doug fruehlingng andan sernovitz from the "washington businesss jojournal." dan, i want to start wityou. good news, bad news scenario. good news for real-estate but bad news for commercial real- estate. you sayy the washington market was hammed in the first quarter. why was it so dismamal? >> there was about 1.7 million square feet of office space that came back onto the mket. that is a pretty sable chu of now vacant spapace. a lot of that was in northern virginia and places likike crystal city. some of those moves started to takeke place. >> we always end up at the top of the list whent comemes to al-estatate. this landed us dead last in all the major markets. >> that is right. lost the amount amount of n net lease space out of all the major markets around the country. >> it is the federal government that has pled out of so many places >> a lot of it is federal contractio so much emphasis these days placeded on being leaner and smaller square footage. with a all of the uncertaintyty and e federal government, that ha an eect on the private sector and the priv