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To get his case reopened after toyota's huge recall. michael maher has the story. >> reporter: an emotional scene as koua fong lee embraced loved ones and attorneys after two legal decisions that changed his life. >> i am really happy to see my wife and children. i'm really happy about that. so i think the first thing i'm going to do is spend time with my family. >> reporter: he was released from a minnesota prison after a judge decided there was enough new evidence to retry his criminal vehicular homicide case. in 2006, lee said his toyota camry would not stop on a st. paul freeway exit ramp,...

Prosecutors in minnesota dropped charges against the man after a judge ordered a new trial. lee was convicted of vehicular homicide back in 2006 when his camry sped out of control, killing three people. the case was the first to bring toyota's sudden acceleration problems to light. as you can imagine, lee was quite emotional after learning that he was going to go free. >> it is over. it is over. >> i wake up still in little room. now my dream come true. >> they asked the family members of the three people killed in the crash to please forgive him and believe his story. to politics. the fat...

Jean is officially a candidate for haiti's presidency. last night he told cnn's larry king why he's running. >> now that our country has problems, it's a chance to rebuild from the bottom on up. i'm being drafted by the youth of haiti. right now is a chance for us to bring real education into the schools, infrastructure, the security, and proper jobs. and power failure leaves dozens of people dangling above the wisconsin state fair. they were stuck for about an hour last night on a ride called the sky glider. firefighters used cherry pickers to get them back on the ground. and thank goodness...

Affiliate in phoenix, arizona. and this is the tower at the airport, the deer creek airport. it's a private airport, by the way, in phoenix. and they are trying, obviously -- they were in the tower when this happened. they are the ones that heard all the calls when this happened. but apparently a student pilot was flying an aircraft that looks like this. of this is another picture of a piper archer we were able to pull up. that's the aircraft that the student pilot was training in. apparently, he was trying to land, and that's when it hit the warehouse. and -- and he was killed. it happened ab...

Toyota cars. this time their steering rods. we're learning that the u.s. government has been investigating the japanese automaker for sometime and subpoenaed records last month. toyota has not said anything about the steering column issue or what models are affected. right now, they face more than 300 lawsuits because of separate brake and acceleration problems. >> i didn't know he had steering rods. meanwhile, seven latin american nations joining mexico in supporting a lawsuit challenging arizona's immigration law. libya, nicaragua, paraguay and peru have each filed separate motions. all thei...