withdraw its portion of the $33 billion debtor in possession financing for general motors, said harry wilson, a member of the auto task force. we cannot make an open-ended commitment any comments on that? guest: we inherited a general motors and chrysler that were in very deep trouble just at the end of last year. these companies have lost around $70 billion over the past two years. they are hanging by a thread. the president came in and he made a commitment. he was not willing to make an open-ended commitment. he was willing to have taxpayers make them a viable company, but not an open-ended commitment. chrysler has emerged from bankruptcy in record time in his opening production. we're hoping we can do the same with general motors. host: we have taken a camera to flint, michigan. we will show you some of that as we listen to our next telephone call from new york. you are on the air. caller: how were you doing? i was wondering -- with the amount of money that we have spent to bail general motors out and other money that we spent and we have not seen any return on it, can you give us a reali

this is from harry wilson, a member of the task force. he said we cannot make an open- ended commitment. guest: clearly we inherited and general motors and chrysler that were in very deep trouble just at the end of last year. have lost around $70 billion over the last two home years and they were hanging by a thread. the president came in and made a commitment, but was not willing to make an open-ended commitment. we're trying to strike the balance. no one thought we could do it with chrysler, but they have emerged in record timing. we're hoping we can do the same with general motors. host: we had taken a camera to a flint, michigan. they are dealing with the auto industry crisis. we will look at this as we listen to our next caller. this is on the independent line. caller: i was wondering, with the amounts of money that we have spent to bail out general motors out and all the other stimulus money, and your guest give us a realistic view of how they are going to bring general motors back and pay us this money back? i am talking about numb

whether it's steve rattner, ron bloom or harry wilson, these are -- okay, they're financial re-engineering or they're workout people, but they know their jobs, and they really learned about the company. and they made sure that the new -- the new general motors that they were helping to craft would be lean, debt free, focused on what it has to do, and now that -- now that we've got a new board, we've emerged as a new company, the whole government influence is going to fade into the background. >> yeah. how long it -- how long will it -- sorry, how long will it be until taxpayers own this company -- i mean, the treasury has -- is the biggest stockholder, right? >> yeah. yeah. of course, they've got 70%. but that's very hard to predict, because it depends what the economy is going to do. you know, right now the selling rate in the united states is about 9.8 million, seasonally adjusted rate. a couple years ago we were at 17 million. so, the market is down by 50% almost. and i want to -- i want to remind everybody, it's not just general motors sales that were down. everybody sales are down 50%

wilson and sanchez. that ball hit hard by willie harris heading for the gap in left center.lingham slowed down for a moment at second base. pat listach will send him. it will take a good throw to get him. he's safe and out at third is willie harris. so, he makes the second out of the inning at third base, but drives in a run and the nats are on top. >> rob: well, you trade an out for run a right there. you keep running right through second base. come right to third. you hope the cutoff man will not go and let it go through to home so you can score the run. right here you see willie harris take that 92-plus-mile- per-hour sinker. mccutchen tracks it down. he's got amazing speed. you see josh willingham motoring around. he's going to score easily. right here you just keep going because the third base coach wants to you could have in there -- come in there. you see the catcher throw to third and they get him out at third. it's called trading an out for a run. >> bob: 8425. willie's ninth of the year. here is josh bard, nats on top. i think willie harris just sent us all a messa

harris who is nominated in how i met your mother. the nominations were announced in los angeles and chandra wilson from grays anatomy is surprised to learn she is up for two awards including best supporting actress. >> you have been nominated in the best supporting actress for your performance in grays anatomy. >> okay. >> most of the nods are going to cable tv series, not the broadcast networks. manuel gallegus, cbs news, los angeles. >> thank you. >>> you can see a list of the emmy nominations by going to our website at wusa9.com. >>> 40 years ago today america blasted off in to space history. so we will look back at the first mission to the moon and we will show you how you can relive history from the comfort of your home. kim? >> my fiance big ben has competition. move over, ben. meet charlie. he's up for adoption today. that is coming up after the weather forecast. don't ss yot.are watcng9 news now. [, b@ >>> official i say eight or nine pieces of foam insulation came off the eck ternal fuel tank during liftoff and the shuttle was hit at least two or three times. some scuff marks were spotted but mission control says the damage look

wilson, new details straight ahead. >> president obama supreme court nominee spends day number three on the hot seat. why republicans want answers about things she has said in the past. coming up. >> "harry potter" mania. kicked off >> investigators are looking for more information surrounding the murders of a florida couple with 17 children. there is a new person of interest who is speaking with the sheriff's department. brian wilson has the latest from pensacola florida. >> it was a methodically planned robbery except for one detail. police now suspect an accomplice supposed to shut off the surveillance cameras at the home of the billings botched the job. the billings were shot to death with nine of the 17 kids home at the time. at least seven suspects made off with the safe. and at the time, they believed they were not on camera. >> and all of you should have asked this. we have asked ourselves this from the beginning. identifies the security system not disabled? >> late today investigators also located a woman they are calling a person of interest in the case. her name is patricia long. realtor and apparent acquaintance of one of the men in custody. >> she is coming back of her own v