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Really focus on our children and the obesity problem and kids have lower self-esteem and less productive in so many ways, it is undermining our nation's strength. we're out there talking about the real issues. how do you get kids better access to healthy foods and make sure our kids move more, get away from the tv and get away from the video games and get out there and exercise. >> i know you probably cut out exercise -- >> i mean, schools cutting gyms. not kids. >> oh, i thought you were saying. >> how dare you i was on the balance beam. >> the mayor of newark new jersey, you got to go back t...

Believe cost -- an obsession that may have cost a girl her life. her parents go on trial tomorrow. if you don't remember the case, this is the south korean couple who spent all their time with a virtual child. so much time, in fact, that they let their 3-month-old daughter starve to death. the case is expected to shine a spotlight on the dangers of internet obsession. a couple of pennies just won't get it done. a new study says soda taxes need to jump to 18% if they're going to have an effect on our obesity problem. right now 21 states have taxes in place, but the extra charge hasn't put a d...

Were obese. highlighted in the blue states. the base states, 20% and higher. fast forward nine years and the map looks different. the orange states, 25% are obese and the red states, it's 30% or higher. add them up, that's 32 states. 32 states with an obesity problem. the obesity epidemic is hitting our nation's youth harder than ever. here's the story of one 14-year-old teen this morning. >> reporter: her name is maria ka princip no, because of her weight people have been staring since she was a little girl. look at the family photos tell the story of maria's ongoing battle with childhood obe...

Salt and other feeds that are feeding into the obesity problem but also feeding into other health problems that then feed into other issues, like health, health care in the insurance -- >> health of costs, et cetera. >> exactly, exactly. >> is shaming adequate in your view. >> i was just fixing to saysing, jonathan, in chicago it's known as the chicago way making them an offer they can't refuse. you know, it's great for the first lady to do this and i think it's -- we, both of our papers have endorsed it. i would remind viewers that i was just reading "south beach diet" as you might see why, a...

All right, panel. so i'm very sympathetic for this woman for her obesity problem. but does it justify her request to push another woman out of the best parking spot in the lot and push herself in off course not. what is a human rights doing getting involved in a fight over a parking spot. brains are freezing and need to thaw out. you hear words like disability, handicap and obesity maybe you think about employment cases. this is not that she can't work or live in the building, with it's not that she can't have a parking spot. there is a woman in her 60s with another disability with that golden...