my grisette, the project architect, and we have tom checking to back their, and brian stevens, lead designer. our partner in the architecture firm is miles stevens back there. so thank you all for all the work you have done over these many years. this building did not start out exactly like this. we started out with what we felt was a beautiful building, but it was not a building that was really trying to change the world. with the puc the building has been read up to a goal of being the greatest urban building in the united states, and i would like to remind everyone that that is the goal of this project, to create a platform for new sustainable designs and a demonstration to the country that san francisco is at the cutting edge of sustainability. i think we will achieve that. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much. one of the ways we will be doing that again, is at an average building, the use in that building is about 12 gallons per water per day per resident. this building will be using 5 gallons a day per person in the building, and that is because we will be taking tap

go ahead you know if there's been an evolution here and i'd like to touch upon that go ahead steven side brian finish your point i just want to see it and it's basically just point about expensive it's true that it's true that it can be cheap t.v. and that's why it's popular with with with production companies that doesn't explain its popularity with audiences though and it's also the case that programs like big brother are actually quite expensive to make the not as cheap as sometimes is regarded as thought that said that art plenty of cheap imitations much much cheaper versions of some of these big shoes but the idea that all reality t.v. is just cheap t.v. that is produced mass marketed across the world is slightly i think. too simplistic is it can be very expensive i think and very very same place to me to make her jump in go ahead and if i if i can just build on my point really which is that it's obviously reality t.v. is going to. the way in which global formats have kind of thrived and flourished and certainly i wouldn't say that reality television is cheap t.v. if anything actually i'm

she replaces john paul steven who's retireddism the state supreme court ruled in favor of a former google employee who is suing the company claiming age discrimination. brian reid was 54 when he was fired at google's engineers director in 2004. a ruling says he can take the lawsuit to trial. he claims poor treatment of older employees started with the company's founders and filtered down through management. google, though, denies he was fired because of his age. a judge today gave a man who stabbed two people inside of a san francisco bakery ative sentence. the victim's included a teenaged girl. scott thomas was found guilty last spring of attempted murder in the double stabbing. today sentenced to life of in prison, but with the possibility of parole. the stabbing occurs in may 2007 one day after thomas has h been release friday prison. thomas will have to serve 26 years of the new sentence before he can be granted a parole hearing. >>> a young man, charged in a series of hit and run collisions in danville, faced multiple charges today in court. 23-year-old sheerhold is expected to enter a plea on august 19th to one felony couldn't of tkrufrbg driving and

brian williams. information is still coming in tonight about who was lost in last night's plane crash in alaska. today it was confirmed that former u.s. senator ted stevens was killed along with four others. but that former nasa administrator sean o'keefe and his son survived, though they are badly injured. the struggle for accurate information about this crash lasted throughout much of this day because it happened in such a remote area, more than 300 miles from anchorage, near a tiny town of dillingham. we have three reports, including one near the scene. but first, tom costello on what happened. tom? >> reporter: ann, good evening. this was a passing plane that spotted the wreckage and guided first responders to this remote scene. it took more than 12 hours for national guard and coast guard rescuers to get to the wreckage and medivac out the victims. among those five fatalities on board, senator stevens. the plane went down in a remote region, 320 miles southwest of anchorage. among the five who died, former u.s. senator ted stevens, the longest serving republican in the senate. also on board, former nasa administrator and navy secretary sean o'keefe,

ality if i go to brian it sounds like stephen is saying that we're just going to go down the line of really spreading sort of circuses ok more and more extreme. i'm afraid i think steven is all over simplifying was a very complex set of t.v. genres. sure that are people who are interested in wealth and theme and that is their motivation to go on but there are also people who wish to test themselves who wish to push the boundaries a little but who wish to educate you could be pretty sure the great american of the great russian public you know there are many motivations good motivations for appearing on reality t.v. and audiences i think is i think it's wrong to say that they're not intellectual i think they're sort of slightly dangerous. i mean i would regard myself i'm not snobbish at all as an intellectual but i mean i've enjoyed reality t.v. through across the last decade i've learnt a lot from i believe enjoyed watching real people and kind of slightly yes it's not it's not it's not unmediated reality by any means but it's a form of spontaneous social observation made possible by the internet made possible by digital technologies and cameras that we simply didn't h

brian is also on twitter. see you tomorrow. >>> crash probe. former senator ted stevens is killed along with four others after their plane slammed into the side of a mountain street n alaska. investigators trying to find out what went wrong. >>> incumbent anger. voters pick political outsiders in four key primaries yesterday including republican senate hopeful linda mcmahon. she will tell us in a live interview how much she is willing to spend to win it all. >>> grand exit. steve enslater steven slater out on bail. >> how about the people that supported you? >> the story is far from over. slater facing seven years in jail. we will have the latest "early" this wednesday morning, august 11th, 2010. captioning funded by cbs >>> a good wednesday morning to you. i'm erica hill. thanks for being with us. >> a bit of a back-to-august hot, uncomfortable wednesday morning. >> your faf rapt kind of day. >> i'm harry smith. room a lot to get to. including more on you just saw there, steven slater, the now famous flight attendant, former flight attendant, at this point for jetblue.

stevens when the court begins its new term october 1. >>> the california supreme court has cleared the way for an age discrimination lawsuit against google to move forward. this case involves that man, brian reed. he is an engineer in his 50s. he says the mountain view-based internet giant fired him because he wasn't a good cultural fit with his younger colleagues. an appeals court in san jose previously concluded that reed is entitled to bring the case to a jury trial. yesterday, the california supreme court agreed. google says it fired reed because of poor performance. the case could determine the amount of evidence needed for age bias lawsuits. >>> 6:13. let the sun shine in! coming up next, a san jose company unveils a major solar project. tell you how much energy and money it will save. >>> how much sunshine in the bay area today? we are starting things off with plenty of clouds, drizzle for the coast and the bay. for the afternoon, sunshine expected for some areas and pretty mild temperatures. we have your afternoon highs and your forecast for the weekend coming up. ,,,, >>> good morning. we have a couple of problem spots across the bay area. check out this traffic heading up the in