bechtel left, for a variety of reasons. i believe jim jefferson had the contract. that was bought out by jacobs. jim jefferson was bought out by persons. that happened in the first five years. after that, jacobs and parsons formed two teams. we had to decide -- a locked t f them had to decide which side to be on 3 at the end of that marriage, they competed against each other. aecom won the second five years. every time we went through this process, you had to retrain, rework, get acclimated with the team. that was one of the big lessons. we wanted someone who would work with us for the long term. the other thing we wanted to do was look at a contract in strategy. one of the things we have learned here is that we want to be more inclusive free we want to look for opportunities to bring contracts down to making sure people with small businesses can participate. that's one of the first things we are going to do on this contract and we are going to work with aecom and parsons to help us identify the opportunities to do that. it's a whole bunch of other lessons learned.

bechtel says it is considering moving its offices out of frederick to another location in the washington area. the frederick news post reports the san francisco-based company told its 2,000 workers on thursday that leases on the frederick offices are up for renewal. the company has coordinated many international projects including nuclear reactors and $2.3 billion in construction contracts in iraq. so, you know, you can imagine a lot of areas are going to start bidding on those. >> yeah. >> they're going to try to get a better deal on the current lease. >> the thought had occurred. could be a little bit of a negotiation tactic. >> you would think leases are lower than in the washington area. interesting. >> we'll see if they can get a deal somewhere else. >> metro says its trains are meeting all of the agency's on- time goals now. >> a closer look at the numbers is revealing something else. >> olga breese is in for howard bernstein with our forecast today. we could use a little breeze here. >> we've had the high humidity values, high dew points. it is going to bring about that mugginess

in 2002 when bechtel privatized the water system and started fixing of futility but started charging ever higher water rates and a lot of the people there couldn't afford it and began to protest, and the protests grew and grew and turned into riots and the army was called in, and the army shot a 17-year-old boy and killed him and it happened to be captured by a tv camera and this led to a massive protest it wasn't always about water but water was one of the sparks coming and it is essentially shut the country down and led to the ousting of president hugo monster. that was a notorious case that got a lot of press. but it's not always that way. in the u.s., the privatizing of water has been a dream of entrepreneurs for many years and it's often allied with a pipeline or project. we are at the point now where we always used to build our communities next water supply for obvious reasons but now we've gotten so good at manipulating nature that we can build our communities wherever we like we can build them in the middle of the desert or on the top of a mountain and then we can bring the w