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To be more up front and act more quickly when they know about safety problems. here is u.s. attorney pree preet bharara. >> ask anyone in the transportation industry, and they will tell you these cases have been somewhat of a watershed. there's been more recalls, more attention to safety, more attention to transparency with regular lay gors and more focus on how to keep the driving public safe. >> this, of course, is the second big safety settlement in two years. last year, toyota had to pay a $1.2 billion fine in a similar case. frances? >> the ceo is calling this a tough agreement. where doe...

The audit of are they following those regulations. do they have the right systems and processes in place to ensure those regulations are being satisfied. that's where the safety problems lie. >> david soucie, mary schiavo, stay with us. the breaking news this morning, a passenger plane carrying people including children and infants -- we know there were two children and three infants on board. it's missing in a remote area of indonesia. >> it was flying from jayapura to oksibil. the plane took off from that airport there. looks like it's directly south. about a half hour into this flight, ai...

Utility has been ordered to pay a record $1.6 billion fine for deadly blast. the 2010 explosion destroyed a san bruno neighborhood, near san francisco. it killed eight people and injured nearly 60 others. in levying the fine, regulators noted a continued pattern of safety problems at pacific gas and electric. >> i lost my family, my son, my husband, my mother-in-law, my dog and my home. >> reporter: a spokesman for pg&e said the company does not plan an appeal. 850 million will go to future improvements of gas transmission lines. another 400 million will go back to customers. turning to a lo...

And would be sort of subsumed by euro wings. we were talking to david soucie whether or not financial problems at an airline sometimes translate to safety problems what are your thoughts? >> it does. and david was absolutely right when i was in the department of transportation the federal aviation administration had put several carriers under watches. when you're falling short on cash you can't skimp on things that the public sees so it's behind the scenes maintenance, safety issues so that's why faa puts airlines under financial crunch under special watch. that's happened to airlines from the...

>> thunderstorms in the united states, you wouldn't take off. you'd be on the ground at laguardia or kennedy. >> reporter: today, reports the doomed aerial's pilots may not have received intensive weather data prior to take-off. a top indonesian aviation official tells cnn it's a matter under investigation and insists the standard is for pilots to be briefed in advance on the weather. and concern airasia was not approved to fly the route from surabaya to singapore on the day it went missing, highlighting indonesia's significant safety problems with controlling its airspace. experts say booming...