commissioner lazarus? commissioner lazarus: this is a question for kim, and you might have a better answer later this afternoon. we looked at the budget numbers to result unanticipated increases. do you have any sense of the construction market now and whether it has tightened up or whether it is possible that some of these bids may still come in lower than budgeted? >> it is my opinion that we're still in an excellent market. turner provided our latest cost estimates and has taken into consideration that we're a very good market. we are going to find that very soon how good it is. commissioner ho: just a question on the condominium sales proceeds. what is the plus or minus, and do you think that is associated with that? >> i will get our finance director to address that. commissioner ho: given the question the costs could still be moving. >> the water mark condominium sales proceeds are actual cash from the sale of the condominium. i think back in 2003. the interest earnings arctic ruled today. that trans

commissioner lazarus: is there a definition of an eligible tenant? all longer-term lease as opposed to month to month? >> any tenant affected by the project is an eligible tenant. anybody affected by the project. so. >> i guess currently now, we are going to see it later if tenants found a location. as far as execution of this, how far are you identifying where people can go? >> we are well always -- aways. with identified relocation sites. we've done pre-emptive work. we hope to relocate 75% to 80%, probably. one of the issues is geographically a lot of the space they will be moving from is from the northern waterfront to the southern water fraught -- waterfront. there are tenants that need to be on the northern waterfronts. for some, the no. waterfront is the only place they can be, and you know, some of those tenants, mainly storage tense, we may not be able to accommodate. we have office space. we are going to be lean on shelf space. >> and so far -- working with tenants, we have not heard negative reactions? >> correct. >>we're very good -- we h

gingrich wipe wiped it out on e debates and has had a second lazarus. he has done lazarus up one better. he has come back to the life from the dead twice in six months. he has tried obviously to get to a big theme. the question for him is the structural politics will change now in florida. the heat is off romney not about his taxes but about whether he will be cor core na. i thought he was headed to that in the beginning of his speech. by the end i didn't think he got there but i think he was trying. >> pat you are a native south carolinian. the difference between first and second is more than 70,000 votes right now. >> yeah. >> when you look at the votes, the exit polls, what south carolina was telling the rest of the gop what do you take away from it? >> what i took away from it looking at it is that and i went through all of the numbers and went through all of the counties. first of all, i have never seen this this across-the-board in this kind of contested race. he managed to unite the up country which is evangelical. he also just won every group. b

jim lazarus, jim chapel, norman pierce. then catherine hooper. did catherine leave? >> good afternoon, commissioners, i am norman pierce, representing myself. with regard to this fabulous event that will help bring recreational boating and access for the general population to the waterfront and on the water activities. i think there has been a high amount of cooperation between many different segments of the government and private enterprise to make this thing come together, and i am looking forward your approval of it today. thank you. >> thank you. jason santana, then mike. >> good afternoon. my name is jason santana, with local 75. i'm a third-generation member. my grandfather worked cargo ships. my father was a marine park. nowadays, the port is changing. we have been working the cruise ships and today we're talking about racing boats, maybe not. at these terminals where my grandfather worked, we've not changed the need for good paying union jobs on the dock, and that is why we support this project. our members are qualified, credentialed, and ready to go to work

commissioner lazarus: there is an expression as some people like to use, if you want a job done right, you have to do it yourself. i think that assumes that you have a good skills that to do that. so i would like to observe as well that clearly the executive director has assembled the a team here at the port to get this to where we are today. i add my thanks and my commendation to everybody. i think the decision to try to do it ourselves, in conjunction with fellow city departments, was clearly the right one. so on words and upwards. >> i think we ould all ditto that statement. [laughter] >> we have heard a lot of public comment, most of the supporting the cruise ship terminal, so i would like to defer to our legal counsel on the last comment that was made, just to let us know that it is ok to move forward or not. >> we do believe it is a party to move forward at this point in time. yes. commissioner brandon: thank you. i had the pleasure of serving on the commission with commissioner jimmy herman, and he was such a wonderful person. so to ditto some of the public comment on this is a

if lazarus was raised from the dead, miss bachmann is hoping her candidacy can be revived. >> michele think the world of is not dt party candidate. there is no tea party candidate. the tea party is a great mass movement that operates very independently and does not -- it has not endorsed a candidate. some of us like myself have endorsed candidates, but she lines up very well with the movement. why she is in single digits is a good question. i'm not sure i have a good answer. >> maybe she doesn't have ideas or policies that have persuaded the electorate? maybe they have seen through her? >> no, i don't think it's that. >> you almost said perhaps, johnson. >> actually what i started to say is -- no, what i said was two things at once. i said perhaps it's just a degree of how people view her electability in the fall. >> indeed. >> that's a big issue for me and a lot of people. from the conservative side, we want someone who will not only win the primaries, but you have to beat barack obama in the fall or we wasted our time. >> chris matthews broadcast the impact of the ruling on how mitt

i think newt gingrich has proven that he can be a nimble campaigner n that he has been lazarus-like inis way back to the top. no, he doesn't have any more debates and, yes, a mitt romney is a much-improved candidate. we saw that last night. he's certainly confident and bordering on cocky out there on the stump today saying he won that debate that it was delightful. i think newt gingrich still has a message, he still has an audience. he's been drawing really large crowds down there. >> you've been down there covering it in florida. tell us about the contrast if there is any, between the gingrich gatherings and the gatherings for willard. >> there are certainly different types of crowds. newt's crowds are more blue collar, working evangelicals. and mitt romney's crowds are much more well healed crowds. wealthier. upper middle class folks. and i think there is a difference, too in terms of passion. a lot of passion at newt's crowds. a lot of people there. lots of chanting of usa, usa. so a lot of enthusiasm for this candidate and they definitely connect with him. they feel like he's the o

you go lazarus. >> and you know what? rudy giuliani is dying right now you're not working for him.ve to take a break. we'll analyze the numbers a little more. do you remember a guy named ron paul? we'll talk about that as well coming up from the election center.

and he makes america into the parable of lazarus. and he says, you know, the rich man did not go to hell because he was rich, but because he won't recognize the poor man. so there was this angry, condemn that story part of king. jeremiah, jeremiah. i mean, there's a reason for that. i think there are differences between king and wright, but i think we've sanitized king. we've lost track at how much he was reviled in the final years. "the washington post" and "the new york times" condemn his anti-vietnam speech at riverside church and, basically, said almost that it was treason. and king does quote that famous line of black poetry in there, america was never america to me. now, he gets beyond that always that's the king element, that he was tough-minded enough not to give in just to the emotion, but to hold out the better way. so king was pretty much roughed up in his time. we've taken all that out in creating the st. martin and it's why reverend c.t. vivian, one of the great men of nashville nonviolence, but he was part of john lewis

. >> we'll go biblical and say las -- lazarus had one rising and gingrich has had two.his to lose. but we learned one thing and one thing only in this incredibly volatile race. that is the polls can change rapidly and a week is a long long time. obviously gingrich is in the cat bird seat before we have two big debates and before the newly energized apparently mitt romney goes after newt, so we are told. melling * we saw -- megyn: we saw newt rise before. they credited that -- the gingrich campaign did, to the negative advertising against them in iowa. but what all see happened us the republican establishment came out in full force against gingrich. the beltway times apparently don't think much of him, larry. do we think it will happen with the same result? >> it will certainly happen again. i had an interesting conversation with a republican congressman yesterday who told me there was something close to and nick his ranks in the house. they were worried they would have to share a ballot with newt gingrich, and based on current polling nationally and in many of the key s

i mean, he's one up on lazarus who only rose from the dead once. [ laughter ] >> and i mean, that feedsn itself. what's this guy doing? what's this all about? that's what romney is up against now he's going to load up the television with a lot of negative ads, like he dumped on newt gingrich in iowa. >> will gingrich get more money now that he's won -- >> he's already picking up money. he's picking up some of that donors from rick perry. if people see he could win this thing, that will steal that momentum. >> the thing that should scare romney is he hasn't needed much money. he's made it basically on a smile and a shoeshine in the debates. yeah, he's going to get more money but he hasn't needed more so far. >> this is the greatest thing going for you two right now. you're loving every minute of this. >> bob, let us know when mitt romney gets back to you. >> all right. >>> there are storm warnings out this morning in tennessee, mississippi and alabama after a powerful storm system hit parts of the south an the midwest overnight. lightning as you can see lit up the sky in eastern arkansas

i mean, he's like a lazarus who you thought only rose from the dead once. >> so twice already. >> andhat feeds on itself. and it causes the -- what's this guy doing? what's this all about? you know, and that's what romney is up against now. but he's going to load up the television with a lot of negative ads, just like he dumped on newt gingrich in iowa. >> will gingrich get more money now that he's won? >> well, absolutely. >> and he is already picking up money. he is picking up some of the donors from rick perry. and if people see that he could actually win this thing, that's going to really continue to fuel that momentum. >> but the thing that should scare romney is he hasn't needed much money. he has made it basically on a smile and a shoe shine until now. >> and the debates. >> yes. he hasn't needed more money so fa. >> the greatest thing going for you too right now. you're loving it. >> us four. >> and bob, let us know what mitt romney gets up to. >> all right. >>> there is developing weather news this morning. violent storms killed at least two people near birmingham, alabama, o

you have lazarus. he only had to rise once and newt gingrich has risen twice.he organization, you don't have to have the money. but so much of the primary campaigns hinge on debates if you have the moments and that's what he did. he stayed in their doingedly. he began in new hampshire and it was these moments which can change an election and that's why for florida election is really up for grabs. despite the fact that romney has had ads out there for weeks and he has a lot of strength on the ground. this is all about how it appearos television. two-thirds of the south carolinians said that it was very important what happened in the debates . they are the ones who made the difference. so yes, i do, i am fallible x. i lack what the pope has. newt gingrich can hang in there. and watching him in the debate. i think it was the defiance in the last answer in the john king question that was decisive. i think john king if newt gingrich wins the presidency. will have a gilded and endowed chair. >> charles to bring you in the panel here. brit hume. >> charles, i was feel

on it is engraved the poem from emma lazarus, called "the colossus."eaks to our nation and who we are. i am not a good poet person -- a big paw one person. there's nothing wrong with poetry. i'm going to get the literature people angry. [laughter] this poem speaks to those who believe that you are is determined by the circumstances of your birth, and us. not likely giants of greek same with conquering lem's aside from land to land. at sunset gates shall stand in my woman with a torch was blamed is imprisoned likenelightning from her beacon hand grows worldwide and she says keep ancient lands your story lands. give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free send these, the homeless, the tempest tossed, to me i lift my lamp beside the golden door. this is who we were. but for 225 years this is who we have been. the question now is is if this is well -- not the question is if this is who we remain. if we walk away from this, we walk away from what makes a special and unique from all the nations on earth. it is a great challenge