the company is recalling 600,000 sienna minivans due to possible corrosion in the cable. the recall affects sienna models between 1998 and 2010. the automaker says rust from road salt could cause the cable to snap and break. toyota has due my indicated handling problems with a popular lexus suv. consumer reports issued a rare don t buy warning because of the rollover concerns. the automotive edit or talked about the latest trublsz on the today show. we found when we pushed the gsx-460. the rear end split very far out in the electronic stability control couldn t regain in control. if it would happen in real life, it could slide off the pavement and lead it a rollover. toyota is evaluating solutions to the problem with
uptick in 2011. in normal times, home values appreciate 4% a year. we took that for granted. maybe this is the new norm. a lot of adjustments here. all right, vera, thank you. more trouble for toyota this morning. the company is recalling 600,000 sienna minivan. the recall affects sienna models between 1998 and 2010 driven in cold weather regions. it s duplicating handling problems with the lexus gx 460. consumer reports issued a rare don t buy warning because of rollover concerns. toyota says it is evaluating remedies. well, some powerful spring storms make for a messy start this weekend. in pittsburgh, thunderstorms downed several trees causing widespread power outages affecting as many as 70,000 residents. that spread debris throughout
consumer reports issued a rare don t buy warning because of rollover concerns. toyota said it s evaluating remedies. a wisconsin man may have found a piece of the meteor that cut through the midwestern sky this week. residents from wisconsin to iowa spotted the streaking space rock. the scientists are examining the recovered fragment which is about the size of an unshelled peanut. earlier reports indicate it could be from an asteroid belt between mars and jupiter. some active weather this weekend. a strong storm knocked out power to more than 10,000 people in the ohio valley on friday. thunderstorms and high winds downed trees and power lines and caused damage to several homes. and it s looking more like winter in parts of the northeast. in the town of hanover, new hampshire, received a couple inches of snow on friday. a couple weeks ago the temperatures were in the 80s. let s check in with the weather channel s alex wallace who joins us from atlanta. alex, good morning again.
in terms of the massive expanse of this volcanic ash and in the cloud, it traveled so far and wide, how common is this? these eruptions occur fairly often in iceland and else where. they usually occur in areas that aren t quite so populated. the usgs monitors over 100 active volcano mostly in alaska. they impact air space but don t close down airports. i m curious, bill, if i remember correctly you and i were speaking on the air yesterday and you mentioned this particular volcano erupted back in the 1900s and flight travel was not a problem then, obviously. but do we know the expanse of the cloud then? would it compare to what we re seeing today? i don t think we know that. the iceland geologists could answer that by analyzing the deposits on the ground. and i m not sure what their
parent company of lexus. consumer reports is issuing a rare don t buy warning for the 2010 lexus gx 460. the tests on the new luxury suv uncovered severe rollover risks during concerns. they re also calling on toyota to fix the problem with the lexus model quickly. in holding off on that european vacation, if the dollar forecast is true, you ll be getting a lot more bang for your buck overseas in the next year. market strategists predict a rise in u.s. interest rates will boost the dollar against the euro, dropping the euro to $1.32 by june, $1.27 by september. if you re not going to europe until next march, look at. this the euro would only be worth $1.25 u.s. so things getting better. and a summit to think about the unthinkable. president obama s nuclear security conference wraps up to day in washington. it brought leaders from 47 different countries and the focus, keeping nuclear weapons