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Pride of being in my country, it's amazing. being here is so overwhelming and extremely surreal to me. >> reporter: andrew, i just want to point out that even though it's been a very peaceful night, very different from what we saw a couple of days ago when everybody knew about osama bin laden's death, there's a very high presence of police. we've seen a lot of police, personnel over here, police cars. so even though it's very peaceful, police is actually over here. andrew? >> luis carlos, talking about the redevelopment of that site, we're coming up to ten years since the attacks in september ...

Now, it's lower construction operations and cold weather hurting retail sales which knocked on to the growth. as you see the number there is, so first quarter, fairly anemic growth and it picked up in the second and third but now, starting to slow down again in the fourth quarter. and we've got the vat incomes taking effect in the first quarter of this year which many people say could have an adverse impact on the overall gdp once again. you're watching "world business today." thanks for joining me. i'm andrew stevens in hong kong. here's some stories we're working on right now. new video ...