CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: In Phoenix, state agencies say they complained about repeated tread separations and blowouts on Firestone tires as far back as 1996. Well, Firestone sent investigators to the Grand Canyon state, but those investigators concluded there was no specific defect. This information comes to light as more hearings involving Bridgestone/Firestone and Ford Motor Company get underway again on Capitol Hill. CNN's Carl Rochelle previews the Senate Commerce Committee session. Carl, what are they focusing on today?</s>CARL ROCHELLE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. Well, actually, they are focusing on what they can do to make things better, what sort of reforms need to be put in place to make sure that something like this doesn't happen again. They're going to look at setting some possible requirements, putting down some laws, if you will, to make sure that such a problem doesn't happen again. This is the full Senate Commerce Committee, Senator John McCain's committee, actually have set hearings into the Ford Firestone problems before those that were held last week in the House subcommittees and the Senate subcommittees. But they have set the date today, this day in September, to hold the particular hearings. Now, you will see again the chairman of -- chairman and CEO of Firestone Motor Company, Masatoshi Ono, and you will see Jack Nasser from Ford Motor Company, and Sue Bailey, the administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. And yes, they will be questioned about, what did Ford and Firestone know? and why didn't they -- when did they know it? what did they know? and why didn't they do something about it earlier? One of the things that you're seeing in this report that you noted out of Arizona, is you're seeing that companies are reporting things and apparently it's not going anywhere. That's one of the questions that they'll be dealing with when they hold that hearing this morning -- Carol.</s>LIN: All right, Carl, thank you very much for that report. We will be keeping an eye on those proceedings as they continue throughout the day.
Bridgestone/Firestone and Ford Face More Hearings on Capitol Hill