daimler presented a record failed result for the first eight months of the year. shares dropped 6.5%, almost as much a heavy lost as at deutsche bank. >> let's look at the numbers starting with the blue chips -- germany's benchmark index closing down. the euro at $1.4091 -- at $1.40. wall street is closed for the public labour day holiday. >> in libya comparable forces are preparing for an attack on the gaddafi stronghold of bani walid. talks broke down on monday and rebels say gadhafi himself may have fled there after the fall of tripoli. >> a battle the chant at a possible assault on bani walid. rebels moved to within 15 kilometers of the town and say they are ready to attack. moammar gadhafi and members of his family were thought to have been there as recently as last week. >> the situation is very calm. we are waiting for the decision from the council to enter, god willing. >> the national transitional council has hesitated to attack because it is the heartland of the influential tribe which is deeply divided over whether to back the rebels or khaddafi. elsewh

exhibits, as of yesterday there was one of the things that was in here we brought in a concept car from daimler in there now. and just the idea of we have had to remove the windows and had a crane and working with the city on things like that and it is a big deal and if we didn't get the cooperation it would be much more difficult to do but we have had great cooperation from the city. >> [inaudible]. >> we talked to the mayor about moving the zones. >> my view is that creation of really high paying jobs all around san francisco would be a good idea. and while i understand why it started it one part of the city, i think creative jobs should been couraged all over the city -- should be encouraged all over the city. carl is many, among many others who are engaging with us to approach how to change the taxes. we are going to be spearheading that and talking about more options to deal with taxes. that will be probably connected very well to a discussion about headquarters and things of that nature. >> exactly. we have a number of new companies that want to engage us in that discussion and make sure

today tesla sells to daimler and toyota. he is the primary investor and nonexecutive chairman of solar city. our guest speaker has been compared to howard hughes henry ford in even the fictional tony stark, iron man. he has been described as the inspiration for robert downey, jr.'s interpretation of the character and he had a cameo in ironman two, appropriately enough the spacex pedigree was used in the film. he is not without critics and skeptics however including some who doubt the spacex's economy of scale can sustain the low-cost business model but he insisted he is proving them wrong today. so the founder of paypal, the worlds largest internet came it sees them ceo and product architect of tesla motors manufacturer they all electric tesla roadster automobile and model s sedan and nonexecutive chairman of solar city the leading provider of solar power systems in the u.s. and here today we are grateful for that to talk about the future of human spaceflight as head of spacex developer of rockets and vehicles provisions to

board and eventual decline where he led the design of the tesla roadsters and they sell systems to daimler. he's the nonexecutive chairman of solar city. our guest speaker has been compared to henry ford, howard hughes and even the fictional tony stark, iron man. he has been described as the inspiration for robert downey junior's interpretation of the character and he had an cameo in ironman 2 appropriately enough the spacex factory was shown in the film and we hope he got some money. he's without critics and skeptics for those who thing spacex can sustain the low cost business model but he insists he is proving them wrong today. the founder of paypal, the world's largest internet payment system, ceo and product architect at tesla motors, manufacturer of the all electric tesla roadster automobile and sedan and executive center of solar city of solar powered systems in the u.s. and here today and we're grateful for that to talk about the future of human space flight as head of spacex, developer of rockets and vehicles for missions to earth orbit and beyond. our guest views space exploration