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Might get caught in floor mats, and the company extended a previous recall to older vehicles because of floor mat issues. we continue to track the increasing chaos in libya. gunfire spitting out of tripoli's skies. you can hear it on this amateur video. take a listen. [ gfr ] government forces trying to tighten their grip on the capital city. it's said to be a ghost down as gadhafi fights to keep control. he spoke by phone on a libyan tv talk show moments ago, and, yes, as you might expect, it was just another rambling speech. >> translator: we have 3 million libyans. they run the country. s...

Nbc's tom costello has the latest. tom? >> reporter: hi, lawrence, good evening. toyota has 5.6 million vehicles in the u.s. under recall for sticky gas pedals and brake issues and floor mat issues. on the hot seat before congress the brand new chief of the national highway traffic safety administration, nhtsa who defended it handling of toyota and recalls. >> i don't see toyota as an indicative example of failure. i see it as nhtsa doing its job. >> they are under fire for having too cozy a relationship with the company they police. many have left those jobs and work for automakers, lobbyists

But two recalls later, did the government do all it could to protect drivers? nbc's tom costello has the latest. tom? >> reporter: hi, lawrence, good evening. toyota right now has 5.6 million vehicles in the u.s. under recall for sticky gas pedals and brake issues and floor mat issues. today a fourth congressional hearing and this one looking at where have government regulators been. on the hot seat before congress the brand new chief of the national highway traffic safety administration, nhtsa, who today defended his agency's handling of toyota and recalls. >> i don't see toyota as an indicat...

Anybody could have controlled the car it would have been the highway patrol officer, and the fact that they are now responding and taking these, you know, allegations basically very serious shows they have changed their thinking in all this. >> i remember the story and i heard the 911 call, and it's terrifying, hearing this man and family flying through the intersection. what is striking and you see the history of toyota, and the floor mat issues and they recalled some of the priuss because of the anti-breaking system. and we are hearing accelerator issues with a newer prius. >> that's exactly...

Toyota. >> now, you're making major, major claims here. the bottom line is when you have such a huge corporation like toyota which would be under the category too big to fail. before they start issuing such things, they need to be absolutely sure. these accidents they were talking about where deaths did occur, they were floor mat issues. they were recall issues about pulling the floor mats out. >> i think that was a red herring, the floor mats. >> if this guy in west virginia, if that is successful, if this was your case, how strong is this case today since we're in the middle of an unpreceden...