we are talking about mcdonald's. at the golden arches. >> again. >> workers in three states are suing the chain and several franchise workers. they claim them are not paid for all the hours they worked, and did not get the breaks they were entitled to. we are joined by a lawyer in california. he is in san francisco this morning. talk about the evidence you are presenting that these employees did not get paid all the money they were owed and the breaks they were due. especially to make, if you get a group of mcdonald's employees together. talk about how you build your case. >> we began by interviewing workers. workers started coming to us, first in bribes, and then in droves, as workers spoke to other workers and let them know what was going on. we conducted detailed investigations. we talked to the workers. we looked at their documentation. we compared their punch in and punch out records. we were able to build what we believed was a very strong case of wage theft against mcdonald's and the franchisees. so i understa

but plaintiffs say mcdonald's is just the start of this effort. these corporations make billions they say and next they're suing other fast food chains. >> nine hours straight with only a ten minute break the whole day. and they didn't give me my overtime or nothing when i looked in the paycheck and they were like oh we'll give you it next paycheck so they wouldn't have to give me the overtime. >> workers have rights that they're asserting and they -- need to be paid by mcdonald's according to the lawsuit. >> reporter: now we're going to show you mcdonald's' response. they are -- they say reviewing allegations in the lawsuit and quote mcdonald's and our independent owner operators share a concern and commitment to the well-being and fair treatment of all people who work at mcdonald's restaurants. now the rally just wrapped up here in the last 15 minutes. they headed down the street there. but congresswoman barbara lee was also here. she's leading the fight on the national level against these fast food chains and their wage laws. live in fruitvale,

my name is ronald mcdonald. [ man ] you're who? i am ronald mcdonald. i'm ronald mcdonald jr.his is ronald mcdonald iii. my name is ronald mcdonald. [ man ] what do you think? it's really good. i was surprised how good it is. i love the new a.m. crunchwrap. i'm ronald mcdonald. -ronald... -mcdonald. [ all ] i'm ronald mcdonald and i love taco bell's new breakfast. [ male announcer ] a delicious new breakfast everyone can love. even ronald mcdonald. [ alarm ring, bong ] even ronald mcdonald. brewed for more this ispirited nights.tune. it's undistilled, yet it has a smooth clean finish. you might choose a regular beer, but then you might get a regular night. miller fortune. your fortune awaits. [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight is the founder and editor and chief of fivethirtyeight.com. please welcome back to the program nate silver. [cheers and applause] how are you, sir? >> pretty good, jon how but. >> jon: very well. congratulations on the launch of the new fivethirtyeight. >> we launched this web site a week and a half ago. 20 of us, a very young t

team one, ronald mcdonald. team two -- >> my name is ronald mcdonald. >> you're who? >> reporter: ronald mcdonald? an army of them drafted by taco bell. >> all: i'm ronald mcdonald, and i love taco bell's new breakfast. >> reporter: both vying for a bite of your breakfast buck. taco bell featuring this new ad with 25 men really named ronald mcdonald professing their love for the newly launched break breakfast menu. >> really good. >> this is taco bell's way of saying that there's a new breakfast player in town and there's no better way to do that than to go after the king of breakfast by market share, which is mcdonald's. >> reporter: in a defensive play, mcdonald's now announcing they'll offer a free small cup of coffee to customers for two weeks starting monday. taco bell's response telling abc news, "we just launched the next generation of breakfast. it's not a two-week promotion. clearly our competition is taking notice and reacting." the golden arches also taking their fight to social media letting the dog out, barking back, "imitation is the sincerest form of fl

it is mcdonald's. would you run, no matter how much you believe in it as a business would you avoid it for a while? >> i absolutely would avoid it for a while. charles said they seen these things before. i would argue this is very different before. attack on breakfast. starbucks coming on strong. number of companies reinvigorating their menu. mcdonald's is not really innovating anymore. they're kind of being left behind. melissa: charles, do you agree with all that. >> i do. too early to force issue. they have a new ceo. he is under a lot of pressure as well. melissa: is it fair they're the whipping boy? >> that is what happens you become number one for a long time and you become a target. they reinvented themselves and had a heck of a run. they can reinvent themselves again. it is all food, all burger. lines in new york city for innovative burger joints. melissa: it is true. what people don't realize 90% of mcdonald's are owned by small business owners, fran cheeseees. it is not big bad mcdonald's. in

this is ronald mcdonald the third. >> i was surprised how good it is. >> ronald mcdonald. >> ronald mcdonaldo bell's new breakfast. >> delicious new breakfast everyone can love, even ronald ronald. -- ronald mcdonald. >> you've got to admit that is pretty clever. taco bell's president joined alix steel this morning talking about strategy. >> breakfast is one of the fastest-growing parts and quick service restaurants and it's a part taco bell has never had the opportunity to compete and. we have been looking at a category and a lot of our customers already eat request at other quick service restaurants. we realized it was ripe for innovation, really terrific value, and what we have heard from our customers is if we can give them a better reward for their breakfast routine, they will keep coming to taco bell. >> talk about the pricing here. mcdonald's does a dollar sausage biscuit and that's appealing for the dollar menu lover. how did you do on pricing? >> we've got food from one dollar to two dollars and $.49. the waffle talk to was one 99 -- $1.99. the crunch wrap is $2.49. we've got great

but we continue to hear from workers with similar claims involving other mcdonald's, parts of mcdonald's than just in those states. >> and you said that workers, those who were not afraid to come forward. if, for instance, a worker were to join this class action suit then be laid off or fired, were you in your capacity as a lawyer, would they have some legal remedy? >> well, if they were -- if they were laid off or fired because of their participation in this lawsuit, that would be unlawful and that would be something we would bring to the court's attention. and i trust that the court would act swiftly to protect them. if they're simply laid off or fired for reasons unrelated to their involvement in the lawsuit, the company has the prerogative to do that. >> right. then it would be a manner of proofing the causation. joseph sellers, thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> to the pentagon where a just-released report says last fall's mass shooting at the washington navy yard could have been prevented. an independent review reveals supervisors knew of aaron alexis' erratic behavior before the sh

just wrapped up 180 days of eating mcdonald's and only mcdonald's food. lost a total of 160 pounds.u, my friend. >> well, thank you, neil, for having me, good to finally be back and i'm kind of glad the experiment is over. >> you committed to doing what? a lot of you are not familiar but it was mcdonald's food, only, for half a year. right? >> yep. for one half a year and if you do the math i had roughly 540 meals, most of those straight from mcdonald's. >> but we should stress sure, john, you did a lot of comment sense things. you didn't only eat double quarter pounders and the rest. you balanced it out. explain. >> well, that was part of the unique part of this experiment, is that when we first started out with the experiment with the kid, we wanted to either prove or disaprove a hypothesis and that was could a person become healthier eating nothing but mcdonald's for breakfast, lunch and din are for 90 days and the kids had to balance this out to see if we could pull it off, and it ended up showing we tested the hypothesis to be true you can get healthier eating nothing but mcdon

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. >> i am ronald mcdonald. >> i'm ronald mcdonald jr. >> i am ronald mcdonald jr.s is rond mcdonald the third. >>> i'm ronald mcdonald and i love taco bell's new breakfast. >> go around finding ronald mcdonald's in the world and have them promote taco bell. >>> the hawaii police force has been making national headlines. hon lulu wants to keep in a law that helps officers have sex with prostitutes. it will help them make more arrests. >> the hawaii law allowing police officers to have sex with prostitutes could be on its last legs. >> currently, on-duty officers are exempt from hawaii's prostitution laws. >> they voted to remove a police exemption in the law. lawmakers want to take away hawaii's cops right to have sex with prostitutes. also, did i just hear that hawaii's cops have the right to have sex with prostitutes? >>> you know what, folks. well, they should. just like new york's stop and frisk policy. except, once they start frisking, they don't stop. >>> they are just abiding by the law, thomas. >> keeping it freaky in waikiki. >>> last night, jimmy fallon on

>> mcdonald's is a special treat. it's bad for u thyou.t. >> a lot of people want to believe they will eat healthy but in essence they choose the stuff that is not healthy. mcdonald's wanted to have something for everybody, they want the salad for the mom who comes in with their kids for the happy meal, and they provided that. again, they don't have a real sales problem. they have an incremental sales problem. they are not really losing traffic to customers who are going to the healthier options. >> by the way, the new bacon insider jack in the box, bacon, mayonnaise, two slices of bacon on ground beef that is stuffed slash infused with bacon. you got triple bacon on one sandwich. >> to our point about doubling down -- >> or double down from kfc. there you go. fried chicken. peter, thank you very much. never let me do something great with you. >> why? >> i want like champagne or something, not a trip to mcdonald's. >> maybe they can put champagne on the menu as well. salad for mom and champagne for dad. >>> still ahead, jim cramer is drill

. >>> a supersized theft at a bay area mcdonald's. what one guy was able to get away with without getting out of his car. >>> a touch lesson in playing by the rules. but a bay area team isn't giving up on their playoff dreams. >>> the clouds clear out and temperatures will warm up. can you believe the numbers will be in the 80s by the weekend? >> my jaw dropped. $730 for magazines? that is a mortgage payment. >> she paid her bill b that was just the beginning. how a simple magazine subscription costs this woman more than $700. ,,,,,,,, in.. after it was disqualifd from the playoffs over a >>> new at 5:00, a bay area basketball team is asking the governor to step in after it was disqualified from the play we haves over a -- playoffs from a clerical error. they were recently barred from the north coast section playoff because they plaid one too many games. last week, the commissioner rejected their plea, even though the league makes its own rules. the team hopes governor brown will at least look into their plight. >>> the husband of a w

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and starting in mid april mcdonald's is going to surprise one twitter follower every day with coffee and prizes. i don't know about you but before i had my coffee i don't need entertainment. >> you don't need ronald mcdonald dancing. >> just give me the coffee. >> this seems like it's clearly in response to the ronald mcdonald ads. >> from taco bell. the breakfast wars are on. >> yes. >> exactly. >> bertha coombs. with your breakfast news. >> the waffle cha who pa. i'm hispanic. that doesn't exist. >> let's check in with christina. >> good morning. i can get into the hamburger playing the harp but that's about it. we have light showers out there. you want to get yourself extra time because there is also some wind out there. and it's friday after all. you don't want to run into any unnecessary slowdowns. a little shower activity. we're going to see that ramp up at the end of this afternoon and we also have steady drizzle at the coast with that persistent onshore flow as the storm track stays to the north of bay area. let me take you through friday, by 4:00 p.m. the heavy rain starts t

. >> i'm ronald mcdonald jr. >> and those are all real ronald mcdonalds by the way and, of course, theyblance to the famous clown who is the mascot. this breakfast war is no laughing matter for shareholders, checking the two rivals stocks. mcdonald's trading at 96.23 a share up and taco bell is down more than a full percent down. u.s. stocks are lower today and so is time to take a global perspective when it comes to investment strategy. our next guest will tell you why canada may be your best bet to make major buck. joining me now is david winters, winter green portfolio manager. thanks for joining us. what do you like about canada? >> i love canada. >> i think of natural resources, oil. >> it's a great country but there are tremendous natural resources. there's a company up there called canadian natural resources that trade the billing discounts asset value. they've been growing the asset value and the oil and the natural gases in the country that is safe. >> so does that trade in the united states? >> yes. it's from the new york stock exchange, easy to buy, liquid and winter green fu

or mcdonald's? >> it benefits the folks in the ad who have had that name all their life and now they can make some cash. >> just made, meteorologist mike nicco with the forecast. >> we have clouds in the distance and one or two will turn into showers the next 30 hours but a good chance of rain this weekend and another chance on monday with a new timetable and amounts in the seven-day forecast. >> the coastal trail in the bay area where the you have just got a lot better. >> what is it about north korea's kim jong-un hair that is creating the buzz overseas? >>> covering santa clara, san francisco, east bay and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> the new devil's slide coastal trail hops in an hour and a half and the public can walk next to the cliffs and look over at the pacific. all because of a $2 million investment by a group of agencies. it follows the 1.3-mile route of highway one which now is bypassed by tunnels. san mateo county resurfaced the road and made other improvement and is a segmen

a mcdonalds spokeswoman called the minimum wage disclosures "routine" and had been ackknowledged in mcdonaldssec filings. but today, the group "organizing for action" which held a rally in chicago two weeks ago will turn the debate slightly toward women who comprise two-thirds of workers paid minimum wage. "i think we can all agree that women working fulltime should not be in poverty. that's just // not acceptable in america." in its s-e-c filing, mcdonalds reported a slight increase in profits in 20-13--making 5.58 billion dollars. thank you for that report chuck.still to come ... costco reports earnings today... will the results be a deal breaker for one trader? and... can a couple of childhood characters bring back the magic to the big screen for a hit?? that's next in movies and money. hollywood is marching forward with a couple of new films this weekend. here with his reviews-- plus a re-cap of the oscars---- our movie guy erik childress who is skyping with us this morning because a snowstrom has him land locked. how original erik. good morning. >>good morning. >>it's okay to gloat. you

brand's taco bell and mcdonald's.l-known brands, but chipotle takes it further. >> they have been able to brand themselves as a company that you can identify with based on your values. >> this is steve. steve is a classically trained chef. he is also the ceo of chipotle. >> those values highlight locally sourced, natural organic food whenever possible, and an awareness about how animals are raised. >> you didn't start out that way. >> no, i was starting out by buying fresh food. but you learn that maybe fresh is not enough anymore, that you really need to understand the provenance and the methods by which farmers and ranchers raise food. >> steve had an idea. he visited the industrial hog farms where most pigs are raised. the pigs were kept indoors all the time. >> my introduction to the way most of the pigs are raised, i'd say 99% of them, and i learned about this maybe 12 years ago -- when i saw that, it was really shocking to me. it is a model that i think is based on a lot of exploitation. pigs are crammed into co

and this is ronald mcdonald iii. >> my name is ronald mcdonald. >> what do you think?it's really good. >> i loved the new wrap. >> ronald mcdonald. >> i'm ronald mcdonald and i love taco bell's new breakfast. >> a delicious new breakfast everyone can love even ronald mcdonald. >> all right, so clearly the gloves are off, right? what subtly, right? starbucks making breakfast sandwiches and now this. >> david novak is maybe the most aggressive guy in the industry. don't forget chipotle was taking a shot at the value food of mcdonald's just to be clear i will not be serving a waffle taco at bar san miguel. i won't follow suit. pancake taco. maybe? no. >> don't go there either. keep the tequila rolling. >> i have to tell you that i love david novak and he's just a killer. i think this could work. but, remember, it's all kfc. howard schultz was telling me they need to put up as many starbucks as kfc has. 900 cities and more than 3,000 units. >> 4,600 units and china. >> it's all kfc and china. that's what the stock moves on. >> no mas, it could help them in the u.s. if they

guys named ronald mcdonald, this ends with all of them and that's very clever. state of emergency tore, out on bond. we have team coverage against this chills against him during this record-breaking drought. >>> good morning we are looking at a decent commute and it looks good right through downtown including some in the south bay. a lot of cloud coverage, and loss what is in store for your weekend. . >>> a call to resign, leyland's rapid fall from grace. >>> today will be a little quieter but we are not done with the rain. >> plus an affect from the drought rain is an important tarpel at all local bars and restaurants, it's all ahead on the ktvu channel 2

and this is ronald mcdonald iii. >> my name is ronald mcdonald. >> what do you think?ood. i was surprised at how good. >> i love the a.m. crunch wrap. >> i'm ronald mcdonald and i love taco bell's new breakfast. >> start with kimberly. she's our foodie. let's start with kimberly and go this way. >> why, why are you putting me in this? i'm into it. let's not kid around. i love egg mcmuffins. you can be my friend if you show up with one of those and a latte. now, taco bell, i'm a fan because i like the price points. i'm feeling that, too, so i'm looking forward to this. >> right. >> immediately, and i thought we were -- we must have a budget problem, because where is the food? >> budget problem. tom, chipoultly is extremely popular, out of control popular. they're pulling profit shares. where are you? >> chipotle is a great food, i love it, but it's late night food. the thing the fast food restaurants need to learn, the people who like fast food breakfast the most don't wake up until 11:00. you wake up and you want the breakfast but you can't bought they shut it down at

the beckers say they love mcdonald's. they will be back. it is part of their lives.ut this particular restaurant? never again. >> are people angry about this? >> absolutely. they should be. >> he has been in the restaurant business for 30 years. >> it was really rude. >> owner bob drummond did not return our messages. to the culpeper star exponent -- have yet to receive an apology. >> it is absolutely insulting really. the man behind us was laughing. >> abc 7 news. >> that is not the end of this. >> i think there are more chapters to come. >> no doubt. >> and airliner vanished with two people using fake passports on board. what investigators say about the possible connection. of aus, the timing possible storm and a big cooldown, too. >> the caps on unveil their new superstar tonight. the party continues in college park and the wizards turn up the heat on >> three days and still no sign of the missing malaysia airlines people onboard. the boeing 777 vanished on the way from kuala lumpur to beijing on saturday. -- ups of a plain jane plain tale and the door turns out t

here's what led up to this odd exchange at this mcdonald's.ere's the dude while he was in there and apparently he was being asked to leave. listen to what he says. he says his name is rafiki from "the lion king." >> i thought i recognized him. >> well, he is acting like a monkey. >> he's got some sort of musical instrument case with him and causing a scene. >> based purely on the size of his pupils i'm going to guess he might be under the influence of something. >> yeah. got some sort of bottle of something that he's shoving down his pants. who knows what that is. some reports in ireland are saying this man in his 20s has been arrested after this. no one seriously hurt but getting pepper sprayed doesn't feel good. and defamation of character if you are rafiki. >> yeah. >> because don't go around saying you are and you are clearly not and you are clearly acting a fool. >>> hi, guys, i got three videos of things just getting out of control. first one intersection of what some reports are saying is brazil. keep your eyes as this farmer approaches

this is at a mcdonald's. this guy kicking his way through the entrance. this guy's apparently a worker. there was customers in there. it's a frantic situation. they're trying to figure out what to do. this guy, he's got pepper spray and begins spraying employees. the guy with one of those wet floor signs comes up and smacks this guy away, gets him to run away for a minute. >> [ bleep ]. >> the guy just rambling, comes inside the store, continues to pepper spray people. just absolute chaos at this mcdonald's. one thing i want to point out which is kind of peculiar. as all this is going on, if you go a little forward in the video -- there's just some people just still eating. here's what led up to this odd exchange at this mcdonald's. >> hey, hey [ bleep ]. >> here's the dude while he was in there. and apparently he was being asked to leave. listen to what he says. >> i'm from the lion king. >> he says his name is rafiki from "the lion king." >> i thought i recognized him. >> he is acting like a monkey. >> he's got some sort of musical instrument case with

the clothing inspired by mcdonald's. this is mockery.said. >> mcdonald's had nothing to do with this. how it affects the mcreynolds brand is really and ancillary argument. >> they sell their stuff and target also. maybe this is a bad idea. they do try to appeal to target. >> katie. is wearing it. different stars are wearing it. the fact that you are not loving it does not matter. >> the iphone case is not that. beyond that, i am not buying it. we are counting down to "the closing bell." liz: have you gotten the qualcomm smart watch? >> i have looked at it. liz: apparently, melissa, as we cover technology, it is going widespread. all over the place. is this stretching the membrane of our security way too thick? we have the ceo of a company. three. security for all of your mobile and wearables. it is free. we have the ceo. he sees this. the stock up more than 40%. this has the makings of everything a business deal really wants to see. how to spot companies. we will give you three of them. how to spot companies that have an advantage over a

mcdonalds says it is investigating and will take action. these lawsuits the same day the president signed a mem rand yum to strike rules about overtime pay. >> overtime is a simple idea if you have to work more you should get paid more. critics say the rules will cost jobs. >> in a week the price for a amazon prime membership is going up to $99. she claims vendors are increasing their prices. and that amazon has been encouraging this practice >> passengers on united airlines will get a streaming service for cell pones and lap tops it will be rolling out in stages. >>> a local business says it's turning to kits kids for help. city is posting 50 new baby goats. the people who run the business say the little ones will be very busy. >> growth is slower than in 2013 there is a lot more phone shall for fire hazard now with late rains we're having now. we're seeing our call volume triple. she says they'll eat just about everything but love black berry bushes most of all. >> i wonder p i can get them in my house. >> coming up next, how bay area ran

looks like they are making mcdonald's nervous. >> interestingly, new turn of events, mcdonald's is fightingainst taco bell's breakfast challenge from now until april the 13th, mcdonald's is offering a free small cup of its coffee, and no purchase is required, chris, so mcdonald's has launched a social media campaign as it's trying to fend off taco bell, which last week started selling breakfast. it was thursday. so this tweet says, nothing beats the original. and this is a great tweet, this one, shows ronald mcdonald petting a chihuahua, which use the to be taco bell's mascot, and reads, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. >> of course, we're talking about the ads where they got together people named ronald mcdonald who ate the taco bell breakfast and loved it. all those people are named ronald mcdonald. clever ad. >> at the same time, it's great entertainment for all of us. >> cnbc's mandy drury, thank you. >>> it is the first full day of the major league baseball season, go indians. hope always springs eternal at the beginning of the season. aside from the game, you go for the ea

mcdonald's on the disappointing side.ar anniversary of the bottom and remarkable call by mark haines. it's not the stock market is up 180% in the five years but what's not changed? that's beyond beeyields. bond yields are the same, 2.8%. 2.8% five years ago. we're 2.8% today. guys, what's changed? stocks up 180%, bond yields unchang unchanged? what changed is liquidity. a flood of liquidity out there and that's what the stock market has been reacting to by and large. i think earnings up modestly, but it's the title wave of liquidity that has made the difference between the stock and bond market. back to you. >> bob, thanks very much. on that note, out to the bond pits and talk to rick santelli at cme group in chicago. good morning, rick. >> what's changed, bob, everything's changed. $4 trillion balance sheet. where do we go? treasurely market wants to go lower in price, higher in yield but doing it at a snail's pace. i don't mean on the volume or participation, just distance travel. 2.79 unchanged from yesterday. now, let

i'm ronald mcdonald jr. and this is ronald mcdonald iii. i am ronald mcdonald.ike the waffle taco? the bacon is really really good. mmmmmm. i'm ronald mcdonald. and i love taco bell's new breakfast. [ alarm ring, bong ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: welcome back. i'm here with january jones. and we are about to -- [ cheers and applause ] who by the way, just received a a text from tony ericsson, by the way. ooh >> ooh. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: anyways, we're here with january and we're going to play head-to-head in a giant game -- a game of giant quarters. which is exactly what it sounds like. we have a big red solo cup and a bunch of gigantic quarters. and we're going to take turns tryingto bounce the quarters into the cup. each time one of us makes a a shot the other one has to drink one of these cups of beer. first one to make two shots wins the game. january, you're my guest. why don't you go first, my pal? >> why are you after me? >> jimmy: i want to see your style, man. let's see the skill. >> thanks. i'm nervous. [ audience ohs ] what's that? [ cheers

mcdonald's is giving away free coffee. >> a delicious new breakfast everyone can love, even ronald mcdonald >> more people are buying br breakfast on the go, so they are giving away free coffees. >> who will be the winner of the battle? we don't know, but we know who the winners will be this weekend. rain is what you like, mike? >> and snow, got a lot of it coming up in the sierra, and the season is almost over. so that is good news. i will widen the picture to show you the cold front developing up to the north and also the moist flow, it's humid outside by our standard and you stand in the sunshine, maybe a little uncomfortable from time to time. that is what is sparking the showers up north. that is where they will stay for the most part. the temperatures are 2 to 5 degrees warmer. and most of us in the low 60s. you are close at 59 degrees. the way it looks from the tower, it is beautiful, all the different elevations and colors, whether it's the bridge and clouds, i could not pass up shares the picture with you. here are the highlights. mainly dry and warmer today, steady rain saturday a

melissa: mcdonald hit by lawsuits by not so happy workers over wages. the stock is getting hit today although the market is down. the dow is down 208 points. these are fast-food employees in california, michigan and new york. it seems like this is a head wind they can't shake. >> this is the tip of the iceberg with mcdonald's and many others who pay their employees very low wages such as wal-mart and what is happening at mcdonald's is so many ideas down the top of franchisees' who don't have the funds to invest in the business and a franchisee's in turn are putting those bargains on employees and having them work off the clock which is you get a lot more stories like this over the next few months. melissa: you have to wonder how much this is a trend of beating mcdonald's, the pc police, regulators in d.c. willing to focus to turn to mcdonald's and it seems like this is going to impact the lot of investors. you own stock in your 401(k) or your pension or mutual-fund and this isn't going away. >> looking at mcdonald's, the thing i was struck by, the litig

last week mcdonald's workers in three states filed seven lawsuits alleging that mcdonald's and some ofe franchises had violations of labor laws that could be considered wage theft. according to the workers' attorneys these lawsuits could cover 30,000 workers. >> i have often been forced to work off the clock and after my shift ends at midnight for five to ten minutes, sometimes 15 to 20 minutes, doing cleanup and other basic job duties. it may not sound like a lot but when you're living on the edge like me, every penny counts. >> a statement saying, quote, mcdonald's and our independent owner/operators are committed to undertaking a comprehensive investigation of allegations. just as this new round of lawsuits kicked off, new york attorney general announced the results of another lawsuit his office spearheaded last year. the owner of seven new york city mcdonald's franchises agreed to pay more than 1,600 workers nearly half a million dollars to settle a claim he failed to pay his workers all the wages they were owed. this comes just two weeks after snyderman won a $2 million settlement

a class action lawsuit alleging wage theft on the part of mcdonald's. >> we have seen mcdonald's andesist it thing we will have to cut jobs. stuart: the dow took a tumble. we are now down 108 points. it is a very low volume trading session. people try to come up while the market is down. i do not have that. you could say that there was weakness in china a week growth rate over there, bad news for us. this has been breaking throughout the week. i am not so sure why. >> something may have happened in the last couple of minutes. it has been a very dull week overall. ukraine. nothing really seems imminent. stuart: charles always objects. they look at the company and the future. you do not look at google. you do not look at the fed when you are buying google. >> 25 years in a row. i should talk to you more often. that is what tv demands. you are very good at it. here is one word for you, ambition. president obama is stamping upon it. my take on that is coming up next. ♪ ♪ that is the sound of the been working on the chain ♪ ♪ that is the sound working on the chain ♪ ♪ all day long they ar

my name is ronald mcdonald. [ man ] you're who? i am ronald mcdonald. i'm ronald mcdonald jr.donald iii. my name is ronald mcdonald. [ man ] what do you think? it's really good. i was surprised how good it is. i love the new a.m. crunchwrap. i'm ronald mcdonald. -ronald... -mcdonald. [ all ] i'm ronald mcdonald and i love taco bell's new breakfast. [ male announcer ] a delicious new breakfast everyone can love. even ronald mcdonald. [ alarm ring, bong ] >>> all right. good morning, everybody. tamron has this stuff for the orange room. she's over there with willie because it's app-y friday. >> tamron's got a long way to go to beat mr. lauer a couple of weeks ago. >> i'm still traumatized. i love food. in the last couple of years, i've started cooking. i love eating more than i do cooking. i found this eat. for all the foodies out there or those who try to cook. you go on and each day bloggers load up these beautiful pictures of amazing creations. you can look up different categories, for example. pork, pasta, noodles, so on, so forth and even make a list of favorites. here's th

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este es el club de la bacon clubhouse burger de mcdonald's.in de semana, su vida y su legado fueron llevados al cine. quisimos ver de primera mano cÓmo ha cambiado la vida de los campesinos en los Últimos aÑos. luis mejid viajÓ a los sembradÍos de california y nos tiene el siguiente informe. . >> en cuarenta aÑo el trabajo cambiÓ poco, para las cosechas aÚn hay que tener una espalda fuerte. pero por lo menos ahora, en el campo, hay baÑos, agua para tomar y campesinos con derechos. >> trataba muy mal a la gente, y ahora no. >> daniel martÍnez siempre se acuerda del hombre que lo hizo posible. >> en el setenta y nueve se llenaba la central de puro cÉsar chÁvez, yo lo vivÍ. >> ajÁ. >> yo lo vivÍ. >> cÉsar chÁvez consiguiÓ lo que otros no pudieron. con boicots, huelgas y ayunos, organizÓ a los trabajadores agrÍcolas de california, y fundÓ la union de campesinos. dolores huerta fue co fundadora. >> si esperamos que alguien venga y haga ( ) para nosotros, nunca va a pasar. nosotros mismos tenemos que tomar esos pasos para cambiar las cosas. >> cÉsar

would you pay $12 for a mcdonald's burger? how the fast food giant is going high brow. >>> good evening. tonight you're going to meet two young women who are taking the notion of celebrity look alikes to a radical and expensive extreme. they're getting plastic surgery to look like their favorite stars. they say it's empowering, but is this aspiration or desperation? juju chang followed along on their journey. >> as jennifer lawrence rocketed to fame in hollywood, miles away in houston, texas, another woman began to turn heads. >> people started comparing me to her on the street, at my workplace, things like that. >> kitty is a 30-year-old dog trainer, wife and mother and mega fan of jennifer lawrence. the vo luptous oscar-nominated star. >> i can appreciate that her personality is spunky and fun. i can appreciate that her body is banging. >> but kitty is about to take her fan girl status to extremes, willing to pay for six plastic surgery procedures to carve herself into looking even more like jennifer lawrence. >> you can see

>> i do eat at least one meal a day at mcdonald's.ave been doing that. >> wow. >> i love mcdonald's. it is another place i can get away from the stresses and the strains of the market and get all my research reports and newspapers and magazines and just think about the market, have a great snack, have a great lunch. >> what do you eat when you go there? >> french fries in the afternoon. a biscuit in the morning. >> your cholesterol is ok? >> so far, so good. >> as for his chances tonight? >> i had the good fortune of playing michael jordan one-on-one. and winning a very short game. but it was because we played to three. if he played to 10, he would've killed me. so i understand when it is a short game, there's a fair degree of luck. >> we wish you a lot of luck. >> thank you so much. >> what is your most public position? do you have anything that is public? >> we are short china. the china property companies, real estate. >> hong chong market shares? >> is there a little chatter about hong kong down there. what's going on? >> jim is a

status served mcdonald's well.estaurants here, its fastest growing market. some believe mcdonald's is leaving food on the table. its chief rival kfc has localizedite menu and supply chain and has twice the number of stores. upstart chinese chains are jumping? >> mcdonald's is being relatively slow to the point where they've been ready to adapt to localized to respond. kfc was much quicker. from the early days they started to think about how to mix up the menu to meet local needs. look at asian competitors, menus are more relevant to consumers. >> reporter: mcdonald's is offering nuggets made of pork, and bringing the successful mccafe coffee chain to china, to keep up with young chinese. >> they want to live a more contemporary and exciting life, and they are so keen to hold a cup of coffee and sit behind the glass and being seen by friends who see, i'm having a coffee as my optimum tea break. >> reporter: a feeling mcdonald's hopes will keep them coming back. mcdonald's ceo said international markets are going to

stuart: line up quickly, mcdonald's offering free coffee.breakfast menu. all right, lauren, all this talk about breakfast, it's got to be that breakfast is big money for the fast food guys. >> huge money for the fast food guys and now a lot of competition. it's not just taco bell, but starbucks revamped their menu, and now mcdonald's saying, hey, come in between 6:30 and 10:30 in the morning, a small coffee is free. but between 6:30 and 10:30, four hours, in those four hours mcdonald's does a quarter of its overall sales in the u.s. stuart: a quarter, really? >> 25% confirmed from mcdonald's. stuart: the theory is that breakfast you'll eat twice. you'll eat something before you leave the house and again on your way to work. that's why it's big money. >> 1.4 times a day, that's how many breakfasts we eat. stuart: that's accurate? >> yeah, it is. [laughter] stuart: i really am learning a lot back from vacation, lauren, i do appreciate it. thanks very much, indeed. all right, you'd better take a look at what's leading the dow. i've got a vested

and this is ronald mcdonald iii. >> reporter: in its new commercial, mcdonald's finds a few guys namedast. >> reporter: the eye-raising ad is the latest punch in the high-stakes battle for fast-food breakfast supremacy. >> taco bell is taking a stick and poking the 800-pound gorilla. >> reporter: in response to mocking their mascot, the counterpunch. >> i don't have my coffee yet. >> reporter: starting today, mcdonald's is giving away free small cups of coffee during breakfast hours for two weeks at participating locations, and the fast-food behemoth isn't clowning around. taking to twitter and listing mayor mccheese himself as well as the original ronald to help curb taco bell's four-legged front man. >> right now, mcdonald's is by far and away the number-one breakfast seller. could that change? possibly. but taco bell or anyone else is really going to have to spe spend billions of dollars to get there. >> reporter: that's because for decades, mcdonald's has been the undisputed champion of the quick, inexpensive breakfast. more than a quarter of the $50 billion spent on breakfast goes

can you imagine having the named ronald mcdonald?s talk about mario batali, he has an empire really, huge food store in new york city, ea tistaly. the wine shop is in trouble. >> a big fine, because of an antiquated liquor law, of which there are many. turns out he went into business with the wine shop with somebody who also manufactures wine. when they finally figured this out, they fined him. it's prohibited on tone a wine store while you also manage wine. why would you tell an oil company that they can't sell the gasoline they make. he's run afoul of one of those laws. >> new york has had fights about that as long as i've lived here which is, i don't know, 30 years. another saga. michelle caruso-cabrera, thank you. >>> president obama has been hanging out with the italians, he'll get a chance to play tourist, tour the coal -- stay with us. oh hey, neill, how are you? [ male announcer ] ...you'd expect us to have a highly skilled call center. kevin, neill holley's on line one. ok, great. [ male announcer ] and we do. it's how edwar

mcdonalds says it is looking into the claims. >>> a teenage father behind bars accused of biting off the nose of his one-month-old baby. 18-year-old joshua cooper faces child cruelty. fairfield police received a frantic call from the child's mother yesterday saying his baby was bleeding. doctors determined the child had a skull fracture, brain hemorrhage, and a third of the nose severed. the baby is in stable condition. cooper bit his child's nose off because he was mad at the baby's crying. >>> family and friends mourning the loss of three brothers. nelson hamilton was shot to death near his richmond home. his death comes after his older brother earl was shot to death outside of a pinole bar in february. another brother was killed almost three years ago near a neighborhood market in richmond. >> no reason at all. nobody should die just because they live wherever they live. >> five alleged gang members have been arrested in the pinole shooting. the other two shootings remain unsolved. >>> san francisco firefighters are still watching for flair ups after that huge fire at at & t park.

. >> miss mendoza mcdonald, dr. murase. >> present. >> miss norton? >> here. >> miss wynns >> here >> and miss fewer. >> here. >> miss wei. >> here. mr. logan? >> here. pledge of allegiance? >> we are voting on the regular board minutes of february 25, 2014, do i have a motion. >> motion. >> second. >> any corrections? any none, roll call. >> miss wei. >> yes. >> mr. logan. >> we. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza. >> yes. >> norton. >> yes. >> and miss fewer? >> yes. >> wynns. >> yes. >> six ayes. item b presentation to the board. >> over the last few days, march 5, through 7, 207 san francisco unified school district skaouts received free eye examines and classes through the vision ban program sponsored by one sight, a foundation group and i would like to on behalf of all of the students, make dr. albert lee who is coordinating this for the last few years, including organizizing more than 150 volunteers from all over california to work with our students, this effort was coordinated with the school health programs and in special recognition to the school

all this according to mcdonald's cfo pete bensen. as we told you yesterday, mcdonald's global sales fell three-tenths-of-a percent in february, a bigger-than-expected drop. popular greek yogurt maker chobani-- denies an ipo is in its future.even though it "is" exploring its options. reuters reports: the company is looking to sell a minority stake in a deal that values chobani at $2.5 billion dollars. sources say the yogurt maker has held earlier discussions with banks about pursuing an intial public offering, but soured on talks in as competition grew from other greek yogurt companies. a12 it's looking like a "sure thing" high frequency trading firm."virtu" financial is seeking an ipo...according to an sec filing "virtu" wants to raise $100 million in a public offering. the firm is considered one of the largest high-frequency firms and is owned by vincent viola.. a former chairman of the new york stock exchange and owner of the florida panthers hockey team. a new scam is infiltrating the world of streaming. hackers are targeting netf

. >>> big story on mcdonald's. workers say the company stole their pay. this is newest battle of the wage wars. our panel will let loose on this one. >>> this is my favorite. 3d printed jewelry worth up to 100 grand. need i say more? even when they say it's not it is always about money. melissa: it is the throwdown you've been waiting for all we