A factor in that problem you alluded that it really does seem almost every week we got a new recall to report. if you re thinking, it s more than usual. i m thinking you re right because the u.s. auto industry has actually broken the annual record for safety recalls. it s only june. car companies have recalled more than $32 million vehicles in the u.s. this year. that breaks the industry s record of 30.8 recalls from 2004, brooke. that is what it was when i saw this annual record. as i point out we re just in june. overall, why are we seeing so many recalls? that is the money question, right? so you think about it with general motors has been going through. gm has a lot to do with these numbers. it is under intense scrutiny after it took ten years to recall millions of cars with that deadly ignition defect that was tied to at least 13 deaths. gm has gone ahead and changed its procedures. it is going back through its files and recalling cars for my
Step forward in getting back to the solid foundation and principles that our country was built on. indeed. here s hoping a lot of it or much of is is declassified, if not all. thank you so much for being here. we continue to monitor developments on capitol hill where gm ceo mary barra is testifying over the safety recalls. she admits red flags were raised ten years ago but has not said why action wasn t taken. stay with us, you are watching the reid report on msnbc. feel like my lips are going to, like, wash it off. these fit nicely. [ female announcer ] crest 3d white whitestrips keep the whitening ingredient in place, guaranteeing professional level results. crest whitestrips. the way to whiten. as a police officer, i ve helped many people in the last 23 years, but i needed help in quitting smoking. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix reduced the urge for me to smoke. it actually caught me by surprise. [ male
Boxer asked the four major car rental companies to sign a simple pledge. keep recalled cars off the rental lots until they re fixed. all but one company declined to make that promise. until they sign the pledge, tell your families not to go to those companies. tell your families that hertz is the only one that signed. representatives of enterprise, avis and dollar thrifty responded saying their companies address safety recalls in a timely fashion. but would still not sign the pledge. all three companies do support legislation to ensure safety and senator boxer will hold them to that and introduce formal legislation rather than a quick pledge in the next few weeks. rob and paula. thank you for that eye opening report. hertz. incomprehensible that that s going on. go, hertz, crazy. in health news, another
In. that is still sketchy. the police in mexico haven t said much. but contessa, if i could give you a quick recap. just so our viewers get a context of how violent northern mexico can be. just overnight in the last 24 hours, five people dead, six in durango, and three in sinala, that s when i did a preliminary recap over some of the violence that occurred in nornl mexico. these cartels want to be as close as possible to their clients that are u.s. drug consumers. jose, thank you so much for bringing us the story. i know you continue to check in on it. the results of a ten-month government investigation into runaway toyotas being released in a few hours. the obama administration s review of the automaker could reveal whether or not faulty electronics played a he ll in the safety recalls. since 2009 toyota pulled 11
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