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Handle safety recalls. and then the government will drop the prosecution. but gm clearly hopes and mary barra clearly hopes this will close this chapter. this has consumed her first year as the first female ceo of a global auto maker. and as one analyst said, she could now turn her attention to running the company. thank you very much. still ahead, shutdown showdown. i ll talk to a democratic congresswoman, and white house welcomed president obama meets with three americans honored for bravery on a train in europe. also, air marshall sex scandal. allegations that marshalls used government phones to tape encounters with prostitutes. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it s a fact. kind of like shopping hungry equals overshopping.
reporter: lawyers suing the guardrail company, saying a slight modification in the design saved a few dollars but created a dangerous flaw. makes all the difference in the world. reporter: this animation shows what the lawyers say can happen with the modified version. and missouri said it is stopping further use of the guard rails. and massachusetts said it will halt their use while they investigation. these are two states that take safety seriously. we re hoping we ll see more states do the same. reporter: trinity industries insists the guard rails are safe, they ve passed crash tests and meet federal standards. these guard rails are in almost every state in the country. and to remove them all would be one of the largest safety recalls ever. brian ross, abc news, new york. that guard rail, they are saying the end of the guard rail they shrunk it from 5 inches to 4 inches. it saved $50,000 and that s one of the reasons there are these deaths now. to cut costs by $50,000.
reporter: lawyers suing the guardrail company, saying a slight modification in the design saved a few dollars but created a dangerous flaw. makes all the difference in the world. reporter: this animation shows what the lawyers say can happen with the modified version. and missouri said it is stopping further use of the guard rails. and massachusetts said it will halt their use while they investigation. these are two states that take safety seriously. we re hoping we ll see more states do the same. reporter: trinity industries insists the guard rails are safe, they ve passed crash tests and meet federal standards. these guard rails are in almost every state in the country. and to remove them all would be one of the largest safety recalls ever. brian ross, abc news, new york. that guard rail, they are saying the end of the guard rail they shrunk it from 5 inches to 4 inches. it saved $50,000 and that s one of the reasons there are these deaths now. to cut costs by $50,000.
well, i think one of the things they re trying to do is to show that they re more reliable partners than the united states. they re going to be providing fighter jets, they say, which the iraqis need. they re going to be supplying advisers. and i think that this goes back to super power politics. this is like cold war, third-world colonialism. it s fascinating, but i don t think they re going to have much of an effect. all right. bob, thank you. appreciate you being here. thank you. okay. coming up, facebook s mood experiment that has privacy advocates in a really bad mood. but first, a reid alert to pass along. general motors announced today it will conduct six new safety recalls in the united states involving about 7.6 million vehicles from 1997 to the 2014 model year. now, this as the nation s largest automaker will begin paying the price for faulty ignition switch defects that killed at least 13 people. gm announced today a plan to pay at least $1 million to each of the vic