the compensation plans for the victims of their faulty ignitions. lori rothman bring us more on this story. good morning, lori. good morning to you. it is a dubious record but the number of recalls hit a new record as general motorser announced another separate recall covering 7.6 million vehicles. gm has now recalled 26 million cars this year. the overall tally of recalled cars in this country 39 million. the latest recall is unintended ignition key rotation which led to 7 crashes and three deaths. the driver nudges the key out of the ignition the car can automatically stop. among them chevrolet malibu, 98 it 202 oldsmobile and oldsmobileal layer row including the pontiac grand prix. make sure you check your dealer for the exact model.
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eastern. turning now to the money lead, i do not know how many times i have said this exact sentence on the show this year, maybe somebody can put together a super cut of it on youtube. here it is again. general motors is announcing yet another recall recalling more than 3 million cars in the u.s. dau to faulty ignitions which they linking to eight crashes and six injuries. several models are included from 2000 to 2014. this announcement today brings the number of vehicles recalled just this yearen an it s only june in the u.s. to more than 17 million. now, to the sports lead, the u.s. kicks off its world cup slate against guana tonight. while most fans here are searching the internet for free live streams, guana s government is willing to max out their entire. country s power grid to make sure people can watch. the nation struck a deal with neighboring ivory coast for 509 megawatts of extra electricity to make sure the broadcast doesn t hiccup.
models of ignitions. interestingly, the one they rejected is now the one they re putting in to replace the faulty one. that, of course, the more expensive one. they did not want to pay up. yes. they were trying to save money. let me ask you because part of the time that they were talking about, the company was in bankruptcy protection. we all know that the government bailed out gm after the 2008 crisis. will they be able to use bankruptcy protection given they were in bankruptcy after these events and troubles?
they and the american public were failed by a corporate culture that chose to conceal rather than disclose. reporter: senate committee grilling mary barra zeroing in on internal gm documents showing an engineer replaced some of the faulty ignitions in 2006 and lied about it in a deposition. this is criminal deception. it is not an appropriate practice to do. reporter: barra said no one at gm had been fired over the ignition fall yours and declined to answer specific questions until an internal investigation was completed. there are no boundaries and no secret cows. i want to be sure we have an understanding. reporter: but some senators were not impressed. if this is the new gm leadership, it is pretty lacking. reporter: gm has recalled 2.6 million cars for ignition problems since february, but many of those cars are still on the road. gm telling owners the cars are safe to drive as long as nothing heavy is placed on the key ring. i would allow my son to drive if he