i'm a practicing structural engineer and i'm here on behalf of myself and chris pollan, co-chair of the lifelines council. and i can speak having been to the sites of major earthquakes and seeing what happens when people are displaced. people being displaced from their home is second only to a failure of emergency response facilities and causing disruption and preventing a community from recovering after major seismic events such as earthquakes. you can tie it in with what we observed after hurricane katrina with the failure to allow people to come into their homes and the extent that it took to -- and is still taking new orleans to recover. we have an opportunity, especially for the vulnerable populations which this bond measure specifically deals with to allow the vulnerable populations, people who can't afford a hotel in sacramento after a major earthquake, to be able to return to their home and to be at least able to shelter in place and so we don't have to put a greater demand on the city shelter. we don't have to cause the injuries that happen and the fatalities that happen due to

chris van pollan said that all parties are talking. what does that mean? caller: you have a lot of signals being sent to congressman rangel from the democratic leadership. signals that they would like to see him find a way to bring closure to this, perhaps striking a deal with the ethics committee that is not favorable to him or resigning his seat. there are a lot of eliot politics in play. you have a politically vulnerable moderate democrat, all lost all of them are white, -- almost all of them are white, they would not like to see this controversy coming into the election. we have already seen at least one person do that. if they all start, it could cause problems with that the congressional black caucus, who does not want to see mr. rangel lose out on due process. they believe, or at least most of them believe that he is entitled to a defense and trial. there are a lot of potential land mines for democratic leaders and they are hoping that charlie rangel himself will help them navigate through those by falling on his sword. host: one final point, time b