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Or serious injury. >> is that doing the right thing, not count someone sit in backseat or where there's a side impact crash, or are you saying that that number may go up if you determine that those people died as a result of the ignition switch. >> rules and eligibility of the criteria of the compensation program are being determined and set independently by ken feinberg. it will be his determination what the rules are, what the eligibility criteria are. he hasn't concluded that yet. we expect that to happen in the next few weeks. >> reporter: bottom line, we will see, they're sticking with 13...

. welcome back to "the lead," the money lead now. gm is accepting responsibility for the deaths of 13 people because of defective ignition switches. the ceo mary barra did not find a conspiracy to cover up gm's investigation. no evidence of conspiracy. barra warned more recalls are likely in the near future. for his part, senator harry reid said it may be worth congress getting involved to see if gm made a cold, calculated tradeoff, between safety and recalls. >> they were fired and they want to put him in jail now? >> poppy harlow is joining me now. the ignition switch only killed 13 people...

>> this should have never happened. our customers need to know that they can count on our cars, trucks, actions, and most importantly our word. we let our customers down. >> the gm ceo with a soapering talk to employees about why it took years for a company to fix a faulty ignition switch. the internal report found no evidence of a company wide cover up. wall street initially reacted favorab favorably. right now trading at around $36

But it spares no criticism, and nobody looks good at gm, in the wake of this report. >> that was the senator, not the governor, i meant to say. as far as the families here are feeling, what they really want is a why. the answer to why they decided to wait ten years. and just going through the "what" of it, is there a way -- is there any sort of technological, any logical explanation why you wouldn't want to go ahead and do this 90-cent fix? >> i agree with you, there is no logical method. standard engineering procedures, and i've worked in manufacturing most of my life, is when there's a produ...

Tune. why the shift? >> reporter: they are sticking with the 13 number but they are using a very loose number. they are not counting side impact crashes or people who died in the back seat in the same crash but they also said that they have hired this attorney ken feinberg to dole out victim compensation. they told me after the press conference that if he comes up with a number that they should be compensated, but still they are only counting the frontal trashes and, frankly, we really want to know why. listen. is that doing the right thing, to not count someone, say, sitting in the back seat ...