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White House press secretary Jay Carney was grilled by reporters today over new emails in relation to the Benghazi attack, and the spire was attached to the top of the World Trade Center today, reports CNBC's Courtney Reagan.
As a crane lifted the final pieces of a spire to the top of One World Trade Center, the tower became 1,776 feet high -- the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. The height harkens to the year the Declaration of Independence was signed, which was in 1776. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports.
After over six years of construction, the final pieces of the One World Trade Center building are being put in place, making it the tallest building in the western hemisphere. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports and Matt Lauer takes in the view from the top.
With a blast of an air horn from TODAY’s Matt Lauer, crews atop One World Trade Center begin to lift the last pieces of the building’s spire into place to make the tower a symbolic 1,776 feet tall.
The 1,454-foot Empire State Building, left, the 1,776-foot One World Trade Center, center, and the Statue of Liberty, lower right, are shown in this photo from New York's Top of the Rock Observation Deck at Rockefeller Center, Friday, May 10, 2013.
Clouds roll near the construction site of One World Trade Center as a storm hits New York City Thursday.
The final section of the spire sits on top of One World Trade Center on May 10, 2013 in New York.
A shadow stretches into New Jersey before a spire is lifted to the top of One World Trade Center in New York May 10, 2013. Workers cheered and whistled as they completed the spire on New York's One World Trade Center on Friday, raising the building to its full height of 1,776 feet and helping fill a
