thank you for joining us. do you believe he s going to repeal it? i think it s very positive that he said it was this year that he plans to work on it. so that was something positive. and it was heartening to me somewhat. it shows a sense of urgency perhaps. i know that any day now i could get my final discharge papers and i could be discharged, but also hopefully having a sense of urgency and getting it done this year would help the tense of thousands of grave americans who continue to serve throughout the world who are living under this policy. serving in silence and fear like i did for 19 years. but i was also discouraged that it was one sentence out of thousands. we ve heard these words in the past as you ve alluded to. what i wanted to hear was a plan of action, a timetable of some kind. some organizations have urged the president include repeal in the defense budget that he s scheduled to announce in the next couple of weeks. i hoped to hear something of that nature w
intense pressure from the obama administration. toyota s recall deals a blow to the automaker s reputation for quality. the company halted sales of some of its top-selling models to fix gas pedals that could stick and cause unintended acceleration. the models involved are the rav-4, corolla, matrix, avalon, highlander, tundra and the sequoia. our coverage begins with michelle franzen. reporter: toyota s decision to suspend sales and close assembly lines for its new cars and trucks is both volunteer and sweeping. eight models including the best-selling car in the country, the toyota camry, are off the market until the company can fix what it calls faulty gas pedals that could stick and accelerate. it just didn t make sense for us to continue to build vehicles in question until we had a remedy. reporter: the new cars and trucks account for 65 bers % of inventory. they are 2009 to 2010, rav-4s, corollas and matrix models. 2005 to 2010 avalons, certain models of camrys, h
good morning. state of the union, state of the presidency. as barack obama prepares to address the nation, a new nbc news/ wall street journal poll finds 61% of americans lack confidence in his policies. what does he need to say tonight to convince them otherwise? we ll ask white house press secretary robert gibbs. sticking situation. toyota suspends the sale of eight of its most popular models in the u.s. while engineers try to fix a dangerous problem with gas pedals. and this morning the company says it doesn t know how long that will take. and not so fast. students blindfold their girls basketball coach and set him up for an impossible shot to win tickets to the final four. two problems he makes the shot [ cheers and applause ] and they never had the tickets. the story of the prank gone wrong today, wednesday, january 27th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. and i m m
6:00 out west. here s what s happening right now toyota s ice and apples. the king of the car sales universe slamming on the brakes. eight models you see on the road all the time. eight models, can t get them, not now. a flaw that s just too dangerous to chance. no brakes for winter and no break for middle america. the ice age cometh to the southern plains again. tech knnotechno geeks aroun world giddy over apple s tablet. the latest installment of as the worm turns. president obama s first official state of the union address, so much on the line, where does he even start? suzanne malveaux s got that covered for us. watergate light? a louisiana version? is that what we have on our hands in brianna keilar s got her ear to the story, so to speak. and is the stimulus package giving us our money s worth in don lemon manning the cnn stimulus desk and keeping them honest. we are 12 hours away from president obama s first state of the union address. if the past few d
all righty, good morning to you. what day is it, guys? wednesday? that s all. that s how it feels, right? i m robin meade. here s what s going on today. toyota won t sell you some of their cars, even if you beg to buy them. it s a big change from what they were saying yesterday. four people accused of tampering with a u.s. senator s phone. you may have seen one of these guys before, playing dress-up. also, the next big thing for gadget geeks comes out today. what to expect from the apple tablet. you want to talk about an about face? toyota stopped selling some of the cars being recalled and they stopped production at six plants as well. it comes one day after toyota says they will keep making the cars in the recall because they are safe. we are try iing to buy a toyota. he said we can t because of the pedal. toyota has done this voluntarily. the safety speaks for itself. say you own a recalled toyota, there s no fix for the recall. what do you do? jennifer is here