is, is mostly aldi's brand. >> reporter: and that good deal we got on peanut butter doesn't seem so. >> $2.79. >> does that sting a little bit? >> it does a little bit. but for a dollar -- an extra dollar i got the name brand. >> reporter: the store is designed to keep prices as low as possible. part of their long-standing philosophy of operational efficiencies. >> everything we can do to keep our costs low, we are going to do that so we can pass those savings on to our customers. >> reporter: aldi's stores are smaller than regular grocery stores. instead of tens of thousands of products, they sell about 1,300 of the most commonly bought items. and they display their products in the boxes they were shipped in. >> we don't have to have somebody spending the time to individually take that product and place it on the shelf. >> reporter: but if you think off label equals off quality, think again. here in the ld test kitchen outside of chicago, a team of gourmets creates and tastes top-of-the-line meals made with discount ingredients. >> i think the color's really nice and it's a great w

sheriff mike chapman told us the first deputy arrived at the townhome in aldi around 10:30 last nightut had to call for backup after hearing two shots. by the time deputies entered the home, the husband and wife were dead. two teenagers and their grandmother were also home at the time of the shooting. the grandmother was shot in the arm but is expected to be okay. >>> today the woman accused of defacing the national cathedral with paint will be in court. she's been undergoing mental evaluation at st. elizabeth's hospital for about a month. today a judge could decide if she is competent to stand trial. she's charged with splattering green and white paint in two chapels at the national cathedral last summer. police believe she is also responsible for similar vandalism at other sites including the lincoln memorial. >>> the deep freeze putting a strain on the power grid. pepco says the frigid temperatures are driving up electricity consumption to record levels. the power company asking you to conserve energy, especially between 6:00 and 9:00 this morning. the company says that you can set

. >>> police are investigating an apparent murder suicide in aldi, virginia. sheriff's deputies were called to a town hall on eloquent square near braddock and belmont ridge road. two adults shot to death and a third quarter adult was wounded inside. that person was taken to the hospital with nonlife- threatening injuries. two juveniles in the home at the time were not hurt. investigators are treating this as a murder suicide and they say there is no immediate danger to the community. >>> the trial for two day care center workers scheduled to start today. sara jordan and sierra springs are each charged with child cruelty plus assault and battery. and according to the court document, the two seem to enjoy abusing youngsters that were in their care at the academy in woodbridge. the incidents include intentionally tripping 1 and 2- year-olds and spraying water in the faces of children who were afraid of that. >>> so will singer chris brown show up at his court hearing in dc this afternoon? brown is charged with misdemeanor assault here in dc, and he is accused of

people like aldi, people like little, coming in and grabbing market share. but dismal day for the retailers today. >> yes. still, you like a great mince pie, don't you? because they've done quite well. they had sales up 3.5%. i know you made your own contributions to that, helia. >> i know. but mince pies over christmas are a must. and food sales for m&s were up, but not as much as analysts had hoped. >> great. thanks for that, helia. why -- just saying, he reckons this is probably the toughest trading quarter in 30 years. but for the sector. why? >> lots of different factors. i think this is -- we obviously had a couple years of recession. i think consumers are feeling quite pinched and quite stretched. shoppers have bought less foot. on top of that, as we've heard, there was a record christmas. jn line, as well, we've heard all the retail and resorts. >> i think what's been happening, now we're seeing that shopping, m&s going to the discounters and perhaps doing the bulk of their shopping at one of the super markets. real fragmentation and that's spreading

. >> aldie talk from the white house is that we want to move back from the middle east and send a signal in the region that we are allowing harmful actors to act up without fear of intervention. it is not just military intervention, we are not even intervening politically. we are not steering iraqi politics in a more positive direction. >> that brings us to iran. robin, what did you see? how is iran seeing the world that is happening in the middle east? these are forces at play in the middle east. how does intend to take advantage of it all in its rivalry with saudi arabia? >> a lot of questions there. one of the most interesting things is the way that 10 years ago, we all talked about the shiite crescent radiating from tehran. this is a growing political threat. the interesting thing in terms of what is happening and the disintegration in iraq and syria, turmoil in lebanon, we have seen iran's power and influence diminish. it feels increasingly threatened by the fact that u.s. forces have withdrawn. al qaeda is back in iraq. the taliban is likely to be increasingly strong once u.s. troo

bmw, aldi. they are using aluminum. >> it is very wise of ford to come up with this. they are working with alcoa. they create a top quality aluminum. i look forward to test-driving it. >> the truck of the year was not the ford, it's the competitor, chevrolet silverado. >> this vehicle would not be eagible because it's been released to the public in 2014. what was released during 2013 was where both gm products, the chevrolet silverado, a beautiful truck, has been redesigned. they did a nice job. it was time for a change, and the core vet, a beautiful peace. who wouldn't want them. everyone wants one. they released the go 6 and the c7 r. that was exciting as well. if you are a performance car person. >> there's a lot of performance cars making a comeback, and the core vet won car of the year. >> absolutely. gm won both. they are excited. she's the new ceo. the press was going crazy interviewing her. no more crappy cars, exciting cars. and the silver ardo and the core vet, that is what people will want. >> it's the unveiling of ceo, it's a big deal. what else are you se

aldi is wrapped with a one off. the minister mentioned the part before the break that it's not just cameron it's true that as you say on monday. his service managers president quietly signed a bill that bans the organizations make same couples liable to fourteen years in prison. two guys didn't have that in citigroup i am. everybody knows that the id. it is often the of what some of the. since the senator there. making that announcement by the way we can announce the fed reports most of the from the associated press. there have been um scores of arrests since sarah. since christmastime in northern nigeria. of the flow of people being charged with belonging to date organizations. the air i think that maybe she's becoming a humanitarian issue the maidstone to be of use because of the king solomon made from migrating because of being sick still is not something that's clear and to claim all of us. that's what allowed to to raise a question to dismantle just said that people should be in his country was on a link to the

you better be in online or in that discount vehicle like aldy and olivia. >>> just reading through these, spain selling 1.4 billion euros at the 2028 bond. maximum yield there at 1.2%. we've got the 2026 bonds. cover ratio, 1.4. actually, it's quite interesting. the last that bid to cover ratio was at 2.4. so a significant draw back in the bid to cover ratio here. final word there, 2026 bonds selling euro. maximum yield of 4%. three-year rates again, just checking that, that is right, yes. so as expected. >> okay. that's right. ticking along all right. >>> now, fears of another european property bubble are growing. investors are back fighting for real estate assets in markets such as ireland or spain. separate data showed commercial property up 21% last year to hit 154 billion euros. >> a uk house build up says it's in the best position in years. in a trading statement this morning, the company said its forward sales are 77% higher than at this time last year. it expects a significant rise in profits for 2013 as the market was boosted by low interest rates and government lending schemes.

they've let prices increase quite a bit over the past few years and it's pushed people into the likes of aldi needle. on the other hand, they get quality and go to retros. so you're getting stuck in between them. i can where a lot of the convenient stores and discount stores are doing better. >> are the supermarkets going to rethink their model? >> very much. i think what you already see, i think you've another got margin reset brooming. at a time when high street generally is doing well, that's pretty shocking. >> i think the warning flag, the problems with government, for example, before christmas when they identified they were going to their suppliers and going to try and apply this tesco model as saying you've got to reduce your prices to us so we can generate more capital to invest in new stores and benefit in the long run, i think the rest of the world had a bit of a head fake and said no, that's not what we want to do. we want to sell to people who can keep their margins who have the context of the market. it does seem to me that the headlines and the growth over-shadowed the fact that