like continental the other market leaders bridgestone and michelin also don't want to give us an interview we try our luck and how near frankfurt where the world's 3rd biggest tire manufacturers based goodyear but we have no success here goodyear's simply responds with a written statement goodyear doesn't buy natural rubber from cambodia we source less than 5 percent of our global requirements for natural rubber from thailand. it goes on we are committed to the responsible sourcing a raw materials including natural rubber. the statement continues. we offer retread tires for commercial vehicles and aircraft for reducing the use of natural rubber. but why does goodyear retread the tires of commercial vehicles and planes and not the tires of private cars which make up the vast majority of vehicles we visit germany's only big retread are for automobiles hyphenating us here worn down treads or tires are peeled off and replaced with new ones. i was taught say. if we look at this tire here we can see only its surface is worn so essentially the product is disposed of when only about 20 percent of

decided to confront the big name tire manufacturers based in taiwan but japanese multinational bridgestone the world's biggest tire producer declines our request for an interview. none of the manufacturers are willing to reveal their suppliers we try the german firm continental which has recently opened a new production plant close to the city of rye on. we contacted them several times before our arrival asking for an interview but most requests went unanswered just like this one. continental which is based in hanover is the world's 4th biggest tire producer and so it has a particular responsibility when it comes to determining working conditions in the sector. we hear that the living conditions of people on rubber plantations in neighboring cambodia are even worse than in thailand so we decided to head there. from the capital phnom penh and we travel north. like in thailand there are rubber plantations as far as the eye can see. with the help of our interpreter we try to arrange a visit to a rubber processing plant. we made several requests for permission to film and while we don't get th

you could see, if i was a forensic, is it goodyear, is it bridgestone? you could see the tread on this creature. [laughter] and i, what do i do but thank him. but then i get back to my hotel and i'm thinking, wait a minute, how -- i've got it with me now. what do i -- how did this even come about? he was in his house, did he hear the screech of brakes and grab his palette and his easel and run down to the roos and set up -- to the road and set up and this poor little beaver whatever it was and just say i know who would love this and bring it to me? lash -- me? [laughter] that's, that was one of the most touching things -- [laughter] i've ever had happen. i'm almost out of time, so i'm not going to extend my time any because i know there's someone else -- i want to thank you, thank you all for coming, putting up with these sill lu stories -- [applause] and i think, i think it's fair to say that you all are as sick as i am if you're laughing at this stuff. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] >> and tonight on booktv in prime time, american enterprise inst

and that's why you're all backed up across the don martin bridgestone also impacted west 84, which is jam from the toll plaza all the way into menlo park so it's not looking good at 44 minutes to the peninsula. all of that is residual slowing. >>we in terry terry. we have never seen before at his that been a tony partridge and that's of community transmission. but at the same time which can also be contained with that right measures. >>coronavirus cases spiked in the as the virus continues to spread their now more than a 100 cases across the country and officials are warning that's going to rise. yeah fact a total of 6 people have died in washington state 4 of them. >>who died lived at the life care center a nursing facility or its near seattle. then there are 4 other cases of coronavirus in washington state which also appear to have links as well to that facility here in the bay area, 3 new cases are confirmed including one where it's unclear where that patient got infected cover sarah stinson actually following that story for us now live in san mateo sarah. >>here at the health depa