general motors ceo mary barra to testify on capitol hill as gm recalls another 1.5 cars. a scourge of folks trying to beat the deadline trying to enroll for health care coverage causes more problems on the federal website. and confirmed or overturned. baseball's expanded replay era gets under way without any major arguments. this is the "cbs morning news" without any major arguments. this is the "cbs morning news" for tuesday, april 1st, 2014. captioning funded by cbs good morning. good to be with you, i'm anne-marie green. the ceo of general motors will be on the congressional hot seat today. lawmakers will be asking mary

barra why the automaker waited more than a decade to recall cars with a faulty ignition switch linked to deaths. gm announced a new recall of 1.5 million vehicles over possible problems of power steering. that pushes the total in february to more than 6 million recalls. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> reporter: anne-marie, good morning, mary barra could be asked that question repeatedly here on capitol hill. why gm let a decade go by with drivers still behind the wheels of these cars. we have her prepared testimony, she's expected to say she still doesn't know why and gm going forward will be different. family members of victims killed in crashes linked to an ignition switch defect in some general motors vehicles will be on capitol hill today. >> this is my daughter kelly erin ruddy. she died when she was 21 years old. she was killed in a chevy

cobalt. >> reporter: gm has recalled 2.6 million small cars this year, including the chevy cobalt because the ignition could move to suddenly off while in ignition. today, ceo mary barra testifies about the defect which the company has linked to 13 deaths. >> there's nothing that she can truly say that's going to make up for any of this. >> reporter: in prepared testimony, barra apologizes to the families and says, quote, i cannot tell you why it took years for a safety defect to be announced, but i can tell you that we will find out. lawmakers will want to know why the company didn't recall the cars sooner. they're focused on a background report that among other things shows issues with the ignition switches date back to 2001. they'll also ask the acting head of the national transportation safety administration why it took twice the time to investigate. >> you don't need dead bodies all over the ground to show it's a safety defect. the agency has the authority to

research, to investigate. >> reporter: nhtsa said in its testimony, gm didn't share information that led the agency to launch an investigation sooner. barra met privately with about two dozen family members here in d.c. she apparently spent two hours listening to their story, apologizing individually to each one. anne-marie. >> susan mcginnis in washington. thanks a lot, susan. president obama's health care law is on track to find more than 7 million americans. after the rush to meet monday's deadline. that number beats recent targets for the affordable care act. as craig boswell reports the federal website could barely keep up yesterday. >> reporter: on the left, they have open enrollment for the affordable care act. website problems preventpeople from signing up. healthcare.gov was down for six hours monday morning and then again in the afternoon. >> there is a technical problem that the tech team is on. >> reporter: and people hoping to sign up in person waited in long lines. >> i wanted to do it online but i couldn't do it.

>> reporter: the phone lines are jammed, too. >> we're currently experiencing long wait times due to a surge in demand for marketplace coverage as of the end of open enrollment approaches. >> reporter: white house officials say more than 6 million people have already enrolled in the held care plan but they still went on a media blitz monday to get more people to sign up, especially young people. >> you feel you're invincible when you're young. i say if you're not willing to give yourself peace of mind, give your mom peace of mind. >> reporter: they question how many people are actually enrolled. >> i don't think it means much, chris. i think they're cooking the books on this. >> reporter: the white house says anyone who started the process but wasn't able to finish will still have a couple of weeks. craig boswell for cbs news, washington. well, bad weather is hampering the hunt for the missing malaysia airliner this morning. today, crews are focused on a search area of some 46,000 square miles in a 2 1/2-hour flight west of perth, australia.

and new high-tech assets are being deployed to the zone. holly williams is in perth. holly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. there's been new criticism of malaysian authorities within the last couple hours. this coming under fire for not being forthcoming into the investigation of disappearance of flight 370. yesterday, the malaysians put out a statement announcing that the final signoff from the cockpit on the plane before communications systems were switched off and the plane disappeared was good night, malaysia 370. now, that's a formal, correct signoff. but previously, malaysian authorities said the last words were "all right. good night," which are technically incorrect which left speculation to who was flying the plane when it left malaysian airspace.

there's been no report on this and that led to frustration of the families of people on board who say that the malaysian authorities haven't been honest with them. in the southern indian ocean where it's believed the plane went down continued to search today. the australian government is deploying a modified 747 for a flying, mobile, air traffic controller inside the search zone which is around 1100 miles off the coast and roughly about the size of oregon. now, a fleet of planes taking part. normally, we see 10 or 11 going up in any given day. and they're from several countries including china, korea and the u.s. the idea is that the mobile plane will help avoid any collision. anne-marie. >> all right, holly williams in perth. thank you very much, holly. asiana airlines said boeing shares the blame for a crash at the san francisco airport last july. three people died after the plane slammed into a sea wall.

in a government filing the airline said the jet didn't have adequate warning systems. but asiana admits its pilots failed to maintain a safe air speed. boeing said theplane performed as expected. the number of missing in the washington state mudslide is lower this morning. crews are searching for the remains of 22 people, including a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old. that number was reduced from 30 yesterday. the flight occurred ten days ago and has killed at least 27 people. recovery workers rely mainly on search dogs to locate the remains. the 370-acre debris is 70 feet deep in places. secretary of state john kerry is in the middle east trying to put the peace process back on track. kerry has been meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in jerusalem. he also talked with palestinian negotiators though not president mahmoud abbas. the parties face an april 29th deadline for a framework agreement.

well, the fate of convicted spy jonathan pollard has apparently become part of the negotiation. israeli leaders have been pressing for pollard's release for decades. as a navy intelligence analyst, the u.s. citizen passed thousands of classified documents to israel in the 1980s. pollard pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence. the u.s. is reacting cautiously to word that russia is reducing its military on the ukrainian border. russia says it's pulling back a battalion of several hundred troops. though it will keep tens of thousands in place. moscow maintains the buildup is part of military exercises. on monday, white house spokesman jay carney said the drawdown would be a good thing. coming up on the "morning news," the fed chair hits main street. we will show you what janet yellen said to give the markets a boost. that's ahead on "moneywatch." this is the "cbs morning news." boost. that's ahead on "moneywatch." this is the "cbs morning news."

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>> reporter: she also said about 7 million people are working part time, but would rather work full time. asian stocks drew some momentum on yellen's comments. hong kong's hang seng adds 1%, tokyo's nikkei bucked the trend moving 0.25%. here on wall street, investigators as liked what janet yellen said. the dow rose 134 points. the nasdaq added 43 points. the fbi has begun a criminal investigation into high-speed trading here on wall street. we told you about this yesterday. "60 minutes" first broke the story during an interview with author michael lewis on sunday. he made the bombshell claim the u.s. market is rigged to benefit a few insiders. the fbi now says they're looking into when these high frequency traders manipulate stock prices. for the 17th time since

1977, the senate passed another medicare doc fix. it blames a 24% cut to medicare for doctors for one more year. it also extends other health care provisions. the house passed a similar measure last week. president obama is expected to quickly sign the bill. and soon you'll be able to see much better when you back up. the government said yesterday by 2018, all new cars and many light trucks will have to have a rear view camera. 210 people die each year from backup accidents. another 15,000 are injured. the new rear view system will cost about 140 bucks per vehicle. anne-marie. >> anything with safety has got to be a good idea. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange, thanks a lot, jill. straight ahead, your tuesday morning weather. and in sports, is he is safe or out? baseball go to the video cape to figure it all out.

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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. and here's another look at this morning's top stories. general motors' ceo mary barra will be grilled on capitol hill today. she will be asked why the automaker waited so long to recall millions of small cars with faulty ignition switches. 13 deaths are linked to the problem. and the last-minute rush pushed affordable care act enrollment past 7 million. many americans signed up for

coverage monday encountered glitch. well, a dire warning about global warming from the u.n. monday morning and also as mark philip reports a call for action. >> reporter: according to the u.n. panel's latest report, the predicted consequences of a warming world are already with us. no single event can be blamed on climate change. but a winter of extreme weather in the u.s. and europe, drought in the west, they're all signs the environmental and economic risks are already being felt. says michel jarrard. of the world meteorological organization. >> 30 years ago, the prior generation was damaging the earth out of ignorance. now ignorance is no longer a good excuse. we know. >> reporter: and not all the pain will be endured by vulnerable populations in far off coastal regions of asia or the encroaching deserts of africa, the effects will be felt

closer to home, too, even at the corner coffee bar. among the commodities most sensitive to even small climate variations, it's a drink that seems to fuel the world. coffee only grows on a narrow band of mountain side and in a certain temperature range. and more extreme conditions of the climate change world, those conditions are at risk. even at the lower range of predicted warming, the coffee-producing areas of central and south america, of africa and even vietnam may no longer be economically viable. and the small land holder producers which dominate the industry may not be able to simply move up the hill. whether it's coffee or any other sensitive commodity there's no turning back the greenhouse clock. greenhouse gas already produced will continue to contribute to global warming. the issue will be how warm it

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♪ on monday, chuck hagel announced a reorganization of the agency that's supposed to identify missing american troops. the joint p.o.w./m.i.a. accounting plan or jpac was the subject of cbs news investigation that record on mismanagement there. chip reid has an update. >> this effort is not just a top priority for the department of defense. it's our responsibility and obligation. >> reporter: under hagel's plan, two major pentagon agencies including jpac which have long been criticized for weak leadership will be consolidated into a single agency led by a pentagon official. hagel emphasized what the

overhaul will mean to families. >> they will be communicated with clearly and directly. and it will be communications from one central location. that has not been the case. >> reporter: john aiken has spent years trying to find the remains of his cousin private bud calder who survived the brutal camp march only to die in a japanese prison camp. aikens said jpac's own documents show that his cousin was buried in this camp in the philippines. >> what has been it been like to convince j-pac that your cousin is buried in the grave? >> it's like banging my head pagainst the wall. >> reporter: we've retained reports that his cousin could be identified. the reports were written by rick stone who was a senior official at jpac but said he quit because of how jpac treated the families. >> they kind of slow-rolled the families in hopes they would either die or become destroy or

not proceed the case any further. >> reporter: slow-rolling, that's an expression commonly used in jpac? >> yes. >> reporter: we asked jpac, because of ongoing litigation, jpac cannot comment on the case. but if there's no clear indication of exactly where a plane went down, the search can become agonizingly slow. five years ago, when an air france plane crashed in the atlantic with 228 people aboard, it took three of those auvs two years to find it. chip reid, cbs news, washington. a world war ii icon rosie the riveter came to life in michigan. 778 women dressed as rosie tried to break the record as the most dressed as rosie in one place. some real rosies who worked in factories during the war also took part. and the event raised money to save a plan where the rosies worked. coming up on your local news on "cbs this morning," the day

after the obamacare deadline, bill bailey who served as the president's chief of staff. plus, a look at wealthy conservative donors david and charles pope and how democrats have campaigned against them. and safety over e-cigarettes. dr. david agus has details. that's the "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. ,,,,

it's tuesday, april first. m michelle griego. and i'm frank mallicoat good morning, it's tuesday, april 1st, i'm michelle griego. >> hi everyone, i'm frank mallicoat. nearly 4:30. and we begin with a wee bit of rain. a lot of rain i guess. >> stale lot of rain out there.

it ain't over until the fat lady sings okay? we still have more precipitation. a look at that right now and in fact i want to zero on in. we have heavy rains in the area to napa. we're going to track this latest system together coming up. the roads are still slick as roberta mentioned but all the wind advisories for all the brunches have been canceled. we got a few spinouts some areas of flooding as well. so break down the morning commute. in the meantime you can see the rain drops still out there. >> just a few out there. >> be a little extra careful. thank you. and as roberta said we could have more wild weather in the bay area today. check out the damage from a lightning strike a redwood tree in berkeley lost its top and did some damage in the neighborhood. while there was plenty of damage around the tree, kpix 5 reporter juliette goodrich says they will be busy in the neighborhood today. >> never been so close