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Effort until about 7:00 tonight. so, theyre still, watching, waiting, and hoping and hopefully sleeping as well, ali. >> all right, brooke, well check in with you again, brooke baldwin in naoma, west virginia, following the developments closely. well break in with any news if anything develops. toyota officials are back in the hot seat, some internal documents and e-mails about the sudden acceleration problem. well, it looks to some people like a smoking gun. maybe they knew more than they adm...

Were known in september but toyota waited four months until january to issue that recall. they now face a 16-million-dollar fine from the government, shep. that is a record. the largest ever for a car company. toyota has said that it makes safe and reliable cars that it is responding to consumers with honesty and integrity but, shepard, government investigators now have more than 70,000 toyota documents in their possession so likely we will hear more memos and emails coming out about what toyota...

"the daily rundown" at 9:00 eastern. >> did you see that yesterday? >> its amazing. >> i thought it looked a second like it was going to slip into, like, a times square thing. >> the space between them. chuck, thank you very much. >> it makes us uncomfortable. >> and chrystia freeland, thank you. great to see you. thanks for coming today. coming up, the other shoe drops for toyota. smacked with a record fine for how it handled this acceleration problem. and in a few minutes, the early years ...

At nasa at electromagnetic interference one of the problems with sudden a -- sudden acceleration problem is these electroning throttle systems toyota has. now going to look at whether solar nears stuff that sometimes interfears and with communication tvs cell phones in orbit. look to e sif impact on the software that runs the electronic propulsion system in your toyota. and its not just nasa the national academies of science are going to be looking at the potential for electromagnetic interferen...

Megyn: 1:32 here in the east, heres a quick look at the stories were watching for you. a new threat from osama bin laden, dollars al-qaeda leader saying in an audio recording al-qaeda will kill any captured american if the u.s. executes mastermind of 9/11, khalid shaikh mohammed. toyota names a new executive to head up the quality task force, this as investigations continue into what is behind the sudden acceleration problem in some of its vehicles. the underwater search in aruba for missing...

East. were live at the white house. prestigious universities accepting youtube videos as part of the application process, is that an effective way to gauge potential? we begin this morning with health care. can you join the trfrgs on the a.m. fix blog. cnn.com/am fix. a burning question toyota cannot seem to escape. it it an electronic problem causing the cars to come out of control? >> it could cost toyota billions of dollars to recall every vehicle. deb has been looking into it for a num...

Shows the sudden acceleration problem has been around far longer than the company would like to admit and past repairs had nothing to do with sticky gas pedals. drew griffin reports. >> reporter: this is the document from august 2002, nearly eight years ago. toyota had a sudden acceleration problem and that according to toyotas own service bulletin, the problem was electronic. >> if you look at this document, it says electronics. it says the fix is reprogramming the computer. it doesnt say anyth...

Days ago. you should be in the 60s, this is what it looked like two days ago. not just a dusting of snow, several inches. he said, a lot of the flowers in his yard were blooming until they were covered in white. the winter that doesnt want to go away. at least for the deep south, ths is the last we are going to see of this until next year. john, kiran? we will write thank you notes for that, im sure. >> its a rather precarious limb you have crawled out on there, rob. >> thats what we do. its cal...

Toyota using shareholders money to make deal and get people in the showroom because of the hit from the so-called acceleration problem. general motors is using taxpayer money. with have a bankruptcy code to deal with company like g.m. that overincentivized in the past and got themselveses in the mess. they should reorganize. every airline except for american airlines has gone through it. why shouldnt g.m.? >> eric: i have two guys that disagree with you and agree with each other. this is taxpaye...

But the director defending the agency. he says previous toyota complaints did not stand out compared to other automakers. he says the agency investigated complaints about the camry during the bush administration but did not find the defect since. since last fall toyota has recalled millions of cars to fix sticky accelerators. they have been linked to more than 50 deaths. toyotas problems on the highway may lead to the courthouse and a flood of lawsuits. i want to get right to the class action su...