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Warnings now from a former toyota executive just days before the company recalled millions of vehicles, you know, for those sticky accelerators. cnn's deborah feyerick live. tell us about the internal memo you got. >> well, it's becoming apparently clear that toyota executives were scrambling to figure out the best way to deal with this huge accelerator problem and how best to tell the public. now, in an e-mail obtained from the associated press, one of the company's top public relations executives warned toyota that officials needed to come clean about the sticking pedals. the executive sayin...

Tote -- folks: was toyota involved in a coverup. the "wall street journal" is reporting a top executive told his colleagues that they needed to come clean and they needed to do it fast. that was back in january. that was five days before toyota announced a massive recall of some 8 million vehicles worldwide. a man named irv miller. he was then vp for environment and public affairs, said this in an e-mail, and he may come to regret it. we'll see. the time to hide on this one, he says, is over. we are not protecting our customers by keeping this quiet. that's pretty specific. brian wilson joins ...

Motor company was very well aware of problems with accelerators in its vehicles before it launched a huge recall earlier this year this new information comes from the associated press and our corporate cousins at the "wall street journal." both organizations report a now retired toyota executives wrote an email an internal email indicating the company needed to clean up its own problems or own up to them. the automaker had recalled millions of cars in the last several months. the company says it is repairing accelerator systems that can cause vehicles to speed out of control. our senior corres...

Financing, saves you $4,000 maybe or close to it. historically, toyota doesn't offer these types of incentives and the sweet deals they're offering now, you're talking about $2200 plus per vehicle in incentives. before the recalls happened, that number was somewhere around 1700. so the point is, jamie, they're basically investing $550 per vehicle to entice people to come into the showrooms and buy betting that the profits they lose are worth it because of the pickup in sales, and that's what we saw is. jamie: here's the big question, have they repaired the issue us that had to do with the pads...

Coping during the start of a stressle -- >> i lived in upstate new york, and even back in the '70s you'd hear stories about how students would jump off bridges into the gorges. the seattle times, this may sound far-fetched but federal regulators are study if sudden accelerators is linked to cosmic radiation. they have long affected airplanes and known for triggering errors in computer systems. it shows how deep they are digging to solve the mystery of sudden acceleration. "usa today," can tiger make it back? one of the most eagerly awaited comebacks. i am not awaiting eagerly. are you awai...