jars of pickled tomatoes and rice and cooking oil and pasta, donating this to the ukrainian troops and giving them a sense that they are not alone. they have the support of the population in this area. a very tense situation on the border between ukraine and russia. we will check back with you later. thank you. other top stories we are following in brief, but fleeting reminders of the messy healthcare.gov roll out. it crashed at least twice today ahead of the deadline despite the hiccups. more than 6 million people signed up as of late last night. we will see what the final number is in the coming days. general motors and safety regulators missed several chances to fix a problem blamed for 13 deadly car crashes. they are found at the auto maker and officials were aware of faulty ignition switches as far back as 2007, but they didn t
the report now linked to 13 deaths. small cars worldwide had recalls. safety regulators also dismisseded problem years ago. there was a profile of the ceo of tesla motors makers of the car never thought his idea would be successful. i didn t think he would be successful. i thought it would most likely fail. it go it is a perception an electric car has to be ugly. it is anything but ugly. 20,000 sold in the last year. mcdonalds is offering free coffee for two weeks. it s the first time the chain has had a free coffee promotion nationwide. this of course as rivals taco
technology is leading the way. most sectors have up arrows. personal income and spending also decent. the worries about the ukraine crisis, that you were just covering, the raise of interest rates, next year, said people were looking at that all of these things decided at least for now. also the bank stress tests. we made it through that we also had top stories we re following very closely including microsoft bringing office to the apple ipad. analysts thought microsoft was losing billions in revenue. satya nadella, the new ceo made a polished debut. he plans to bring mobile apps to be a top priority for microsoft. walmart suing visa for $5 billion. this is over the credit card swipes. visa is one of the few names in the dow with a down arrow. good news for tesla, safety regulators let it go. they don t continue to look into the fires with the model s. tesla making more precautions,
she was killed in a horrific accident. yeah, as we ve reported, there have been 12 reported deaths and 31 crashes, but if you look at the nhtsa complaint file, there are a lot of cases where people were, frankly, scared, but nothing terrible happened. so, i mean, it s something that you obviously, you know, notice when it goes wrong. and just, again, quickly, back to, as i mentioned, this latest recall. because if you own one of these vehicles, yes, it is different from what we re focused on for the congressional hearings. nevertheless, after this latest recall, you have this new ceo of gm, announcing this new position. so it is relevant for those, especially if you own one of these vehicles, what they re saying you should do. this latest round of recalls reflects their entire to get out in front of problems, before nhtsa and the safety regulators force them to. so, none of them were life threatening, but they were
reporter: could lead to an announcement of maybe an advancement in strategy in dealing with this situation, but president obama again emphasized support for the new ukrainian government, warned russia that there needs to be a diplomatic way forward and denounced this referendum coming up in crimea on sunday as to whether that region would rejoin russia. both the u.s. and other western nations have called on russia repeatedly to do a number of things pull back troops, let in international monitors, sit down and talk to ukraine. but so far, none of that has happened. what is continuing, though, is discussion between the u.s. and russia. secretary of state john kerry will meet again with the russian foreign minister, but so far, they have not found common ground. chris? all right, michelle, thank you for that this morning. we also have new, stunning developments in that massive gm recall. a document filed with federal safety regulators shows gm received reports of an ignition defe