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Airbags and killing innocent victims. we now know that the difference between this switch and one that would have worked properly was life or death. jenna: on capitol hill this morning lawmakers like massachusetts senator ed markey joining family members who lost loved ones because of faulty ignition in general motors cars. we're learning it took years for the auto maker to issue a recall. hours from now the ceo of gm will testify on capitol hill on this topic. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has the latest on that. mike, what are which to expect here? >> reporter: jenna, we exp...

Caused 13 death. she's expected to answer questions about the faulty ignition switch and why it took decades to recall cars. we're going to bring you that testimony live as soon as it starts, as soon as members of congress wrap up their statements in front of mary bar barra. meantime investigating the scene in long island. police say the driver of a pickup truck may have crossed double yellow line colliding with chartder bus. they are trying to get them out of the windows. the bus swerved into a tree. the truckdriver pronounced dead at the scene. three people on the bus were injured. the u.s...

One of the subcommittees under your committee, let's talk about what americans should understand about this. in your understanding just how long has general motors known about this problem? >> well over a decade. kelly o'donnell just summed it up. that's one of the best summaries in about two and a half minutes. and what she explained is absolutely inexcusable. it's an outrage that a corporate culture would end up sacrificing at least 12 lives that we know of because an ignition switch did not work properly and they knew it as early as more than ten years ago. it's inexcusable. >> senator, whe...

Reporters to demand change. they want answers. poppy harlow live to tell us more. good morning. >> reporter: this press conference went for 40 minutes. it just wrapped up. kicked off by a number of lawmakers. you heard from senator blumenthal of connecticut and senator ed markey. also, calling on g.m. to take all of these cars off the road, not allow people to drive them until they are fixed, frankly. that is something that g.m. has not done yet. we had a chance to hear from the family members. people that had lost loved ones, some of them wearing t-shirts saying, protect our children and also...

Regards to turning the car off with the driver's knee, unquote. if this was such a big problem, why didn't gm replace the ignition switch in the cars already on the road? the cars where the torque fell well below gm's specifications instead of just the new cars, why? >> what you just said does not match under tab 25. >> it's the bottom of the page, there should be something there. just note that what i've said -- i apologize for that but there was a statement made that cobalt is blowing up in their face by a bump of the driver's knee. >> clearly there were a lot of things that happened. there'...