shepard: toyota today recalled another 2 million of its vehicles over continuing gas pedal problems. a variety of safety issues over the past few years. forcing the japanese automaker to recall about 14 million vehicles total. the latest recall effects a number of models for defects that could potentially trap the gas pedal. the 2006 through 2010 rav four crossovers, 2003 to 2009 ford runner crossovers, and lexus ls 570s. that s in addition to what s listed here on your screen. if you need more information contact your local toilet dealer. a crash in the tunnel morning rush in america s biggest city tops our news across america. new york. a port authority spokeswoman says a motorcycle and three buses crashed in the lincoln tunnel that connects new york
suspects, william scott, who s 21, eleanor black, who s 26. we don t know the relationship between them and the mom, but police wanted them as well in this whole counterfeit thing they were trying to bust up, and now apparently they have this little boy. you see his description there, brown hair, brown eyes. he was wearing a black and yellow pittsburgh steelers jersey and black and white and red sneakers. those are a lot of colors on him. again, we don t know the circumstances or relationship between the mom, so maybe they took off thinking, you know, they were doing her a favor in the alleged crime thing, or maybe they took him out of threat we don t know. that s why police have issued this urgent find for-and-a-halfl fawns. jon: in the top box, toyota is agreeing to pay a record fine of more than $16 million all part of it massive recall over gas pedal problems. the fine is the largest penalty ever paid by an automaker to the
we can agree on this, the system does need to be reformed. and we can do it in a way that allows folks to have better choices. would you agree? you re a fresh mman, this cod be a make it or break it vote, decide whether you come back or not. whether i serve two terms or 20, we want to make the right decision for the people of our district and for the state of ohio. you saw the phones ringing off the hook there. the house administrator said today that the system is overloaded because of health care call. we know that rush limbaugh told his listeners to call in, but this was happening before he made that call. these are the crisis days right now. we ll check back with you. prius owners aren t first to complain about cars careening out of control. we re digging deeper into gas pedal problems. were officials too quick to blame drivers instead of carmakers. and is the white house leaning too hard on a staunch
got stuck. toyota has recalled more than 8 million cars to address gas pedal problems. national highway traffic safety administration will send the inspectors to investigate. orange county, california, prosecutors are filing a lawsuit against toyota. the car company is accused of knowingly selling hundreds of thousands of vehicles with acceleration defects. toyota is facing at least 89 similar class action lawsuits. white house press secretary robert gibbs is making good on his promise to canada after losing not one, but two bets during last month s winter olympics. gibbs showed up at tonight s white house briefing sporting a red and white canadian hockey jersey after winning first bet on women s gold medal game which canada won. gibbs went double or nothing with the spokesman for the canadian prime minister on the men s contest and lost again. i have one official government announcement. we ve instructed the embassy, our embassy and our ambassador
taliban. well, living for one more year, president obama signing one year pre-vision in the counterterrorism law. the patriot act was adopted in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks and expands the government s ability to monitor americans in the name of national security and they would have expired without the president s signature. next stop for the toyota s president, beijing. expected to speak in china about quality problems. days after getting a grilling by u.s. lawmakers on capitol hill. more than 75,000 vehicles recalled in china because of gas pedal problems, toyoda says he plans to expand sales in china and will try to ease consumer worries and toyota s north american president will testify before a senate committee later this week. the white house named jewel anna smoot as the new social