of the de-industrialized america. how are we doing with the big three automakers. are they hiring. ford just made an announcement they will hire another 7,000 people over the next couple of years but that s miniscule to what will happen in the supply industry. as they continue to build inventory and to build for 14 million units, there s going be a lot of employment opportunities in the supply base. is that going to reach the inner-city people in detroit itself or is that a suburban opportunity. absolutely. a positive impact in detroit. how about the other two, gm and chrysler? how are they doing? gm is doing very well. chrysler is still iffy but coming along. there s a lot of positive movement in the you a notive industry. 20 years from now will it be the motor city? it will be because the technology that s centered around the city of detroit, with the r and d, universities,
electric vehicles are debuting and for the first time, cars like the chevy volt and nissan are not only on display, they re for sale. the more electric vehicles that are out there, the better off it is for the supply base for our building the innovative technologies of batteries, power controls and electronics over the course of the last three years here at l.a. auto show you are seeing revolution in the hybrid electric and fuel cell type of cars. everybody has their own version, it began with the smaller more affordable cars to now higher ends like porsche with the race car and this s.u.v., now full production two week ago porsche says it s just the beginning. also mixings environmentalism and luxury, ford everything the fiesta with ecoboost and sedan. people don t want to give up lucks he rebut still want to do what they can for the environment. made it very natural progression to take our technology from our mass production models like the fusion and put it in to the
calmer than yesterday. we weren t seeing the violent protests since the government was already overthrown. it was mostly political rallies. people a little bit celebrating yesterday but also a lot of people in mourning, upwards of probably 75 people were killed yesterday. so this wasn t celebratory, and also people were already making demands on the new interim government to sort of stick to the democratic ideals that they ve been talking about, because the president they just overthrew was also brought to power by a national uprising, and he turned out to disappoint them. now, the debate you mentioned, which is high on everyone s agenda, is the air base just outside the capital in bishkek. it s a vital supply base for the u.s. and afghanistan and the opposition leaders who are now in charge have said in the bast they would want to see the base closed. i spoke today to rosa, the head of the new interim government. she told me that as of now they re not looking to change the status of t
we ll capitalize on what matthew was talking about. what we want to do is talk about scirge st kyrgyzstan, three-quarters of the people are muslims. all the muslim nation friends we get in the united states. that in and of itself, this government does not want instability in kyrgyzstan. let s zoom in. i want you to see the base matthew was talking about. the base was created after 9/11. two months after 9/11 happened, the united states went to this manas it was once an airport set up by the soviet union once upon a time and the u.s. turned this into an air base for u.s. troops. and they still don t call it an air base, because they don t want the politics. the official name is not that, but everyone refers to it as manas air base. 50,000 troops went there alone. on the way to afghanistan, they use it as a supply base. it s a major supply base right in that region for afghanistan. fuel and supplies are brought in. let s zoom back out and i ll show you how close it is to
decided we ll focus on the ford brand fortunate brand. we ll have a full line-up of vehicles. so we went to the banks at that time, three years ago, and we took out a little home improvement loan to be able to finance not only our restructuring of the company but to accelerate development of all these new vehicles. what you re seeing today is the result of all that work over the last three years. when you have watched the rest of the car industry unfold, on capitol hill, and all that testimony. and all that bailout money. yes. what have you been thinking personally as the man who is not there? gretchen, it s a really neat question because you can imagine how surreal that was for us to decide to go testify on behalf of our competitors. they were clearly, you know, in bankruptcy, our concern as well as the administration s was that if they went into bankruptcy, they went into free fall, they could have taken the entire supply base of the united states into bankruptcy. maybe even