Coming to a street near you, the future of cars may be electric, but is the Technology Mainstream enough to become mass market yet . In the Programme Today we take a look at some of the issues surrounding the switch to electric vehicles, are they still too expensive to buy, and how practical are they for very long journeys . A few hours ago, ford unveiled its brand new electric car, called the mustang mach e. Ford hope theyre on to a winner, the mustang is the worlds best selling sports coupe, and the new car is the first vehicle in fords range to be built as an electric vehicle from the ground up. Its also fords response to teslas model y. Electric mobility is expanding. In 2018, the Global Electric car fleet exceeded 5. 1 million, up 2 million from the previous year. China remains the Worlds Largest electric car market, followed by europe and the united states. But this contrasts massively with sales of the internal combustion engine, recent research for the first half of this year o
Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with the Third Straight day of public hearings this week in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Today house investigators will question david holmes, a state Department Official, and fiona hill, a former Top National Security Council Expert on russia. Their appearance follows yesterdays blockbuster testimony by gordon sondland. The ambassador to the eu implicated President Trump in a quid pro quo scheme to pressure ukraine to investigate the bidens. Skyler henry is on capitol hill. The thing about the testimony is that President Trump was not the only one implicated during yesterdays hearing. Reporter yeah, good morning to you. Several members of the trump administration, to use ambassador sondlands word, were in the loop on this. That includes Vice President mike pence, secretary of state mike pompeo, and acting chief of staff mick mulvaney. All of
Mike, a look at that early commute. We do have a backup. You know its coming anyway. We didnt know this was happening until it just got called by chp. Closed right now. This does not affect the hesperian off ramp. It runs a pretty good distance through the area. Your alternate is washington and right at grant. If you know the area, you know what im talking about. Through the area those maintain a smooth drive. The off ramp is partially blocked. Thats it for the major freeway activity. Back to you. Thousands of people are without power in Sonoma County waking up with the lights off after whats been a very chilly night as well. Roz, i understand you just got an update from pg e. Reporter i did just get off the phone with pg e and i have numbers what they were able to do in napa and Sonoma County. They restored power to 5,000 customers overnight and did that by switching those customers to a transmission power source that was not affected by the shutdown. That, though, does still leave th
Overnight temperatures between three and six celsius, and with any lengthy spells we could have a touch scotland. Of frost but most will be frost free. On friday, rain pushing north Prince Andrew in windsor this but the main focus of the rain will morning amid growing calls for him come later in the day and to talk to american investigators. Coming up on afternoon particularly across wales and live, all the sport. Katie shanahan. South west england with the rain turning heavy here. The wind will be hello, good afternoon. Its a stronger but feeling less chilly, and then through friday night the rain continues to pour down, particularly across cornwall. We could see some issues building in as we head into the first part of saturday morning. It is a weekend of two halves. Saturday we have rain at times, it will be turning milder. On sunday there will still be some showers around, more general rain later in the day arrives across the south west. The forecast on saturday sees rain gradually
Battle for a tiny piece of Literary History as a work by 14 year old Charlotte Bronte goes up for auction in paris. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9 00. Police are surrounding a Hong Kong University campus after a violent overnight stand off with hundreds of protesters inside. Dozens of protesters tried to leave after sunrise but turned back as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets. At least a0 people have been arrested and police have been clashing with other protestors in the surrounding streets. Several hundred people are thought to remain inside the university. Lets go live to hong kong. Robin brant is there for us. What is the latest . The latest is, we now know Police Arrested 154 protesters. Most of them on the periphery of this University Campus, about a third of those were women, about a third of those were women, about two thirds were men. The youngest was 13, we are told. When we left this campus late last night we left this campus late last night we research