jeff: are you troubled by how mary bara would not no?d you do not seem to know anything about anything. does there need to be a re-examination of that? >> they need to be technical leadership and experience in the process we have at ford. that is critical. you want to celebrate the response of the data and agnostic look to what is happening from the business side of it. that is what we do at ford. jeff: the national auto dealers association, they are opposed, manufacturers are opposed to recalls of vehicles being sold or taken out of rental, how do you feel about that? shouldn't they be taken away from rental cars are not sold? >> basically when it comes to recalls, not all recalls are the sins we look at what the rate will be, the severity of the issues and we will communicate accordingly. we are working with the companies and dealers. melissa: let me ask you, i know this is the 50th anniversary of the ford mustang. you're putting one on top of the empire state building to celebrate. how important is that car still to your lineup? >> it

gm mary bara faces tough questions, apologizes for defects. >>> what's next for obama care now that 7 million have signed? >>> a bizarre and frightening chainsaw accident and how that patient is doing now. it's wednesday, april 2nd. "early today" starts right now. >>> very nice good morning there in the east i believe. somewhere in washington d.c. i'm richard lieu. good day to you. breaking news. chile's president has declared an emergency. the magnitude 8.2 quake happening off chile's northern coast. the survey saying over three dozen after shocks over 5.0 on the richter scale. there are deaths reported, fires, landslides, homes destroyed and power outages. the trimmer sent people scrambling for safety. tsunami warnings were issued but later cancelled. there is one in effect for hawaii this morning. during the jail evacuation, 300 female inmates escaped. we get more from nbc. >> chile tv broke in with image as from the first moments the quake hit. objects rattling from ceilings and rattled nerves causing drivers to clog roadways as they tried to vak waevacuate. the first wave hit the

beyonce, robert redford and mary bara also making cover issues. others serena williams, richard herman, lydia coe and cristiano ronaldo. >>> hockey players don't always have to be the tough guys. that was a really nice move there. >> i loved the reaction from the little boy. >> yeah. >> all right. that's a way to start a friday, right? >> yeah, good one. thank you. >> well, bill karins is here with the weekend. >> not a lot of yeahs on my end. new englanded on saturday it's going to be ugly and midwest severe weather over the weekend. umbrella weather in the ohio valley. we have a soaking rain. there's two storms. the other one is on the west coast. the one on the west coast will bring severe weather over the weekend: strong storms yesterday to areas of missouri and arkansas. it's raining good in indianapolis. columbus a rainy morning commute for you and eventually up toward pittsburgh. a few strong storms in eastern north carolina. even washington d.c. could see a late day storm. let me take you through your weekend. saturday, 45 and rainy in bos

yesterday mary bara she apologized in front of the house committee. >> i cannot tell you why it tookong for a safety defect to be announced for this program. i can tell you we will find out. >> this morning we are learning that gm has hired disaster fund management expert kenneth fineberg to evaluate how they will respond to the victim's families. he helped the conversation after the 9:-11 attack. >> millions of tax dollars paying for vacant office spaces. a new shock factor on how the social security administration has been wasting our money. >> lori joinis us with the stor. >> $6 million. that's how much the office of the inspector general says the social security administration is wasting each year on unused office stays. the findings released last week show the ssa spends more than $5.6 million in rent for buildings only half full. 100,000 in rent for 171 empty work stations in the building and another nearly 85,000 dollars for vacant space used for storage. the ssa probably responded and said we agree with the oig recommendations to terminate several leases and consolidate our e

i can't answer that, that is the phrase gm ceo mary bara has added three time since she began her congressional testimony at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. she has held the top job for 0.19% of gm's entire existence, but she is the face of the entire company as she faces a house panel whose aim it is to find out why it took general motors eight years to recall certain vehicles including he recalls affecting everything from ara airbags two axles. who designed a design change to ignition switches and was made oaware of potential problems and why recalls were not ordered sooner. rich edson on capitol hill live. here on set in new york, we want to mention as he put up the shot of what is happening on capitol hill, we will dip in at any moment when it appears these things are heating up but let's begin with rich edson. there are protesters outside, we show video of that. mary barra testifying right now, she keeps saying "i can't answer that." it is like she threw up this statement, that should be enough. that is not sitting well with a lot of people watching this right now. >> it isn't. when you consider t

and was your predecessor -- melissa: we have been watching mary bara getting grilled over the massivel and faulty ignition switches linked to 13 deaths. let's bring in liz claman will pick it up from here to take us through the next hour on count down. liz: recalled vehicles, people left behind when it got into what was supposed to be a safe car. mail culpa, angry questions on capitol hill over the worst scandal ever to hit gm. ceo mary bararea faces congress on the bottom line, the reputation and how the company could possibly make a come back. gm recall prices not slowing down the automaker's rivals. the best in eight years. chrysler sales jumping 13% on the back of strong jeep and ram pickup sales, gm struggles, this success. taking the cake. dunkin donuts sink its teeth into a new online cakes strategy that will make ordering one as easy as pie. the ceo is with us exclusively. "countdown t

first, general motors chief mary bara will face tough questions on capitol hill today.now why gm waited more than a decade to recall millions of vehicles with faulty switches. it's now linked to 13 deaths. "new day" spoke to relatives of the victims. >> amber was 16 years old. she had -- she was very smart. she had taken her ged, working full time. she had her whole life ahead of her. she was full of life. everybody loved her. we bought the car for safety features. >> the emt told us had the air bag deployed she would have been a live today. back in september 2005 i did research that showed these cars had issues. power steering, fuel pump and something to do with the air bags back then. when i learned there was an acceptable loss of life basically if the recall cost them so many millions to settle just a few other death cases cost them so much less that it became a business decision for them. >> today's hearing on capitol hill comes a day after gm recalled 1.3 million vehicles for a different flaw affecting power steering. business correspondent alson is live with more.

i can say there are four covers to the issue and they are beyoncÉ, robert redford, mary bara and jasonollins. the first player in one of the major use pro sports leagues to come out as gay. >> host: let me ask about robert redford, best known for his acting capabilities but also a leading activist when it comes to global warming and the infinite. why did he make the list? >> guest: keys on their certainly for his acting. without a doubt he's been outspoken incredibly uncalled environmental activist. but this is the 30th anniversary of the sundance film festival and he is there because it the way we take for granted now he is the godfather of independent film in america. the vast majority of all these incredible features that come out the last decade and popular local movie houses would not have existed had he not created these incubation platform for them through sundance. >> host: "usa today" is out with a story looking at the "washington post" saying that it is re-energize with jeff now as the on of the "washington post." why did he make the list? >> guest: he is one of these figures

. >> how do you think mary bara has handled this to this point? she'll be in the hot seat. the question how did you get here. she'll focus on going forward. >> she'll try to focus on that. she's a brand new ceo. i think she's handled herself well so far. she's appointed a new vice president for safety. she's launched -- >> is that real? do you take that as a real change? >> we'll see. too soon to say. >> okay. >> sounds like a good step. appointed an outside investigator to go back and look at this problem in a transparent way. so she's taken good steps and coming clean with the all inclusive recall finally i think is also an important step. so the fact that she's a relatively new ceo helps her. she is a gm lifer. part of the criticism of gm over the years it's a sort of bureaucratic company. maybe you see that in the history of this problem. they were trying to fix hit behind the scenes instead of getting in front of it. >> one of the things they'll absolutely be looking at some point if not now, the allegation back in 2006 this part, this ignition switch, it was redesigne

mary bara apologized for defects that gm has blamed for the deaths of 13 motorist. also, the house budget panel will be marking up chairman paul ryan's budget proposal unveiled yesterday. we will of live coverage on c-span 3. we want you to weigh in on the budget blueprint. republicans, (202) 585-3881. democrats, (202) 585-3880. independents, (202) 585-3882. send this a tweet or post your comments on facebook. you can also e-mail us. to give us more details about the budget unveiled by house budget chairman paul ryan, lauren french is joining us. she is the congressional reporter with "politico." $5 trillion over the next decade. how does he propose saving that much money? >> it is kind of a hodgepodge of savings. interests that the government will not save. >> we missed that little bit -- we have an audio hick up. -- hiccup. >> the budget does call for a full repeal of the health-care law. that will bring in about $1.2 trillion of savings. there will be savings from medicare changes. he is counting interest the government will not pay on the debt. there is a hodgep

mary bara publicly apologized. she said they don't know, which is the big question here today, why it took the company ten years to come to the recalls. the recalls just happened in february and with the brand new one announced yesterday there are 6 million gm vehicles that have now been recalled. we also confirmed that last night, mary bara, the ceo of gm, met with some of the families and apologized to them privately. saw some of the photos of the victims. gm admitted that 13 people died as a result of the faulty ignition switches they will be discussing today. >> tracy, thank you. beating eck peckations. the obama administration has reached it's health care enrollment goal. it's sign up was on pass to surpass 7 million on monday's deadline day. they saw a surge in consumer interest yesterday but there were also several problems for health care.gov. the site didn't crash but it was experiencing substantial volume. the website recorded about 2 million visitors through yesterday afternoon alone. >> last minute tact