NJ town hardest hit by Sandy begins razing homes
Cranes and bulldozers have joined seagulls and surf as the new sounds of summer in the Jersey shore town that was the hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy. Full story
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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.
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.
Crane operators in New York City hoisted the final piece of the spire that will stand on top of One World Trade Center. When the spire is completed the three billion dollar building will reach 1,776 feet, making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell has detail
A crane has hoisted a steel spire to the top of New York's One World Trade Center. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Rachel Maddow updates the reporting on the USS Guardian, a U.S. Navy minesweeper stuck on an ecologically significant and fragile coral reef in the Philippines, being chopped into pieces to avoid further damage to the reef (and further incursion of fines for damage already done).
Officials say a crane in Waldport, Ore. buckled after the load it was lifting got snagged on a power line. Fortunately, the electricity to that line had been turned off.
The sun rises behind a crane at Southampton Docks in southern England April 23, 2013. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh
A crownd crane is pictured in a bird park on May 15, 2013 in Steinen, Germany. AFP PHOTO / PATRICK SEEGER /GERMANY OUTPATRICK SEEGER/AFP/Getty Images
Cranes are seen at the port of the northern city of Haifa April 23, 2013. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
A worker sits as a crane unloads containers from a ship at the port of the northern city of Haifa April 23, 2013. Israel is betting its economic future on high-tech exports but faces a low-tech bottleneck in state-owned seaports subject to work stoppages and slowdowns because of the enormous strengt