criminal investigation concerning the handling of a faulty ignition switch that would suddenly turn the car s power off, cutting off airbags, power steering, and power brakes. more than 2 million gm cars with the problem have been recalled. but as cnn s drew griffin reports, they will not say which vehicles are involved in the deadly defects, not even the families of the victims. reporter: gordon s son was just shy of his 21st birthday heading home on this road four years ago when in an unexplained flash, his 2007 pontiac g-5 locked into a turn, hit this very tree and ben died. even if i had been there i don t think how quickly i would have been hitting the tree. he stayed overnight with friends before driving home about noon on a sunday.
cobalt, pontiac g-5, is the urn ion and the sky. that s are the cars involved. these are not just the recalls. these have led to deaths. at least 13 deaths. if you have one of these cars, what do you need to know? the original part of the recall has already received a letter in the mail. april 7th is when we re told they re going to be fixing these cars because they had to make the ignition switch. the switch could be jostled or bumped in an accident and it would switch from the run to accessory position and power braking and power steering was off. the simple fix they re suggesting blows my mind. take your key off the key ring. in the meantime take your key off the key ring, don t have a
stocks back in territory. s&p 500 above all-time closing high. this month s rally has taken the s&p 500 up nearly 4%. investors are looking past the recent round of weak economic news. they re blaming the weather. and they re banking on a sprink rebound. and for now, this old five-year-old bull market is still running. deadly safety problem is prompting gm to expand a recall. a recall we first told you about a few weeks ago. 13 people have died because of crashes that occurred when the vehicle unexpectedly shut off. two weeks ago, gm said there were six fatalities. said it s recalling about 800,000 vehicles. now the automaker is recalling 1.4 million. chevy cobalt and hhr. pontiac g-5 and soltice and ion and sky. the problem is the positioning jolted by off-roading or heavy
they ve expanded it to 1.4 million cars total. which cars, specifically, peter? all right. well, they had already recalled the chevrolet coballot and the nearly identical pontiac g-5, they re recalling the chevy hhr, pontiac solstice, saturn sky and saturn ion in addition to those other cars. how many issues had gm had in recent years? i mean, gm these days, all auto manufacturers, and i don t want to single out gm, many automotive manufacturers have had a number of recalls. toyota has had a number of recalls over the years, so has chrysler. these days, especially, auto makers are really sensitive to wanting to jump on issues as quickly as possible. now, this issue dates back some years and they re finally getting on top of it. but auto makers are much more sensitive these days the about jumping on recalls, because there are serious penalties. an auto maker can be fined about $35 million for failing to recall a car in a timely fashion
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