by increasing access to north american energy we will help put downward pressure on prices. reporter: the economic wind does seem to be at the president s back. a new survey from payroll firm adp shows private employers added 216,000 new jobs in february. we need 300,000, 350-plus thousand jobs for several years in a row to make up for the 8 million jobs that were lost after the 2008 crisis. reporter: the labor department will release the official unemployment numbers for february this friday. rob and paula? our thanks to t.j. for that report. well, recall notices are going out to hundreds of thousands of toyota owners because of two different safety defects. nearly a half million tacoma pickup trucks from 2005 to 2009 need steering wheel repair so the driver s air bag will work in an accident. camry sedans and venza wagons made from 2009 to last year have wiring issues that could make it difficult for drivers to start
but the government has insisted on this recall. ford has now finally agreed. and next month more than 1 million truck owners will be getting those recall notices. and that is abc s lisa stark. the government is also getting tough with the makers of toddler beds. the consumer product safety commission now requires the guardrails on those beds to be at least five inches above the mattress to avoid accidents or deaths. the agency also would like to test more of the beds slats. and it s also ordering new warning labels about child entrapment and strangulation hazards. probably seen commercials for alli. it s a diet pill that promises to help you lose weight safely. millions of people have tried but complaints about side effects keep rising. and now some health advocates want it yanked from the shelves. jim avila has the details. reporter: alli is the only over-the-counter diet drug in the pharmacy adorned with the fda s seal of approval, a huge marketing tool.
season. state party chairs don t have i m to fire the chairmen themselves. they have to worry about their own state conventions. at this point, he s a lake dum chairman. he won t be around in 2012 but finish out the cycle most likely. mark murray on this story which is amazing it s in its eighth day. all right, mark, thanks. the federal government is looking to lay a huge fine against toyota. a record $16.4 million penalty for the automaker s alleged failure to quickly tell regulators about gad pedal problems. phil lebeau covers the car industry for us. seems like regulators are sending a message to toyota with this fine they are looking to pursue. yeah, this is the way the federal government is saying to toyota, you know what? we re not happy with the way this thing played out over last six months, specifically the handling of the recall notices and the sfiky gad psticky gad p.