i want to recognize norman nelson, who has been assisting, steve, the engineering project manager as well as the rest of the pier 70 team. prior to going into the context of the request for approval to issue an r.f.p. for the design and planning of crane coffee park, i thought it would be worthwhile to put it in the context of a couple of other projects, including the blue green way planning, the clean and safe general obligation bond and the planning to date on pier 70. as you know, in 2008 san francisco residents and voters passed proposition a, the clean and safe obligation bond, $33.5 million to the port, of which $22.5 million was specifically identified for the blue green way planning process. i'm sorry, the blue green way projects. the blue green way is a city project to complete the bay water trail and a network of open spaces along the southern waterfront between mission creek and candlestick state point. this is one of the sites along the blue green way for crane coffee park. to help frame and allow the public to better understand what the blue green way components are, i h

norman smellie was brought to the icu from the bone marrow transplant unit, and he has continued to get worse. >> all right, don't push too hard because he's got pain in his thigh. >> narrator: so dr. nelsonants to meet with norman's family and dr. osman to discuss his prognosis. >> he has a lot of medical problems, as you know, and he doesn't have terrific counts. he got grade-four graft versus host disease of the bowel, which i have yet to see someone recover from and live through. he also has cmv, so he has a lot, a lot of problems. you know, i had many conversations with norman myself about his prognosis and what would happen and what he wanted. but you can have a lot of conversations about these things, but i think when the moments come, i don't think that anybody can be completely prepared for what it's really all about. >> so you know he had the biopsy the other night. it looks like that is the gvhd. >> but i have a question, and i would like a straight answer. is my brother dying? i think i need... i need a straight answer. >> what do you think, phyllis? what do you think? >> wait. >> i think we can say what we think, but what is your gut feeling about it? >> my gut feeling is tha