美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-06-01（打印版）

Fridays are awesome. We have one more left in the school year and our show will resume on August 17th. First up, a significant legal ruling. It concerns President Obama's executive action on immigration. He announced it last November. The action would have allowed as many as five million living in the U.S. illegally to stay in the country without the threat of being deported. Most of those affected are the parents of children born in the U.S. As an executive action, this did not go through Congress. The White House says it's legal. But no executive action had involved that many people before. And 26 states challenged it in court.

In February, a federal district court judge in Texas blocked President Obama's programs that would have reduced the threat of deportations. He said the president went too far and didn't follow the correct procedures for setting new rules.

The Obama administration had pushed for its programs to continue while the legal cases played out. But a federal appeals court denied that request this week. The court says it thinks the president's lawyers will ultimately lose their case.

Legal experts say it could take a year or longer for the president's immigration action to be resolved in court.

Originally called Freedom Tower, One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the U.S., rising at one site of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. One World Observatory opens today. A trip up to it costs 32 dollars, but the gravity of that is harder to measure.

The number tells part of the story: 1,250 feet above the ground, views stretching 50 miles on a clear day, almost a decade of rebuilding.

And yet once you're up here even on a cloudy day, those numbers gave way to feelings which are quite frankly difficult to describe. The rumor has it that when it's clear, you can see the curvature of the Earth from this point and it's certainly true that you can feel the weight of recent history.

The construction of this building and the observatory are a fist pump for going forward, for moving forward, for saying: "There is a future and we embrace it".

Dave Checketts is the man in charge of the day to day running of the observatory. Architect TJ Gottesdiener helped design the structure itself.

It pulls at you, when you're up there and you start, you look down, you can see the memorial. You have that sense of remembrance.

It's not just about the views. The 47-second elevator ride comes complete with the 500-year time lapse of New York skyline.

And now, you get a brief view of the World Trade Center on this side, just for, just a moment. And then it disappears.

And then the view itself is revealed gradually, behind automatic screens.

In a city crowded with skyscrapers, One World's Trade Center has serious competition.

The Empire State Building's observatory brought in revenues of 111 million last year.

New York City is represented to so many people in the world by the Empire State Building.

Few would dispute One World Trade Center now shares that status. And with the predictive 3.8 million visitors a year to the observatory, it could well match that success.

And do you think when people stand and look from the 100 floor out, they'll get the same feeling?

I think they'll have a very powerful feeling, yes, I do. I think they'll feel like this was the right thing.Claire Sebastian, CNN, New York.

美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-06-01（在线收听）