. >> commissioners, tim fry, department staff, just to clarify a couple points. the provision to convert the building to offices is a very specific incentive that was created as part of the eastern neighborhood's rezoning to give flexibility to historic buildings that generally have a hard time to reuse in a sensitive manner. to clarify that is not currently provided to this building. as a historic resource it's identified in a survey so any changes to the building, including signage, would be reviewed by preservation staff, but that does not preclude any alterations to be proposed in the future. maybe not under this current owner, but maybe 30 years from now that could be detrimental or if seqa were to review and /e collude the review of historic resources. >> not likely. >> just to clarify, article ten has a very separate sort of meaning than just a historic resource for the purposes of seqa. >> thank you. my comment -- i spent a little time in the area because of the concern of are we going to keep the design center area as a center or are we breaking it up. i

professor tim fry with columbia university, thank you for your time? >> thank you. >> as always, we appreciate it. >> turning to the missing malasian airplane. the search is focusing on a strength of the indian ocean off australian. crews are stim coming up empty. >> another image. this one from a chinese satellite, an object in the indian ocean 120 kilometers from where an australian satellite spotted something similar two days earlier. in the australia, reinforcement from the search teams are coming. two chinese search aircraft flew into australia on saturday. a japanese plane will arrive on sunday. nothing of significance has been spotted yet. but the search is winding up, not down. the media presence, too, though it might yet get bigger. >> there are more chinese will be here when we find something. >> saturday saw more planes searching than on any day yet. they included two fast jets which can stay over the several zone for five hours. the military aircraft which take four hours to reach the zone and four hours back can only spend two hours actual

earlier i spoke to tim fry, a professor at columbia university about whether russia would try to grab more of ukraine. >> it's important to bear in mind, i think vladimir putin would prefer a friendly government in ukraine, than an opposition and control over crimea. >> i think what he wanted was a friendly government in kiev and have viktor yanukovych in power, not be overthrown, not face the sanctions and reputational costs going along with annex territory. this is only the second time in post war europe that we have seen transfer from one country to another much so this is a big deal. what would be ideal for vladimir putin at this point would be to continue to ex-cert leverage over the government in kiev by introducing irregular forces, or stirring up trouble that would keep the government in kiev weak and divided so that in the future when a new government comes to power, he may be in a better position to net. i think the sanctions on a specific group of individuals will make life difficult and upcomfortable. a lot of political science research shows sanctions are not effective in