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Time of general motors. 29 recalls so far this year covering nearly 14 million vehicles. once proud auto giant reeling from safety problems, eight figure fines and cover-up charges. since 2009 when gm filed for bankruptcy the company has recalled more cars than it actually sold. wow. we bring in chief business correspondent christine romans. we seem to be talking about this all the time. >> 29 separate recalls just this year. they have now recalled more cars this year than they have made in the past five years is just mind boggling. recalling for a lot of different things though. everything fr...

It cost at least 13 lives and gm 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 costing the company already $1.7 billion, that is just to fix the cars. then they have the $35 million fine that they agreed to pay. the government last friday, and that doesn't settle any the, and that doesn't settle any possible criminal liability. we know the department of justic...

And they did searches of the homes and couldn't find the black powder. that suggested either they were built somewhere else or had help doing it. plus, the controls themselves, very sophisticated. there was suggestion -- no suggestions that dzhokhar got that training, but the fbi had to find that out sooner rather than later and that is why they questioned him in the hospital. all right, general motors issued its 29th recall alone this year. this time involving 2008 chevrolets, together, the 29 recalls involved more than 15 million cars worldwide, which is a record, in case you wonder. the s...

>> reporter: the surge in recalls is because it's holding itself to higher safety standards. they follow newly minted marry barra's congressional testimony about why it took more than a decade to fix an ignition switch which has been tied to 13 deaths. >> employees from engineers, investigators all the way up to executives were briefed on information associated with this recall. >> that violation cost gm the maximum $35 million fine and will likely cost the company more in victim compensation. >> my sincere apologies to everyone who has been affected by this recall, especially the families and...

Information of more than 233 million customers. their credit card information should be safe, but ebay says hackers have taken names, e-mail addresses, passwords, phone numbers, birth dates. ebay says it is working with the fbi and other agencies to try to track down the hackers. >> and what's the john berman famous line about this? you've changed them several times -- >> i've changed my password so many times that the only person who can't get in is me! i don't know my passwords for anything anymore. >> you have a little sticky in your wallet that has all the passwords. time for your money....