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Want to call it that, will affect the resale and leasing value of these cars, consumers will look elsewhere, and it's very expensive to draw the consumers back. because it's always cheaper to keep the existing customer. >> hold on, you were talking about the value of the car, there's something else i wanted to talk about. but let's get to peter right now. the problem keeps growing, the latest developments there. the transportation secretary says he feels toyota didn't act quickly enough and there are those who say they kept quiet about this problem, especially the brake problem. how does this ...

Wouldn't you think they want to share it with the department of transportation? who approves brake hoses and lines and torque stuff and they communicate with the society of auto engineers? a lot of communication going on there. if there is a complaint of a car unintendingly intel rating or a brake problem you think they want to talk about a safety feature like that. >> stuart: i want to alert you with something that is the worst piece of publicity i heard in my life. there is a 911 call. it's chilling. we won't run it for the audience. it's chilling. 911 call from the inside of a car, a lexus ...

Shows the economy has lost 8.4 million jobs since the start of the recession in december 2007. for the first time, toyota's chief executive is apologizing for the safety problems affecting his company's cars. but at the same time, a japanese transportation official is criticizing toyota, saying the company is not taking the prius brake problem seriously enough. and what we like to call snow-pocalypse. a major weren't storm already dumping snow on parts of the carolinas. as much as 2 feet of snow could fall here in d.c., which is needless to say, this town doesn't really handle it that way....

Take out the driver's side floor mat to prevent gas pedal jamming. in october toyota recalled about 3.8 million vehicles because of the floor mat issue and even expanded that about a month later. then in january, recalling 2.3 million other vehicles because of a different problem causing accelerators to stick and stopped production of eight different models here in the u.s. now, yesterday came reports of brake problems with the popular prius. we're going to try and make sense of all this this morning for you. liz mcdonald from fox business is here to talk the business side of it and our auto e...

Our debra feyerick live in los angeles looking into the serious new question about the automaker's plan to fix the millions of cars already recalled. but we begin with kyung lah live in tokyo where toyota just went public with the big brake problem we've been talking about with the prius. good morning, kyung. >> reporter: good morning, kiran. it's not a big problem if you listen to toyota executives, but it is definitely a problem. we're talking about the third generation prius, known in the united states as the 2010 prius. the bottom line here is that there is a software problem with its anti...