mr. strickland, let me start with you.s a mighty long time. >> 40 years. >> the idea of mentoring is something that i think was years ago almost a given. you knew you mentored young people and some way, somehow we lost our way in doing that. talk to me about this, what seems to be thankfully, a re-emergens of people involving themselves with young people. >> well, i've committed myself to this work because i, myself, was mentored by a public schoolteacher who found out that i had value, possibilities, so i'm living out the example autobiographically of someone who said i had value in spite of what the school system said, the streets taught me. he helped me get into the university of pittsburgh as a probationary student. i graduated from pitt with honors, now a trustee of the university of pittsburgh and i was at commencement speaker and got up in front of 13,000 people and said don't give up on the poor kids they might end up being the commencement speaker some day. people are a function of role models. you to have positiv

mr. strickland, thank you for joining us. i think the agency should be commended because the highways are safer today than they have ever been from a statistical stand point. you would agree with that, i'm assuming. >> yes, sir. >> now we've had heard a lot, a lot of articles and testimony recently that n.h.t.s.a. has not fulfilled the responsibility. it's a lap dog, not watchdog for the industry. so there's been a lot of criticism about the agency. as the administrator, how would you respond to that in just a general way. do you think the criticism is valid or not valid? >> no, sir, it's not valid at all. we have been a very active agency since i've taken office. the agency has been very active. from review of the work done if we are talking about toyota specifically, this agency opened 8 separate investigations over the time period when there were complaints about sudden acceleration. a lap dog doesn't open 8 investigations. now the goal is for us and our statutory order is to find any vehicle safety defect that presents an

mr. strickland was referring to and that's exactly what we have. >> you can clarify the numbers? because i heard there were 19 missing and 5 were found dead. >> i believe the numbers for some reason, the company -- there is different areas that miners evacuate from the miefnl and when everything was concluded, right now we have -- we have 5 additional fatalities. and we have 10 more miners that we're actually looking for underground. the one positive thing that we have seen is there is a cache of scsrs and that's an area of scsr storage area, or self-rescuers that minorrers would go to if an accident were to occur and there is evidence that scsrs were taken from that area. and that gives us hope that the miners had survived the initial blast, made their way to grab an additional scsr and hopefully -- again, this is just hopeful -- that they would make their way to a refuge chamber, to an area where the air's clean enough for them to breathe and for the rescuers to save them. >> how many were taken? >> i don't know the number. i don't know the number of scsrs that were there, but