The automaker claims it has made a breakthrough on one of the holy grails of electric vehicles: solid-state lithium ion batteries, which would mean a battery that can power a vehicle for 745 miles on a single charge, recharge in 10 minutes and is far less prone to overheating and fire. In other words, all the current hang-ups about EVs range, refueling time, safety disappear
look director joseph clancy will be on the hill to discuss the budget. this is the second time this week had will be facing lawmakers to auk about the budget but all they want to talk about, of course the latest incident at the white house on march 4th when two top agents allegedly came from the party where they will been drinking and drove through an active bomb investigation outside the white house. those two agents have been moved to different positions. lawmakers are investigating and i can tell you there s fresh outrage today. congressman jason chaffetz telling me he is concerned about these surveillance video of that incident. he and other lawmakers were able to watch two videos which essentially showed the car driving up and then nudging an orange barrier that was at the scene, but lawmakers tells me those two tapes don t show the agents getting into and out of their car. so when they asked director clancy if there was more surveillance video they could view the response they go
the white house. this of course coming from the agency that the director has vowed to clean up. now there are still many facts that we still don t know about. everything that happened last wednesday evening. but we now do know this in addition to these two agents allegedly driving under the influence, we also know that they also drove under police tape disrupting an active investigation of a suspicious package that was also happening near white house grounds at the same time. but many sources pushing back about this notion that they barrelled through a barricade, some sources now saying that they deliberately nudged an orange barrier, just moving it aside a few feet. they said that they were going slow literally one mile an hour. but sources are saying that congress wants answers here. the question is why no sobriety test was given. why the agents were allowed to go by the supervisor. and one top republican in congress saying that he believes
here s what s happening. gadhafi s son speaks out from his hiding place, revealing new information about cease-fire talks. could his father be ready to surrender? that exclusive report is just seconds away. tropical storm lee is picking up speed and putting parts of the gulf coast under water. cnn reporters are positioned in towns right in the storm s path. we ll take you there live. then we ll head to an area still reeling from hurricane irene. president obama pays a visit to new jersey, a live report is just ahead. but first, to libya, exclusive developments right here on cnn. moammar gadhafi and his influential sons appear to be running out of options, that s according to cnn s senior international correspondent nic robertson. that s nic with moammar gadhafi s son earlier this year in tripoli. that was before the capital city fell to rebel forces. nic has spoke within the younger gadhafi in the past few hours, mostly about the dwindling chances for a cease-fire. and