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Group calls for regular Q&A between president & Congress
There's a growing call from a group of political pros for the president and Congress to air their differences in regular, televised question-and-answer sessions.
The group is using President Obama's exchange with Republican leaders last week as a model. Two people behind the movement joined us on Thursday's American Morning.
Tired pilots pressured to fly?
Investigators sketched out a terrifying scene at a hearing on last year's deadly plane crash near Buffalo, New York.
A combination of inattention, confusion and incompetence caused a plane with 49 people on board to literally fall from the sky. And now we're learning the airline that operated that flight may not be doing everything it can to make sure pilots are on top of their games.
Our Allan Chernoff has been following this story for over a year and has the latest.
Read more: Pilot error caused 2009 crash near Buffalo, NTSB rules
Woman dies in speeding Toyota
Millions of Americans who drive Toyotas are asking the same question this morning – is it safe to get behind the wheel?
Toyota service centers are jammed. Customers with recalled cars are trying to get sticky accelerator pedals repaired. But some safety experts say an electrical malfunction – and not those pedals – is the real problem.
Our Deborah Feyerick has the story of a Michigan family that's looking for some answers after losing a loved one in a non-recalled Toyota crash.
Full Coverage: Toyota Recall
Sticky situation for Toyota
Many more Toyota drivers don't know whether it's safe to drive to work today.
Now the company is acknowledging the very popular Prius had brake problems but never told customers about it. And Congress is demanding more answers from Toyota about what's really causing runaway cars.
More and more safety experts are saying "sticky" gas pedals are not the problem. So are these fixes the final fixes?
On Thursday's American Morning, our Christine Romans talked about the trouble at Toyota with David Rosenberg, owner and president of Prime Motor Group, which runs two Toyota dealerships in Massachusetts and Maine; and Joan Claybrook, former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Full Coverage: Toyota Recall
Welcome to the Tea Party: Florida showdown
Editor's Note: CNN's Jim Acosta takes you inside the Tea Party movement and sits down with those who started it to talk about the factions within the movement and the first ever 'Tea Party Convention.' Tomorrow on American Morning, we'll tell you about a Carnival cruise to the Caribbean where Tea Party protesters sound off on the president.
By Jim Acosta, CNN
For Republican Florida Governor Charlie Crist it's the hug that just won't let go.
His embrace of the president and of the stimulus program at a town hall meeting last year could cost this once rising GOP star a shot at a U.S. Senate seat.
Meet Marco Rubio. He's a darling of the Tea Party movement and is challenging Crist for the GOP nomination for that Senate seat.
"What I find at these events are folks who've never been involved in politics before," says Rubio.
Rubio takes his message of smaller government and lower taxes to Tea Party rallies. And his YouTube page features Tea Party activists venting their anger at Washington.
Polls show Rubio has closed a 30 point gap and just might win the party primary.
Would he be the first Tea Party senator if elected?
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