And if you think its a safety issue, you have to have your gas tank replaced to the tune of around 1,400plus. Reporter chrysler hadnt even notified its own Customers Service employees let alone dealers or drivers of the stalls or the extended warranty. Having said its going to do that, failing to do it and then having one of those cars crash and hurt somebody, it is very vulnerable in a lawsuit. Reporter ben kelly used to work for the the department of transportation nhtsas parent agency. Even more concerning than the delay is the fact that nhtsa deemed the stalls low risk. Too often nhtsa has failed to determine that stalling is a safety defect. Reporter at least in the chrysler case, nhtsas official findings are almost word for word what the carmaker told the agency. The majority of incidents occurred at a low speed or stops and therefore are a low risk. Low speed stalls can be very scary. Rearended or tboned my biggest fear. Reporter nhtsa closed its stall investigation without a re
Grilling on capitol hill today. Mary barra returns to washington to face lawmakers with startling new development, gm executives knew more than they first admitted, joining me now congressman tim murphy from pennsylvania. Jeff bartlett from Consumer Reports will join me in a moment, we start with congressman murphy. Everyone watching what questions were today. Did you get the answers you wanted . We received some answers, it is a ongoing issue for gm, gm has to change their culture, that is what Ceo Mary Barra said they are doing, i said that reports should have been subtitle, dont assume malfeasance when incompetance will do, a number of people did a very bad job, whether they were superviseed, engineers or lawyers or others, i am thinking out of 210,000 people only 15 people are to blame for millions of recalls and deaths and crashes, toward to believe no one saw this coming could pick up on i. They have a lot of work to do. Gerri corporate culture, 200,000 employees, 21,000 dealers,
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. President obama told cbs news today the u. S. Is sending military and Law Enforcement advisers to nigeria to help in the search for more than 200 teenage girls who were kidnapped from their school last month. Islamic extremists claim they took the girls and plan to sell them into slavery. Megan glaros, on assignment for cbs this morning, spoke to mr. Obama at the white house. Were sending in a team made up of our military and Law Enforcement and other experts, and were very glad that nigerias accepted the help. Obviously, whats happening is awful and, as a father of two girls, i cant imagine what the parents are going through. But this organization, boko haram, has been one of the worst regional or local terrorist organizations in the world. Weve long sought to work with nigeria on dealing with them, and were going to do everything we can to assist them in recovering these young women. Pel