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And he blasted the modern obsession with vanity and pride. he shared mutual advice with comings. he said go ahead and fight, throw plates with one another, at the end of the day, make peace. now to china where 42 people have died after being stung by giant hornets that are prone to actually chasing their victims. our paula newton is in hong kong. paula. >> reporter: its been a terrifying situation in china. with 42 people killed. more than 1500 others injured. youre talking about stings that a...

This. >> thank you very much. susan candiotti who has been break have the news on this. our seventh story is killer hornets. china has declared all out war on these hornets. they have killed dozens of people. paula is in hong kong with a look at the lethal menace. >> reporter: can you imagine such a horrifying situation? these hornets have injured more than 1,500 and kill 42 people. youre talking about stings the size of bullet holes. venom that actually attacks the red blood cells and that ca...

Still as many as 200 people unaccounted for. what is emerging as one of the worst incidents of migrants dying at sea in recent years. back to you, kate. to china where theyre dealing with a strange problem, a problem of killer hornets descending on unsuspecting people. paula newton is here with more. >> its been a terrifying situation in china with 42 people killed, more than 1,500 others injured. youre talking about things that actually look like bullet holes. the venom attacks the red blood ...

"the end of the suburbs" and joe kotkin is distinguished fellow in urban futures at chapman university and the author of "the next 100 million: america in 2050." welcome to you all. do you find that when you look at the urban issues in america, are people going to cities for a reason? are they going away from suburbs? >> its a combination of both. what i document in my book really a pretty significant change in the zeitgeist of what people want from the communities they live in, the houses they ...

Efforts. in the portrait, khamenei as softened somewhat in recent years. he has recently praised western culture for its science, innovation and even hard work. he still argues that islam is superior because in his view western culture is too focused on materialism, but he says that it too has its strengths and that iran could learn from them. khamenei seems a man who distrusts the west for reasons that seem to do with his reading of history, his schooling in political islam, and his own experie...

Political islam and his own experiences in his country. on the other hand, the picture of him that emerges is of a clever sophisticated, learned man. who does not seem prone to rash decisions or impulsive actions, go to cnn.com/fareed to read this fascinating essay. up next, what a massive wave of urbanization will do to the world and america. i have a great panel of experts on cities. stay with us. ♪

As well? >> yeah, its absolutely true domestically, right so we think about taking a given worker from a rural area and moving them to an urban area in the united states, the truth is that theyre probably going to become more productive for the economy overall. theyre going to earn more, they are going to have in some cases access to better services, that story is true in countries around the globe. and so i think when youre thinking about developing economies, the problem with urbanization is i...

Desperately to compete with asian cars adding more bells and whistles. so fords got the system, chevy has a system working with smart phones to integrate music into the driving experience. theyre trying to compete with the asian counterparts as well. >> how does the future look? experts predict 15 million cars will be sold this year right before the financial crisis. 16.5 million cars were sold. so not really that far off. also as the housing market improves well see a big boost in car sales esp...

The rural voter. this country was -- the rural vote was sort of disappearing. this urbanization was going to make this inevitable, democratic majority. what ended up happening was suburbanites turned on the democrats and we got richard nixon. we can prematurely declare these things sometimes. a cautionary note. >> goldie, the piece says todays gop is taking its cues from john calhoun and his belief in nullification. the idea that states can ignore federal law. he writes its not a coincidence tha...

Careful about the creative class things and richard florida, good researcher, had a lot of respect for him, but a very small percentage of the people. let me suggest -- >> let me just quickly lay out the thesis. >> its sort of as the mayor indicated, the hip, cool cities that will attract the people and all that. the history of urbanization is the attraction because of jobs and economic growth. >> exactly. >> cities do not grow because of fountains and designs. and let me just very quickly defen...