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Rose 9.1%, the biggest increase we've seen in about ten years, the boost for specialty drugs, even sharper, rising by 11.5%. twenty minutes before the hour. martha: investors keeping an eye on the earnings reports from some very big names this week and are liking what they see. it's nice to see that number up over 11,000, isn't it? eleven thousand one hundred sixteen, up 25 points, let's call it n. the early going. we're going to get into a little more coming up. bill: in the meantime, there are those in washington who want to decide what's in your food and what's on your dinner plate, they sa...

>> reporter: this is alaska sole, caught and frozen in the bering sea, unloaded in alaska's dutch harbor. and from here -- >> most of the fish goes to china. >> reporter: where bill orr, president of signature seafood, says his catch is cleaned and filleted cheaper and quicker in chinese workshops like this, than in the u.s. >> we will sell it to companies around the world. but most of them have the fish sent to china and further processed into fillets or apportioned, have sauces added or breaded, packaged and sent back to europe, united states, south america. >> reporter: that's right. chance...

For the made in china label. that is making life here less expensive. our christine romans joins us now with our week-long special report "china rising: opportunity or threat"? >> this is going on for years. some industries have completely changed how they've done business, excuse me, over the last 12 years or so. to see how china's powerful economy affects everything you do, everything you touch, look to further than your dinner plate. this is alaska soul, caught and frozen in the baring sea and unloaded in the dutch harbor. and from here -- >> most of the fish goes to china. >> reporter: whe...

Processed into filets or portions or have sauces added or breaded, packaged and sent to the united states. >> reporter: that's right, chances are the fish you order at a restaurant like this travelled some 14,000 miles. how is that even possible? because china's economic miracle of cheap labor and a government subsidized industrial base has changed everything, even the economics at your dinner plate. u.s. seafood exports to china were $82 million back in 1996. today it's $597 million. how much of that comes back to the u.s. is impossible to know in this new globalized world. from fish to texti...

Birthday party. ahead, an update on the search and what her friends and family are doing to find her. >> i can say that there is, at this moment, no higher priority in the denver division of the fbi. >> plus, it's here. >> 3, 2, 1. [cheers] >> the long awaited ipad finally goes on sale. it looks like a giant ipod, about the size of a dinner plate. but, is it everything the super high tech gadget lovers were waiting for? >> look how successful the ipod has been. i want an ipad now. bigger and better. >> but, first, to iraq, where officials say gunmen gissed as americans and iraqi troops carried...