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There's positive news for general motors. two suv models are called the top in their class after the latest round of mid sized suv crash testing. they both received the highest grade from the insurance institute from highway safety. the auto maker is leading the way when it comes to mid sized suv safety. the honda pilot received the worst score out of the nine tested vehicles. we want to talk about our twitter topic today. this is about golf digest. they're causing a con tro vtrov talk over this. she is not a pro golfer. is is this good for female golfers or just good for the magazine? tweet u...

Airbags and killing innocent victims. we now know that the difference between this switch and one that would have worked properly was life or death. jenna: on capitol hill this morning lawmakers like massachusetts senator ed markey joining family members who lost loved ones because of faulty ignition in general motors cars. we're learning it took years for the auto maker to issue a recall. hours from now the ceo of gm will testify on capitol hill on this topic. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has the latest on that. mike, what are which to expect here? >> reporter: jenna, we exp...

Again, you kind of have a smaller turnout pool for midterm elections that a lot of them are going to be people in the plans. that's a high percentage that could see their plans change and the plan changes get announced in september, very close to the election. jon: obamacare was enacted only with democratic votes so you can't pin this on the republicans in any way. >> right. that's the issue they're really going to run into. you have the democrats saying we don't want to make the cuts, either, but because they voted for the affordable care act, you're going to have a difficult time pushing bac...

Regarding pick up trucks. this is over the transmission cooling line recall. so take a look again to see if your truck is on this list. those replacement ignition parts are on the way. in the meantime, are people to stop driving their cars? >> here is the thing, gm has not said that people should stop driving the cars. mary barra said as long as you have the single key in the ignition, the cars are safe. where a lot of people will drive with multiple keys on the ignition and that could cause it to slip. mary barra, because these issues have been linked to 13 deaths, a lot of the attorneys repr...

Provocation by moscow to intervene, to protect its fellow russian co-nationalists. so there is still a lot of possibility for this to get much more deadly. >> thank you so much, richard engel right there in eastern ukraine. and in a major settlement between the justice department and toyota, announced today the world's largest auto maker has agreed to pay more than $1 billion for its mishandling of sudden acceleration complaints. since 2009 this has been an issue, toyota has recalled more than 11 million toyota and lexus calls for the acceleration problem. after a four-year investigation, at...