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Makes people act improperly in cold conditions and but theme roads. toyota says its a software problem fixed in less than an owner. owners in the united states should get letters next week. toyota also issuing a recall for some of the latest generation camrys after reports that model is prone to brake fluid leaks. this raises the number of cars recalled by toyota to 8 1/2 million. by the way, because of the snowstorm, lawmakers on capitol hill canceled the toyota hearing set for tomorrow. its la...

Sold. the u.s. will be impacted. the logistics of it will be that somehow toyota will have to then notify the u.s. government when the united states wakes up for business tomorrow. but what this is is a fix. it is a fix that toyota says had already been in place for cars of the 2010 priuses built after the end of january. but these are all the people who were impacted before the fix was in place, wolf. this is the remedy that they were waiting for. it is on the way now. >> do they know what the ...

Theyre probably just as good. >> the medias portraying me as saying, oh, im worried about the problem. what theyve been recalled for is really a software problem. i havent really said those things. they put those words in my mouth. what i said is my prius has a totally different, unrelated problem. its actually had it two, three months ago. i even tried to report it. now the reason that im on here today is because i was speaking the other day, couple days ago, to a group of teachers for a discov...

On thousands of hybrid prius cars, more than 100 drivers have reported that their brakes momentarily failed when they were driving over bumpy roads. toyota blames a software glitch and says its already fixed vehicles in production. two congressional committees scheduled hearings. now, texas congressman michael guess burgess is a member of one and the fact is he drives a prius. joins us from dallas. congressman thank you for being with us. first of all shall the question, have you ever had the ex...

This week that now it could be an electrical system problem. it seems to get bigger every day. tell us about this electrical system problem, what do we need to be aware of? >> what were hearing now is the current generation, 2010 prius is having electrical system software problem underbraking. theres a lag when you press your brakes. youre giving your car brake to stop and then you feel like you have no brakes and pushing through. theyre saying its a software problem. the cars rolling off the li...

Increasing their production. now, when you increase productivity come problems and that is what they are faced with now. and really the big competition for everyone is ford who actually make good cars and is overtaking everybody else. >> i have to ask, think toyota became the words largest selling car company because of selling faulty much. >> gm did! >> of course not. no. i dont think that. and nobody else would. it is an excellent car company and theyve hand the recall well. except for the fac...

The first repairs of the recalled cars as the companys problems widen today. its 11:00 in nashville where the fractious group that make up the tea party movement gather for a convention today. and it is noon in boston, where scott browns election to the senate was certified today. hell be sworn in five hours from now. so, why dont we get started, shall we? and we start with toyota. toyotas troubles just keep coming. in addition to the massive recall, the company faces new problems with its...

Our debra feyerick live in los angeles looking into the serious new question about the automakers plan to fix the millions of cars already recalled. but we begin with kyung lah live in tokyo where toyota just went public with the big brake problem weve been talking about with the prius. good morning, kyung. >> reporter: good morning, kiran. its not a big problem if you listen to toyota executives, but it is definitely a problem. were talking about the third generation prius, known in the united ...

Did not see this as a safety hazard. but they have had what they call dozens of complaints from users of the prius. they say they are investigating it. they also say that last month back in january, they did identify and correct an electronic software problem with the braking system. now, this is a very sophisticated system. its a sophisticated hybrid car. and that seems to be at the root of this. now, once again, the japanese government here had to prod toyota to start to address this issue. bu...

Media. the media is portraying me as saying im worried about the problem, what theyve been recalled for is a software problem. i havent said those things. they put the words in my mouth. i said my prius has a totally different unrelated problem. it had it two, three months ago. i tried to report it. the reason that im on here today is because i was speaking the other day to a group of teachers for a discovery museum and talking about an issue of customer support, how hard it is sometimes to get ...