the list the iron workers local 377 and 78 the operating engineering and the local 34 are the carpenter local 22. the labors 2 61 the cement masonry and i b w locals. all right. brothers. with that i'd like to introduce want and ceo of american bridge joint venture and mike i do thank you for taking care of of our workers (clapping) >> this is a tiff act to fellow thank god i'm not last. good afternoon it's a pleasure to be here. the bridge is kind of like my little girl. before i started on this job i moved here from the east coast and it's changed my lifelike many of you. the bridge itself build a lot of partnerships. the bridge facilitator the unique marriage of partners not only with reporter to those partnership certainly the design with t y listen and on the owner side with the partnership that involved the ct c and, of course, caltrans. the early days of the job the sas project we had a meeting here in oakland and the department oversight committee delivered the message to get the last key piece done as opposed to. and roar the san francisco bay bridge to seismic safety before the econ

. >> they get the local hires and people from the neighborhood to get in there. >> reporter: carpenters, plumbers, electricians, equipment operators of all kinds all needed says michael theriot. >> wages are good. >> reporter: but michael is worried about the government derailing the good times. >> it's a good question how long this is going to last. certainly we worry about events in washington and what they could do to the economy.

in 2006, a local carpenter, peter massey was hired to knock down an old barn.k through the barn, through and through to make sure it was empty before he started knocking it down. lo and behold inside the barn, slated for demolition he found a stack of film canisters in the eves of the barn long forgotten. one of the film reels contained this film which everyone thought was lost to history. this is from 1911. the studios at the time didn't want their movie stars getting too famous. didn't want anybody getting billed too highly with the public they thought actors would demand more money. the studios liked to not credit their actors. that 10 minute silent film found was the first mary pickford movie where she beat the system and got her name in the credits on the poster and on the ads. this was the start of mary pickford's stardom. for the greatest movie star ever. and there were three great strokes of luck that saved it from history so it can be shown in new hampshire next friday. the carpenter, peter massey looking around in the barn and finding it before they s

carpenters definitely liked that. >>dean: well we're doing something a little different on hometime today. a localny's home improvement club called up and said they'd like to just stop out and see what happens on a shoot sight like this and they've volunteered to help us out. so today what we're gonna do is clean up the garage, we're screwing off some of the deck up here. they're helping us out with some of the trim, here on the windows. but the big thing is, we're gonna be moving out of our temporary office, so it's kind of a big sea change for us. >>well we've done habitat for humanity several times and in fact we just did one in april, and we've had a full crew out there and we did painting and we've hung doors and we've done hanging sheet rock. we've done a lot of different things with habitat. >>miriam: now i,m here with sherry holtmeyer who is the person who started this whole visit. so tell us a little about your club. >>sherry: well we've been in existence about 5-1/2 years. we meet once a month and we have speakers come in from various businesses and they talk about subjects. anything rel

. >> they get the local hires and people from the neighborhood to get in there. >> reporter: carpentersmer, electricians, equipment operators of all kinds all needed says the building construction trades council. >> wages are good. san francisco has among the better wages in the country. >> reporter: but michael is worried about the government derailing the good times. >> it's a good question how long this is going to last. certainly we worry about events in washington and what they can do to the economy. >> reporter: a senior job site safety coordinator and single mother is holding down two jobs. >> it is really good times from cahill. we have a good amount of work so forth going on right now and a lot of other trades that i see there is a lot of upcoming work. >> reporter: building construction trades council secretary michael says it's the explosion of tech companies that's driving the growth in san francisco. don ford, kpix 5. >> one of the tech companies helping the midmarket revitalization project is twitter. >> they are twittering today, tweeting, twittering. >>> let's talk weath

. >> they get the local hires and people from the neighborhood to get in there. >> reporter: carpenters, plumbers, electricians, equipment operators of all kinds all needed says michael theriot. >> wages are good. >> reporter: but michael is worried about the government derailing the good times. >> it's a good question how long this is going to last. certainly we worry about events in washington and what they could do to the economy. >> reporter: don lewis -- tanya lewis is holding down two jobs. >> it is really good time. cahill has a good amount of work going on right now and a lot of other trades that i see, there is a lot of upcoming work. >> reporter: building construction trades council secretary says it's the explosion of tech companies that's driving the growth in san francisco. don ford, kpix5. >> one of those companies helping the mid market revitalization is twitter. >>> dozens of arrests this week in california. 72 people accused of operating without a contractor's license. they could each face six months in jail and a $5000 fine. more than 50 could also face charges of ille

carpenters definitely liked that. >>dean: well we're doing something a little different on hometime today. a localy's home improvement club called up and said they'd like to just stop out and see what happens on a shoot sight like this and they've volunteered to help us out. so today what we're gonna do is clean up the garage, we're screwing off some of the deck up here. they're helping us out with some of the trim, here on the windows. but the big thing is, we're gonna be moving out of our temporary office, so it's kind of a big sea change for us. >>well we've done habitat for humanity several times and in fact we just did one in april, and we've had a full crew out there and we did painting and we've hung doors and we've done hanging sheet rock. we've done a lot of different things with habitat. >>miriam: now i,m here with sherry holtmeyer who is the person who started this whole visit. so tell us a little about your club. >>sherry: well we've been in existence about 5-1/2 years. we meet once a month and we have speakers come in from various businesses and they talk about subjects. anything rela