call or click now. get back in the game. a robber in connecticut tried intimidating the wrong store owner. police looking for the man who pulled a gun and fired a shot into the wall to scare him. instead of handing over the money, the owner grabbed a baseball bat and started bludgeoning him. he did manage to grab some money from the register. the transportation fined toyota $16.4 million, the largest amount allowed by the law for withholding information on unexpected acceleration in their vehicles due to defective gas pedals. while officials say they are accepting the responsibility paying the penalty, toyota is not expected to admit wrongdoing. astronauts aboard the shuttle discovery will have to wait another day to return home. nasa canceled the second and
meteorologist warn skies are still unstable. volcanic ash stalls engines. toyota expected to sign an agreement monday to pay a fine of more than $16 million for delaying effective gas pedals. the auto maker knew the problem back in september but waited 4 months to issue a recall. toyota will have 30-days to pay the record fine. the fine has not released the company for liability claims relate to do the recalls. i am mary ann rafferty now back to huckabee. tsunami warning. i m heather nauert. back to huckabee. if you would like to e-mail us, go to mikehuckabee.com. mike: the huckabee report is now on 585 radio stations across america, three times a day. i share commentary on news of the day. find a station near you go to mikehuckabee.com and click on the huckabee report. by the way, if you don t have it in your area, ask or demand your local radio station to get it. well, tax day 2010, it s come
won t fight the fine but toyota motors is denying the government s accusation that it tried to hide a safety problem with its sticking gas pedals. today, toyota accepting a record 16.4 million dollar fine for toyota s failure to promptly report the issue. toyota will have 30 days to pay up. pope benedict celebrating his five-year anniversary at the helm of the catholic church. his tenure has been blemished with the ongoing sex scandal. a quick break. we ll be right back. sthma. and that s what it sounded like when my symptoms came back. i d get this tightness in my chest. like i was breathing through a straw. so i went back to my doctor again. we talked about choices in controller medicines. we chose symbicort to help control my asthma. [ man ] while it s not a rescue inhaler, symbicort improves my lung function, starting within 15 minutes. it helps give me the control to. [ inhales, exhales ] symbicort is a combination of two medicines. it will not replace a rescue inhaler for sudden
glad you re finally up. an earthquake strikes northern afghanistan. at least seven people are dead. 30 others hurt in the magnitude 5.3 quake. it hit north of kabul. at least 300 homes believed to be damaged but the area sparsely populated so getting full reports could take a little time. cars now, toyota expected to pay a record fine of more than $16 million after failing to report problems with sticking gas pedals. you may have heard about this. it s the largest government penalty ever levied against any car maker. they are supposed to notify the government in five days when they find a safety defected. steve has no defects. thanks for noticing.
sales. engineers are testing the s.u.v. and working to correct the stability problems. toyota took a lot of heat for not responding to complaints of sudden acceleration and sticking gas pedals. analysts say toyota is trying to avoid the criticism this time around. fox news alert. president obama reaffirming his plan to start withdrawing troops from afghanistan in 2011. he spoke on an australian tv station this morning. mr. obama says the u.s. and its allies can t be there in perpetuity. he says the taliban s momentum in afghanistan has been blunted but he did admit winning the 9-year-old war is a difficult task. this is the army pulling out of one of the most contested part in afghanistan. the fighting was virtually constant and u.s. casualties high. president obama also not getting very far selling his financial reform bill to congressional republicans at least. after a meeting at the white house on the topic, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said the president was simply