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Toyota and the drivers attorney plan several conferences this afternoon. heres susan candiotti. >> reporter: a draft memo seems to take steam out of jik sike wild ride in his 2008 prius. it even had 911 and the california highway patrol running to his rescue. >> the gas pedal felt weird. it went all the way to fast. >> reporter: sikes relived it for our ted rowlands. >> i kept hitting the brakes, kept hitting the brakes. it wasnt slowing down at all. it was just accelerating. >> reporter: yet af...

>> reporter: sikes relived it for our ted rowlands. >> i was in the 80s somewhere and i kept hitting the brakes, kept hitting the brakes, and it wasnt slowing down at all. it was just accelerating. >> reporter: yet after two hours of trying to duplicate what happened on sikes own car and another exact model, federal investigators and toyota came up short. a draft memo says every time the technician placed the gas pedal to the floor and the brake pedal to the floor, the engine shut off and the ca...

Control. they have examined the car and cant recreate the problem. >> james sikes insists that his prius hit speeds of 90 miles an hour while he was standing on brakes. susan candiotti has the latest on these new developments. >> john and christine, good morning. this draft memo makes it sound like an incident involving a runaway 2008 prius might not have happened the way the driver said it did. so whos right? a draft congressional memo seems to take some steam out of jim sikes wild ride into hi...

Pass a car when the pedal in his words felt weird and wouldnt let up. our own ted rowlands talked to him about it last week. >> you didnt try to put it into neutral? >> no, i was afraid. i was hold on to the steering wheel both hands, 94 miles per hour in a toyota prius is fast. >> eventually the car did slow down after he kept hitting both brakes. the foot brake and emergency brake. >> so, susan, what does the memo say about how investigators tried to recreate the problem he described? >> yeah....

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