there are any communications today from board members? any new or old business. i did want to know that the special meeting for march 25th in this hearing room. thank you. seeing none, let s move on to the executive director s report. good morning, directors and members of the public. i wanted to begin by dedicating our bimbo, rain heart and she passed away on march sixth. we knew her for 15 years and she was a friend and a constant supporter and a valuable asset to the state and she was a native to india and had 25 years of experience with the california department of transportation, and shewise a member of the review committee overseeing the bay bridge project and looking for ward to the ribbon cutting ceremony this year, she was one of the very few women in the directors in the industry and i know that she will be missed by all of us, i would like to express our condolences to the family and friends. on behave of the transbay. now, directors, i did want to say that as you know, we issued a bid for block nine, or working with the san francisco redevelopment agencies successor, anity and mike grisco, and the highest bid was by $42 billion and i asked mike to give a brief on that. mike grisco from the office of community and investment, that is the new name for the redevelopment agency. we issued a request for block nine, you can see on that map that is on the corner of fulson and first street. we will have under construction, block eleven, block six, and block nine, three projects. together, they will have over 1,000 units. including about 35 percent affordable between those three projects. each individual project has affordable. each has different amounts of affordable and i will talk about block nine we offered the rfp last year and got three proposals and the panel composed of agency staff and a member of the committee reviewed all of the proposals and the team composed of housing bridged the non-profitable housing development deron, as a team received the highest score based on the rfp and the citizen s advisory committee did endorse that recommendation at its meeting last month. a summary of the proposal, i will have image to show you, 43.32 million dollars, 95,000 dollars a unit that is a big improvement for block ix which was closer to 75,000. and an increase in a year and shows you how high prices are moving in this part of the country. so we are happy with that price, it is a big project, 570 units it is as was mandated by the rfp, a 20 percent affordable, 20 percent of them will be affordable housing at 50 percent of the median income and all rental apartments. and those will be family affordable units and a minimum of 3 bedrooms and the rest will be one and two that is for the affordable units the market rate units are like most, studios and ones and a few twos. there will be shared amenities for the affordable and in fact all of the amenities will be shared between the affordable and market rate units and retail on folsom street. so this is the tower design from skid, and merrill, they liked this design and an elegant looking tower, sleek and a residential feel to it. those are balconies that you see there on each of the sections. and as well, they had a great site plan with town houses, on cleminetna street, on the upper side of the block. and you can see a ground floor open space that actually is going to be publicly accessible that would connect follow so many to cleminetne street and there will be amenities for the residents on the ground floor also as well as podium level decks. could you point where the retail collecting on cleminetina is on there? could i point with this? retail is along here. okay. do you see that? yeah. this, yeah, that pointer works. so where bob is pointing that is the open space connection. i see. maybe you could see it if i do this. this is open space right here. and the town houses? thank you. they are right there. in the northwest corner of the parcel? that is an existing project residential project, a private development. with a bit of an irregular shape and there is plenty of room to put a 400 foot tower as well as the podium level buildings. here is just another view, this is looking east on folsom treat and you can see the tower and the buildings next to it and you get a good view of the try angular parcel that is next to it. you can see the retail on the ground floor and the tower on the right and one of the podium buildings on the left. and here is a close up of the entrance to that open space, again, it is publicly accessible open space and they can close it off at night but the hope is that during the daytime, all of the time it will be opened to the public and it will also be served on both sides by retail and so it will be an active piece of the folsom street boulevard that we are trying to build. next steps, we are preparing an ena, with the selected development team that will be considered by our commission, the commission on community and infrastructure, we will prepare the schematic design and a dda for consideration in the fall and that concludes the update. all right. thank you, mike and now i would like you all to give. i just have two quick questions. sure. one is the per unit cost compared to the previous building was a previous building a similar mix of affordbility and bedroom sizes? i mean, is that a good apples to apples? yeah, it is a good question. the affordbility was similar, will you more importantly, the prices don t reflect the affordable housing and that was sort of an extra, right? the price that i am giving you is just the price for the market rate units. in both cases the developer has to foot the cost of the units and it is a similar percentage and so they are comparable. although this one is a taller tower with the units within the tower and the other one has the units in the separate building but they are come parable and just in terms of the market rate units you can see that the projections are higher then they were when they got the last proposal and that is the reason for the higher price. how does that higher price compare to what we have budgeted in terms for the revenue project. it is close, almost exactly what we had in the projections that the concrete roof did. right. so that is good news. yeah. thank you. thank you. could you remind me, mike, block six and seven is that rentals as well or is that home ownership? that is ren at renters as well. i also appreciate the two and three bedroom units. i was asking about the rental because i know that the home ownership is challenging and so it is good to see all that have together. thank you. and now we have steve, the construction update. good morning, directors, steve rule with turner construction, and construction management oversight. we had another good month of progress out in the field. as soon as the presentation comes up. there it is. the estimation of 63 percent complete over all. the web core needs to be come mended and there has not been a single recordable injury since last year which is great considering the price and scope of this project. brace and installation moves along getting to the final levels in zone two, zone one was completed last month and zone three was down to the third level and the bse contractor, has done another mud slab pour in zone one and will continue to work west to east to turn that over to the contractor who starts the structural slab. some of the other items, the water line continues to be progressing from west to east, along mission street and more progress was made there, we are actually starting to repave and cover up and take the plates and put the street back together. and micropile, work continues. and it is actually now just over 400 completed micropiles since we put the report together with the work last week. and over 200 have been poll tested to the 200 percent of the strength and none have failed so far. preparations are continuing for the beal street bridge and in fact they completed the last bridge that needed to be done and that drill machine has actually moved into zone four to prepare for the construction tresle that will be going in there shortly. coming up in the next couple of months, by completing zone two, excavation by the end of march, and the slab progressing from zone one to two, the geothermal work will now begin underneath the mud slab in zone one, they are in that area where it sits underneath the footprint of the building now, and so you will be putting in the geo thermal and the grounding has been going in. and in zone one, water proofing under the below grade contractor shimic will start this month, probably in the middle of april. so we are already partway through march. the mud slab should be completed in zone one by the end of the next three months. and excavation should be going quite strong in zone four here shortly. take a look at a couple of other charts and stuff, here is the regular time line and we also added a milestone time line but below grade work is under way, the package, the concrete package is under way, the super structure, there will be some discussion about that i am sure later. the next slide, we have added to give you in feel for some key milestone dates and we will keep updating this and bring this up to you in the future presentations but this compares the basic web line that they started in the key activities compared to the february schedule update. again the october 17, end date, and final completion following that. with this current. the current float means the amount of float that is actually in that actual activity. the float being the time that is simply the time that activity could move in the schedule before it impacts or hits the critical path. so, those activities with zero float are on the critical path and those activity haves float in them can move if we sort of restructure the logic without disrupting the final end date. some of the key things on there is completing the excavation and still on track for early next year on that. and the bus ramp connecting to the transit center in may of 2016, gives access to that bus level for fin ishing and everything. so we will keep to update this list as we do the future presentations. as far as the bse time line, the final bridge will go in the first weekend in april and they are progressing towards that and actually start putting together the temporary bridge on site for moving it into place on april 56, 7. and like i said before, the excavation is progressing along and is over 60 percent complete now. give you an idea of the site map. we have removed the square in zone four and excavation started underneath freemont street and prepared for where the trussle bridge will be built in zone four. this is the map and gives you an idea of how long it is. the dark color in the west end is the finished level. i understand that they have put in the final level of bracing in zone two, that is from about shaw alley to first street and so they are just about down to finish grade in zone two. we have actually cut back on the night work because the contractor is caught up with their excavation. so for the next little while, at least we will not be trucking at night and there will be a few light shift to move equipment around and things like that. but with the buttress down they don t feel that they need the late midnight shift that we were having trouble with. that should knock back some of the noise issues for a while. just the progress from the central and west sections of the project, it is hard really to tell the progress there, but if you look hard, you will see that it is sort of darker and deeper. there in zone three, that middle zone, they have made a lot of progress in that middle area. these are the micropiles and starting to catch up again as i told you last time, the difference is between the target line and the actual is based on the late start we got but now they are moving along quickly and don t appear to be holding up the pro-agreesing of the mud slab work in zone one. just the shots in underneath, there are the micropiles in the zone one area zone two bracing and excavation. i think that was the oinl rain that we got, and it is not slowing down and he could use a little bit more. zone bracing and zone three progress, there is a significant amount where all that you saw was the buttress equipment and all is gone now, when this picture was taken last friday, the remainder of the waste water, tanks there in the lower right-hand corner are all gone, so the backhoe folks. and the drill company are pretty much off the site. just if you are looking from the east end back towards the west and the work on beal street in preparation for the bridge in zone four there it gives you an idea of how much is under the streets of san francisco and trying to fit that water line in and it is taking a little bit longer than they originally planned but nothing that will not detract from the over all project. 686,000 craft hours of which 433 are local hours, so still holding at other 63 percent of the workforce from the general bay area. broken down in these counties. san francisco still pulling about 20 percent of the workforce. they are interested in management of traffic and an areas of major development like ours. so we invited the department of planning as well as the successor with the redevelopment and we gave them a briefing on the transit center district plan as well as the redevelopment area and so that is encouraging to see that much interest and the tours are very informative and productive. that concludes my report. thank you. thank you. okay that leads us to item 6, public comment, which an opportunity for the members of the public to address you on items that are not on the calendar. i and have not received. if any members would like to speak please approach the mic. i m jim patrick with patrick and company i requested several times to get a copy of this agreement with heinz. i had an e-mail from the general counsel who said that won t happen until such time that agreement is complete. i understand that the agreement is going to be complete and they are going to pay the check and do everything else, at the end of this month for the first of april. i would like to request a copy of the agreement effective the first of april. the notion that we have waited all of this time, i think is not good board policy. thank you. thank you, mr. patrick. are there any other members that would like to comment in seeing none, we will now close public comment. okay. and at this time you are schedule to go into closed session and i have not received an indication from the public to speak on the items listed. they have the opportunity to do now otherwise we could go ahead and clear the room. thank you so we will convene into closed session and we do need to take a motion to do that. so moved. second. and i think that we can do that without opposition. while we normally hold it at the end of the meeting, we are doing this time in the middle. so i know this say bit of an inconvenience to step out excu are reconvening back into our regular meeting. then we have an announcement of our closed session items. as to item number 9, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation under government code 54957 b and 54975.6 and the tjpa board of directors there is no items to be report. and 54957 b and,. the board did designated jane kim. and at this time, could we go to item number 12. authorizing the executive director to execute israel paout resolution, advisor, in order to implement the dra procedure referred to in the revised claim procedure set forth in the contract with the cm/gc for all. if you have any directors we have mike mckenan, and brian dikes. motion to approve this agreement? second. okay. so we do have a motion and a second. and no questions or comments from the board in seeing, none let s take roll call. no members of the public. lloyd. aye. metcalf. naye. reiskin. aye. ortiz. aye. kim aye as well. that is 12 ayes. and item is amoved. and we will move on to the next item. approving the minutes of the february 14, 2013, meeting and no members of the public have indicated that they want to address you on this item. go ahead. so we have a motion from director lloyd, to approve and a second, the first and the second, director lloyd. aye. metcalf? aye. reiskin. aye. ortiz. aye. kim. aye. that is five ayes and the minutes ar proved. thank you, at this time, we will move on to item 14, which is a continuation of the presentation of the proposed revision to the phase one base line budget for the transbay, this is continuation from last month, where we actually just ran of time and not able to complete this item and just no a note of information, we did have another item last month agenda that was on the dtx presentation. and high speed rail electrification and that is continued to april. bob will present on this item and members of the team. we listened carefully on the questions that you had on the subjects of the agenda that we got through and today we are going to answer the questions and finish what we were not able to get through and going to give you some information as you know at the last board meeting we did not yet have the information on the structural steel bid and that has come in. so we are going to give you information on that and finally, we are going to let the board know what we will be recommending at the march 25th board meeting in light of the new information that we received, which we will report on in a moment, bob? thank you. members of the board. so, to, pick up where we left off, last month, we are going to go through an update of the budget, the factors that are influencing costs at this time, and a preliminary recommendations for an adjustment in the budget. so, i will touch briefly on the february 14th, presentation, invite, denise signs of urs who assisted us in the preparation of the rba to come up and speak to that process in a little bit more depth than we covered last month. and then, move on to the recommended adjustments and our funding strategies. from our meeting last month, this was our agenda, as weed put it up and made it through two-thirds of that before getting to the conclusions of the recommendations of adjusting the budget. and as a reminder our current budget adopted in may of 2010, is 1.598 billion and you see the categories of costs and expenses. and summaryized here. in working through the process and design to this point, in adopting the original phase of the current phase one budget and accepting the ura grand, we realized that $100 million in savings by switching from the top down, to bottom up instruction approach, but also to stay within the budget to date, as we have incorporated additional design features and the park and scope, not originally proposed in the park, in the project, we have accomplished more than 100 million, in value engineering and deductive alternates that have been incorporated into the documents. the remaining scope of construction provides limited additional opportunities for value engineering and significance co-productions. and the increasing activity in the construction market is also creating cost pressure that makes additional reductions in the scope and cost going forward limited. just to illustrate that point, our estimate for the balance of construction is roughly $500 million. but, almost a third of that is in the super structure, steel and concrete, that we are bidding right now and that the balance is spread, across a number of cost categories. but the ability to make significant costs or significant changes in the design of those system to reduce the cost is limited, the one area that we will be talking about today, that clark is here to speak to is a proposal to revise the awning system design and switching that from a glass to a metal material which does have the potential for us to reduce the cost of that system by $17 and a half million in total including both direct costs and risk and vunerbility assessment related costs. on the rva, last month, you heard from bob ducabela. he is with the bbs security. he is the d, in dvs. and he has an extensive experience in the security industry, and has been responsible for protective design solutions at the world trade center site and the pen station, and the monahan station and washington s union station, and the amtrak and the command and control center and the portable in new york and the airport and the un and work with the nypd counter terrorism division and new york protective design standards. also, and dvs, in the role of our design and of the rva update has been working as the tjpa as the owner s representative, urs, and i will introduce the science who led that team and acted as the
he asked for a blessing for himself to pray for him. so it was very humbling i thought in a nice way to begin his papacy. apparently that s not a show, that s the essence of the man. we all know how he lived so simply. he is actually living testimony to what the gospel really is. the gospel means good news. and it s good news to the poor. and he is a beautiful testimony of service. do you know that in buenos aires he would clean, wash and clean and kiss the feet of aids patients. yes. this is what s been missing in not just the catholic church, but in many churches around the world, is service in the name of a loving god. and it s really, really thrilling to see. i am not catholic, but i cried. i just loved his tender heart. i loved that he didn t wear all the robes and stuff. if he says he s a follower of jesus, jesus was the poorest of the poor. didn t have a stone was his pillow. you know. and if you re going to represent him as the vicar, you know, then identify with him. and i think this is a brilliant start. he s 76 years old and a lot of people first looked at it and said, wait, 76? you know that s they thought maybe they would go a little younger. we re here to tell you and we re going to list some people who are older and really rocking it. okay? here we go. besides frank? besides frank gifford. who should be first on the list. queen elizabeth, 86 years old. she s ten years older. she s doing great. warren buffett, 82. uh-huh. the king of saudi arabia, 88. the prime minister of india, 80. rupert murdoch, 82. the formula one ceo, bernie ecclestone, 82. senator frank lautenberg of new jersey, 89. and ralph hall from texas, who will be 90 in a couple months. it makes me feel a little bit better about my milestone coming this summer. how do you feel about that milestone? you know what? it s just starting to dawn on me and it s like, i m just surprised by it all the time. that i m going to be 60 years old. how the heck in honor of the pope, did that happen? would i love to be 40 again? in some ways, but i had cass when i was 40 and i ve got a beautiful almost 20-year-old and cody is going to be 23. and i think when you start thinking about ha you ve lost in life, you lose the moment right now you lose the joy and the gift of right now. that s why it s called a present. i like that. it s right now. and you just, if you just concentrate, hoda on what you do have, still have a lot. you know a lot to be grateful for. and we talk about the james taylor song the secret of life is to be enjoy where you are at the time. so here s bad news, if you re on a carnival cruise ship. this is not great. another issue with carnival, you guys. the carnival cruise ship dream is docked, in port at phillipsberg in st. maarten. they re having according to some people on the boat, power outages and overflowing toilets. 5,000 passengers could be on board. apparently carnival cruise put out a statement that said there s a technical issue, but at no time did the ship lose power there were some periodic interruptions of elevators and toilets. i obviously have a soft spot for carnival, i worked with them for 20 years as their spokesperson. they got very big after that i m not sure what the situation is here. but i know they take everything very seriously. i hope they solve the problem very quickly. you can t have all of these kinds of things happening before it starts affecting things. i wish them all the best. but you can t blame this one on me, you know what i m saying? blame it on george bush, okay? the best speeches in the united states, by trip adviser. here are a couple of suggestions. a bunch of people on the website weighed in. on their favorite beaches and here they are the third best beach is the gulf island s national seashore in pensacola, florida. i agree, you can camp on the beach, 150-mile stretch of it, it runs from cat island, mississippi, to santa rosa island in florida, it s like sugar. i ve never seen such white sand in my life, it s glorious. number two, siesta key, a public beach in sarasota. clean, hard-packed sand there. the number one and i have to agree with this one as well, top beach in the whole country is kanapali beach in hawaii. great for long walks, swimming, snorkeling, sunsets, and views. let s go. hoda needs to take her thong. this is so exciting, i have such a great i heart hoda. just when i was in a good mood. this is about people shopping in a thrift shop. people shopping in a thrift shop. we got the clean version, so no one freak out. it s by macklemore. so first you have to feel a little of the beat. are you feeling little bit of it? no. come on. okay, here it comes. i get it, i get it. is there much more? it gets better. okay. i get it, i get it. and i hate it. how can you hate it? i love it. how can you from singing cinderella yesterday, where there s actual music by rogers and hammerstein. we went to see we had to leave early because of the pope announcement. but your reaction was different from mine. yes, cinderella we just have a couple of seconds, because we have to talk to sara. i loved it for my niece. i think she will totally go crazy over cinderella, the costume change, the beautiful scenery. they were all very excited. for people like me who grew up on the leslie ann warren one and whatever year it was, i missed that story and missed hearing all of those songs in their entirety. so that just shows you it s a generational thing. but everybody is good in it. very good. hey, miss sara haynes. today to announce johnson s baby of the week. celebrating new moms and their bundles of joy. first up is kiley james macarthur. next up, surprise, surprise, is elliott joseph holland dodson, who made his debut on january 11th, in california. mom and dad, are so happy 2-year-old ava is a big sister. and finally our third today s johnson baby of the week is kennedy claire fagan, born to kelly and gregory of los gatos, california. a big congratulations to all of our babies. if you d like your baby to be considered for johnson s baby of the week, go to our website, at klgandhoda.com. you re our baby, sara. our hair and makeup team have worked their magic. two lucky ladies reveal their ambush makeovers. and justin timberlake s new gig. and i believe our friend jason is here in our weekend chat is here, we ll be right back. given way to sleeping. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep, and lunesta eszopiclone can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. do not take lunesta if you are allergic to anything in it. when taking lunesta, don t drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving or engaging in other activities while asleep without remembering it the next day have been reported. lunesta should not be taken together with alcohol. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations or confusion. in depressed patients, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide, may occur. alcohol may increase these risks. allergic reactions such as tongue or throat swelling occur rarely and may be fatal. side effects may include unpleasant taste, headache, dizziness and morning drowsiness. ask your doctor if lunesta is right for you. then find out how to get lunesta for as low as $15 at lunesta.com there s a land of restful sleep, we can help you go there, on the wings of lunesta. i m up next, but now i m singing the heartburn blues. hold on, prilosec isn t for fast relief. cue up alka-seltzer. it stops heartburn fast. oh what a relief it is! 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well sheryl works hard herself and she really deserves to have something new. are you excited for this? you bet. what is your husband going to think? i m not sure he ll notice. we ve heard that before. take off your hat quickly so everybody can see. are you ready for all of this? oh yes, you bet! they both have great faces and great senses of humor. you know the crowd, let s take a last look at sheryl and bring out the new sheryl. wow! sheryl. everybody, you ready? turn around, let s go, let s take a look. i can t see. you turn around, please, sheryl and look right in the mirror. oh, my gosh. yeah! you like? it s different. give you a few moments to fall in love with yourself. lewis, big change? big change. this is we softened the hair color. when you have dark hair, once the dark hair starts to go, do go a little softer. you don t have to be a blonde, but you should be a softer brown, a big tip here and keep the makeup very natural. lighter, thin makeup keeps you younger, less is more. and miyuki s great haircut. ready for spring on this freezing day. this is from london times, this is paired with a skinny belt, she has a little waist, so we put on a bigger belt to emphasize it more. feel free to mix and match belts. look at you ladies. louis. a couple of students put the irish saying to the test. billion and a half bottles. people have chosen it again and again for over eight years. its key ingredients are also found in every day food like avocados, broccoli and bananas. it contains about as much caffeine as a cup of the leading premium coffee. zero sugar. four calories. 5-hour energy is like. coffee with vitamins and nutrients. simple. put them together and it s a great combination. try a sip. then decide. are proven to be effective pain relievers. tylenol works by blocking pain signals to your brain. bayer back & body s dual action formula includes aspirin, which blocks pain at the site. try the power of bayer back & body. try the power for over 75 years people .with geico. ohhh.sorry!. director s voice: here we go. from the top. and action for over 75 years people have saved money with gecko so.. director s voice: cut it! .what.what did i say? 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i have a test coming up. wow. i m a little speechless right now. i feel like there s a point where he s held on too long. that only matters to the two people involved, doesn t it, sara in. she got 82% of people to kiss her. justin got only 32%. he only got 32. i think the girls are a little more tentative when a guy comes up. it can be a bit creepy from a guy. from the small screen to the big screen. jason kennedy has the scoop on what not to miss this weekend in his chatter. plus the five spring break destinations with great deals, you re going to want to know about. and irish cooking with a little irish whiskey on the side, nothing wrong with that. we re back with more of today on this thirst-day thursday, hoda is going crazy over this song. time for the weekend chatter, everything you ll need to know in the world of entertainment. here with the scoop is our dear friend and e-news correspondent. our baby brother, jason kennedy. let s get started with the movies for the weekend. what shall we see? how about the call ? with halle berry. she plays, pretty scary, she s a 911 operator, she gets a call from a teenaged girl, abigail breslin. that s one, she spends the hour trying to save her from her abductor. we re leaving out wonderstone. if you want to lighten the mood and go to the box office, they pay competing magicians. is it funny? it looks cheesy, but that s my concern. it looks a little cheesy. if you re going to stay home and pop the popcorn, what should we watch? a lot of this stuff coming out, have been nominated nor oscars. visually stunning, it didn t win an oscar. by i thought it should. ang lee directed this. and hitchcock his relationship with his wife while they were shooting psycho. was it psycho ? i think so. if it was, i want to see it. and life of the guardians an animated movie, an all-star cast. they team up and take down an evil man who is trying to steal kids dreams. can i tell you what i m addicted to on netflix? house of cards. i watched 13 episodes. i m done. it s so good. that s how you do it. i m learning, i m learning. you know hoda when she falls in love. celebrity news, adam sandler and drew barrymore are teaming up again. it s the wedding singer 1998 the first time they got together, and then they did 50 first dates. the third romantic comedy for them doesn t have a title, but they play a couple at a family resort. they get trapped there with their kids from a previous marriage. i think it will be fun. shakira has a beautiful picture with that baby. i love that she s doing this. because many times when celebs don t do photos like this the paparazzi go to crazy measures to get the shots. there s gerard pique, her man. he s a soccer player. and the little guy is rocking daddy s jersey. the voice is getting ready to start. your favorite show. and shakira is gearing up to be a judge. blake shelton. it will be a good season with the two new judges, right? yes, and usher as well. no cee lo, no christine aguilera, she s great. but it s going to be, it s going to be good. i think this is going to be the best season. that s what they say every year. but i heard it s going to be pretty phenomenal. all right, jason, thank you. if you want to hit the beach, the best spring getaways. it s happening now. people are switching to finish. . and it s spreading all across america. quantum with new power gel delivers amazing clean and shine, even in the hardest water, which cascade just can t do. so take the finish shine challenge and get up to 30% off! 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[ phillips lady ] live the regular life. phillips . on today s travel, if you haven t planned a spring getaway just yet, there s still time. whether you re dreaming of lounging on a beach in florida, or pulling up to a pool bar in st. kitt s, we have travel and leisure s digital project editor. there s time to get a good deal? all of these deals are less than $300 a night. so let s get to them. let s go to st. kitt s. st. kitt s, it s the island that the caribbean tourism forgot. it s the undiscovered beaches, the st. kidt s marriott resort. beautiful blue umbrellas and lounge chairs on a white sand beach, there is your spot. there s pools and a swim-up beach bar. and a spa and a gym and a pineapple papaya body scrub. it sounds so good i want to eat it. and it starts at $199 a night. it s starting to be the off-season a little bit. exactly. how about jacksonville. it s lively crowds, popular, crowded, if you want some of that but want to stay a little away. one ocean resort rates their start at $179 a night. it s quiet and beautiful. you re just five minutes from the bars and everything, so there s lots to do. i was talking about affordability. i was searching for flights later this month. round trip from new york. $350. it doesn t get any better than that. a great affordable escape. what about the west coast, california? here we come. california, we know we love it, the destination close to my heart. carmel valley, just 120 miles south of san francisco. this is quail lodge. what i love about it is that it s been recently renovated to the tune of $28 million. not even open yet, it opens on march 26th. so talk about a new car smell, this is a brand new resort. and they actually even have a great land cruiser experience. so if you want to turn around and do some adrenaline-pumping driving, this is your place and there s golf. and how far is that from carmel by the sea? just inland. a quick drive. that by itself has to be visited. it s so beautiful. quiet, if you re looking for something bucolic, that s your spot. washington, d.c., the cherry blossoms? the festival starts on march 20th. they re expecting the peak day to be march 26th. this is a great spot, the liaison capital hotel, located, the closest hotel to the capitol, within walking distance of the national mall and the smithsonian. they ll do a great deal for you. $175, they throw in all sorts of picnic stuff and cherry and chocolate cookies and it s a really great and fun deal. you can go to the gym, too. and jackson hole, wyoming. if you re looking to get one last-ditch effort down the slopes, this is your place, they had 28 feet of snow this year. it s really beautiful. this is spring creek lodge, so if you re looking to go skiing and to explore the wilderness, they have an on-site naturalist who can point out the fox and bald eagles. $87 per person, per night. they throw in a free ski pass. it s a really affordable way to get down the slopes this spring. she did it again. thanks. coming up, two women battling colon cancer and the information that could save your life, right after this. good morning. we ll walk you through the weather here over the next week. we have some changes. for some, it still feels like winter. for others, it s heating up. almost summer like in the southwest. before we get there, we have a clipper we re tracking across the great lakes into the high plains. we ll see winter weather here once again today. doesn t look like any significant accumulation. more of a nuisance for most areas. and the interior northeast will be dealing with that also by the afternoon. but dry and hot for the south and the southwest. temperatures possibly record setting. once again, we already had that in phoenix just yesterday. 94 will be the forecast later today. 82 in dallas. 80 for albuquerque. there s the cold air. 34 in minneapolis. only in the 40s in through the northeast. so it stays chilly here from new england all the way back into the high plains. that s where the coldest air will be. as that clipper moves through the ohio valley by tomorrow, we ll still have some winter weather to deal with and a little bit of snow coming in to the inner mountain west. 76 in albuquerque. 54 in denver. by sunday, your forecast changes quite a bit here across the midsection of the country and getting into the nation s heartland. temperatures are going to be coming down. we cool they thinks off quite a bit by sunday. this is monday. we ve been hinting at what could be a bigger storm coming into the great lakes and the ohio valley. keep it here as we monitor that and bring you more details as far as snow totals. on tuesday, we ll start to see things quiet down. wednesday, yet another system comes in from the northwest. that s going to bring more rain into seattle, northern california looking at some showers. on thursday, that will start to push its way to the east, impacting salt lake city. 57 there trsday in denver. remember, you can wake up with al and stephanie weekday mornings 5:30 on the weather channel. people have chosen it again and again for over eight years. its key ingredients are also found in every day food like avocados, broccoli and bananas. it contains about as much caffeine as a cup of the leading premium coffee. zero sugar. four calories. 5-hour energy is like. coffee with vitamins and nutrients. simple. put them together and it s a great combination. try a sip. then decide. with hotwire s low prices, i can afford to visit chicago for my first big race and l.a. for my best friend s wedding. because when hotels have unsold rooms, they use hotwire to fill them. so i got my hotels for half-price! men: h-o-t-w-i-r-e hotwire.com time for today s health. information that could save your life. if you haven t heard, march is colorectal cancer awareness months. the cancer that s preventible and treatable when it s caught early. that s the message from two amazing women who are living with the disease. we ll speak to them in a moment, but first, their stories. in 2009, 48-year-old terry agreeing was the picture of health, accomplishing things women half her age could not, but a colon os copy revealed the mother of two had stage 4 colorectal cancer. i can t think of anything more difficult to do than to tell your children that you ve been diagnosed with cancer. after surgery and while receiving chemotherapy, she continued to pursue her dream and in 2011, finished the ironman world championship. attorney gloria borgess was 28 and ready to conquer the world when she was diagnosed. i thought i had a bad case of food poisoning, i had stage 4 colon cancer. by all accounts i wouldn t live to see my 30th birthday. she s done that and more launching her foundation, wonder glow, with the goal of funding cutting-edge cancer research. every day i am defying the odds, every day i am beating cancer. how inspiring are these two? terry greeg is a volunteer with the colon cancer awareness and the chairman of the wonder glow foundation. and dr. is the director of gastroenterology. i ve been very fortunate, i feel for the most part wonderful. i have some weeks when i m going still through treatment that are a little rough. but i continue to train and run marathons and do half ironmans and hopefully another ironman in the fall. that s unbelievable, if you don t mind my saying. it s incredible. thank you. and you were just 28, how are you doing? doing well. i just finished my 46th round of chemo on monday and flew here on tuesday. but i m doing well, running the foundation and working out. lifting weights, playing basketball. and the doctor, we have to ask this. we know that the guideline is the age of 50 to start getting your colonoscopies. and a lot of people are terrified of them. but the truth is, the thought of them is much worse than the actual treatment. the preparation is the bad part and that s nothing. but if it s caught early, it s so easy to cure. yes. and these ladies, they were caught quite late. and they re doing so well it seems, are we making huge strides now? tremendous hope with this disease. the first point is as you say, don t wait until you get symptoms, when you re well is the time to talk to your doctor about screening and prevention. colon cancer is one of the most preventible and curable of all cancers that we know of. the earlier we catch it, the greater the chance of curing it. when you got diagnosed and learned about it you spoke to some of your family members and we have your sister is over there. and tell us what happened when you talked to your sisters when they got checked. i was 48 at the time and screening is at 50 and my sisters were over 50 and had never been screened. immediately after i was diagnosed. they went and had colonoscopies, my one sister had precancerous polyps and my other sister was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. this was all within two weeks of my diagnosis. so it s familial then in this sense, it s genetic? exactly. there s about a 20% to 30% chance of it being spread from a family member. so you have a family history of colon cancer, young people in the family with colon cancer, sometimes uterine or ovarian cancer can be related. polyps or colon cancer is a family issue. you are so young. did you have, what symptoms if any did you have? i had plenty of symptoms, because i was so young. i think people sort of wrote them off, including myself. so i went to the bathroom frequently and they weren t impressive performances. you had a lot of diarrhea. i felt myself bloated at night, things like that it didn t stop me, i was working 14-hour days and working out. and when things got to really severe point i thought i had food poisoning, i couldn t keep anything down. even in the hospital, it took six days for me to get a colonoscopy and that s when they found the massive tumor in my colon. did you have bleeding? no. so it s not always bleeding. no. actually the symptoms can be very, someone could just feel tired and have anemia as a presenting form. and 50 is a magic number. just like with breast cancer screenings, they say wait until you re a certain age there are people who are exceptions to this? absolutely. if there s a family history. the key is not to make the decision yourself. but talk to your doctor about it. any bowel disease, my sister had acute colitis, the more you talk about it and get it out in the open. it s nothing to be ashamed of. but bowel issues are called the silent diseases. nobody wants to talk about them. if you don t talk about them, you can t fix them. you guys are amazing. thank you for coming in. and thank you, doctor. we ll take you to today s kitchen for some down-home irish cooking. but first, this is today on nbc. 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porter, porter being stout, it s got stout in it. and actually sometimes people even used to pour some begin he is into the coddle. but i don t like that. don t guinness your coddle. it looks delicious. and you two kind of like having a little we like having a little bit earlier in the morning. while you re making us your drink, we re going to go over a little okay or not okay. so this we rant out of time. is it okay or not okay to kiss your tv guests on the lips? here s what we had to say about that. absolutely. i still haven t gotten over my kiss from tom sellick in 2,000. yes, it s okay, but only if it s george clooney. or tom sellick. oh yes. thank you so much for this. delicious. all right. tomorrow we have a great performance by the group, the celtic thunder and we also want to warn you we want to warn you now. hide the children tomorrow. you will discover things about hoda and you. never dreamed possible. jeff: he can t see. i don t let them determine what my limits are. jeff: but it doesn t stop him. you went to the bottom of the grand canyon. me and my magic stick. jeff: how viewing the world just clicks. that s part of how you find your way around. by bouncing sound in every way possible. we re going to send you to the same space i skydive. 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go to the mayor s office education you ll find applications for nominations in /kphaoeu these, spanish so the next meeting of the rules policy and legislation committee will be on march 20 and starts at 6:30. i would also like to announce that our second meeting in march is cancelled, so the meeting of march 26 will not take place and notice of cancellation will be posted. now miss williams, you have a small announcement. i just wanted to have it on public record to acknowledge the district staff, the families out in bay view on march 1 to me amazing they had 800 people turn out, father and mother hi members, students to go to the california academy of science and to me those are the kind of things that need to be acknowledged from the ground work up and and the participation of that many people. 800 showed up, district provided the bussing and i think we need to see more of that. and in terms of reaching the african american community an where we wanna be heading. that is definitely worth mentioning. thank you. any other reports are board members. i just wanted to congratulate [inaudible] new position of supervisor of district four. okay. item t, report of closed session actions. there are many of them. bear with me [inaudible] i m /rae reading the closed session actions of march 25, 20130. the board of education approved [inaudible] and the board of /epbl case by a vote of seven is, approved the will not re/tphu new tragically killed on march 2 wheel walking home from her 17th birthday party. she is kind and highly gifted. and track team. her parents re/kw quest do nations be made to the l low el track and cross country team in public schools in sacramento cull any mating in our george washington she retired from the district in 2001. generosity enabled her to mentor scores of [inaudible] from 2004 until her death served as cochair [inaudible] for retired teachers and all retirees in the city of san francisco. she will be deeply missed by her husband, friends and the many more she touched with her work an various campaigns. also in memory of [inaudible] for over 30 years he was a gifted /toefper and counselor at [inaudible] earning a masters degree in counseling in 1990. he was always involved in latino community and [inaudible] express sin sheer sincere condolences to .. i am here to tell you that one billion rising is the biggest global action on the planet for ending violence against women and girls. today in 203 country, one billion rising is dancing up the will of the world to end violence against women and girls once and for all. we have expanded our list that the u.n. recognized of countries, and how your response has been through this call. together we will make it so that this issue is never marginalized again. san francisco, you have been rising all day long. from dancing across the golden gate bridge this morning. the dancers who were just here now at grace cathedral. and thank you grace cathedral for welcoming us. and elrio will be dancing all night long. what better place to rise and here at city hall on valentine s day and all the elected officials and leaders, all of the women of anti-violence leaders who are here, and are doing this work everyday alongside of you. thank you, san francisco rising. v-day is a welcome place and i spoke to the representative from congo. and i want to thank every person in the mayor s office and the d.a. s department and every single agency that works on this issue every day. from the bottom of my heart, and eve sends her love as well. you have made this happen. on that note i would like to welcome mayor edwin lee. thank you. all right, how are y all doing? well, anita and i came together to join vascone and the fabulous fablioa, isn t she fabulous. and david chu and all the board of supervisors are here, and the committee on the status of women. and the president and susan swan, give them a great hand for organizing v-day in san francisco. we support the one billion rising because it empowers the rise of women, girls and all the residents of san francisco to take a stand against violence in our home, in our city and throughout the world. and just think, if women were equally included in decision-making around the world, there would be no economic disaster throughout the world. so today as part of dancing and part of celebrating, but the important message that we all stand united together. to take the pledge to end violence against women and girls for good. so let s do this together, are you ready for the pledge? all right. i just wanted to get you ready. we will be back in a very short second for this pledge. i have to listen to the women on this stage. you better, mr. mayor. san francisco are we ready? are we rising? let s show the world that san francisco can be counted on. just think about it for a moment. one out of every three women will be sexually abused or assaulted in their lifetime. that has to stop. and we here in san francisco are going to show no tolerance for abuse against young girls and women. are we ready? are we rising? i have to take a moment to thank some people. first i want to thank my beautiful wife. who is just an incredible woman. she s the anchor in my life and someone that i appreciate so dearly. and i want to thank you very much for everything you do. and for your commitment to ending violence against women. i also want to thank mayor lee, because when he was approached with the idea of doing this. he immediately said yes. thank you, mayor lee. and thank you to the lee family. i want to thank the organizers who very early on came together and said, san francisco will stand out and be counted. and i want to thank our board of supervisors. i want to thank people on my staff, specifically rebecca prozam. when i said rebecca, we have to help get this going, and she said no problem. where is rebecca? raise your hand. give her a round of applause. i guess we are ready to move on. and what i ask for all of you, when i dance, do not laugh. because i am a horrible dancer. let s go on with the program. david, i will ask the president of the board of supervisors, david chui. we have anyone here ready to be a part of revolution? we have anyone ready to rise? are we here to say no to violence against women and children? on behalf of the board of supervisors, i want to say happy valentine s day and v-day. thank you for being a part of our city of love. in 1967 san francisco started the city of love. and in 2004 san francisco stood up and said that our couples lgbt should marry. and today we are saying it again, we are a city that shows we know how to love. and real love does not involve violence against women, and against girls or against children. i want to also take a moment and give a shout-out to the men, the vagina friendly warriors standing here with you. thank you for being here. and i want to take a moment of reflection. 12 years ago there was an immigrant woman named clair tempongko, who was brutally murdered. and i want to thank you the domestic violence committee that came together and said no, we must come together. our work is not done. let me tell you that the latest report shows that our domestic violence centers 29% more calls. and our district attorney has had prosecute 88 more cases in the last two years. and i want to thank my colleagues to the board of supervisors, this week we voted to put in more money to the domestic violence work. thank you, colleagues. in closing, this past month we celebrated the 50th anniversary of martin luther king s i had a dream speech. and we all have a dream. look around you, we represent the diversity not just of san francisco but the world. and we have a dream that some day that every woman and child in this world won t have to wor about violence. we will take care of our children. and this is a dream that if we all rise, not just san franciscans but one billion citizens around the world. thank you for being here. hello, san francisco! i have a voice. so i am rising. my voice can save a life. can your voice save a life? imagine if each voice could save a life. we can t do it alone. but as our entire city. we have so many innovative programs in san francisco. it takes the commitment of our mayor and district attorney and the law enforcement. thank you to the board of supervisors for the additional funds so that the agencies can serve all the women that need help in san francisco. can i hear a voice standing up for women. san francisco serves the world, we provide services to 165 languages. women are turned away because we don t have the funding. so thank you for the funding, board of supervisor. and san francisco has received funds from the federal government. president obama has recognized the great effort that san francisco has started and want to continue. so we can eradicate violence here in san francisco and start a global movement. everyone here is touched by domestic violence. if you say you don t know, it may be your co-worker. or your sister that doesn t want to speak out. it could be your mother or grandmother. i do this in memory of a fellow co-worker, laura sweat, who was murdered by her husband. and in that moment two young children were left without a mother. i do this in her memory and in hope that the world will see no more violence. thank you for joining one billion rising. you have the power to save lives. [applause] thank you, julie chu, from the commission of women. there are vaginas around? i am marily mondejar. i am one of the organizers of the event tonight. and i am a survivor of domestic violence. i rise tonight because when i was 22 years old i did not know that i could leave my abusive marriage. i rise tonight because when i was 26 years old i did not know that there were countless other women suffering like me. i rise tonight because i did not know that my children and i could have a life without fear and violence. i rise tonight because it took me many, many years with the help of community members before i was able to tell anyone about the violence and to ask for help. i rise tonight because tonight i know that what happened to me was not my fault. [applause] i demand tonight and every night that we as a community of loving and caring people speak up and extend help when we see or hear about violence against women and girls. i demand tonight and every night that we as a community, we as a community of loud and strong activists will shout enough. enough. stop the violence now. i demand tonight and every night that we as a community confront a problem such as violence against women with continuous and rigorous analysis of existing protocols with creative thinking and with courage to introduce new paradigms like what eve and v-day has done today with one billion rising worldwide. an action that has shifted our consciousness about violence against women and girls. i demand tonight and every night that a community of mothers and fathers and aunts and uncles and grandmas and grandpas and sons and daughters and friends, that we create a true change and stand together with women and girls of san francisco. and i dance tonight in the memory of claire joyce tempongko, a 28-year-old filipino woman that was murdered in front of her two young children. and i dance tonight in memory of terance casko that was beat by her iraq boyfriend on her birthday because she wanted to leave her abusive marriage. i dance tonight in memory of marisa who was stabbed to death by her husband, after he completed his battered program. and i dance for nicole who was abused by marines. i ask you to dance with me and say no to domestleic violence a to rape crimes, and to say no to human trafficking. and tonight for every victim and survivor here in san francisco. but most importantly, let us dance tonight for those who still need to find the courage to leave abusive relationships and seek help. and i will keep rising and i hope you do, and i will keep demanding. and i will keep dancing until every woman and girl in san francisco can live free and clear of violence. say it with me. i rise. thank you. there are so many cases, and many that occur in the world. one out of three will be raped and abused. one billion women dancing is for revolution. and we have men here, thank you. one billion rising is a global call to action. and one billion rising is a celebration. this is how we celebrate the help that all of those women can receive from all of us. we can do something and we can only do it together. right now i am going to introduce janice. she s a missionary. she s an activist. she s a leader and she s a poet. she will read a poem from eve ensler. who started with this movement, she started collecting situations, and experiences. and memories of so many women around the world and she created the vagina monologues, and that led to this. thank you. hey, you are beautiful. this is a beautiful, beautiful billion rising voices. one billion rising is more powerful than the thunder over the mountains. or the unchanged sea. let our voices reach the bedrooms of san francisco. the streets and the alleys for the homeless women and the poor. let our voices reach the worlds of violated and murdered women and the women that continue to be endangered by war and men who are haters. i am honored to be invited to read my hero s poem, eve ensler entitled rising. this was written for the women in india who lead the way. this could have been anywhere and was. mexico city. manila. manhattan. night-time men waiting like wolves, drooling for prey. paying nothing but a couple of dollars or euros or pesos to have her. enter her. eat her. and devour her and throw away her bones. this could have been anywhere and was. a buddhist trying to stay dry for the night. a woman leader speaking out against a repressive government. a young woman traveling with her boyfriend. one lost her voice, the other her following. the last one her life. this could have been anymore and was. pink wooden crosses, a stack of stones. red wilting coronations. empty chairs in a square. ribbons swaying in a sultry wind. i ask anna and nehat, and monique and emily, why? why? [speaking foreign language] because they were women. because they were women. this could have been anywhere. and was. for she got fired for being too beautiful. fined for drinking after he was raped. a serious offer to marry her rapist. got told it was legitimate but not enforceable. this could have been anywhere. they could do such a thing when the girls go for fire wood. step into a lonely man s car. drink a little too much at the college party. wake up with their uncle s finger inside. run from the screaming machetes and guns. taken at sunrise, get a bullet in the brain for learning the alphabet. be stoned for falling in love. be burned for seeing the future. i am done cataloging these horrors. two million women raped and tortured. one out of three. a woman raped every minute. every second. one out of two. one out of five. the same. one. one. one. i am done counting. and recounting. it is time to tell a new story. it needs to be our story. it needs to be outrageous and unexpected. it needs to lose control in the middle. it needs to be sexy. and in our hips and our feet. it needs to be angry. and a little scary. the way that storms can be scary. it needs not to ask permission. or to get permits or to set up offices. or to make salaries. it won t be recorded or bought or sold. or counted. it needs to just happen. it s not a question of inventing but remembering. buried under the trauma a
senate, and the american people, 8% trust sorry, 26% of the american people trust the government, and i only thing i can figure out is they are absolutely enname moried by obama. who are the 26%? the people who don t know what they are talking about. exactly. the truth of the matter is the mayor s into big size cokes, how many calories in fries, what have you when he ought to be on street safety. lou: i want mayor bloomberg, and if you are listening, if you ban cokes, salt, and all of that, ban potholes for crying out loud. the city is riddled with potholes. ban the damn potholes. yes mep, thank you very much. i appreciate it. how do you really feel? [laughter] lou: thanks for being with us. that s all for us tonight. coming up here tomorrow, former mississippi governor, rnc chairman, haley barbuor joins us. be with us. good night from new york. neil: well, it won t make daryl hannah happy or robert kennedy, jr. happy, but i am because some opec sheiks are not happy. actually, nay are angry, not chain themselves to the white house fence angry, but close. if i had a choice between picking off yoko or, let s say these locos, no contest. i go for the loco. a world where i m less indebted to them is a world that makes me tolerate, well, kind of that. every time i hear her sing, i just, ahhh! anyway, i m neil cavuto. don t look now, but sheiks hit the fan because we are fracking our way out from under their thumbs, way out from under their thumb. opec says demand for oil is down in large part because our shale gas production is up, actually, way up, which might have daryl feeling down, but those who hate depending on cut throat oil guys feeling giddy or at least giddier. seems as if fracking seems finally to be making some fracking sense, and that s despite a presidents who limited what we can tap of our own energy resources here, but the boom from fracking makes this much very clear. it is ad goo day when it s the cartels whining about what we re doing and this time how it s costing them. anyway, just how big a deal is this more than a little pinch for opec? let s ask sandra smith and phil flynn. what do you think? they ll feel the pinch. this is going to be costly for them to the tune of citigroup has a drastic note in the month of february saying opec finds is challenging to last another 60 years. they are saying we have the ability to be energy independent in the next 20 years. they ve even on some of the analysts say in the next five to ten years based on the shale boom here in the united states. we have the ability, according to the intergnarl energy agency, to overtake saudi arabia, the kingpin of oil production for opec in the next five to ten years. neil: that is assuming we keep going with fracking. that is assuming the environmentalists don t get in the way or private business still has enough incentive to do this, and that the government doesn t get in the way. neil: phil flynn, this is not entirely fracking that s doing this, but it is a lot of it, and i m wondering whether just the publicizing the fact that we re hurting opec now is enough to get even a stubborn yoko ono to say, all right, maybe. actually, i thought that was niemi reading the latest report. that s what i thought it was. yeah, no, this is the end of the opec cartel. this is their swan song, neil, and they alienated their biggest customers over the years, and this will be a major thing. sandra s right. i give opec maybe ten years. this is the worst neil: to way. i love you dearly, but we forget about the fact by the way, this has been signed on before in the early 80s when oil and gas was cheaped. they survived that nicely. they have a way. they survived the 1990s because chavez came into power to help them adhere to cartels, but those days are over. neil, let me tell ya, when you have the biggest consumers of diesel fuel in the yaits united states saying we re not buying your product in five to ten years, but going to natural gas, we don ttneed your oil, that s going to be huge. when you have every major corporation in the world looking to the united states to rebuild factories because they lock in cheap natural gas, who needs opec oil? this is the most significant change in the energy industry probably in the last hundred years, and, by the way, this is the biggest jump in u.s. production probably since before the civil war. this is huge. neil: you guys are great. you cover it more than i do, but, sandra, i know this has been there many many, many times, and china and india and developing countries are on the ball here and get to be the dominant players they are and then some. that cares for the demand, and that s going to get back to the relatively limited supply advantage opec. let s not forget this is not just a production story. this is a demand story as well, and because of this efficiency and developments over the last couple decades, we re looking at demand levels that could be dropping and jeopardizing opec. this is not just about our neil: my argument is the demand, eventually as the economy recovers, slowly recovers, that s going to go up. don t forget natural gas. it s becoming a very r v real threat. i don t have a lot of time to make good op a bet, but i ll win this bet. phil, what could get in the win of your predictions? well, basically, the government s getting involved in fracking and going away from it, but, you know, i don t think the governments can get away from this. we have seen this in history before, neil. we go from cycles. remember the first time we had peak oil, a few years ago, running out of oil; right? we talked about whale oil. the market builds a better mouse trap, and right now, we are at the most significant juncture in u.s. energy. we re going to change the energy mix as we know it going forward. how you thought about energy five years ago totally changed. neil: i don t know. you have your own white puff of smoke you had today, i want to thank you, and speaking of the other big story of the day, white smoke means, as you know by now, we have a new pope, in fact, we have the first latin american pope putting a stamp on the notion that hispanics are general are not just a growing force, but a reflection of being a worldwide economic force, something newly elected pope francis himself joked about in the initial blessing. listen. glt looks like my brothers, the cardinals, went to find him at the end of the world almost, but here we are. neil: here we are indeed. almost the end of the world. this is the third nonitalian pope we ve had in a row, but this is the furtherrest the vatican traveled to find a successor for rome, and argentina, pope john ii, and so, of course, cardinal benedict 16th was from germany. they went a long way to get this guy. former u.s. secretary on the phone with us now. the commerce secretary, at the time, a frequent visitor to argentina, knnws this fellow well, knows the country well, and the growing movement and population well, and that s more than the name only. secretary, what did you think of this choice because people are just getting a hand l on this guy, and they are impressed with what they ve come to find out. caller: of course, at first, very surprising, but on the one hand it s the personal pick. apparently he s really someone who is very special, humble, simple, and just the kind of pope that can make can be legendary, and then neil: how do you know that, secretary? we don t know a lot, and you know the country certainly better than i do, he s skewed that came he lives in a simple apartment, he doesn t use a driver. he takes public transportation, so he does all the things that seem, you know, very, very true to the st. francis model and name he s chosen, but he s in the big leagues now, and the pressures could mount now. caller: yeah, and i think what people are thinking about is, you know, is he a reformer? is he going to change the church? will he just be another inspirational figure? that s the big question that the church needs to answer, but, you know, argentina s one of the has one of the highest catholic populations in the world. latin america is thee greatest concentration of catholics in the world, so, you know, from that standpoint, gee graffingly it makes sense. i hope it provides argentine ya with confidence. it punched below weight for too long. neil: i wonder, you know, we talked about as you, not only in office, but since and reminded folks a lot of times, that there is a huge hispanic influence beyond just the church, as we said, but in our economy, republicans found that out the hard way in politics. caller: yeah. neil: this is a demographic, not just a people, but amassing power at a rapid weight. how does he balance that out in what is still a very staid, almost rigid church hierarchy? caller: yeah, that will be his talent, exactly that balance. i m sure they don t want catholicism to be viewed as hispanic or latin american religion. he s going to have to reach out to the rest of the world where the church is losing followers, so i think that will be his big challenger, but it s a huge boost for lat tip america, and i think it s at the right time. i think this is a good time for countries like mexico, and this just adds confidence and confidence is good, you know, i think people have very destructive policies when the confidence is not there, and i think argentina, frankly, has gone through that. the parishioners and ever since. neil: i remember a country walked away from its debt to be a power house. times have changed. caller: 100 years ago, the fifth largest per capita income country in the world. neil: amazing. you know all these facts. i guess that s how you became a big deal. always a pleasure. caller: thank you, neil. neil: meanwhile, good news at the mall could maul your paycheck. why democrats could jump at more tax hikes. tech kyes awaiting the next big product from samsung, the hype over the new galaxy s4 that s proof apple needs to watch its s. dad, i d put that down. ah. 4g, huh? verizon 4g lte. 700 megahertz spectrum, end-to-end, pu lte bui. the most consistt speeds indoors or out. and, obviously, astonishing throughput. obviously. you know how fast our home wifi is? yeah. this is basically just asast. oh. and verizon s got more fast lte coverage than all other networks combined. it s better. yes. oh, why didn t you just say that? huh what is he doing? neil: a new pope, a new record high. curious? the dow hit an all time high, 7th straight day, longest streak in 26 years. markets up, retail sales up, all of this despite taxes going up, and, today, democratic senator, patty murray announced a budget to ramp tax revenue even more up. would more tax hikes see all the good numbers crash down? let s ask. what do you think? well, yes, as will spending cuts. i hope the u.k. austerity britain since 2010, tried to reduce the deficit, have by 5%, but looking at a triple dip recession. the chief economists at imf said too much too soon. neil: austerity u put it on steroids. 80% cuts, 20% revenue increases, all wrong. america doesn t want to do that, but statement, focus on the deficit. neil: good point. gary, knowing what s going on, i don t want anyone here to worry we re on austerity ways. if you re concerned we ll repeat what the brits have done, fear not because nothing we ve hinted at, the most draconian stuff talked about is just shaving off the increase in spending. i tried to disenvow americans of the fear we ll be another greece because nothing we do hints of austerity. you make an interesting point, neil, and i think it s more than interesting. well, i understated, obviously. neil: go ahead. well, there s a couple things. even under paul ryan s budget, which he just came out with, i guess today, spending there increases 3 #-4% a year. spending s not cut or raibed in. the other point is we want to shift money from the private -ector to the public sector, and, yet, the boom years, under both reagan and clinton saw them reduce government spending as a percentage of the gdp. it was only george bush that things ramped up and things flat lined as they have since obama s been in office. neil: peter, what s to stop nip in the white house from looking at the markets, looking at the improving economic status, not across the board, but enough of the board to feel we run the spending board, keep doing what we are doing because, obviously, it s working. look at those markets. what do you think? what s going to stop them is voters, for one thing, and house republicans for another who basically said they re not in the mood for any kind of tax hikes right now, and, you know, patty murray s budget raises about a trillion dollars, and all else being equal, raising tax revenue, you raise taxes crowds out private investment, but i want to offer a half defense of what she s doing because the way she raises revenue is not by raising tax rates, but closing tax loopholes and things like that. neil: i liked a lot of she said because it was not across the board rate increased, and i do like what i saw in the paul ryan because i finally read his thing today. defense cuts in there the problem neil: he s limiting the growth in even something for republicans which is their entitlement, if you will, defense. i think between the two maybe the hope. there s got to be hope, extreme grand bargain and they meet in the middle. at the end of the day, president obama has eye on history, and he knows his legacy, he needs to get to deficit reduction. we know not all spending is created equal, some is dreadful, needs to go, cobin is good on waste neil: came up with $4 00 billion in defense. spend more in america than ten countries in combinedded. neil: america, we need you. it s not america s job to be neil: really? winston churchill, would be hard because he s dead, but you know what i mean. i do, but fundamentally, maybe they can meet in the middle because obama is looking at his legacy. neil: okay. gary, we could look at this and say is the administration by not going as aggressively on spending thing signaling we think we could grow out of this, and do you, a finer market minds i know, see anything that would hint of that being the case because that s the only way you can get out, only cut so much, and if you really do need to boom your way out of something like this. well, the only boom thing that i can see is, you know, and you talked about it in the earlier segment is the whole, energy fracking. if that takes off, kind of like the internet did in the late 90s, maybe we can grow our way out of it, but as long as government s growing at the rate it is now, every dollar we spend, send to government whether it s via tax cuts or closing loopholes is a dollar spent infirst timely, and i just inefficiently, and it s flat lining at best. neil: if we sputter back, and it s a point, peter, many have been concerned about, that we go back into something bad, and every market high ever achieved, and gary will probably know it better than i will, in fact, definitely, is pong wait punctuated months later as horrible, and rather than celebrating right now, we should be worrying right now. that is always a worry that, you know, at any point that you reach a high you re going to slide back because the economy at some point then not do so well. that s one of the reasons why i think we ought to be focusing on cutting spending right now and not trying to pull so much out of the economy, which is a lot of what you see from democrats and from the white house right now, trying to pull a lot of revenue from the economy. 80/20. neil: what s a less erroneous, less crippling economy cut that we could afford? i think one way that we could look at this is to look at the experience of canada in the 1990s which did $5-$7 of spending cuts for every $1 of tax hikes. they substantially reduced government spending and saw a boom as a result of it. neil: guys, thank you very much. we shall see. on this and other subjects, bill gates, founder of microsoft, second richest person on the planet, joins me on what he thinks of this tax talk, and the impact that tax hikes on charitable contributions and the rest. next, we have hank giving the government a big spanking. greenberg on the 55 billion lawsuit, and why washington is the one bullying. he has the facts, figures, and e-mails to prove it. that s next. 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no wonder aig is not joining the former ceo, hank greenberg s $55 billion class action suit against the government. the suit claims part of that bailout that was pushed in the middle of the meltdown was unconstitutional, and sloppy to say the least. greenberg is here and only here. now, we had your lawyer, david boyce, here yesterday arguing the case, and you have the e-mail, the exchanges, and the threats to make the case; right? absolutely. neil: what do you think? a lot of it will come out in discovery and in depositions, of course, but a lot of it is already in my book, all been verified. we would not put anything in there that was not. there s many reasons why we ve done that. one, it s unconstitutional, and that s wrong. neil: which you bring people up to speed on this. in the middle of the meltdown, you argued that onerous conditions put on aig unlike any other institution rescued, rates at 50%, and further, that rescue money given to aig was, in fact, a piggy bank to dole out through aig to others. that s correct. neil: treasury secretary at the time, hank paulson, said that was not the case, others argued that s not the case, and you still encysted it. oh, yeah, 60 billion out the back door, including foreign banks, the arab bank, 26% owned by libya. neil: how do you know it went right through because there s been follow-up on that, and we know that. it s a fact. neil: why wouldn t aig sign on to this and say, hank s right, but i think your point with david is they if it s the eq part, they got a rescue, nevermind they didn t benefit, and it looks bad to sue. well, you can say that, but the fact of the matter neil: that s what they said; right? look, the government can take what they want. they have to pay for it. you can t neil: what did they take advantage of? what did they take advantage of? first of all, the shareholders didn t vote for it. you re a shareholder, you re entitled to vote. neil: they were unfairly screwed? yeah. neil: were others were not that s up to adapt and do. neil: how were aig shareholders, and you re a big one, what was disproportioned about the way you were hurt in first of all, many lost life savings including pension funds, including many aig employees who worked for 35-40 years to build the value of the company. we owed it to them to do something about this because it was not it was an unlawful taking. no question about that. that ll come out. neil: so when this first aim up that, you know, the appearance that it didn t look good or a company that benefited from a bailout to sue the people who provided the bailout, and you couldn t get past that, not fair in that argument, but that was the argument. yeah, but because there s many other things that could have been dope, okay? it didn t have to go the way that it went, but aig just did what happened. i mean, neil: wouldn t you look at it and say, we want in on this class action thing, hank is on a roll. we could benefit. why didn t aig do it? neil: yeah. did because they ran an ad campaign before that thanking the u.s. government, but there s another issue here. why is it after they turned down following us in that that they sued the new york feds? they are now suing the new york fed. isn t that part of the government? neil: by the way, at the time, that was owned by a fellow named tim geithner. at that time. neil: at that time. let me talking about defense of even, made even illegal rescue. that s your argument, that their are inelegant, sloppy, but in times like we were living then, it was money, get it out, prop them up, save them, anything, just to keep the financial system afloat. neil, yes, they could do that, okay? it s unlawful. they can do it. they have to pay for it. neil: they argued in the end the end justifies the means, however sloppy and however wrong, however it may be illegal, the end result was aig is back, the financial system is back, the rescues worked. the government made $23 billion on that rescue. not exactly not exactly neil: how did it get up to 55 billion that you want? that s part of maiden lane too. neil: okay. meanwhile, you criss cross the globe. yes, sir. neil: travel like crazy. do you fly commercial or have several jets? no, not several. neil: china and its growth called into question now, the figures, hints of the slow down, and things not going as well there. are you worried? well, neil, they are in the middle of a leadership change, okay? it happens every ten years. neil: yeah, but 10% growth is now just 8%. okay, that s terrible. neil: right. that s terrible. it s still pretty strong growth. neil: you don t doubt they ll continue to be they ll continue to be a strong growth country. it may not be 8.5 or 7, but it s still quite strong. i think, look, china is here to stay, the second largest economy in the world. we need to have a constructive relationship with them. it would be foolish not to. neil: second term, brack brk, going barack obama going to make much progress? in what? neil: anything. i hope we get the house in order on a balance sheet. neil: do you think that s going to happen? i have doubts. neil: yeah, i share your doubt. always a pleasure, sir. always good to see you. neil: thank you very much. when we come back, remember when the president said this tuesday in we cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end. we cannot spend as we please and defer consequences. neil: why what the president said today could prove what he said that day or all the other days after this. at a dry cleaner, we replad people wiwith a machine. what? customers didn t like it. so why do banks do it? hello? hello?! if your bank doesn t let you talk to a real perso24/7, you need an ally. hello? ally bank. your money needs an ally. neil: caught on tape and caught saying more things he might regret after saying we didn t have a problem, the president admitted this. my goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance. neil: reminding of us this. today, i pledge to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office. neil: well, i ought to maybe me met go up by 50%. that s what happened. remember the health care problems? we ll keep from promise. if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. you can keep your doctor. if you like your doctor or health care plan, you can keep it. if you ve got a doctor that you like, you will be able to keep your doctor. neil: anyway, we all know how all this turned out. pat had it with that. legendary singer and actor, pat boone. you warned about this and the mixed messages, not only he was sending, but democrats in general were sending on how serious they were about in and all of the issues, and now we re in some deep issues here. what happened? are you talking to me, neil? neil: i am. thanks, good to be with you always. i like fox business news, by the way, and everybody ought to have it. if you want a spokesman, i m your guy. neil: and a great singing voice. and i ll sing it for you. i find that the media, most of the media, is completely oblivious, and for that matter, a lot of people in congress don t know why mr. obama is doing and saying these things and contradicting themself, and as bob woodward pointed out, lying about them, lying about the sequester that was his idea. he s following his playbook, which is rules for radicals. this is the guy that trained him to be a community organizer, a marxist, a socialist, a progressive who wrote the rules for doing what mr. obama is doing. neil: we can have a different point of view. i assign many motives to him not being the sharpest economic tool in the shed, probably the worst, i could say, and you re free to have your opinions on other stuff, but i say this, do you think that he has really sifted his hands, and whether the goal is not a balanced budget, and whether he said off the cuff to boehner we don t have a spending problem, and we hear the likes from pelosi, don t touch adjusting the age of medicare or reid saying we re not putting entitlements on the table right now, that there s a pattern of behavior and remarks that seems to clearly put a limit on how much they tolerate in spending cuts which means no spending cuts? well, the the sequester, which he denied was his idea, but bob woodward called him on that, and they add admitted, yeah, i proposed it, but as a deadline, i didn t think it would ever come into being, he said, but if it did not, if the congress copitchlated the republicans and had a plan to spend a couple trillion more according to my plan for the country, there was not going to be a sequester, but if it does, i ll have the executive privilege of deciding where the cuts will be, and, of course, he s cutting where they hurt the most by design. neil: you know, the media let him do that. they didn t look into it. yeah. neil: i know your buddies, stand out like a sore thumb in the industry, didn t call him on it, and a lot of them knew it. i spoke to many, neilings you re right, he pulled fast one. go on the air and say that. why is that? there is there is an intimidation factor and ridicule factor, and, listen, have you read this book rules for radicals ? i have, i just don t want to go down the alley because i know you feel strongly. you know then. neil: you don t have to assign those motives to him to assign question marks to his economic stewardship. but this has to be a reasoning for why he does what he does, which he s neil: i think he s a smart guy, this is a weak area. i do. you were to ask me medical questions, i m not great. no, but kneel feel it s a weakness, and what s odd and ironic about that, he has the most effect on economic issues about what he knows very, very little. true, but, but i think he s a brilliant guy, and i think he knows what he s doing, and he s doing it by design because he has a plan, which he thinks is good for america, vir virtually socialist nation in this nobody gets rich, government is in charge of everything. neil: he s just going after you, pat. i am a target. i was on his enemy s list in the first year of his presidency. neil: don t worry, after this segment, you re back on it. pat, a pleasure, my friend. hang in there, thank you, you look great, stay great. thanks, neil. neil: pat boone. all right, look under the hood of what s going on with transportation secretary ray lahood. this is going to have an enormous impact. we re going to reduce the number of controllers, which will reduce the their ability to guide plaps in and out of airports. there s going to be very painful for the flying public. the people are delayed at airports, an their flights are delayed 90 minutes or flights are canceled or their air tower is closed. neil: why, i ought to the state department 48 billion in stimulus is now short on cash. i don t get it. when it comes to the sequester, why close towers rather than cutting things like the large travel budget within the faa? look it, we ve taken a very comprehensive approach here, and what we ve done is we ve looked at every contract. we have looked at every expense. we have looked at everything. we are making reductions everywhere including in travel. neil: transportation secretary ray lahood says the sequester cueses causes him to cut everywhere and the stimulus said he was hiring everywhere. we spend 48 billion and put 65,000 to work and 15,000 projects in two years. i m proud of that. neil: the pretty ser prize, a caller, and, i hate to break it to you, but you won t get one because the people who control it don t admire the questions you ask. i certainly do. you were really just trying to get to the bottom of the silliness here, then as now, more silliness. what s going on? well, so far, we ve heard that the faa is going to furlough employees up to 11 days, and, also, closs over 200 air traffic control towers, so they are the two major reductions that we re hearing from within the department of transportation, so i asked ray lahood, the secretary, you know, if they are going to cut other things instead. why are they doing major cuts like that when they could cut the travel budget which is almost $180 million a year for faa employees, and, now, he says they are going to take a comprehensive approach and cut everywhere. neil: but, you know, all of the administrations you ve been following this, and, i mean, arnie duncan, overstated hundreds of thousands of mentally ill patients would not get their medications, walking the streets unmedicated, and times square new york, there s no way to distinguish it. i have no idea if that s the case. they scare the you know what out of us, you call them on it, they more or less say it s true, the cuts are coming, it s bad, doing all i can to avoid it, but in the process, they still push that same scene, and it s wrong; right? well, this is a same agency that spent $48 billion in stimulus funds in 2009 within two years, starting in 2009, so, neil: thanks were hunky dory. now it s the opposite. i expected him, neil, to continue with the whole, you know, we don t want to do this. this is the bad thing. we have to do it. he didn t go into that. he said, look, it s a comprehensive apropose, cut everywhere, and, neil, i want to see those cuts. that s the issue here. we ve only heard about two. the air traffic control towers, furloughing employees, the republicans in the house, on the house budget committee acceptability him a letter, ray lahood, and said why are these decisions being made? why are you cutting these areas? we want to see specifically what is being done and why areas like i mentioned in the travel budget, why those types of things are being cut, but it sounds like they are coming because ray lahood says we are cutting everywhere. neil: i admire your tenacity, nick, to do that. a personal question, now, he has security around him. i mean, when they see you, are they like, reaching for stuff, or what happens? sometimes it s tough to get to, especially the cabinet secretary because they have large security details. this event, actually, he was coming out, and a bunch of reporters were gathered around so he stopped and kind of did a little bit of a press neil: incidentally, you got right in. your vision is not good, and then, like, oh, my god, it s this guy again. you are to be commended. i wish journalists asked these questions. if you say it in public, madam secretary, mr. secretary, mr. president, follow-up. we want to know what s beginning on. you re doing that, sadly, alone. nicholas, thank you very much. thank you so much, neil. neil: nanny state taking place as states take up bans op everything in sight, but one guy is fighting back. meet the lawmaker banning the ban. so let s break down this play. charles? uh, chars couldn t make it. his single miles card blacked him out here and here. he should have used. the capital one venture card. he s coming to us from home. hey fellas. hey baby, you want mama to iron yo undies? 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you seem to say they are. we reserve the right to the state legislator. if there s an implementation, it s statewide, not a hodgepodge of regulations take place. we believe there should be, you know, common across the state. what s in one city should apply across the state. as a restaurant owner and multiple locations, it would be difficult for me to operate in my hometown, and if i choose to go to the another city with different regulations, i don t know how we could do that. it would be exceptive for the owner expensive for the owners to have nutritional information on their menus, maybe reformulate recipes. neil: menus, calorie counts, than they are been proved way off. that s right. recently, fda said it s so out of hand, they don t know if they can do that. let me remind you, though, that the bill does not take away current stipulations. if you have 20 # units or more, you have to provide all of the information. we re not taking away that. neil: just not piling on on top. i see. exactly. we want you to come to mississippi and operate your business with the least amount of intrusive government as possible, and i am proud of the state for taking the role, the lieutenant governor of mississippi made us a business friendly state. we invite you to be a part of mississippi. neil: you have great food. i will say that. thank you very much, sir. we ll see what happens. thank you, neil. neil: all you need to know, why in apple needs to fix it. look at your tv, samsung has been pouring it on. dad, i d put that down. ah. 4g, huh? 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state, and law law enforcement we have a workforce of over 50,000 individuals and have the much sought after safety act certification. the individuals that we used on the subject matter team and portion of this, they have got a wealth of background, and very indepth, we have phds in there. you have got, structural engineers. pes, hvac, meps, there is a whole range of law enforcement. so we brought a wealth of experience and a lot of people to this particular project. who have good experience with transportation, i should say that all of these individuals have transportation backgrounds as well. one of the reasons that urs is in a very good position to look at the transit center is because of our out reach, we have got extraordinary advantage to access and look at threatening information on a daily basis that is due in part to the contracts that we hold. some classified and some open. this access is conducted on a constant basis and we use it to validate the threats so that we know what is going on every day of the week. we look at and weekends. we look at the intelligence programs that we have, again, we have got some classified contracts. that will allow us to look at closed source information, not available to the public. and open source information which, of course, is. what that does is allows us to provide fidelity. modality is how a weapon is delivered, it could be somebody with a backpack or a vehicle. the focus of this vunerbility assessment, is that you look at all hazards for public safety. we did not only look at man made. in california for your natural hazards you have seismic requirements. so they can in fact harden the building to buy down some of the exposure that you would have to a terrorist event. so we look at for natural hazards, earthquake and wind and flooding and you can see the subheaders from there. the technological and this is what one should do when you are conducting vunerbility. and technological hazards or hazards that are accidents and think of india and hazmat event, something where the transit center night not be the target. but they will receive collateral damage. some of these are very important to look at, scoring them cals and radiology and hospitals. have you to look at it across the board and we look at above and underground storage tanks and pipelines and if they rupture how will that effect the transit center. rail and air, of course your standard hazmat events, a truck something like that on the street near or around the center itself. man made is criminal acts, violence against property and in relation to the transit center. you think that everything from a violent act to graffiti, how are you going to try to buy down that threat and risk. we look at fire events, and plan to be 100-year building within those 100 years, we anticipate that you will have a fire event, a trash, can or a bus so we need recommendations and design criteria that would take care of those issues. cyber, obviously is a huge one. were you going to ask me a question? no. cyber, integrity management, the mass notification systems that would also support not only a man made event but any of the natural hazards but the technical hazards and then of course terrorism, we look at a number of things, i have just given you a small amount here, a vehicle approach, explosive event from. i am hoping that we can skip to the design categories because this is something that was already covered at last month s meeting, the next couple of slides. so you tell me when to stop, okay? no. the facility protective design, yes, right here. okay. primarily, if you have the other material, in this presentation, i encourage you to look it over, obviously. these recommendations that we have made, we believe are important to the process. we believe it based on the information that we have, we would not have suggested it, or recommended that you implement without feeling that it was necessary. basis on what urs does, our reach back, all of the knowledge that we have and everything that goes into it, it is not a small project and includes an enormous number of analysis and data points. rba did work with the other peer reviews, the other peer reviewers as bob beck pointed out, with difficult task, one that we really welcomed. i think that there was a slide for facility design. we swapped it. fine, great, thank you. bob is going to take care of that one we used rational credibility threats and modalities and we used protective designs at comparable facilities throughout the united states. if you look at it, basically this agency is on the same type of facility, that we have in chicago, philly, boston, washington, d.c., areas around the country that need protection. the only other thing that i think that i would add to this is that, you know, this is something that you need to do. this is, we did not come up with anything and there is no fluff in here and there is nothing that can t be supported with the documentation that we provided. and i will hand it off to bob beck. unless the team has any questions on rba. there is still two more slides that i will assume that bob ask going to go through them. okay. i guess that i just want to reiterate my comment from last presentation. i personally do not want to second guess, the measures taken to ensure the safety of this facility, i m interested in options for getting the budget balanced. so, i don t think any of us need convincing about the need to do this. well, i do have some questions. but, maybe i could just ask them in advance. also. sure. because we have, i think that we went over this last month. and so for me, some of my questions, are on what is it that we need to do to get certified by dhs? and is this entire package what is going to kind-of get us to the dhs certification? or are there things that are maybe not needed by dhs to get certified? my second question is, is this something that we can fill? and so, first we will be opening the bus terminal eventually, we will be opening the cal train dtx and in the long term high speed rail and as we add the components to the terminal, obviously the security measures that we are talking about are you know going to be more, necessary, and needed as you know this terminal attracts more and more people and more and more attention and so i am curious as to whether this package can be scaled and i don t know if other directors want to ask the question and direct the presentation a little bit. i guess that i have a couple and i think that generally, i would agree with director metcalf that it is not a question of whether this board wants this to be a safe and secure facility. but i think that there is a question, as the last speaker was coming out and trying to answer the question of how to buy-down risk and i think that there is another question of at what cost and i don t think that we have seen anything quantitative here in terms, i mean that there is risk benefit, analysis, that has to go into seismic safety decisions to hazmat safety decision to all of these. but that is something that we have not gotten any sense of, and i would ask the question last time and i don t think that i heard or understand an answer of we are talking about something like 64 million dollars of additional cost, but i presume that the original design did not include zero considerations for safety. so it would still be helpful to know what the total cost is at 64 plus what? and then, i guess one other question at this point, related to the chair s question is, how and when and why was the policy decision made to secure this security act designation? push director ortiz? okay. okay. i appreciate the questions and i will try to go through and address each of them. and may call on dennis to expand on a couple of points here. first is the question that you raised chair kim on the nature of the facility as it changes over time and how risk and threat profiles may change over time. that was the subject of some discussion, and where feasible and appropriate in assessing the cost and making certain improvements where feasible and appropriate to include those improvements in phase two, we have not included the cost for those here. there are obviously some that were design guidance criteria that related specifically to the rail levels of the building, to address potential threats on those levels, all of those costs are included in the phase two build out of the below grade level. there are also some locations above grade where it may be feasible for us to provide a fully redundant security operation center. what we have recommended in the numbers, going forward is to have our security operations center within the facility. and then to have an area designated as a. or that would be a conference room under normal conditions and but should the security operation s center be unavailable that will be our security operation s center during phase one. that is our alternate location. but, the build out of the fully secondary secondary operation center would be in phase two, and so where feasible and appropriate, we are phasing things. the. in terms of the safety act certification this is something that i may ask denise to expand on, they look through each element of the building and the same types of categories as the rva went through and so to have a full certification for the facility, each of those areas needs to be addressed. that is possible to have certification of systems within the building, but not the building as a whole. but the certification process would look at each of the systems and elements of protective design and they would look at what was recommended and was that implemented. do you have. right, and i should add the director to further respond to your question. the reason that we updated the risk and vunerbility assessment was not to obtain safety act designation and certification, it was done because of the reasons that were presented in the last board meeting which we will not go into because of purposes of time it is the right thing to do and based on fema guidelines and we were at a point in time where we did the first rva analysis where we were in the schematic phase and the design was not mature enough when it got to that point, we did the update again with urs and the other teams that were mentioned. it just so happens that the work we did, allows us to apply for safety acts and security designation and we will most likely get it, but we did not do the work to obtain the certification or designation. we don t have to do it but it would be wise to do it from a liability standpoint and we went into the legal reasons last time, but i did want to give you that understanding. i don t know, if you want to add to that? maria is right, you do that to liability and established by the department of homeland security and you did go over it last time and i saw your presentation last time. having achieved and won the certification from dhs, he used the dhs methodology from science and technology who award the safety act certification and we used it to the letter so that everything that have recommended in here will hopefully will meet and i am only saying hopefully that it is at one percent and but we have used it to addressed security elements and survivebility elements everything that one would need to achieve that designation, and so we have kind of met the letter of law at this point in time. were there any other questions on the safety act that i have not touched on that you want to here about? i guess that there isn t a set criteria of what would grant us a certification by dhs, that we as a board could look at. in relationship to what is being proposed to the board. it is a checklist. it is almost a checklist that you use. there is a checklist. it is like this, but it is not a checklist, let me see how this goes. you have a methodology that dhs wants you to use and we used that. supporting that is a checklist like this, where you go through and you figure out what all of the threats are, all of the vunerbilities and the mitigation measures and we look at all of the drawings at the 95 percent to make sure that we have got all of that covered at this point in time. and then what happens is when you move to the process, for al reasons, i have my own feelings about that. okay. given some other spots that i believe that we have in san francisco. but i don t think that there is a reason for us to talk about that. i think that for me, and purely looking at this from a fiscal lens. i want to do what is necessary to ensure that we are safe and keeping this terminal safe and ensure that that is exactly what we are doing and not any more. no, no foundations that we provided to assure that. so, could i ask, bob? when you listed the different subject matter experts, you had said, at one point there was somebody on that list that was there to determine what the right level of investment was to get the right address level of risk not too much, not too little? i missed which anti that was that was making that determination. well, in general, in the three firms that have been conducting with us most closely on the rva are dvs, which was bob dusabelo who spoke with you last month and is here today. because he has a breath across a large number of projects, can provide us with commentary as to the standard of practice. and being employed on other projects across the united states. working with him, looking specifically at perimeter protection and blasts for both the structure and the glazing was widlinger and associates and consulting, specializing in the fire design basis threats and smoke analysis was co-consultant s inc and so three of them were working with us to review the recommendations that were coming from urs and providing advice to us in evaluating the design, guidance and criteria, whether those were prudent and reasonable given the defined design basis threats and the standard of care in the industry. and did your program manager, or program management oversight consultant do any kind of evaluation on the reasonableness scale? well, they assisted us in you know, reviewing cost estimates for these. and also, we had or did and program management consultant was instrumental in the conversation about the design guidance criteria often describes a measure that should be taken. and the initially valuation by the design team quite often was a very literal interpretation of a design, guidance criteria and so where, we had design guidance criteria that had high costs or unanticipated costs. we did with the pmo say, well is there another way of addressing the threat? is the design guidance criteria and is there multiple ways to change the way that it could be implemented and the change for the cost basis? and so reviewing the implementation of the design guidance criteria and the cost implications of it the project management, program management and program controls team was very instrumental in that. thank you. okay. so, in total, the categories of protective design measures that we discussed and have grouped all of the design guidance criteria into it are listed here. and i think that it is important to note that while there are some things that are very much related to terrorism, or to specific types of threats, that would be associated with terrorism, a lot of the recommendations and a lot of the costs that are recommending to be incurred are really multihazard-threat related. so they will add to the performance of the building in our ability to safely protect occupants and evacuate people whether it is an earthquake, or whether it is a fire, and an accidental fire or a man-made threat. and so, a lot of the costs are in the ability to manage evacuation response and recovery and visual awareness of the entire building. the one other thing that i have known about this is that the recommended change in the facade of the building would reduce the impact here by an additional 7 and a half million dollars. so that is part of the reason for the recommendation that you will be hearing about. bob? yes. and maybe, it is part of the question. when we were considering the budget, did we, i mean, this thing about management and all of the things that are non-terrorist related, we didn t take into account that we are not included or what? we just. no, they were included and you will see that the. of all of the categories here, managing and dealing with bus and frame fires, there is a relatively small impact there where there was not an impact there. was really consideration of additional scenarios. where for instance, two buses could be on fire at the same time and rather than a single bus, so, it was increasing in the fire sprinkler density. and additional fire pumps. so there is some changes there that within that category, but, there is also a category of national institute of science and technology recommendations for a lot of these types of systems that both exiting stairwells that go above and beyond code and so, there were all of these events were addressed in the original design and the original estimates. but, the, some of the recommendations are relying on the mised recommendations that were developed after the world trade center events to really go above and beyond kind of the base line code to take additional steps to make sure that both individuals can be evacuated from a building, and but that emergency responders can enter the building. and in a way that they don t conflict. so the 64.3 is above those original budgetary? yes. assignments? yes. okay. i do have one more question. because it is not line item, it is hard for me to tell, but the radio cellular communications and the $4.5 million there. is that something that could be done later and then, an area that we can apply for a grant for? and then when we, thinking about that because i just noted in one of the slides that we are part of the ui city initiative. and so when i set on the budget committee at the full board and we have accepted grants from uiz to purchase a lot of this system. and for the city and so that was something that was granted to us from the federal government. so i am curious if we also explored that. yeah, the mass notification system is a lot of that infrastructure is built in, it is changing the way that we are installing the fire strobes, so that we have multicolored strobes through on you the building. and it incorporates additional speakers at the park level. and so that we have audibility throughout the communication systems and so there is a large part of that that wants to be installed initially and then the, on the radio and cellular there is in the radio and cellular categories, there are significant investments that will be done in phase two, one of the big concerns with the radio and cellular is in the train box, in the below blade levels that the first responders are trying to respond to something below grade or having to move into the dtx tunnel to respond, that we have the infrastructure and to insure that we have signal continuity in those below grade portions of the facility. and so in phase one, what we are doing is providing the capability for the expansion of those signal repeaters and so forth. and into those, or into that infrastructure in phase two, and that impact is not in these numbers. are we concerned at all because while we are constructing the drain box and excuse me to asking all of these questions. it might take several years before the train actually comes in at that point in technology it may advance, and in terms of signals, continuing or communications and i am curious if we thought about that because i would hate to spend the money on the infrastructure and have to replace it when the trains come in. exactly, what we are providing is the location where again, assuming that, there is a wired component that is going to come back. from these receivers or repeaters that will be different in the future. that we are providing that point of enter face, essentially. but even within the design of the phase one component of these systems, our it communications and security consultant is not going to finalize those specifications until 2015, just before we put them out. so even though we are right now, talking about the conversation of completing the 100 percent construction documents, in may of this year, the it security and communication co