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Patti ann: they say deal was very drunk that might. a s.w.a.t. team had to be called to get him out of his home. he finally surrendered and is charged with aggravated assault. a big dealtment between toyota and hundreds of drivers suing or accelerator problems. the deal worth more than a billion dollars would be the largest settlement in history even srofl involving cardieffects. lori rothman joins us live with more. >> reporter: this settlement one of the largest in the automotive industry. toy...

Whether the u.s. was ready to deal with a nuclear iran. meantime, ahmadinejad says iran is so strong, no country would thing of attacking it. toyota is expected to agree a record $16.4 million fine for not reporting sticky gas pedals when it should have. the automaker waited four months to report accelerator problems in some of its vehicles. by law they have five business days to report any kind of potential problem or defect. officials will not say that the fine shields toyota from criminal o...

Show. still ahead here, new york city mayor michael bloomberg on the set of "morning joe." and toyota accepts responsibility for the accelerator problems. plus, sports. we are going to be right back on "morning joe." [ whistling ]

Gas pedals. the call from one executive came back in january five days before a huge recall. his message was clear. we need to come clean. our deb feyerick is tracking the developments for us this morning. she joins us now. so this was an executive that said, we need to make changes? >> those words, we have to come clean gets a lot of attention. it is clear that toyota executives were scrambling to find out the best way to deal with their huge accelerator problems. one of the companys top public...

>> five days before toyota announced a massive recall a u.s. based executive wrote in an internal e-mail the company needed to come clean about accelerator problems. the a.p. reportedly -- reporting irv miller of v.p. for public affairs saying we are not keeping our customers by keeping this quiet. they say there was no electronic cause of the unintended acceleration. >> meanwhile, lets accelerate to the weather map and find out whats going on. after a downright hot day yesterday, it is going to...

Break. it is becoming apparently clear that toyota executives were scrambling to figure out the best way to deal with their huge accelerator problems. one of the companys top public relations executives warned toyota that it needed to come clean about the sticking pedals. they were saying that toyota was not protecting our customers by keeping quiet about this. pretty serious language. in an e-mail about the recently retired vice president for public affairs, he writes, we may have a ten den sen...

Some new details coming to light about toyotas timeline in dealing with its acceleration issues. those details are coming from toyotas own internal documents. deb feyerick has been looking through some of them. some people saying that theres something of a smoking gun in there. deb? >> well, do you know what it is, its e-mails, and its e-mails that really show the thinking of toyota officials, not only here in the u.s., but in toyota in japan. pretty strong words coming from inside toyota, the c...

Thats how they make a living. its just west virginia. >> and a reminder, were expecting a news conference from west virginia any minute now. well bring it to you live as soon as it starts. this isnt going to look very good to toyota. its a warning to toyota executives from one of their own made just before millions of cars were recalled for accelerator problems. quote, we are not protecting our customers by keeping this quiet. the time to hide on this one is over. we need to come clean. that e...

In accelerator problems. the time to hide is over. it was sent in january, days before the massive recall. toyota had failed to alert u.s. regulators even though the automaker was already busy addressing the sticky pedestrian tall problem in other countries and canada for about three months. he spoke about the disconnect between the u.s. and other countries a week ago at the inauguration of toyotas committee for global quality. >> because we are not perfect, we didnt share the experience we had ...

And eastern parts of massachusetts. a threat for seeing flooding until the rain moves out. 1 to 3 inches total. 75 in dallas, 59 in kmik chick and 56 in new york. warming up to 63 in atlanta. after the snow flakes flying around this time yesterday morning. john and kiran well talk more weather in a couple minutes its spring, its changing. >> one to three inches in some parts of new jersey, thats enough to cause more flooding. they say the rivers are full and the ground walter is saturated and no...