Im richard lui. General motors announcing monday it is expanding again the number of vehicles that it is recalling. It involved potentially serious safety issues with power steering. The new ceo of gm testifies before congress this morning. Our nbcs tracie potts is on capitol hill. Good morning to you. Are we expect somethiing some contentious questions coming to the ceo. Reporter no doubt about it. The lawmakers want answers for their constituents, some of whom are the families of these victims. And mary barra has to answer for the company today. The key question being, if they knew years ago that there was a problem, why did it take so long to issue the recall . General motors will do the right thing. Thats what Ceo Mary Barra plans to Tell Congress today as she testifies here amid a brandnew recall, involving a sudden loss of power steering, that brings the total to 6 million gm vehicles now recalled. Sarah troutwines family believes the initial problem, a faulty ignition switch on
Will keep the streets slick for the commute. In the afternoon, you can see it will be partly sunny with a chance of showers in the upper 50s at the coast and the west of us in the lowtomid 60s. Leyla gulen . I see rain falling over the Altamont Pass which is where we see the slowing. Folks are slowing down for the run. I have good news with the crash cleared in oakland northbound 8 80 so you will not be laid to oak large. From tracy to Castro Valley it is 42 members and from san jose it is 11 minutes through 280 is under ten minutes and walnut creek southbound 680 away from Pleasant Hill, the roads are wet but traffic is smooth. Breaking news this morning, one person was severely bumped and 11 displaced after a twoalarm fire in the apartment complex in livermore. Amy hollyfield joins us with the latest. Amy . The red cross is trying to help those people find a place to stay. Firefighters say one man had to be airlifted out of here and the injuries were serious. It started this his unit
Another one was grew some, but it was an internationalist and patient. It was called the trunk murder in 1885 and the rich englishman who came to america. They were traveling sales then. They meet on the bow. They decide to go across america and they wind up together at a nice hotel in st. Louis called the southern. One of them is richer than the other and the poor guy suddenly has a lot of money sloshing around and he tells everybody that is batty when outoftown in the hotel rooms start smelling in the chambermaid go when it winds up that his buddies in the trunk dad several days. The police try to start chasing him, but he is taking the ship from San Francisco already. This becomes a Big International case because you have two guys from the wind. You have st. Louis. You have the manhunt to the other end of the world and the new Zealand Police stop and when they come back to the trains station, half the st. Louis is there to see them. Interviews galore and he whined up being hanged. W
Mother and father against each other. We are pretty calm about that. We try to respect each others beliefs. And we just move along and it is just too much trouble to pack and go some place else. [laughter] [applause] she said i want to hear this. Before getting to the book signing we have a number of people to think. If you give me 60 seconds these people cannot go unrecognized. It took a lot to pull this together. You know this is under construction. The first person i want to acknowledge is joanne saunders. Raise your hands. She is the person responsible for pulling this together. Our sponsors. We are courtney clyburn, hope and price are sponsors in addition to everate we have elick electricians that pulled the wire together to make it happen, the Culture Center board, mcdonald law who is the architecture of this building. And we have a rule that says you have bill and beverly have been bringing in things. Sam walker, earnest butler, curtis man, the baptist church, nathaniel dick, an
Look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch with authors in the near future on booktv, and on booktv. Org. Welcome to st. Louis on booktv. Located on the west bank of the mississippi river, it was the starting point for the lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804, and the city where the historic dred scott trial began. I spent five years researching the people of the cemetery but my research was based upon 60 years of research, they had ten statistics with primary sources. Even though i worked on it 8, 10 hours a day i could never have completed this without their wonderful work, the gatekeeper and superintendent, so appreciative of them. The book contains sections which tell the history of the city of st. Louis. Each section contains biographies. Altogether there are 80 biographies. I wrote biographies of people buried in this cemetery. Some of my favorites are people in changed the world such as William Clark of the lewis and Clark Expedition the changed the way we live