something what we call beyond ordinary care. if you go and you just try to help, you can t be sued. you re immune from that. the reality is people don t want to get involved. they may be worried that if they do get involved they can face some type of criminal responsibility or a civil liability. so they just keep on walking by. it s a sad commentary on what goes on here. certainly in new york. laura: andrew, you touched on something that dr. a you can chime in on. this people that people might have that i don t want to get involved. look, i have enough problems. if i stop and then the police will be interviewing and i will turn around and it will be 2:00 in the morning that could also be coming into play, right? forget it s a human life involved. absolutely. and, listen, laura, i counsel families where you could say they are bystanders. in other words, there are families in which one person is terribly hurt by another family member and the family doesn t react. why? they don t want
something what we call beyond ordinary care. if you go and you just try to help, you can t be sued. you re immune from that. the reality is people don t want to get involved. they may be worried that if they do get involved they can face some type of criminal responsibility or a civil liability. so they just keep on walking by. it s a sad commentary on what goes on here. certainly in new york. laura: andrew, you touched on something that dr. a you can chime in on. this people that people might have that i don t want to get involved. look, i have enough problems. if i stop and then the police will be interviewing and i will turn around and it will be 2:00 in the morning that could also be coming into play, right? forget it s a human life involved. absolutely. and, listen, laura, i counsel families where you could say they are bystanders. in other words, there are families in which one person is terribly hurt by another family member and the family doesn t react. why? they don t want
praying. it is a church, and it doesn t react in a 24-hour news cycle. it s one of the things that i think americans in particular find frustrating, because if there s a problem, it s like, boom, you do something about it and address it. vatican doesn t work that way. i think all eyes will be on the pope tomorrow when he delivers what is called the city and world address that he does during easter mass. in the past, he has used that to address global issues such as the war in iraq. we will see if he mentions the clergy sex abuse scandal tomorrow during that service. all right, anne thompson for us in rome, thank you so much. a man near philadelphia held up two convenience stores with a very unusual weapon. a hypodermic needle that he said contained hiv. his first robbery attempt yesterday failed when the cashier wouldn t cooperate. sew just headed across the street and left with an undetermined amount of cash. the stick-ups are similar to
sudden unintended acceleration, toyota may have a total different problem. ali? you hit the issue on the head. the car was under recall because of acceleration because of the floor mat that could stick, but largely the issue we ve been talking about with priuses is a brake that doesn t react as fast. so if this prius, not related to the floor mat, had an accelerator that was sticking, and let s just not mince words, was a runaway vehicle, this takes us into another level with toyota. this is a different issue. absolutely. when you look at it is, there are all different things and reasons why toyota has been issuing these recalls. right. one is the brake, one is the floor mat, unintended acceleration. it could be it s all combining to work together. again, if it were the brake and it wasn t coming back, that could be part of the issue. again, what this appears the car was simply accelerating and the driver said there was no control of the brake. no control whatwhatsoever. you ha
you hit the brakes, one second. in some cases when the hybrid doesn t react, when your brake doesn t go down. one second can be an important one second if you re in a he very quick braking situation. tom costello on top of everything. we ll keep track throughout the day. myself and phil lee bow will be on it. excellent. after rachel maddow brought national attention to an outrageous law in uganda, to have capital punishment for just being homosexual, the president of the united states and secretary of state took on this issue today at the national prayer breakfast partly sponsored by supporters of this harsh anti-gay measure. we re standing up for gays or lesbians who deserve to be treated as full human beings, and we are also making it clear to countries and leaders that these are priorities of the united states. i recently called the president,