from november of 2008. former alaska senator ted stevens and died in a plane crash. he was 86. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] commerce secretary gary locke announced that they saved $1.6 billion on the 2010 census. he made the announcement with the director at a news conference. census operations will continue into september. they must double check the data before they report their results at the end of the year. this briefing is 50 minutes. >> good morning. i am chief of the census bureau publican formation office. i offer a warm welcome to media and the room. it is good to have you here today. today is a good day. we have speakers for you today. we have department of commerce secretary gary locke and the census bureau director robert groves.