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>> bad news. it's bad news. martha: and it was coming. >> the bad news is the trend. we had been trending down, the number of people fronting up to the unemployment offices every week, the front was down consistently, then it plateaued out and we're rising again. that's not the trend the administration or anybody else wants to see. martha: what do you attribute that to, stuart? >> the economy is not expanding as -- well, i think the real problem is that people who are employers are not hiring a lot of people. they're manage to go punch out a lot of product and service without hiring extra peop...

Worldwide recall, and for the first time, toyota executives put a figure on that. $2 billion they said it would cost in lost sales and their efforts to correct the gas pedal problem. also today more details of the prius problem. now, the prius is the jewel in toyota's crown, the biggest selling car here in japan. a hybrid using cutting edge technolo technology, and it's that technology that's the issue. the company said the braking problem is when the car goes from hydraulic to electronic braking, and it's been discovered when they've been on bumpy or icy roads. they said there have been dozen...

Electronic components that are in these cars. >> reporter: toyota denies the electronics in its accelerators are faulty saying "we have found no evidence of a problem with our electronic throttle control system." >> man, there's a company with big problems. boy genius -- >> a real branding nightmare. the real problem is toyota had this extraordinary brand. right? this made gm in detroit looks like a joke. now you have this other issue. it just looks like they didn't address the problem head-on early enough. you have both the acceleration problem, now the brake problem, now the prius problem. t...

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