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This issue right know. toyota sales here in the united states dropped 16% last month from a year ago while gm and ford saul that i sales rise. the transportation secretary is revealing today that toyota needed convincing from federal safety officials that it was dealing with a very serious problem. lets bring in our own brian todd. hes looking into the story that has huge ramifications. brian? >> very extraordinary comments from the transportation secretary today. the fallout from the recall n...

Sex and abstinence. the obama administration had had cut out more than $170 million in annual federal funding for the abstinence programs and instead put more than $100 million towards other times of sex ed programs. but based on the new findings officials now suggest similar abstinence programs could be eligible for federal dollars. some call the abstinence research game changing that, it comes after years of getting a bad rap. the critics say the curriculum and the study isnt a good sample. th...

We want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. youre in "the situation room." dramatic and stunning comments today from the transportation secretary ray lahood. he says toyota stalled in dealing with the sudden acceleration problems link stod gas pedals. he said it took government pressure including a trip to japan to get toyota to take action. toyota says it has a fix for the 2.3 million vehicles recalled in the united states because of a sticky gas pedal. there are...

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 ...

Widespread problem that needs toyotas attention right now?

Thought you told it to go to infinity. it accelerates smoothly and only happened on freeways using the cruise control. its very difficult to explain. its not expected so its scary. i showed my wife how to do it and she caused it to happen and it was scary for her but only the first time. >> has toyota explained to you -- has toyota explained what the problem is? >> oh, thats the problem. well, i did report it to a local dealer but like i said, they didnt escalate it up to some high level safety ...

>> they have a problem as far as unit cohesion because they allow gays to serve openly? >> i dont know, but they dont have a choice because its all volunteer. it isnt volunteer like ours is. they have mandatory service. in israel, it doesnt matter whether you like it or not whereas here the recruiters will say, hey, its hurting the recruiting because we dont have as many kids to join because they have allowed homosexuals to serve openly. israel doesnt have that. youre forced to join the military...

But ultimately, theyll understand that the flag is the same. bill in arizona writes -- george writes -- the stigma associated with being gay is not as big a problem with the men and women in uniform today as it was in the past. albert in los angeles -- ending "dont ask, dont tell" will have the same impact as every other growing pain our nation has survived, positive. at first only white land owning males could vote. and the road to todays integrated combat force has been an uphill battle all th...

Received an official communication, so we cant comment on that at this time, but clearly toyota and the u.s. government not done with each other right now. >> brian todd is working that story. steve wozniak, the apple cofounder has strong words to say. he owns four toyota priuss, and he says theres a serious problem hes had to endure. thats coming up later here in "the situation room." all right. this story just coming into the "the situation room," a new warning that terrorists are certain to...

Ask/dont tell. coming out of columbia medical school, robert cavanaugh wanted to be an officer -- >> all right. unfortunately, chris, we have a little technical problem there. were going to try to fix that package that you prepared, but lets talk a bit about whats going on. give us a sense of what the prospective troops were saying to you. >> wolf, we got a wide range of opinion. some people said they already know -- theyve seen them on ships and the units. nobody asks, nobody tells, the policy ...