ed whitaker took over in december. he basically retooled the entire management team.. but we're not eing any new products from this new management team. but what they are doing is focusing on the vehicles. getting costumers to go back to the showrooms and look at g.m. vehicles. because too many=) americans don't even go to a g.m. show when they're thinking of buying a car. >> how are they doing that? >> they got rid of four brands. they dropped hummer, saab and saturn, and they're putting more marketing resources into these four brands, and they put more money into research and development and interiors, to basically compete better against the foreign imports. >> and they have this new volt, chevy volt coming out?ç >> that's the halo car. they're only going to sell 8,000 or 11,000 the first year. they want people to come in and look at the vehicle that will get 40 miles in electric power. and another one of the high mileage traditional cars. like the toyota prius. the prius gets a lot of people to go into the toyota showrooms, but a lot by the camry or corolla. >> h

here's bill whitaker. >> reporter: the son is hot in arizona. >> we are chained to the state capitol! >> reporter: but not like the political heat on arizona governor jan brewer. all week pushed and pulled by opponents and supporters of the toughest antiillegal immigration law in the country. today she drew even more heat and signed it into law. >> though many people disagree, i firmly believe it represents what's best for arizona. >> reporter: the new law requires police to demand proof of citizenship or legal residency, a driver's license or state i.d. from anyone the officer has reason to suspect might be in the country illegally. governor brewer was asked today if she could tell whether someone was here illegally? >> i do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like. i can tell you that i think that there are people in as as this assume they know what an illegal immigrant looks like. i don't know if they know that for a fact or not. >> reporter: the law passed with unanimous support from republican legislators. >> arizona spends three billion a year to educate medicaid and incarc

>> smith: bill whitaker in the earthquake zone tonight. thanks so much. in the heat of battle, things are not always as they might seem. new video was released today showing a u.s. helicopter attack in iraq that left a dozen people dead, some apparently were unarmed civilians, including two journalists. we caution you, some of this video is quite graphic. once again, here's bob orr. >> reporter: the disturbing video was posted on the internet today by wikileaks, a whistle-blower web site. it shows graphic gun camera images of a u.s. helicopter attack in baghdad in july, 2007. >> that's a weapon. >> reporter: the aerial assault plays out over 40 minutes with an apache helicopter pilot repeatedly requesting permission to fire on a group of men he believes to be insurgents. >> this is crazyhorse 18. individuals with weapons. >> you're clear. >> firing? >> reporter: the apache and a second gunship open up with machine guns as the men on the ground try to flee. a short time later they ask again for permission to fire. >> come on, let us shoot! come on! >> clea

bill whitaker is in one of the hardest hit areas, calexico, california, right on the border. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, maggie. it may be days before a total damage assessment is completed, but here in downtown calexico just north of the border, eight blocks of downtown have been cordoned off by police because of the damage. some buildings have been red tagged. and some merchants will have major cleanup. >> happy easter! all right this is the hardest earthquake to hit the southern california region in nearly two deca decades. >> all kinds of things are damaged. >> the whole house started moving. it was really scary, crazy. >> reporter: hardest hit by the easter sunday 7.2 quake was mexicali, mexico, just across the u.s. border. >> there's no water, no ice. so i'm just crossing over here to get something for my family out there. >> reporter: home movies and twitter pics pop up on the internet showing massive damage in maeks callie. the border was closed to northbound vehicles following the quake backing up traffic. shockwaves rippled from south of the border to s

>> earlier i talked to the father in that video, carlos whitaker, his wife heather and the star of thecause we live in atlanta and our family lives in california and so we always put videos on my blog so our parents and family and friends can see but this one just happened, i think we've had funnier videos but this just happened to go viral which is pretty crazy but, you know, it's been great because we've been able to actually bring light to adoption. >> the whitakers adopted losiah from south korea three years ago and say he has been a major blessing in their lives. >>> the first lady is putting a healthy twist on the white house annual easter egg roll. we'll have that plus the big stories of the day, next. [ female announcer ] now multigrain pops. ♪ ♪ hey, now, now, we're going down, down ♪ ♪ and we'll ride the bus there ♪ pay the bus fare ♪ or we find a new reason [ female announcer ] something unexpected to the world of multigrain... taste. ♪ hey, now, now ♪ we're going down, down, and we ride the bus there ♪ [ female announcer ] introducing delicious new pringles multigrain. ♪ a

. >>> what some of the media's most powerful women >>> i'm ed whitaker from general motors. a lot of americans didn't agree with giving gm a second chance. i can understand that. we want to make this a country you are proud to be again. that's why i'm here to announce we have paid our loan in full with interest five years ahead of schedule. but there's still more to do. our goal is to exceed every expectation you have set for it. we're putting people back to work, designing, building and selling the best cars and trucks in the world. with our 100,000 mile, five-year power train warranty to gain the quality and onstar to help keep you safe. from new energy solutions to the designs of tomorrow, we invite you to take a look at the new gm. >>> whether he it comes to the battered housing sector today, trading up and flipping are out. as a response to a soft market and a desire to increase efficiency, america's architects report that remodeling is on the rise. many homeowners are choosing to reinvest at home. >> the uncertainty of the economy was one of -- also one of the factors

we also have a book called whitaker chambers as a part of the library thinkers series by richard wright, and we have a book called sis freedom by representative mccotter, thaddeus mccotter basically about restoring the principles of conservatism in the coming years and finally we have a book called the closing of the muslim mind by robert reilly which is about kind of the intellectual differences between muslims and western christians and how that needs to be resolved first before we can go further. >> do you have any authors assigning books today? >> we do. matthew spaulding of we still hold these truths, he will be signing books and also craig shirley who wrote rendezvous with destiny will be signing books tomorrow. >> can you tell a bit about isi buckson general? how long has the company been around? are they a part of another publisher? >> isi books is been around since 1993. we are part of the studies

. >> reporter: coming in way ahead of schedule, general motors ceo whitaker says the company has repaid $4.7 billion owed to the u.s. and $1.1 billion owed to the canadian government. >> we were able to repay the taxpayers ahead of schedule because we are designing, building, and selling the best cars and truck gm has produced ever. >> reporter: they got a total of $52 billion from washington last year to keep it a float. gm clearing the debt five years ahead of ever. its cash flow is better than expected because of the sale of new cars. they have plans to pump $250 million into auto plants in kansas city, kansas, and detroit. >> this investment represents a further commitment to gm's future, to communities that support us like here, and to the united states, canada, and ontario governments that stepped up last year. >> reporter: gm still has 43 billion of taxpayer money which is a 61% stake in the company. the payoff is coming from those funds, while others view the early check writing as a sign of strength. the early loan payment could help sales and move gm closer to becoming a publi

whitaker.h work by phil lebeau, who owns that beat and he will be back with that interview in just a couple of moments. let's bring in frank holmes here for some reaction. he's going to talk about commodities prices, but ceo and chief investment officer at u.s. global. frank, on the back of the general motors interview, and that was ed whitacre there with phil lebeau, is this -- you know, he's talking about record sales in argentina, brazil, india, you've seen a resurgence in auto sales around the world. obviously, to make all those cars, you're using a lot of commodities. do you believe this is enough to justify a further run-up in copper and aluminum and palladium and all the other things that go into these cars? >> absolutely, erin. what's so exciting about free markets is that president obama made $5.5 million. ed whitacre has been able to pay back -- a great texan, by the way, that's been able to pay back $8 billion of government, and apple and freeport are selling different products to ch

whitaker, has announced the intention of having an ipo. it seems to be an intention that it'll occur, you know, hopefully this year that there's going to be return to profitability for gm, and at that point, again, i think the initial public offering won't be for 100% of the private interest in gm, but it'll start returning to becoming a public company, and we'll be able to better quantify what the government's ownership interest in gm is worth. and then we'll see, basically, if the company continues to profitability, the shares of stock increase, there'll be a continued demand in the marketplace for more shares of general motors that'll give the treasury an opportunity to have subsequent public offerings and to sell off its interests into the market. hopefully, it will be an ever-increasing value into their equity interest. >> okay. thank you. it's very -- we don't have a lot of people here, mr. chairman, at least on our side, but this is interesting testimony. i think it's actually very encouraging testimony. >> it is. but it raises the

and whitaker was in town this week and he told tim geithner and larry summers that the hope that the ipo would pay back all of the money that the obama administration has put in. host: it means that the federal government doesn't look over their shoulder all the time. is that correct? guest: that is correct. the money that they used to pay off the loan came from an escrow. it could only be spent with approval of treasury. it was a general corporate cash. by paying off the loan early, the money that is left over in that account becomes free and clear of rules. in addition to paying off, the off -- also received $6.6 billion a free and clear from the escrow account. any money that was left in that account as of june 30 it is going to have to pay those loans off anyway. the money was going to come out of that account sooner or later. host: how are they these days as far as sales and operations? guest: it is doing fairly well in the market. it is maintaining its market share. some of its new products have been very well received. the quality is perhaps not on the part of total war for --

whitaker. yes, those pipes blng to the providers, but there is a requirement that there be a nondiscrimination approach to the use of those pipes, and we don't want providers to set up tollbooths or gates to say, okay, you're a big site out there. we're going to charge you to use this. maybe that person can't pay the charge. but the billions of people who will access that site now will not have access because there is a gatekeeper that said we're only going to allow these folks to be on our side. that's the point of it. there is, it seems to me, a potential problem that we have to -- that couldn't have existed previously when the nondiscrimination rules existed, but now that the nondiscrimination rules were obliterated, we need to restore them. the senator from montana asked the question how can the federal communications commission do this? i believe there are general powers under the federal communications act, and i believe that the commission itself has general powers that will allow it to