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Havent been able to replicate any incidents of sudden acceleration in this recall. toyota says theyve got to look further into this claim, so theyre going to keep digging into it, and this could get messier from here. and this guy sikes and his attorney say they have no plans to sue toyota at this time. but this is getting uglier as we go. >> so still a lot of questions around this. >> absolutely. tumplts, brian. mary snow is monitoring some of the other top stories coming into the "the situat...

This car and stop the car. federal investigators have been examining that car. toyota technicians looking at it, too. and according to a draft congressional memo, the feds couldnt find the reason for any unintended acceleration. they couldnt make it happen themselves. meantime, toyota has got a pretty big news conference coming up in 90 minutes where it is going to address the testing. i told you we would have a car mechanic coming on to talk about this. lauren is her name. lauren fix is here to...

Investigation. there were some inconsistencies, but thats preliminary and i want to see the final report. >> phil lebeau joins me now. what do you expect to hear from toyota officials today? >> i think theyll say they looked at the car and say this incident could not be replicated by engineers and has serious questions about whether mr. sykes was driving a car that could not be slowed down. thats the problem with these cases. its very hard to prove one way or the other. its not uncommon. post su...

Has been, quote, regrettable. should have turned around and gone home. toyota will hold a news conference in san diego to release early findings in the sudden case of acceleration by a prius owner last week. government officials are saying this morning they cannot explain the incident. according to a memo from a congressional panel, investigators could not replicate the sudden intended acceleration claims by prius owner james sikes who said his cars accelerator stuck last week. memo also says ...

Leadership. in washington, shannon bream, fox news. >> bret: the wife of senate majority leader harry reid is back home after being seriously hurt in a car accident thursday. landra reid underwent surgery for injuries including broken back, neck and nose. the minivan she was in was rear-eneded by a tractor trailer. their adult daughter sustained minor injuries and released from the hospital thursday night. the ntsb says the engineers have not been able to explain the reported sudden high-speed a...

At one point they got the car up to speed, hit both the break and accelerator. hit it while the accelerator was going and the prius reacted exactly as its designed to react, which is slow down. that runs counter to what he said last week, that it was going 90 miles an hour, went 30 miles where he could not control the vehicle. all his claims were not refuted but couldnt be duplicated. well hear from toyota. it raises the question, did this actually happen. we should point out the brakes were com...

Acceleration but the drivers attorney says damage to the brakes shows his client is telling the truth. im marianne rafferty. now, back to "geraldo at large." for all your latest headlines, > go to fox news.com. >> it is beyond crazy what i have done in my life to myself. >> oxycontin, percodan, percocet, cocaine which i got into at a young age. >> corey haim got that right he didnt wake up. the lost boys an the two coreys will be buried in native toronto. his unsurprising death and illegal and m...

I went to great lengths to haul their chairman from japan before our committee. but at the same time, when our best minds work side by side with their engineers and cannot find a problem i think we have to move on to the next report and the next report and continue to be diligent but recognize that not every claim thats made of acceleration being the cars fault is going to be. >> right. and you cant obviously spend or probably dont want to spend time chasing every alleged incident but for your p...

Wear and damage from overheating. the rear brakes and parking brake were functional. the push button power switch worked normally and shut the vehicle off when depressed 3 seconds as the 911 operator advised the driver to do. the shift lever worked normally an neutral could be selected. the neutral position is clearly marked and easily engaged by moving the lever left to the n position. there were no diagnosistic trouble codes more are nor the malfunction indicator light activated. self diagnosi...

>> sure, theres been a real spike in claims of what are known to the federal regulators as speed control problems with toyotas. up until about august of 2009, toyota had just about as many complaints to the feds as any other automaker. then there was a horrific accident in near san diego in which four people were killed that got a lot of publicity. after that toyota did a recall and complaints spiked to more than five or six times what they had been before. part of that is simply due to addition...