With the under-construction
One World Trade Center fast approaching its final height, President Barack
Obama visited the New York tower Thursday to get an update on its growth and
help prepare one of the finishing touches.
"It looks beautiful," the president
said to first lady Michelle Obama as they stood at a window on the 22nd floor
and looked down on the National September 11 Memorial and Museum being built
below.
Obama flew into New York's John F. Kennedy
International Airport in the late afternoon and traveled by motorcade to the
construction site for a briefing on the building, currently 104 stories and
1,300 feet tall -- already the tallest structure in New York.
One
World Trade Center is expected to be completed next year or in early 2014. Obama's
visit was the first of his three New York stops on Thursday. He'll attend two
fundraisers in the evening -- including one at the residence of actress Sarah
Jessica Parker -- before he returns to Washington late Thursday night.
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