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London's iconic Big Ben won't chime for four years

London's Big Ben could be silenced until 2021, as workers repair and update the massive clock that has chimed over the city for the past 157 years. It's been working since Abraham Lincoln was president, through six monarchs and through the German blitz of WWII. Charlie D'Agata reports.
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