All right, this hearing will come to order. Today we revisit the tragic management failures at General Motors that killed people. First i want to acknowledge in my opening remarks then from my viewpoint the ceo of General Motors, mary barra, has stepped up and with courage and conviction has confronted head on the problem and the Corporate Culture that caused it. Some see the Record Number of recalls at General Motors as a problem. I see it as a good sign. Second, i want to briefly say that i think i speak on behalf of all members of congress who have asked very difficult questions surrounding these tragic events that while we are asking tough questions, we have Great Respect for the workers of General Motors. I would like to take this moment to thank the workers at General Motors. You are terrific. You build good cars. And you are also the victims of outrageously incompetent management. Management was the problem here, not the workers. The valukas report ive spent some time with. I fi
Pacific storms. Many people worried about mudslides. Water comes over, it looks like niagra falls. Dropping temperatures from the midwest to the east, 20 to 30 degrees below normal. Adding to the coldweather problems, ice jams. You look at it and its mass destruction. Cant stop the ice. Jan brewer wont say if shell veto a controversial bill that allows arizona businesses to deny service to gays and lesbians. Theres a lot of things we can bring into the state, and this just doesnt help at all in any of those. General motors links more deaths to a faulty ignition switch, and it nearly doubled the number of cars its recalling. Federal Safety Advocates insist gm knew about the defect for years and did not issue a recall. Talk about a backyard bonanza for a Northern California couple. They found a cache of gold coins worth millions of dollars. Its the biggest stash of coins found since oprah had her couch cleaned. Mo more security deals, no more troops hamid karzai heard that directly from
Save the life of a baby. Captioning funded by cbs go this is the cbs morning news for friday, february 21st, 2014. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. Im tanya rivero in for annemarie green. There is a tense calm in ukraines capital this morning. Thousands of protesters remain on the streets of kiev. Ukraines president says there is a deal to end the violence thats engulfed the city. Street fighting peaked thursday with clashes between police and protesters hours after an earlier truce broke down. More than 100 people are dead and hundreds more hurt. Holly williams was there. Reporter on kievs independent square, protesters were picked off with live ammunition. Affluent city streets became a battleground. Some demonstrators were also armed. Others targetted the riot police with flaming molotov cocktails. This man normally works as a consultant, but now hes joined the fight against the government. The two sides have agreed to a truce. This side was first. We started first. We
To be a concern about the growth of government and government power in general. And think the Obama Administration in the past 18 months has stepped into a number of woodchuck holes that have a them look not particularly competent and graceful, and not concerned about congressional power. The republicans made a good effort at saying he is becoming an imperial person, you doing stuff on his own, which of w congresse cannot get to pass anything, so he has to do things on his own. In his a backandforth issue. The backandforth on this really does help republicans. The economy has seemingly but it has gone through fits and starts in the past two months. Itcould see it slow a bit if is not Getting Better ands lives. That could help democrats. More time to talk about 2016 later on. Thank you for being with us. An f on transparency and freedom of information. I think my colleagues in journalism would give a similar grade, whether they are liberal or conservative. The freedom of information pro
Terrifying collision shares his side of that story. I definitely thought i wasnt going to make it. And casts blame directly on the pilot. But the pilots fighting back today, monday, march 10th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a monday morning. And what a mystery we have on our hands in malaysia. That flight that seemed to disappear into thin air. Its todays top story. Of course, new developments in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370. More than two days after it vanished with more than 200 people onboard. Weve got two reports this morning. Beginning with nbcs keir simmons. Hes in kuala lumpur where the plane took off. Keir, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, savannah. Im at the airport where the plane took off. Relatives are waiting for news in the hotel behind me of loved ones who have simply vanished. Their aircraft disappeared. The lates