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Cooperate economically theyll become passive million tarl and become democratic, it hasnt been true. after 30 years we know its not true, but the obama administration giving the chinese president a state visit and beijing has seen nothing about green light and pushes the envelope as it pushes us out of the western pacific and strong presence in the indian ocean another way that the pakistan relationship is helpful. >> jamie: kim jong-il is actually in china today. does that give you greater caus...

Be right. it is. its bizarre. watermelons have been blowing up in fields in southeast of beijing. >> this is so bizarre. >> it is, isnt it? >> what is this, because of fertilizer? >> apparently the farmers, i wouldnt want to be eating these watermelons anyway. they mistake fwnly applied some sort of growth hormone, accelerator to the watermelons. this started happening. the farmers were having to wear goggles when they went into the things there to pick them. >> theyre trying to make them larger...

necessarily pointed to something specific. what they found was, last year, they got some intelligence that al qaeda was targeting these oil and natural gas installations in the united states. what theyre saying is, some of the information that they just got shows that al qaeda still has a continuing interest right now in going after some of those targets. >> where is this intel coming from? >> its coming from that treasure trove of information that those s.e.a.l. teams hauled out of os...

Lunch. it is as if nothing is happening 170 miles to the nor. the level of the resiliency of these people is astounding. -- >> sean: i agree with all of that. lets talk about the human toll. you mentioned the 2,000 plus bodies that have now washed ashore. estimated 10,000 have died. theyve run out of coffins. hundreds of thousands left homeless. in shelters. tokyo supermarkets that are stripped bare. theres a food problem. what are you seeing on the ground as you are there? >> sean: if we work, ...

The camera, the music is playing. they are serving a beautiful lunch. it is as if nothing is happening 170 miles to the nor. the level of the resiliency of these people is astounding. -- >> sean: i agree with all of that. lets talk about the human toll. you mentioned the 2,000 plus bodies that have now washed ashore. estimated 10,000 have died. theyve run out of coffins. hundreds of thousands left homeless. in shelters. tokyo supermarkets that are stripped bare. theres a food problem. what are y...

Compares it with recent price spikes. >> reporter: think back to july, 2008 before lee man bros. and interest rates were slashed, before the breathtaking economic crisis. crude oil was pushing to $147 a barrel, transportation costs were priced. speculations were blamed as were crops used for biofuels. >> they had it all together, demand is soaring. supply has been cut back. food has been converted into the gas tank. >> reporter: it wasnt just fuel in 508. soy doubled, and rice. riots broik out i...