offering. new documents show the situation at solyndra was worse than the government told us. solyndra made too many panels, hired people when it did not need to and laid off far more workers than first announced. more on that tonight from abc 7 s political reporters mark matthews. reporter: solyndra reported 1,100 workers laid off. the day they threw us out the door, they cut off our benefits and gave us nothing. workers at the time said they he suspected the company had been hiding the fact that the pams weren t selling. production continued even as the panels were stacking up inside the factory. the managers never did talk about or anything else when the ceo and cfo were called before congress to explain what happened to the $535 million government loan they both refused to answer. i have been advised by counsel. reporter: republican members of congress cried cover up. you new thes yolks you knew titanic was sinking. the company was hiding the actual number of la
you know, he s a trooper. they re troopers, they come out. he s going to be playing for us a little bit later on in the show. he s rehearsing right now, doing a little bit of a sound check for us. final concert of our all american concert series. remember early in the summer, the sun would be up at this hour and people would be on the plaza. it s dark and you know summer is finally winding down. we re going to end it with style. famous dave s is here, barbecue and joshua. i like the darkness. i think it s kind of ominous. and a chill. if you re in the neighborhood, come down and see us. 48th and sixth avenue here in manhattan. there is, as clayton mentioned, free barbecue all morning and this guy has a great voice. hasn t been playing that long. really got into music in the last couple of years. usually we talk to folks who started when they were 33, 4, 5. you know that show scrubs and zach braff, we ll tell you what he has to do to help his career skyrocket.