as jacob ward reports, some electric cars are beating their gas-powered counterparts. >> it's all theuscle and excitement of auto racing except for one thing: >> here are the lines. >> at the green light, all you hear is tires. the 2016 formula e race in long beach california is the world's premier electric vehicle competition. >> trying to jockey into position. >> winning this race can be the ticket into formula one, the big time. so formula e attracts real drivers. the difficultie is teaching them to be fast but efficient, a new way to drive? >> it's very hard, someone whose natural action is power, go for it but leaving corners . >> i am used to the v-8, v-10 back in the day so i am used to the sound. i miss the sound. i also listen to the engine at which point to pick up. i can't do that anymore. so i really need to look at the steering wheel. >> they are practicing to switch out tires but here is a measure of how primitive it is. at this point, the battery won't last as long as the tires do. if all goes well, they won't ever have to do this during a race. the battery lasts about

jacob ward, al jazeera, long beach, california. >> historic front on the basketball court. university of connecticut is once again champions of women's college basketball. >> the national championship goes to connecticut for the fourth year in a row! >> an undefeated season by easily beating syracuse 82-51, and only players in college basketball, men or women, to win four titles in a row. >> they've left an imprint on this game that will last a really long time. and i think it's a blueprint for kids coming in after them that if you want to know how to do it, they showed everybody how to do it. and they did it the right way. >> their unbeaten season is uconn's sixth in program history. they extended their winning streak to 75 straight games and the coach, who you just saw there, moved past the most won college championships of all time. we have more to come. >> hello, i'm barbara sierra. this is the news hour live from london. thank you for joining us. coming up in the next 60 minutes. continuing to risk it all. the refugees determined to go to greece even though many will b

jakjacob our science and technology editor jacob ward has more on that. >> moon express and astrobioticspetitors in a very small market. a market that doaj doesn't evenw it needs the moon. >> do you believe a hunk of the moon you could hold in your hands could be worth $1 billion? >> both companies are building unmanned space crafts that can take car go to the moon. >> they can mount above the deck and below the deck. things like rovers, experiments, science experiments even education programs. once we land ton surface of the on the surface of the moon. >> moon express's spacecraft is spaller about the size of a coffee table and holds about 80 pounds. >> the design of our vehicle our little spacecraft, here it is right here, it's, notice it's like a little flying saucer. it's a payload deck. the energy over spacecraft is like a little hot are rod in space. it can get all the way to the moons of mars. >> to build infrastructure on the moon commercial space stations, mines of precia precious metal, sending spacecraft even deeper into space. the moon is the stepping-stone to deen deeper spa

jacob ward, al jazeera, long beach california, california . >> i am antonio mora thanks for joining us. ray suarez up next with inside story. have a great night. >> the islamic state is spreading to affiliates in libya and nigeria and ter cells in europe. the islamic state is shrinking, the territory that it controls in western iraq and syria, under constant pressure, it's top leaders killed in drone strikes, it's money drying up. which is it? is isil losing on the battlefield and winning on the internet and as bombs explode in europe and africa and the middle east, losing and lethal, that's the "inside story". welcome to "inside story," i'm ray suarez. while the republican presidential field was still big and filled entire debate stages, one thing that all of candidates agreed on, some more urgently than others, the united states wasn't doing enough, hardly anything to combat the growing threat of the islami islamic state of iraq and levant, sometimes called diish. thousands military strikes, blowing up training camps, oil supplies and fighters. the allied governmentsocabled governmen

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jacob ward has a closer look. >> the people you see in line here behind me are not just fans, just here to sort of see the car for the first time. they are actually here to each put down a thousand dollars in cash to reserve a car they will not be allowed to get for another year at least. the new tesla model 3 makes sense, however, to all a lot of these folks. it's not a luxury car although it competes with others at a starting price of $35,000 plus all of the incentives, rebates and government bonuses you get. it becomes quite affordable. here in california, it gets you in to the hov carpool lane which here in southern california selannenormous boon. it makes a tremendous amount of sense for consumers. for tesla as a company, it represents sort of the big challenge for this company. this company obviously marched through several models, roadster, the model s, the model x. each was a life or death proposition. this one raises the stakes again because tesla up until now has been getting by on a sort of luxury segment of the market. now, it's trying to repeat with regular auto makers, aut

reporters michelle quinn of the "mercury news" and jacob ward of al-jazeera america this week on >> good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. i don't immediately understand every trend in technology, i'm not much of a snapchat user, for instance. but i try to get the gist of every new thing. but this surprised me. this is the inside of the s.a.p. center in san jose during a video game tournament. thousands of people, packed to the rafters, watching other people play video games. now, they do this in person and they watch online. it's a huged by. amazon paid $1 billion for a video game channel called twitch and others have sprung up as well, showing off video. gaes to millions, raptor and some called plays tv has more than 1. 5 million year. that was created by dennis fong, a silicon valley entrepreneur. the most famous video game player of an era. dennis fresh fong is the joe namath of video games. joined by jake ward, michelle quinn. going back to that video, of all of the people packing the a.s.t. center, if you walked through the s.a.p. center, are you thronged or is it like kids and

al jazeera's jacob ward is in long beach, california at the site of the formula e grand prix. it's all the muscle and excitement of auto racing except for one thing: ? >> here are the lights. >> at the green light, all you hear is tires. winning this race can be the ticket in to formula 1, the big time. formula estracts real drivers. the difficulty is teaching them to be fast but efficient, a new way to drive. >> it's hard for someone whose natural reactions are go for it leaving corners i am used to the v-8s and the v-tens. i am used to the sound. i miss the sound. i always listen to the engine at which point i have to look at the steering wheel. >>> here is a measure of how primitive racing is. at this point, the battery won't last as long as the tires do. if all goes well, they really won't ever have to do this during a race. driven hard, the battery only lasts around twenty minutes. so, it defines everything about this roughly 45 minute race. most of what i am looking at is battery >> yes. this fuse box here you can't see up here. it goes up in to the cockpit. >> it was im

aljazeera's jacob ward is in long beach, california at the site of the formula e grand prix. >> as allscle and excitement of auto racing, except for one thing. at the green light, all you hear is tire. the 2016 formula e race in long beach, california, is the world's premier electric vehicle competition. winning this race can be compared to formula one, big time. so formula e attracts real drivers, but the difficulty is teaching them to be fast, but efficient, a new way to drive. >> it's very hard for someone who's reaction is go for it. >> i'm used to the v8 and v10s back in the day. so i miss the sound. i [ audio difficulties ] i can't do it anymore, so i need to look at the steering wheel. >> they're practicing on tires like any pit crew would. but here's the measure. the battery won't last as long as the tires do. 23 all goes well, they won't have to do this during the race. driven hard, the battery only lasts about 20 minutes so, it defines everything in this 45-minute race. >> so most of what i'm looking at here is battery. so this black box -- >> this is the fuse box -- >> so it

al jazeera's jacob ward has a preview. >> the people behind me are not just fans here to see fans for the first time. they're each here to put down a thousand dollars in cash to reserve a car they will not be allowed to get for another year at least. the new tesla model three makes sense to a lot of these folks. it's not a luxury car, automatic it competes with others. at a starting price of $35,000 plus incentives and rebates and government bonuses, it becomes affordable. it gets you to the h.o.v. car pool lane which here is an enormous boon. for consumers, it makes a tremendous amount of sense, but for tesla as a company, it represents sort of the big challenge for this company. this company obviously has the roadster, the model s, x and each one of those was a life or death proposition. this one raises the stakes again, because tesla has been getting by on a sort of luxury segment of the market but now is trying to compete with regular automakers, that price their cars in the $20,000 to $30,000 range. unlike those other automakers who can boat loads of cheap affordable cars to fund

reporters michelle quinn of the "mercury news" and jacob ward of al-jazeera america this week on "press