not mary so much. mary, i think, kind of stayed out of it. but abigail had ideas on who she should and shouldn't mary. she urged elizabeth, you know, this is a great time to come to boston, i'm here and so and so. and elizabeth fell in love with the man she married and for some reason and the only thing i could find in the letters was he was a calvinist and they were an anti-calvinist. she hated john shaw. but her husband didn't. she said i would not say congrats in a million years and she didn't. she went to the wedding. but she never wrote elizabeth when she first moved which is where she lived with her husband. mary wrote how is everything like the little mother hen. but not abigail. silence. but then john was sent off to europe and abigail was devastated. and elizabeth really -- she could read people well. and she wrote to abigail not saying why haven't you written me or care if i like married life. she said for some people this would be a wonderful thing to get rid of their husband but for you who were joined at birth this is a tragedy a

susan, good morning. >> reporter: anne-marie, good morning, mary barra could be asked that question repeatedly here on capitol hill. why gm let a decade go by with drivers still behind the wheels of these cars. 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 kelly erin ruddy. she died when she was 21 years old. she was killed in a chevy cobalt. >> reporter: gm has recalled 2.6 million small cars this year, including the chevy cobalt because the ignition could move to suddenly off while in ignition. today, ceo mary barra testifies about the defect which the company has 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 safety defect to be announced, but i can tell you that we will f

not mary so much. mary, i think, kind of stayed out of it. but abigail had ideas on who she should and shouldn't mary. she urged elizabeth, you know, this is a great time to come to boston, i'm here and so and so. and elizabeth fell in love with the man she married and for some reason and the only thing i could find in the letters was he was a calvinist and they were an anti-calvinist. she hated john shaw. but her husband didn't. she said i would not say congrats in a million years and she didn't. she went to the wedding. but she never wrote elizabeth when she first moved which is where she lived with her husband. mary wrote how is everything like the little mother hen. but not abigail. silence. but then john was sent off to europe and abigail was devastated. and elizabeth really -- she could read people well. and she wrote to abigail not saying why haven't you written me or care if i like married life. she said for some people this would be a wonderful thing to get rid of their husband but for you who were joined at birth this is a tragedy a

s ceo mary barra has. if you missed the deadline. there may be time. the government is giving people who had website problems a few extra weeks to sign up for the healthcare plan. >>> ariana huffington will tell us how having an accident helped her discover the third metric, and the low cost that could have been the difference between life and death in the g.m. recall crisis. >> lisa fletcher with me now. you have a great show coming up. some of the common ailments made more serious because of the drugs they're take going new research said 9 million are at risk of serious drug interaction that even their doctors are not even aware of. >> are doctors being negligent. >> no, it's more of a disconne disconnect. >> i've got topnotch guests tonight p that is "the stream" tonight. >> ariana huffington knows plenty about success. she sold the website she cofounded for $15 million. she still runs the business and the huffington post is one of the most popular news and information sites in the world. with 90 million global visitors a month. when it comes to mon

anne-marie? >>> this morning the threat of severe weather exists for parts of the southern plains and midwest. strong thunderstorms, hail, and possible tornados will threaten texas, oklahoma, kansas, and missouri through tomorrow. by friday the threat of severe weather stretches from texas to ohio. >>> the official death toll from the massive mudslide in washington state stands at 28 this morning. another 20 remain missing, but the pools of muddy water are receding and that's helping recovery teams searchling for victims. omar villafranca reports. >> reporter: search crews are still finding victims of the washington mudslide under tons of mud, muck, and debris. >> water's been receding and exposing new areas and helping tremendously in the search effort. >> reporter: for the first time reporters were allowed into the search field where crews have to sift through mud mixed with shredded homes, splintered trees, and everyday objects. lieutenant richard burke is with the bellevue fire department. >>

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i'm anne-marie green. >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, april 25th, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. it is still unclear what prompted a deadly attack at an international hospital in afghanistan. a security guard shot and killed three americans at the hospital in kabul. a fourth was wounded in what is the latest in a series of attacks on foreign civilians. tara mergener is in washington. tara, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. that's right. the reason behind the attack is still not known this morning, but the wife of one of the victims says her family has already for given the killer. 57-year-old jerry humanos got his reputation as a pediatrician ban in illinois practicing. >> our family and friends have suffered a great loss and our hearts are aching. >> reporter: humanos's wife said he was dedicated to serving underserved populations. for the last nine years he had volunteered at cure hospital in kabul, afghanistan, training local doctors. humanos was o

mary barra saying "i can't answer that."as we bring back the panel, she admitted she did not read much of the page work that has been cemented for this hearing. we bring back jeff flock at a chicago dealership. and lauren fix, car analyst long with professor of car communications. lauren, let me get first to you. the congressman all over hercalling one of her statements gobbledygook. >> i have been watching intensely, i listen to her opening statement and we all knew what she was going to stay, but they were pretty intense in terms of the question. i want a yes answer, i want a no answer. it is like a murder trial, it is intense. a lot of things are getting overlooked because congress doesn't understand how manufacturing occurs. it doesn't occur just by gm producing apart, sending off a a blueprint and a part comes in and that produce it. it is certainly more involved, thousands of components in a car and a certified don't even touch the surface of some of the prophecies that play. the new standards in place. there are a lot

i'm anne-marie green. it has been another night of dangerous weather in the southeast, and while the threat from tornadoes has eased, the new worry is flooding. the storm system that ravaged the midwest and the south has moved east. several tornados touched down in north carolina, but did not cause serious damage. but the storm is drenching the southeast with flood-producing rains. the florida panhandle got some of the worst. at least 36 people were killed by this week's severe weather and at least three were killed in alabama. adriana diaz is in duncanville, alabama. adriana, good morning. >> reporter: anne-marie, a community has picked up the pieces after a destructive tornado. they're not getting a break. relentless rains are making matters worse. heavy rain caused flash flooding across the south well into the night. firefighters in mobile, alabama, carried people from their homes as water blocked off roads. in pensacola, florida, more than 5 inches of rainfall in just one hour. submerged cars and turne

what is that strategy, mary?hat are they doing here, and they're talking about gender pay, equity, for example, with women last week than this week. we had -- excuse me, i think we also had the race issue being played. in fact, i want to play a clip here of some comments by prominent democrats. let's listen. >> what attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? what president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? >> i think race has something to do with the fact they're not bringing up an immigration bill. i've heard them say to the irish, this would be easy. >> do you think your republican colleagues are racist? >> not all of them. no. of course not. but to a significant extent, the republican base does have elements that are animated by racism. >> nice to know he doesn't think all republicans are racist. mary, what is this political strategy behind this? you don't get those kinds of comments one day after another by accident. >> right. well, as jason mentioned, the main driver h

mary barra is be introduced now.'s take a listen. >> she's also served as a plant manager and director of competitive operations engineering as well as numerous other positions. i'll now swing in the witness. ms. barra, you are aware the committee is holding an investigative hearing and when doing so has the practice of taking testimony under oath. do you have any objections to testifying under oath? >> no. >> the chair then advises you that under the rules of the house and the rules of the committee you are entitled to be add vooigsd by counsel. do you desire to be advised my counsel at today's hearing? >> no. >> in that case if you would please rise and raise your right hand, i'll swear you in. do you swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> thank you. ms. barra, you are now under oath and subject to the penalties set forth in title xviii, section 1001 of the united states code. you may now give a five-minute summary of your written statemen

i want to get to mary quickly. mary, we may not have to put this plane back together.ked you this question before and you've answered it. if the data recorders are found and the information is intact, which you think it will be once they are found, the plane, they won't want to reassemble this airplane. >> right. that's correct. and in most crash investigations they do not reassemble the plane. obviously they sift through the wreckage looking for important clues and major component to failure, et cetera. but if the black boxes have the answer and they can glean what happened from them, then they won't put the plane back together. it's just a very expensive proposition and it's rare that they do that, actually. >> yeah. so, geoffrey, they have been looking for the black backes and so far they haven't found them. fit comes down to relying on the debris, are they up to the task if they have to piece together the wreckage? >> look, don, i really do believe they are. australia's aviation transportation safety bureau is one of the best in the world. they've helped nations in

joining us mary schiavo and jeff wise. good to have you both. mary, why don't we start with you. let's talk about these new rules. should we be reading into this this? do they feel they have to be reactive to something specific to you? >> are you talking to me? >> i'm sorry. mary, yes. >> well, they are being reactive. they are being reactive to the situation. the new rules are good rules. they are rules that the us airlines has followed these. each has implemented their own variation of the rules. they were guidelines and suggestions and directives after september 11, 2001. they are common sense rules. they add to security. in some ways, malaysian air is playing catchup with the other airlines that have these kind of rules in the cockpit already. >> one other thing we learned, malaysian officials saying they are investigating everything on board that flight including the food. they say they have to investigate every little thing. it sounds like they have nothing. they are just grasping at this point. >> that's what has characterized this from the beginning. there has been no har

does this at all adjust the search area in any way, mary?or today but it will for tomorrow. today they will be scrambling to find out what the chinese know, and what they have got. >> rick gillispie, how does this change the investigation, if at all? >> i don't think it changes the investigation at all. we're following leads. i hope they're also following other leads. i'd want to know more about the emergency landings that the pilot was practicing. there are emergency landings and then there are emergency landings. i'd like more information about that. >> what do you mean there are emergency landings and then there are emergency landings? >> okay. so let's say he is practicing landings with no brakes or no thrust reversers or hydraulic problems, perfectly legitimate but what if he is practicing with an intact airline with no mechanical problems on runways shorter than expected. why is he doing that? maybe perfectly reasonable reason but that would be interesting if that's what he is practicing. >> does that make a difference to you, les? >>

[applause] thank you, mary. i would like to follow up on need toclusion that we understand what the enemy is and defining al qaeda properly in order to have a strategy to fight it. i gotk the take away that from your report was that because we have improperly defined al qaeda we are only fighting a fraction of our enemy force and not only that we are fighting in a way that actually is not fighting the enemy itself. to be that sounds like a losing strategy. i think what is most helpful is to talk through how i al qaeda today is operating, how it has adapted to some of our policies, and why it is important that we start looking at the network itself, the affiliates from and the associates in and supper stopar stuffs -- preventing ourselves from limiting ourselves from defining -- the alarter that qaeda core that was active on 9/11. the key point in my report that i wrote in september is that the network extends across the muslim-majority world and it is the relationships between the different groups, between affil

mary barra hinted g.m. might pay victims saying the company understands it has civic and league at responsibilities. mary barra is expect to testify before congress. we'll bring you the latest throughout the day. you can get up to date information here on al jazeera. >> ahead south korea says it's being spied on by neighbours to the north. seoul may have proof and it could escalate tensions with pyongyang. >> the incoming mayor of washington d.c. loses his bid for reaction. the scandal that may have led to his defeat. >> welcome back. secretary of state john kerry cancelled a trip to ramallah. he made a last-minute trip to jerusalem on monday days after the israeli prime minister cancelled the release of palestine prisoners. nick schifrin reports, moves by both sides are putting the u.s.-brokered talks on the brink of a breakdown. >> with the stroke of a pen, mahmoud abbas fulfilled the desire of palestinians, but helped to bring the peace process to the verge of collapse. mahmoud abbas launched an effort t

i want to bring in mary ellen o'toole, the former senior profiler for the fbi, and mary schiavo, formerctor general of the d.o. it. mary now represents victims of negligence by transportation companies including airlines. and she joins me via skype. mary ellen o'toole, let me begin with you. is it time to stop giving consideration for the language barrier? time to stop believing this is maybe just all honest mistakes on the part of the malaysians? might there be something more sinister at stake here as you look at the investigation from afar? >> well, there could be something more sinister that's going on. but certainly at best it's very confusing. and it's creating a lot of doubt about how they're reaching their conclusions, how they're reaching their opinions. so for example, today when they said this was a criminal act, i'm unclear as to what they're basing that on. as a behavioral scientist, i have to have reasons to support my conclusions that something is criminal or not criminal. and i'm certainly not seeing the totality of the circumstances that allow them to say that. now, they

i'm anne-marie green. this morning the potential for severe weather including tornados exists across the central and southern plains. troch cal force winds brought down power lines and damaged buildings stopped in oh sso, washington, the site last month's killer mudslide. he says the nation will not forget the devastated town. >> reporter: by air president & obama got a look at the widespread devastation. the huge debris field of wet clay and twisted damage is all that's left of the tiny community of oso. the massive mudslide buried three dozen homes under a wall of mud kill 4g 1. >> there are still families searching for loved ones. there are families who lost everything, and it's going to be a difficult road ahead for them. >> reporter: after the tour, the president talked privately with dozens of survivors, victims' families and first responders. >> the family that i met with showed incredible grace and strength through unimaginable pain and difficulty. >> reporter: brothers john and frank hat away are

can use it for the bloody mary also.kind of refreshing thing. but also put them in individual containers. >> yes. >> so you can easily grab one, taste it. this is a split pea with little bit of leake garlic, mint. just a little bit of mint. >> makes it nice. >> exactly. little hot sauce. garlic, and tabasco sauce. that's the kick. finally, dessert. here's what i say, john, you can cheat this one because you've done all this work ahead of time. just buy something they can easily grab and go and serve that for your guests to enjoy themselves. >> take the bourbon bloody mary and a plate of bacon and i'll meet you -- >> that's all we need. >> our thanks to tim laird for joining us this morning. >> thanks to tim for joining us this morning. we'll be right back. with her debit card. and so does bill, an identity thief who stole mary's identity, took over her bank accounts, and stole her hard-earned money. unfortunately, millions of americans just like you learn all it may take is a little misplaced information to wreak havoc o

[laughter] look at me, mary. mary, look at me! [laughter] is it? [laughter] you have to drive all the way down to the studio, mary, level with me, mary. [ laughter ] wow, did that lower the bar, cnn. but i think you can go lower. >> investigators sometimes use psychics. why hasn't anyone considered the services of a credible psychic specializing in missing persons? it sounds incredible but they have been used before. >> jon: yeah, while we're at it why not use that octopus that always predicts the world cup? why not strap wings to wolf blitzer and let him lose because in order to catch a plane you must become a plane. [laughter] cnn's missing airline obsession not only doubled their primetime ratings it itself became news because the only thing less likely than an airplane falling out of the sky is cnn's ratings doubling. >> cnn anchor brought up the theory something supernatural could be at play. >> the network is in dire ratings trouble. they get a pulse. okay. so the executives order you guys have to do this wall to wall. >> jon: you have to be

i'm anne-marie green. there is new optimism this morning in the search for malaysian airlines flight 370, two more signals that could be from the plane's flight recorders were detected yesterday by an australian ship using the u.s. navy's pinger locater. the search in the indian ocean west of australia is focusing on one area where four pings have been heard since saturday. susan mcginnis has more from washington. susan, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. this is truly an astonishing discovery considering what we know about the life of the batteries in these flight recorders. this could be the breakthrough that allows officials to narrow that search area and possibly zero in on a crash site. australia's "ocean shield" has picked up two more underwater signals in the southern indian oeg, possibly from aircraft data recorders. crews searching for flight 370 heard the signals, one lasting more than five minutes. the other seven minutes yesterday. in the same area, a u.s. listening device detected soun

there is no e-mail back from mary barra., let's talk about it some more. in other words, there's no indication based on these documents that we know that mary barra, a, read the e-mail and, b, had some point of view about the situation involving the ion and the cobalt, but it is clear that back in 2011 this issue, at least tangentially was brought to her attention, and, again, that's from october of 2011. that's the one that's going to get a lot of attention, guys, as we look through all of these documents. the other one that really stood out to us is back in 2005 it was pretty clear. they knew almost immediately there was a problem involving the ignition switches. in fact, in an e-mail from one of the engineers to other engineers, two statements stand out, the first one being that as the vse of the cobalt launch, i was very aware of the issue of inadvertent ignition ofz due to the low-mount ignition switch in the steering column and the low efforts required to rotate the ignition. the very next sentence he discusses the pro

mary barra said she never knew about the defect until she took her job last january. >> as soon as we understood this issue, a recall was made. we acted without hesitation. >> reporter: this document showed this e-mail was addressed to barra in 2011 about a government investigation into steering issues in ions and cobalts, the primary problem cars, telling her, "this situation has been evolving." the documents do not show if there is a connection between power steering issues and ignition problems. scott, g.m. says the two are not related. >> pelley: jeff, thanks very much. on wall street today, the selloff led by technology stocks continued over the past two sessions. the dow lost 2.5%. the tech-heavy nasdaq nearly 4.5 and the s&p 500 down about 3%. boeing, engineering jobs from washington state next year to southern california to tap into the talent base there. among the units making the move is customer support which provides technical support to airlines that flying boeing jets. president and mrs. obama released their 2013 tax returns today. they had an adjusted gross income of $4

my name is mary barra, i'm the chief executive of general motors. i appreciate the opportunity to be here today. more than a decade ago g.m. embarked on a small-car program. sitting here today i cannot tell you why it took so long for a safety defect to be announced for this program. i can tell you we will find out. this is an extraordinary situation. it involves vehicles we no longer make. but it came to light on my watch, so i'm responsible for resolving it. when we have answers we will be fully transparent with you, with our regulators, and with our customers. while i cannot turn back the clock, as soon as i learnt about the problem we acted without hesitation. we told the world we had a problem that needed to be fixed. we did so because whatever mistakes were made in the past, we will not shirk from our responsibilities now or in the future. today's g.m. will do the right thing. it begins with my sincere apologies to everyone affected by the recall, especially the families and friends who lost their lives or were injured. i am deeply sorry. i as

i'm anne-marie green. president obama is in tokyo this morning, the first stop on a four-nation tour of asia, and while discussing critical security issues with japanese leaders, the crisis in ukraine was also on the agenda. mr. obama says russia is not living up to an agreement signed last week to defuse fencings. speaking at a news conference this morning, the president said unless russia changes its tune there will be consequences and no economic changes are ready to go. >> we have been preparing for the prospect that we're going to have to engage in further sanctions. those are teed up. it requires some technical work and it also requires coordination with other countries. so the fact that i haven't announced them yet doesn't mean that they haven't been prepared and teed up. >> major garrett is in tokyo traveling with the president. >> reporter: as president obama said, those sanctions are prepared, they are teed up, but the president clearly is reluctant to open a new front on the economic war already

we can't hear mary. did we get mary yet? nope. no audio from mary. sorry, mary.anyway, you choose not to answer that question. >> yes, sir. >> you stick with whatever. so as i said, we don't really even know if that's how they're picking it up by deploying the men in those boats. lastly, why was the chinese vessel searching in an unplanned search area? that's the question that everyone has. >> last night, angus houston addressed that. he addressed it, and he basically said it was part of the search area in terms of the general search area. he skirted it. and then he went on because a journalist specifically asked the question, not to put too fine a point of this, are you and the chinese at disagreement? and he said again and again, no, happy with the cooperation, happy with the information. had dinner with the ambassador. everybody is getting on very nicely. and we're bringing in an extra chinese speaker. >> mary schiavo is no longer at a loss for words. i understand that we have her now. mary, you want to answer that question for us? >> sure. the ship has the to

i'm anne-marie green. this morning the rescue teams are racing against the clock off the coast of south korea. more than 280 people are still missing after a ferry capsized on wednesday. at least nine people are confirmed dead and the rescue effort is being slowed by poor weather condition. coast guard searchers were able to make a dramatic rescue of a 6-year-old girl from a ship. she is hospitalized with no serious injuries, but her parents are still missing. >>> and this morning a man identified as the ferry's captain apologized while being questioned at a coast guard office. the shift left off south korea's coast with hundreds of high school students but sank before it could reach the resort island of jeju. ter terry i okita has more as famil are waiting for more word. >> reporter: crews are looking for passengers missing after a ferry boat capsize wednesday, distraught families are waiting for word. most of the missing are teenaged students headed to a tourist island on a class trip. some family member

mary barra.he tells a house commit he that the company is conducting its own investigation as to why it took 10 years to recall a faulty ignition part. >> it's been 11 days sinned the washington mud slide. the death toll is up to 28, others are still missing. >> government officials say a pilot told air traffic controllers goodnight malaysian 370, not all right goodnight. those are the headlines. i'm richelle carey, "america tonight" is up next. you can find the latest online. aljazeera.com. >>> on "america tonight," deadly defect. general motor accused of hiding a serious safety problem as one mother seeks answers, congress puts gm in the hot seat. >> in other words, there is no report? >> i am saying i will share what is appropriate. >> i hear the answer. puzzle. what can we learn about flight 370 from the inside out? the anatomy of a malaysia airline's boeing 777. >> you can see if this is in the water, under the water, because they are going to sink, a

. >> reporter: good morning, ann marie. the tornado that tore through here in mayflower, arkansas and vilonia had a speed of 136 miles an hour. bemind me, it's enough to pulverize homes. this aerial pictures show the scale of damage in both towns. nick helped rescue a little girl thrown 50 feet from her home and continued to look for others. >> it was a deal we had to go from one to the next to the next and try to help the one that could be helped. >> reporter: in vilonia, people are trying to pick up pieces despite losing their home. this woman thanked crews who helped her salvage pictures of loved ones. >> memories i can put my hands on. my kids aren't home all the time anymore. >> reporter: recovery efforts could take weeks, even months. the governor of arkansas requested federal aid to clean up and rebuild. anne-marie? >> thank you in mayflower, arkansas. eric fisher says the severe weather will last into tomorrow. >> after a sad night with many deaths reported, destructive storms hitting several towns, it's going to be

welcome, mary. >> thank you, carol.came out and said they have cleared all 237 passengers on board that plane. does that surprise you? >> well, no. it takes a long time to do that many people. clear that many persons and do their backgrounds and check all sorts of things out about them but if they have been working diligently, that's good. that was a lot of work. it's good that was done. what remains to be done is to clear the pilots and the crew. >> the investigators said, we are going over every little thing. please don't hurry us. we're working. do you believe him? >> i do. i think they got off tie very slow start. but there have been little clues that have come out here and there. some things are just contradictions. for example, at first, we heard on the transcript they had originally said it was the co-pilot's voice. now, they say they are not sure. that's a pretty easy thing to check. you just find people that know their voices and work with the pilot at 18,000 hours. he must have worked with a lot of people. for

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i'm anne-marie green. a day of remembrance in boston on the one-year anniversary of the marathon bombing and a disturbing reminder of the deadly attack. police took man into custody who was behaving suspiciously. he was walking barefoot and draped in a black veil walking near the finish line and he had a pressure cooker with confetti in backpack. they detonated the backpack. last year's attack was carried out with explosives packed in pressure cookers. >> our officers have been trained for looking for any kind of suspicious activity and when it is brought to their attention or if it is notice as in this case, they act upon it. >> they say the man is faced with charges of disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace. family friends and classmates in the boston neighborhood of dorchester held a vigil for martin richard. they pledged never to forget the 8-year-old and boston honored the three people who died near the finish line as well as the m.i.t. officer killed several confirmed dead. about 100s we rescued

we're back with dan henninger, mary anastasia o'grady and james freeman joins the panel.ames, so our viewers understand, you can pay back -- in ten years, you get to write off all your loans if you work for the government or nonprofits. >> yeah. >> but 20 years if you work for the private sector. what's the justification for that distinction? >> yeah, it's tough for taxpayers to understand. we have been warning about this for several years and now the bills are starting to come. it's interesting. liberal think tanks are now urging reform, basically saying president, you're going to ruin big government for everybody. you've got to fix this thing. >> it was their idea. the liberal think tanks came up with it. >> as far as this justification, the thought is that i suppose among a lot of people in washington, including the president, that working in the nonproductive sectors of the economy government nonprofit is somehow better than those who actually create wealth. but the bottom line is, you have the situation where people can go through college grad school, law school, com

as we're waiting mary barra to come in she'll have a prepared statement. first lawmakers will have an opportunity to make their own statements for a couple minutes. then she will have prepared testimony. then she will apparently take questions on this entire controversy that has come to light as of late. earlier today a press conference with families who have been affected by this situation. some families who lost loved ones, they claim, as a result of this faulty ignition switch. earlier we saw members of congress joining these family members and asking pertinent questions like how did the bailout of general motors from the federal government, did it have anything to do with this situation. many unanswered questions no doubt top on the list of many lawmakers who are going to be questioning mary barra at this point in time. you have to wonder, obviously she wan this top job, she's been with general motors for decades. she's really in the hot seat about a situation that came to light before she was in the top chair. we'll keep an eye on this and bring it to

mary, what about the family's questions? you have seen the families try to process this over your experience. do you think they're valid. do you think the malaysian authorities should have to answer them. >> yes, and that is what families do in every crash. they are desperately searching for answers. and it is this kind of information that helps them through a lot of things. not the least of which is understanding what happened to their loved ones. and these families are not behaving any different than any other families in other crashes. they want to know what happened. they become extremely educated about the accidents. they become experts in the accidents. so the malaysian authorities need to look at the other accidents and how people behave, to understand that this is as normal as can be when you suffer a tragedy in your family. this is how people handle it. and the more information the better. and in the united states, the ntsb does a preliminary hearing and makes all this kind of thing public. that is the difference. >

but these aren't mary's own grandchildren. they're the hundreds of children she has met.and perhaps helped save around the world. >> this lovely child.you can see he's really bright. >> for over 20 years, mary has traveled the globe as a volunteer for rotary international with the single minded goal of ending polio. >> those children shouldn't have to get it in today's world!" i'm affected by the people, affected by the polio survivors who are crawling on the ground or sitting on the curb begging. and i would like to make it so that those young children, that's not their life. >> the disabling and potentially fatal disease has been virtually eradicated in most countries thanks to childhood vaccinations. but it still poses a serious threat in nigeria, pakistan, and afghanistan. >> of the sixty-one cases that have been reported so far in 2014, fifty-two are in those countries. but nine of the cases are from outbreaks in other nations, in part because of an influx of refugees. >> ending polio in this day and age really focuses on

what exactly can we expect to hear from mary barra and what do we hope to hear from mary barra, eamon>> reporter: yeah, that's right, mandy. look, there's not going to be as much heat here as there was in this hft debate we were just talking about before the commercial break but there is definitely going to be some emotion here, because we have some of the families of the victims of this ignition switch problem here in town today. they held a press conference up on capitol hill, tearful families holding up pictures of their dead loved ones, talking about what gm didn't do to protect them as they drove in those vehicles. remember, the ignition switch issue here is relatively easy for the vast public to understand. it has to do with exactly how you turn the key in the ignition, whether weight on the key from a heavy key chain or bump from a pothole could turn the ignition off while the car is going 50 miles an hour or something like that. that's an obviously dangerous situation. mary barra's job today is going to be to try to put that into context, to apologize as we know she will do, t

so tyler look, you have to see a lot more documents in terms of what mary may have known. but she has said, and stands by the fact she didn't know about this before january of this year. >> all right, phil, thank you very much, have a great weekend. >>> and more on general motors, they are urging the justice department to intervene, calling on the agency to require gm to establish a victim's fund and oppose the automaker to deny any responsibility for the damages. shares dropping, ten-month low now, closing now, the ip price of gm of $33 a share. >>> and here is good news for the bankrupt city of detroit. a federal judge approved the latest attempt to pry itself free from long-term financial contracts known as interest rate swaps. they cost the city tens of millions to ubs and bank of america merrill lynch unit. the two banks will now be paid $85 million to terminate the deal which was used to boost municipal pension plans. >>> president obama wasted no time to replace the health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius who took a lot of heat for the botched rollout

thanks to mary ter rea and leo yud which.to gm and they told us they will not respond on specific cases and extend our regret to those who were affected. >> our sympathies to the ruddies as well. that's it for our show. "the closing bell" begins right now. >>> hi, everybody. welcome to "the closing bell." i'm kelly evans down here at the new york stock exchange. >> and i'm bill griffeth. this is one of those days, the s&p, any closing above -- any positive close is another new all-time high for the s&p 500. the dow needs 44 points to close at an all-time high, which hasn't been done since december 31 of

mary barra in front of the senate. information. we don't any it's a big deal. that is negligence and certainly someone like that shouldn't continue to work for the company. when you also look for evidence in that investigation that in fact people knew this was a problem but decided that the costs weren't worth it. are you also in search of that, to see if, in fact, there were individuals or a culture in the company created by a group of individuals that encouraged employees to make these sorts of cost benefit analysis based on economics and not on customer safety. >> that type of analysis on a safety defect is not acceptable. it's not the way we're going to do business and that is not the culture we will make sure that that is not the culture we have going forward. >> but again, my question is, if, in fact, you discover or will you look to see if, in fact, there was a decision made by a group of individuals not to move forward on this because of its costs? >> yes. >> you want to know the answer to that question? >> yes

mary barra also spoke to the press following her testimony for about 10 minutes. >> hey, folks, we're going to spend a couple minutes, mary is going to open up with a few brief comments and we'll take some quick questions and then head out. mary, go ahead. >> as we deal with this, we know there's been a the lot of lives lost and impacted by this situation. we want to reiterate general motors is sorry when we say that. we say that on behalf of the company on the many women and women of intelligence general motors as well as myself. we're doing everything we can to make sure we provide the greatest support to our customers as it relates to communicating to them. we have a dedicated website and we put more than 100 people in our customer call center to answer their questions. we've communicated broadly that the vehicle is safe to drive based on our engineering testing if you have the key or the ring, and also if someone is uncomfortable with the vehicle, we're providing loners or rental vehicles free of charge. we want to learn as much as we can from this situation. it's a tragic situati

can mary barra satisfy grieving families and a skeptical congress? we'll talk to the mother and brother of a woman killed in 2009. >>> we know how he feels about obamaca obamacare, but what will he say about paul ryan's latest budget pass? >>> the big one, 8.0 quake off the coast of chile and the sound of tsunami sirens. we'll have the latest video as the sun comes up in south america. >>> pushing another important domestic for democrats, raising the minimum wage. the president once again calling on congress to bump the minimum wage to $10.10. at the university of michigan, he'll offer comparisons to henry ford, who doubled the money he paid his workers because he said it was good for business. the president will point to costco and gap as modern day examples. the president might have an extra swing in his step over the news 7.1 million americans signed up for obamacare, and he was defiant in the face of ongoing attempts by republicans to repeal obamacare. >> i got to admit, i don't get it. why are folks working so hard for people not to have health

so, mary, i wanted to ask you, mary schiavo. one signal that lasted a couple seconds and a second signal that lasted 1:30. does any of that make sense to you considering the fact that we've got chief marshall houston saying this should be a continuous transmission. >> well, it should be. i mean, technically it's possible because if the ship with the receiver was moving around and it also could depend upon where the pinger was, if it is the pinger. located on the ocean floor because there is a short range to the ability to detect these pings. you know, about a mile and a half deep or maybe three-mile radius. so, if the boat with the kind of makeshift pinger detector was moving around, it could move in and out of the signal. so, it's possible and it was moving off the site. the pinger doesn't stop and go if the battery was running out. it would be the ship moving in and out of the signal area. it's possible. and i don't think, they also said there is also ocean sounds, but the finger frequency and pulse was intentionally selected

that's what we saw mary barra doing here today. she did come out and take some questions from the press, but she didn't go much further than what she had said during the hearing itself. some questions here about how forthcoming gm is being today and what that means about the size of the liability and the problem might have internally. >> thank you very much for that. >>> let's wrap this up. in terms of what we've heard today from mary barra, what we know now, would you buy gm right now? >> yeah, and i bought it last week. you do have to look for some free fall event but mary barra, the testimony 101 tactic is you don't say more than you have to. >> she did just that. >> to give her a tough time for that though, i mean, let's face it, this company has got a lot of issues to deal with but the valuation is very interesting here. >> tomorrow morning i'd buy gm right here, wherever it opens tomorrow morning. let's call it 34ish around that range. >> gm i'd wait until it stabilizes above 36. >> i'm long april 34 calls. >>> some high flyi

jeff wise marc weiss and mary, to stick around also. you can tweet a question to mary and jeff. use the hashtag 370qs. we're on facebook/ @this hour. we're going to return to our coverage of the missing plane but let's look at a look at some other stories happening at this hour. >>> in kansas the federal government is looking into whether a federal hate crime law applies in the shooting of three people. people say frazier glen miller has tied to white supremacist groups. >>> pro-russian protestors have taken over goflt buildings in nine cities. the stalemate continues. >>> today a new wrinkle, ukraine's acting president is raising the possibility of a national referendum on keeping ukraine independent and united. >>> the necessatsb is trying toe out if fatigue, distraction or other issues led to that fiery crash in california that killed ten people. authorities are looking into the last 72 hours, into whether he had enough rest or perhaps he was using his cell phone when he plowed head on into a bus full of college students. ten people died and more than 30 injured. >>> at least