Get a first glimpse inside the newly restored Notre Dame Cathedral

This morning, an early look at what president mcconnell calls a once in a century restoration. The French president becoming the first official visitor for Notre dame's historic opening the white stone gleaming beside brilliant colors like now sparkling stained glass windows. The bronze furnishings a brand new very modern altar and Golden Cross for this medieval Cathedral. The organ restored each and every pipe 8,000 individually clean body. Thank you workers, the cathedral, he said today is even more beautiful than before. 5 years after the inferno tore through the church obliterating over 800 years of history in hours. Craig witnessing the aftermath of the fire, how much this cathedral means to the people of the world today has had exclusive access before and after the blaze a year earlier exploring the soaring wooden ceiling where the spire would come crashing down. I got the people just fell inside the church was a gaping hole now repair the crime today at my new oak beams and we met some of the 2000 craftsmen and women like this cop from New England, it still doesn't feel real. If I'm honest last year today was given special access inside the cathedral and 300 feet above. So this is the spy that went crashing down. It's actually we all watched it all around the world. Earlier this month, the ancient bells rang again. And just 2 weeks. Candlelit ceremony returned the statue of the Virgin Mary. Inside the glorious cathedral, the French call the heart of Paris. Here it's just magnificent all of those renovations coming right back to the original can visitors expect anything different from the how it was before here. Oh my goodness, it's so different I was inside as you saw in that report a year before now it's it's cleaning those those white walls, the sparkle and you just look and you think was this what it was like hundreds of years ago when it was first built in medieval times guys it will reopen to the public on the 16th so come for Christmas.