alan mullaly has been out there delivering the keynote address. we are excited about the sync technology with microsoft. we are offering voice-activated controls for the car. we think people want to be connected to the vehicle and be able to have access to everything when they are not in their car. we do that in a very safe way so people can keep their hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. we are very proud of the telematics in the car. you will see this in the future as we move to more vehicle-to-vehicle communication and more vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. >> we are in west virginia. neal, you are on with susan cischke of ford. >> susan, good morning. >> good morning. >> i bought a new ford in 2003. a ford ranger pickup truck. i also own a 2007 ford edge. the pickup truck, the frame on it rusted away on me. i took it and got it welded. i had nothing but problems ever since i did that just recently. i would like to know why when i called the ford motor company they told me they were sorry that happened, but there is nothing you can d

is alan mullaly. he spent most of his career as an engineer at boeing. mulally led the design of the giant 777. he took over ford in 2006 and mortgaged the company to borrow enough money to transform it. we sat down with mulally to ask why businesses aren't being more aggressive with their big reserves of crash. at this moment banks are holding onto about a trillion dollars in cash-- trillion with a "t"-- businesses are holding on the about a trillion dollars in cash, and yet we don't make much headway in unemployment. why not? >> well, i think that there's general agreement with the economists that until we get the growth rate, the expansion of the g.d.p., of our economic engine up over 3.5%, and that's what is required to bring down the unemployment. >> pelley: but people want to know with businesses holding on to a trillion dollars worth of cash, what are you waiting for? why aren't we creating jobs? >> well, what's happening right now is that customers are concerned. they're not sure where we're going as a country, so they're very concerned about mak

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