or a sweetened drink, an adult has to ask wasn t that always the case? the kids don t go to olive gar dan by themselves. kimberly: take me wright now to long john silver. andrea: are those warm? eric: they re cold. mcdona s isn t part of the deal. michelle bachmann got together with a different company. but this isn t the problem. this is real. this is a large french fry at mcdopped. this is a kid s fry. if i brought my son home this french fry count how many there are. there are ten french fries in this. parents should make the choice. bob: what is wrong with her trying to keep sam away from children? greg: i love salt. bob: what is wrong with her fighting obesity. take all the salt you want. talking about kids. let them eat these things.
four hours or so. morgan stanley come out with a global note cutting its global growth forecast and saying the u.s., the world is dangerously close to recession quite frankly and naming a couple of different reasons why they think that global growth will not be as strong as they thought. among them, europe s debt problems and also mentioning what they call policy mistakes in the u.s. and also the drama about the debt ceiling. they say, overall, consumer confidence, business confidence, almost this negative feedback loop we are on the verge of people being so worried and not able to break out of that. lowering their global growth forecasts and enough to shake a shaky market which bank stocks in europe are down and real concerns about the debt crisis in europe. still even after france s aaa rating was reaffirmed. an icky situation here this morning. the dax and ftse is down and cac is down also. bracing for a big sell-off this morning. saw new data from the united states. joble
and toothpicks, and then some people saying i don t want to try the cake because my mouth will get hurt. that s what is going on. this is something that we have been seeing over the last few weeks. is this really any different than the turmoil we have been witnessing? i think ali is spot on. you think back to just before the huge selloff and volatility last week, we had our own numbers that showed we had almost no growth. we have a new manufacturing number today, a regional manufacturing number that really hit investors hard. some analysts say it s a reliable number because it s a fresher number. this number is about manufacturing in august. the index was actually at one of the low points, and the drop was what analysts call stunning and saying it never has been this low without leading to a recession. when you hear things like that, especially with manufacturing considered one of the engines of growth in this country, that s also why you see investors sell at this point.
the debt crisis, we have do your homework. eat your peas. i think we ll have more of those soon. i like the rich in metaphors, just not rich in terms of the budget. also ahead, remembering the firefighter who fell to his death at a texas rangers game. loved ones and colleagues bid him a heartfelt good-bye. this was a very difficult story, video, to watch when you saw him at the texas rangers game. there s a bit of a back story with josh hamilton, the baseball player with the texas rangers, and we ll talk more about that. j jt tragic. he was conscious for a long time. his only concern was his son. they thought he was going g be all right. also coming up this half hour, the first lady s pet project, fighting obesity. however, she was seen pigging out on a fast food combo platter. we ve been asking you on facebook, should she be allowed to binge? this is her pet cause. exactly. a lot of the first ladies, they pick an issue. no peas here by the way.
strange rumors about the place. as a journalist, i need to go in there and find out in person what s actually happening in there. there s no policemen, no electricity, and basically it is a ghost town. but at the same time, you know, those geiger counters, the radioactivity meter, is going up. but, you know, you don t feel a thing. and that s the most scary thing, you know. radioactive particles hitting your body. but you don t it doesn t smell, you don t feel heat. you just don t feel a thing. and that s actually the most scary part of the whole thing. brave guy. japan s chief cabinet secretary said today that the situation at the crippled nuclear plant may turn for the worse. a cease-fire and agreement in libya, but no mention of gadhafi stepping down. general wesley clark joins me to discuss the situation. the mayor of boston fighting obesity. he is banning sugary drinks sold