why fast food chains could soon be raising price. >>> good evening. i'm lawrence scott. coming up on "sports sunday," we show you the man who has been to every single super bowl. sea san francisco native. what a life. >>> plus, the science of the spin in bowling. and we talk giants and a's beforehey hehead to spring training in a couple of weeks. all that and more coming up in "sports sunday." >>> mcdonald's and starbucks may have more in common than breakfast on the go. the world's fast food giant chain is planning to raise prices on menu items to make up for more spiff ingredients overall. you might remember it was couple of years ago when starbucks hiked prices for some specialty drinks because of the hike in coffee beans. diehards say it won't scare them away from the golden arches, but other says this on top of the recession could drive them to take their business elsewhere. >> yes, because they're now in competition with jack in the box. and jack in the box is coming out with deals like their three for $4.99. >> with the recession i can't believe they would start s

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why a popular fast food chicken chain is in an increasingly heated fight with the gay community. >>> good evening. the situation in egypt tonight is confusing, fluid and dangerous. after six days of protests, the country is on the brink. but on the brink of what? a new government or a bloody crackdown? here's the latest on the crisis. today, military aircraft buzzed demonstrators, but they showed no signs of stopping and the troops made no move to shut them down. opposition leader mohamed elbaradei spoke to a huge crowd, calling for president mubarak to resign. elbaradei now has the backing of the muslim brotherhood, egypt's largest islamic group. and some of the 90,000 americans in egypt poured into the airport today, waiting to get out. tonight, at the white house, and all over the world, they're wrestling with questions like this -- has a line been crossed here? a point of no return? or, can mubarak, a wily dictator, somehow hold onto power? our christiane amanpour has traveled to egypt dozens of times. she's interviewed mubarak on several occasions, and she's leading our coverage

fast food chains rolling out the deals. burger king offering two for one chicken sandwiches. $10 pizzas. the chains are trying to get customers to spend more than they were planning during the coughest quarter of the year. also people still trying to stick to their new year's diet. video shares getting some attention, the maker of graphics chips and entell a renewed expute over a long-term agreement. trying to get your hands a a gadget but worried it's going to be obsolete. they will offer a buy-back program that will let customers trade in laptops for a percentage of the devices original value. the pris for the privilege 60 to 70 dollars extra at the time of the purchase. i'm jane king with the bloomberg's business report. >> at&t offering a $10,000 reward to catch the vandals who have cut phones and internet lines in walnut creek for the second time. it happened on putman boulevard. they did the same thing in november 15 locations in walnut creek, orinda and lafayette. >> information leading to an arrest in last week's shooting outside a safeway supermarket. two men were wou

the fast food chain is the target of a class action lawsuit claiming the beef is mostly made of fillers like oat products and the water. today taco bell is threatening legal action against those who made those claims. the company president said... at taco bell, we buy our beef from the same trusted brands you find in the supermarket. unfortunately, the lawyers in this case elected to sue first and ask questions later, and gt their facts absolutely wrong. and we have one of the worst years ever for new home sales and at least the year ended on a positive note. sales climbed 17.5% in december to highest level in eight months. new homes sold at a annual rate of 329 units, most since april. and still, down nearly 8% from 2009 which wasn't exactly a banner year. analysts say some are clearing inventory but enticing buyer was perks like all-granite counter tops in bathrooms. >> thank you oo. sure. >> and santa clara chip maker intel announced 40 student yent finalists for the talent search. six from the bay area z intel made those announcements in person. one of the finalists is andrew lu, te

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that's the very top of the food chain in san francisco. there are 6 or 7 restaurants that do 10 million a year. they should be profitable if they manage their costs well and the costs are reasonable. with 4,200 health licenses there are 2200 restaurants you are talking about one percent in the upper and the other 99 is not. >> our last item on our top 10 list has to do with developing a schedule for initiating permit applications. we need a list of what they are and figuring out what order you do them and where your priorities are and may be the cost of them are. what did you have in mind with you talk about a schedule? >> i think for a development project you should have a calendar with a flow chart and have bench marks of what permits you need and you should look at all the permits you need listed in your document and work backwards to see how far in advanced i need to apply. if you have a 2 story building and you need an elevator. i don't know if the current waiting list. the waiting list on an elevator was about 7 months. in fact, we d

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♪ >>> taco bell is fighting back against a lawsuit that accuses the fast food chain of using a meat fillings not really all beef. the alabama attorney's filing the suit say taco bell's seasoned beef is false advertising and doesn't meet the government standard to be called ground beef. this morning taco bell bought full-page ads saying thank you for suing us. and here's the truth about our seasoned beef. taco bell says their beef is 88% usda inspected. the lawsuit wants taco bell to change the wayizes its product. >> 88% beef. the other 12% not beef! our weather changing quite a bit. >> i'm glad you noticed that. definitely a new flavor to our forecast, how about that. filler out there if you will in the form of fog. mount tamalpais down on the coolness that sits on top of us. almost looks like summer outside. take a look at our temperatures and the cloud cover and you can see there's plenty of cloud cover around and most of us still in the 40s. 50 livermore and half moon bay. low to mid-40s -- 50s excuse me, until you get to monterey at 48. when the fog fades, partially cloudy and definite

but more than 100 tons of feed on its way into the food chain. >> it is time to talk about where the buck stops, in particular regarding the responsibility and liability of the producers. and agricultural production in general. >> it was a plant in northern germy that produce the continat feed. it described its production methods as perfectly normal and said what happened was a tragic mistake. fatty acids are commonly used in animal feed, but representatives are calling for heads to roll over the scandal. >> the blame lies with the firms that produce the seed because what happened was criminal. >> officials said the eggs, pork, chicken and eggs had higher than permitted levels of dioxin. they have looked at ways o oniting the feet were closely in the wake of the affair. >> peter has some business news, starting with a big merger in the construction sector in europe. >> is a hostile takeover that is still going on. it can be better. the spanish construction company has cleared an important hurdle to acquire a german company following a stock swap which gave it over 30% of the german b

this morning's "wall street journal" reports the nation's number three fast food chain is planning to sell arby's in order to beef up its expansion of its wendy's chain. keep an eye on ebay after the bell yesterday, the on-line auction site reported healthy holiday sales. and finally, pricey homes may be a tough sell here. but across the pond, a new complex in london is already 60% sold. the ultralux units with priceless city views are going for as much as $150 million. a girl can dream. >>> coming up -- dallas tags the champs, orlando relies on overtime magic, and the nba mega trade fizzles out. plus, the man at the center of all that trade talk lets his dunks do the talking. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> our snowstorm in the middle of the country will head to the east coast, as a mini snowstorm. your thursday forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, has there ever been a longer rumored trade than the one involving carmelo anthony? well it's all over now. never hav

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the fast food chain says it could be paying more than 2 and a half% more for beef, bread and vegetable this is year. the company said it will rely on increased sales to help absorb some of the cost. >>> east bay bike riders may soon be spending a lot f time under the bike tracks. leaders want to build a bike path between oakland and award. it's called the east bay green way -- award. it will be all the way south past the award station. there would also be a pedestrian trail along that same route. >>> coming up tonight at 5:00, we're tracking the search for a missing boy in patterson. we're staying at the canal all day where investigators have already pulled out one car and will be looking for more. that story and more coming up in our next newscast, ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. thanks for watching. have a great day.

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the lawsuit claims that the fast food chain's advertising is false and misleading and that the stuff that taco bell calls seasoned beef is actually only about a third meat. the rest, the attorneys say, is filler, stuff like water, antidusting agent and corn starch. but some customers we talked to don't seem to care. >> do you like taco bell? >> i love it. >> we love it! [ laughter ] >> so it doesn't make any difference what's in it? >> no. >> it's delicious. >> the filler is delicious? >> it is. >> taco bell denies its advertise something misleading and says it will vigorously depend the suit. >>> headed to the white house, how the owners of a bay area ice cream shop got a special invitation to tonight's state of the union. >> a tongue tied king or a social networking whiz kid. who tops the list of this year's oscar nominations. >> some of the warmest temperatures set for january in the bay area. one was 27 years ago. another was 62 years ago. get this. under those mostly sunny skies, we could shatter those records today. who will see the january warmup? i'll have those details next

it depends on where you are in the food chain. the net profit participant is the lowest man or woman and he's usually a producer. when richard zanac and i made jones "time" magazine said they will never have to work again. why? cause there were no gross participations. we had a lion's share of the profits. and there was no one ahead of us. all the actor approximates were on salary. and it was, by the way steven spielberg did nicely on it as well. i'm very proud to announce that. >> rose: peter benchly did nicely too. >> peter benchly, we were all flying first class for a while. >> rose: . >> the first crucial moment was the epiphany i had at the refugee camps where all of a sudden, will you see that in the movie. it makes it look like the wounded confederate soldiers in atlanta in "gone with the wind". but you see all of this miss erie behind me in the refugee camps. and that just absolutely infuriated me that was a big moment. and that was a moment i dedicated my life to making the russians pay. and we did. >> rose: big time. >>

how do these pollutants accumulate in the food chain. our marine animals affected. and to what extent. we. know. that's what the crew of the world one of the fun and the been trying to find out by studying the mediterranean fin with the world's second largest whale. download out there so we get plenty of the film. to do of these animals are contaminated. the scientist needed to study fat samples. for. your situation. the results of the biopsies are clear just like polar bears and atlantic whale and salt the fin whales fat contains fire retardants which are additives to plastic. yes. put. my. but no one yet knows what effect these products have on the species. and they call them. mayor we are in the middle of nowhere miles from any continent and we find substances and pollutants that have no business being here are going to feel that. they were purchased hundreds of miles away and are being carried by the current market dog bothers me most is that we are contaminating the whole planet from the clothing the remotest and wildest place that's. shocked by his own discove

the two fast food chains are for sale by parent company yum brands. instead, yum wants to focus on the international growth of these three chains-- kfc, taco bell and pizza hut. these brands have been growing like crazy in china, india and russia. shareholders of yum brands like the idea. shares rallied 3%. two thirds of yum's profits come from china, and it expects that to continue to grow. the long john silver's and a$w brands are concentrated in the u.s. a banking buyout hit today. comerica wants to buy sterling bancshares for just over $1 billion in stock. based on tonight's closing price, that's $9.16 per share for sterling. it would expand comerica's presence in texas. comerica shares sank on the news while sterling rallied. but remains below the buyout price. finally, ariad pharmaceuticals lit up the screen today, up 34% on huge volume. it reported positive results for a cancer drug. this is a five year high. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> business is serious business. it's worth more than $21 billion in the u.s. alone. and last year's

eateries from fast food chains are showing off offers with menus and wine lists. some allow them to enter credit card information and pay as well. they made their debut at john f. kennedy airport in new york. we could know if the majority in washington has support to roll back health care benefits. there is a test vote ahead of a final house vote next week. today in the east bay's tracie potts has a lock at what to expect. >> president obama is flying back from hawaii into political turbulence. house republicans will vote on whether to repeal the new health care law. >> i don't want the american people to have to pick up the tab for my health care. who is running this government? is it the insurance company or is it the united states congress? >> democrats will block any attempt to get rid of health reform. a showdown some republicans say won't make their party look good. >> the projection is every time you look on tv, there is a republican screaming at president obama, that is not playing well. >> the reality is 2012, they want something on the resume to boast ab

to a tougher safety checks to make sure the cancer causing chemical dioxin does not get into the food chainthe german dioxin scare led to thousands of farms being shut down temporarily after meats and eggs which might have been contaminated were shipped as far ay as britain, the czech republic, thnetherlands, and poland. q>> many consumers are cautious about and german pork, germany's minister for agriculture is busy in brussels trying to minimize damage to exports. she says germany's doing everything it can to address the problem, but also, europe needs to check current procedures. >> it is mostly the registration requirements for companies to but also the separation of supply chains. dioxin monitoring is a born as well as tightening inspection rules. >> there's pressure because about 20% of agricultural income in germany eric and it does lead the country. most of that is earned by exporting to the eu, so it is a born that the situation stabilizes. the eu leadership seems to support the plan to increase monitoring throughout the region, though there is some skepticism among individual memb