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GM names company insider Mary Barra as first female CEO

General Motors has named Mary Barra -- an employee of the automaker for 33 years -- as their newest CEO. Barra, 51, will be the company's first female CEO and the first ever female CEO across the Detroit auto industry. Judy Woodruff talks to Micheline Maynard of Forbes for more on new auto executive.