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Break. it is becoming apparently clear that toyota executives were scrambling to figure out the best way to deal with their huge accelerator problems. one of the company's top public relations executives warned toyota that it needed to come clean about the sticking pedals. they were saying that toyota was not protecting our customers by keeping quiet about this. pretty serious language. in an e-mail about the recently retired vice president for public affairs, he writes, we may have a ten den sen for mechanical failure in accelerator pedals. he says, the time to hide is over. it was sent in ja...

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 accelerat...

That's how they make a living. it's just west virginia. >> and a reminder, we're expecting a news conference from west virginia any minute now. we'll bring it to you live as soon as it starts. this isn't going to look very good to toyota. it's a warning to toyota executives from one of their own made just before millions of cars were recalled for accelerator problems. quote, we are not protecting our customers by keeping this quiet. the time to hide on this one is over. we need to come clean. that e-mail was written by a now former vp for public affairs. he also says toyota had to hope gover...

In accelerator problems. the time to hide is over. it was sent in january, days before the massive recall. toyota had failed to alert u.s. regulators even though the automaker was already busy addressing the sticky pedestrian tall problem in other countries and canada for about three months. he spoke about the disconnect between the u.s. and other countries a week ago at the inauguration of toyota's committee for global quality. >> because we are not perfect, we didn't share the experience we had in europe. we didn't know about it in north american. that's where we are putting these processes ...

And eastern parts of massachusetts. a threat for seeing flooding until the rain moves out. 1 to 3 inches total. 75 in dallas, 59 in kmik chick and 56 in new york. warming up to 63 in atlanta. after the snow flakes flying around this time yesterday morning. john and kiran we'll talk more weather in a couple minutes it's spring, it's changing. >> one to three inches in some parts of new jersey, that's enough to cause more flooding. they say the rivers are full and the ground walter is saturated and nowhere to go. >> after what happened last week, it's certainly not going to take much. they put t...