what went wrong. then you decide whether an apologies he s in to be made. you are but the department of transportation would figure it out before toyota could. we don t know where we re wrong. today reporters were asking, saying what went wrong? where? why weren t you telling authorities earlier when you were looking at your brakes in certain hybrid models? these questions have not been answeredthat is what fundamentally customers want to know. is my car safe to drive? and they still feel they don t have an answer. basic question. you expect the whole thing to be done with the confines of the 24-hour news cycle, and i speak as somebody who pushes hard with that cycle to get contact, but the reality is, let s have a bit of common sense. it takes time for companies to discover, particularly a global corporation across continents and oceans. all right. mike quincy against to wrap it up. over here agreeing with richard quest. yes, to richard s point, i
these last 12 months we re talking about, nothing about them was normal. you had lehman going away. you had so many different things that took the economy to the brink. because of that, it s not a normal period. one thing i do want to tell you, the january jobs report does come out tomorrow. it s our big day for us. it s our super bowl. it s our super bowl tomorrow. we get the that monthly. we re expected to add 13,000 jobs. there s a lot of discrepancy about that. fingers crossed. the unemployment rate is expected to stay at 10%. meanwhile, you can t call in sick friday just because a jobs report comes out on thursday. that would be for us on saturday. we don t have to be here. that s right. tomorrow is friday. my goodness. our super bowl is always on friday. thank you so much. still ahead, is your car safe? we re going to be speaking to a former administrator that talks about what we do with this toyota problem. also a car dealer. [ male announcer ] when you buy a
probably totally confused by this recall news. is your car safe to drive? we have some answers for you, hopefully, tonight. the author of crash course, paul ingrassia. chris woodward is writer for usa today. toyota announces that they have this fix for the recalled cars. explain to us what it is, how long it s going to take to get the cars repaired. well, we re talking about 2.3 million cars, and what they re going to do is, starting this weekend, they re going to bring those cars in and they re going to insert a little metal shim in the accelerator mechanism. they re saying that is going to make it so that the pedal will spring back when it s depressed so you won t have this problem, potential of a runaway car anymore. that sounds like a simple little fix. how long is it going to take?
hummer to a chinese machinery maker is being delayed. they say they re extending the deadline until february 28th, pending final approval by the chinese government. it sold very well until the mid 2000s whenn fuel prices began t rise. and ads for the super bowl are sold out, a remarkable feat giving the state of the economy, given that they 30-second spots cost up to $3 million. cbs, the broadcasters for the big game, says it s been 95% sold out since early january. last year, tuning in an anheuser busch is the top tieser. you ll be tuning? like everybody else in the world, or at least in the united states and north america. let s get to the question that s weighing in on the minds of millions of toyota owners, their friends, family, relatives when and how can i make my car safe to drive?