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Was stuck to the floor and he was slamming on the brake at the same time. what does that mean for jim sikes? >> it is possible he is a liar or he simply misunderstood what was happening in his car. >> sikes says he is sticking with his story and his lawyer will are more to say. sikes' prius is on a recall list. 2004 to 2009 model. sikes' prius was a 2008 he says there was no wrong with the floor mat and it is not on the sticking accelerator pedal list. they have recalled 6 million vehicles to fix those problems and the national my way safety traffic administration identified 52 deaths possibly...

>> sir? is it the floor mat that's stuck on the pedal? >> sir? can you hear me? ington

From the white house about when this will all be over. and the little boy who sprang into action when his parents were in danger. >> can you come really fast? bring cops, a lot of them. and bring soldiers, too. >> shepard: tonight why cops are calling him a hero: first from fox across the u.s.a. each day seems to bring new reports of toyotas accelerating out of control. tonight two more drivers say it happened to them. the first incident was in the suburbs of new york city where a woman says the prius she was driving sped up in a driveway, sending her across the road and into a stonewall. we'r...

>> have you tried to put the car in neutral? >> no. >> can you try that? >> you didn't try to put it into neutral? >> no, i was afraid to try to hit it into neutral. i was going 94 miles an hour in a toyota prius, that's fast. >> why didn't you turn it off earlier? >> because it wasn't safe. those are very windy roads and i didn't know if i hit the button if the steering wheel would lock or if the wheels on the car would lock. >> is there any doubt in your mind that the floor mats had nothing to do with what happened? >> the floor mat had nothing to do with yesterday's event period. the floor ...

The electronic controls, not the floor mats. >> is it your feeling that toyota has known about this problem for a long time and is only now addressing this issue, rather late in the game? >> as soon as toyota introduced the electronic throttle control in the 2002 model year, complaints shot up fourfold, insurance claims shot up on the vehicles and so the one common theme is electronic throttle controls and sudden acceleration go hand in hand. >> is it your feeling that people with any of these vehicles should stay off the road or do you feel like it's an anomaly, that there may be a problem he...