yeah, hi, ann, actually. long-sufficienting woman. an erupting glacier volcano in iceland is causing massive disruptions and flights from the u.s. to europe this morning, a traveling ash cloud from that eruption has also grounded flights across northern europe. it s the volcano s second eruption in two months but officials say this one is about 20 times more powerful than the last one. they ve shut koun all flights go in and out of london. my gosh. toyota announced it will now test the safety of all of its sport utility vehicles. the effort is to reassure buyers after consumer reports placed a don t buy label on the 2010 lexus gx460 due to possible rollover problems. toyota said it s not yet decided will weather to recall the gx460, which it stopped selling in the u.s. following the consumer reports warning. how low can it go, one problem after another. this is a big shot for them. up until now it s been, okay, lexus is over here. in reality, if this has nothing to do
we could assist. marty, appreciate it. good stuff. marty savidge in tennessee and our ivan watson in moscow. checking other stories. president obama s top counterterrorism official says there s indisputable evidence of terror groups trying to get weapons of mass destruction. the comment comes as the president and world leaders meet for the second and final day of a global nuclear summit. the focus is getting nuclear material and keeping it out of the hands of terrorists. the smallest amount of plutonium, about the size of an apple could kill and injure hundreds of thousands of innocent people. terrorist networks such as al qaeda have tried to acquire the material for a nuclear weapon and if they ever succeeded they would surely use it. a rare safety warning from consumer reports. its researchers say they ve found the 2010 lexus gx460 by toyota can spin out, actually spin out in tight turns and can
this is not a very complex test to duplicate, lauren. i m assuming that toyota lexus has already done this test. you would like to think so. consumer reports is an extremely reliable source. many consumers rely on them. i know david and i know they re reliable and what they do and how they test. however, the average consumer would run into that situation on an onramp or offramp depending upon which one they re on. when is the last time they were trained on how to handle that. is drivers and people that test drive cars, we know what to do when the cars get out of hand. the average consumer has no clue. that s when the trouble starts to occur. if this happens to a consumer, they don t need another nightmare even know it s a beautiful luxury car. lauren, it shouldn t happen, though, right? the electronic stability control system should take care of this. and has taken care of this in past models of this vehicle. so what s the problem for toy a toyota, lexus, and what s the fix? well
use in the electronic control module to control the esc system. so really in some ways all they really need to do is reprogram the esc to prevent it from happening. it s strange in the past, most toyota vehicles and lexus vehicles have a very aggressive electronic stability control system that doesn t allow the vehicle to move out of its normal track in any way. this week just allows you to go far too far. thanks, guys. lauren, david, thank you. if there s anything good out of this it is just 5,000 of these on the road for toyota lexus. they cost about 50 grand or more. we re not talking about a big market share for this company that s already reeling with other problems. hitting the road on her own. michelle obama making her first solo overseas trip as first lady. first stop, haiti. we re going to fill you in on our itinerary.
electronic stability control would apply the brakes and rein the car back? was that the only problem you found with this vehicle? yes, apart from that it was a very nice, big, luxury suv. i m assume you talked to toyota? i mean, lexus, about this? yes. they said? thanks for the information, right? basically, yes. you know, they test the car thor roi rowly but maybe this one they didn t quite get to the point that we did. and we don t think it s a good vehicle for people to be driving on the road. let me read toyota s statement before we get any farther, lauren, because i want to ask you about toyota s night me marry here. our engineers conduct similar tests. we feel these procedures provide a good indication of how our vehicles will perform in the real world. we will try to duplicate the consumer reports test to determine if appropriate steps need to be taken.