general motors ceo mary barra testifies on capitol hill. and gm recalls another 1.5 cars.

more problems for the website. and baseball's expanded replay era gets under way 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 hot seat. planning to ask mary barra. gm announced a new recall of 1.5 million vehicles over possible problems of power stbeering. that pushes the total in february to more than 6 million recalls. sm s&p is in washington.

susan, good morning. >> reporter: anne-marie good morning, mary barra could be asked that question repeatedly on capitol 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 karen elly ruddy, she died when she was 21 years ago old. she was killed in a achieve cobalt. >> reporter: gm has recalled 2.6 million small cars this year, includeing the is he chevy cobalt because the ilg in addition could move to suddenly off while in ilg in addition. today, mary barra testifies about the company 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 soft defect to be announced but i can tell you that we will find out. lawmakers will want to know why u 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 have the head of national transportation safety administration why. >> you don't need dead bodies all over the ground to show it's a safety defect. >> reporter: in its prepared 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. >> susan mcginnis in washington. thanks a lot. president obama's health care law is on track to find more than 7 million americans. 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. healthcare.gov was down for six hours monday morning and then again in the afternoon. >> there technical problem that the tech team is on. >> reporter: people hoped 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: to get more people sign up, especially young people.

>> i say if you're not giving yourself peace of mind. >> reporter: they question how many people are actually enrolled. >> i don't think it means much 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. kras boswell for cbs, washington. we 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 some perth. holey, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. there's been new credit circumstance of malaysian authorities within the last couple 14th street bridge.

no problems on break in the search for 8-year-old relisha rudd. search crews found the man they believe abducted her. tatum -- kahlil tatum's body was recovered. mark albert has more. >> reizpporter: the search inside the 700-acre kenilworth park has been exhausted. camewater cameras -- underwater cameras, hundreds of volunteers and cadets. after five days they found what they did not expect. >> this discovery was a shock for us. we were very focused on finding relisha and that's what we came here for. >> reporter: i the body of janitor kahlil tatum who befriended 8-year-old relisha rudd at the d.c. homeless shelter where she was staying with her mother