hopes someone at general motors would be held criminally responsible for the death of her daughter, amber marie rose died in a 2005 crash caused by the ignition switch in her chevrolet cobalt. it's a bill law makers said last year could have been avoided. the parts needed to fix the defective switches said cost less than a dollar per car. >> they insided not to do so because of cost. now, americans stepped up and bailed out general motors. now general motors needs to step up and make substantial corporate changes so nothing like this ever happens again >> general motors will be watched by an individual monday the. but it was stressed today that could change >>> >>> how are the families reacting to this sellalment? >> they're shocked, convinced that the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york would take gm to the wood shed in regards to what's necessary due to a fine and personal responsibility for specific individuals inside gm who participated in the coverup. and gm was told to pay $900 million which is less than the toyota criminal settlement and toyota did less than gm did. >> wh

hoped someone at general motors would be held criminally responsible for the death of her daughter, amber marie rose. she died in a 2005 crash, caused by the ignition switch in her chevrolet cobalt shifting out of the run position. that disabled the power steering, power brakes and her airbags while the car was still moving. >> we now know that g.m. employees new about these dangerous and deadly defect and did nothing. >> g.m. new about the problem for more than a decade before instituting a 2.6 million car recall. g.m. admits the problem led to at least 124 deaths and hundreds of injuries, but by settling with the government, no one at g.m. or anywhere else is expected to face criminal charges. under the reported terms of the deal, the company itself will be criminally charged with covering up the ignition flaw and the company will have to pay a nearly $1 billion fine, less than the $1.2 billion toyota had to pay in marsh, 2014 for the sudden and in some cases fatal acceleration of its cars. >> we have apologized, but that is just one step in the journey to resolve this. >> since c.e.o. mary b

amber rose. her mother called today horrifically painful personally because no past or present gm employees are facing individual criminal charges. but ceo mary barras says her company is not putting the ignition switch scandal behind them. >> we didn't do our job. and it's part of our apology to the victims, we promise to take responsibility for our actions. >> reporter: gm has also agreed to potentially settle more than 1800 civil lawsuits involving owners of defective cars. that will cost the company more than a half billion dollars. these settlements mean many but not all of the legal cases surrounding defective ignition switches have been resolved and general motors has moved a step closer of getting out of a cloud of scandal that has rocked the company for the last year and a half. phil lebeau, "nightly business report," chicago. >>> american airlines resumed flights after computer problems briefly grounded some flights. the flights affected were at three airports, chicago's o'hare, dallas/fort worth, and miami. 300 flights were delayed and the ground stop lasted two hours. americans apologized for the inscreens and says the issue was n