NEW YORKERS OPPOSED TO 9/11 TRIALS PACK COUNCIL HEARING

As Obama administration officials appeared to give ground on holding 9/11 trials in Lower

Manhattan, New Yorkers packed a City Council hearing Friday to say they’ll continue to fight

the plan.

REPORTER: John Doyle with the Real Estate Board of New York said the economic impact

on the city would go well beyond the NYPD’s estimate of $200 million in security costs.

DOYLE: If this is in a secure zone, how is everyone going to be able to sell a co-op or condo

unit? What is the value of that unit going to be over the five years period those trials could take

place? There are an awful lot of costs here beyond security.

REPORTER: Neither Attorney General Eric Holder nor White House spokesman Robert Gibbs would rule out a military trial when asked Friday.