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For oil in 12 years. oil prices have yet to find a floor. mcdonald's shrinking its menu to boost slumping sales. staples like mcnuggets are not going anywhere. it is cutting eight items from the menu and cutting the value meals from 16 to 11. that is a small cut when the chain has more than 100 menu items. mcdonald's is making room for more build your own options. going beyond coach or first class. delta splitting the aircraft in five classes. starting in march, delta offering two high-end options and three choices in the main cabin. if you want to pick your seat or dedicated overhead bin ...

The value meals and they all included french fries. >> you know the big controversy, the supersize -- eating this makes you sick. you distinguished it, depends if you only eat the bad stuff. just balance it out and use common sense, you'll be all right. >> well, hough is that any different than when you go to the grocery store? when you go to mcdonnell nadal's, burger king, or the grocery store. everything that a person things is bad at mcdonalds, i can fines ten at a grocery store that is worse. as i sit back and look at these 180 days i realize this is just common sense, folks. all it is, ma...

Labor costs were among your highest expenses. >> yes. >> when you crunched numbers and other countries had a higher minimum wage, how tide -- did you adjust? >> i'd love to say we took price but pricing power is gone in industry. >> can't just willy-nilly -- >> exactly right. what you end up doing is either cut costs in some into way by reducing employment, cut overhead by reducing the number of shifts you ran, change your packaging, reduce the size of the products. all sorts of things you can do to try to offset that but it is a cox it is passed on some way or the other. >> you've hit on some...

Traditional big mac value meal later in the day. you go. here's the thing, not two value meals, not three big macs, not four orders of fries. each thing in moderation, each day, every day, walking 45 minutes a day every day for about 90 days. john loses 37 pounds doing this, bringing his cholesterol down to 170 from 249 doing this. i guess none of this should be too surprising. we are, after all, what we eat. if like director morgan spurlock, we supersize ourselves on nothing but bad stuff, we're going to get a lot of bad stuff, but if we limit ourselves to some of that stuff and balance it ou...

Of water? alison kosik is in new york to tell us more about mcdonald's new plan. good morning. >> carol, is it bad i would actually choose the fries over the salad? i think i am in the minority because the competition is heating up among the fast casual restaurants to offer more healthy options. mcdonald's is about to offer a choice of sides and value meals, not just the french fries. it will offer salad, fruit or vegetables at no extra cost. it made this announcement at the clinton global initiative. its ceo was right there onstage with bill clinton. this change is going to begin rolling out ...