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Were not leaving. stay with us for the latest. in the meantime lets check in with lisa sylvester. shes monitoring some of the other top stories. were keeping our fingers crossed. were hoping when they close those valves were not going to see oil coming out any more. >> that is so true. a lot of people are hoping this is what does the trick. in other news toyota shares are on the rise because of new reports suggesting that some of the companys vehicle troubles could actually have been caused by d...

Megyn: well, an update on that so-called runaway prius in new york state. police now say driver error was the cause. a 56-year-old woman was driving this car when she said it suddenly accelerated and crashed into a stone wall. authorities confirming that the gas pedal was not stuck, but had been pressed all the way down, and the brakes never applied. that, thatll do it. she was not seriously hurt. well, the justice department is now reviewing whether to appeal a federal judges order to release a...

Unintended acceleration is not a new problem, that nhtsa has been tracking this for years and found more deaths in vex made by ford, chrysler and other companies combined than in toyotas over the past decade. nhtsa sent us figures that back that up. a total of 59 fatalities due to unintended acceleration in vehicles over the past ten years. ford with 19, chrysler with 12, they still pale in comparison to toyota that had over 50 deaths. nhtsa has spent decades trying to get a handle on this probl...

Interaction with you? >> there wasnt much interaction. we started calling toyota and kept getting the response that they would call us back and we would call again and they said they would call us back that day or the next day and they wouldnt call us back. and so we emailed and we didnt get response from them so finally we called the dealership and asked them if they had heard from toyota. and they had said that they would send a technician out to the dealership, for no one to touch the car at ...

Causing these sticky gas pedals. brian wilson has been reporting all day there. sean kane just gave testimony. this is a group that specializes in motor vehicle safety. what makes cars so dangerous. i want you to listen to what he said, then well tell you why its so pivotal in this case. >> the evidence suggests strongly there is more going on. again, one of the things that has happened in this crisis is the consumer voice has been tamped down. what they report they are told is not credible. con...

Impediment. >> reporter: cannot be explained away by driver error or physical impediment. they were -- it came down to maybe it gas pedal spring is not pushing the pedal back into place. so they put that steel shaft behind those. now hes saying well maybe its not a physical impediment which may go to the electronics that so many people have talked about for so long that there might be a disturbance in the electronic fuel system from the gas pedal to the computers onboard. that may be the next st...

Admitted liability in these lawsuits. >> they have admitted issues. >> the transportation department said you need to deal with this or we force you, the worst possible situation. toyota is way back on their heels. they have not gotten control of this problem yet. it takes a long time to figure out whats going on. 34 deaths, thats 34 too many, over ten years and billions of miles driven. its very hard to connect the dots with these things. there have been some with audi in the 1980s, that turned...

Medal. the mens luge competition resumes today after the georgian athlete died during a practice run on friday. the first rounds of luge action took place on a repaired and recon figured track saturday. mens start began 600 feet down the track at the womens start with those changes producing some slower speeds for the records. the georgian luger died after going off the track and hitting a metal pole. official have also raised the wall on the curve following the accident. an american luger who...

Canadian luge coach saying it was 100% driver error. your thoughts? >> my first thought is that canadas a country thats invested almost $120 million and to own the podium initiative. they have a o lot of money invested in the olympics. rhetorically i think this strikes me as somewhat offensive. the bottom line is that no one is questioning that nodar made a mistake in his turn. the question is whether that mistake should have resulted in a fatality. the corrective measures they took to change th...

Driver error and toyota may have been relying on that -- for the numbers. >> wow. deb feyerick has followed this for us every step of the way. to be continued. right now its 44 minutes past the hour. rob will come along in a minute with his travelers forecast. hes tracking another snowstorm headed for the exact same area that caused so much problems this weekend. >> well see him right after the break. then in ten minutes youll see jeanne moos. she brings us something special. were talking ab...