before we excavate. when we bring in the bring in the it structure across the east end, and when we do that structural steel, we will start in the middle of the building and work in both directions so that as we bring the steel across we will be bringing the substructure up in the eastern zone and then be able to continue as they move across it. >> where is the bus terminal? is it in the east or west, zone 1, down two, or what? rex it covers the -- >> it covers the eastern side. the bus back level runs from the zone one of a way to the east end in zone four. >> you think sometime in 2014 we will start seeing little walls going up? >> by 2014 we should be completing the substructure in zone 1. made in 2014 we will start the steel erection. by the end of 2015, the superstructure should be topping out. the structural steel should be complete. >> thank you. >> and i can work with steve and we can incorporate -- you know, it has been awhile since we have shown the overall schedule. we can incorporate that int

think an excavator would be needed to excavate this excavator.ever getting the excavator up there might scare an excavator from doing it. >> if you get an excavator, you might get the second excavator stuck rescuing the first excavator. >> you can say that again because i'm not going to try. >> washing dishes. >> berkeley is known for having some pretty radical ideas. check this one out. i think this the most radical of them all. it's known as brad, the berkeley ridiculously automated dorm. >> ridiculously automated it is. >> those look like the same bunk beds from when i went there. >> maybe understand this amazing creation this kid came up with. his alarm is actually the curtains opening and some music going on to get his day started. this is darrick. what he did starting his freshman year is create a room that is entirely controlled by either a wireless remote control, by voice commands. >> and motion detection. he uses his phone or his computer to open the curtains, close them, turn on the lights, turn them off. i hate getting up at night to

here you are still excavating them. and it bracibracing. >> the excavation will actually be complete at the west end of this site in zone 01 in 2013, roughly a year from now, a little less. that is when we will start constructing the substructure laup. the

it will take several seasons to excavate the remains of an entire household and several decades to excavatere community. the community buried beneath the sugar cane of ceren may one day be unearthed. but other sites in the maya region offer what ceren lacks -- evidence of ancient households easily seen on the surface. mira, arturo. una, dos, tres piedras. keach: here in honduras, a survey team combs the copan valley. their trained eyes recognize mounds of grass-covered stones as the remnants of ancient maya dwellings. okay. there's the road. mm-hmm. this...here's where we came in -- a small road. and we walked around this way, and we walked over into this pasture. and so this site is right about here, right on this little hill. keach: the copan valley lies 100 kilometers north of ceren. in 1975, archaeologists began a complete survey of the valley on foot. after 10 years of painstaking work, they have discovered the remains of 4,500 structures. más a usted... cinco centímetros. keach: archaeologist william sanders has been leading excavations in the copan valley since 1980. sanders: we deci

the shafts are all constructed below grade and then as we excavate down, we will excavate three those. the other thing that we started last week, the contractor has started working three of the drilling rigs simultaneously. we had previously been working two, so that may take the production of further. but there is a limited duration on which they will be able to work three rigs simultaneously because of the congestion within the site. eventually, they will have to go back to working two rigs. but they're looking at getting additional incremental progress while they have that flexibility. this shows in green olive be buttressed shaft that have been completed to date. the three yellow ones are those that have are in progress. this week, we are working with three rigs. but you can see that a certain point in time, as the badgers can -- the back risk -- buttressed becomes completed, the three rigs will be able to work simultaneously. and some of our progress photos, the individual in the orange on the right hand image is one of our geode-technical engineers who is on site. he is certifyi

commissioner borden: i have a question about excavation. the planner mentioned the bustling would be closed on kerry during the excavation period -- closed on geary during the excavation period as lisagor closures. how long? >> i do not exactly how long the closure of the geary transit lane would be. i do not know it the construction has developed that level of detail yet. i would imagine a leak during the excavation phase, the first year or two years. not the entire sequencing period. muni would have to operate in a mixed lane, so it will cause some delay for muni and traffic on geary. but it is a temporary situation. the point would be during the detailed construction planning to minimize the transit lane closure. commissioner borden: you're saying it will be like a year? >> i do not know of the top of my head. commissioner borden: i am just curious. do we have a signal prioritization for muni already along the geary corridor? >> mta is looking for a signal prioritization and priority city-wide. i am guessing that would be coordinated as

it's full of about 18,000 artifacts, all from the excavations. everything you can see from the excavations we've been doing since 1994. it's a unique place. there aren't that many archaeology museums in existence. so that's free, as well. you can sign up for a special tour if you like with our director dr. william kelso and that's called in the trenches tour. and that's a little extra and he takes you under the ropes. so you get an up-close and personal look from his perspective. >> how could something from american history and virginia history been lost for hundreds of years? >> that's an interesting question. i think it wasn't lost for probably the first 100. but nobody mentioned -- you know, didn't talk about it. at least any documents that survived, we don't know what's in there. and then there were travelers that came in here and said -- and there was a tremendous erosion on the west end of the island. and they said, i can see remains of the fort being washed into the river. i read that about a week before i started, you know, oh, no. and so

we will be excavating 2.7 feet throughout the area. over 60% will be in this range of 5 feet to 7 feet below grade. if you walk up from third street to second street, you will notice is quite a climb. the third component, the construction documents. we will be improving the structural mitigation. we saw that we take away from the sites. we will be able to forecast a thicker slab, perhaps tie downs. we looked into the sb percentages. we have over 30% spe. the original award was 7%. director kim: from 7% to what? >> 30%. we get them updated monthly. 9 of them are spe certified. with that, i will be happy to answer any questions. >> are there any questions? director harbor? -- harper? director harper: it looks like we are at 90% construction costs for design and engineering? >> that is right. >> that seems high to me. is there something that makes it extraordinarily hide? >> the extraordinarily high is the additional structural analysis that has to be performed underneath the west approach. our initial assumption, and the initial amendmen

we will be continuing the excavation from west side to the east side of the transit center. late this year, we will begin construction of the below grade portions of the transit center, bringing that structure back up to grade, and erecting the steel superstructure of the building. from there, we will move into the exterior closures, the landscaping, interior finishes, and the side work. at the bottom portion of the screen, i have been dtx construction. i showed that as starting late 2014. that is how quickly we can move into phase to if we're able to fully fund phase two. from there, it will be about a seven-year period. here is another image of the downtown extension, the importance of the transit center in bringing both caltrain and california high-speed rail passengers to the downtown core. as compared with the existing caltrans station vacation. here you see an image of the real extension over the old 1863 shoreline of san francisco. down along townsend st., we will be excavating in what was the former mission bay, and moving along third street going into the land side

just some shots of the excavation. we were able to take a shorter reverse angle on a zone four. there it shows a photo of the site. in the central and west section, the main thing has been getting the trestle bridge ready, starting that cross lot. you can see the right hand in the far corner. you can see the diagonal portion of the cross pop bracing -- across -- cross hop breezing. that is looking the other way. you can see that, the diagonal racing going in. you can also see the completed piles. the side-by-side roads. and of course, the trestle bridge. that is the far southwest end of the project for the trains will, in in the future prevent -- where the trains will come in in the future. as this gets completed a little bit further on the diagonal, they are actually going to start the massive excavation later this week and next week, where we would actually be pulling out the braces and go down to the next level as we crossed the lot and go further to the east. the cdsm wall was completed on first street two weekends before easter. it took a lot more planning because of the ut

it's hardly been excavated and now it's gone forever.technology can do, it helps out pinpoint areas that are being affected by looting. if you can figure out a technique to find an archaeological site that's simply not visible on the ground, then you've cracked the code. and i failed consistently for a very long period of time when i started doing this work, just because i didn't know it would work. but failure is a critical part of science. it's actually enjoyable, because you're getting to test things and take risks. i now allow myself, depending on the level of failure, whether it's ten minutes, an hour, or an evening, to be really ticked off. and i'll go to the gym, i'll go for a run, i'll bake a delicious cake, and then the next day i'm back on track. i find baking and cooking to be very zen. you just kind of lose yourself in it. if you get too distracted when you're cooking, you're going to make a mistake. i think cooking's really helped me to focus on compartmentmall izing. which i think the most successful people in the world are

each excavation adds to our understanding. from out of the past, signs and symbols create an astounding portrait of life in ancient societies. captions by captionamerica, pittsburgh, pa.

it will be excavated underneath van ness avenue. that construction is about a 10- month time span when it they will have to cut open the van ness avenue. only after 7:00 p.m. there will close down two of the six lanes at a time at most. always having four lanes of traffic open. and always having one of the two sidewalks on been a 70 that could be closed. only during that tunnel construction time with any pedestrians be routed onto a different side of history. but there will always be at least one sidewalk lebanon of van ness avenue. that is construction. now i will talk about bus rapid transit. there are, i believe, three alternatives being studied as part of the van ness avenue brt project. one is side-running, and two are center-running. i will first talk about side- running and in the two center- running together. i was going to point out -- the cathedral hill campus -- and van ness avenue north this to the right. south is to the left. this graphic is rotated 90 degrees. the cathedral hill campus site is the second block over to

has anybody done any excavations in that area? >> we have done some preliminary survey of the area and found some interesting hints of early artifacts, 16th century. possibly. and so we have plans to revisit the area very, very soon. >> how much are both of you involved or in contact with your british colleagues on early colonial or precolonial history? >> well, we both have, you know. >> we're both fellows of the society of antiqueries. you have to be elected to join, an english society, british society. it's very old. 200 years old -- 400 years old. >> much of the records, are much of the records kept in the uk? are there good records about jamestown, for example? >> well, yeah. most of them are known and have been looked at. and we have transcriptions of them. but, you know, there's always a surprise discovery like we were talking about, the lost colony map. we actually have studied another map in the british museum. it shows -- really shows that the fort -- the actual fort where we found it was already -- that location had bee

we talk about excavating the dirt for the underwater garage. we question is using math. if you can see this on the chart, we can get this up on the overhead projector. they crossed out 20 and put 94 the average number of trips. they crossed out 100 and put 200. they doubled the maximum number of trips. they crossed out 20 and they put in 90. the actual number went from 13,000, 17,000, to 20,000. this is one on every two minutes in the embarcadero. what would be significant, 30,000? and on the conditional use, we have the housing numbers. you all set to the budget analysts report. the only area we are meeting our goals is for this housing. you saw the chart, and i have this. we are at 158% with the market rate and above. this is the high end of the market rate. what they talk about is the 27 units. 27 units of affordable housing with 134 of these units. they don't build 27 unit projects. to pay for this, we need 500 market rate units. and if we want to hundred units, we need 1000 units. what kind of the city would this be. 20,000 people are low income, with these -- there

we will be continuing the excavation from west side to the east side of the transit center. late this year, we will begin construction of the below grade portions of the transit center, bringing that structure back up to grade, and erecting the steel superstructure of the building. from there, we will move into the exterior closures, the landscaping, interior finishes, and the side work. at the bottom portion of the screen, i have been dtx construction. i showed that as starting late 2014. that is how quickly we can move into phase to if we're able to fully fund phase two. from there, it will be about a seven-year period. here is another image of the downtown extension, the importance of the transit center in bringing both

>>reporter: gloria hopes to fulfill the wish now that valley medical center has excavated what used tobe a cemetery. the grandmother anna tied at the hospital in 1915 when it was the santa clara county hospital. >> her husband my grand father and my mother being the eldest child just simply did not have the money to send her over and to bury her at the catholic cemetery sorry, she was buried in the hospital cemetery years later the family heard the bodies had been moved to other cemetery for hospital expansion. but they couldn't find her. they assumed she was still burden at the hospital not knowing the cemetery had been turned in a parking lot. in 1970 her mother finally had the money to bury her. went back to the hospital. >> they said there's no such cemetery. there's never been a cemetery. we don't know what you are talking about. >>reporter: the family let it rest. until this new discover discovery. >> when this came out they excavated and they found all those bodies i knew i knew one of them was my grand mother. >>reporter: we'll know more now but the county wants to open the kun

>>reporter: gloria hopes to fulfill the wish now that valley medical center has excavated what used tobe a cemetery. the grandmother anna tied at the hospital in 1915 when it was the santa clara county hospital. >> her husband my grand father and my mother being the eldest child just simply did not have the money to send her over and to bury her at the catholic cemetery sorry, she was buried in the hospital cemetery years later the family heard the bodies had been moved to other cemetery for hospital expansion. but they couldn't find her. they assumed she was still burden at the hospital not knowing the cemetery had been turned in a parking lot. in 1970 her mother finally had the money to bury her. went back to the hospital. >> they said there's no such cemetery. there's never been a cemetery. we don't know what you are talking about. >>reporter: the family let it rest. until this new discover discovery. >> when this came out they excavated and they found all those bodies i knew i knew one of them was my grand mother. >>reporter: we'll know more now but the county wants to op the kun o

>>reporter: gloria hopes to fulfill the wish now that valley medical center has excavated what used tomother anna tied at the hospital in 1915 tha county hospital. >> her husband my grand father and my mother being the eldest child just simply did not have the money to send her over and to bury her at the catholic cemetery sorry, she was buried in the hospital cemetery years later the family heard the bodies had been moved to other cemetery for hospital expansion. but they couldn't find her. they assumed she was still burden at the hospital not knowing the cemetery had been turned in a parking lot. in 1970 her mother finally had the money to bury her. went back to the hospital. >> they said there's no such cemetery. there's never been a cemetery. we don't knolking you are talking about. >>reporter: the family let it discovery.il this new discover his new discovery. >> when this came out they excavated and they found all those bodies i knew i knew one of them was my grand mother. >>reporter: we'll know more now but the county wants to open the kun one00 coffin. e'llp they we'll keep wor

we found that site, started finding it two years ago and excavated it through the end of last year. it's a super important place. because the wedding is interesting. and it's interesting to know exactly where pocahontas stood at one point which would be right in front of the altar. but the marriage itself ended what was called the first palestine war, so a period of peace went after that because -- until -- as long as he lived, that is. it's a very significant find and a significant event. >> the next caller's from natoma, kansas, lauren, hello. >> caller: thank you. i teach fifth grade history. and i wonder what are most important topics that i should relate to my students. and if you have know suggestions for resources besides the dvd from today, i'd be interested in knowing those suggestions. >> well, that's a huge question. i don't have my bibliography with me. but i know that there is one volume -- well for fifth grade, i guess it would be a little complicated. but there's a volume of original documents that teachers might want to look at before they talk to their students. it'

this vessel, relatively small, 60 or 70 feet long and we can see from this is an archaeological excavation, a real viking long ship, long boat, and we can see, too, the remnants of a mast here and these are the kinds of vessels the vikings used to sail out onto the atlantic. where did they go? we saw on the previous map they went down the coast of europe. they went to the ferro islands, shet land island, ireland and scotland and ventured a little further as well and ventured first over here to iceland. again, the journey from the north of scotland or the shet land islands towards iceland is not all that far, 300, 400 miles maybe. the vikings began to notice, you might ask, well, why did they sail west at all? because as they saw in the water they saw debris coming from the west and birds and so they understood that there had to be something out there, these birds are coming from somewhere and the debris in the water has to be coming from somewhere so that's why they sailed west. about the year 800, again, evidences we have archaeological evidence and no pinpointed but about the year 800 th

we excavated the site, found where the distillery had been located, did about five years of excavation and other research, and decided we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and to show what an 18th century whiskey distillery was like. and you can't see it anywhere else in thun >> and there is a gristmill here as well? how do the two relate to each other? >> the reason the distillery's here is because washington already had a gristmill here located. it was a major part of the plantation, made lots of money off of it over the years. and in 1797 at the end of his second term as president, he was getting ready to come back to mt. vernon and hired a scotsman by the name of james anderson to be his plantation manager. and apparently all scotsmen know how to distill, or at least anderson did. and as soon as he was on the job, he lobbied washington and said if you'll pay for this, i can make you a lot of money by distilling whiskey. and washington, you know, initially said, you know, look, i don't know much about that, but we have letters that he wrote to friends of his asking thei

. >> reporter: the next phase is to excavate first spread. over the memorial day weekend, crews will be installing a temporary bridge to handle traffic. that's part of it right there. the problem, julie, is getting this structure from here to there. that means three days of frustration. it is already slow going near construction of the transbay center. >> this is a disaster. >> it's kind of a nightmare. >> reporter: memorial day weekend, the round the clock work will enter the next phase. >> we'll be excavating this entire footprint here. >> reporter: leaders with the transbay joint powers authority gave us an exclusive look at plans to install three temporary bridges. along first, fremont, and beale street. >> this is first street we're about to cross. >> reporter: this animation shows what it will look lick, -- like once the work is complete. the bridges will be installed over three different holiday weekends, memorial day, labor day, and veterans day to minimize the impact. >> great. >> reporter: this driver says he will ditch his car and

they excavated dozens of rooms. he believed three were used for religious purposes. these religious artifacts at a press conference in jerusalem. it is useful for keeping symbols of god. >> 1 kings describes the architectural style and the style existed even before soloman. the site contained no statutes or pig bones. they followed the biblical commandments not to eat pork unlike canaanite or philistine neighbors. they found the scripture at the side. it disproves the argument of some scholars who say the bible was written 800 years after king david with no connection to history. >> we have historical memories embedded in the bible. they can't say david and soloman were actually human beings. >> the bible and archaeology have to work together. julie stall, cbn news, israel. >> thanks so much for joining us this week. >> until next week, good-bye, and god bless you.

. >> reporter: the next phase is to excavate first spread. over the memorial day weekend, crews will be installing a temporary bridge to handle traffic. that's part of it right there. the problem, julie, is getting this structure from here to there. that means three days of frustration. it is already slow going near construction of the transbay center. >> this is a disaster. >> it's kind of a nightmare. >> reporter: memorial day weekend, the round the clock work will enter the next phase. >> we'll be excavating this entire footprint here. >> reporter: leaders with the transbay joint powers authority gave us an exclusive look at plans to install three temporary bridges. along first, fremont, and beale street. >> this is first street we're about to cross. >> reporter: this animation shows what it will look lick, -- like once the work is complete. the bridges will be installed over three different holiday weekends, memorial day, labor day, and veterans day to minimize the impact. >> great. >> reporter: this driver says he will ditch his car and