Good morning, it's Friday, March 8th. I'm Joseph Delaney and here's your local news from the Austin American-Statesman. Today will be mostly cloudy with a high near 79 and south-southwest wind blowing 10 to 15 mph. It’ll be mostly cloudy tonight with a 40 percent chance of rain and a low around 64. South wind blowing 10 to 15 mph could have gusts as high as 20 mph. Our top story is: Aiming to promote the use of new building technologies, U.S.