billion last year. it s the first profit since 2004. they benefitted from a strong rebound sales. thanks. a big win for boeing. they were awarded a $35 billion air force contract. they will build tankers that allow the military to refuel mid flight. it will make jobs in washington state and kansas. blockbuster is up for sale. they have at least one offer. toyota is recalling 2 million vehicles because the gas pedal can get stuck in the floor mat. they will determine weather or not the 2009 recall was sufficient. the coming week is all about jobs. we get reports on the labor
to its lowest level in over 2 1/2 years. on the down side, sales of new homes fell significantly in january. toyota is recalling over 2 million vehicles in america to fix floor mat and carpet defects that could jam the accelerator. watch boeing today. it jumped after the bell on news it won a multibillion dollar contract to build air force refueling planes. and talk about a girl s ultimate best friend, a purse driping in diamonds. created in dubai and named by guinness the world s most expensive handbag. it boasts 4,500 diamonds and can be yours for $3.8 million. a girl can dream. an upset in college hoops, an injury before the season even starts in baseball, and another win for the carmelo-less nuggets. plus lebron and the miami millionaires take on the up and coming bulls. your first look at sports is straight ahead.
2.17 million vehicles recalled today, toyota and lexus, both to correct a problem in which sometimes that accelerator beddal can get stuck in the floor mat. the first problem is that toyota says the gas pedal can get stuck in a plastic pad that is part of a driver s side floor mat if it isn t replaced properly. that s one issue. the second separate issue, a new issue, is that there s sort of a piece of plastic next to the accelerator pedal that can interfere with it, get hooked on it and cause the pedal to get stuck. kyra, he s the third part of the recall that makes it so big, toyota is expanding their 2009 recall, which we all remember, in which times the gas pedal could get trapped in floor mats that were extra thick that did not come with the floor mat. if you put one there, it could get caught. what we re hearing from the
plus, final flight, the countdown is on for shuttle discovery s last mission to space. a live report from kennedy space center with the shuttle hatch about to be closed. as mentioned, new trouble for toyota, recalling 2.1 million toyota and lexus vehicles in the u.s. to fix accelerator pedals that could get trapped in the floor mat or carpeting. fi phil lebeau, is it the same that resulted in the massive recalls we saw in 2009? reporter: it s an extension of that one, tamron. remember recalls in late 2009 involved millions of toyota models where the concern was the floor mat could become dislodges and trap the accelerator pedal. nhtsa has reviewed 400,000 documents from toyota and has come back to toyota and said
this precipitated by the national highway safety administration going over 100,000 toyota documents and going to toyota in the end saying you need to expand your recall when it comes to floor mats and pedal entrachment concerns that could lead to unintended acceleration. at this point, there s no indication the new recall is related to specific accidents around the country. yet at the same time it may be more of a design flaw that they want to have toyota correct. another 2 million vehicles that are being recalled because of the floor mat and pedal entrapment issues. that brings the total number of recalls, chris, going back to 2009 worldwide at more than 14 million. seems like everyรง time toyota thinks it has this issue behind itself, it continues to come back. all right. phil lebeau, thank you so much from a cold detroit. on wall street, keeping a close eye on libya, because oil prices have been flirting with the $100 a barrel mark. across the nation we ve been feeling the sque