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That one. thank you both so much. let's take a look at the headlines at 12 minutes after the hour. quite a heart pounding scene after military plane crashed into several homes in imperial, california, setting them on fire. we understand that at least three houses were destroyed, eight others had to be evacuated. the pilot ejected and is said to be okay. and luckily there were no injuries on the ground. investigators are now looking into what caused that jet from the air station in neighboring yuma u arizona, to crash. in a few hours, general motors will release details of its internal in...

One died because of this ignition switch. >> poppy, that is what it is matters most here. the company looking into itself and puts the number 13 out there. we know others believe that number should be bigger. you know it firsthand from families. what did you learn? >> reporter: even kninhtsa has d they believe the number is higher than 13. gm is sticking with that number. maybe it will change today in the report. we don't know. but look. general motors, to be clear, is only counting here, chris, frontal end crashes where air bags did not deploy and not counting people who died in the back seat...

Are going to the showrooms, more of that traffic means more people are buying these new cars. you've got to remember, thousands of people with these recalled cars are getting loner cars and then they are deciding that they need to buy those loners. it's a steep discount to all of those people. look at the numbers. gm sales up 13% in may from a year ago. one analyst said there have been so many recalls, consumers have become somewhat immune to it. keep in mind, it's not just gm. it's across the board toyota sales up 17%. >> gm has recalled more cars than it has sold in the last five years. does...

And any day now, any day we could get that internal report from gm into what went wrong with the company, why didn't they talk about it for more than a decade? i think it could be a real game changer, no question. about the report that you brought up at the beginning, gm is pushing hardback against that saying that at least 74 people could have died because of this ignition switch defect. the total number of deaths associated with the ignition switch recall condition still stands at 13. here's what happened. reuters went through a national database of crashes and gm says there are a host of re...

Them of delaying a recall or of course anything else. this comes after the ignition switch defect that proved to be deadly. it cost at least 13 lives and bm knew about it a decade before they told the public before it or recalled the cars. >> and any idea how much the recalls will cost gm? >> yeah, that is a great question. so what we know so far is that all the recalls this year in the u.s., over 13, just about 13.8 million. they are are costing the company already 1.7 billion there'$1.7 just to fix the cars. then they have the $35 million fine that they agreed to pay. and that doesn't settle...