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Its 24 minutes past the hour. minding your business this morning, strong earnings and microsofts deal to buy skype pushed stocks higher for the third day in a row. the dow closed up 76 points, the nasdaq and s&p were higher. toyota reporting its fourth-quarter profit slid 77%. this after japans devastating earthquake forced the largest car maker to stop production at a number of plants. gm, though, is now hiring. the automaker says it plans to create or preserve the way they put it, 4,000 jobs i...

James? >> reporter: jenna, good afternoon. were all familiar with how henry ford developed the assembly line production method in the early 20th century. more recently it has been a japanese car maker that has pioneered the next evolution on lean manufacturing. in essence, it streamlines the assembly line so that everyone involved in a given project from designers to suppliers to sales people, even marketers truly work together in the same space keeping inventory to a minimum and delivering the ...

To $113.93 a barrel. and gasoline jumped almost 2.5 cents a gallon overnight. the national average is now $3.91. ♪ ♪ >> bret: on the road to recovery tonight. getting a leaner and meaner -- getting leaner and meaner to save jobs and money. correspondent james rosen tells us about a 21st century approach to decades-old practice. >> reporter: century after henry ford developed the assembly line to manufacturer model-ts, japanese car maker, toyota, pioneered the newest evolution of the concept....

Investigators.com says the expected price hike the result of higher gas prices and rising demand for flights. >> overnight new news from fare compare.com the 11th fare hike this year is under way. usually takes a day to find out if the airlines match it f they dont it fails. >> couple months ago on minding your business f youre going to buy tickets for the summer buy now. >> carmen told us about a friend who commutes to two cities and bought 12 tickets for the rest of the year. by the way, we ta...

Has not materialized. now particular can take great credit, unemployment is not 10%. its close to 9%. in the inner cities its double that. the people who supported him the most are the ones who are most hurt. he will have a tough record because its devoid of accomplishment. megyn: i have to leave it at that. >> against who? thats the question. megyn: well leave it at that. thank you both. fox news alert coming in about toyota in connection with this quake in japan. the car maker is going to have...

Absorbed two thirds of the annual quota that you should in terms of safety levels. thats got people very, very worried. the government said it didnt release the data because it wasnt sure exactly where these levels were coming from nor indeed how high they were. increasing become concerned that the government and electric -- >> shepard: disaster may force toyota to shut down its factories in north america at least temporarily. thats a job concern for everyone. a company spokesman blaming a short...

. there was a voluntary recall of vw jettas last year and this month. thats 71,000 cars. the car maker says there could be a problem with the wiring layout and honking the horn could cause the engine to shut down completely. there have been no accidents involving this problem. a fix would take about one hour. call your dealer. michigans dealer has good news for his states unemployed workers. federal jobless benefits will keep on coming this year. next year, well talk about that. in fact, the...

On wednesday. the capital boost for the debt ridden car maker will help pave the way for the merger with volkswagen. well, charles, your markets are looking much better than how we ended up here in the asia-pacific region. most of the indexes ended lower. the nikkei down by .6%. tokyo electric power was the big downer there. it closed down more than 18%. of course, tepco is the company that operates the damaged nuclear power plant. the shanghai composite was up by about .2%. the financial stoc...

Theyve been relocated to neighboring prefectures. local authorities say 25 of those people have died in the shelters, most of them were elderly hospital patients. welcome back, youre watching "world business today" live on cnn. the natural disasters in japan are affecting business operations right around the world. heres just one example of that. if youre heading off to a nissan dealer, besides your wallet you should take an account. its monitoring vehicles made in japan for traces of radioa...

Next week you could be paying $1,000 more than it was just before this happened. >> dont these shutdowns also have the potential to create a parts shortage? for people -- the already established prius owners out there and other car maker owners out there? >> theres certainly that potential as well. toyota has said theyre trying to restart their plants to get replacement parts out. theyre trying to work on getting their supply chain back in order. thats the case for everyone over there. so its re...