some new details coming to light about toyota's timeline in dealing with its acceleration issues. those details are coming from toyota's own internal documents. deb feyerick has been looking through some of them. some people saying that there's something of a smoking gun in there. deb? >> well, do you know what it is, it's e-mails, and it's e-mails that really show the thinking of toyota officials, not only here in the u.s., but in toyota in japan. pretty strong words coming from inside toyota, the company really in january scrambled to figure out the best way to deal with this major accelerator problem, and we have an e-mail now that basically goes over the genesis of this. one of toyota's top public affairs executives warns the company that they really need to come clean about the sticking pedals, that they're not doing enough to protect customers by keeping quiet about this. and in the e-mail, by the recently retired u.s. vice president irv miller he writes, quote, we have a tendency for mechanical failure in accelerator problems and he said the time to hide on this is over.