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Vehicle that mike just talked to us about? >> yes, we are. we have not heard from toyota. we filed the soot yesterday and i dont know if their lawyers have been assigned or picked yet. we are in the process of conducting a very serious investigation with a team of experts ive used in prior cases. >> toyota actually we contacted them and they gave us a very brief response to this lawsuit saying we do not comment on pending litigation. michael, let me ask you, when did you suspect it was part of t...

Country, which we have to do, we have to close what i call the opportunity gap and get great, great talent into communities that need that help and those students that need that support. very, very important for us to do. >> nothing is more important than educating the nations young kids and not so young kids at the same time. mr. secretary, thanks very much for coming in. good luck. >> thanks so much for having me. take care now, wolf. to our viewers, youre in "the situation room." happening ...

Accidents, 911 calls, bad times. >> reporter: youre exactly right. this goes back years. but when you look at the recent history, lets take october. october is when toyota says that it first got the reports of this problem. they spent about the next 90 days looking in-depth at what the problem could be and finding a fix. then it was just two weeks ago almost exactly that they came out and they told us what the problem was and then just yesterday they came out publicly, the head of toyota u.s., t...

First heard about the problem in october. they took about the next 90 days to assess the issue. they said, come up with the solution. that was key. they didnt talk about it publicly then. january 21st, two weeks ago, thats when we, the public, heard about this millions of toipts recalled in the toyotas recalled in the u.s., and many more globally. its been two weeks since then and then the head of toyota u.s. came out on national television and announced the fix they have. and at the end of this...

2010 vehicles affected, they dont have the ignition switch, they have a push button. >> on the push to start ignition system, you push it and hold it for more than three seconds, that will cut off the power to the engine, and youll do the same exact thing, shift from drive position to neutral and steer the vehicle safely to a shoulder. to come to a complete stop. >> now, thats what you can do on the road if something happens when that accelerator does give you that kind of unintended acceleratio...

Frequently. [running water] for the latest information in flu prevention tips, please visit flu.gov. in flu prevention tips, please visit flu.gov.is >> from americas news headquarters i am patty ann brown. toyota is launching a media blitz tomorrow. a top executive announcing how a potentially dangerous problem with gas pedals will be fixed. the car maker recalled millions of vehicles to repair accelerator pedals that could get stuck and could cause a sudden acceleration. sales of the cars and t...

From new york. is toyota giving any guarantees about the repairs? >> toyota believes it has the problem isolated. the repair it said to its dealer its going to start making by the end of the week, that it will take care of cases of unintended acceleration. we dont know if it will take care of toyotas unintended acceleration for months if not years. the part of the problem here is that people are reporting, listen, i have unintended acceleration and i may have crashed my vehicle or i may have com...

>> we have been inundated with e-mails saying i was driving a particular model of a toyota and it crashed. i think its unintended acceleration. do we know it was? no. it could have been for other causes. people are going to come out of the woodwork and say i believe toyota is responsible for this particular accident. we do know that the federal government is investigating toyota in many instances to see if there is an actual cause of unintended acceleration. toyota says, we believe the sticking ...

Judge today or not. the baptist group was arrested for trying to move orphans to the dominican republic without proper papers. and toyota is rushing to train mechanics on how to fix the pedal problem that led to that massive recall and blamed for multiple crashes and deaths. >> and actually, toyota tops our morning mash, news from the world of sound bites. jim lents, president of toyotas u.s. sales told "todays" matt lauer that the companys fast-growing nature could have created some quality i...

>> it is on the pedal assembly itself where the pedal when it comes down may be slow to return. >> so far, 19 deaths attributed to unintended acceleration in toyotas, resulting in a complete freeze in sales of eight toyota models, if the as the company tries to recruitingtify the problem. >> accelerate by putting my right foot down on the accelerator. the throttle is stuck open and i will hate the brakes. we are slowing down but we get down to a relatively low speed and the car is continuing to ...