Chevy cobalts and pontiac g5s due to faulty ignitions gm expanded that list with five more models. That brings the number of recalls to 1. 6 million vehicles and the death toll, to 13. So is thissjust the beginning . Joining me car expert lauren fix and attorney lance cooper, who represent ad georgia family suing the company over the death of their daughter. He says gm knew about the problems years ago. Lauren, i will start with you. This has been a story a long time in the making, years and years and years. Why hasnt gm been more forthcoming about information with this problem . Well, thats the question. You know i think it was back, there has been a lot of changes in management and of course you have the government involvee. I dont know why. The truth is, there is no reason to hide this when youve got deaths involved. And im not a lawyer but ill tell you what, as a lawyer he is going to have a lot to work with because this is crazy that consumers are dying, cars have problems over so
Evidence that General Motors had a way to fix a dangerous defect years ago, but made a business decision not to use it. And together again. The dogs of sochi and the u. S. Olympian who fought to bring them home reunited. An emotional moment three weeks in the making today, friday, march 14th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a. In rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer along with tamron hall, al roker and willie geist. I think we need a playbook to figure out whos in here. Weve got savannah and natalie off today. Im right here. But we have puppies. We had a puppy party once in the orange room, but were having a puppy shower today. Because when you get a new baby, youve got to have a shower. Sometimes, it happens whether you like it or not. Thats gus kenworthy, the u. S. Olympian and silver medalist. Were going to check in with him. But we want to get right to our top s
Plan. We see russia as a large, promising market. We wont change our mind. Theres more to be done in this market. And more warning signs out of china, investment, retail and factory data all disappointing in april with data hitting multiyear lows. Youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. And a warm welcome to tuesdays edition of worldwide exchange. Plenty to come through on the show today. Are you looking forward to it . Happy tuesday. Happy tuesday, everyone. Well get opecs latest report. Retail sales coming out of the u. S. As well. But before all of that we continue to look at m a on the astrazeneca pfizer story. Pfizer making its last push reiterating to uk jobs and r d if the proposed deal goes ahead. The ceos of pfizer and astrazeneca are due to appear before uk lawmakers in london very shortly. The unions make their way starting in 30 minutes time. Then pfizer ceo ian reed is in an an hour after astrazenecas ceo will appear. Katherine
Calling chiefs of station around the world and being down into the daytoday involvement . That did not happen to my knowledge. The interaction between the National Security staff in the Central Intelligence agency was almost exclusively, not largely but most exclusively between mr. Mcdonough and mr. Brennan and me. And so i guess what im wondering is it that because of your level because we have all these he all these enough to show a variety of people under them that were involved in these talking points and other things and i guess where im going is the light that shines on the daytoday operations, what does that tell us about not only how this administration works but the bigger institutional dangers let me back up for just a second. The cia 33 years . Yes sir. Would you say the cia is more independent today than it was when you entered or less . From micromanagement i dont mean republican or democrat i mean the influences of bosses in the white house. Very hard for me to say becaus
Government watch dogs failing, an accident about to happen. New questions as the ceo of gm is scoaltde scolded because of. The culture you are representing here is the culture of the status quo. Good evening everyone thanks for joining us. Im adam may in for joie chen. Lets begin with the developing story coming out of fort hood texas. Another shooting, one of the largest installations in the world. The details are still emerging but here is what we know. What weve confirmed so far at this hour. The shooting happened around 4 30 p. M. Local time in texas. Several people are dead including, including the suspected shooter. At least 14 others have been wounded. We just heard from hospital officials who said the injuries range from minor up to critical. Some people shot once, some people shot multiple times. President obama has been briefed on the situation, he made these comments just a short time ago. Obviously, this opens up the wounds at fort hood from five years ago. We know these fa