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14 minutes after the hour. we are following a developing story for you this morning. a new terrifying account of a runaway ride in a toyota. >> the company is sending investigators to california where this happened. the driver claims he almost through over a hill down an embankment powerless to get the vehicle to stop no matter what he did. the prius was recalled not for accelerator issues. >> yeah, for breaks. so whether this is opening up a whole new can of worms is to be determined. if this i...

Issues. deb is following the latest. he claims he was literally standing on brakes and couldnt stop the prius. >> that is not first time somebody used that description to describe how to stop their vehicle. if it is sudden acceleration, toyota has a car they can analyzed to see exactly whats going on. the driver was cruising east on interstate 8 when he tried to slow to pass another vehicle. well sikes pushed down on pedal and says it does something kind of funny. it wouldnt come back. the car a...

Kidnapping children. but the future remains unclear for the groups leader who is still in jail. well have the latest coming up. first were following breaking news from columbus, ohio. where police say one person is dead and two others injured after a shooting took place on ohio state university campus. someone open fire from inside of a maintenance building according to reports. it was near the campus power plant. >> cnn affiliate, wcmh is reporting all people involved are campus employees. po...

About other drivers that described virtually the same thing, claiming their cars accelerated suddenly without warning. this could be a important development because what is different here, if this is sudden acceleration, toyota has a car that they can get into and analyze to see what is really going on. the driver was cruising east on interstate 8 outside the san diego area. he tried to pass a car that was going too slow and he pushed down on the gas pedal and the pedal stuck. it accelerated up ...

Pedals were previously a problem on the prius getting stuck on mat, but not in the accelerator. so we have lauren from buffalo, and we have been talked several times, and i did not realize until our earlier conversation that you are an expert on brakes. one of things that we are learning here is is that one ofe acceleration concern is that when you press on the gas pedal, something electronic makes it happen which is not a direct relationship as the brakes. particularly on the toyota prius, and ...

Sudden unintended acceleration, toyota may have a total different problem. ali? >> you hit the issue on the head. the car was under recall because of acceleration because of the floor mat that could stick, but largely the issue weve been talking about with priuses is a brake that doesnt react as fast. so if this prius, not related to the floor mat, had an accelerator that was sticking, and lets just not mince words, was a runaway vehicle, this takes us into another level with toyota. this is a d...

Anything. it stayed right where it was. he told me what to do and i was standing on the pedal, on the right pedal looking out the window at him. and he said, push the emergency brake too. i laid on both of them. and it finally started slowing down right then, down to like 55. it had been at 94, i know that. >> the california highway patrol officer was able to get his car in front of the prius helping it slow down. toyota issued the statement she have been notified and sent a field technical spec...

Interference, you cant help the electronic problem. thats where the problem comes in. keep in mind when mr. toyoda was speaking to all the congressional committees, he did say 70% of the cars that are out there that may need to be recalled for acceleration are not on the recall list. and this is obviously one of them, because steve wozniak had a problem and most likely toyota would be smart to purchase the car from a gentleman and get him to another toyota if they can for marketing purposes and ...

>> when i saw him, i could smell the brakes, i saw his brake lights coming on, so then my next idea was okay, maybe get up alongside him, use my public address system and try to talk tom, so he cracked his window, i was able to speak with him, and by his head movements i could tell he was hearing me and hopefully understanding what i was telling him to do. at that point i idea the idea of applying both the brakes and emergency brake in order to get as much friction as possible to stop the vehicl...