they want to drive a green porsche, a green mercedes, bmw, a green audi and green volkswagen. in asia, in the middle east, the people want to have quality cars and not plastic cars with a green machine. >>reporter: bmws new baby the minie is currently being fieldtrialed in the uk, germany and the united states. the allelectric vehicle has the backing of the german government as well as leading energy suppliers. the vehicles are leased to the drivers and, at the end of the year, bmw will take them back, dismantle them to learn how they handled in the real world. the big german carmakers are also working on hybrid vehicles which are much more popular in the united states. >>polleit: i think that people have understood the selling argument of having cars which are environmentally friendly, so sooner or later, the market will bring about these reforms and again, great progress has been made and i think there will be further progress down the road. >>pieper: theyve been forced to believe in it...theres no...theres not the motivation from these companies...theres no real belief in t

they walked him to his porsche. he got in the car, and left.for the last time, ending his rather due just tenure with the team that saw them win 8 games last year, 4 this year. saw his play calling duties overtaken by certainly and lewis, and a rather odd end to his tenure. one he handled with class and dignity, one that appears to be over. now the mike shanahan era we believe will begin. reports far and wide that he will succeed jim zorn as the boss here. some rumors unsubstantiated that daniel snider was picking out mike shanahan in his plane and bringing him back for introductory press conference later this week. haven't heard details as the fact such that shanahan may hire as son for offensive coordinator and members of bengals staff to be defensive coordinator. news according to sources is that jim zorn is fired. we saw him leave. he is physically off the premises. more later this morning from redskins park. back to you. >>> in other sports, wizards guard scheduled to meet with law enforcement officials today. on saturday, areason as told

he called her porsche, which is a very 18th century porsche from the merchant of venice at the glittering names for each other during that time as they would write these letters. he absolutely adored her. >> guest: he really did. >> host: absolutely adored her. either you come to me or i have to go to you. just go that is a letter he wrote when he was vice president. >> host: and yet, he could go to these depressions and big order. he had a heartbreaking time of children, dying, all sorts of things like that. >> guest: two of his son, not many people know that two of his younger son, charles and thomas, they both became alcoholics. they couldn't deal -- it was in the family genes i'm afraid. on abigail's side of the marriage as a matter of fact. but it was also this feeling that they can compete with their father's pain and really beat down on them. and charles died in a crummy little room in new york as john was in his last year as president. it was so heartbreaking. and then thomas. deal that he too was an alcoholic and would come home and live. >> host: there are other famous americans

he went to his porsche suv and left presumably for the last time.is replacement could be named in relatively short order. the player personnel boss a few weeks ago was fired or resignation was forced. two hours after that, bruise allen was named as his successor. could it be that later today we could see mike shanahan named as 7th head coach of dan snider era with washington redskins. that's been the rumor. shanahan who won two super bowls with the broncos could be the man. we hear his son would be the new offensive coordinator and assistant with bengals would be the defensive coordinator and that shanahan for some time had a full staff in waiting ready to pounce when the opportunity became official. jim zorn relieved of his duties earlier this morning, leaving the premises after talking with some assistant. we will have continuing coverage as we have had since midnight last night. and all through the night. live in ash burn, brett haber, back to you. >> thank you for keeping us up to date on this. >>> another story making news, wizards guard arenas

would give us a sense, if we want to be equally ambitious from outside, in how to help and how to porsche, how to monitor, how to make sure that this long- term development agenda is indeed realized in the way that you expressed it? >> as to the obstacles, i say all of the above and probably some that you did not list. i think that there is a great commitment to development in this administration. the president's budget is extraordinarily supportive of what we are attempting to do, and we appreciate that. so it will be important for those of you in the larger development community to make sure that foreign aid is a priority when the budget gets to the congress, that we get the resources both in terms of dollars and people that are needed to begin to realize this long-term vision. we have to do our own work inside the government. we have to do a better job of coordinating. we have to try to look at what works and what does not work in our own backyard. there are lots of changes that were done either deliberately or inadvertently in usaid that i think need to be undone, that have really und

would give us a sense, if we want to be equally ambitious from outside, in how to help and how to porsche how to monitor, how to make sure that this long- term development agenda is indeed realized in the way that you expressed it? >> as to the obstacles, i say all of the above and probably some that you did not list. i think that there is a great commitment to development in this administration. the president's budget is extraordinarily supportive of what we are attempting to do, and we appreciate that. so it will be important for those of you in the larger development community to make sure that foreign aid is a priority when the budget gets to the congress, that we get the resources both in terms of dollars and people that are needed to begin to realize this long-term vision. we have to do our own work inside the government. we have to do a better job of coordinating. we have to try to look at what works and what does not work in our own backyard. there are lots of changes that were done either deliberately or inadvertently in usaid that i think need to be undone, that have really unde

wondering what we can do in order to get them consented to join the work force again or maybe like a porscheinstead of just letting ing taxpayers pay their wage even though it is a low wage. that is really self-destructive to the economy. >> host: caller, you mentioned give them a push. be descriptive, what type of push? >> caller: a lot of people i know, you have to put a resume online in order to get unemployment. a lot of people fudge that or make things about. i think that maybe if we spent some time going over and actually trying to find the people who are unemployed and took them up with jobs, that could be a big benefactor to the unemployment. i no there are jobs out there. i have two of them. there are jobs out there if people want to work. >> host: let's get a response. >> guest: i think a lot of it really depends on the individual motivation of the person. i think a lot of times somebody, especially somebody with a lot of skills and a lot of drive probably can find a job. let's go back to that graphic you said at the very beginning. there are six unemployed people for every job ope