now, mary barra made it clear that 13 or 16 is not an exclusive number. she did not indicate, nor does mr. feinberg, that is the end of the arithmetic. the arithmetic is pretty simple because 5,000, believe it or not, is less than 1% of the total deaths in the united states over 10 years. gm put new drivers into millions of cars for decades. gerri: certainly they did but it is difficult to know. i'll tell you why it is difficult to know how many people. many of those cars are gone. they have been smashed up. they have been thrown away. they're in junkyard heeps. >> right. gerri: remains a very big question and one that possibly we may never be able to answer. >> your point is well-taken. that just means the cover-up worked. because the cover-up actively kept anyone from investigating these cars while they still existed. gerri: all right. i want to show this is, i guess you would say the smoking gun here. this is the ignition switch at issue in some accidents where people died, especially young people. you're seeing, this is what holds the ignition switch

already fromuch mary barra. little steel want to ask her today? >> there are a number of questions i think need to be raised. you know rod o neal will come in. those are questions, they built the part, made the part, just in and we need to find what they knew and when they knew it and how much they contributed to the number of deaths we saw over the last 10 years. >> look kind of action are we talking about? >> we will raise the question. feel theyk gm if they had any responsibility. 10 yearsust 10 years they would not allow these airbags to deploy and once they figured it out, it took another nine years after that for the recall. think about that. 10 years. if it is not incompetence, it is stupidity in the process. this is it. >> mary barra admitted fault within gm for this in action. mary barra herself and what her big risk is today? >> i think she is doing a really good job. we aresaying, accountable and not responsible. a lot more to be decided here with the legal system. it is not over here we will see a lot more. to see someone step up and s

. >>> lawmakers criticize gm's ceo mary barra for the handling. of victims attended the hearing on capitol hill. craig boswell reports they still have many questions. >> reporter: jeffrey and virginia harrington joined other families who still want answers about gm's faulty ignition switch. their daughter brandy died in a 2010 crash. >> why were we sold a vehicle which had not been repaired after someone knew there was a defect. >> reporter: gm's ceo mary barra declined to meet with the victims' families thursday but did recognize them at the hearing. lawmakers are getting the first chance. senators want to know why the car company kept the ignition switch problems from the public for so long. >> i first learned about it in the first week of february this year. >> reporter: but gm legal staff first learned of the problems in 2007. some senators expressed doubt that their boss didn't know about the liability issues. senator claire mccaskill was among those calling for barra to fire michael millikin. >> this is either gross negligence or gross incom

s mary barra. we are now at 29 million and counting recalls. us from our detroit bureau. how does mary barra survive? >> she has got to take care of things at gm. they have got to get the cars fixed in a have got to get -- they have got to be straight about it. so far they have had a pretty good start. it seems like they have had a cerro investigation of bob lucas, they put kenneth feinberg out to reconcile things with the victims and the families of the deceased. there will be more than 13 because he is using a much broader, apparently more fair and accurate measure it's been gm was using in a very narrow engineering definition. they were looking only at the front seat passengers and things like that. it will be a bigger number. hery barra has to leadin t company through, show stability and show they are fixing it, and then take the company beyond it and help them be a better cup and quit looking in the past in dealing with their old problems and try to get onto some new stuff. >> understandably so. , if your phone rings and it is mary barra o

suggest that this company is not well served by your continued -- >> i actually spoke briefly with mary barrahe stood in front of a number of reporters after the hearing today, and i asked her, listen, you have got a number of u.s. senators that think that your lead counsel is unfit for the job, how does that make you feel? she says she stands 100% beside him, that she is the -- that he is the right man for the job and she trust him completely and has no plans on firing him or excepting his is a accepting his resignation. as it stands now it looks like general motors will keep mike millikan in charge on the legal side of things. he has been working at the company for 37 years. a lot of questions about his position today. mr.ike -- i'm sorry, matt, millikan in his defense said that when he found out about this in february he did take action and that some members of the legal team were dismissed. >> he did. he definitely said other people were responsible for the problem in the legal the apartment and he fired those other people. that is the kind of people that is that's kind of thing that does

mary barra over raising issues that would not be asked of a male executive the here is part of the originalrview. he addressed the interview. >> you are a mom of two kids and you said your kids will hold you accountable for one job, being a million. >> correct. >> given the pressures of had job at general motors, can you do both well? >> i think i can. i have a great team. >> i felt it is not a gender issue but a human issue of work and life balance, a parenting issue, for men men, moms and fathers, question i ask myself every single day. clearly, this touches a nerve. >> we have a contributor to "today" and anchor and a columnist. he says after asking marry bear this question because she inside an interview she missed her son's prom because of work. >> i am sure. but the rather wax was overwhelmingly negative because the implication for many is that a woman's job is to, first and for most be a mother and anythingance later is difficult for her to juggle career and motherhood. i do have to wonder if that question would have been asked of a male c.e.o. there have been male c.e.o.'s of g.m. f

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for tomorrow's senate hearing in which the c.e.o., mary barra will again testify as she prepares to answer more intense questions about the delays in recalling vehicles. the victims' attorney righting to g.m., part of healing includes knowing your loved one is acknowledged, especially given here with your company's role in the tragedy. >> she did meet with them in march. >> all of the accidents are tragic and we're deeply cereoefor those. >> but there was -- sorry for those. >> but that was before g.m. issued their own reports. the new york times says they have documents that appears to show that g.m. was not open with federal investigators and avoided giving explanations for some of the crashes that killed at least 13 people. a new senate bill introduced today is aimed at stopping something like this from happening again. the "hide no harm act" would make it a crime for a company to willing conceal information that a product could be harmful or deadly. >> the corporate people must be held responsible. >> a spokesperson for general motors says mary barra is waiting to meet with victims unt

quick question on your interaction with mary barra from general motors. how often did you talk with her in setting this up? can you characterize the nature of those conversations? >> i met with mary or spoke with her two or three times. almost all of my conversations involved other people at general motors, but i did meet with mary two or three times. absolutely 100 cooperative. ken, we want to do the right thing. general motors is a great company, we want to do right by those who are innocent victims, and general motors has been extremely helpful. i thought it very important not to limit our input from just general motors. i went to various plaintiff lawyers around the country and asked them what they thought about some of the features of this protocol, and, of course, the center for auto safety here this washington. but i must say general motors at no time -- now, they don't agree with everything in this protocol. they signed on to it, and you'll have to ask them what they like and don't like about it, but they did sign off and approve it. they're paying

do you think ceo mary barra is calling the shots?t now, i think this guy is, because ken feinberg is the man in charge of those compensation payouts and says this will be no limit. and to his credit, he decides them, both the individual amounts and overall aggregate. good to have you back with us. >> glad to be here. >> you know, as we spoke the other day, i was thinking, all of a sudden we have these 8 million additional vehicles recalled, many on similar ignition issues. are they part of this, as well? >> no, they are not. cobalt, chevrolets, pontiacs that were the initial cause of this problem. these are the vehicles that gm has segregated and made part of this compensation program. >> what if gm got it wrong and you always hear things from the people's lawyers involved. so i take it with a grain of salt, but say these vehicles are facing the identical issues that you're dealing with. >> these vehicles are being recalled now. remember, neil, the 2.6 million vehicles were not recalled for a while. there was this whole question of w

another speed bump for the ispany -- gm ceo mary barra heading back to capitol hill. it will be her first appearance to explain why gm waited more than a decade to recall millions of defective vehicles tied to at least 13 deaths. the u.s. justice department is conducting a criminal investigation. >> switching gears now to the wonderful topic of the weather. it was so pleasant outside. >> yesterday, not so much. thatankfully, nothing like on the way anytime soon. open your windows tonight and you can enjoy the cooler temperatures. a little bit of a chill in the air tomorrow morning. >> put a sweater on. [laughter] >> outside, the skies have cleared out nicely. temperature now at 75. dew point levels in the lower 50's, which is why it feels so great out there. 82 was the high earlier today. the average for this day is 89. nowhere close to the record, 104, in 1988. 68 degrees in germantown after a high of only 76, 70 one at children's hospital in the district, and the final stop take this to be an, now at 61 degrees -- vienna, now at 61 degrees. temperatures across the b

more questions for general motors mary barra. the senate subcommittee grilled her on why to accompany so long to alert the public about faulty ignition switches. fire its amended g.m. chief lawyer. 's fourth time in front of the panel. it is a beautiful today. low committee. sunshine -- low humidity. we will change things up to the weekend. it is going to start to feel more like summer. a nice break. hey, outside we go right now. skies mainly clear and 75 degrees at reagan national. look at those dew point levels, only in the middle 50's. that is why it feels so great out there. winds at five miles per hour. earlier, we hit 83 degrees at reagan national airport. a picture the day -- 89. --average for the day -- 89. george washington university at 72. a high of 82. our final stop takes us to gaithersburg at 61 degrees. the wind not a problem at all. 63 in winchester. hagerstown reporting in at 67. the coolest of the air well to the north and west of us but warmer air trying to bubble up from the south. not going to make a lot of p

mary barra, the ceo, is being very true to her word.he's said many times in the last few weeks in interviews she will do whatever it takes and recall as many cars as it takes to put trust and faith back in this company. she was asked as little as a week ago, are there going to be more recalls, con you say that you're done, and she said no, we can't. you may still see more recalls. i think the key thing is she is trying to live up to this commitment to bring a new level of security and new culture to gm and that is a deep long process. this is a company that has for decades had a culture of secrecy, of different division not speaking to one another. we saw that in the internal report gm released. so i think it may not be done yet. >> well, tough way for her to start in that position, as ceo, mary barra. >>> in sports, it's win or go home. time for the u.s. national soccer team. they're gearing up to face belgium. we're going to be live in brazil. that's right after this break. humans. even when we cross our "ts" and dot our "i's", we sti

for today's senate hearings, in which gm's ceo, mary barra, will testify, as she will face intense questioning about the delay of recalling vehicles. victims say barra won't make time to deal with them. part of healing always includes knowing your loved one is acknowledged. barra did meet with families before testifying back in march. >> all of the accidents are very tragic. and we're deeply sorry for those. >> reporter: that's before gm issued its own internal report, detailing the wrongdoing. fresh accusations. "the new york times" saying it has documents that appears to show gm was not open with federal investigators and avoided giving explanations for some of the crashes that killed at least 13 people. a new senate bill introduced is aimed at stopping something like this from happening again. the hide no harm act would make it a crime for anyone working for a company to knowingly conceal information that a product could be harmful or deadly. and a gm spokesperson tells abc news, barra is waiting to meet with victims and families until after the company's victim compensation fund is up and

ceo mary barra is set to testify at the hearing as is gm's general counsel.gm's internal investigation showed even as lawyers considered recommending settlements, they didn't alert those higher up in the company. general motors currently lower by 1.3%. >>> huj fund stanley druckenmiller says ibm is the poster child for what's wrong with corporate behavior today. he says in this balance sheet recovery, you're seeing companies engage in financial engineering increasing their debt load to stock buybacks rather than investing in their own business. >> ibm is the poster child. they literally face the threat not too dissimilar to what kodak and xerox, in terms of a new technology staip staring them right in the face. and instead of increasing investment to combat the threat, they've actually borrowed a lot of money to buy back stocks. still to come on the show, vladimir putin says u.s. sanctions on his company are unprofessional and russia's p.m. calls them evil. where will a standoff lead inspect stay tuned, we'll discuss after the break. >>> welcome back to "worl

. >> this did not occur under mary barra's watch, but she has been in charge of this.hat is your impression about how she is handling the compensation program? >> all i can say from my perspective, very cooperative. she means what she says. g.m. is setting up this program. it wants to do the right thing. in the design of the protocol, they engaged me on certain items, pushed back. i told them why. they agreed at the end of the day. they have also agreed, as you know, under this program once i make a final determination on eligibility or the amount of compensation -- >> total independence. >> they cannot challenge or appeal it. >> how much are they paying you? >> you ask gm. >> so it is up to g.m. >> it is up to g.m. i will say that the fact is -- unlike 9/11 and boston and newtown, connecticut, where i worked pro bono. here i am getting paid, and that is a challenge because people out there, how independent can he be if he is paid by general motors? i think the answer to that can only be and how fast we get the money out. how generous the program is. >> ken feinberg. h

on the other hand, ceo mary barra said she believes this is the guy who's going to help fix the messehind him. gerri: wow, i have to tell you he looked like a deer in the headlights in that first thought. joe, thanks for coming on. appreciate your time. >> you bet. gerri: we're going to switch gears now. earlier in the show we talked about swimming dangers, right? now we want to focus on another summer danger, every year about 40 children die because they were left in a hot car, and automobile can turn from a transportation system into a death chamber in a matter of minutes. joining us tonight is terry bartley, the man showing parents what it's like inside a parked hot car in hot weather. and he's here with his daughter madison tonight, thank you for coming on the show. great to have you here. you put together this video which we're going to show. i want to ask you why you did it? >> to raise awareness for parents around the world, but stop leaving our kids and pets and elderly and people in hot cars. gerri: i want to show the video now because you really did it. let's watch terry in

. >>> mary barra is back on capitol hill today, as lawmakers delve deeper into gm's recall of millionsabc's marci gonzalez has a preview. >> reporter: more outrage, toward general motors. survivors and families of those who died, are in washington, d.c. for today's senate hearings, in which gm's ceo, mary barra, will testify, as shs lw ilu l g edne is owdg.barra falies accidents are very tragic. and we're deeply sorry for those. issued its own internal report, detaing the wrongdoing. fresh accusations. "the new york times" saying it has documents that appears to show gm was not open with federal investigators and avoided giving explanations for some of the crashes that killed at least 13 people. a new senate bill introduced is aimed at stopping something like this from happening again. the hide no harm act would make it a crime for anyone working for a company to knowingly conceal information that a product could be harmful or deadly. and a gm spokesperson tells abc iews, barra ieet runna acpti a >> thankci .>>one otonmoment ec -gay playerinopen heor >>o e,ncdi o o rat thougs the c the

. >> this year alone, gm ceo mary barra, recalled many of its cars. in may, nearly half of the owners trading in a cobalt for a new car purchased another gm product. that's actually a higher loyalty rate than before the recalls. >> some people are just sticking by the brand. i mean, they are doing a major safety review. and perhaps people think it may be a good time to buy general motors since they're not going to overlook any quality issue, it seems. >> june was the third strong month in a row for the automaker. gm says every brand was up, if you adjust for the few sales days, but analysts expect more recalls to come and the cost to the company could ultimately be in the billions. >> anthony, thanks very much. heads are rolling in china in in a message to colleagues and shareholders, jamie dimon said the cancer is caught early and is curable. diamond is 58. he became head of america's biggest bank ten years ago today. what's wrong with serena williams? she could barely hit the ball today. and we remember filmmaker paul mazursky when the cbs evening n

mary barra have also announced other recalls this year, now covering 28 million cars. >> brown: we dig into the questions surrounding this settlement fund with its administrator, ken feinberg. welcome back to the show. >> thank you. >> brown: one obvious difference from past instances you've been involved with, these are old case, right, with little physical evidence left? >> yes. >> brown: so how do you resolve them? >> that's challenge. a good portion of the automobiles are long gone. there may still be black box data from the e.d.r., from the computer in the car, but police reports, insurance reports, warranty and maintenance reports, photographs of the accident very important. some of these cases have been litigated. let's look at the trial testimony or the depositions that were taken. we will work with every claimant to try and maximize the likelihood that we'll look at all the evidence. >> brown: to what level of certainty will you require? >> we will require that the ignition switch be found by the administrator, not gm, by me, to have been a substantial cause of the accident. a

. >>> general motors' ceo mary barra will be testifying before congress again today. she'll be answering more questions about the company's handling of recalls about a defective ignition switch that led to 13 deaths. gm has forced out 15 people for failing to take action on the problem for more than a decade. >>> and apple is ordered to refund customers up to $4 million to setstle a lawsuit ovr price fixing with ebooks. they accuse the company of conspiring to charge more for ebooks. apple denies the charges and plans to appeal. anne-marie? >> all right. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange. thanks a lot, jill. >>> coming up on the "morning news," western wildfires. emergencies are declared in two states where fires are burning out of control. this is the "cbs morning news." it's the yoplait greek taste-off and we are asking the music city which 100-calorie strawberry greek yogurt is the next big thing. i'm a random lady with a table full of yogurt. want some greek yogurt? can i ask you a question? tell us what tastes best. this one is definitely the winner. tha

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senator claire mccaskill was among those calling for gm ceo mary barra to file michael milligan. >> this is either gross negligence or gross incompetence on the part of a lawyer, the notion to say he didn't know? >> mic milligan is a man of incredibly lie integrity. >> gm's own investigation found legal staff acted too slowly notifying superiors about claims for crashes involving faulty switches. some of gm's legal team were fired after the internal report was finished. executives testified thursday those staffers were also given salary and retirement benefits as part of their severance package. >>> driving you crazy? gridlock on i-66, but plans are finally in the works to help cut down on that congestion. vdot wants to add express lanes from haymarket to the beltway in, each direction three lanes of i-66 would remain free, but two express lanes would be for those h.o.v. carpools and for those willing to pay a toll. there's no such thing as a free lunch. as long as there's a free alternative with tolls, you have a choice. >> vdot is also planning for rapid bus service in those express la

that's the question that gm ceo mary barra is facing for the fourth time on capitol hill today. e ignition switch defect is tied to at least 13 deaths and investigators say probably more. angry senators are focusing not just on barra, but other executives at gm as well. >> how in the world in the aftermath of this report, did michael millikin keep his job? i do not understand how the general counsel for a litigation department that had this massive failure of responsibility, how he would be allowed to continue in that important leadership role in this company? >> the company has been fined $35 million, but for those keeping score at home, that is less than 1% of gm's earnings in just the last 12 months. poppy harlow joins me now from washington. this hearing there have been a number of them already, so what is today's hoping to accomplish? >> i think today's hoping to accomplish, has gm really told us everything? have gm lawyers told us everything. the fact that michael millikin, the lead counsel of gm, been brought the first time having to testify that's what we should focus on.

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but ceo mary barra came to his defense. >> how do you have a system in place that doesn't make out for that? >> we had senior lawyers who had this information and didn't bring it forward who are in longer with this company. >> debra is no longer with the company and she had the knowledge. >> as we went through the details of the report very carefully and i would say when in doubt, we reached further to take action, there are many lawyers that are no longer with the company. >> i think there is a blind spot here, i really do. my time is up. i think the failure of this legal department is stunning. and the notion, i mean, you look around government, when something like this happens, you know what? secretary shinseki didn't know about those problems with scheduling. nobody told him. he's gone. >> senator richard bloomin grksz thal sames the investigation will likely find evidence, these are his words, coverup, fraud and more. >>> quarterly earnings doubled beating eastimates and that's where we begin market focus. offset a decline in trading revenue. that revenue from trading stocks and b

wagner joins us now from the new york stock exchange and jill, we are hearing general motors ceo mary barra heads back to capitol hill to answer more questions about the auto maker's botch recall. what are we expecting this time. >> reporter: good morning, ukee and erika. for the first time barra will be joined by gm's top lawyer michael milken when lawmakers will get to question him about what role the company's legal department had in the delaying that ignition switch recall which we know has been link to 13 deaths. lawmakers also want to know why the the company's top executives never found out about the problem, gm has forced out 15 lower level employees, for failing to take action, on that problem, for more than a decade. ukee and erika. >>> many of us dream of winning the the lottery but a new survey i hear has some surprising results about what people would actually do if they struck it rich. >> reporter: yeah, what would you do if you won the lottery, buy a private island, drink dackries all day. career builder surveyed thousands of people and they say about half would actually stil

. >>> general motors ceo mary barra will be back on capitol hill. she'll answer more questions about the recall. they want to know more about the million of car recalls. it's lirnged to more than a dozen deaths. since barra was last in washington, new documents have been uncovered showing gm was fully aware of the flaw. the hearing comes one day after a bim was introduced making it a crime for corporate officers to hide dangers posed by their products. >>> $1 million, that's the median price of a home in san francisco. a new report released by data quick says the median price paid last month for a new or existing home or condo in the city is $1 million for the first time ever. experts say that's because there's little available and cash buyers are will be to pay whatever it takes to snatch up property. median price for the bay area, $618,000. >>> speaking of the real estate market foreclosure rates are at the lowest they've been in years for that and the rest of the news, let's talk to mary thompson, she's live at cnbc world headquarters, good morni

. >>> general motors ceo mary barra will be on capitol hill today for her fourth appearance there to explain to congress members why gm waited a decade to recall defective vehicles. though defects are now linked to at least -- those defects are now linked to at least 13 deaths. despite that, june sales were the strongest the company posted for the month in 7 years. >>> 4:9. tesla motors says it's going to roll out a new electric car that sells for about $35,000. that's about the price of a loaded toyota prius. model 3 scheduled to hit the market in 2017. the price tag far less than a tesla model s, which starts at $80,000 before you add all the options. and it will also be smaller than the sedan, have a range of about 200 miles. for more on what the new model 3 might look like, check it out at kpix.com and look under headlines in the bay area news section of our website. >>> we have an amazing story of survival in the sierra. a san joaquin valley man was stranded for 6 days and couldn't walk. cbs reporter leemore abrams explains the extremes he went to, to stay alive. >>> reporter: a

mary barra signed rf on the numbers in a statement referring to the victims and their families, she said, we are taking responsibility for what has happened by treating them with compassion, decency and fairness. >> i think it's a little late for compassion and fairness and decency. >> reporter: dorrel johnsuetut 25-year-old daughter was killed in 2009. the family says they later learned the car she was driving had a faulty ignition switch. >> how do you compensate for the unrealized potential of that person. and my daughter was someone who had an extraordinary amount of potential. >> reporter: she settled with g.m. but is now considering whether to file a claim. scott, the center for auto safety said today it may be tough to prove a claim has merit. they expect that most claims filed will be on older crashes that occurred before 2012. evidence of ignition switch failure may not still be available. >> pelley: jeff, thanks very much. we called this a crisis and so far g.m. has issued 54 recalls involving more than 25 million vehicles and defects the miscon. vehicles and defects linked to

ceo mary barra has vowed since the start to make it right. >> i am working day and night to make sure that we correct this issue, we've learned from it, and it never happens again. >> reporter: also announcing it will pay a staggering $1.2 billion in the second quarter to cover the recall. slamming brakes on g.m.'s stock, shares closing down one percent. all this as ken feinberg who is overseeing the fund for the victims of ignition recall linked to at least 13 deaths announced there will be no cap >> g.m. basically has said whatever it costs to pay all eligible claims under the protocol, they will pay it. >> reporter: still tonight a long road ahead for g.m. the car maker facing a criminal investigation by the federal government and a new civil lawsuit filed just this afternoon accusing g.m. of intentionally concealing defects and putting human lives at risk in order to boost the bottom line. this is far from over. >> rebecca, thank you. >>> now to washington to a fiery message from president obama involving immigration reform. republicans firing back, and we have reported here on th