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Problems with the car. >> some floor mats entrap drivers gas pedals while vehicles were in motion. >> reporter: toyota recalled more than 5 million cars because of that problem. >> second, so-called sticky pedals made some toyota acceleration too slow to release. >> just took off. seemed like the more i hit the brake, the harder it wanted to accelerate. >> reporter: toyota only admitted to the sticky pedals after abc reported on this case of a new jersey driver whose car would not stop. toyota w...

Sometimes you wonder whose side theyre on. the chamber has taken an aggressive role in defeating policy that would help working americans. its very clear. and it spent a record amount of money in the mid term elections to defeat the democrats. with the bulk of its donations coming from only 45 companies. why should the president extend an olive branch to a group that has repeatedly attacked him and the progressive agenda? to help us answer that question tonight, the host of grit tv and the presi...

The most well financed critics of the obama administration. sometimes you wonder whose side theyre on. the chamber has taken an aggressive role in defeating policy that would help working americans. its very clear. and it spent a record amount of money in the mid term elections to defeat the democrats. with the bulk of its donations coming from only 45 companies. why should the president extend an olive branch to a group that has repeatedly attacked him and the progressive agenda? to help us ans...

In fact, it rained about 25 centimeters in 24 hours. thats 10 inches in one day. unbelievable amounts of water. a gorgeous region here. the problem is just like in california, folks build along the hillside to get closer to nature. its a pretty scene but the problem is, when you get that much water youll run into trouble. some of the structures that were decimated were poorly built as well. here is the trough. it has been hanging around the same region over the last couple of days. going to begi...

With u.s. president obama about trade, currency issues and north korea among some other things. hell attend a state dinner at the white house on wednesday. americans are taking notice of chinas influence. a recent pew research center poll found nearly half of americans see china as the worlds leading economic power. only 31% say that the u.s. holds that position. the researchers say the numbers were nearly reversed when they polled americans in 2008, before the global economic downturn. thos...

A record amount and they would dump that in gulf of mexico to help break up that oil to allow bacteria to eat that oil up naturally. now democratic congressman, he is saying hold on a second. he is reviewing documents the amounts much be much higher. they did this despite the epas demand in rare cases. documents show that coastguard approved 74 waivers over a 48-day period. for example on june 13, they received a green light to dump 36,000 more gallons into the gulf. he is why some say that is b...

Those chemicals used to clean up oil in the gulf of mexico. this after congress called out the coast guard for giving b. pvp the green light to dump liberal amounts of the dispersans they say are toxic in the water. how did this come out and what did the coast guard have to say about it? its really controversial that they apparently dumped 1.8 million gallons or something of these chemicals into the gulf? >> yeah, nearly two million gallons, eric. yeah, its unbelievable amount. record amount. bu...

The coast guard is under fire after a congressional subcommittee after they found that bp was allowed to use excessive amount of chemicals? the oil spill. so far, bp has used 1.8 million-gallons to break up oil flowing from the ruptured well. bps new boss says it is time for a scale back in cleaning up the spill. congressional investigators say the companys methods could be doing more harm than good. chris gutierrez is live in louisiana with the latest. hi, chris. >> as you mentioned we were tol...

Used a record amount of nearly 2 million gallons of that chemical dispersant to break up that oil in the middle of the gulf. but now democratic congressman ed marky is actually questioning that amount. marky looked and heard that through -- over some documents from the government and learned that bp continued to request the use of chemical dispersants and the coast guard approved the use of the toxic chemicals despite the epas demand to stop using them, accepting, quote, in those rare cases. the...

You think that things cant get worse, they do. >> they certainly do, wolf. now we know that the containment catch so crucial to capturing the oil leaking out of the well has in fact had to be removed. it is still off at this hour as far as we know, and we have just gotten off of the phone with bp officials to confirm it is off. and we will show you video from about 8:00 a.m. eastern time today when the cap was still on. the oil being funneled to a containment ship at the surface, and yesterday, ...