this happen and see the rebuilding tapes. other people are looking at the project in a very different way. larry silverstein has set up an artist colony in tower 7,
shifted to the field now, now that it s under construction. she reviews the reinforced concrete every step of the way, make sure it s all done according to specifications. a project like this stretches the capabilities of engineers, but she wouldn t have had it any other way. the hours that i have spent and the depth to which i have been involved, and the insides and the outside, you know, the guts of what went into the building, you can t come out of the other end of that experience without having that really feel like a piece of you. humbling to be able to be a part of this. people from all different fields that are coming together to see this happen and see the rebuilding tapes. other people are looking at the project in a very different way. larry silverstein has set up an artist colony in tower 7,