Kobani is a tragedy but not the definition of a full measure of whats happening. Fasten your seat belts whats to come. Too dangerous too expensive to remote for human aircraft to go. Another innovation right around the corner. Cars that can talk to each other. That was a genuine alert that youre about to collide to the car in front. Fascinating book out all the truth is out. Turn point boundaries between personal and political lives are rewritten forever. We begin with a desperate fight against extremism in syria. Americas barrage of air strikes did not cripple the group. The u. S. Fired 46 cruise missiles at the group, but many of them had already fled tipped off by growing news reports about the group in the days leadinleading leading up to the air strikes. Meanwhile, i. S. I. L. Moves deeper into kobani. The United Nations warned friday that some 12,000 kurds could be massacred if i. S. I. L. Manages to take control. Calls for turkey to get involved continue but president erdogan refused unless the u. S. Would confront the Assad Government in syria. As i. S. I. L. Advances further into kobani, dispiet the city being in despite the city being in plain view from turkey. Home to 15,000 kurds who are accusing the government of allowing their fellow kurds being slaughtered. The u. S. Air raid would not be enough. It is not expected that turkey would lead a ground operation on its own. We are negotiating and thinking about a global trajectory and after coming to an agreement with our allies, turkey will not hesitate to take the necessary steps. Joining me is wesley clark, former nato allied sprem commander. Ucla burkel center. Another strategy for American Growth and leadership. General always good to have you with us. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Well get to the book in a moment but lets start with i. S. I. L. Reportedly taking over a third of kobani. Turkish tanks right there, less than a mile away, but seem to be soon. What happens, should we let i. S. I. L. Get stronger . I hope well use this as a motivating factor to pull the coalition much closer together. You need several elements here. You need u. S. Air power, you need the moderate syrian is opposition you need the Turkish Air Forces and the Free Syrian Army in there. But the Free Syrian Army is not capable of standing up against i. S. I. S. So i would like to see us working a three way arrangement to bring the Turkish Ground forces in. Youve argued that we need to know who were helping, thats a big question in syria because in an immediate microlevel with kobani we would be helping the kurds there but on a macrolevel who would be helping . As you said, the moderate Syrian Rebels are nowhere to be found. Would we just be helping assad . This is always the problem and thats why when youre doing an operation like this you have to think from the desired instate. The desired instate is to leave in place in syria a moderate government that will not use syria as a place for tomorrow and is not bashar alassad. We have got to pull together the moderates, when you have to have boots on the ground theyre right. Having boots on the ground is a necessary condition but not sufficient for success. To be successful you have to be able to govern that space. So u. S. Troops cant do that, we know they cant do it but we could empower the syrian moderate option political leadership. We could work in conjunction with the Turkish Ground forces and a temporary nofly zone over that area to make sure theres no interference from bashar alassad, something could be pulled together and probably thats under discussion right now inside the pentagon. And youve also argued that several sunni arab nation have funded, and you said they created a monster and that now they dont trust their own troops and are looking for us to save them. Those are pretty strong words and in fact they echo what Vice President biden just got criticized for and had to go off and apologize for. Well, i dont know what the relationship is with vpped biden Vice President biden but this is my assessment having looked at the situation and talked to people in the region. It has nothing to do with the diplomacy of the u. S. Government, its not part of that, its my private assessment. But i am concerned because unfortunately, this got out of control, this i. S. I. S. Movement. And it does a spouse the same extremist interpretation of she era law thasherea law of sunniee region so it makes it difficult for forces, i think it makes it difficult. If they say it doesnt then im happy. And if thats the case, put those forward, those forces forward. And lets get to work. Now youve said also, what the pentagon repeated this week, that we cannot win this war with air power alone and as you were just telling me youve argued that u. S. Combat forces would be a huge mistake especially because you think if we did that, we would be playing into i. S. I. L. s hands. Absolutely. It would be a big recruiting draw for i. S. I. S. What theyd like to be able to say is theyre the only power that can fight the united states. The greatly infidels over there and they would like that moniker. Thats what they have tried to do is sucker the u. S. In. It would make it worse if we put u. S. Troops on the ground. We have to find a way to could that together with our friends and allies in the region but ground. In the meantime then what is the air Power Mission . Because if we all agree that air power alone wont defeat i. S. I. L, can we use it to at least stop i. S. I. L . Despite the fact they were moving troops and tanks through open fields. You cant attack moving troops like that unless you have eyes on, on the ground with communications to the aircraft. This is what were doing now, we used to call it battlefield air interdiction. Were flying deep over enemy territory, without Friendly Force he on the ground, were identifying targets from the air, were doing preplanned strikes in most cases and it is effective in degrading and disorganizing and causing the i. S. I. L. Forces to react and take precautionary measures. It does slow them down operationally. It just doesnt get at the exact point of the of the battle. Cant do that, without contact with the air. If we had the Turkish Forces in there if we could bring the iraqi forces forward, yes, those forces have the connectivity, or could be given the connectivity we need. We dont quite have that yet and thats why i say, a lot of these things are coming together. We didnt wait until we had every piece organized to go forward. We went forward with a sense of urgency with what we had. And were assembling this coalition on the fly. In that context, youve still got a lot of contacts at the pentagon, i know. What about all this talk thats beginning to all this rumbling that there is a split between the Defense Department and the white house . Because you know going back to when this effort first started the pentagon called our action a war before the white house did. We now have seen secretary, former secretary of defense panettas deference of the department. There will always be different components of the government, because what you see and how you feel depends in part where you silt. It is the president s responsibility to see the big picture and its the departments responsibility of defense to give him the military options and considerations. So hes not bound to accept every military option or every military assessment. If he tries to do military operations that contravene military judgment, that may run into trouble but the military is very loyal, theyre going to give him their best advice, thats all. We dont need to get partisan bickering in here and get partisan politics in here. This is very normal sort of give and take within the executive branch as decisions are being made. You address partisan politics in your book and how they can be problematic in what the u. S. Needs to do going forward. The book is entitled dont wait for the next war. You say American Foreign policy has been far too reactive for the last century, not just recently and you say war is a poor substitute for Strategic Vision. So what should our Strategic Vision be now, moving forward in the middle east and around the world . Well, we need a National Strategy first and a way to regrow, reinvigorate the American Economy create jobs at home and increase our growth rate so that were Strong Enough to do what we need do in the world. Thats jom number 1. I job number 1. We need to focus on hydrocarbons. It isnt any reason we cant become totally energy efficient, and finance support that is available right now in the united states. We just have to turn it loose and it will go. Its all private sector and it will double u. S. Gdp growth rate. We need those resources because in grand strategy terms we have to strengthen our relationship with europe and then we have to handle the terrorist challenge and the crises of the middle east and we have to help guide the assent of china as it grows to become a larger and more responsible player in the world. So it sounds like economic muscle, that we need to focus domestically a bit and strengthen our economy so that we can project that strength that you believe we need to project. You know and you say that we need to stay engaged globally and i could say there are great quoatquotes in your book. You say there is neither safety nor security in retreat. Americans, every poll certainly before these horrible beheadings that americans were becoming more isolationist. Sure. But you cant guide Foreign Policy over a long period by the vagaries of public opinions. Public opinions come and go. Americans were quite happy to turn their backs on the middle east, i. S. I. L. Beheads two americans and all of a sudden, americans want to jump in and kill them all. General in Foreign Policy, the executive branch has to lead and shape public opinion. Has to educate, has to figure out how to gain and maintain support of the public, rather than simply react to it. Talking about the executive branch, you have run for president before. This book would seem, in muting out this grand vision it would seem like a perfect launching point for a president ial campaign. You have ambassadorsed, last year you have talked about how you have endorsed, last year you have talked about how Hillary Clinton should become the president ial candidate. Are you supporting her . No. We need democrats and republicans coming together. We need finalists, and Oil Companies to come together environmentalists and Oil Companies to come together. We need a National Strategy to deal with the big problems were dealing with in this century. Like terrorism and cyberthreats and Financial Stability and guiding china as it comes forward to be a larger and larger influence in world affairs. Again the book is dont wait for the next war, a strategy for global leadership. General, good to see you. Thank you so much. Moving on to the global war on drugs and its direct connection on the global war on terror. A new book documents how drug money is directly funding terrorism around the world can including i. S. I. L. Our next guest, going undercover around the world, also the author of the dark art, my undercover life in global narco narcoterrorism. Thank you, sir. Seeing what you have done in those 30 years i do have to wonder about your sanity. Because you are really in one of the most dangerous position he you could have been, infiltrating the mexican drug cartels, terrorist organizations around the world and you found that mostly all these terrorist organizations, from al qaeda, to hamas, to i. S. I. L, are getting money funding their operations to some extent through Drug Trafficking. Absolutely correct. There are others who learned that there was a pipeline of money to be extorted and or obtained by providing rudimentary services such as transportation, protection, and general movement with guarantees by other preceding terrorist groups than those that we are facing today. Not necessarily the terrorist groups themselves growing the stuff but they then extort farmers who are growing it and get money from the other criminals who are involved in the drug trade. Right. They often hire peasants and farmers, once the botanical drug is harvested, the Drug Trafficking organization sends in their experts to synthesize the drugs, morphine, heroin, cocaine, then synthetic drugs such as met meth a meth amphetamine. They have become a diversified criminal organization. They have some very intelligent and educated individuals. Mart guys are realizing what, if they hit one, meaning their enemies and the rest of the world and they lots one element of their they lose one element of their money flow its going to greatly damage them. Iraq turkey and syria in this massive fight for land and power and those in africa and in africa they use ma che machetes and in i. S. I. S. They use ak. 47s. Its all about money. And boko haram is using drugs to make money. And theres the whole issue of narcoterrorism. You spent a lot of time in afghanistan, i think you were while. Yes, sir. And 15 of the countrys gdp comes from opium growth and from the heroin industry. If you have got that kind of money what can you really do because the country is already a financial basket case. If you took that away who knows what would lap . Correct, and the rest of the gdp is steeped in donor dollar, u. N. Dollars and american culture. A lot of that is leaving because once they feel the u. S. And the International Security forces leave the taliban and much of the pakistan insurgent groups will storm kabul. Legitimate money is fleeing through capital flight and the drug money is explicitting more and proliferating moreand more. There are also other narcocountries out there that are making moneys out of this. This is a problem around the world. You say the Mexican Cartel is a direct threat oour national security. Absolutely. As of right now the federation which comprises the seven cartels in the nation possess more soldiers than the number of soldiers in the mexican army. Theyre better trained, theyre better armed and theyre more inspired. Literally, they could be completely, completely just run over. Not only do they have the power but they have infiltrated the government and many people run scared because they are so incredibly violent. It is an issue on so many different levels. I want to go back to islamist extremists who are profiting from these. You dealt with these up close and personal. Very closely with war lords, drug lords all sorts of people. The religion islam condemns the use of these drugs. Is there ever any thought given to hey were trying to finance our holy war by doing something thats clearly unhoyl unholy iny kind of definition. I used that very definitely. There is an element in the koran that allows for the fa fatua. If it is to advance the cause that would greatly and inordinately benefit the organization, in this case worldwide jihad. Mullah omar issued a fatwa stating that opium could be openedly sold where before mere possession of a small quantity mer ited death merited death. Im glad to have you here. The book is the dark art. And its available where books are sold. Alaska, a state that depends on its Natural Beauty we need to make sure that we have clean air some are living off natures bounty were rich cause of all the resources we have. While others say they cant even afford Health Insurance the owners of this restaurant pay an extra 5. 20 an hour to provide Health Insurance communities trying to cope i just keep putting one foot in front of the other what can people hope for come election day . An Al Jazeera America special report amererica votes 2014 5 days in alaska all this week whether you know it or not, or like it or not, drones are playing a growing part in all our lives. And were not just talking about military. There are now more than 1500 types of drones in all sizes and in all price ranges. Thats created a bit of a feeding frenzy for Companies Looking to cash in. But do the many positives outweigh the negatives . Benjamin wallace wells just wrote the cover article, drones anything after, the spying flying killing machines that are superheroes. Thats quite in japan after the tsunami, so sure, yeah, in all kinds of ways they can help. And how big a market is there now, for you know i was just saying that companies are trying to cash in. And the prices range from a few hundred dollars to who knows how much the expensive military drones are. Tens of millions in some cases. The real interest over the last few years is how much prices have come down for the technology and has made it kind of democratically available. Something available to everybody. Its about 1,000 for a dgi phantom which is a machine that can pretty much fly on its own. You can hook up a camera to it as the drone sees. Because of, and this is kind of interesting, because of the smartphone revolution all of the technologies that are needed to power a drone you know good small batteries, tiny computers, gps, theyve all been made much cheaper by your smartphone by that market so thats allowed the cost of drones to come down so individual users hobbyists, people who think about starting a company could buy them in a way they couldnt afew years ago. We were talking about the law hasnt kept up with technology when it comes to social media, the wild west when it comes to drones. You title them flying spying machines, theres concerns about privacy and how small ones could cause plane accidents. Yeah, there was an incident a few weeks ago at l. A. X. Where a drone that was flying out of its permitted air space kind of alarmed the pilot of a jet liner that was trying to land. I think the privacy concerns are the real ones and i think they are real. You know, the easiest thing to do with a drone its incredibly cheap is to stick a camera on it. And as you fly, your airplane through the air, to kind of look over barriers that exist at a human level on the ground. To look over fences into backyards into parks. And you know the regulations that we have for what is allowed to happen, below 500 feet of air space, above which the faa regulates pretty tightly are almost nonexistent. Nobody has tried to fly in this space before. The guy i was telling you about in texas who flies looking for missing people and dead bodies told me once he was on a search in georgia where his drone happened to capture a marijuana grow. Nothing to do with a missing person he was looking for but the police he was working with took it and ended up making a huge bust. You know, theres a lot of ambiguity, many states have not decided whether the police themselves need a warrant to use property. All right. And you mentioned heb hezbollah using drones for surveillance inside israel. That raises the question about terrorism and why use a suicide bomber if you could use a drone to deliver a bomb . So there are some scary sides to this and i really encourage people to read your full article because it has all sorts of fascinating information. Raises a lot of questions. Benjamin wallace wells good to see you. It was a question that would not have asked a National Politician and it had a big way in changing National Politics and the way the press covers politics for good and for ill. 1947, the front runner was gary hart. But a miami press publication raised a scandal, have you ever committed adultery . For more on gary harts rise and fall and whats so prevalent today, im joined in washington, d. C. By math bigh, former dont for New York Times magazine and the author of all the truth is out, the week american politics went tabloid. President s private lives as you pointed out were kept private to a degree that now seems astonishing from fdr to jfks white house mistresses to lbj, the gary hart scandal was the final nail in the coffin of how political politics changed. If not the final nail, tointd, th ,antonio, thank you for having e on, im thrilled to be here. For most of the 20th century personal morality, and behavior did not figure into the political leader, maybe it should. Flash forward to 1987 and you have gary hart, the presumed democratic nominee pinned against a brick wall in the oil stained alley in his home town in washington, surrounded by reporters, who is that woman in your house did you have sex with that woman are you cheating on your wife, can you be a moral leader, and then as you say, culminating in the press conference, where hes asked the astonishing question. The ground of political journalism in america really shifted. The picture of gary hart with donna rice on his lap in a boat in bimini. They actually didnt antonio. Lch everything we remember the almost everything we remember the picture was not taken on a boat it was taken on a crowded dock. Our mind plays a bit of tricks on us but the picture had nothing to do with it. Looking at substantial portions of your book my memory is clearly still focused on the way i looked at it back then. But you described what happened to him as kind of a confluence of factors. One side was a journalistic side, we go back to watergate and the incredible success that bob woodward and Carl Bernstein achieved because of that, bringing down a politician as something that became the holy grail for a journalists career. There are a couple of things that happen. Watergate does make heroes of bob woodward and Carl Bernstein and you have journalists who come into the profession figuring the highest calling is to expose a scandal and bring a politician down. But its a deeply embarrassing episode for the press corps in america. How did they let this guy who turned out to be unstable and dishonest in a way we dont think of american president s in the 1970s, how did they let this guy end up becoming president after they had known him for decades in Public Service . Maybe we werent looking at the right thing, maybe characteristic means more. In that moment after 1987 you see the shifting of the prime directive away from the ill leution human nation of world illumination of world, our job is to expose that hypocrisy and bring it to the voters and it becomes a more toxic atmosphere. We often end up exposing real scandal for irrelevant scandal. It doesnt mean that every scandal doesnt matter. I would argue that john edwards scandal had some relevance. I think thats it was a very important quote because what we have done in our industry is to reduce you to your worse moment in a way we would not want someone to reduce us. I think it needs the cynicism of government. Our readers to the context they would otherwise want. It raises the question what does this mean for people who are running for office . Personally im among those who think you have got to be a bit nuts to raise yourself to that scrutiny. Also about the people who may run despite the fact that they might be scrutinized that way. Absolutely antonio. We cant put a we cant even quantify, there is no way of knowing how many have been run out of politics, how many people will never enter politics because the process is not worth it to someone who doesnt crave that power in a maniacal way. To sail through the process who dont have anything about policy or government and dont have ideas, because nobody talks to the media that way, theres no focus on ideas and jearns, they dont have to agendas, they dont have to. Gary hart said his speech was too contrite. He gave an angry speech, mark my words, i tremble for my country when we may get the leaders we deserve. The speech was roundly mocked at the time, the feeling was he should have been more contrite, he wasnt taking responsibility. But i think 27 years later there would be too Many Americans who think, we could get the leaders we actually deserve. The question is, how important is what youve done in your personal life, how does that translate to your public life . Weve had some very moral leaders who have been terrible president s and probably the reverse. The book brings up all sorts of interesting questions that are worth looking at. I wish we had more time, because we could talk about it for a half hour. The book is all the truth is dementia mostly caused by alzheimers has quickly become the most expensive ailment in the u. S. The cost of dementia in america ranges if 159 billion to 215 billion annually. Making it more expensive than cancer or heart disease. 502050 the number of americans diagnosed with alzheimers is expected to double. The failing to address these huge costs appears that were on a path towards an economic issue as well. Tiffany stanley just wrote a first person account of how she became an alzheimers caregiver when she was just 29. When she became responsible for her aunt. Tiffany is a contribute to the magazine and joins us from washington, d. C. Tiffany, i can only imagine how this past few years have been like. Your dad became ill, primary caregiver for your aunt and all of a sudden you found yourself having to care for both of them especially her and what you realized that she needed full time attention and that medicare was virtually no help. Thats correct. I think like a lot of americans, when i realized she needed more help than we could provide at home i thought well, well just have to find a good facility, and i assumed that it would be subsidized by medicare since she was over 65. But when i met with a social worker she informed me of the sad truth that medicare doesnt cover what we consider custodial care, eating dressing bathing and what Dementia Care patients need most, it doesnt pay for long time in extended care homes. You have to pay for out of pocket at some nursing home or you have to care for them at home which brings with it all sorts of issues. But under any circumstances there are either huge costs in what youre spending for their care or what youre losing and not being able to work and make money. The cost for families are phenomenal. Its huge and i think you know a lot of women especially become caregivers and studies show that if they leave the workforce to care for a Family Member they are giving up at least 300,000 in lifetime earnings. And as a young person i thought welt what does this do for me if i leave the workforce to care for her and moreover how can we make ends meet if i cant provide for her . On the opposite end, Nursing Homes cost 80,000 80,000 a year out of pocket. Its huge. It bankrupts some families but aside from the financial cost the psychological costs are tremendous too. Absolutely. I think like a lot of people i was grieving my father who was ill and later died. So i was grieving him, while i was trying to care for her and i also was grieving the aunt that i loved that i was losing. And i think that thats something psychologically we dont give enough credence to, as people are making difficult decisions, making time consuming strenuous care giving while theyre dealing with strenuous emotional issues. You found there was look of information. There a lack of information. You couldnt go to a stralingsed place that helped you figure centralized place that helped you figure out what to do. You felt adrift. Exactly. I felt i was going from person to person and getting different information and i just wanted a Care Coordinator a social worker nurse, doctor, somebody that could really manage everything that jackie needed and point me in the direction of what resources that were available. They were out there. We often found out about them too late and werent taking advantage of them. Frankly there arent enough resources but the ones that are out there its really hard to figure out what they are. As i mentioned earlier, the costs are absolutely staggering for country as a whole. So what is the government doing . It was originally part of the Affordable Care act, but then it was taken out fairly early in the process. Thats right. There was something in the Affordable Care act called the class act which was supposed to put in place public government backed Long Term Care insurance. But the program was unfortunately cancelled before it ever got started because it wasnt deemed financially feasible. And so that was pulled. Now there was a Long Term Care commission that congress put in place to try to figure out next steps. But they ultimately kind of threw their hands up. They couldnt figure out how to pay for Long Term Care insurance and the products that people need and knowing that both the public supports and the private really fail families. This is going to be a double whammy, not just caring for alzheimers patients but whats lapping with autism, the baby boomers, and the massive amount of people who need alzheimers care, were going to have a human increase in the need for autism care, this is really going to be a very an enormous health Care Challenge moving forward. So do you think theres enough going on on the government front, enough of a comprehensive approach, to looking at the Long Term Care all these people will need . I really think there isnt. I mean i think that theres some good things being done on alzheimers. We have a National Campaign to address alzheimers that was released in 2012. But experts say that doesnt go enough and we need to do more. And for the baby boomers who are aging, Long Term Care supports at home, we really dont have appropriate systems at home. Medicare and even medicaid which is designed to provide support for the oldest americans are not adequate and what people realize is you need to spend down your assets to qualify for medicaid. Medicaid doesnt prevent financial catastrophe, it really happens. Its a tremendous problem thats affecting not just people who have alzheimers but their families. That number is going to grow. The article again is available in the national journal. Its available online, its called jackies goodbye, what i learned about our National Health care debacle when i became responsible for my aunt. Thank you for joining us. Edge of eighteen, your entire life has brought you up to this point, right now american teens, making a difference we wanna fight for our education choosing a path. If im not sharing the gospel, then i feel empty inside because thats the gift that god has given me deciding their own future. Im petty burnt out. 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Even sooner, cars will be able to talk to each other to help save you from all sorts of dangers on the road. And here to give us a preview is techknow host phil torres. Phil, good to see you. This is fascinating stuff. Lets start to the new vehicle to vehicle technology. Cars actually communicating to each other. What are they going to be saying . Its Pretty Amazing stuff. The way its going to work is think of your car having a wifi router built inside of it. They will be saying things like hey theres a car braking in front of you, you better slow down. So it should be really useful stuff. And it could actually tell you if a car is about to run a red light or a stop sign because it can actually communicate around corners and give you a warning of something you might not see. Absolutely. You know theres a lot of distracted drivers out there and sometimes you just actually cant see because its around the corner so the technology is there. And should be really useful of. The u. S. Department of transportation figures the technology can prevent 80 of accidents that dont involve impaired drivers. Thats a huge amount of lives saved. This isnt just going to be available on new cars, you can add it to your older cars. How soon can we have this . Every new car by the year 2017. Its really coming up. One of the interesting things just as your iphone needs to be able to communicate with a Samsung Galaxy phone, a ford needs to be able to communicate with a mercedes benz. What kind of warning do you get . If that car does brake in front of you, youre going to hear a sound, see a display telling to you slow down. Its not going to be that expensive. Those after market things are around 200. Thats what i love about it, complex enough to work, but simple enough you can put in your car from 1986 and have a advanced safety buffer. It can warn you about pedestrians, really amazing stuff. Going beyond the cars talking to each other, the show is also going to focus on droiferless driver Driverless Cars. Radar sonar, cameras, not looking like the early google cars with that thing on top right . They look pretty good and actually work really well and the beauty of this v to v system is its sending the foundation for this driverless car, it built the communication system. There will be a lot more information from that radar and that sonar but at least have the medium to talk to another one. What i loved when i was read going this you go to the mall actually gather the car and send the car off to park itself, it will park itself and when you are coming out of mall you ask call for it and it will come right back. Pretty simple. Things that will make it a lot better. You could sit in traffic, read a book. With all of this it ising good to prevent less traffic. Less traffic jams, everybody is a lot happier. Four states and washington, d. C. Have laws that allow Driverless Cars already. Many have pending legislation. How soon before we actually see them available to consumers . You know we think it will be pretty soon. Nissan says by 2020 theyll have a completely driverless car and tesla thinks the next three years theyll have a car thats 90 driverless so you can almost sit back completely and row lax but not quite. One more thing you guys address is Hydrogen Fuel cells almost kind of Science Fiction theyve been talked about for years as the future of cars. How soon are we going to could we see that . And is it something that you know will be better than electric cars . You know this Hydrogen Fuel technology has actually been around for 20 years. Theyve been working on it and finally next year toyota has a car thats coming out using this technology. Its finally cheap enough, hydrogens actually available enough and there is actually quite a difference between Hydrogen Fuel cells and electric cars. They dont quite have the same zip that Something Like a thats la has but they do get longer range. They can go 300 miles on a fillup and its zero emissions. The stuff that comes out is pure h 20 and you could actually almost drink it. What about the issue of danger, you think of hydrogen and flammability. Absolutely, hydrogen gas is very flammable but people at toyota do lot of testing on it including gun fire testing. They actually shot at these tanks to see how well they did, they did very well, the only way to pierce it was by using armor piercing bullets and shoot it in the same place twice. Its pretty safe. Phil torres, thank you for being with us. The conversation continues on aljazeera. Com slj consider audiences are intelligent and they know that their needs are not being met by american tv news today. Entire media culture is driven by something thats very very fast. There has been a lack of fact based, in depth, serious journalism, and we fill that void. 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