Tonight on PBS News Weekend, its majesty restored, Notre Dame reopens five years after fire devastated the 12th century cathedral, with world leaders, including President-elect Trump, in attendance.

Then, with drunk driving accidents expected to spike during the

holiday season, we look at what lowering the legal limit could do for safety. And how a family

of North Carolina Christmas tree farmers overcame Hurricane Haleen's destruction to get trees to

market and one to the White House. This year, it's extra special for the fact that it's coming from our area that was so heavily devastated

and that we can send a Christmas tree to the White House to represent Western North Carolina as a gift to the people.

Thank you. as a gift to the people.

Good evening. I'm John Yang. The embers of Notre Dame Cathedral were still smoldering in April 2019 when French President Emmanuel McCraugh vowed to rebuild the centuries-old Gothic monument to be more beautiful than before

and to do it in five years.

That struck some as wildly unrealistic.

But today, five and a half years and $900 million later, McRaw's promise has been fulfilled.

Against the skyline of Paris, the Notre Dame Cathedral has risen from the ashes.

Its official reopening marked by Paris Archbishop Laurent-Olurek, knocking on the once shuttered

doors.

Inside, led by French President Emmanuel Macron, dignitaries and clergy rose to applaud the hundreds

of Paris firefighters who fought for hours to douse the flames.

I am here before you, before we begin the Mass, to tell you of the gratitude of the French nation.

Gratitude for all those who saved, helped, and rebuilt, Our Lady of Paris, Notre Dame de Paris.

For nearly 900 years that had survived the French Revolution, the Franco-Prussian War, and World War II,

only to be devastated in April 2019 by a massive fire.

The roof went up in flames and this fire toppled,

nearly destroying the main bell towers.

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