patti ann: they say deal was very drunk that might. a s.w.a.t. team had to be called to get him out of his home. he finally surrendered and is charged with aggravated assault. a big dealtment between toyota and hundreds of drivers suing or accelerator problems. the deal worth more than a billion dollars would be the largest settlement in history even srofl involving cardieffects. lori rothman joins us live with more. reporter: this settlement one of the largest in the automotive industry. toyota to pay 1.2 billion after drivers said the gas fed alwould stick and lead to unintended acceleration. at least one accident in 2010 involved a sticking pedal and unwanted exce acceleration. at part of the deal toyota
whether the u.s. was ready to deal with a nuclear iran. meantime, ahmadinejad says iran is so strong, no country would thing of attacking it. toyota is expected to agree a record $16.4 million fine for not reporting sticky gas pedals when it should have. the automaker waited four months to report accelerator problems in some of its vehicles. by law they have five business days to report any kind of potential problem or defect. officials will not say that the fine shields toyota from criminal or civil suits. janet thit is the deadliest domestic terror attack in u.s. history, very sad anniversary there for the folks in oklahoma city. it s amazing, it s been 15
show. still ahead here, new york city mayor michael bloomberg on the set of morning joe. and toyota accepts responsibility for the accelerator problems. plus, sports. we are going to be right back on morning joe. [ whistling ]
gas pedals. the call from one executive came back in january five days before a huge recall. his message was clear. we need to come clean. our deb feyerick is tracking the developments for us this morning. she joins us now. so this was an executive that said, we need to make changes? those words, we have to come clean gets a lot of attention. it is clear that toyota executives were scrambling to find out the best way to deal with their huge accelerator problems. one of the company s top public relations executives warned toyota, we need to come clean about the sticking pedals. they are saying that toyota was not protecting their customers by keeping quiet about this. in the e-mail by toyota s recently retired u.s. vice president for affairs, herb miller writes, we have a tendency for mechanical failure
five days before toyota announced a massive recall a u.s. based executive wrote in an internal e-mail the company needed to come clean about accelerator problems. the a.p. reportedly reporting irv miller of v.p. for public affairs saying we are not keeping our customers by keeping this quiet. they say there was no electronic cause of the unintended acceleration. meanwhile, let s accelerate to the weather map and find out what s going on. after a downright hot day yesterday, it is going to cool off a little bit. as you can see, a line of thunderstorms all the way from the gulf right up through the central tennessee and ohio valley as well and into the great lake states is moving through. there is on this thursday morning even a little bit of snow around the great lakes region and some scattered showers, as you can see, moving into portions of central kansas at this hour. meanwhile, right now across the