We're from New Jersey and New York, we don't give a frog's fat ass what the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat says

In about a half hour the shadow group and enemy of the Justice League of America, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat will decide if the new WTC is the tallest building in this hemisphere or if it's the Sears Tower in Cubtown.

It's the World Trade Center. Whether or not you decide to include the spire and beacon could interest us here less. It's there, it's up in the air, it counts. Who are you going to believe, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat or your own lying eyes? If there is legal precedent it's the case of Brady vs. Brady or better known as "Everything counts when you're building a house of cards" ruling passed down by Supreme Justice Mike Brady in the early 70's.