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[Paul:] In just about an hour the Notre Dame Cathedral will hold its first mass since it was nearly destroyed by fire two months ago. That service is going to be small. Only 30 people allowed to attend. And they're going to have to wear hard hats when they enter the building because there are still safety concerns.
[Savidge:] CNN International Correspondent, Jim Bittermann joins us now from outside the church. And Jim, I know it's going to be a small service, but I bet the significance is huge.
[Jim Bittermann, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] Absolutely, Martin and Christi. That's exactly what it's all about that is I think to show symbolically that the church still exists, the cathedral still exists, and that masses will go on here. In fact, they wanted to hold a much larger kind of service in front a vespers service in front of the cathedral. But local authorities would not allow them to because the building, and especially the basements, the vaults underneath the cathedral, are still in a very fragile shape. So they weren't very happy about the idea of a lot of people gathering even out in front of the cathedral. They thought it would be too dangerous. In any case that mass will go on in about an hour or so from now. It will be just a normal mass. It will be conducted, except one of the things that will be exceptional about it is that it will be conducted and celebrated by the cardinal archbishop of Paris Michel Aupetit. And so it's going to be a very special occasion I think for the people that get to participate, and those people are going to be mainly priests, about half of them will be priests. But there are also people who were involved, one of the firefighters, for example, who saved some of the relics, and, in fact, will be I think for most everybody a very emotional occasion. Martin and Christi?
[Paul:] No doubt about it. I want to talk to you about the money that's been raised, $17 million already donated to the church. Hundreds and millions more we understand have been pledged. What do we know about where that money is, what they are doing with it, and the restoration process itself, how long it will take?
[Bittermann:] Well, Emmanuel Macron would like it to take five years. Whether it can to be done in that short of time remains to be seen. They still haven't really started reconstruction. They are basically working on consolidating the building and making sure it's safe. And yes, there's $850 million that has been pledged, but it hasn't really come in yet. It's being used, the workers, there are 60 to 150 workers working on this site at any given time. Christi, Martin?
[Paul:] My goodness. Jim Bittermann, thank you very much for bringing us all the information there, and really the beautiful views.
[Savidge:] It is, and a very positive way to end the show.
[Paul:] Thank you so much for being with us. We hope you make good memories ahead.
[Savidge:] There's very much more ahead in the next hour of CNN's NEWSROOM. Fredricka Whitfield is up next.