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Smoking. dr. stanton glance has been battling tobacco companies for years. he claims exponent is basically a hired gun for big business. >> if i were toyota and you wanted somebody to do this, i would have found somebody who didn't have this baggage. to get an independent assessment of toyota cars or anything else, you need to have people doing the assessing who are actually independent. >> reporter: exponent's initial report given to congress states that after testing several vehicles, they were "unable to induce, through electrical disturbances to the system, unintended acceleration, despite...

Cheney will resume his normal schedule soon. and word tonight that massachusetts senator scott brown has agreed to face off on a basketball court with president obama. this invitation actually coming from the mayor of springfield, massachusetts where basketball was invented more than a century ago. the white house is studying this offer. >> that has got to be the hottest basketball ticket in town. >> sure. >> i would be playing that one. i can't play ball. can you play ball? >> no, and i don't love basketball but that is a game i would surely watch. >> right. thanks, brianna. coming up sti...

Call to help defend them. and those big corporations read like a who's who of companies with major product or pr problems over the past decades, like exxon. when the valdez ran aground, exponent concluded a double-hull wouldn't have prevented a spill. exponent worked with tobacco companies arguing against the labels warning of the hazards of smoking. dr. stanton glance has been battling tobacco companies for years. he claims exponent is basically a hired gun for big business. >> if i were toyota and you wanted somebody to do this, i would have found somebody who didn't have this baggage. to ge...

And jessica, the white house is studying this offer. some faceoff that would be. >> that has got to be the hottest basketball ticket in town. >> sure. >> i would be playing that one. i can't play ball. can you play ball? >> no, and i don't love basketball but that is a game i would surely watch. >> right. thanks, brianna. coming up still on "360," aid to haiti being held up over taxes. and later, why even ordinary-looking stuff costs so much when it's in a hospital rooming room. dr. sanjay gupta joins us and takes us on a very expensive tour. can i eat heart healthy without giving up taste...

Disturbances to the system unintended acceleration, despite concerted efforts." leak trickal engineering consultant dr. anthony anderson told cnn that the report was "seriously deficient" a skepticism shared by some lawmakers. >> was the interim report produced by ex-pon nent inc., to justify toyota's pockets equivalent of junk science and how much credibility should it be give fwhin committee and american consumers? >> there was a comment made by one of the congressmen yesterday we want to look at this report to see if it is junk science and as an engineer, that -- we take offense to stuff li...