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Flormats pose a safety threat blocking accelerator pedals. toyota says its going along with brazils decision and denies theyve done anything wrong. more than 8.5 million toyota vehicles recalled worldwide because of safety problems. new fundraising reports show democrats outraise republicans in march. the three democratic campaign committees, d.n.c., d.s.c.c., and the dccc raised $29 million in the month. major republican committees raised $24 million in this key mid-term election year. one ...

Immigrants. arizona is in the crosshairs of the problem. illegal immigration has created a crime wave, murder, kidnapping, drug smuggling, human trafficking, and street crime and the federal government has dropped the ball. beyond the crime and the crime problems and the safety problems, the cost to government services given to illegal is phenomenal. billions of dollars in education, apprehension, incarceration, welfare costs. >> lets look at your proposal that you put together here. here are so...

Regulators saying theyre going to conduct their own independent tests. they were tipped off by consumer reports so the national highway transportation folks are going to be conducting safety tests into the toyota lexus suvs right now. once again, it is a toyota product in the spotlight with safety problems. jon: yeah: you dont want those headlines. >> absolutely not. the stock has recovered from the lows but nowhere near what it was back in january before we started having all the recalls. jon: ...

Intervene quickly enough, whereas on the toyota 4runner, a similar platform, it did. >> reporter: in a statement announcing the suspension -- >> reporter: toyota did say that the suspension of sales will be limited to the united states, about 5,000 vehicles sold there. it does sell a few hundred outside of the united states, namely the middle east, canada, australia, new zealand, and russia. the sales will continue there even though we are talking about the same vehicle. but on the public relati...

Family. things are only getting worse for troubled automaker toyota. now dealerships will stop selling the 2010 lexus gx 460 until problems with handling can be worked out. just the latest in a series of safety problems here. nbcs jeff rossen is in chicago now. all right. i guess here we go again, jeff. >> yeah. here we go with toyota once again. lexus, their luxury brand. the gx 460. consumer reports yesterday came out with that do not buy order. something they very rarely do. actually tellin...

Control system doesnt work, they notified nhtsa and lexus plans to retest the vehicle. the latest black eye for toyota already forced to recall more than 8 million vehicles because of safety problems. more on this on our website. >> its all your money. the big day is almost upon us, tax day in the u.s.a.! how is the government really spending each of your hard-earned tax dollars? according to the heritage foundation, washington will spend more than $31,000 per household in 2010 alone. fox news...

Marciano. they had gorgeous weather in augusta. >> rain knocked down some of the extreme pollen were experiencing. gorgeous weather continues across the eastern third of the country. hope you enjoyed your weekend. well highlight more in the way of dry weather. strong storm system developing out west. right now western third getting hammered. san francisco, seattle rain and wind will be in the forecast. daytime highs will be comfortable. in the 60s and lower 70s. well talk more about the pollen i...

Things coming up. heres a hint, kerry. donny deutsch says this ad is brilliant. >> i call it a faker. >> thaemplt the blogs -- people are lighting up the blogs and you can twitter me what you think. toy he yoet has now issued a statement in response to a damaging internal e-mail that has surfaced. the e-mail was written by a now retired toyota executive. it it raising new questions about toyotas response to safety problems with its vehicles and we get the details now from phil lee bow in chica...

Reasons forced 35 flights to land early in the first three months of this year. there were only 17 such landings last year. and developing now, irans intelligence minister is accusing those three jailed american hikers of having links to american intelligence agencies. the americans have been held since crossing t ining the bord iraq in july. the family say the group was on a hike in the scenic kurdish region of northern iraq and accidently strayed across the border into iran. iran is accusing t...

More clear, at one point using all capitals for emphasis. at one point he also wrote the time to hide on this one is over. it may have had the desired impact, because five days later toyota launched a worldwide recall for some 2.3 million vehicles, a recall thats been expanded since. the law requires, however, that safety problems be brought to the governments attention within five days of when they are recognized and toyota warned dealers in 31 european countries months before but did not warn ...