alexandria and suez. hours from now the transportation department will release results into runaway toyotas. more than 11 million have been recalled to deal with gas pedals getting stuck. there have been five confirmed deaths. the 10-month study addressing whether defective electronics were causing that problem. toyota paying almost $50 million in fines since the investigation began. i m ainsley earhardt. greta: president obama going head-to-head with our own bill o reilly in a taped interview minutes before the super bowl. i was president obama s first appearance on the o reilly factor in nearly three years. bill o reilly asked tough questions we want to know the answers to. bill: are you confident we are going to win in afghanistan? can you say to the american people the blood and treasure is wore it, we are going to defeat the taliban? can you say that? the president: i can say we will defeat al-qaeda and the
blamed on the brake problems. doug mckel wall street ay is live from washington. it looks like trial attorneys are stranging their strategy. they are. this is quite incredible jenna. they are now going after toyota s failure to install brake override technology, something that toyota discussed with federal regulators as early as 2007 but didn t adopt until last year. that they are using this strategy may be because nobody, including toyota and engineering firms hired by toyota, independent engineers, and even the federal government s own national highway traffic safety administration, no one has been able to find any electronic glitch that would cause sudden unintended acceleration. toyota has admitted some gas pedals became stuck under floor mats and some throttles may have been sticking and announced recalls and made repairs but none of this explains the problem of sudden unintended acceleration. jenna: so doug in the absence of some electronic
office the democrats created. some republicans opposed it at the time. they also say they will post bills on the internet before lawmakers vote on them. require any spending increases to be offset with budget cuts. and continue the ban on lobbyists in the house gym. toyota agrees to pay $10 million to the family of four people killed last year when their run away lexus flew off a california freeway and burst into flames. that s the word from a lawyer involved in the case. driver called 911 when he realized his gas pedal was stuck. he was going 120 miles per hour and couldn t stop. jon: the crash killed everyone in the car. investigators say a floor mat that was the wrong size jammed the accelerator that led to the recall of million of vehicles to replace the mats. millions more to replace gas pedals that could stick. the economic news seems good
brooklyn congressman. or councilman, i should say who today told me on studio b is he working on legislation to ban these scanners from new york s two airports. it seems iminappropriate to scan their bodies nude. seems as inappropriate to pat them down aggressively. that s what we are trying do-to-do. once in a while local elected officials cities and states have to stand up to the federal government and say you guys got it wrong. we will try to fix it here in new york and hopefully it can l. catch on across the country. shepard: not clear whether a local ordinance could stop the federal government from continuing to use those scanners. a year after toyota recalled millions of vehicles because of reports of sudden acceleration, the problems for many owners have only become worse. it s not that their gas pedals ever got stuck beneath the rug or brakes took a second to kick in but the value of their vehicle has plummeted anyway. today a federal judge indicated he will allow those o
there were problems as you said toyota acknowledged. i think part of at the time what was scaring people is nobody could really figure out or pinpoin what the problem was. there was some talk back in this past january, toyota did inform the highway traffic safety administration that they had certain gas pedals that could have had a sticking defect. on top of that as you mentioned the floor mat issue and then a question whether this was an electronic flaw. put that together and the 9 million were recalled. they weren t recalled over an electronic flaw. they said there are cases we can t explain. it has to be something we can t see that leads people to say maybe it s an electronics flaw. toyota has been testing for this and something the government and academy of sciences and nasa are looking into that but there s never been any kind of real evidence there is an electronics flaw. it s one of the things where people say we can t think of anything else, maybe it s the