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Androgel 1.62%. you're watching live coverage from capitol hill where house energy and commerce committee ranking member henry waxman is delivering his opening statement in today's hearing over the gm safety recalls. we expect to hear from gm's ceo mary barra and we will bring that to you live. staying with us is adam levitt, one of the lawyers involved in a class action against general motors over the faulty key system. i want to read you a little from msnbc.com. there's additional documents that show a gm engineer actually approved ignition switch changes. this internal document which was ...

Made, the ones that had the faulty ignition switch. she said it came to light under her watch, a new watch, but she still claims complete responsibility for this. she understands there will be civil and legal responsibilities and she's determined to set new standards. she announced a new safety person employed by gm. ken feinberg, you know that name investigations into 9/11 and boston bombing. he will lead some sort of investigation here. time to bring in charles payne from the fox business network on what we just heard. huge problem for general motors. >> this is a huge problem. general motor...

Search and recovery operation is probably the most challenging one i have ever seen. >> that comes as a new report this morning is out about poor coordination and how it hampered the search effort last week. in addition, malaysian authorities today released a full transcript of the final words from the cockpit. they said, "good night malaysian 370." this is a standard call, it had been reported for a long time it was said "all right, good night." now let's take you to that press conference. these are members of the families of the 12 people who were killed when there was that faulty ignition...

Steering problems, coming just before america's largest automaker testifies before congress about its handling of that other recall, involving the ignition switch that took gm more than a decade to make and cost at least 13 people their lives. >> it's too late for our daughter and the other victims, but there's still people out there driving this vehicle who should not be driving it. >> reporter: gm has now recalled 2.6 million cars because their ignition switches could turn off unexpectedly, shutting down the car's power and safety system, including the air bag. in prepared testimony just rel...

When we have answers, we will be fully transparent with you, with our regulators, and with our customers. >> there's been a fair amount of "i don't know" since chev is the new ceo and says they turned over 200,000 pages of documents to the housite committee and she had not reviewed the information. >> i was lisping to the questions -- listening to the questions. lawmakers sound angry. >> they want to know why it took general motors so long to act on this information, that the switches in the automobiles were bad. bottom line they are saying that gm had critical information a long time ago. >> ...