that will be my comment. >> commissioner hyland. >> vice president hyland: i see some of the numbers are still what they were presented to us. this is a challenging project because landmarking projects are buildings that have intangible cultural identifies of events and people. people is what keeps those memoriememories from being eras. yet another demolition of a significant resource, even though the building itself maybe remarkable. i think we should do more, as much as possible. mr. bueller suggested additional mitigation. the numbers don't make sense to me. i made this comment at the a.r.c. the variant project identifies 30,000 square feet of retail but the preservation alternative for the full variant doubles that to 64,000. i don't know where these numbers are coming from or why those are different. if we didn't double the amount of retail that additional 30,000 square feet that's identified as retail could be residential. >> the ballroom is kept in the full preservation. >> they're turning it all in residential is my guess. >> president wolfram: can you follow up on that ms. s

vice president hyland and i know we got a whole docket of things need to talk about.housing being the biggest priority. but we put together a draft dose a list of items he wanted to talk about when we have our joint h.p.c. planning commission and i will send it to the secretary secretary to circulate for a comment. >> okay. we can move on. >> very good. department mattress. item ten is director's announcements. >> commissioners, good afternoon i am filling in for director ram who is overseas at the moment. the only brief item for your acknowledgement today is to call out the commission secretary and wish him a very happy birthday. [cheering] >> happy birthday! [applause] [laughter] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. [laughter] >> now you know while i'll be leaving early today. [laughter] >> item 11 his review of past events of the board of supervisors, court of appeals, and historic preservation commission. >> good afternoon, commissioners i have two weeks worth of reports for you. at the land use committee last week, the committee considered the ordinance to amend t

." >>> a university of m hyland freshm died from an ill illness linked to the adeno virus. school officials say there are five other reported cases of is virus. >>> two people are get after an bethesda.fire in they were found inside a home on western avenue. nort word on what exactly s that fire. the flames are out now. rp> holiday travel continues at the t. take a look at the arrival terminal at ragan nationalrp t. nearly 100,000 people from the dmv will head to the airports today. be sure to check your flightus st before leaving and we say it every year, arrive early. >>> 95 south in virginia looks good. 95 in maryland, no problem. outer loop before river road opper 4 showing you that delay. 270 southbound very slow. six mile backup getting down to the beltway. chuck? >>> all right. five day forecast, breezy and chilly today. just flat out cold for your thanksgiving and the friday morning, teens and 20s for black friday shoppers. that is a cold one. >> yikes. >> chuck, thank you. that is the news for today. thanks for waking up with us. >> "today" show is next. have a gre