you are one of those small businesses that is concerned. >> yes, actually my family owns bagel city on rockville pike. our shopping center would get torn down to put this megawal- mart. our concern is as a small business, there are many small businesses on rock field pike. from the numbers brought into us. up to 3 to 5 miles of rockville pike could have small businesses become bankrupt because they cannot compete up against a megawal-mart. >> we are talking about an 80,000 square foot store. >> this will pretty much make you end up closing doors? >> we would have to close doors and relocation is not easy. many of our customers and residents are very scared that there's going to be so much traffic coming in. already we have gridlock. it's a big concern for all of us. >> obviously, wal-mart says it offers low prices. but people who are antiwal-mart would say those low prices come at a price to the people that work there. that they don't have a livable wage. >> nobody forces them to work there. wal-mart is the largest employer in the world. the largest private employer in the world. you h

washington mall. >> i actually brought with me 36 gallons of water because you can't make a new york city bagelter. >> reporter: but back in brooklyn tastes were changing. lines at the shop were growing shorter. >> when passover came they were down the block. but people over the years they don't celebrate the holidays they used to. the traditional new yorker. >> reporter: which is why a few months ago steve roth decided to close the shop. and this is where our story might have ended. were it not for a new breed of traditional new yorker. >> i work here 11 years. i know about everything like bagels, baking, and bialy's. >> reporter: after he arrived from pakistan, he labored here for a decade before deciding to leave the bialy business and drive a taxi. and then one day, a former customer told him some surprising news. >> the store will be closed. i got shocked. >> reporter: but sometimes a car door closes and a shop great opens. ali found a partner. they tooted over. you guys aren't jewish, are you? >> no, we are not jewish. >> reporter: you are muslim. >> yes. >> reporter: this is a kosher bak

bagel? a new york city councilman allegedly tried to scam one by faking some paperwork. e could get huge reimbursements. the one that stood out is the bagel sandwich and the diet snapple for $170,000. the real price was $7. prosecutors say he added the extra digits. >> if were starbucks, it would be $167. that's where the big problem is. >> might have been more truthful, right? >> yeah. >> 4 minutes after the top of the hour. the g.o.p. race got a lot more interesting. newt gingrich has done so well on so many debates. we have double digits left, surging in the polls. look at the first poll, he's in second place. >> this is an amazing result. the g.o.p. presidential race, romney 24%. he's down from 26%. gingrich up from 8% to 22%. cain has slipped now from in the 20's to 14% and then rick perry on a bit of a surge. >> take a look at this poll. to back up newt's rise. newt in the public policy poll, 28% for newt. herman cain, 25% hanging in there. mitt romney down to 18%. again, romney not really breaking that 30% threshold. >> the first caucus, january 3rdrd. iowa, how ar