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the ag deparment is lowering its estimate of orange production by 10% on concerns of a crop disease farmers don't seem to be able to get under control. jackie keenan reports from florida. when you think of florida, bright, juicy oranges may be one of the first images that come to mind. but not oranges that look like this. or like this. citrus farmers are battling a bacterial disease called greening. carried by the asian citrus psyllid, the disease cripples the tree and starves the fruit of nutrients, causing them to drop before ripening. "this tree has got quite an infection from the green disease." victor story has been working in groves since he was 8 years old. he now manages more than 6,000 acres. he's battled freezes and hurricanes, but greening is the worst threat to his oranges he's seen in his lifetime. "it is troubling because we do raise the tastiest, best-juiced fruit in the world." this tasty fruit is worth more than $9 billion to the state of florida, which is the second largest producer of oranges in the world. since 2006, greening is to blame for $3.6 billion in lost revenue
the ag deparment is lowering its estimate of orange production by 10% on concerns of a crop disease farmers don't seem to be able to get under control. jackie keenan reports from florida. when you think of florida, bright, juicy oranges may be one of the first images that come to mind. but not oranges that look like this. or like this. citrus farmers are battling a bacterial disease called greening. carried by the asian citrus psyllid, the disease cripples the tree and starves the fruit of...
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Jul 18, 2013
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and the filibuster in the senate has ended, allowing president obama's nominee to the labor deparment, thomas perez, to move forward with his confirmation. todd horwitz of average joe options is all over the trading market for us this morning. good morning, todd. - good morning. how are you? - i am doing wonderfully well. what about comments from the fed. stocks moved higher as ben bernanke was on capitol hill yesterday. what will it mean for today's trading? - you know, i don't think he said a lot, and he's still got another full day of testimony today. i think yesterday he accomplished exactly what he wanted - a market that had no volatility and low volume and is really just kind of stuck in the middle here. i think that's what he's trying to accomplish. why the fed is trying to trade the market, i don't know. - ben bernanke has made it clear to all about the labor market. so does that mean you pay extra attention to what's happening with jobless claims out today? - no, i don't think so, because i think that ben bernanke and the fed keep changing what they're looking for and decidin
and the filibuster in the senate has ended, allowing president obama's nominee to the labor deparment, thomas perez, to move forward with his confirmation. todd horwitz of average joe options is all over the trading market for us this morning. good morning, todd. - good morning. how are you? - i am doing wonderfully well. what about comments from the fed. stocks moved higher as ben bernanke was on capitol hill yesterday. what will it mean for today's trading? - you know, i don't think he said a...
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that they need t be put under pressure and there was a program of the deparent of labor called gainfulhat we a trying to evaluate eh program in each school to identify those programs of successful and the edcation and the placing of the students and that would be a way to get rid of those that are not fruitful. gerri: in the meantime, let's talk about what people are getting out of these programs. will conserve areas are they studying so what are those jobs? >> obviously in the i.t. field. if you are an i.t. person you will make more than a lot of people with a ba degree. but the more certificates are kind of more manually oriented d airplane mechanics and so forth and so on. machines of different sorts. thenthere is office management. gerri: and kill,even though it is specific, that is not something that wilgoway. it seems seems like pretty good deal to me. that is the kind of thing that you want to do. particularly if it's what you dreamed of doing. >> really want to build on your own life and then he will be most happy. you can bring more joy to it and you will get better at it. the
that they need t be put under pressure and there was a program of the deparent of labor called gainfulhat we a trying to evaluate eh program in each school to identify those programs of successful and the edcation and the placing of the students and that would be a way to get rid of those that are not fruitful. gerri: in the meantime, let's talk about what people are getting out of these programs. will conserve areas are they studying so what are those jobs? >> obviously in the i.t....
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gerri: it is all sunshine and roses at the hhs deparent where secretary kathleen sibeliusaises obmacare to digitize records. in percent of hospitals are putting your records in digital format. she says that this can help save money at the same time. we continue our investigation tonight with the founder and chief technology officer for medical information security. >> what is the dark side of putting all this data and personal data on the cloud? >> it is true in a lot of ways. there is a lot of risk to tting this sensitive data online. 21 million people have had their electronic medical records online. gerri: that is unbelievable. let' show the wall of shame. companies that you know, aetna, blue cross blue shield, saint jude. i'm looking for a job, maybe i failed the pre-cancer screening. what's next? than there are people who scan the data. how dangerouis this? >> there a lot of different reasons why someone would want to feel this data. one is health insurance fraud. people can sell your data and others can use it to get ree health care. maybe they get free prescription drugs and you
gerri: it is all sunshine and roses at the hhs deparent where secretary kathleen sibeliusaises obmacare to digitize records. in percent of hospitals are putting your records in digital format. she says that this can help save money at the same time. we continue our investigation tonight with the founder and chief technology officer for medical information security. >> what is the dark side of putting all this data and personal data on the cloud? >> it is true in a lot of ways. there...
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company said the train was, paed overnight running but the engine was shut down subsequent to the depar kur of the engineer who had handled the train which may have resulted in the release of the air brakes. at least 30 buildings destroyed. officials say it will be days before the extent the damage is realized. now, the scene is still too dangerous for searchers to go into the hot zones. the flames are now out. there's still some unexploded tankers making fire officials nervous. five are con irm iffed dead. 40 are still missing. if they were behind me they will not be found alive. anthony and norah. >> mike armstrong, thanks. anthony, you talk about the rise in these crude by rail shipments because of the huge boom in north american -- >> and the oil in canada. >> this happeneded in quebec. in the united states it's gone from 9,000 car loads in 2008 to 233,000 car loads. the front page of "the wall street journal." this is a real safety concern here in the u.s. as well. >> because we don't have pipelines. amazing. >>> egypt, there is new deadly violence this morning. officials say polic
company said the train was, paed overnight running but the engine was shut down subsequent to the depar kur of the engineer who had handled the train which may have resulted in the release of the air brakes. at least 30 buildings destroyed. officials say it will be days before the extent the damage is realized. now, the scene is still too dangerous for searchers to go into the hot zones. the flames are now out. there's still some unexploded tankers making fire officials nervous. five are con...