chef jeff shapiro is here with his recipe of what he calls "red neck tacos".r having us today this has become one of the coolest things we do it the restaurant we make lots of different smoked meats and we make a big johnnycake with different types of ingredients that can include corn and different seasonings and chile peppers ... they typically call you the meat man ... and you do lots of grilled vegetables as well we take self rising flour and we take cornmeal the put it all into a bowl and make a batter with sugar and to asixtwo eggs water and buttermilk and all-purpose vegetable oil ... we are going to whip this up. we make this all day long freshet the restaurant and its all-purpose better that you can make pancakes and muffins with as well the real secrets is that it works like a pancake when you put it on the griddle ... today we are making it sweet and savory with roasted corn that gets tossed into the batter ... if you like some fire and there you can add jalapeno or you could put chives or cilantro any type of urban or spicehrb spice or minced vegeta

shapiro now with the details. >> a little less controversial than what you went through there but the mississippi refer is -- river is open according to jeffthe coast guard are opening channels to two northbound vessels in the area where he is right now. they will overnight allow southbound vessels to transit throughout the evening to try to reduce the numbers of vessels which are heading south. the river is once again open. sandra: very importa. thank you very much for bringing that to us, adam shapiro. >>> climb in existing homes sales gives fresh hope a housing recovery is at the door but a top real estate expert says it is too early to roll out the welcome mat. he is here to explain. that's next. >>> only in california can a two-word mistake cost half a billion dollars. how a simple error may hang $548 in new silicon taxes out to dry. do you ever have too much money? ♪ . ♪ . sandra: existing home sales out today and the numbers are up slightly from a month earlier. plus they are up more than 10% from a year ago? that is today's headline but housing data in general have been pointing in all different kinds of directions. are today's num

jeff flock. >> walking the banks today. see how that is sitting high? it is not loaded. then they cannot get through. a man on the frontlines of the problem. next. >> i am adam shapiro.in derailment west a baltimore causing problems for verizon. customers are having trouble completing long distance calls. they say they don't know how many customers are affected. it will provide a further update at 5:00 p.m. eastern. more americans keeping up with their car payments according to transunion delinquent late -- payments at least 60 days late have dropped. the bears made their way to wall street. this is the latest from fox business, giving you the power to prosper. >> crude-oil futures gaining $96.68 a barrel that is of three months i hoping the eurozone will get back together. out good luck. jeff flock is in the midwest the most active shipping lane is at a standstill stranding over 100 barges. jeff flock is at bettendorf, iowa. this is not good news at. >> south of us they had it opened up but now not deep enough. how many years have you spend on the river? >> 40 years. >> you are stopped dead. >> no way around it. no bypass 42 were. if the river is closed we wait. >>