. >> good morning, everyone, first i want to have good news, all three butress have been poured and i want to thank everyone who has worked six days, you know, a week, nights and weekends and all sorts of inclement weather. all floors are done, secondly i want to acknowledge and thank the carpenters for highlighting us in the january edition of the magazine. they have a really nice article in there about the transbay project and the importance of labor in their continued support to our project over many years, thank you very much for acknowledging us and the magazine. and in addition, board members, i did sign out a letter from anvill builders as you may recall. it is a company that we awarded a contract to in november of last year for 9, 250,000, million, and they sent a letter thanking us for all of the work that we are doing regarding minority owned business and i want to thank everyone because we are doing a good job in that area. in addition, i wanted to report that last saturday, there was a very tragic incident that occurred on third street where a bicyclist was killed in a col

and so, with the completion of the butress at this time, we will move into the completion of the start of the excavation phase. so that completion date for the over all excavation has been moved out. and you will see as i mentioned a little later, a revised schedule that we are currently managing where a number of those intermediate milestones were characterized as the completion of the elements of scope have been moved out. but by resequencing the over all work, and we are still maintaining the october, 2017 completion for construction. so, kind of in real quick terms, what is happening with the substructure construction is that is going to start at the far western end where steve described that we are installing the map slab now and moved from east to west and then as the structural steel work begins, that is going to begin at column line ten of the building which is roughly where shaw,alliliy is. as it moves from east to west, what is going to happen is the excavation in zone four will be completed as the concrete moves from east to west and as that comes up the steep will be moving

i think it's important to counter this argument that charles made and charlie butressed that they drove gm out of business. >> they did. >> there are in each of these cases multiple factors. to say that was unions' fault is to bash them without really adding to the debate. >> pension plans and some of the benefits that the gm workers received, listen, i'm a union guy but you have to give in on this. when they push too few they lose -- too far, they lose. >> i could make a list of ten other things. republican party pushing so hard on immigration has not been good for the republican party. is this that their number one problem? i don't know. >> neil: what do you make that unions have to walk a fine line. they are important as far as looking up to their workers. but have they grown irrelevant when they push points like this that don't see the realities of the day? >> you can merge, what charlie was saying and adam is trying to prove here, there was a time when we did need unions across the board in this country. >> private sector employees are losing ground. >> if the company loses everyon