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Found one that happened way back in 20005. >> craig, so this is the big concern and many people want to know is this recall going to happen? >> the prius is -- toyota is saying they plan on recalling about 300,000 priuses. they are going to make the announce am next week. the problem is they are going to make the reca recall have to do the accelerators sticks under the matt. but these people are saying it has nothing to do with the sticky medical or the mats. thats something that has to pick it ...

He went on the internet and found one that happened way back in 20005. >> craig, so this is the big concern and many people want to know is this recall going to happen? >> the prius is -- toyota is saying they plan on recalling about 300,000 priuses. they are going to make the announce am next week. the problem is they are going to make the reca recall have to do the accelerators sticks under the matt. but these people are saying it has nothing to do with the sticky medical or the mats. thats so...

Announce yet another recall. cnn money.coms poppy harlow joining me from new york. poppy, weve been talking floor mat issues, sticky accelerators, now problems with the prius. what is the deal? >> we are on to the brakes in the prius. this is something, brook, weve been hearing about since last week. we want to give you the latest if youre a prius owner. heres what you need to know. you may hear from toyota early this week according to a number of different news reports they may issue a recall f...

Insulating the lexus brands. it is put in the cross hairs alongside toyota and that is what they are fighting to a void. >> now, the president of the company comes out and makes this apology and says we are going to take a closer look at it but does not say what they will do about the safety problem. they are starting to repair the accelerators and asked people if you have the floor mats in the models affected, there is eight total, get them out and dont put them back. on the brakes on the prius...

Others. >> we know the national highway safety administration launched investigations tied to these specific complaints? do you think we should have known more earlier? what could they have done in mandeling this? >> this is the issue we want to discover, should they have handled it differently. we asked for records starting back in 2000. we had reports some of these were documented maybe as early as 2004 and three. it is not just confined to this country but also in europe and in europe they ha...

And so on. also criminal penalties. if there were criminal penalties that would allow the executives to be put in jail if they covered up an issue, then i think you would see a very different outcome in many of these investigations. >> let me also ask you, if i read this to be true, the last time regulations said accelerators were updated, which was, of course, the source of this 8 million vehicle recall, the last time they were updated was more than 30 years ago? >> right. 1973 that standard wa...

Take out the drivers side floor mat to prevent gas pedal jamming. in october toyota recalled about 3.8 million vehicles because of the floor mat issue and even expanded that about a month later. then in january, recalling 2.3 million other vehicles because of a different problem causing accelerators to stick and stopped production of eight different models here in the u.s. now, yesterday came reports of brake problems with the popular prius. were going to try and make sense of all this this morn...

Electronic components that are in these cars. >> reporter: toyota denies the electronics in its accelerators are faulty saying "we have found no evidence of a problem with our electronic throttle control system." >> man, theres a company with big problems. boy genius -- >> a real branding nightmare. the real problem is toyota had this extraordinary brand. right? this made gm in detroit looks like a joke. now you have this other issue. it just looks like they didnt address the problem head-on ear...

>> start your over again. i intend to call mr. toyota and talk to him about this issue. our concern about it. i intend do that in next couple of days. we are considering civil penalties. >> there is the transportation secretary, ray lahood. he said people should stop driving their recalled toyotas. now coming out to clarify saying hes not suggesting people should stop driving them altogether but instead should drive them right to their toyota dealerships to have those sticky accelerators replace...

Hidden under ore cloak while in h line at a security checkpoint for shiite pilgrims. the father of a man charged in the alleged terrorist bomb plot in new york city has been indicted for conspiracy to obstruct justice. the father accused of destroying chemicals and other evidence in the investigation of his son, nauj bull sauzsy. toyota promising repair parts for its 2.3 million recalled vehicles in the u.s. should arrive at dealers this week. the sticky accelerators will be fitted with a st...