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Largest recalls. you remember the story about toyota recalling a lot of their cars because of brake problems and potential accidents. the "wall street journal" has a story that is proving it doesnt have to do with the cars, it might have to do with the drivers. ashley webster is here on that. >> reporter: imagine hitting the accelerator instead of hitting the brake and getting that wrong. apparently that may be the case. the u.s. government has been looking into this. no official reports will be...

The government. well, its the second day of meetings for the newest supreme court nominee. she starts with a potentially difficult session. elena kagan visits with pennsylvania senator arlen specter who voted against her for solicitor general. kagan visiting with members of the judiciary committee who will later grill her in public and then vote on her confirmation. so far, republicans have said they plan to focus on her lack of judicial experience. >> the sole survivor of that plane crash in li...

In the wake of thats massive safety recall, federal officials are weighing new options on ways to keep the nations highways and drivers safe. one plan under consideration would require automakers to install data recorders in new vehicles. the dwilss are similar to the so-called black boxes on airplanes that would record and save key information in the case of a problem or a crash. joining me now, the ceo and founder of carless.com. lu ann, good sunday morning to you. thanks for being here. >> th...

Respects to the president, and his wife. no timing on that yet. but we do know now that the state funeral for both the president and the first lady will come on saturday. but keep in mind, tom, youve got 20 lawmakers, you have military heads, you have so many other people, the funerals could go on for some time here in warsaw. back to you. >> jim, one of the things that has been raised is this question of what investigators might be looking at at this scene, and what might have happened on board...

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Airplanes. those are far more details in terms of the information stored there. you can almost re-create whats happening in the final seconds before a crash with an airliner. its different with these black boxes in cars. they only record five seconds before an accident, two seconds afterwards and the data come from them very limited. in some cases it may not be able to tell you if theres an electronics problem or a surge that suddenly caused the car to lurch forward. people may be looking and sa...

Vehicles. its not standard. its not as though you can say whats in a camry is in a corolla is in an avalon and you need to have the algorithms. they are reluctant to give out the information for the data recorders for good reason, proprietary. and courts have held up for the car companies in the past saying theres only so much information that can come out of these. so this is one of the key areas that ultimately is going to be the focus of the congressional investigations. >> all right, phil, t...

Recall or shims put in under the second recall for sticking accelerator pedals, it raises the prospect that perhaps the problem behind unintended acceleration is a software or electronics problem. the national highway traffic safety administration is now looking at the so-called black boxes, which is the electronic data recorders, the control module recorders in these cars. the nitsa has received a reader that allows them to look at these black boxes, decipher whats coming out of them from toyot...

Several investigations into toyota. now it says its going to take a fresh look at the electronics system to see if it could be, in fact, whether in fact that electronics system could be a factor in acceleration. christine? >> deb, one thing thats just amazing to me is cars today are so high tech. in fact, there are data recorders similar to the black box on airplanes. shouldnt those recorders, or can those recorders have any kind of information to help explain why this engine surge is happening?...

Between the u.s. and china continues on wednesday beijing announced additional tariffs on one hundred six u.s. products worth around fifty billion dollars including cars and soybean meaning that farmers many of whom voted for u.s. president donald trump are most likely to be hit beijing is yet to announce when the terrorists take effect. now before the trump administration had rolled out its own list of proposed chinese imports to be hit with fresh terrorist thirteen hundred products worth rough...