. >> my name is fred clark. i am a senior design principal. some of you have seen me before, in some of you have not. i am going to go back a little bit into the history of the design just to reach familiarize -- refamiliarize you with the building and how it functions and looks. i can say that we have completed all of the design phases. we are deeply into the construction document days, which is a very critical phase. we are poised to finish that phase quite soon. just to reorient you as to what the project is and where it is, this is the ground floor. in reading from right to left on the far right side, which is the east side, is the concentration of wbussed facilities. golden gate bus plaza is a highly functional threaded part of the building. a great deal of time has been spent on that part of the project. immediately to the west is the grant col. this is the main entrance lobby to the building, and also the main article circulation for the passengers up and down, and i will go into detail with that in a few minutes. going further west, tw

colleagues thought general wesley clark was going to be the front runner, he did not even farewell in iowa and new hampshire. four years ago on the republican side, fredompson was considered a top front runner and at one point lead all of the opponents he didn't do well when all the real voting came about. now newt gingrich had it for 73 days about as long as kim kardashians wedding. >> now we have to move forward into 2012 where eventually someone will be selected. we are close to iowa now what do you see happening. >> my goodness depends what hour of the day it is. today it is just a little after 7:30 a.m., i would say that mitt romney and ron paul are fighting for the first place in iowa, and newt gingrich who had a lot of momentum has suffered some injury, shall we say, in the last week or so, but i think the big problem is less what he says, or any position he takes than the argument that he would admire namely, that he cannot organize, he does not have an infantry on the ground that is beginning to show in the hawk eye state. >> what do you think about what has been made in virginia and a lot of cam dates not getting on the -- candidates not get