homes do we really need and nor to get a sense for that i look at this data series from the united states census bureau and this is house of information and if you are young couple getting a first house or an individual who's you know, living in school and getling their first detriment ask a forms the horizontal line going through there is the average from 1961 to 2,000 and leaves out the last deck a i did ask so it says how many newer homes do we really need here and it's one and a quarter million and so may be between one and a quart million and one and-a-half million is where we aught to be and so now i'm going to backup and go to the previous slide and if this was penciled in here it would be a horizontal line through this graph and we would find that we were building way too much at the height of the bubble and so where are we going from here we are going back to one and a quarter or one and-a-half million or so overt course of next five years and considering we have been at 600,000 or so, if we go to one .2 million that is a double in the pace of reconstruction activity the and twice as many fram

united states. it really can get ugly as drivers make their way through the maze to try to get into san francisco. these latest statistics were put out by the u.s. census bureau. the bay area tops the list. megacommuters travel 90 minutes or longer just to get 50 miles. in san francisco the peninsula and east bay, more than 2% of full-time workers were mega- commuters. in santa clara county 1.9%. and we are followed by new york and washington, d.c. in new york about 1.9% are mega- commuters and washington, d.c. 1.89%. in most other major cities, less than 1% are mega- commuters. so we have about 4 times as many here and as i mentioned it takes about an hour and a half just to go 50 miles here during rush hour. well, to put that into perspective, in most other major cities the average commute time is just about 25 minutes. that would be nice if that ever happened here but doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon. [ laughter ] >> reporter: in oakland, elissa harrington, kpix 5. >> elissa, i'm glad that we're on the road where no one else is very early in the morning. all right. to gather the new data, experts analyzed five years of data from full-tim