After words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. And now a panel on the life and career of recentlyretired librarian of Congress James billington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Please take your seats. My understanding is were live on cspan, so behave yourselves. Inform. [laughter] welcome to valentines day a bit early. Im jane harman, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center, and i cant and we cant imagine what the Wilson Center would look like today if nobody had been smart enough to put Jim Billington in charge. [applause] wed have no kennon institute, no wilson quarterly, two projects at the heart of what we do. Who knows how many friends, how much wisdom we would have missed out on. Jim played a special role in my own education, my russian education. We crossed paths while i was in moscow on a congressional delegation, and he took us all on a tour of the creme lip. Kremlin. Priceless. Jim, your command of russia, its history and its culture shows up everyone here. Y
We will see increasing cloud may get stray shower before the day is through but still, i think the balance of the day will be pleasant. Watching this system, to our south, the one talking about yesterday. Little disturbance out to the west see what that decides to do. Little bit of breeze, 10 miles an hour, we secretary more on shore flow, with the ocean being so cold right now it, bodes for cooler temperatures. So we are off to decent start with 52 degrees, but wont be 77 like it was yesterday. Sunrise time 6 03, so here is the breakdown of your day. Lower 50s, mid 50s, depending on where you live, walking out the door, kids may need jacket. Increasing clouds, throughout the day but still peaks of sunshine 65 degrees. Talk more about the coastal storm and the direction of the storm plus your weekend forecast all coming up. So bob kelly who saw thursday looking snow. Not bad. But i think you singing ten sound better, as you sing off key. I know, just not the same. We have to work on th
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Hello, i am sammys a dan. This is the news, our life from dell ha, coming off in the next 60 minutes. A 10 situation unfolding in beirut, an armed man is taken Bank Employees hostage, demanding the withdrawal of his own money. And Israeli Military Court Extends the detention of his family to have the, the bazaar messiah de, by least 6 days a nationwide curfew in sierra leone. And several people are killed in a wave of violence and protests against the rising cost of living. Heavy rains, frigo flooding across sudan, affecting tens of thousands of people. Im joanna roscoe, at the sports. We had a 1st glimpse of cat on the biggest world cup stadium in action. The 80000 seater la salle stadium will host it 1st official game later, just over a 100 days to go until the main event. Ah. Now an armed man is holding employees hostage at a federal bank in lebanons capital. Hes demanding his own money threatening to burn down the bank. Security forces have not entered the building yet all these, a
Speyer want to capitalize on that. Im going to start at the risk of boring everyone with a couple of charts. The first chart shows the average sales prices for Office Buildings in blue. It shows the average replacement costs in green and the line is the cap rates for Office Product in San Francisco. And there are a couple of things that i think are worth pointing out in this chart. First, that while values have increased, they still fall short of the peaks that we saw in 2007. Also while replacement costs have been fairly steady here in the last several years, if you look back historically, there has been a stairstepping historically over time of replacement costs. And i believe that were about to enter an environment where both Construction Costs and land costs will push replacement costs up again in San Francisco. Also while cap rates have come down significantly since 2010, they are still well above where they were in the 20062007 environment. And keep in mind that the treasury mark