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Extra scrutiny. they say they will have to show stress, fear, and deception. brooke? >> jean, thank you. next on reporter roulette a. report that nearly half of all of the meat that we buy is contaminated. what is behind this? >> researchers went to 26 grocery stores in five different cities and bought samples of chicken, beef, pork, and turkey and they are looking for staph bacteria. if it gets on the hands and into a cut, it could be a problem. here's what they found. they found that nearly half of the samples have staph bacteria and half of those samples have bacteria that was resistant to ...

>> our big story this hour -- a study out today that finds meat and towel tri produced here in the united states is widely contaminated with drug resistant bacteria. for what this means for all of us as we make our plans to eat and buy things, elizabeth cohen joins us. what does this study mean? when you first hear it, it is quite alarming. >> it is quite alarming. i want to try to put it in perspective. what it found is that these folks went to 26 different grocery stores in five cities and found that about half of the samples were contaminated with staph bacteria. what's interesting is we're...

Contaminated with bacteria and half of those are resistant to various antibiotics, so, would you freak out over the turkey bacon? elizabeth cohen is here to tell us. >> they found something a tad different than what you said. half of the samples -- they went to 26 grocery stores in five cities and looked at beef, chicken, and turkey and pork. they said half of them have staph bacteria and most resistant to one antibiotic. look at this. 52% -- half of the samples had staph, and half of those were resistant to at least three antibiotics, in other words, if you had gotten sick from that bacteria,...

This doesn't sound good. >> it's not quite as scary as it sounds and i'll tell you why. when we talk about meat being tainted people think i'm going to eat it and get sick like from e. coli or salmonella from chicken and that's not what this is. this is a staph bacteria, not that it's a good bacteria, it's not. it's not going to get you sick when you eat it. it could possibly, maybe, harm you when you touch it. that's the issue is that it could give you a skin infection. so let's take a look at this survey again. they went to 26 grocery stores in five different cities in the united states and ...

>> true not only for staph bacteria but salmonella and all other kinds of foods. >> i only have -- i have one cutting board for meat and different ones for the veggies and raw food. >> don't use a wood cutting board because it can hold the bacteria easier than a plastic one. >> i don't do a lot of cooking. >> ali's solution to eat like this instead of -- >> you don't touch it and eat with your mouth you should be fine. >> that's another idea. >> little messy. >> here to think outside the box. next, historic shifts in the u.s. population, majorities and minorities, in certain metropolitan cit...