recalled 8 million vehicles last time, they ll recall vehicles again. they bounced back from the last issue. like i said, the stock i m sorry, the sales were up 10 percent for the quarter, after we heard about the accelerator problem. jon: they were cutting a lot of discount. sue: the number one ought automaker in the world, it sells more than gm, any other cars on the planet. they need a recall, they ll fix the problem and move on. jon: if you ve got a grand jury involved, though, that suggests the possibility of a criminal penalty. what happened last time, the unintended accelerate problem, the accelerator, they waited too long to notify the transportation safety board. they re going to look to find out how many days it took them. they have five days, when they hear about a problem, five days to notify the authorities. if they exceed the five days, they re going to find out why. if there s a coverup going on, they ll bring those people in front of the grand jury. jon: eric bollin
1780? peuld with filled with salt water? you foe tkpweurs. martha: i will go first. bill: so toyota is facing new legal troubles, facing a subpoena from a federal grand jury in new york, demanding documents related to faulty steering and front wheel parts. toyota says the subpoena did not affect all vehicle models and the car makers has recalled 8 million vehicles since october and paid the record $16 million fine for the slow response to the accelerator problem. martha: all right. this from the madman file as well, people used to be able to smoke in their offices all the time, remember those days? now they usually have to go outside, hover outside the building. how about this, though? a hospital in atlanta has a new policy, banning people who smoke at all from even applying for a job there, and this hospital is not alone. liz bit hahn is live in atlanta with more.
from inside toyota. you really get a sense of what was going on, the conversations that were being had, but in january tota was scrambling to figure out the best way to deal with this major accelerator problem and in an e-mail obtained by the associated press, one of the top executives warned that the company needs to, quote, come clean about the sticking pedals and the executive saying toyota was not protecting customers by keeping quiet about this. in the e-mail by recently retired vice president irv miller, he said we have the tendency for sticking pedals and the time to hide on this one is over. what s more, toyota had failed to alert u.s. regulators even though the automaker was busy addressing sticky pedal problems in 31 european countries and canada. toyota s new chief quality officer for north america spoke about that disconnect, the ability to translate the information between continents last week at the inauguration of toyota s committee for global
some new details coming to light about toyota s timeline in dealing with its acceleration issues. those details are coming from toyota s own internal documents. deb feyerick has been looking through some of them. some people saying that there s something of a smoking gun in there. deb? well, do you know what it is, it s e-mails, and it s e-mails that really show the thinking of toyota officials, not only here in the u.s., but in toyota in japan. pretty strong words coming from inside toyota, the company really in january scrambled to figure out the best way to deal with this major accelerator problem, and we have an e-mail now that basically goes over the genesis of this. one of toyota s top public affairs executives warns the company that they really need to come clean about the sticking pedals, that they re not doing enough to protect customers by keeping quiet about this. and in the e-mail, by the recently retired u.s. vice president irv miller he writes, quote, we have a tendency
warnings now from a former toyota executive just days before the company recalled millions of vehicles, you know, for those sticky accelerators. cnn s deborah feyerick live. tell us about the internal memo you got. well, it s becoming apparently clear that toyota executives were scrambling to figure out the best way to deal with this huge accelerator problem and how best to tell the public. now, in an e-mail obtained from the associated press, one of the company s top public relations executives warned toyota that officials needed to come clean about the sticking pedals. the executive saying, toyota, quote, was not helping by keeping quiet about this. herb miller writes we have a tendency for mechanical failure in accelerator pedals.