those construction areas are the most noticeable changes to the lower manhattan landscape. but, as suzanne pratt reports the surrounding neighborhood is also evolving in some surprising ways. >> reporter: on september 11 2001, lucy preston was living on a different continent. today, she resides just a few blocks from the former world trade center having bought an apartment in lower manhattan in 2008. not only does it come with a stunning rooftop deck, but it's in what she calls an ideal community. >> we've been living here for last six years and there's a real feel of neighborhood redeveloping. there's a lot more shops and bar and restaurants opening here. we've got a whole foods in tribeca, which is fantastic. >> reporter: preston is one of thousands of people who moved to lower manhattan post 9-11. in fact the residential population of the area, also known as the financial district, has more than doubled in the last ten years. in the weeks and months following that tragic day, few might have predicted the neighborhood would come back so strongly, so quickly and be so tran

there had been plans to develop some sort of trade center in lower manhattan since the 40s. it wasn't until the 60s that the location was agreed upon. >> it was the electronics district for new york city called radio row. that's what had to be displaced to create the world trade center. >> dr. henry your kay record of the museum of the city of new york. >> it was extremely disruptive and there was a lot of kicking and screaming from the people whose businesses were there. >> i used to go shopping there. >> former mayor ed koch. >> people who operated those businesses, said this is not a depressed economic area we do very well. the reverse argument was that there will be tens of thousands of new jobs compared to the hundreds that are there as a result of the redevelopment of the area. >> also unhappy was lawrence wein owner of the empire state. the world trade center was to top it by more than 400 feet. he knew if that happened his property would lose prestige. so he got together with other developers to lobby to make the twin towers shorter. >> there were a lot of people aff

i think that's what changed the nature of manhattan. suddenly families and young p people could move into those older buildings because they were necessarily office buildings. i think the revival of manhattan might be one of the greatest g month consequences of rebuildeling ground zero becausr it joust graduate urban notions, to a city that was desserted to places that were just office buildings and it's 5 kind of neighborhood now and i think that's in no short part -- >> there's a demand for schools. >> schools and playgrounds. that's the thing. >> exactly. and the bmw showroom, and thanka you all. >> michael arad is here, the architect much the 9/11 memorial. he was sleected to design the memorial in 2004 beating outri five thousand other candidates. arad was then a young andev unknown architect. seven years have massed and the as you view this program it will have opened on sunday september 11 to mark the tenth anniversary of the attack. the memorial embodies the tragedy, heroism and resilience of thatce day.rk paul goldberger of new

i'm lester holt reporting from lower manhattan. i'm lester holt reporting from lower manhattan. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> we are just one day away from the tenth anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attacks. good evening,

this website caught the eye, of a manhattan trusty. he needed to send a photographer in to ground zero on behalf of the union to document every area and aspect. he wanted to have photographs of the flight -- flag that draped the victims bodies to give to widows. the mood was always very somber down there. a a lot of anger. they always had what was called block. it was very difficult to gain their trust. there were spooked by my camera. they thought they were being exploited. sometimes they would walk up to me -- one time i had a very angry firefighter stick a lit cigarette right up to my cheek and said, i lost 60 friends and i do not care if you are authorized to be here or not. i do not like you being here and i do not like you taking photos. these are some of the obstacles that i had to face. on the good side, i made a lot of wonderful friends. they took me in and adopted me into the ground zero brotherhood. they let me partaken the most private of moments. this is really how i was able to capture the most sensitive and the most inti

the whole site, buildings and all, will take up 16 acres of prime lower manhattan real estate. as the world trade center rises, larry silverstein remained the man at the top. since 2006 this 80-year-old has been overseeing the new construction from the 38th floor of the new building 7. that makes sense. remember, he built the original building number 7 almost 25 years ago. silverstein said he wants to ensure that each structure is special. he wants the complex to have the same cultural and economic impact that rockfeller center had on midtown manhattan when it opened. >> at one site you will have six architectural gems. we will get it done and done with a quality to a level new yorkers look at and say they have done a hell of a good job. >> as folks watch the skyscrapers of the new world trade center rise, they naturally look to the top. but the most important thing is a solid foundation. that's next after the break. you can watch the skyline change every day as the buildings go up. and everybody is seeing what this site will become. >> thousands are working on site to get the

program that is the mother of all black operations, the manhattan project. all other black operations trickle-down from the original idea in both analogy and secrecy. >> you also point out for people who wonder whether something could be kept secret, the manhattan project, the size and budget amount and even the vice president had no idea the manhattan project was underway. what was the budget? >> it is in the book. it was huge. plutonium or uranium at the time was being processed in tennessee. that out fit pooled more power off of the united states electrical grid on any given night than the entire city of new york city. and yet no one knew it was fair. that is how powerful a black operation can be. vice president you are referring to when the manhattan project was originally going on was harry truman. he had no idea about the nuclear weapon until he became president. the person who told him was. vanibar bush. >> y area 51? are there 1 through 50? >> a lot of people, even a lot of mine named sources say that was just what they came up with but according to

russ. >> tony guida, in lower manhattan. >> thank you so much. and still to come on tonight's cbs evening news, the latest on this weekend's terrorist threat. >> mitchell: the weekend again with word of an apparent terror threat from al qaeda in back stan. >> our security correspondence bob orr joins us from washington with the latest on that, what can you tell us? >> well, good evening, russ, the fbi and cia tonight cannot say if the potential threat is real, intelligence from overseas as you mentioned indicated a three al qaeda operatives likely including two american citizens could attack new york or washington some time this weekend with car bombs, so far, though, analysts have not found any intelligence outside of the original tip to confirm that threat and the fbi at the same time has not been identify the alleged three operatives and frankly don't know where they are or if they exist but agents are checking through about 200 plus names taken from recent travel records and manifests looking for anything that is suspicious, russ. >> mitchell

, driving them, one each, into the north and south towers of manhattan's famed twin towers. a third plane took off from washington dulles airport, was hijacked 34 minutes later by five terrorists and slammed into one of the pentagon's five sides, killing 125 pentagon officials and visitors. a fourth airplane, united airlines flight 93, took off from newark airport and was seized by hijackers onboard who took control of the aircraft, forcing it no a u-turn to washington, d.c. before reaching targets in dc, presumably the white house or the capitol, the passengers of the ua flight confronted the hijackers and forced the plane to crash-land into a field in shanksville, pennsylvania, 65 miles southeast of pittsburgh in order to averted the horrors of a white house or u.s. capitol impact. there were 19 hijackers in the four planes, plus 226 plane passengers and crew. no one survived. and all four impact sites, the two twin towers, pentagon and shanksville, some 3,000 lives were lost, including the 19 hijackers. this september 11th, 2011, we have yet to experience another terroris

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verily guiliani orders ever one of lower manhattan. sfo was completely evacuated. >> we are taking trash cans and cubbyholes. >> a declaration of war on the united states by terror >> is. in washington, one more remarkable sight. members of congress gathered on the steps of the capital in an expression of a bipartisan it patriotism. at the white house president bush right into his diary. >> the people on board flight 93 may have helped save even more lives. a bay area man played a key role that. rob levels book to a bay area and other son made the ultimate sacrifice. >> 9-11 was a terrible and tragic day. it has changed our country. we cannot afford to become complacent. i have felt an immeasurable sense of grief into loss. (...) mark bingham was among those who died of united flight 93. bingham fought back and died a year. with >> him to miss him. i am glad to speak about him. >> if the war of terror is far from over. >> 10 years after, america still has an unfinished business. we still do not have saved airports or airplanes or unifi

, driving them, one each, into the north and south towers of manhattan's famed twin towers. a third plane took off from washington dulles airport, was hijacked 34 minutes later by five terrorists and slammed into one of the pentagon's five sides, killing 125 pentagon officials and visitors. a fourth rplane, united airles flight 93,tookoff from newark airport and was seized by hijackers onboard who took control of the aircraft, forcing it no a u-turn to washington, d.c. before reaching targets in dc, presumably the white house or the capitol, the passengers of the ua flight confronted the hijackers and forced the plane to crash-land into a field in shanksville, pennsylvania, 65 miles southeast of pittsburgh in order to averted the horrors of a white house or u.s. capitol impact. there were 19 hijackers in the four planes, plus 226 plane passengers and crew. no one survived. and all four impact sites, the two twin towers, pentagon and shanksville, some 3,000 lives were lost, including the 19 hijackers. this september 11th, 2011, we have yet to experience another terrorist atta

. >> we spent the weekend in manhattan. that was my son's first visit. to the world trade center. >> you went to the trade center, like a lot of tourists do. >> to the base of the south tower, i had him stick his toes, you look up in the sky, you get that sense of vertiggo that you can only get in a city like new york. mccormick and biggio would face the biggest challenges of their careers. eight 8:14 a.m., american airlines 11, a plimp was climbing to 26,000 feet. and would make the last transmission to air traffic control. then, 16 seconds later, it goes silent. >> bost an's air traffic center, terry biggio and his controllers know something is wrong. >> i don't think you immediately thought hijacking. >> absolutely not. i have been in the agency at the time 20 years. had never seen a hijack. we have a catastrophic failure with the aircraft. we will clear the air space and let them fly to where they are going fly. >> as the plane turns south, the 9/11 report polices that hijackers tried to talk to the passengers, didn't know how to use the intercom. in

i'm megyn kelly live in lower manhattan. one of the sites are people today are mark the ten year anniversary of the attack. it would be days before we fully understood the 40 people who died in the burning wreckage of flight 93 did so in defense of their nation and their fellow americans. fighting off terrorists who hijacked their flight even as the plane made its fatal descent. laura ingle joins us live from shanksville, pennsylvania. laura? >> a tremendous sense of pride in the air all weekend long as all 40 passengers and flight crew members have been honored in a variety of different ways. we had the dedication ceremony yesterday and today, of course, the memorial service. and these people being called citizen patriots. we heard that all weekend long who fought the first battle in the ongoing war against global terrorism. we heard that from former president george w. bush. today, though, president barack obama and the first lady arriving at the memorial to place a wreath at the newly unveiled wall of names. the white mar

you can see we're getting more video of police there in manhattan, lower manhattan prepping for the memorial. very vigilant in the wake of some of this possible threats. we know as you mentioned, osama bin laden he's now dead. al qaeda very much still in business. i want to throw an image on the screen. i want you paul, kruk shank to tell me, who is this man? he's a saudi american. why may he be of interest? >> this individual is an american, but he was born in saudi arabia. over the years, he's risen up through the ranks in al qaeda. he helped orchestrate the plot against new york city. he's someone who has handled american recruits in the tribal areas of pakistan before that would understand american vulnerabilities. playing an operational role for this terrorist group now in the tribal areas of pakistan. likely a more senior role. we've seen the leaders taken out by drone strikes. someone like this man could be involved in al qaeda plot now against the united states. at this point it's uncorroborated information. that's important to stress, brooke. >> uncorroborated. as we're trying to co

she attended nine events yesterday, all over manhattan. the question here this morning, who protects her as she makes her rounds? jim axelrod got a rare chance to go inside her security bubble. >> reporter: with new york city on high alert, the most highly protected woman in town is secretary of state hillary clinton. >> oh, my friend, how are you? >> reporter: for the state department's of bureau diplomatic of security, this week is a carefully coordinated a years in the planet involving dogs and machine guns and armored vehicles and 80 agents. >> copy, take the next right. >> reporter: bill emory directs the motorcade and took us inside the security bubble. what kind of things are you hearing in your ear? >> listening to any cars that my be approaching us from every angle. vehicles. pedestrians. bicycles. anything strange going down the road. >> reporter: you don't feel any more comfortable or safer operating in mid-town manhattan than you do in some third world country? >> not really. no matter where i'm at, i'm always worried about the

probably about 80 miles or so from manhattan. that's when they told me the second aircraft just hit the world trade center. obviously some confusion in my cockpit. i thought i was chasing american flight 11. they told me a second aircraft which i didn't even know about. i looked up right away and could see the smoke coming out of both towers. i saw the towers burn with two airliners in them, we're obviously under attack. >> reporter: in the air traffic control center mike mccormick, too, realizes the united states is under assault from the air. >> we have to do something to remove their weapons. the weapons of course are aircraft. so i couldn't go anywhere around new york because i didn't know what else could happen. so we made the decision to clear the skies. we brought all the supervisors from all the areas up here and provided a briefing to them, this is what happened, this is what we're doing. >> reporter: eventually it would spread nationwide. every airplane in the sky literally thousands would be told to land. any airplane

you're looking at live scenes from lower manhattan. we had interviews with people involved, including david thomas in the pentagon. he lost a close friend and shared his story with us. >> not enough is covered by the term victim when we talk about the pentagon of the twin towers with a field in pennsylvania, those brave people. in thatthink of anyone tragic day as a victim. of a victim is hit by a meteor when they are walking down the street, a victim of chance, or gets mugged and robbed, they are victims. the people who died on 9/11 were not victims. there were casualties of an act of war, an attack in my case on our military headquarters. so it was interesting that afternoon to still be trying to gell thatit would people were trying to reconstitute the pentagon and 80 staff -- and navy staff, walking up to the navy annex, where the headquarters of the marines are. they are our brothers. they offered up space and we reconstituted the navy staff there. admiral thad allen was in charge of that, in concert with our forces, reconstituting

probably about 80 miles or so from manhattan. that's when they told me the second aircraft just hit the world trade center. obviously some confusion in my cockpit. i thought i was chasing american flight 11. they told me a second aircraft which i didn't even know about. i looked up right away and could see the smoke coming out of both towers. i saw the towers burn with two airliners in them, we're obviously under attack. >> reporter: in the air traffic control center mike mccormick, too, realizes the united states is under assault from the air. >> we have to do something to remove their weapons. the weapons of course are aircraft. so i couldn't go anywhere around new york because i didn't know what else could happen. so we made the decision to clear the skies. we brought all the sump supervisors from all the areas up here and brprovided a briefi to them, this is what happened, this is what we're doing. >> reporter: eventually it would spread nationwide. every airplane in the sky literally thousands would be told to land. any airp

. >> reporter: we met lobosco today at this manhattan career fair. since he graduated from college in 2006, he's worked in sales and the mortgage industry, but was laid off for the second time on tuesday. >> i'm just trying to get the opportunity and trying to get my foot in the door and prove my worth to someone. i don't care what the salary requirements are, you know? i just want a job. >> reporter: the lack of jobs isn't only affecting new careers, but new lives, too. the number of young adults who moved to a new state last year fell to the lowest level since world war ii. >> it's just an eye opener. >> reporter: why? >> because i never thought i'd be in this position. i never thought i'd be 27 years old, living back home with my parents. >> reporter: lobosco is one of about six million young adults who live with their parents. that's up 25% from before the recession. when do you think things start getting better? >> you hope tomorrow. when you wake up, you hope it's today. >> reporter: for now, his only job is walking the family dog. that's one h

as you can see, this is a clear blue sky day in manhattan. if this was an accident, it would be a needle in?pwñ a haystack kind of accident. >>> i was in new york in my office like everyone else and most other people, i thought my god how could this happen? never suspected the magnitude of what was facing us. >> i was in my office with my speechwriter and the secretary called to say a plane hit the trade center. turned on the television and sat there wondering, how could a plane hit the world trade center, clear sky, no weather problems how do you account for this? >> one of those normal tuesday mornings. i was standing at my desk, getting ready for my staff meeting. my executive assistant walked in and said a plan hit the world trade center. immediately my mind went to a twin engine plane of skin. i said that's a terrible accident. >> as i was leaving the motorcade i got a page telling me the with treasure coast was hit by a plane. karl rove got to the president first and told the president a plane has hit the world trade center. the presid

in 1930 the bank of manhattan trust building shot up 927 feet. the chrysler building soared to more than 1,000 feet. and then in 1931.... >> men pierced the sky to build the world's tallest sky scraper. >> the empire state building ranged as the world's tallest building 1250 feet for another 40 years. >> osgood: tall buildings command attention but can have trouble demanding rent. in recent years the empire state building was dubbed the empty state building. >> this is the world's tallest building. >> osgood: today billing to busying heights as become a foreign affair. the tallest structure in a world is a 2700-foot residential building in dubai. china has plans for 22 new strat fearic sky scrapers in the next five years. but with the exception of the new one world trade center and the just-begin two world trade center, no super tall buildings are planned for the u.s.. >> it's extraordinary how the export of this building type that was born in the invention of the american city has now... is now being embraced around the world. >> osgood: but of

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dust and smoke float like mist over lower manhattan. that very iconic facade of the building, those long steel fingers that went all the way up 110 stories that have now collapsed, there's a part of it that's rising up above everything else, making it all look very eerie. >> the dust clung to everyone and everything. >> just permeated every part of your body. you're hot, you're sweaty, you're crawling into voids. it was everywhere. you couldn't escape it. >> marty fullam's brother david was also there in the enormity of the task. finding survivors hung as heavy over him as the dust-filled air. >> where do you start? what do you start doing? what do you do? >> it was all anyone could do. two brothers, both firefighters, both witnesses to the worst terrorist attack on u.s. soil, and all they could do was dig. >> we searched other surroundings buildings and the sidewalk to see if anybody was under anything. >> just looking for -- >> people. anybody who was stuck who was still alive. >> did you find anybody? >> no. nobody that was alive. we

as you can see, this is a clear blue sky day in manhattan. if this was an accident, it would be a needle in?pwñ a haystack kind of accident. >>> i was in new york in my office like everyone else and most other people, i thought my god how could this happen? never suspected the magnitude of what was facing us. >> i was in my office with my speechwriter and the secretary called to say a plane hit the trade center. turned on the television and sat there wondering, how could a plane hit the world trade center, clear sky, no weather problems how do you account for this? >> one of those normal tuesday mornings. i was standing at my desk, getting ready for my staff meeting. my executive assistant walked in and said a plan hit the world trade center. immediately my mind went to a twin engine plane of skin. i said that's a terrible accident. >> as i was leaving the motorcade i got a page telling me the with treasure coast was hit by a plane. karl rove got to the president first and told the president a plane has hit the world trade center. the presid

as you can see, this is a clear blue sky day in manhattan. if this was an accident, it would be a needle in?pwñ a haystack kind of accident. >>> i was in new york in my office like everyone else and most other people, i thought my god how could this happen? never suspected the magnitude of what was facing us. >> i was in my office with my speechwriter and the secretary called to say a plane hit the trade center. turned on the television and sat there wondering, how could a plane hit the world trade center, clear sky, no weather problems how do you account for this? >> one of those normal tuesday mornings. i was standing at my desk, getting ready for my staff meeting. my executive assistant walked in and said a plan hit the world trade center. immediately my mind went to a twin engine plane of skin. i said that's a terrible accident. >> as i was leaving the motorcade i got a page telling me the with treasure coast was hit by a plane. karl rove got to the president first and told the president a plane has hit the world trade center. the presid

thousands of people participated in a human chain in lower manhattan. it began at 8:46 this morning. that's when the first plane hit the world trade center's north tower back in 2001 on 9/11. the theme of the event was unity. >>> and thousands gathered in new jersey's liberty state park to dedicate the empty sky memorial. 746 new jersey residents were killed in the 9/11 attacks. their names are all etched in a stainless steel memorial on the hudson river. at the dedication, governor chris christie said people should focus on their loved ones, not vengeance. >>> thousands of troops in iraq and afghanistan will pause tomorrow to reflect on the ten years since the 9/11 attacks. our suzanne malveaux talks with four soldiers who were serving at the pentagon that day. . and some of the most powerful, yet easy to use trading tools on the planet. it's investing with intelligence and cold hard conviction. e-trade. investing unleashed. okay, so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. that's yours. lower chol

republican women in manhattan, you guys have a triple whammy. so i really hope this book can inspire you, that in spite of the opposition that you might face, that in spite of what might seem like, you know, all the odds against you we have a winning message. and the beginning part of the book is the story, how i got involved, where i came from, how i got involved in politics, and, um, you know, maybe we'll get to it during the q&a, but i'll tell you now quite honestly, i got involved because i thought the boy signing up at the college republican table was cute -- [laughter] and they were paying $75 a day to go pass out literature on election day, and what college student -- especially in the early '90s -- would turn down that large sum of money? so although my motives might have been a little wrong to begin with, i found that i truly stumbled upon something that i loved. being in that environment and especially this was in north jersey, i got to talk to some of the local candidates and ask them questions. and, you know, i was a little too naive

as you can see, this is a clear blue sky day in manhattan. if this was an accident, it would be a needle in?pwñ a haystack kind of accident. >>> i was in new york in my office like everyone else and most other people, i thought my god how could this happen? never suspected the magnitude of what was facing us. >> i was in my office with my speechwriter and the secretary called to say a plane hit the trade center. turned on the television and sat there wondering, how could a plane hit the world trade center, clear sky, no weather problems how do you account for this? >> one of those normal tuesday mornings. i was standing at my desk, getting ready for my staff meeting. my executive assistant walked in and said a plan hit the world trade center. immediately my mind went to a twin engine plane of skin. i said that's a terrible accident. >> as i was leaving the motorcade i got a page telling me the with treasure coast was hit by a plane. karl rove got to the president first and told the president a plane has hit the world trade center. the presid

free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan. those were happy times and years later became a happy tomic with me, convinced early on that my father inhabited a magic world. a few years ago, while listening to a recording of cuban blues by chico, i remembered in new york in those stories of the 40's that chico and my father met at club cuba in manhattan and again in havana in the mid-50's. the sessions of chico's house in our neighborhood became so famous that even my father, not particularly fond of cuban jazz, couldn't resist dropping in once in a while at the much-talked about terrace. i listened to the rumba of chico's suite, then i would imagine chico back in new york doing arrangements for count bassie and ringo starr and i see myself turning into a big fan during my teenage years in havana. so that gives you a little idea about all these connections. i was born in havana in the mid-50's and my memory have many sounds. my history of my family has given me a variety of experiences and languages. my memory is like an orgy of

as you can see, this is a clear blue sky day in manhattan. if this was an accident, it would be a needle in?pwñ a haystack kind of accident. >>> i was in new york in my office like everyone else and most other people, i thought my god how could this happen? never suspected the magnitude of what was facing us. >> i was in my office with my speechwriter and the secretary called to say a plane hit the trade center. turned on the television and sat there wondering, how could a plane hit the world trade center, clear sky, no weather problems how do you account for this? >> one of those normal tuesday mornings. i was standing at my desk, getting ready for my staff meeting. my executive assistant walked in and said a plan hit the world trade center. immediately my mind went to a twin engine plane of skin. i said that's a terrible accident. >> as i was leaving the motorcade i got a page telling me the with treasure coast was hit by a plane. karl rove got to the president first and told the president a plane has hit the world trade center. the presid

as you can see, this is a clear blue sky day in manhattan. if this was an accident, it would be a needle in?pwñ a haystack kind of accident. >>> i was in new york in my office like everyone else and most other people, i thought my god how could this happen? never suspected the magnitude of what was facing us. >> i was in my office with my speechwriter and the secretary called to say a plane hit the trade center. turned on the television and sat there wondering, how could a plane hit the world trade center, clear sky, no weather problems how do you account for this? >> one of those normal tuesday mornings. i was standing at my desk, getting ready for my staff meeting. my executive assistant walked in and said a plan hit the world trade center. immediately my mind went to a twin engine plane of skin. i said that's a terrible accident. >> as i was leaving the motorcade i got a page telling me the with treasure coast was hit by a plane. karl rove got to the president first and told the president a plane has hit the world trade center. the presid

. >> reporter: hoboken, new jersey-- known mostly for its close proximity to manhattan. but lately, trendy shops and family friendly neighborhoods are also part of hoboken's allure. so, too, is its broad mix of real estate choices, from new condos to historic brownstones. halstead agent gene cordano says that may be why prices in the city are only off 15% from 2005 highs. >> lifestyle in hoboken is probably one of the better ones you can find in new jersey, with such close proximity to manhattan, or even to jersey city, the financial center where so many of the banks are located right now. >> reporter: very few other areas of the country are as resilient as hoboken. most the nation's housing market is still stuck in the basement. home prices are down sharply, inventories are high, and there's little agreement as to when things will turn around. some housing experts believe residential real estate has already bottomed. they see lots of regional differences in the national market. in particular, the prices of non-distressed homes are flat to higher, even though the sales o

. >> narrator: sharif el-gamal is a manhattan property developer. >> i'm a new yorker from brooklyn. i'm not a community activist. i'm not a community leader. i'm not an islamic academic. this isn't something that i've been studying. i'm a new yorker who is a real- estate junkie, who has... you know, that's who i am. my brother, i have to be there before 1:00, so i need you to get there as quickly as possible, please. >> before 1:00? >> yeah. >> oh, my god. >> i have to do salaat at jummah. >> oh, yes, yes. >> are you muslim? >> yeah. >> as salaam alaikum. >> wa alaikum salaam. >> so join me. park the car and come. >> narrator: el-gamal wants to build a mosque and an islamic community center on park place, two blocks from ground zero. he has named the project park 51. it's better known as the ground zero mosque. it's the most famous building in the world. it might be more famous than the world trade center. >> narrator: until september 11, 2001, the building housed the burlington coat factory, a discount department store. the ground floor is now a prayer hall used by wall street comm

nbc's tracie potts has more from ground zero in lower manhattan. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. good morning, everyone. we have learned that new york is stepping up security. it was already on a heightened state of alert as a result of this threat that they say is specific, but they just don't know if the source of the threat is credible. what we do know is it's believed to include possible car bombs or truck balls. possibly targeting new york or washington. perhaps involving three men who may have traveled from overseas into the united states in connection with this. but again, it is not believed to be credible. here's what new york's mayor had to say about it late last night. >> now the threat at this moment has not been corroborated. i want to stress that. it is credible, but it has not been corroborated. but we do live in a world where we must take these threats seriously, and we certainly will. >> reporter: now, none of the plans for the 9/11 memorial here in new york have been canceled or delayed or changed, we're told

if you fast forward 10 years, lower manhattan has doubled the population it did then. the largest population we have had since 1920. we have 26 hotels where we had seven hotels. we have lots of parks. it has become a 247 community. more businesses down there today the and there-- 24/7 community. there are more businesses down there than there were on 9/11. >> people say muslims are much more likely to be stopped. >> most muslims in new york are hard working and on businesses. >> more than half of muslim americans say government anti- terrorism policies single them out. >> there is no question that there are demagogues who say this religion equates with terrorism. that is just not true. there are people who believe that. that is one of the battles you constantly have to fight. if you give in to racism and stereotyping, the things you are trying to fight against are exactly what you are facilitating. you cannot do that. >> if you happen to walk around this area today, you would be struck by the number of firefighters. for them, this anniversary weighs particularly heavy.