ounce drinks. tucker: wouldn t it just be cheaper for soda makers to make the case against this unilateral and deranged edict from mayor bloomberg and make the point there s no scientific evidence that it will make people thinner. people who drink sugary drinks are on average thinner than those who drink diet drink, why don t they mound a campaign to fight back against this totally unreasonable law. clayton: and you can buy the drinks, 16 ounce that s okay. at any other place in the sfi not just starbucks, but sugary smoothies. think about the amount of sugar in one of those giant fruit smoothies, i m healthy for lunch and thousands of calories there, shoving all kinds of sugar and stuff in there and larger than and it s that fashionable rich people go to starbucks or
good morning, everyone, it s sunday, march 3rd, i m alisyn camerota. thanks for joining us. could the sequester effect be worse than we first thought? march 27th when the government runs out of authority then you would see a partial government shutdown and employees sent home and that might be very disruptive. alisyn: all right. what the 85 billion dollars in cuts could really mean for your family today. tucker: plus, the single ounce that s costing millions. the big cost for soda makers in order to meet nanny bloomberg s sugary drink ban. details ahead. clayton: nanny bloomberg. and do you know someone who always writes lol in a text message. does that annoy you? turns out it s not the worst. the top things you should never text a friend coming up, including the worst offender. you probably do it, i do it. and fox & friends begins right now.
re-elected and more likely four years ago to i ve themselves as conservative because they i ve themselves as unemployed. the 18 to 24, the people like alex wagner, they are more conservative. 25 to 30s are more like me. the door in the floor will open up. here s one mica would have picked from the times. soda makers are pushing back in new york. lobbyists from coca-cola and other companies are beginning an grief campaign to fight the city s restrictions on large servings of sugary drinks. they called a coalition new yorkers for beverage choices. they also hope to make at it debate about freedom not fatness. freedom to drink by diabetic inducing drink. joining us now politicos patrick how did the cast hold up without power this weekend? they held up okay.
spot. as for number four on our list, changes for coke and pepsi. the soda makers are making changes to an ingredient in their products to avoid needing to label packages with a cancer warning. companies are asking suppliers to alter the way a caramel coloring in the coal as are made. it is a chemical linked to cancer in animals. customers won t be able to taste any difference at all. new security camera video from kentucky which is capturing the power and fury of the storm. we will show that to you on weekends with alex witt. we are back in a moment. if there was a pill to help protect your eye health as you age. would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it s called ocuvite. a vitamin totally dedicated to your eyes, from the eye-care experts at bausch + lomb. as you age, eyes can lose vital nutrients. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. male annncer ] ocuve has ua as you age, eyes can lose vital nutrients.
to see as well. let me ask you as well, do you believe that sodaplays any part in the obesity part especially in children? no more or less than any caloric food. look, we make some products that have calories in them, and we make no bones about that. but we need to put the calories in context. even using the federal government s own data, all sugar-sweetened beverages and not just soda, but everything with a smidge of sugar accounts for 17% of the calories in the diet, so 93% of the calories from other foods and beverages and other activists and those making the ads want to assign 100% of the blame to these products, and that is just out of context. and are soda makers seeing the bottom line affected by these ads? it is i wouldn t say that, but it is so much that you are not going to sit there and just take some inaccurate exaggerated