A striking glass structure, set to open in 2017, will be the new U.S. embassy in London. But six months into construction, CBS News has learned, the project is already at least $100 million over the initial cost estimate, partly due to manufacturing challenges with the design's six-inch-thick blast-proof glass.
Patrick Kennedy, the State Department's under-secretary for management, says he isn't sure where the glass is made.
But CBS News learned it's made in Europe, which means it then must be shipped to the U.S. with guards and then shipped back to Europe.
"Sometimes you move things, sometimes you don't move things," Kennedy says. "All of this is based upon best value."
Excerpts of article by NANCY CORDES CBS NEWS June 6, 2014, 6:59 PM.