our craig fiegener has been digging into this since late summer and he has the latest on >> reporter: the planned home for faraday future's estimated billion dollar factory was a busy construction site until early november in north las vegas and confidence in the project was high. that after lawmakers toured their southern california headquarters. >> functional. sleek. beautiful. quiet. a lot of amenities that we don't have this cars right now. they have almost a thousand people working there developing the prototypes for those models that will be mass produced. >> reporter: governor sandoval and north l lee saw faraday's concepts in september. eight months earlier, remember, faraday was all the buzz at the consumer electronics show. they had debuted their model race car. but how exactly will they reinvent transportation's future as they have claimed? they aren't building any electric vehicles here. at least not yet. they are building the future home of what we're told will be faraday future in north las vegas. it's an ambitious project but uncertainty grew as construction was halted

our craig fiegener has been digging into this since late summer and he has the latest on