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Rose 9.1%, the biggest increase weve seen in about ten years, the boost for specialty drugs, even sharper, rising by 11.5%. twenty minutes before the hour. martha: investors keeping an eye on the earnings reports from some very big names this week and are liking what they see. its nice to see that number up over 11,000, isnt it? eleven thousand one hundred sixteen, up 25 points, lets call it n. the early going. were going to get into a little more coming up. bill: in the meantime, there are thos...

>> reporter: this is alaska sole, caught and frozen in the bering sea, unloaded in alaskas dutch harbor. and from here -- >> most of the fish goes to china. >> reporter: where bill orr, president of signature seafood, says his catch is cleaned and filleted cheaper and quicker in chinese workshops like this, than in the u.s. >> we will sell it to companies around the world. but most of them have the fish sent to china and further processed into fillets or apportioned, have sauces added or breaded...

For the made in china label. that is making life here less expensive. our christine romans joins us now with our week-long special report "china rising: opportunity or threat"? >> this is going on for years. some industries have completely changed how theyve done business, excuse me, over the last 12 years or so. to see how chinas powerful economy affects everything you do, everything you touch, look to further than your dinner plate. this is alaska soul, caught and frozen in the baring sea and ...

Processed into filets or portions or have sauces added or breaded, packaged and sent to the united states. >> reporter: thats right, chances are the fish you order at a restaurant like this travelled some 14,000 miles. how is that even possible? because chinas economic miracle of cheap labor and a government subsidized industrial base has changed everything, even the economics at your dinner plate. u.s. seafood exports to china were $82 million back in 1996. today its $597 million. how much of t...

Birthday party. ahead, an update on the search and what her friends and family are doing to find her. >> i can say that there is, at this moment, no higher priority in the denver division of the fbi. >> plus, its here. >> 3, 2, 1. [cheers] >> the long awaited ipad finally goes on sale. it looks like a giant ipod, about the size of a dinner plate. but, is it everything the super high tech gadget lovers were waiting for? >> look how successful the ipod has been. i want an ipad now. bigger and bett...

Well, lets go right to san diego and the founder and president of global forest science. dr. reese halter. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. welcome southern california. >> sunnier than it is up here. before we talk about why the bee populations are declining, why should we care about the bee populations declining? >> well, quite simply, the bees provide every third bite on our dinner plate comes from the humble incomparable honeybee and also honey and medicine and im wearing cotton today ...

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>> reporter: drew, theres been a lot of complaints about the food pyramid so now the federal government is coming up with a new icon, and were told by the usda that it is a plate, like a dinner plate. we presume it will be divided into sections that will show you how much of the different types of food you should be eating. >> what was wrong with the pyramid? >> reporter: you know, the pyramid, to put it gently is not considered a great public health success. you dont look at it and think oh, i ...

They serve a lot of liquor i think at the u.s. open. all right. kyra, well talk to you again soon. we are starting anew this center live at the world headquarters in atlanta, georgia. let me tell you what we have on the rundown on thursday september, 30th. we have to start this with story out of rutgers, a freshman at the school apparently jumps to his death after a gay encounter is secretly streamed live on the internet and two classmates are now facing charges. >> i read it on-line i was like ...

Before they can hit the target. the target is about the size of a dinner plate. amazing stuff. they should proceed with that, again, if all goes well possibly within four days. >> and in kind of a small dinner plate, at that, i guess you could say, reynolds. >> absolutely. >> one of the big issues for this area is tourism dollars. they have taken an incredible hit and i see people on the beach behind you, but im wondering if maybe its just too late in the season to really help them regain what t...