. >> joel berger. >> ashley king. >> while the fast food giant is paying the tab for an illinois couple's wedding. captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, april 8th 2015. good morning. i'm lauren lyster in for anne-marie green. this morning the justice department is launching a federal investigation into the deadly shooting of black man with by a white police officer in south carolina. the officer was arrested tuesday after the release of a dramatic video showing the incident. a warning some people may find the graphic images disturbing to watch. the video shows officer fieger firing eight times at walter scott as he runs away. pfleger has served with the north charleston police for five years. he was charged tuesday with murder and denied bond at a hearing. if convicted he could face life in prison. activists plan to protest today. omar villafranca reports. >> the video is dushisturbing. a video shows an officer shoot black man in the back as he ran away. it turned into a foot pursuit. officer michael slager said he stopped the victim 50-year-old walter

the usda, end of the clinton era, i think joel berger, who was in charge of waste in the country.e amount of food we're not using? yeah, i would say it's high time and i would also say that the tide is rising, the attention on this issue is increasing day by day. the fact that we're having this conversation here. the fact that the film has been shown on national television. i think that's really encouraging, but we have a long way to go. if that makes people sit up and listen and say maybe we need to do something about our food system, well, that is a good thing. >> and through tax policy -- >> this is a pleas we have been really looking at this. one of the challenges right now, it was actually at the federal level, a tax incentive, an enhanced deduction that companies can take when they donate food. the problem is it is only available to the biggest companies, the biggest in addition chains. the little guys, the farmers are already living really at a low margin and really scraping to get by. if they send people out to their field to pick things that they're not going to sell and

the usda, end of the clinton era, i think joel berger, who was in charge of waste in the country.value maybe at the beginning of the change. >> we kind of stopped a little shor short. >> 25% of the plant food that we then throw away that 40%, the bag that gets dropped in the parking lot. >> what is also interesting is you say that now food prices go up because people can't water their lawns, one of the reasons food is so cheap here, this is becoming a national security problem. >> kids are getting so sick, out of shape, obese, other diet-related diseases that we will no longer be able to field an army. if that makes people sit up and listen and say maybe we need to do something about our food system, well, that is a good thing. >> and through tax policy -- >> this is a pleas we have been really looking at this. one of the challenges right now, it was actually at the federal level, a tax incentive, an enhanced deduction that companies can take when they donate food. the problem is it is only available to the biggest companies, the biggest in addition chains. the little guys, the fa

ask joel berger and ashley king.ey accepted burger king's proposal to pay for their wedding in july. no wurdord on what will be on the menu but you can be sure the two will have it their way. that's the cnbc news update for this hour. >> wow, i hadn't heard burger king was sponsoring that. i wonder if they will serve chicken fries. i would go for those. thanks courtney. >>> we're more than a quarter of the way through 2015 but it's not too late to save on your 2014 taxes and give yourself a big retirement fund bonus at the time. >>> and one of the selling points for legalizing marijuana in colorado was all the tax revenue it would bring in to pay for new roads and schools. why may the state be forced to return a lot of those tax dollars back to the public? that's coming up in just a few minutes. >>> we are just eight somedays away from tax day. there's still time to get a bigger tax break and give yourself a retire am savings an extra boost. sharon eperson has the details. >> many investors are ramping up their annua

. >> joel berger. >> ashley king. >> while the fast food giant is paying the tab for an illinois couple'sing funded by cbs