Older model camry hybrids because the faulty power brakes. Here with more is Consumer Reports car editor jeff bartlett. Why is cr asking or demanding the recall . Consumer reports analysis of Technical Services bulletins and recalls, one stood out from the hybrid from 2007 to 2011. Seems that owners have been complaining about brake issues. Nhtsa, meaning the government, working with toyota on identifying and coming up with a correction for this. But toyota is not recalling the cars. Theyre doing a kind of a half step. Theyre offering to make corrections if someone has a problem or brings a car in but not issuing a full recall. Gerri its a workaround, and nhtsa, national Highway Safety traffic administration. Here are the complaints, 269 complaints, 14 crashes, 5 injuries out there. Tell us technically whats going on with the cars . Whats the problem . There are two problems. One is a clogged brake fluid reservoir filter. The fix is to redesigned a brake fluid reservoir. The circuit a ebs brake actuator and to update software, we have two items that are brake related and because brakes are clearly a safety issue, we recommend that toyota go one step further and issue a full recall. Gerri the deal with this, as i understand it, jeff, is the problem makes it harder to stop the car . Its hard to stop the car. So at the end of the day, why wouldnt toyota recall these cars . Whats the issue . What are they saying no . Toyota feels that the measures theyre putting in place are adequate, theyre addressing problems as they emerge, and not every car is experiencing these problems. But we think because of the severity of the problem that the brakes could be very difficult to use and clearly thats a safety issue, that they should go one step further. If its a formal recall, it changes how its communicated, it makes it far easier for consumers to Search Online or by other means to find out if it effects their car, and the coverage lasts a much longer time. If someone doesnt find out about this before the current campaigns end, say in a couple years from now, they would be able to get the car corrected. Gerri heres what toyota is saying and yet, if was a recall, folks would get letters in the mailbox, right . You would get contacted directly. Thats the beauty of that. You dont have to wait for a dealer to look at your car when its serviced to make the change. Thats right, a more proactive campaign. Toyota says they are reaching out to owners but the level of communication isnt quite the same. Theyre asking owners who have a warning light related to the breaks to get the vehicle fixed immediately, but some cases that may be too late. Wed rather show the problem fixed before it occurs for the individuals. Gerri i totally agree with that. The toyota camry hybrid. If you got one of those, take it into the dealer right away and make sure its safe. Thanks for that, jeff, appreciate your time. Thank you. Gerri two updates from the auto world. Texas lawyer and frequent guest on the program bob hilliard is suing General Motors on behalf of 650 people injured or killed in crashes allegedly caused by the faulty ignition switches. All the crashes occurred after gm left bankruptcy. Hilliard wants to file nearly 250 more case from before the bankruptcy. And on hyundai, they are getting in on the recall craze. The korean automaker is recalling 883,000 of popular sonata sedans from 2011 to 2014. The automatic transmission shift cable can separate from the lever and might show the wrong gear. You think youre in park when you are actually in reverse. Switching gears from car to restaurant, where extreme eaters are packing in two days of calories into a single meal. Were bringing in the diet busters with nutritionist carrie gan. Good to see you. Good to see you. Gerri bottomless fries, monster drinks is it a surprise that the restaurants are serving big, big calories . Absolutely not. Unfortunately, years and years ago we didnt know the calories in the dishes because it wasnt listed. Gerri now it is. Now it is. People can see it, and should be saying, oh, my god, im not going to eat. That unfortunately, not enough people are doing that. Gerri people should make their own decisions, good have the information. When you take a looked at calories, youre going to be shocked. Red robin, number one worst meal in america working darn hard, i got to say. Lets talk about what it is, and the calorie count here. Youre looking at a fancy pants hamburger there. That is what you are looking at. 3,540 calories i mean, that is insane so whats on this thing is its a monster burger, it has tomato, which is nice, cheese, bacon on it, but lots of other things too, and you get a salted caramel milk shake and youor fire. Saturated fat is high, 89 grams . Its just when you think about it. Its more than double of what a person should be eating for the entire day. Its a lot heres the payoff. Yes. Gerri you did work for us and i want to share this. What it would take to burn off this monster meal . Oh, i did not do that work for you . Gerri i was giving you credit. 12 hours of brisk walking. 12 hours. Were talking longer than a workday to work this thing off. Probably not going to happen. No. It really is crazy when you think about it, and unfortunately, people are ordering these meals. And, yes i agree with you, it is your choice. Gerri cheesecake factory, in the study were citing, this appeared, this restaurant appeared three times, and they have a pasta dish with chicken and roasted garlic that logged in 2400 calories. Chicken, pasta, yes, over 2400 calories. The french toast gets me. Not so bad, right . Eggs, bread, 2700 calories. Imagine starting your day with that . Just think thats many days that is to start the day with. Gerri cheesecake factory, 7 hours of swimming laps. Chicken pasta dish would take five hours of jogging and the cheesecake four hours of aerobics. Talking about working your butt off . I dont think the person eating those dishes is eating the exercise. Gerri i have to get on famous daves big flab, not the big flab, the big slab. This is spare ribs, muffins, fries, beans, whats going on here and how many calories . Everything is just way too much. I mean all of these dishes are between 2,000 and 3,000 calories. And unfortunately its very disconcerting. But as we keep saying, people are ordering them. Gerri to burn it off, 7 1 2 hours of pushing a lawnmower. Unlikely unless you live in a major state. Very unlikely. Gerri you have to tell us the words to avoid on restaurant menus. Some that are obviously, fried, crispy, sauteed, creamy, anything that says piled, run if you see anything that says doubletriple, run and especially monster . Come on. You cant kid yourself. Gerri my favorite words. The batter, i love that stuff. Sigh. You brought us back to reality, thanks for that, appreciate it. Sure. Gerri now we want to know what you think. Heres our question tonight, do calorie counts on men use, does it sway your decision . Influence you when ordering. Log onto gerriwillis. Com, ill share the results at the end of tonights show. And your voice is important to us, during the show we want to you facebook me or tweet me at gerri willis fbn or email at gerriwillis. Com. Ill read your tweets and emails. Next, we answer the question how you do that with advice on selling your home in the digital age. What net savvy homebuyers are looking for that you might not know. X÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷. Gerri a potential homebuyer can learn everything in just about anything about your house, and a few clicks on the internet. How can sellers attract the net savvy buyers. Here with that, brendan di simone. What is next jen, what does that mean . Its not about your age or when you are born, access to information on the web, on apps doing lots of search, accessing tons of information. Gerri you know, its interesting, people who sell their homes might not think about whats on the web aboutho aware of. Do you do a simple Google Search on the address . You do Google Search the address, look at police blotters, see old listings, the seller may put address online for another thing that you can find out more information about them. Gerri un, there was an interesting anecdote in the story, a seller had had a bike stolen out of his garage and people thought it wasnt a safe neighborhood, so things could be misconstrued and misunderstood. Exactly. One example of a guy who had his bike stolen, he left his garage door open. His fault. A buyer sees that and thinks its not a safe neighborhood. A client had bars in the windows and took them off and planted nice planters when it went on the market. A buyer saw the street with the bars. Gerri you need to look at the google street view. It doesnt matter what house you have, it can look like hell on google street sflu look at google earth, there is so much information, you have to stay a step ahead of the buyers. Look at the local planning departments website. What will i find there . Building permits were signed off. Whether they have a certificate of occupancy. If you buy the home without these things, youre on the hook down the road. Gerri look at history of sales. If you had your house on the market at a crazy price, buyers will think there is something wrong with the house. Gerri you know, worry about the kind of information people might find in places that i might not think about looking. Are there other places people might go . Address report. Com, people can look up anything about the property. Construction information, rodents, trees in the street. Gerri rodents . Rats . There are a few of those in new york city. There is so much out there. Gerri heres the thing, when you put your house up for sale and you got to have the great listing that is eyepopping online, do you hire a professional photographer, a stager, whats your advice . You have to hire an agent thats going to pay for a top shelf photographer. The open house is no longer the first impression, you have to have great photos. Dont put it on the market, the days on the market starts ticking. Gerri certainly true, that matters because once its an old listing, people figure everybody has seen it. Its a stale listing, something is wrong with it. If the photos arent great, thats the buyers first impression. Especially when there is nor inventory. Gerri devastating report on the cost of obamacare. It gets higher. And does it seem your Airline Reward Points arent covering what they used to . Are you paying more for less . Thats coming up. In new york state, were changing the way we do business, with startup ny. Weve created tax free zones throughout the state. And startup ny companies will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs and infrastructure. Thanks to startup ny, businesses can operate tax free for 10 years. No property tax. No business tax. And no sales tax. Which means more growth for your business, and more jobs. Its not just business as usual. See how new york can help your business grow, at startup. Ny. Gov. Gerri president obama probably wishes he could hit control alt delete because the cost of the flawed obamacare website is staggering. Senior washington correspondent peter barnes is standing by with the latest. Peter . Hey, gerri, the General Accountability Office will report tonight that a bunch of management failures led to an expensive and botched rollout of healthcare. Gov according to a report in the national journal. The Administration Spent about 840 million on the website, the gao will report, including 150 million in cost overruns to fix the site. The gao report will be the subject of house energy and Commerce Committee hearing on thursday morning. It details a long series of Contracting Management and oversight problems with healthcare. Gov. Despite them, the administration ended up stabilizing the website and enrolling more than 8 million people, exceeding public goal but not after obviously a lot of pain. Among other things, the gao will report that the Agency Responsible for building the site, the centers for medicare and medicaid services, quote, issued task orders when key technical requirements were still unknown. The gao report will say because the contractor was so weak, they authorized more than 30 million in expenditures to cgi. The gao found on 40 separate occasions that the cgi work was incorrectly approved by cms. Gao will report, quote, new and changing requirements drove Cost Increases during the first year of development while the complexity of the system and rework resulted from changing cms decisions that added to costs in the second year, gerri . Gerri those people do not know how to spend money, do they . 840 million for a website that doesnt work. Peter, thank you for that. Okay, thanks. Gerri well, change the topic here, travel credit cards, they offer rewards everywhere, in fact twothirds of americans are members of one airline or credit card Points Program but are they worth it . Joining me now brian kelly. Brian, lets drill down into this. It seems as a consumer who uses these credit cards that they offer less and less and less, am i right . I would actually disagree with that. The airlines are offering less and less and less but the Credit Card Companies are offering more. Just this week citi, announced their thank you program will have airline transfer programs bringing them in line with chase and amex. So the airlines are requiring more and more miles for flights but get a credit card that allows you to transfer to a number of different partners. Gerri we do that a lot and have you lots of flexibility, when you can fly, what airlines you can fly. Makes a lot of sense. Which are the best cards . I find that things i was promised like access to lounges, its not what it used to be. When you look at a card, you have to look at points and how much youre earning and how easy it is to redeem. They lost u. S. Airways and amex lounges. Delta now charges 29 per guest. 29 to get prepackaged cheese. Gerri i know somebody they wanted to charge them, he said no way and turned around and walked out. Most airports are putting decent restaurants, why would you spend 29 to go to a decent restaurant. There are good cards, make sure you have a card that has no foreign transaction fees, i know youre going to europe. So many people are. Make sure you dont have foreign transaction fees. Gerri you mentioned the problem is with the airlines not the credit cards. United and delta, arent those two Airlines Cutting back on what your rewards give you . Exactly. The way that you get ahead of that. The airlines are requiring more and more miles for the same exact flight. Earn more miles, and credit card signup bonuses are at alltime highs. I dont want that many cars. I have 25 cards. Gerri my goodness. You have to be smart, have a couple cards for different uses and have a lot of different options when it comes to redeem. Gerri is there another way to play the card game. Im not going to get a ton of cards, i dont want to manage that. There are tons of ways to earn points. There are Online Shopping portals that give you tons of extra airline miles, click target. Com through your shopping porta. I have them all listed on the website on the beginners guide. Gerri i need the beginners guide. Points guy. Com. Safe travels. Gerri thank you, time for a look at stories youre clicking on foxbusiness. Com. The Federal Reserve slowing down the pace of bondbuying program saying the economy needs less help. Theyre cutting purchases another 5 billion dollars, the fed made no mention when it will raise rates. The release of the gdp numbers stocks entered the day mixed. Shares of twitter soared after a positive earnings report, the gdp earning number 4 . New emails showing the woman at the heart of the irs scandal called republicans crazy. Lois lerner described gop members using pro feign language while heading the Tax Exemption business of the irs. A joint employer for workers in franchisee owned restaurants, could this expose the fast food giant to liability for workers conditions in stores. Those are some of the hot stories on foxbusiness. Com. Coming up next, consumers have to pay more for everything these days, including contact lenses. Well explain. And a terrible tragedy made worse when parents are forced to pay off their daughters Student Loan Debt after she died. Join me with their story after the break. Gerri you may have gotten email in your inbox recently, my husband sure did. In the coming days, we will no longer be able to offer discounts or rebates and Price Matching on many of our most popular brands of contact lenses. A new policy known as unilateral pricing is being implemented by many contact lens makers. Here to explain his rich edson. What does this mean. Many popular brands now require retailers to sell their lenders above a certain price. If not, the manufacturers will refuse to sell to that retailer and that prevents sealers in some area from doing so. The manufacturers called their Pricing Strategy unilateral pricing and they say it is costing consumers. Those who have been choosing to buy from retailers other than their eye doctor will see fixed prices and they will lose their ability to shop around. By making the products where consumers can access this, it simpler and more convenient. We believe we can better compete with other manufacturers and more importantly we will lead to lower prices for large majority. This is a safety issue as it was still steer them from being an advocate. Retailers say that doctors steer custome Consumer Choice and competition. Atomic data, but i have to ask if theres any way to this policy will be changed . Is hearing is more of a public demonstration and a way for opponents to highlight the issues. The senators cited a Supreme Court case printing retailers the ability to do that and setpoint prices on certain products minus new laws, it appears that this will be part of buying and selling. Gerri now its time for a story that every parent should hear. A california couples 27yearold daughter, a nursing student, died suddenly from liver failure is more years ago, leaving behind three kids and a massive Student Loan Debt and the parents are now being forced to pay it. Hear what their story is. Thank you for coming on the show. This is such a sad story. But its being compounded by this idea that you g