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Im jamie colby. And today, im in tulsa, oklahoma. Im here to meet the son of a remarkably successful businessman and epic hoarder. File this under 80 years of grit and true metal and 40 acres of scrap metal. My name is john hemphill. In february 2016, my father passed away. He left me a Thriving Company thats a testament to his business acumen. He also left me a 3 millionpound headache that says a lot about my dad, too. I meet john in the lobby of Hemphill Corporation. And this was your dad. Yeah, this is dad. He started the business back in the 50s. And im running it now. Come on. Ill show you. As john drives me around the company, i come to understand the jekyll and hyde nature of his strange inheritance. These look like cell towers. Yeah, these are guide towers for wireless communication. And thats our Main Business now. But his dad built that business while indulging his industrialstrength urge for collecting. Big stuff iron, scrap metal, machinery. Things you cant squirrel away in
chinese facility started the pan pandemic. the f.b.i. has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. the f.b.i. has agents, professionals, analysts, etc. , who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats. so here you are talking about a potential leak from a chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of americans. that s precisely what that capability was designed for. bill: wow. the mounting evidence sparking a push for accountability. special house committee on china held its first hearing last night. lawmakers both sides republicans and democrats calling for action not only on covid but also on china s threats against taiwan and the role in the deadly fentanyl trade today. dana: glenn youngkin is on deck with us in studio. let s go to the white house where lucas tomlinson is standing by. the f.b.i. director providing the first public confirmation of the borough s class
let s get down to business. an australian firm recharge industries has come to the rescue and bought the battery maker britishvolt out of administration. the deal is expected to be announced shortly. britishvolt had plans to build a £4 billion gigafactory near the port of blyth in northumberland, but it ran out of money and collapsed last month. its downfall was blamed on a lack of battery experience, unproven technology, and therefore no customers oi’ revenue. the new owner is another start up. recharge industries is owned and run by a new york based investment fund called scale facilitation. its australian chief executive, david collard, told our business editor simonjack why his company was different. what we re bringing, which is different to the prior britishvolt, is we re bringing validated technology. so that process has already started. us defence has also validated the technology, it s actually already supplied to the uk navy through a subcontractor over here.
i m aishah hosni. the new report claims despite u.s. efforts to block it, that chinese spy craft was able to collect sensitive electronic signals from weapons, equipment and communication channels as it floated above all those military installations sending them right back to china in realtime. this was the worst case scenario. now we know it happened. fox not able to confirm this nbc report. u.s. officials are already pushing back on this telling us the information it got was of limited value. that craft first entered u.s. airspace over alaska back in january 28th. it was shot down february 4th off the south carolina coast. mike emanuel with more on this late braking news. the new report from nbc says the chinese spy balloon gathered intelligence from several sensitive american military sites despite the biden efforts from keeping it from doing so. it came from a senior administration official. china was able to control the balloon to make multiple passes over key sites de