he s not a story. i totally agree but it is pretty bizarre. gentlemen, thanks for joining us. congressman dennis kucinich says he does not care if he is the spoil weather it comes to passing health care reform. is he a man of principle and i respect that. but i m going to try to do my best here tonight to try to change his mind. that s coming up in a moment. plus, toyota s now got a prius problem. a car that was recalled an got fixed got stuck going 94 miles an hour. i ll tell you how that story ends up in my playbook. and i ve got a turd blossom special for you. that s coming up karl rove is back in the zone. you re watching the ed show on msnbc. stay with us.
for the prius problem. the 10 u.s. missionaries accused of kidnapping kids from haiti with back in court today. prosecutors will make their final argument on whether or not to pursue charges. a lawyer for the detained american says the kids parents told a judge they freely handed over their children. we can now talk about that, legally it does not keep napping. the baptist missionaries say they were heading to a dominican orphanage after the earthquake and only had the best of intentions. the new republican muscle in the senate is now obvious. craig becker will not be taking a seat on the national labor relations board despite president obama s recommendation. he s the former lawyer for the service employees international union, sdiu, one of president obama s biggest backers. republicans complained that becker would ram an aggressive pro union agenda down everyone s throat.
because of problems with the brakes. one georgia man who drives a recalled model says he s lucky to be alive after the braking problem caused him to fall 150 feet into a ravine. he only had a broken arm. toyota s president bowing during his first apology last week. where s your protractor? yesterday, he took a deeper bow after apologizing for the prius problem. he could pull a hamstring. he need a bow analyst to figure out the difference. fox news alert for you now, while you were sleeping, the space shuttle endeavour docked with the international space station. you re looking at live pictures from nasa. crew of six will deliver a new room and observation deck. meantime, back at mission control, nasa says the shuttle was not damaged, luckily, during takeoff. astronauts will spend more than a week at the space station installing the compartments and helping with a bunch of maintenance that needs to be done. the fishing boat captain whose
are going to hood toyota s feet to the fire on recall information. they also revealed today that the recall is going to cost them roughly $2 billion. shep? shepard: how long did toyota know about this prius problem before telling consumers? well, that s an important question. fox business has learned through our correspondent jeff flock that toyota knew it had prius brake problems going all the way back to 2006. toyota has confirmed that. so, there is now a formal investigation announced today by the department of transportation s national highway transportation safety administration to look at this problem of the brakes possibly temporarily losing power in the prius. shepard: adam shapiro live in new york tonight. thanks. toyota is facing onslot of lawsuits in the wake of recalls. lawyers across the united states have filed at least seven class action suits against that company there are just too many civil suits to count really with some families blaming the japanese car maker
being recalled in japan. they are now looking at lexus, at the lexus hybrid. also over brake problems. with me now, the car coach, lauren fix. she s also author of lauren fix s guide to loving your car. lauren, again, these are initial reports coming out of japan. what do you make of what we re hearing? i think that this is very interesting. i think initially that they sat on their hands when it came to acceleration problems and now they re listening to every single consumer complaint and i think once this starts, people come out of woodwork, you know how that happens. people who have problems, they heard about this prius problem, they say they re having problems as well and it s starting to evolve. it s very interesting. i got a phone call as well as a press release from ford motor company saying we re being proactive and we re changing our software in our hybrid vehicles so there s no question about their products. they re not having any problems