my apologies. >> what about telemattics in the coda? >> the coda have a telemattics system. at launch, we have a standard -- industry standard nav screen. later this year we will be introducing more and more telemattics with car applications. >> dayton, ohio, go ahead, kathleen. >> caller: hey, mr. murtaugh, you know, most of us i think applaud coda's efforts to get off of, you know, depending on oil from other companies. but one thing i want to ask c-span to do a history of unions in our country, it would be like a week's series. i'm hanging out with these gm union guys in a nursing home with my dad, so we're talking a lot about the history of unions in our country. but i want to ask mr. murtaugh, how do you really measure the real coast of say -- real cost of a car overseas or here locally versus, you know, electric, because you've got to plug into the grid as earlier callers have brought up with coal-burning fire plants. here i'm ohio, versus importing oil. how do you figure out the real cost? and then you say technology for electric cars has been around for 100 years, so

we have a coda on display there. we have cars available for test drive there, so los angeles residents can come and see a coda any time. which will expand across the u.s. throughout 2012. we actually start delivering products to consumers in late february. >> are you working with a dealership system? >> we have a somewhat hybrid distribution system. we will have our own coda experience centers that i just talked about in major cities. but we will support that with dealers in those cities who we will funnel sales through. the dealers will deliver vehicles to consumers and the dealers will provide service to the consumers. >> codaautomotive.com is the website. we have a few minutes left with the guest. chesapeake, virginia, go ahead, samuel. >> caller: oh, [ inaudible ]. >> samuel, very quickly, could you repeat that? >> i've got that. the charging time. the charmigechargeing time, we fastest. it would give -- with a completely depleted battery, a six-hour charge would get you 150 mile range. we can deliver 100-mile ra

joining us is the ceo of coda automotive, phil murtaugh. what is coda automotive?st: good morning, peter. nice to be on your show this morning. it is a los angeles-based clean energy technology company. our technology is centered around lithium ion battery systems and battery management systems. we use our technology to develop in california 3 different product lines. first is the sedan that uc. our second product is the vehicle will propose a system, electric. our third product is energy storage systems using lithium bbattery. >host: how old is your company? guest: about three years old. originally it was miles electric vehicles, which manufactured low-speed, off-highway vehicles. and about three years ago they decided to get into the and highway speed vehicles. we began developing the first electric vehicle at that point in time. all our products are pure electric vehicles. we don't burn any petroleum- based products. host: we are looking at the automobile that you have on display at the auto show. what made you decide to get into the electric car business? is it

coda. >> i always call her coda. >> because her last name is kotb. >> that's how it should.hell is she? >> she's at jury duty. she was a bad girl and didn't open her mail and threw it out figuring someone was trying to sell her something. >> they're going to nail her. >> you want to come back to work? because the seat might be available. if they keep her to make an example of her for a long time -- we have to get to the book. you dedicate it to jack paar, tell us why. >> i didn't know, because all my life people have asked on my way up, like, these tough old critics, what's your talent? and, you know, steve allen was suing the tonight show and steve could play the piano and say anything. >> wrote songs. >> wrote song, wrote books. brilliant guy and very funny. i was an nbc page. >> i know. >> the second balcony holding people out until steve and louie nye and tom and bill dale were all there. steve lawrence and eydie gorme were the singers. it was a great team. >> you were in awe. >> very much in awe and wondering what my talent was. they were so brilliant, so wonderful on s

and which chevron subsequently sequestered from the automotive market, forcing companies like coda and tesla to use either foreign batteries or in the case of tesla, thousands of penlight batteries for their technology. how -- how is this technology going to become not in no longer sequestered and bring down the price of the electric car? >> well, we have a partner in lg i think you're speaking of, and then we've got other partners that are new venture that we've invested in as the business i mentioned with john loughner. we've got sort of a broad portfolio of battery technology usage in gm. and i would also like to add that the rest of the industry uses lg, lg kim battery cells, a-123. there is a whole host of people that are in it. so we're getting scale. i'm not sure there is only one. but what we did when we put together the ip around the volt battery, for instance, in general motors was, you know, we really rely on lg to do the high volume sell production. there is about 260 plus individual microthin cells in a volt battery that create a t-shaped battery that sets the formation of

then coda auto ceo phil murtaugh. then david zuchowski. >>> every weekend, american history tv. 48 hours of people and events telling the american story. get our schedules and see past programs at our web sites. join in the conversations on the social media sites. >>> susan cischke, who is a group vice president for ford motor company. miss cischke, thanks for being with us here on "the washington journal." how would you describe the fiscal health of ford right now? >> we will have the earnings out tomorrow. in general, i think we are doing quite well. we are very proud of the accomplishments we had and we have gotten an exciting line up showing many of the new cars here today at the washington d.c. auto show. >> which car are you highlighting the most out there? >> we are talking about our whole fuel efficient line up. one of the key messages we have is to show people they really have the power of choice at ford. they can choose a lot of different vehicles with different power trains and be able to give fuel economy

late in 39, a violent coda to a hunting and valuable story of heartbreak and loss, conflict and controversy known as the trail of tears. the most tragic interracial event in american history. the trail of tears had sometimes been called an american holocaust or genocide. it was neither. no one want to norplant cherokees to die. it dramatize sacred lands in the southeast and failure of democracy and justice for its entire people. ironically the most successful civilized tribes. few stories from the american past reveals a devastating turns the consequences of racial oppression. the cherokees were hardly the only ones who experienced forced removal. dozens of other tribes are similarly suffering. because of the cherokee's unique accomplishments as a well-educated people. they had a written language, the first indian language newspaper. we came to view their a wish as emblematic of all indian people who faced -- few tribes had so fully accepted the promise of democracy, the 1820 constitution left to the u.s. constitution. the principal tragedy of the trail of tears lies in the heart wrenching

electric cars, in a sea of sexy new models the one with the biggest crowd may have been the plainest, the coda, assembled in the bay area, 100% electric. >> since 10:00 this morning it does seem like that. i want all electric -- i don't want to have to go to a gas station anymore, want to change the environment, the world. very favorable to all electric. >> reporter: another theme, safety. using technology to protect you from ford's inflatable seatbelts to bmw's instant screen notification system. >> when you're in a collision if you're incapacitated it will alert police or fire and turn on your hazard lights and provide the assistance necessary. >> reporter: all part of an industry that's hot these days with sales rising -- >> we're considering buying. there are a couple of cars like today the e 350 mercedes and the fiat, they both get the same mileage. >> reporter: music to the ears of car companies all over the world. >> i don't want to say we've turned the corner, the wind is at our back, but we're cautiously optimistic that things will improve. >> making your next car more social. >> amon

codas is short for combined dna index system. and local crime labs. and codis got a hit. >> everybody was happy. >> reporter: the match was in new hampshire of all places. a man in prison for armed robbery back in early 2003. but nobody got around to entering his dna into c orngsodis until late 2006. >> they got a hit the first time. >> reporter: so trooper hunyor flew to new hampshire to meet the man behind the match. his name was kenneth dion. hunyor had never heard of him. their q&a session was taped. >> when did you get into alaska? >> in the '90 some time. >> i started talking to him about his life, where he grew up, where he went to school. how he got up into alaska. >> reporter: so you didn't jump right in and say, we know you killed this girl. >> no, just try to get some rapport with him. basically smoked and joked for a while. you get to travel the state quite a bit? >> a little bit. i went up to denali a couple of times with friends from the military. i made it up there sometimes. >> found out he's fifth degree black be

he kept calling you coda. you know the only answer he got right in the whole thing? gathered from him. i said everybody would understand that, regioe. so i think i talked him into hosting. >> what did frank think about the game, by the way? >> he's still talking about how much trudy styler wants him. lelts me get back to that here's the thing, i love trudy styler. she's a doll, she was in her adorable little yoga clothes and she did get a short shrift because we got lost in the building. the last my husband was seen was over by the kitchen talking to trudy styler. and -- >> sting's wife, by the way. sting. >> so i took my mom downstairs to have a little piece of her birthday cake and -- tick tock, where's frank? not for 15 more minutes. finally i'm walking down the steps to go home and there's trudy with all her girlfriends and she goes -- oh my god, your husband is so gorgeous! i can't believe he told me how old he is, my god, he's gorgeous. i said, isn't it enough that you have sting? back off, do you need my husband, too? so anyway, frank was enamored by ms. style

i'm a 10-year army wife and the director of the coda support foundation.iate this in depth foundation, general chiarelli and i have spoke in depth about some of these issues. i think one of my concerns is when you have a title of report dealing with military suicides and no one's mentioned the suicides we're seeing among the family members. i know that there are tracking challenges to this and general chiarelli and i have talked about them but if you're going to really start trying to track the veteran population and if you look at the collaborative efforts that you mentioned with the dod, va and health and human services -- unless we can get some numbers behind this, i can stand up to these conferences and i always say the same thing. i've lost three army wife friends to suicide and anecdotally if we don't have the numbers it's difficult to develop any kind of traction behind it. based on some of the recommendations that you made, i would say that the federal exemption of the state licensing is a huge one. it's been a big problem for us within a community