bra broughter, salon, fiji, new zealand and australia. [ cheers and applause ] >> and here they are at>> reporter: nothing will of surpass the fervor that greeted them. australian dns have television then. it's estimated three quarters of the population turned out to see them. the queen is simply the most traveled head of state in history, as her private secretary once said, she sleeps well. she's got very good legs, and she can stand for a long time. in short, she's as strong as a yak. she's needed stamina and a strong stomach. >> the kwheen been in fiji before and know what's to expect, served in a coconut shell. this is a trying moment for any visitor, for it's looking like muddy water and tasting like -- tafrting like -- well, it's not exactly to a queen's taste. >> when the queen ascended the throne, the commonwealth comprised about eight nations. it now comprises 54. the commonwealth and the queen have grown up together. she knows the commonwealth extremely well. she's very, very fond of it. you only have to see the queen on the commonwealth's tour to see the empathy that exists

this was taken by john eaves in fiji. this was all during an association of surfing professionals event that was sponsored by volcom. some of the surfers were saying these are the biggest waves i've ever seen. when you're a professional surfer, you've obviously seen a lot of waves. >> these are the best waves, you cannot believe what we're seeing. >> now, you'd think big waves make for an awesome competition, right? this was an association of surfing professionals event. but something actually happened to the competition because of these waves. we have the guy who shot this video joining us from feejiji. the contest was cancelled because of these waves. explain what happened. >> they were running the contest nft morning and these swells were predicted. they come up from down near antarctica and the surf got really big. it was a little dangerous for the competitors. so the organizers called it off. so it was very controversial call in the world of surfing. many people said they should never have called off the event and le

chatman makes it look like that's what he's doing in fiji.e's riding what's called cloud break and look at how long he rides this wave. >> it almost looks like he's on one of those wave machines. just keeps going. he's got to go for what looks to be at the back of his boad,tol. riding this giant tube. >> oh. >> yes, you think he's going to fall? no, he doesn't. there were posters on this video who say he eventually bails out because if he would have kept going, he would have gotten into the reef and he would have been barefoot trying to walk out. >>> it's a milk man for the new age. introducing the milk maid. >> it tells you when your milk is starting to go bad. >> so how does it work? >> we're breaking it down so you can drink it up. >> it's definitely milk. dd >>> highway camera in china captured a couple guys speeding. when you see the video, it doesn't look terribly impressive. there's five ferraris going down this highway. it doesn't look impressive, because they're all going super fast. there's nothing really to relate to. one of these

are you having a lot of fun with the into fiji and i'm glad to hear that you need to. present. president. why did you want us to release all the cables. then we know those who don't know anything have nothing to fear we have nothing to hide your wiki leaks have made us stronger as the main accusations made by the american embassy due to our excessive nationalism and defense of the sovereignty of the ecuadorian government. indeed we are nationalists and indeed we do defend the soviet t. of our country on the other hand wiki leaks wrote a lot about the goals that the national media pursue you know about the power groups who seek help and report to foreign embassies keeping up but we have absolutely nothing to fear let them publish everything they have about the ecuadorian government but you will see how many things about those who oppose the civil revolution in ecuador will come to light was things to do with opportunism betrayal and being self-serving. subsequently you kicked out the u.s. ambassador to ecuador as a result of with your its publication of cables why did you kick h

>> oh, that's in fiji for me. most people go for the sunsets. >> what's the best place to go swimming with pizza? thai think about that. i thought that was good. my type of pizza. best place to spend new year's eve. >> this will surprise -- it's not times square, sorry. >> that surprises me. >> off the coast of portugal, the most incredible fireworks displays in the world. 66,000 of them in one night. think about that. they have the world's record for this. and that is -- >> new york city's not bad. >> it's not bad, but if you want to own the place, you go to madera. >> way back when when we were doing a pilot for "mcgyver," moab. you have beginning trails, eight-mile, medium trails and going into orthopedic surgery trail. you can do it based on your level of ability or delusion. >> thank you. "best places for [ male announcer ] olympic tennis players bob and mike bryan do a lot of sending... and receiving. sending...and receiving. sending...and receiving. sending...and receiving. sending...and receiving. [ bob ] i got the tickets. [ male announ

a massive swell, at a big wave surfing competition in fiji.s measured 30 feet, the unruly waters -- what did you say tuck? >> look at that surf board. >>> it forced competition officials to postpone heats until the water calmed a bit. you can see some surfers didn't want to pass up the opportunity, yeah, check out the board at the top of the wave there. 8 feet long that shows you just how big that wave was but as you can imagine there were a whole lot of broken boards end of the day. will over to you. >> like me in my california days. allison is like yeah. >> okay. >>> tense ending to the miss usa pageant as miss maryland and miss rhode island awaited results. she didn't take the crown but miss maryland is here to talk about her experience, work as a humanitarian, nana merry weather, welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> you bet. talk about the experience the moment you were there with miss rhode island they were reading the winners names. >> well, our director, mine and rhode island we have the same director, so as soon as it was us two i w

bimla boyd was then 46 years old, born in fiji, a single mother of three who had come to america twoades before. a devout jehovah's witness who was three times divorced. after the murders in 1998, boyd had hired a new caretaker, dan spencer. he had moved into the same mobile home where the killings had occurred. family members say boyd and spencer soon became more than friends, but boyd family and neighbors say threatened spencer when he said he wanted to leave. here's what one neighbor had to say. >> she had told dan before that he would never leave that hill alive. >> and dan spencer did not. bimla boyd admitted shooting spencer, but claimed she had caught him sexually abusing her teenaged daughter. in the end, boyd cut a deal, pleading guilty to manslaughter, and agreeing to serve nearly seven years in prison. and in a prison just ten miles away from the scene of the murders, the news of bimla boyd's conviction was more than surprising. >> my cellie came down there and said hey, man, you're on the news. i said yeah, what's up. he said that gal that testified against you killed som

there from all points all around the pacific from pearl harbor up from new zealand, they converge at fiji, held rehearsals and landed those brains on guadalcanal shore on august 7 and for 2. the store that neptune's inferno tells is what follows from this. what followed from it was a series of really a six-month campaign of attrition where japan ghana slowly came to grips with the magnitude of the situation. the embryo high command didn't attach much importance by our marine corps until they realize what was supporting it, do you realize the larger ambitions if they realize that their base with the service we threatened by a u.s. position in the southern solomons. and through august, september, october and november the japanese eventually, their main base in the pacific, through a series of hammer blows down in her footholds that produced seven major naval battles, five of them were midnight service lets us thought between destroyers, cruisers and battleships, often, we're talking eight-inch main batteries engaging in .50 caliber machine gun range. heavy casualties on both sides the five

those were fiji, condo, and zimbabwe. who cares. and the history, otherwise, the history otherwise is that in any particular look back about 20% of economists report a negative gdp growth rate in any year on average. around 20%. only about one-third of economies are able to grow at about 5%. that is the split in terms of what we got. 2007, the peak year, three economies out of 180, negative gdp growth rate. we had more than 50 percent of the world economy growing at about 5%. this is really a very exceptional time. the question was, what caused this? and then it led to the history of economic development. what causes exceptions, two or three special factors. one was the fact that these economies were catching up. a very poor performance in 1918 and 1919. and because of the poor performance a lot of the balance sheets had been cleaned out in the economies in terms of macroeconomics finances, put an order from indonesia to russia. pay down their debt. a lot of improvements, the macroeconomics. they had their back to the wall which is

union radically altered its sugar policy and thereby lowered standards of living in places like ghana, fijiicies where there's no alternative to sugar cane. second-degreely, st. kitts and nevis had to stop sugar production altogether after 300 years as a result of the e.u.'s reforms." mr. president, let's not make that same mistake here. finally on this notion that consumers are going to benefit by eliminating the sugar progr program -- really? really? let's look at the facts. here's -- the green line is the trend line on retail sugar prices. you see that trend line? that trend line since 2010 is going up. here is what the wholesale price of sugar has been -- flat. you see the disconnection? wholesale price is flat; retail price is up. the fact is that sugar is such a small part of the cost of finished products that it has almost no bearing whatsoever on retail prices of a candy bar, a box of cereal or any of the other things that sugar goes in. mr. president, the record is so clear on the facts that i would urge my colleagues to oppose the amendment being offered to kill the u.s. sugar pro