about $2,000. thelma gutierrez, cnn, los angeles. that is digging deeper. it is go time. you ll see in a second that i obviously went shopping in ali s closet. cnn newsroom continues right now, with ali velshi. tony, if i looked as good as you do, i wouldn t have to go shopping. i m ali velshi, i ll be with you for the next two hours, today and every weekday. i ll take every important topic that we cover, and i m going to try to break it down for you. i ll try and give you a level of detail that will help you make important decisions about your voting, your spending, your safety and security, and about your safety right now. here s what i ve got on the rundown. a prius owner says a stuck gas pedal took him on a run-away ride on a california highway. but, wait a second, gas pedals weren t supposed to be the problem with the prius. those were brake problems. is this a brand new issue for toyota to deal with? because if so, it s a big one. a car that doesn t stop at 90 is
anything. it stayed right where it was. he told me what to do and i was standing on the pedal, on the right pedal looking out the window at him. and he said, push the emergency brake too. i laid on both of them. and it finally started slowing down right then, down to like 55. it had been at 94, i know that. the california highway patrol officer was able to get his car in front of the prius helping it slow down. toyota issued the statement she have been notified and sent a field technical specialist to investigate report and offer their help. the prius was recalled recently for brake problems not sudden unintended acceleration, this could definitely add to toyota s growing problems. it will be interesting to see what they find. he got lucky. he really got lucky. everybody is looking at cars a whole new way right now. xarlry stuff. president obama on the road
made complaints about the power steering system and the u.s. government is looking into similar concerns from corolla owners. the latest from tout. sticking gas pedals forced one recall. floor mats, trapped accelerators in another. the company is worked to fix brake problems on the prius hybrid. brian, start with the steering problem. are we expecting a recall here? well, shep, the national highway traffic safety administration is looking into it, so is toyota. you might think toyota might think it s better to be safe than sorry and do a recall but listen. if this will be related to a safety matter of course we ll recall. if it is not a safety matter we ll work on it in a normal way to handle complaints and give advice on how to fix it. there is also criticism aimed at the president of toyota,
met with owners at the dealership while they waited to have their brake problems fixed. that was on friday. toyota has recalled more than 8.5 million vehicles globally for the faulty brakes and accelerator related problems. one feisty grandmother is speaking out about surviving a shark attack in australia. 60-year-old patty trumble was attacked while swimming near an island in northeastern australia. she says she escaped by punching and kicking the animal after it had taken a bite out of her. i m swimming and it is the most mighty, huge tug at me and i knew immediately what it was. i turned around and i saw this huge shark. i then thought, this shark s not going to get the better of me and i started purging him on the nose. punching, punching, punching. and then it got me under the water and but not much because i sat kicking at its next.
this comes as toyota has recalled more than 8 million vehicles. there you see the lists of the makes and models from problems to floor mats to gas pedals and the corolla is already on the list. brake problems and steering problems, and they have all of them. american spending saving too little, excuse me. spending too much and saving too little. the warning we re getting from henry paulson. just published a new book on the near collapse called on the brink . he sat down with christine romans to talk about the economic future. what did he say? wide ranging interview, 35 minutes talking about his ties to goldman sack and the bailouts and where are we going from here