but for mac mcdonald, being noticed in a crowd has never been a problem.his overalls to his straw hat, mac is about as an original character to the wine industry as it comes. but he's banking on exactly that fact as he tries to bridge the gap between his heritage and a new blend of wine drinkers. >> it's to promote wine to all nationalities, but with special interest on the african-american community. and i think that is good for the wine industry. i don't say you have to drink african-american wine. i just want folks to drink wine. you may not like vision cellars pinot noir. that's ok. >> and mac couldn't have come into the industry at a better time. new research shows that only a handful of wineries are actually owned by african-americans, yet they make up more than 10% of the nation's wine drinkers, which is exactly why mac and a new generation of winemakers are entering the business and trying to educate others about this special way of life. >> this whole wining industry goes along with farming. it's all about a lifestyle, not about money. if you want

of the smallest group of vintners, one of those being at vision cellars, owned and operated by mac mcdonald. the winery only produces about 2,000 cases of wine, mostly pinot noir, but what thei lack in size, they more than make up with in personality, thanks to the man in charge. >> ha ha ha ha ha! how you doin', man? >> i'm doin' great. >> are you havin' a great time >> havin' a great time. >> in the wine business, everyone is trying to get their bottle of wine noticed, but for mac mcdonald, being noticed in a crowd has never been a oblem. from his overalls to his straw hat, mac is about as an original character to the wine industry as it comes, but he's banking on exactly that fact as he tries to bridge the gap between his heritage and a new blend of wine drinkers. >> it's to promote wine to all nationalities, but with special interest on the african-american community. and i think that it's good for the wine industry. i don't say you have to drink african-american wine. i just want folks to drink wine. you may not like vision cellars phnot noir. that's ok. >> and mac couldn't have come i

you may be able to get a table cloth and silver wear with that big mac next time you visit mcdonalds if a franchise down under catches on. a mcdonalds in australia is separating itself but offering more elegant dining. this startsed off as something special for his parents. other customers saw and asked for the same level of service. the elegant mcdonalds will test out the idea for five weeks, so far they say customers seem to like it. >> oh. fancy. >> would you like silverware with that fry? >> a reminder abc 7 is the only base to wax oscars. you can get ready is w.our official oscars app too. this app available for anddroid and kindel fire. >> sandhya patel is bundled up on the roof its cold. >> the sun is going to be a thing of the past. winter about to pay us a visit. cold showers and low snow levels. let me show you what it looks like as we show you sun there. it's been a glorious day. highs into low 50s to low 60s. hope you've had a chance to take advantage of the weather. it's changing. a few clouds right now. cloudier overnight. we'll watch some rain rain, temperatures at thi

through and say, i want a big mac and i'd have to explain we don't have big macs here, we have whopers. it was always a mcdonald's shadow over burger king. but i've moved past that and i know you made fun of me for my liking peanut butter and jerry sandwiches. notice you didn't seem to get it i said, you eat amedthxctiontion. mcdonald's. because to you that's normal hearty food. i also, carmen, i enjoyed helping you get to know the lgbt community. * one of my favorite carmen stories is one time i got a text from carmen. i just drove by a marker and there is a different flag flying above the muni station. it's not the rainbow flag. what is it? i said, oh, it's the bear flag because it's bear week. and so, she said, what's a bear? and i said, go on wikipedia and put in gay bear. and she did and i got the oh, with an exclamation point back. so, i look forward to introducing you to the bear community and to all the other wonderful aspects of the lgbt community. [laughter] >> and seriously, carmen, we're going to miss you, but you're not going far. and we're going to work together for many years and i look forward to

first of all, asking senator dodd about gun violence and movies is like asking the ceo of mcdonald's if a big macor you. let me say that. i think he's right. i think it's mental illness. a great letter that went viral that said i'm adam lanza's mother that talked about her difficulty in getting her son, i believe it was, treatment, and where senator lieberman is right, i would add one other thing, five of the last six horrific shootings have been young, white men, late teens, early 20s, who have untreated mental illness, and until you get to that problem, you're really not going to get to the problem. >> you know, the president said i think in his first statement when he did the joe biden panel said i want mental health treatment to be as accessible as guns are and no one said a word about it. >> that's something that the folks at the white house have looked at, congress has looked at. look, congress has to do what congress can do. we have a first amendment. can't really do about the media culture, no matter how we feel about it. what it can do is what the president challenged it in the state of

. >>> meanwhile, one mcdonald's australia is testing out table service complete with china, glass ware and cutlery. do you need that for a big mac? >>> and one out of four americans plan to spend more on valentine's day than last year. a man, 85 bucks and a woman, 48. you've still got several days to get ready for valentine's day. up next. sports highlights. plus, meet a nny who slapped a kid got her slapped by the law. >>> welcome back. now to some other stories that caught our eye this morning. we start in new york where disturbing video shows a nanny slapping a 5-month-old for not eating. concerned parents installed a hidden camera. so when the mother saw what happened, she rushed home and fired the worker who is charged with resisting arrest. >>> a chicken farmer has grown so close to his flock over the years he's become known around town as chicken boy. he's handled the chickens for so long, he's even picked up their language. >> it's like i just laid an egg in this box. come lay your leg. it's -- >> quite a talent. he plans to continue his education so some day he can become dr. chicken. >>> on to georgia on a fatal pileup

mcdonalds had styrofoam containers. >> and john huntsman, senior made a billion dollars selling those. >>- q. i the big mac hat -- >> the big mac has not gotten worse since then. >> no, that's not what i object to. it it is in the long line of bloomburg things that he is clearly trying to be our nanny. if this was the only thing he was doing it would be okay. when you add up all of the other stuff you can see a pattern. you say what is he up to next? i am scared. i don't know if i care about styrofoam cups. >> at some point we need to make a list of things bloomburg doesn't want to ban, and it will be a short list. every day i wake up and it is sugar redrinks and salt. i am afraid one day he will come to my apartment and start banning food. he is crazy, out of his mind. >> i don't think he can come to your apartment. >> what if he mandates he can? he is a liberal after all. >> all liberals are foreman dates. that's -- for mandates, that's their right. >> i don't care about styrofoam containers. it is not the worst thing in the world to get rid of them. i am opposing this on principal. >> what if you ban re

mcdonald's right there. >> so close. >> so close. i'm on a diet, got a happy meal not a big mact the golden arches, you get a golden statue. she at any time get the big mac but she did get the golden statue. i think she was happy with the way it worked out, savannah. >> i'll say. she mentioned she got a shot, too, which one may be related to the other. al, thanks. >>> coming up next, a lot more on the oscars, including who made the night's boldest fashion statement. we'll break it all down after this. my wife takes centrum silver. i've been on the fence about it. then i read an article about a study that looked at the long term health benefits of taking multivitamins. they used centrum silver for the study... so i guess my wife was right. [ male announcer ] centrum. always your most complete. ♪ but i won't do that ♪ or that ♪ or this definitely not this! it hurts but i kind of like it! ♪ >>> the executive editor of cosmopolitan. ladies, good morning. >> good morning. >> joyce, did you think this was an exciting red carpet? >> i wouldn't say it's the most exciting red carpet we'v

am i going to mcdonald's, okay the big mac has this many calories. of labeling in grocery stores. >> consumers come first in the supermarket industry and this regulation will require thousands of items to be labeled in the supermarket. it's going to make it harder to serve consumers. we're going to have to label items on the basis of the whole itemmen. it will have labeled as having 4,000 calories. i don't think this information is helpful to consumers. we also have to keep incredible amounts of paperwork for each items. it's going to make it harder to offer new items and also going to make prices go up for consumers. >> that's because all this -- the cost to the grocery stores will be passed on to us in other words,. >> that's absolutely right. margins in our industry are around 1%, regulations like these, which are increasing prices to consume e. let usda predicted prices will go up 3 to 4%. it's fda overreach. congress did not direct them to regulate supermarkets but they decided to do it. >> we're talking about prepared foods, unpacked foods like

mac attack. burger king's twitter field was hacked and instead of the burger king logo, the golden arches sneaked on the page. and the joke message, we just gold sold to mcdonald'sbecause the whopper flopped. it was a prank. mcdonald's said they had nothing to do about it and the hacked account was quickly suspended by burger king today. >>> and a mystery that went down with the titanic could be solved tonight. this was the famous scene, quiet courage, on the deck, as the band played on. >> all right, boys, nice and chewy, so there's no panic. wedding dance. ♪ >> well, experts believe the violins played by the band on deck has been identified. the prized possession of bandmaster wallace hartley. legend has it when hartley's body was pulled from the ocean, fully dressed, the violin, in its case, was strapped to his chest. it was later returned to his fiance, but after all these years, it's been submitted to new tests which reportedly signal it was, indeed, hartley's violin. if so, it will be auctioned in april. and, if you see something you'd like to have in our "instant index," tweet it to me me, @dianesawyer, i'll be reading. >>> and coming up, with all those m

mcdonalds had styrofoam containers. >> yes, and john huntsman, senior made a billion dollars selling those. >> the big ma'am hasn't gotten -- the big mac hasn't gotten worse. >> it is probably fine. this is not what i object to. it is in the long line of other bloomburg things in which he is clearly trying to be our nanny. if this was the only thing he was doing it would be okay. when you add up the other stuff you can see a pattern. you say what is he up to next? i am scared of what he is up to next. i don't know if i care about the styrofoam cups. >> we will need to make a list of things that bloomburg doesn't want to ban. every day i wake up sugar redrinks, salt and now this. i am afraid one day he will come in and start banning food. it is crazy. he is out of his mind. >> i don't think he can scrus come into your apartment. >> really? what if he mandates he can. he is a liberal after all. >> all liberals are foreman dates. that's their right. >> i agree though. i don't care about styrofoam containers. i can live without them. but i loathe mayor bloomburg so i am opposing it on principal. >> it completely threw everything in the gar

i went to mcdonald's the other day, and it used to be you would get a big mac, french fries and a shake even know what to order because there were salad, and smoothies and happy meals so the fast food industry has been trending to offering lower calorie alternates because that is what the customers are demanding. i don't know that this has that much of an impact. >>heather: pineapple smoothie, that is not exactly healthy, though. >> it sounds like it is but it is not. so seeing the calories is changing the way people are eating. we saw when panera bread started doing this the customers were going to lower calorie alternates and the same is true for starbucks, some of their drinks are worth five days of calories for an average person and they saw a lot of people started trending toward the lower calorie alternates. mcdonald's has not noticed it yet in this offer but they have offered the lower calorie alternatives because that is what the customers want. >>heather: i feel mixed about this, i am very healthy eater and into fitness anyone that knows me knows that but by forcing the restaur

mcdonald's right there. >> so close. >> so close. i'm on a diet, got a happy meal not a big macstatue. she at any time get the big mac but she did get the golden statue. i think she was happy with the way it worked out, savannah. >> i'll say. she mentioned she got a shot, too, which one may be related to the other. al, thanks. >>> coming up next, a lot more on the oscars, including who made the night's boldest fashion statement. we'll break it all down after this. my wife takes centrum silver. i've been on the fence about it. then i read an article about a study that looked at the long term health benefits of taking multivitamins. they used centrum silver for the study... so i guess my wife was right. [ male announcer ] centrum. always your most complete. ♪ but i won't do that ♪ or that ♪ or this definitely not this! it hurts but i kind of like it! ♪ >>> the executive editor of cosmopolitan. ladies, good morning. >> good morning. >> joyce, did you think this was an exciting red carpet? >> i wouldn't say it's the most exciting red carpet we've seen. we've seen showstoppers in the