Of thousands of pickup trucks and suvs. And the companys being fined a record 105 million. We have more now from kris van cleave. Reporter this Jeep Grand Cherokee caught fire on a california freeway in 2013 after a plastic gas tank ruptured following a collision. It was crashes like this that prompted a recall just two months later. But nhtsa says Fiat Chrysler was slow to notify consumers over 17 months just 3 of more than a million grand cherokee and liberty suvs were fix. Transportation secretary anthony foxx. It is not a Good Business decision to try to skate the process or to the do the right thing on the front end. Its a better practice to do the right thing make the recalls work make them effective and move on. Reporter todd andersons son skyler died when his 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee caught fire. Anderson did not receive a recall notice until nearly a year later. There was no way had i known that there was this risk he would be driving that vehicle. Reporter the gas tank defect
Ordered to buyback hundreds of thousands of pickup trucks and suvs. And the companys being fined a record 105 million. We have more now from kris van cleave. Reporter this Jeep Grand Cherokee caught fire on a california freeway in 2013 after a plastic gas tank ruptured following a collision. It was crashes like this that prompted a recall just two months later. But nhtsa says Fiat Chrysler was slow to notify consumers over 17 months just 3 of more than a million grand cherokee and liberty suvs were f transportation secretary anthony foxx. It is not a Good Business decision to try to skate the process or to the do the right thing on the front end. Its a better practice to do the right thing make the recalls work make them effective and move on. Reporter todd andersons son skyler died when his 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee caught fire. Anderson did not receive a recall notice until nearly a year later. There was no way had i known that there was this risk he would be driving that vehicle. Rep
Prisoner. Investigators say 25yearold daniel sell bee junior escaped selby junior escaped custody around 10 30 p. M. Last night. Residents were told to stay in their homes and canceled bucks District School classes. It is believed he is out of the area. Jeanette reyes has more outside doylestown and jennette he is still on the rub. Reporter thats right, alicia, going on 14 hours, less than 30 minutes ago we got the update that the search was called off for daniel selby junior. This is what residents went to sleep with and woke up to a heavy Police Preference the loud sound of helicopters hovering overhead and k9 units and heavily armed Police Looking for the inmate. Authorities spent 12 hours looking for him in heavily wooded areas with rough terrain and nearby quarries. That complicated matters. It was not until 8 00 p. M. When Police Released details to media and residents. This started after the 25yearold was picked up in landsdown for failure to app on a drug charge him while being
Granddaughter of head pastor star scott through marriage. She claims she was sexually abused at age 4 and was part of a Loudoun County investigation launched more than a decade ago that resulted in no charges. My mother said that she saw him touch me inappropriately one time. Reporter she also alleges physical abuse, spanking with large wooden paddles. We were spanked until we were bruised in front of our classmates. Scott jr. , he was very physically and emotionally abusive to me my whole life. Reporter star scott, jr. , the same man she says recently posted this threatening message on facebook. I have dirt on everyone both sides, protesters included. You dont want to [ bleep ] me off. He later deleted it. The pastors son leaked a 2008 email to members accusing his father of molesting children, which is also part of the current investigation. He writes, they were just innocent children and you abused your power and authority. We obtained a 2008 Herndon Police department alleging Polic
And your life. And both involve iconic American Companies that couldnt seem to care less about either. Well get to target in just a minute but first, new developments on the gm recall investigation. Listen to this. General motors first said it knew about the problem with ignition switches back in 2004 but now, it says it found problems 13 years ago, as far back as 2001. Why, why has the public been kept in the dark so long . Here with more is car expert, lauren fix. Lauren, what do you make of this new timeline . Well i find it very painful that they knew about this in preproduction. Somebody, in the Engineering Department or someone in the preproduction lineup said, weve got a problem. Went back to delphi, who is one of gms companies. They said we have problem. They replaced it with another switch with a different spring in it and you know what . It still wasnt strong enough. There was a problem it didnt get fixed until 06. During that time the cars went out to dealerships and went ou