. >>> volkswagen is tapping attorney kenneth fineberg to run its emissions scandal claims program.most recently ran the compensation fund for victims of general lmotors' defective ignition switches. volkswagen says fineberg's experience would help the automaker make things right with its customers and move the company forward. >>> j.d. power predicts a strong month for auto sales in december, so strong that the firm says americans will buy more cars, more trukds this month than during any other month in more than a decade. december traditionally a strong month for vehicle sales with consumers taking advantage of those widely advertised year-end discounts. >>> mortgage rates rose last week ahead of the federal reserve's meeting on interest rates. freddie mac says the rate on the 30-year fixed rose to 3.97% and says it expects interest rates on home loans to move higher throughout the coming year. >>> one day after the federal reserve lifted interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, former central bank chairman alan greenspan spoke at the council of foreign relations in n

the german car maker hired kenneth fineberg to design and administer the program.is best known for his work at general motors and bp oil spil., you name it. the list just goes on. what is he going to do? how is he going to change it? >> what we know is he has simply been hired to get this committee going. he said himself that they don't know exactly what the compensation will look like. that's because we still don't know what the fix and the recall process will look like in the united states. it's most recently working with general motors on their ignition switch recall. but the idea is to bring all the claims together. we have been seeing a lawsuit stack up specifically in the united states. and what volkswagen hopes to do here and is to bring them together and reduce the share number and also some of the time issues at stake here. we know they want to move on as quickly as possible to move beyond the scandal. and he spoke to cnbc and phil asked him whether or not this process would move swiftly as many hoped. here's what he had to say. >> we would hope that in co