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Several people and firefighters were treated for breathing in too much smoke but doing better today. Some items inside might be salvageable. The owner is coordinating efforts now to get those items back to their owners. The red cross and Salvation Army are putting a few residents up in hotels. What a fire that was. Denver police are looking for help in finding the driver in a deadly hitandrun crash. This crash happened in june. Police say, though, its has taken them three months to gather the fo...

Government do all it could to protect drivers? nbcs tom kos decostello has th latest. tom? >> good evening. toyota right now has 5.6 million vehicles in the u.s. on recall for sticky gas pedals and brake issues and floormat issues. today a fourth congressional hearing, which one looking at where have government regulators been? on the hot seat before congress, the brand-new chief of the national highway traffic safety administration, ntsa, who today defended his companys handling of the recalls....

Toyota admits their recalls were simply too slow in coming. toyotas accelerator recall is the seventh larnlest on record, the biggest rival will be in -- with ntsa on the hot seat today, the department of transportation also released some good news to at least temper the ntsa shs. in 2009, there was fewer arguments than ever on the roads before, since 2006. >> john: have been, but also, with unemployment, theyre fewer people driving into work. lawrence? >> tom cass tell lo, coming up.

that a valid argument? >> they have in the past year. >> memories are short. i think the core of the political bed for president obama is that his new approach, which is engagement with both adversaries and allies, will, over time, pay off. his problem 14 months into this is that the record of payoff is pretty slim. the europeans -- >> he doesnt have that big thing. >> the europeans have more proof in afghanistan, the israelis havent played along on this. >> jonathan martin, until we m...