today. how would you like to travel from san francisco to l.a. in half an hour? that's the vision of elan musk, the technical genius who invented the tesla car, the guy behind paypal. he's calling his proposed system, the hyper loop. we give a gigantic and warm "new day" welcome to richard. >> yeah. >> let's talk about this. what exactly is his vision? what is the hyper loop? >> the hyper loop is a tube that will be built on pillars for the 400 miles from los angeles to san francisco. in it he will put capsules which will seat up to 28 people and then fire, whoosh, down the tube, up to 700 miles an hour. now the idea is that it will be solar powered. >> okay. >> it will have compressors to deal with the friction. it will have all sorts of things. you'll do the journey