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Who died, but the families have to give up their right to sue. are the families youve spoken to willing to do this? >> not all of them. theyre going to consider it, most of them, see what theyre offered. but one family the melton who lost their 29-year-old brook melton in one of the crashes who we spent a lot of time with said its not about any amount of money this is about our day in court. they want to take gm to court, not settle. really important technical but punitive damages, john r not in...

More of this weeks headlines, recall them headlines redefined because they got the story only half right. first from "the wall street journal", gm fires 15 employees over recall failures. gms report written by a former u.s. attorney was released this week about the whole ignition fiasco. it was 315 pages long. theyve taken ownership thus far of 54 crashes and 13 fatalities. 15 were fired but theres one engineer whose name is 200 times referenced in that report, and this one engineer approved the...

Was wasnt the problem fixed? well, a 2005 memo cited by lawmakers said it was because redesigning the ignition switch would have cost 90 cents per car. theres still much to determine, but the reason mary barra, the ceo of gm just testified this week, begins with the meltons and their search for truth. and the sleuthing of an engineer named mark hood, hired by their lawyer. it was hood who pierced together that the original part from brook meltons car did not bought store bought replacement despi...

Thinking about it. ken and beth melton were my guest on tuesday night talking about the loss of their daughter, brook. it happened four years ago this week. brook was a nurse. it was her 29th birthday. and four days prior, her 2005 chevy cobalt shut off while she was driving. she lost control of the power steering and her brakes. then had the car serviced at the dealership. they returned it to her saying all was fixed. then or her birthday, she was traveling on highway 92 in palding county, geor...

It happened four years ago this week. brook was a nurse. it was her 29th birthday. and four days prior, her 2005 chevy cobalt shut off while she was driving. she lost control of the power steering and her brakes. then had the car serviced at the dealership. they returned it to her saying all was fixed. then or her birthday, she was traveling on highway 92 in palding county, georgia. it was a rainy night, she was driving 58 miles an hour and there was a collision. the accident report said she los...

Four days prior. in their lawsuit, it was revealed that gm was aware of the program, even before the car was sold to brook in 2005. was wasnt the problem fixed? well, a 2005 memo cited by lawmakers said it was because redesigning the ignition switch would have cost 90 cents per car. theres still much to determine, but the reason mary barra, the ceo of gm just testified this week, begins with the meltons and their search for truth. and the sleuthing of an engineer named mark hood, hired by their ...

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