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Hill. >> reporter: jon, three toyota executives will testify before a senate panel this afternoon. toyota initially standing by its original opinion that the sudden unintended acceleration problems are not caused by car electronics. the department of transportation now says 52 people have died in such accidents. thats an updated figure. jon? >> jon: it is a battle of the gop titans in the texas race for governor, chris gutierrez, live in dallas. >> reporter: hi there, jon. texas governor rick pe...

Taking two trips to caribbean paid for by corporate sponsors. toyota officials were back on capitol hill for third round of questioning by lawmakers and federal authorities now say 52 people died due to sudden acceleration of vehicles up from 34. toyota today reported the february domestic sales were down 9% from a year ago. general motors was out-sold by ford last month for the first time in a dozen years. g.m. says it is recalling 1.3 million chevrolet and pontiac compact cars to fix power ste...

This past week. they stand out. there are other problems with other cars certainly. but for some reason the problems with the toyota sudden acceleration exceed all others. for that reason we focused on them. theres no reason we wont focus on others. >> not enough has been done. until toyota actually says weve fixed the problem or well buy your cars back, this is going to continue. >> you dont see this story going away any time soon? >> not after this past week. >> fred francis, brian ross in new...

Last november. there were 2,000 complaints at that time about accelerating toyota cars. including that fatal accident in california. what made you decide to jump in then before there were any major recalls before this became a huge deal? >> because we began to develop information that it was more than floor mats. they blamed that california crash on a floor mat. that was one of the problems. there were other problems from other owners who we talked to as fred was referring, a kind of owners rebe...

One, i think people are losing significant confidence in their brand. and in fact, you can see brand loyalty decline six points over the last -- since this crisis happened. and i think thats going to continue to happen and youre going to see customers look for comfort. because once you lose trust, its very, very difficult to gain it back and it takes a tremendous amount of time to build that brand loyalty. and now that brand loyalty based on trust, based on quality, based on efficiency and depen...

Hard look as nitsa at toyota and electronics. if there is an underlying root problem and thats where it is, it will cause everybody to be more careful in designs they do for the backup systems. >> juliet: toyota, theyre insisting that the problems theyve been having with unintended acceleration for example doesnt have to do with the electronelectronics. thats what they say. you have folks from the other side, lawmakers and others saying not so fast on that. what is your feeling? >> well, we dont...

Senators kyl and menendez and hearing more from congressman paul ryan, 6:00 eastern on fox. well, the head of toyota motor company is travelling to worlds largest auto market: china. akio toyoda will speak to reporters in beijing tomorrow. as he tries to limit all the damage from a massive global recall. the trip follows toyotas appearance in -- toyodas appearance in washington last week where he was grilled by lawmakers. hes not the only one taking tough questions in the hearings and those to...

Three people dead. convicted, vehicular homicide. he said he tried to stop the car but the brake did not work. and lee feels his case has traction. >> i hope they get to the bottom of it and find the truth if the boy is instant. >> his camry was a 96, not part of the recent recall, but toyota did recall some of them a few years ago because the cruise control could cause unwanted acceleration. and right now lee is serving an 8 year prison sentence. we talked to him about the moment that sent him ...

I mean, where does this stand? where do you go from here? >> well, were putting together a three-pronged approach here. we do still fortunately have the vehicle he was driving being held by the police department and has been held since 2006. obviously its been out in the elements and has not been kept indoors so were going to be looking at that vehicle first hopefully with the goal of pointing to a defect. that will be the strongest evidence. however, were also looking at putting together expert...

Behind bars. >> i stepped on the brakes but theyre not working. i yelled to my family that the brakes are not working. >> his are among a growing number of cases getting attention after toyota admitted problem with his sudden acceleration. house speaker nancy pelosi is beating the drum of health care reform. she spoke a short time ago about her two main takeaways of yesterdays so-called bipartisan summit. >> we have to go beyond the status quo. it was clear also that the republ republicans wer...