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Four accidents and two of them involving injuries, and no fatal tis fortunately. and you have to understand that this is only 37,000 cars out there, and you have already had problems with more than 100 of them. it is percentage wise a much higher incident of problems than in the gas pedal recall where you have millions of cars under recall, but only a couple of thousand have had problems. >> we have been advising people on what to do if they have the gas pedal problem with the floor mat problem or the gas pedal problem on its own, you try to get it into neutral and get to the side of the road ...

Not heard complaints of this before and now i am reading about this in the newspaper that there are a lot of complaints about this. nobody contacted me saying this is a problem being looked into. so they say that toyota doesn't know that there is a braking problem and there is no solution because they don't know -- there wouldn't be a solution, because they are not acknowledging a problem and they are cooperating with the government's investigation. and i was told that there are not other people with this problem and now i read in the newspaper ton of people with this problem and being investi...

Global recall of nearly 4.5 million vehicles because of a gas pedal problem. tom joins us. >> reporter: this is nikkei news service reporting this recall in toyota and the hybrid prius. msnbc and cnbc have not independently confirmed that. they are reporting the prius hybrid is now part of a new recall involving 270,000 vehicles, 100,000 of those would be in the united states because of this concern about a braking problem. the japanese government and u.s. government have been expressing concern to toyota about the hybrid and about the braking concerns. that is separate from the 2.3 million ve...

>> so the issue for toyota, even as big as the numbers may be, millions of cars, all these years, the camry, all these -- huge selling cars, is not necessarily -- doesn't equate necessarily with legal liability, just a massive brand liability that may not necessarily result in anything like what firestone had to deal with because quite simply because of the fatalities? >> that's on the issue of the potential lawsuits. if you look at the lawsuits, i think that's how you would compare toyota versus what happened to firestone. as far as the expense to toyota, they're definitely going to take a hi...

Interfering with the brakes. 2.3 million recalled in january because we had the accelerator sticking, the gas pedal sticking. we have 270,000 worldwide priuss because of braking problems and toyota has a very big problem. >> we've seen brands deal with these problems before. toyota has always been such a great brand. now they have to figure out what r their straench is. people are going to ask questions on the hill, they already are. when did you know, what did you know and when did you know it? just this morning on the "today" program i saw an expert explaining this braking problem was not a ...