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Want to call it that, will affect the resale and leasing value of these cars, consumers will look elsewhere, and its very expensive to draw the consumers back. because its always cheaper to keep the existing customer. >> hold on, you were talking about the value of the car, theres something else i wanted to talk about. but lets get to peter right now. the problem keeps growing, the latest developments there. the transportation secretary says he feels toyota didnt act quickly enough and there are...

Wouldnt you think they want to share it with the department of transportation? who approves brake hoses and lines and torque stuff and they communicate with the society of auto engineers? a lot of communication going on there. if there is a complaint of a car unintendingly intel rating or a brake problem you think they want to talk about a safety feature like that. >> stuart: i want to alert you with something that is the worst piece of publicity i heard in my life. there is a 911 call. its chil...

Shows the economy has lost 8.4 million jobs since the start of the recession in december 2007. for the first time, toyotas chief executive is apologizing for the safety problems affecting his companys cars. but at the same time, a japanese transportation official is criticizing toyota, saying the company is not taking the prius brake problem seriously enough. and what we like to call snow-pocalypse. a major werent storm already dumping snow on parts of the carolinas. as much as 2 feet of sno...

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...

Our debra feyerick live in los angeles looking into the serious new question about the automakers plan to fix the millions of cars already recalled. but we begin with kyung lah live in tokyo where toyota just went public with the big brake problem weve been talking about with the prius. good morning, kyung. >> reporter: good morning, kiran. its not a big problem if you listen to toyota executives, but it is definitely a problem. were talking about the third generation prius, known in the united ...

If there were orders on their books, theyd hire. they wouldnt care about the other stuff. these are all -- all of these things we hear, theres not enough small business lending, they tend to be small things. they are not the big things that people assume when they hear it talked about. if we could only get money falling from the banks to small businesses, because small businesses create all jobs, this problem would be solved. trust me. a, thats not the biggest problem, and b, they wont be solved...

Majority in history. whats the problem? >> when we had 60 votes, we didnt really have 60 votes in the sense he had to negotiate so hard for the last couple of votes. the significance of the massachusetts election was the overreaction to it, especially on the part of some democrats. the seating of scott brown -- >> some of them in the white house themselves talk about changing the whole state of the union on a dime. >> i think the president in the end ended up in the right place, refused to retre...

Confirmed hes negotiating for his client to surrender to police. beaches are open but concern is high after a deadly shark attack in florida, the first in five years. new video of more large groups of sharks near the coast. and it is one thing for a company to shell out an insane amount of money for a super bowl ad, but should millions of dollars and taxpayer money really be used to remind americans to stand up and be counted? its our crossing the line today. it may be hard to believe at t...

Interfering with the brakes. 2.3 million recalled in january because we had the accelerator sticking, the gas pedal sticking. we have 270,000 worldwide priuss because of braking problems and toyota has a very big problem. >> weve seen brands deal with these problems before. toyota has always been such a great brand. now they have to figure out what r their straench is. people are going to ask questions on the hill, they already are. when did you know, what did you know and when did you know it? ...

Will gain broad support. >> max backus is joining it now. and kelly odonnell, nbcs capitol hill correspondent and steve covering business for the economy in the "washington post." lets take a look at the big picture numbers. todays new jobless claims and what we might expect tomorrow in the unemployment figures. how much of a setback is this to white house hopes to turn this thing around? >> well, andrea, i think we all have to sort of take a deep breath and understand something, which is that g...