eventual trial. diana and john, they re saying that trial could last four months. clayton, thank you. chrysler is refusing a request from the government to recall millions of its jeeps over safety hazard. safety regulators say older suvs fuel tanks may rupture and rear end collisions causing deadly fires. chrysler says the government investigation is based on incomplete analysis. neither side now seems ready to budge. we believe that after chrysler has a little time to think about this, see the public reaction, they will do the right thing and recall the jeeps. this morning, though, chrysler insists that the vehicles are safe, not defective. and that no recall is necessary. frightening incident on a south florida highway. before we show it to you, we should say everyone involved is okay. caught on an officer s dash cam, on interstate 95. all of a sudden cut off by another car. the driver fell asleep behind the wheel. the officer suffered some bumps, bruises. his boss said the
and will leave the company april 1st. lot of eyes will be on research in motion when the black berry 10 is released this morning. investors could be digesting economic news. economic growth slowed sharply from october through december to an annual of 1.2% down from 3.1% in the third quarter. microsoft is rolling out a subscription service. it will be available for $100 a year. boeing was aware of problems with its drooem liner batteries before recent fires grounded their fleet of 878s. officials had to replace 10 batteries in planes but safety regulators were not informed because flights weren t cancel ed. a judge accepted a $4 billion settlement with bp in
marines will not lower physical standards for the battlefield adding, quote, that s not why american has a marine corps. the wall street journal, google has begun adding information to its maps of north korea. now you can find everything from street names to the location of the country s gulags. where are the nukes? google maps previously showed little detail inside the country because the regime notoriously guarded about that information. goog google s citizen cartographers filled in many of the details. officials at one japanese airline said ten of the batteries had to be replaced, but they did not report the issue to safety regulators because the batteries weren t considered a safety hazard. not good. that s not good at all, no. i don t like that. from our parade of papers, the biloxi sun herald, a
landings, that s the operation investigators blame for a near miss last week at reagan international airport in d.c. they say air traffic controllers directed planes to come in from the on sis direction to avoid the bad weather but that a miscommunication let three u.s. airways planes get dangerously close to each other. at a news conference last week investigators played a radio recording to explain exactly what happened. are you with me. yeah, with you on the river. 3329 turn south heading 180. the controller has just turned 2339 to turn south. you see something developing there. and a disaster was diverted when one plane swerved to get out of the way. federal safety regulators are looking to hammer american airlines with the largest fine they have ever imposed. this came out in documents and the airline s bankruptcy case. the f.a.a. is going after americans for more than $156 million for alleged problems with aircraft maintenance.
the rest still at dealers. company officials say in rare cases, the engines can catch fire. this cops after federal safety regulators announced they re investigating a possible defect with more than 700,000 ford escapes and mazda tributes. officials say they ve gotten reports those models can speed out of control. the feds report ago sharp increase in the number of americans fresh out of work. analysts warn that might not reflect what s really taking place. so let s start with the numbers. the labor department reports 34,000 more americans filed first-time claims for unemployment benefits last week. that s after a big drop the week before. here is the thing, those figures, like the ones we get every week, are seasonally adjusted. it s the government s attempt to factor out regular changes, like temporary layoffs of auto workers during the summer. jerry willis from fox business network joins us live. and the layoffs don t seem to be happening at all this year. it s interesting wha