This is the cbs morning news for wednesday, october 22nd, 2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, this morning millions of drivers are wondering if a feature designed to keep them safe in their cars is actually putting them in danger, and theyre not getting much help from the Government Agency whose job it is to protect them. Last night the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration or nhtsa is warnin inwarning. But drivers are not getting their questions answered. The new warning covers more than 6 million vehicles in the united states. The problem for many is finding out if their car is affected. At last check a website set up to check your Vehicle Information is not working. Last night the agency updated its list of affected vehicles, however, on its website that still appears to contain mistakes. On monday they issued a consumer advisory urging drivers with takata air bags take immediate action. They were not getting their vehicles fixed. At least fou
A gunman storming the halls of parliament after killing a soldier standing guard at a war memorial. A suspect was shot and killed. Hes been using the name michael zehafbibeau. After converting to islam. It has happened again, another jumper over the white house fence. Another man jumped the fence but not before wrestling with a dog. Portland rains hit the area. Wind gusts hit 66 miles per hour. A noreaster storm is getting stronger as it moves into new england. A nurse monitored after treating an ebola patient in west africa. Meanwhile, amber vinson appears to be virus free. Kept two delta flights on the ground. No one on either plane injured. You guys may have been hit . I thought so. We may have been clipped. More than 3,000 athletes took noshow classes for nearly two decades. A baby bear. It wandered into a pharmacy in oregon. Its so cute. All that one mischievous toddler in tennessee. One minute he was playing around the toy machine and next thing he was in it. Hes such a monster b
Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, this morning millions of drivers are wondering if a feature designed to keep them safe in their cars is actually putting them in danger, and theyre not getting much help from the Government Agency whose job it is to protect them. Last night the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration or nhtsa is warnin inwarning. But drivers are not getting their questions answered. The new warning covers more than 6 million vehicles in the united states. The problem for many is finding out if their car is affected. At last check a website set up to check your Vehicle Information is not working. Last night the agency updated its list of affected vehicles, however, on its website that still appears to contain mistakes. On monday they issued a consumer advisory urging drivers with takata air bags take immediate action. They were not getting their vehicles fixed. At least four people have been killed and more than 30 injured by exploding
Of parliament after killing a soldier standing guard. A suspect whoas st and killed. Hes been using the name michael zehalfbibeau. Another man jumped the fence but not before wrestling with a dog and kicking another. Portland rains hit the area. Wind gusts hit 66 mileser p hour. A family is under quarantine for signs of the ebola virus. Meanwhile amber vinson appears to be virus free. They kept two flights on the ground. No one was injured. You guys may have been hit . I thought so. We may have been clipped. More than 3,000 athletes took noshow classes for nearly two ca dedes. A baby bear. It wandered i pharmacy in oregon. Its so cute. All that one misshe ch vus toddler in tennessee. One minute he was playing around the toy machine and next thing he was in i love him. Royals take game two. And all that matters. The big protest continues to go on in hong kong. Things were rear. The protesters were visited by kenny g. He played three notes and hong kong immediately surrendered. Chewbacca
When you hear them singing. Theyre so good, so good. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Were going to begin tonight with an Important Development in a story weve been investigating, a potentially deadly defect in millions of vehicles. Today federal safety regulators urged owners to have their air bags fixed after a fourth fatality. Today toyota added nearly 250,000 vehicles to that recall list. But this goes way beyond toyota. An Auto Safety Group estimates that as many as 25 million vehicles may be equipped with the defective air bags. Jeff glor has been following this and he has these late developments. Report the air bags in question are made by takata, and theyve been subject to a spiraling series of recalls that this year reached more than 11 million. The problem the air bags can explode, sending metal shrapnel flying through the vehicle. We spoke to stephanie erdman, who barely survived. Instant blindness on my right s