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Fallout from Medtronic's problems

Broadcast: Midmorning, 10/15/2007, 9:45 a.m.

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Fridley-based Medtronic has announced it will stop selling a wire lead commonly used in defibrillators after it learned about a malfunction that may have played a role in five recent deaths.

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