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The judge says. >> dan, thank you very much. dan rivers here in london. the worlds largest carmaker gets the news its been hoping for. >> the jury is back. the verdict is in. there is no electronic-based cause for unintended, high-speed acceleration in toyotas. period. >> but does that mean a smooth road ahead for toyota from now on? well find out after the break. youve got the money, youve got the girls, why not just let it go? coming up, piers morgan asks the twins why theyre still hung oc...

There is no electronic-based cause for unintended high speed acceleration in toitds. >> this controversy not over. there are some who say that this is flawed. deb feyerick joins us now. some of the consumer groups say theres no way this many hit the gas instead of the brake. >> this is not over, not by a long shot. certainly not for thousands of people who say they could not stop the car from speeding out of control no matter how hard they pressed the brakes. nasa engineers scrutinized 280,000 l...

Carmaker, toyota. a minimum wage major report -- a major report had good news. findings handed toyota a big victory. >> reporter: for toyota motor corporation, vindication. >> the jury is back. the verdict is in. there is no electronic-based cause for unintended, high-speed acceleration in toyotas. period. >> reporter: the u.s. national highway traffic safety administration called their investigation of toyotas sticky gas pedals one of the most exhaustive research efforts ever undertaken. and it...

From cairo is in. and talks between the two koreas will collapse today. the meeting in the demilitarized zone was the first between the two countries since the north shelled a south korean island in november. now, the talks were designed to lead to high-level discussions between the two militariemilita. critics are questioning the governments report on runaway toyotas. engineers found no evidence in a glitch that caused toyotas to speed out of control. rather, misplaced floormats or driving ...

Throttle code to every conceivable scenario and they came up with nothing. in other words, the so-called electronic gremlin that so many lay people and trial lawyers swore existed and toyota swore didnt is indeed a myth. >> the jury is back. the vrd is in. there is no electronic-based cause for unintended high speed acceleration in toyotas. period. >> it will be interesting to see how these findings play out in the hundreds of lawsuits that toyota is facing over sudden acceleration. the study di...

Toyota vehicles the government did not find any problems that would cause the runaway accelerations which triggered the recall of millions of cars but the same sort of black, bos used in airplanes found that some gas pedals were getting stuck. this finding fueling a push to put the data recorders in all cars. steve centanni live in washington. why is the federal government now recommending those mandatory data reporters go into the car that you drive, steve? >> reporter: well, jon, ultimately th...

Pedal was never a cause of unintended acceleration. i dont know how it could be. >> toyota still faces hundreds of lawsuits over reports of unintended acceleration. also new this morning, they are known as the bell eight. these city officials from bell, california, this small little town who are getting salaries in the range of $300,000 to $400,000. had a lot of people scratching their laedz. at a preliminary hearing yesterday theyre trying to find out if they should be tried on corruption cha...

There is no electronic-based cause for unintended high-speed acceleration in toyotas. period. >> reporter: the ten-month study by the transportation department and nasa concluded there are just two problems that could cause throttle pedals to stick -- floor mats that trap the gas pedal and sticky pedals too slow to release. transportation secretary ray lahood says he stands behind that conclusion with his own family. >> i told my daughter she should buy the toyota siena, which she did. >> report...

Today it reetedz in part: and, interestingly, shep, the study found that sudden acceleration occurs in all makes of cars. as we have said in weeks past engineers found the most common cause of it to be people mashing their foot on the gas pedal instead of the brake pedal. shep? >> shepard: that would do it, doug mckelway in d.c. tonight. thanks. the states created the federal government, so the states can overrule the federal government. or thats the argument at least that some critics of the he...

Problems with the car. >> some floor mats entrap drivers gas pedals while vehicles were in motion. >> reporter: toyota recalled more than 5 million cars because of that problem. >> second, so-called sticky pedals made some toyota acceleration too slow to release. >> just took off. seemed like the more i hit the brake, the harder it wanted to accelerate. >> reporter: toyota only admitted to the sticky pedals after abc reported on this case of a new jersey driver whose car would not stop. toyota w...