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12 06 24 ABC reporter Ines de La Cuetara Notre Dame Cathedral reopens to the public
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Shake your phone and get $50 off. Don't delay." It is Colorado's Morning News, the Friday edition, more than five years after a devastating fire, the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris will reopen to the public tomorrow. "The weekend will be full of ceremonies and guest appearances from dozens of state and governmental officials, including President-elect Trump and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden. Joining us now on the K-Way Common Spirit Health Hotline Live from Paris is ABC News correspondent Inez de la Cutera. Inez, thank you so much for your time this morning. Start by just walking us through the reconstruction process from what we saw with the devastating fire in April of 2019 to now the reopening of the cathedral for the weekend. "Yes, I mean, this has been a long time in the making. So you'll remember those devastating images that came out in 2019 of the cathedral being engulfed in flames, the fire toppling over in really hundreds of years' worth of history lost in that moment. They've spent a lot of time, a lot of money trying to rebuild it exactly as is. That's part of the reason this took so long. They were trying to even use the same techniques that were used to build the cathedral hundreds of years ago. They sourced 1,200 oak trees from forest across France to replace the framework of the roof. They had 1,000 workers who spent five years to restore it. I will say as far as what actually caused the fire, they're still working on pinpointing the exact cause of the fire. So investigators had said in 2020 that there are two hypotheses where it was either an electrical short circuit or potentially a cigarette. And you'll remember that when it first caught fire, it had been undergoing renovation. They're still kind of investigating it. No indictment has yet been issued from the Paris prosecutor's office. It is certainly going to be a big moment in Paris. All eyes are going to be on Paris for this grand reopening. They're expecting roughly 3,000 guests and kind of heads of states and dignitaries to attend. You know that presidents like Trump will be there. The first lady Joe Biden will also be there. Macron is going to deliver a big speech just outside the cathedral and then that's going to be followed by a big concert. I know the money was spent for the restoration piece, but in the process with the billions being spent, have they, for lack of a better term, updated it, modernized it, maybe with safety things in mind that they obviously didn't do hundreds and hundreds of years ago. Yes, it's interesting. When it obviously was first engulfed in flames afterwards and they started debating how to rebuild it, there was big debate over that and how to proceed. And they ultimately decided, you know, there were questions as to whether to modernize it. Maybe do something a little bit more artistic and they decided in the end to rebuild it exactly as it was using the same exact techniques that were used centuries ago. So I remember actually going up to Normandy to meet with some of the carpenters that were working on it and they were doing everything by hand, not using any kind of tools. So, you know, that that was really interesting to learn about. But if you look at the pictures, so there were pictures released last week, President Macron got to tour it before the opening and it's really incredible. I mean, it's beautiful. So they, you know, it looks almost exactly the same except that if you've been inside Notre Dame prior to the fire, it had this gloomy feel because it was so old, so ancient. And now it looks almost exactly the same, but just so much brighter and warmer. So they've done a really incredible job. Well, and as all this excitement is happening with Notre Dame, as France's government literally collapses, walk us through a little bit of the political deadlock that we're seeing there as well. That's right. Yeah, the timing there is certainly not ideal for President Macron. The timing of all this chaos happening in Parliament as all, you know, the world's eyes are going to be on Paris this weekend. So you had the French Minister this week just yesterday, handing in his resignation after a no-confidence vote in the French Parliament. That came as he was trying to pass a budget. The no-confidence vote was the first time a French government has been voted down by Parliament in more than 60 years. So that is significant. I think it shows just how divided the country is. The French president been addressed the nation last night. He called the move on the president did. He also rejected opposition pressure for him to step down. There had been some of his critics saying that since his government couldn't hold up, that Macron should himself step down. He's rejecting that. He's bound to serve until the end of his mandate in 2027. And he did vow to name a new new Prime Minister to form a new government in the coming days. So he's bound that's going to happen quickly. But again, it's just not ideal for him to be dealing with all of this, as all these world leaders are descending on Paris for this grand reopening of Notre Dame. It is ABC News' Enes Delicatara. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. All right. We're all set for the party. I've trimmed the tree, hung the mistletoe, and paired all those weird-shaped knives and forks with the appropriate cheeses. And I plugged in the partition. Partition? It's a home cocktail maker that makes over 60 premium cocktails, plus a whole lot of seasonal favorites too. I just got it for 50 off. So, how about a clausemopolitan, or a mistletoe margarita? I'm thirsty. Watch. 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