From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

On The Update this Friday, even after 20 years, the work to rebuild the World Trade Center complex after it's destruction in the 9/11 attacks is still incomplete. Work has barely begun on two planned skyscrapers, including one that will be among the city's tallest buildings. At the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial, a former radio station intern says that the singer kept her locked in a darkened room for days before sexually assaulting her while she was unconscious in 2003. And a decade after the 9/11 attacks, Americans were reasonably positive about the state of their rights and liberties. Today, as we approach 20 years since then, not so much.

On The Update this Thursday, the New York City's medical examiner's office is continuing the difficult task of identifying remains recovered from the rubble of the World Trade Center. Officials are hopeful, but acknowledge that some may never be identified.

On Long Island, authorities say that a Suffolk County employee secretly installed dozens of machines in his workplace in a cryptocurrency scheme and cost the county at least $6,000 in electricity bills.

And a statue of General Robert E. Lee that towered over Richmond, Virginia, for generations has been taken down, cut into pieces and hauled away.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!