costs are enhancements or redundancy to the base electrical system for the building, the base glazing system for the building and the structural system for the building. what is the protection for glazing system? what is that? >> so, the glazing systems, the glass, throughout the building. >> oh,. >> as mr. ducebella mentioned, there is... >> actually we have a slide on that or i could go through that in detail if you like. >> if you just give it to me. >> it is about making sure that the glass does not participate in becoming a hazard to people inside or around the transit center in the event of something occurs. >> and so, >> when you build many things with kind of resistant glass to start with, >> yeah. you start off with a basic tempered glass system. but this is layers lamination in the glass to make it safer and more secure. >> as you go through each piece could you give us a dollar amount? it would be helpful? >> i will have that when i speak to the distribution. >> all right, thank you. >> what i will try to do is be as explainable because there is this technology mystery because i c

these are our enhancements as i discussed earlier to the glazing system. the biggest impact here, is on the awning system around the building which had been injured to survive a seismic event, but in doing additional analysis and in fact, some actual physical blast testing, some significant recommendations as would effect the design and performance of that system, and as i will mention a little bit later on, based on that information in part and the budget picture as a whole we are tasking the design team with taking another look at the design of the awning system. >> structural performance, there were a few locations where there was some minor enhancement recommended. this is indicated on the start as 0 percent, there are in fact, some costs less than half a million dollars worth of costs where there is some structural enhancement to the transit center. again, an area where we conducted exhaustive additional analysis on blast performance, but one over all where the seismic performance of the transit center, the robustness of the structure because of the ro

system. do notice all of this bank. this is freezing rain. that comes down as liquid and freezes on contact. that could create a glaze of ice on the roadways. keep that in mind if you have to travel from hagerstown into culpeper or areas west of there. let's take a look at what is going to happen midday. the rain is entering the metro area. then it will push up to the north. most of this will change over for everybody by late this afternoon and into this evening. the ring will be heaviest early into the evening hours. one or two interest -- inches could be possible. it starts to diminish after the midnight hour. still some lingering showers and we said -- we could see lingering showers into your wednesday. the futurecast is projecting how much rainfall we are expecting. anywhere between half of an inch and an inch and a half is reasonable between the next 24 hours. cloudy skies, 37 degrees. by recess, we will see rain and developing. it will be heavy by drop-off time about 3:00 this afternoon, 34 degrees. >> we're still busy. the maryland beltway, the overnight crash happened at 11:00 hour, quite intense. that is why the cleanup is still go

is not a very popular issue and people often their eyes glaze over but it is of very important issue. i am not here to justify the subsidy system. obviously it is bad public policy but blaming all the ills on the food system on the 17-year-old subsystem is distracting from the meaningful issues. the subsidy system is a symptom of what is wrong with our food system. it is a band-aid that covers the bad agriculture policies that benefit the biggest food companies in the country and in the world and we need to reform the food system and the marketplace before we get rid of subsidies and if we get rid of subsidies we are going to lose a very high percentage of small and mid-size farms and we really need farmers to fix the food system. we don't want to demonize farmers. they are victims of the system as well. i am going to ask you to stick with me while i go through some farm history and statistics that are really important if you want to understand how the food system that is making us sick really operates. we know that experts from all sides of the political spectrum often point to subsidies and getting rid of subsidies, a silver

glazing and looks irresdescent and like munich and what is that appearance? >> the building will be approximately 50% glass where the areas of visitors will be. much of the arena at the highest systems and mechanical structures are not glass and some type of metal and we're still evaluating that and there will be a fair amount of glass so you have direct view to the area and the exterior of the building. it's not meant to be -- and some people are saying birds will fly in and we are aware of those issues and we don't want to create glare also and that is on going as the project continues. >> and is illumiation? >> we are aware of the beauty it provides and with the amazing light sculpture that is there. it's spectacular and getting world interest and the first thing is meet sustainability guidelines and make sure you don't have light leaks out and we don't want excess light on the pier itself and only for safety. >> is it similar -- i mean is there -- i know we have talked about seeing an actual -- >> model. >> have you created a model? >> i showed tonight various renderings and someone said they hadn't seen them and they were published in the newspapers. the model is being built no

glaze over. but he was silent on this subject at a critical moment. >> listen, the reason we have to focus on doing this at the state level is the system is blocked in washington to any meaningful evident -- effort, so that's why we have to succeed in new york and some other states and that will open things up. i think the president has decided that this is not, this dog is not going hunt. >> i was disappointed that it wasn't in his speech but not surprised. you know, the, and the president has decided instead to focus on other incredibly important issues regarding failures in our democracy and the way that people vote. and that's important as well. but the president has missed a number of opportunities to show leadership on this issue. and i think that's been both unfortunate and a bad choice politically for him. i'd say the biggest obstacle that we face is actually just the enormous cynicism that citizens have about their government. they have a hard time believing that there's a way to do this that actually would create a system where their representatives are really working for them. that's a real obstacle. >> and i would add you don't, we don't