anaba, president and ceo of toyota motors north america. gentlemen, it is the committee's longstanding policy that all witnesses are sworn in. please stand and raise your right hand as i administer the oath. do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? if so, answer in the affirmative. let the record reflect the witnesses and r answ witnesses answered in the affirmative. you may be seated. let me begin by first welcoming you, and i really appreciate the fact that you have come to testify and that, mr. toyoda, that you actually volunteered to come and to testify. i want you to know we're very impressed with that. that shows your commitment, of

coke would buy coca-cola north america operations and reports say that the rest of the bottling companies would remain independent. a deal could be announced as early as this week. this transaction would be pretty notable. we're going to check in with beverage analyst david silver at 7:00 eastern for the latest but a lot of people say this is a big about face. maybe it has something to do with the way americans' taste has changed over the years. >> need more flexibility. >> need more flexibility. it's not necessarily the pop that are still is issue. >> peppily started the ball rolling on this whole idea in the last year or so. but it has to do with you warehouse some and send other -- >> you warehouse stuff because it's the high volume stuff or vice versa? >> middleman costs you can cut to some extent. but it reminds me of the way the investment bankers say, you know, you've got to buy this company. and then, you know, two years later, you've got to split this company off. and it reminds me of the same thing. >> well, the only thing that's interesting is this idea that americans' tastes a

a tough neighborhood for one of the worst drug problems in north america. within 20 minutes we found shirley smoking crack behind a dumpster. >> it is easier to buy it then it is a pack of cigarettes. >> there are many like her the downtown east side, the bottom rung of a dangerous food chain. dozens have been killed in the vancouver drug wars, caught up in turf battles. one hour away from the border with the u.s. lives a quiet, middle-class suburbia -- usedo be. at one school four students died in as many months, caught in the crossfire. >> 8 peaceful town. you could walk around 11:00 at night. not be scared of anything. you know? all of a sudden, it was like this pandemic. >> the location may help to explain the violence. america and canada of share one of the longest land borders in the world. right here, this ditch is it. this signpost is the only indication. >> there are controls d electronic monitoring, but border guards admit that it is a porous frontier. locally grown marijuana is traded for cocaine. authorities are dealing with the fallout of the w

at home in north america, it's still a soft market for soft drinks. let's take a look at the numbers from coke. while the results met expectations, revenues were better than predicted and global sales volume was up 5%. in china, coke volume was up 29%. the rally spilled over into pepsi today ahead of its earnings thursday. after the close, entertainment giant disney beat street expectations, driven by its broadcast and cable tv channels as well as its movie business. the house of the mouse saw profits drop at its theme parks and consumer products divisions. the company thinks movies "alice in wonderland" and "toy story 3" will drive future profits. disney shares were up fractionally in after hours. its up more than 50% over the past year. as we mentioned earlier, hopes of a debt fix for greece helped lift the market spirits as worries about portugal and spain also were lessened. we saw the stocks of banks in those countries respond today. these three bank stocks trade as american depository receipts on the new york stock exchange, representing a share

the idea was if two countries engaged in nuclear attacks, say we were north america coming off south we launched against south america, they could launch against north america and we'd both be vaporized. everybody armed each other to the teeth. mutual assured destruction. a way to keep everyone from moving. this wasn't good enough for the thinkers. that's not good enough. how do we do it without weapons? now, let me take you back to right after 9/11. i was a really lazy american. i didn't know much about american history. i didn't know anything about anything really. i was just starting to come in my own and figure things out in the five years prior to that and i thought boy, i don't know anything about the middle east or america or anything. how did we get here? i started to read everything i could get my hands on. i read this one. "tragedy and hope." it was written in the early 1960s but a well respected professor who taught at georgetown, harvard, princeton. he was all over. his name was carroll quigley. he has mentored people from every president for i don't know how many years.

. >> we're in the process of rolling out in the two liter in north america now to restore kind of thef our brand through that contour. because there is something magical about the look and feel of the contour bottle. >> this is operating at a subtle level. it's not something i think many people will come up to the shelf and say wow, look at that new bottle, i can't believe it. it's not that dramatic. >> not dramatic to the buyer, but to coke's ceo, it's already paying off. >> this bottle alone is giving us a million incremental transactions per week in the united states that we didn't have before. >> those sales may not be enough to pull coke out of its north american slump, but it may be evidence that something as simple as a label and a look can trigger an impulse. >> people want to be refreshed, and they want to have a little moment of joy. we're not claiming we're solving world peace or anything, but a little moment of joy in an overall difficult day. >> coming up -- >> we have a new formula for coke. >> turning a bottle of gold into a can of worms. >> some call it the marketing g

my name is yashima inaba, and i'm the president and ceo of toyota north america and chairman and ceota motor sales usa. as you heard today from the toyota president, akio toyoda, and as the subcommittee of oversight investigation heard yesterday from jim lentz, president and chief operating officer of toyota sales usa, toyota is taking decisive steps to restore the trust of the tens of millions of americans who purchase and drive our vehicles. our 172 team members and dealers across north america are making extraordinary efforts to complete our kurncurrent recall quickly and convenient as possible. we have rigorously tested our solutions and are confident that with these repairs, the toyota vehicle will remain among the safest on the road today. we also are going further by installing advance brake override systems in all of our new north american vehicles before the end of 2010, and in an expanded range of existing models as a customer confidence measure and taking comprehensive steps to ensure strict quality control and increased responsiveness to our customers and regulators in th

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anaba, president and ceo of toyota motors north america.s the committee's longstanding policy that all witnesses are sworn in. please stand and raise your right hand as i administer the oath. do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? if so, answer in the affirmative. let the record reflect that the witnesses answered in the affirm tif tive. you may be seated. let me begin by first welcoming you. i really appreciate the fact that you have come to testify, and that mr. toyoda, that you actually volunteered to come and to testify. that, i want you to know, we are impressed with that. that shows your commitment and to us and to safety as well, and we appreciate the fact that you volunteered to come. and we welcome you as well, mr. anaba and we have had conversations with you over the last weeks and months. so at this time, we would ask you to actually -- we will give you additional time. we generally give five minutes, but being he is all of the way from japan, we will give him more time. so. mr. toyoda

one of the most elite girl's hockey tournaments in north america.sponsored by the washington capitals and take place at the ice plex. team come from all over from western canada, minnesota, and new england to play in the challenge cup. >> it's one of the highly competitive tournament. >> it's a really big deal for us and for the area and the other teams -- i know some people play. they look forward to this tournament. usually everyone is traveling up north for tournaments. they're like yeah we're going down south. >> it's amazing to have a tournament down in south where there's not a lot of hockey. to have the great teams and colleges to come is awesome. >> reporter: jill comcast sportsnet. >>> the hard work is paying off. they will host the jwhl challenging cup. the prep devision will be held at the coather capital ice plex. the u.s. skate team had to cancel their practice. her first race is set for sunday on whistler mountain. according to the antidoping agency many than 30 athletes have been banned from the games because they have failed their dr

geraldo: and clearly i would hope that the situation in all the developed world, certainly here in north americad be more in line with chile's than haitis. i think there are building codes in virtually every community in the united states. >> however, in our lifetime we will probably see the detraction of northern los angeles, san francisco, tokyo, one of the big cities could take a hit in our lifetime so we have to be prepared for this. >> geraldo: maybe your lifetime, michio, i'm old. >> geraldo: jason mitchell of global radio news is on the phone from the capital of santiago. welcome. how was it for you? >> i was in bed at the time. it was about 3:30 local time when it hit. my room rattled for a good minute. i heard all my books and videos fall to the ground in the living room. i thought the ceiling was about to collapse. i live on the 8th floor of an apartment building. frankly, it didn't collapse, but it was certainly a very scary moment. >> geraldo: how long, jason, have you been in chile? >> i have been in chile only five months. before that i lived in argentina for seven years. >> gerald

anaba, president and ceo of toyota motors north america.e's longstanding policy that all witnesses are sworn in. please stand and raise your right hand as i administer the oath. do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? if so, answer in the affirmative. let the record reflect the witnesses and r answ witnesses answered in the affirmative. you may be seated. let me begin by first welcoming you, and i really appreciate the fact that you have come to testify and that, mr. toyoda, that you actually volunteered to come and to testify. i want you to know we're very impressed with that. that shows your commitment, of course, to safety as well, and we want to appreciate the fact that you volunteered to come. mr. naba, we welcome you here as well, and we've had conversations with you over the past few weeks and months. so at this time, we would ask you to -- actually, we will give you additional time. we generally give five minutes, but being he is all the way from japan, we'll give him more time. so mr. toy

and clearly, i would hope that the situation in all of the developed world, certainly here in north america, would be more than in line with chile than haiti. and i think there are building codes in virtually every area of the under. >> in our lifetime, we'll probably see the destruction of one of the big cities, los angeles or tokyo. be prepared for this. >> we have on the telephone from the capital. >> i was in bed when it hit and my room rattled for a good minute, and i thought the ceiling was about to collapse. i live on the 8th floor of an apartment building, and thankfully it didn't collapse, but it was certainly a very scary moment. >> how long, jason, have you been in chile! >> only 5 months and i lived in argentina for 7 years. >> i should note, parenthetically, that it's the neighboring country to the east, also felt this earthquake and in fact, also had at least a few deaths as a result of it. so this was -- was this your first earthquake in chile? >> yes, it's the first earthquake i ever felt. i felt tremors about three weeks ago, and that didn't affect me too much, but it was a

the deal will give coke control over about 90% of its sales volume in north america. it is essentially a cashless transaction with coke taking on the bottler's debt and pension obligations. it follows pepsi's buyout of its two bottlers, which is expected to close tomorrow. these deals give the soft drink giants more control over their supply chains in the u.s., where finding sales growth has been difficult. that's why the new focus may be on sales price instead of sales volume. >> i think the focus is going to be a lot more on revenue as opposed to volume. if you think through the '80s and '90s, there's been price wars. i think now its going to be the opposite. they'll focus on the total price of the product. they'll focus on revenue management, but not necessarily on market share and on selling large amounts of volume. this could be good for both of the companies because at the end of the day, carbonated soft drinks are very affordable and most of the years of the last 25 they've lagged inflation in terms of pricing >> tom: coke stock saw big volume on the deal and a

this is the first map to show north and south america and in the u.s. we surrounded by water, not as some undefined part of asia or some undefined place that isn't identified at all. because it shows north and south america surrounded by water it's really the first not to suggest the existence of the pacific ocean, and this is something of a mystery because europeans are not supposed to have known about the pacific ocean until 1313 guinn he caught sight of it from a mountaintop. so, that's something that brings a lot of people back to the map and something peter has written about extensively. it's not something i dwell on a lot in the book because i felt that the mystery is almost more fun to read as a mystery than to try to resolve. but it's a great part of the story. it's not the only part of the story the. there is more that is very significant about the map. if you look at africa flexible, this is one of the very first printed maps to show the full coastlines of africa. africa and, excuse me, had only been circumnavigated by the portuguese foley in 1

he's giving toyota's north america president until march 12 to respond. here's what we're watching for next week. our friday "market monitor" guest is richard steinberg. president of steinberg global asset management. january factory orders, february auto sales and february's employment report will also be released next week. and monday, as the fallout surrounding toyota's massive recall continues, we'll look at how the government may steer future regulation of the auto industry. 2009 was a lucrative year, if you held a top job at bank of america. former chief executive ken lewis didn't collect a salary, but the value of his pension jumped by more than $4 million. current c.e.o. brian moynihan earned $6.5 million. thomas montag, the president of b. of a's global banking and markets business, got nearly $30 million in salary and stock awards, thanks to an agreement he signed with merrill lynch. the figures were disclosed today in a filing with the s.e.c. the federal trade commission said "yes" today to pepsico bringing its two largest bottlers home to roos

. >> did receive a job offer from toyota motor north america. >> reporter: he testified that six months after being hired, he met with his former colleagues to get them to exclude the most serious high speed accidents from the government's investigation of electronic throttle issues. >> i think it worked out well for both the agency and toyota. >> reporter: under the agreement with toyota in 200 0 2004, any incident lasting more than a second or two was not within the scope of the investigation, meaning 25 or the 30 most serious accidents were never investigated. >> they e vice rated the investigation. it is no longer an investigation into the times of probables people are experiencing. >> reporter: the investigation was closed after four months without finding anything. the investigation was limited to only short duration speed surges. what a former director says is an outrage that undercuts the integrity of the safety agency and its findings. for its part, diane, tie owe that declined to comment only our story tonight. >> thank, brian. and of course, deeming with all of this today, th

we had our eye off the ball on safety, but the president of toyota north south america again saying we've rigorously tested our solutions and are confident with these repairs and it's a mechanical problem. to experts studying this, it just does not add up, jessica. >> we'll be watching his testimony closely tomorrow. thank you, drew. >> all right, the live chat is up and running at ac360.com. mild mannered harry reid's tough new talk about health care reform and what he's threatening to do to pass the bill. later, hear from one of 88 teachers and counselors all fired. sfx: coin drop sfx: cg have you heard? saving time, money and for the future has never been simpler. regions lifegreen checking and savings accounts come with a personal savings review, up to a $250 annual savings account bonus, and free online and mobile banking for simple and safe banking anytime, anywhere. just drop by or visit regions.com/open to open your accounts and get into the rhythm of saving. regions it's time to expect more. there's a big reason to lower high cholesterol... dangerous plaque that can build up in a

we are putting blacks or systems on all the models for north america coming off the line by the end ofyear. now probably your question is retroactively one of our existing models. we have already announced the camry and those are already included in as an additional measure when we do a recall. now we have recently announced tacoma, and then sequoia. this covers probably about -- my recollection is collect, 72% of the recall population. and any older one technically it is not possible. so therefore we think we have covered. but we do not stop it there. we carefully monitor the situation. by next year with this new model with this retroactive actions, i think we will quite sure we'll be quite sure we'll have much know what we need to operate. >> i yield to the gentleman from california. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the chairman has proven he can ask a question so complex as to even be difficult for people of your great knowledge and doesn't surprise me. let me ask in a different way the same question so we all on the diaz have clarity. isn't it true that in order to use a advanced brake

toyota says its north america and japanese dealers have received several complaints about the brakes on the prius hybrid. people have experienced difficulty when driving over bumpy or icy roads. there were no accidents related to the matter. toyota will be sending checks in its dealers in the u.s. to help fix faulty profiles. there was a 6/0% drop in sales in january. nicole, back to you. >> also in the i'd, aig is expected to pay bonuses worth about $100 million. most of the employees recently agreed to take a 10% to 20% cut in their bonuses in they could receive them a month early. aig is due to pay out millions in bonuses next month to employees who didn't agree to those concessions. >> nicole, the european commission is going to, today, snap signal its approval to the command to. last week, the greek prime minister including a hike in feel taxes. greece has promise to bring its debt to gdp ratio to 2% by 2013. it's a tough job, though, because it almost stands at the moment around 13%. that of course has been weighing on the euro zone. it's been weighing on the spread between gre

. >> six times the winter olympics have been played in north america. this will be the fifth time the usa will play for the hockey gold medal. '60s squaw valley. they won it '80s lake placid. back ahead. those were both in the country. this is taken now by erik johnson, down to the last four and a quarter to go in the third. brought on by langenbrunner. tipped, from stastny. stastny lost that off his stick as it around behind, gotten by langenbrunner again. langenbrunner holds to the outside. pass ong, blocked by joni pitkanen. and loser of canada/slovakia will play finland saturday night for the bronze. as pierre pointed out, finland has gotten used to playing for the bronze, and has done pretty well in bronze medal games through their history. pitkanen will handle this at center. >> really no answer in that first period. tried to call a time-out when it got to 3-0. maybe a goaltending change at that particular time. getting backstrom in there. maybe give a little bit of a wake-up call, send a message. the way that the u.s. came out, it was over after

there is comment about the colonial period in north america and south america. >> larry: so it's fair to say -- >> absolutely. i think it would be unfair to dismiss the film as not really thinking about those things. >> larry: to create this it required monumental behind the scenes efforts. let's look at some of it. >> oh, my god. ♪ >> larry: safe to say, there's never been a movie like it. you may have changed the way movies will be made. you probably affected 3-d forever. >> we'll see. we'll see what changes. what i would like to think would happen is that filmmakers now will have permission to do a serious film in 3-d where previously it was thought of as kind of for kids, you know, maybe for animation, that sort of thing. and go make a serious dramatic film in 3-d. >> larry: disney has a movie coming in 3-d and apparently the theaters can't push it out in time because you're doing so much success, they can't get yours out and it in. >> it's an alice in wonderland. it will come out when it's meant to. obviously it will push us out of some of the 3-d theaters. we'll just hang around

in his eulogy to monroe quincy adams told americans to compare the map of north america in 1783 withe map of that empire as it is now. the change more than that of any other man living or dead was the work of james monroe. behold him strengthening his country for defense, sustaining her rights, dignity and honor abroad soothing her dissensions and conciliating her absurdities at home and strengthening the edifice of his country's union until he was entitled to say like augusta caesar of his imperial city that he had found her built of brick and left her clad in gleaming marble. such my fellow citizens was james monroe, the last of our founding fathers. thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> thank you. i'll be happy to take any questions. yes, sir. >> i think you've answered -- i think you've answered your own question let me feed it back to you to see if you agree as to why he didn't gain notoriety. which it comes from several things, scandal, military victories, or controversy. well, he seems to have avoided all three of those things by very good, skillful diplomat

feelings, but it is to the point when you challenge the powerful man in professional sports in north america and calling him mean and, basically just throwing it in the league's fails every day and twitters and all the other stuff, it has got ton a point david stern had no choice. the problem was the gap. you have the statements he was so-called issuing through attorneys which were the reasoned apologetic speaking about his family. the gap between that and a twitter page where he is telling off color jokes which would offend everyone in your viewing audience or comparing him to john wayne then the gunshot. if you are david stern, it has to be with people demanding that you suspend him you do it or you suffer a tremendous loss of face. >> by the way, those twitters plus and the actions last night on the court, they were not only recognized by david stern,ky assure you the u.s. attorney has a copy of all of that. that will affect the charging decision. gilbert arenas, he is getting himself in deeper legal trouble by acting the way he is. it shows that a disregard for the rule of law. >> i wond

was this a north america story? was it a global story?ell us where the strength is as it relates to consumer spending today? >> if you look at our volume in the united states, it was actually up 6%, up one percent internationally. sales were up 5% in the u.s. and north american market and 20% internationally. that was due to the weakness in the dollar and pricing we had take nen some of the markets internationally that we didn't take in the united states. a very balanced story in the united states, strong volume, strong sales, very strong sales internationally, but more driven by pricing and the weaker dollar. >> so where would you be betting on today around the world? we've been talking all day today about the possibility of a sovereign debt crisis. we've got governments around the world having way too much debt and, of course, greece, the worry there that it ripples across the euro zone. >> it's interesting because clorox i think, as you know, is about 80% of our sales are in the united states and about 20% outside the united states. on

. >>> apparently, in parts of north america between the months of november and march, frozen white precipitationeorologists call this period winter. and washington, d.c. seems genuinely surprised when it happens to them every year. snow, here? impossible! last week, when our nation's capitol got slammed with up 40 inches of the white stuff, the default response was, ah, close everything down, armageddon! fortunately, other cities have better planning. they wisely reached out to, among other places, boston. eight days ago, a team of about 40 boston area drivers including these guys here from wl french es ca separating cooperation drove their dump trucks, their front end loaders and sidewalk bobcats to d.c., they've been plowing nonstop ever since. housing projects, schools, sidewalk, you name it. contractors were hired from all of over but the biggest number came from boston and those bay staters became rock stars here in d.c. "boston globe" reporting today how grateful the washingtonians have been from the people up north, even inviting the drivers inside for something to eat. one quoted -- what

it is nice to have it in north america. it has been a few years since then.ave continued through, you know, apolo ohno has been in it. of course, the hockey which has been great. the russian comeback. it brings the viewership up. there have been good names in all sports people are getting more interested in seeing what's out there with the winter olympics. >> are you sad it is all over now? party is over. >> well, i know. i know. you know, working here has been amazing. a great team. i really enjoyed it. my girlfriend and i are ready to head back. it has been really good. we have been running sort of the whole gamut of everything and taking all the energy in. for us it is like -- it is time to go home. it has been really great. we had ups and downs along the way. it has been small. >> you don't want to stay at the party too long. i get it. >> yeah, yeah. you need a vacation from the party, too. >> elvis stojko. thanks so much. i'm sad the games are over. it has been great to watch. now we are -- on to the next games. right? looking forward to london. we will

>> the three i named off, wheat is our sara lee bread in north america, and then coffee, we are, youw, one of the biggest coffee suppliers in the world. that affects us. >> it's karen finerman. your stock is intriguingly cheap, yet i couldn't help compare your margins to some of your comps. why is it you seem to be -- have thinner margins than they do? what's that from? >> i like what you say about our stock. we think there's a lot of value there, too. but we've been on a major plan over the years to increase our margins. you know, we started out quite a bit lower than what we are right now and we've been on a plan to focus on certain categories that over time have greater margin opportunity. at the same time, we're restructuring things within the company to drive our costs structure down, build stronger brands and expand geographica y geographically. so it's that path that we've been on, which is way i think -- you know, our earnings this quarter were so good. >> ms. barnes, just a quick question. a lot of what you make, of course, is consumable. some of the stuff like body products

>>> apparently, in parts of north america between the months of november and march, frozen white precipitationthe earth. meteorologists call this period winter. and washington, d.c. seems surprised when it happens every year. last week, when our nation's capitol got slammed with up 40 inches, the response was, close everything down. fortunately, other cities have better planning. they wisely reached out to, among other places, boston. eight days ago, a team of boston-area drivers drove their dump trucks down to d.c. they've been plowing non-stop ever since. houing projects, schools, sidewalks, you name it. in the process, those became rock stars here in d.c. "boston globe" reporting today how grateful the people of washington have been for the help up north, even inviting the drivers inside for something to eat. one quoted -- it's just another day. people hug us and say, thank you, i can finally get out of my house which is, face it, wicked nice. what would be really awesome is if washington had its own snow removing rock stars. i know that senator brown has a pick up truck. that does it for >

like white people did when they first got to north america. here's one that's heart warming.his movie. i know it was controversial. this is sandra bullock in a part of her lifetime. here is sandra bullock as the white woman who brings in this young kid from desperate circumstances and lets him grow up in a very positive way. >> does michael get a family discount at taco bell? because if he does, sean's going to lose a few stores. >> he's a good kid. >> i say you make it official and just adopt him. >> he's going to be 18 in a few months. it doesn't really make much sense to legally adopt. >> is this some sort of white guilt thing? >> what will your daddy say? >> before or after he turns over in his grave? daddy's been gone five years, elaine. make matters worse, you were at the funeral. remember? you wore chanel and that awful black hat. look, here's the deal. i don't need y'all to approve my choices. all right? but i do ask that you respect them. >> amazing scene, michael. i don't know what you thought of that movie. i loved it. your thoughts? >> you know, absolutely. and i

a quality control committee that will have representatives from all over the world, including north america. there were a number of questions yesterday from congressional leaders saying how come japan didn't notify toyota executives in the i'd sooner that there might be this problem regarding unintended acceleration. so we'll hear a number of heated questions where they ask why toyota didn't move quicker. but i think there will be two people there answering questions, akio toe yyoda and m anabi. mr. toyoda will be setting the standard of we apologize and we'll do better in the future. >> phil lebeau, thank you. >>> we are 24 hours away from pt president obama's bipartisan health care summit. as democrats and republicans get ready for the meeting, it seems the only thing they can agree on for sure is that, well, there will probably be no real break through. minority chairman eric cantor was on the daily rundown just moments ago. >> speaker pelosi doesn't have the votes in the house. it's indicative of the fact that the american people don't like this health care bill. >> and the democrats co

that presumably was a civil decision by somebody either in north america or over here. and not how and who could make such a strategic decision. that's not military. >> no, my answer was about the military, which lost about. in the respect of the kajaki dam project, from memory it is the usaid financed project which is -- choose linkages are back to the u.s. embassy in kabul. the studies -- i think the studies in which kajaki leiby role has been focused were related to the economic development of helmand province, notably in respect of agriculture. the precise timings operational opportunity, other deployment issues, who took them, but i was questioned largely. i think i can either enter a general way by saying the people on the ground wailed the different fact yours and then come to sensible decision, which i'm happy to say. oregon's label right with a more precise, which may be more useful. >> thank you. can i take you to the question of counternarcotics? as you are aware, our committee expressed some skepticism flashier about what the united kingdom had. and we have

pouring into detroit to get a job, a $5 a day job, or if you were a smart engineer, anywhere in north america you wanted to come to detroit and work in this new industry. detroit was the silicon valley of america. >> there were a lot of technologies that were competing for the transportation business. so you had cars that ran on diesel fuel. obviously carthat ran on gasoline. there was even a car company here called detroit electric car which was predicated on the idea that cars would run on electricity. folks trying to figure out what was the right formula, what was the power plant that would win the day and allow them to make fortunes. >> people poured into the at this through this station here. cars were pouring out. the whole city was like a big machine. >> the city was organized according to these massive and various railroad lines. >> where rail line las ran, industry sprang up. smaller businesses and more jobs quickly followed. >> each dock is an industrial enterprise and you can see the lines that they follow are actually the railroad lines. and then the various neighborhoods of worke

island in nova scotia about as far from new orleans ninth ward as you can get and still be in north america that we've been glued to the television watching cnn keeping up with the unfolding catastrophe, astonished at the unrelenting cascade of government failure. more astonished that something like that could happen in america. i had to get away. so one more and i drove a rental car to a trailhead and took a walk. i was alone on the trail. as i neared the top huffing and puffing along, eyes on the path and for me, i heard a noise. stopped and looked up. there on the trail not 60 feet away about the distance from home plate in the pages them stood a bold moves that he was standing crossways the path blocking it completely, enormous, at least seven, 8 feet tall. and he was looking at me. i actually considered for just an instant clapping my hands to shoo him away. but then i caught myself and thought, don't be stupid. this is his trip that i am the intruder. if he charges me i'm dead. so i backed off, turned and retreated down the mount keeping a watchful on on the trail behind me. my heart

asia, and the middle east, and europe up here, and then this, is the most famous part of the map, north america up here, and gulf of mexico here and the ieltdz of caribbean and the region, columbus explored and the big, big, long, thin line, that is south america. the dominant visual impression you get from looking at the new world is this giant southern place, and that is really what was making an impression on europeans in the early days of discovery, it wasn't so much the westness of the new world, it was obviously, columbus pioneered a new route across the atlantic but he thought he reached asia, he and just about everybody thought he confirmed old geographical ideas. south america, which amerigo vaspucci wrote about, extended far into the south, part of the globe people tended to think there was not any land in and that made a big impression and we'll get back to that in a minute, and what dominates the map is the southern part and that is why the cartographer put the word, america, on the southern continent along with the shores that vaspucci sailed along and if you list the word america

, david strickland and ron medford, now our deputy administrator, told the president of toyota north americauncertain terms, that we expect prompt action following the disclosure of the sticky pedal problem. toyota publicly announce that had recall two days later. i have bull pen on the phone with mr. toyoda from here to japan, and i'm so pleased that he accepted the invitation to appear before this committee. with potential fatal defects on the road, we have pressed hard to expedite these safety fixes. if mitsa had opened a formal investigation and toyota had resisted a recall, that would have consumed an enormous amount of time and resources, in effect, extending the period in which owners of affected vehicles are at risk. by engaging toyota directly and persuading the company to take action, the agency avoided a lengthy investigation that would have delayed fixes for a year or more. last week i announced that we are investigating whether toyota acted quickly enough in reporting these safety defects as well as whether they took all appropriate action to protect consumers. we have asked toy

wasn't just the floor mat, it was a sticky pedal that's when our people went to japan-- we went to north america toyota. we said, look, this is serious stuff. you need to start taking this seriously. we need another-- we need a recall here. and that's when we really felt that we needed to go to japan and talk directly with the people in japan about this. >> ifill: normally, how do companies, how are companies like toyota-- but even domestic car companies-- how are they held accountable? how are they accountable? how can they say, "we won't do anything about this until you come to japan and demand that we do something?" >> we have subpoena power to get all kinds of information. we also have the authority to make them do the recall. we ask them to do it voluntarily and if they won't, then,, you know, we require them to do that. they have to come to to us with a 76. we don't necessarily sign off on it. then the recall begins. when we discovered people really weren't paying attention to it, we went back and told them they had to issue more notices to the owners of these cars. >> ifill: you said toda

this is really the first map to show north and south america the unambiguously surrounded by water, notn some undefined part of asia or undefined place that really is not identified at all. because it shows north and south america surrounded by water it is a president bush to suggest the existence of the pacific ocean and this is something of a mystery because europeans are not supposed to have known about the pacific ocean until 1513 wendell boa caught sight of it from a mountain top. that is something that brings people back to the map and something peter is written about extensively. is not something i dwell on a whole lot in the book because it felt the mystery is almost more fun to leave as a mystery than to try to resolve. but is a great part of the story. it is not the only part of the story. there is more that is very significant about the map. if you live in africa for example, this is one of the first printed maps to show the full coastlines of africa. africa had only been circumnavigated by the portuguese in 1497, and maps were only beginning to show all of this. the frame at

make a formal request that we get as much information as we can from toyota international, toyota north america, documenting the financial relationship between their company and accenture or its predecessor, failure analysis associate, not just in relationship with the study that was done as has been the subject -- >> that's fine. we'll do that. >> now one of the things that you talked about was the fact that you were present during some testing that was done at accenture. >> exponent. >> exponent, yes. >> is that something you were part of when there was filming that was done to document the testing? >> no. i just wanted to go see how they test. i have never been in a vehicle that's gone into fail safe mode. so i wanted to understand what it feels like from the consumer's standpoint. what fail safe feels like as you are driving down the road. >> were you involved in any way in the analysis in terms of defining the scope of that project or how the results would be submitted? >> no. the only portion i was involved in was that when that research becomes available in its entirety it would be made

. >> we need to be careful but we're not focusing on the needs of people in europe, north america, japanmaking sure globalization continues because it has raised the standard of living across the world, and i think the economic crisis has exacerbated the discussion, and it has benefited all of us, and i think we need to continue to push the and make sure we continue on that path rather than going back because it will globally hurt us all. >> it feels a lot better this year than last year, and the general sentiment will feel a lot better and 2011. despite the short-term challenges we have described in financing and the industry as oval, the senses longer term it oval, the senses longer term it is in tact the fact that sustainability is rising, everybody's agenda, and staying there through the good and bad parts of the crisis and increasing in the institutions of real estate as a long-term investments and asset class, all of those trends are intact. >> i think rather than describing the sense of optimism, i would describe it as kind of a sense of being back in business and doing the normal

. >> i did receive a job offer by toyota north america. >> reporter: he testified six months after beinge the most serious high-speed accidents from the government's investigation of electronic throttle issues. >> i think it worked out well for both the agency and toyota. >> reporter: under the agreement with toyota in 2004, nhtsa said any incident lasting more than a second or two was not within the scope of this investigation. meaning, 25 of the 30 most serious accidents were never investigated by nhtsa. >> they essentially eviscerated the investigation. it is no longer an investigation into the types of problems that people are experiencing. >> reporter: a spokesperson for nhtsa confirmed the investigation was limited to only sho-duration surges. what a former director called an outrage that she says undercuts the findings of the agency. as for toyota, it had no comment on our report. brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> all the bad news for toyota has sent its stock price sliding. the company stock has lost more than $31 billion in value from its high just over two weeks ago. a little