the daughter of actor paul walker is suing over her father s untimely death. walker tied two year ago now in that fiery crash in california. he was in, riding in his 2005 porsche gt that spun out of control and slammed into a pole. behind the wheel, driving team partner and friend. investigators say it was the speed that caused the crash. walker s 16-year-old daughter is suing porsche for wrongful death she claimed it skimped on safety features. meadow walker s attorney called the career a dangerous car that does not belong on the street. does she have a case? joining me, mark geragos, attorney representing the window of the driver, roger rodas, sunny hostin and peter valdez who covers the auto beat.
that, did they create an unreasonably unsafe product and did the plaintiff use it or foreseeably misuse it? even foreseeable misuse will not defeat a strict products liability claim. not only, that including assumption of the risk is another thing that does not necessarily defeat a strict liability claim. you have to ask yourself, is speeding in general a foreseeable misuse of an automobile? i think most people would say, yes, it is. so, then if it does come down to a question of speed, peter, law enforcement, their assumption is they were going between 80 and 93 miles an hour when this happened. there was an independent investigation by some attorneys for the driver of the vehicle who said they may have been going at a much lower speed, so that s in dispute. when you look at if this car was going, let s say, 93 miles an hour, is there any car, any performance car out there, race
in a criminal conspiracy. this is a corporation that has a history and now is going to have a future, of battling these things out in court. peter, weigh in on that. someone who covers automotive industry what mark was saying, and also this, you know, saying that the suit says, the doors on the porsche used side door reinforcement bars, weaker than strength what is used in popular mass market cars, you know, can you put all of that in perspective? explain that. sure. this was an extreme performance car, over 600 horsepower, real emphasis on lightweight. i m not going to claim to know the specific engineering of the doors, i ll take their word on that, wouldn t be hard to believe they want to save weight there one of the big questions, this car, true, it had a reputation for being difficult to control. it was a car known i ve driven it, known a number of people who have driven carrara
his. but how do you preach against unbridled capitalism, how do you say you re on the side of the poor, the person on the fridge, and then ride around in a luxury vehicle? so, no, he s again walking the talk. it s a very important symbolic gesture for him and he s made sure that he has stuck to it even in his mode of transportation. i think we re just watching the pope so closely. i m being told perhaps he s close to jumping in that pope-mobile. so i actually have to leave it here. peter and father edward beck, thank you very much. moments from now the pope expect canonize an 18th century priest, the first on american soil, not coming without controversy. my next guest is among the group fighting this. we ll discuss why. t step to rear retirement goals is to visualize them. then, let the principal help you get there. join us as we celebrate eddie s retirement, and start planning your own.
how can he do it? well, he is the pope. and for catholics that means if you are in his presence you are in the shadow of peter, the rock of the church, the first pope. so now he is here on the campus of catholic university to say his first mass in the united states and a very special mass, a canonization mass, a saint will be made today. not just any saint, the first latin-american pope will make a hispanic saint here in america huge for the latin community here in the country. huge for the catholics to have an american saint made in the united states. a big day any way you look at it. and there he is. pope francis on american soil. history for him his first trip. this man at this moment and all political and cultural history with this message he s bringing of tolerance and inclusion. the timing couldn t be better for him and for those who are willing to receive that message. let s keep watching and listening in. the pictures tell the story.