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>> we can't survive on 7.25! we can't survive on $7.25. >> here's gregory. he is an immigrant who lives in new york and has worked for domino's pizza for about a year and a half. he and his wife make 1650 combined. their rent is $1,000 a month. which means even though they both have jobs, they depend on food stamps to provide food for themselves and their 3-year-old daughter. it's a constant struggle just for them to stay afloat. according to the merriam-webster dictionary, a living wage is a wage sufficient to provide the necessities and comforts essential to an acceptable standard of living,...

>> here's gregory. he's an immigrant that lives in new york and worked for dominos pizza for about a year and a half. he and his wife make 1650 combined. their rent is $1,000 a month. even though they both have jobs, they depend on food stamps to feed themselves and their 3-year-old daughter. it's a constant struggle just for them to stay afloat. according to the merriam-webster dictionary, a living wage is a wage sufficient to provide the necessities and come efforts essential to an acceptable standard of living. what does that add up to for gregory? a resident of brooklyn, new york, if grego...

Diabetes specifically and not related to its calories and not related to weight gain is sugar. if you consume 150 calories extra per day, your diabetes rate goes up 0.1%. if those 150 calories happen to be a can of soda your diabetes rate goes up 11-fold to 1.1% and we are not consuming 150 calories in sugar. we're consuming 362 so that's a 2.75% increase in diabetes rate. considering our country right now has an 8.3% diabetes prevalence, that is one-third of all of the diabetes in america explained by sugar. >> dr. robert lustig, author of "fat chance" i think you changed some choices this we...

Our people. >> most of the people on the street are not feeling the effect of it. >> you had half as many people unemployed, the prices at the gas tank were half the price. so your seeing the effects of, we just broke the record but the underlying economy was much stronger when we hit these levels. >> he makes a terrific point that latter segment, saying that things were better the last time the dow hit the high. we have troubling unemployment and a lackluster economy at best. >> neil: thank you very much. let's see where we are now versus where we were then. last time we were at 2.75 for a ga...

House for a while it may be worth it to put a little dough down so you get a great rate. >> carolyn, it's the first time you have been with us on this ram. hope you come back. thank you. >> thank you. >> you can get a 2.75 these days. >> i remember in the '80sfs like 18%. do you remember that? unbelievable. all right. strokes used to be a disease affecting the middle age and elderly, but there's a new study out and it could change all that so we will take a closer look at which age group is now the most at risk and how to protect yourself coming up next. jack, you're a little boring. boring. b...