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Anniversary of that, the infamous tiananmen square crackdown. another report out this morning raising questions about gm. reuters looked at data on front end crashes similar to those caused by gms faulty ignition switch. reuters found at least 74 people died in gm cars in accidents with key similarities to those linked to the 13 deaths gm has already acknowledged. gm says it uncovered those 13 deaths through claims and lawsuits and has not said whether it has referenced the database used by re...

Ignition switch recall into a single class action. plaintiffs lawyers want the current and not the prebankruptcy gm to be held liable for the recall. and at&t is getting a new ride. it struck a deal with uber, preloading a popular car service app onto android that will be sold exclusively through its stores. all uber drivers will also use at&ts network. back to you. >> because uber isnt already popular enough. one of the most powerful voices in modern u.s. history has passed away. maya angelou...

Bosses are impressed by what theyre seeing. a the lot of communication, conversations on the hill. she is going to come back, testify again in july and is just trying to really put forward the safety first image of this company even as these committees are pouring through thousands of pages of documents, internal gm documents about these recalls. now, remember, since 2006 the ignition switch recall started it all. gm has been really aggressive on recalls, more recalls than cars sold in the last ...

>> dont give up. dont give up. protect yourself. there we go! dont give up on markets. time for an "early start" on your money. stocks trading slightly higher across europe. dow futures are higher, too, about 26 points higher right now. the real big story in business, general motors. another recall, bringing the 2014 recall total to 29. thats 14 million recalled vehicles in the u.s., nearly 16 million worldwide. gm has recalled more vehicles in 2014 now than it has sold. the ceo, mary barra, s...

This time involving 218,000 chevrolets that might catch fire together the 29 recalls involve more than 15 million cars worldwide, which is a record, in case youre wondering. the surge caused by the ignition switch tied to at least 13 deaths. gm knew about the problem for at least a decade before recalling the vehicles. mary barra, the companys new ceo, told lawmakers that gm going forward intended to root out problems quickly. so the question is, is that what were seeing now or are there other i...

Time of general motors. 29 recalls so far this year covering nearly 14 million vehicles. once proud auto giant reeling from safety problems, eight figure fines and cover-up charges. since 2009 when gm filed for bankruptcy the company has recalled more cars than it actually sold. wow. we bring in chief business correspondent christine romans. we seem to be talking about this all the time. >> 29 separate recalls just this year. they have now recalled more cars this year than they have made in the ...

It cost at least 13 lives and gm knew about it a decade before they told the public before it or recalled the cars. >> and any idea how much the recalls will cost gm? >> yeah, that is a great question. so what we know so far is that all the recalls this year in the u.s., over 13 -- just about 13.8 million, they are costing the company already $1.7 billion, that is just to fix the cars. then they have the $35 million fine that they agreed to pay. the government last friday, and that doesnt settle...

And they did searches of the homes and couldnt find the black powder. that suggested either they were built somewhere else or had help doing it. plus, the controls themselves, very sophisticated. there was suggestion -- no suggestions that dzhokhar got that training, but the fbi had to find that out sooner rather than later and that is why they questioned him in the hospital. all right, general motors issued its 29th recall alone this year. this time involving 2008 chevrolets, together, the 29...

>> reporter: the surge in recalls is because its holding itself to higher safety standards. they follow newly minted marry barras congressional testimony about why it took more than a decade to fix an ignition switch which has been tied to 13 deaths. >> employees from engineers, investigators all the way up to executives were briefed on information associated with this recall. >> that violation cost gm the maximum $35 million fine and will likely cost the company more in victim compensation. >> ...

Information of more than 233 million customers. their credit card information should be safe, but ebay says hackers have taken names, e-mail addresses, passwords, phone numbers, birth dates. ebay says it is working with the fbi and other agencies to try to track down the hackers. >> and whats the john berman famous line about this? youve changed them several times -- >> ive changed my password so many times that the only person who cant get in is me! i dont know my passwords for anything anymore...