mattel had claimed that mga entertainment stole the idea for the bratz dolls. mga has now been awarded $88 million in damages. >>> a couple of senators have questions this morning for apple. they want to know why the iphone and ipad are collecting tracking data on users and what all that is being used for. some european governments also say they will investigate whether apple is violating privacily laws. but security experts say companies like apple and google regularly collect this information and could eventually use it for location. based marketing. >>> more and more people are saying no to that age-old question, you want fries with that? numbers show fewer of us are ordering french fries at restaurants. more people are ordering from the dollar menus and passing on the combo meals that do include the french fries. probably helping out the waistline a little bit. >> hamburgers have passed french fries as the most-ordered food in recent years. >>> coming up next on your friday morning, a high schooler's social experiment. she faked her entire pregnancy. >> can

a federal jury says mga entertainment owns the rights to the popular line of dolls. the verdict came after a three- month trial over copyright infringement, and a dispute that's lasted a decade over who owns the drawings on which the dolls were based. at their height, the bratz raked in more than a billion dollars in revenue for mga. mattel had claimed it lost $300 million in profits. >> tom: amazon.com's cloud computing systems went dark overnight, and continue to have problems throughout today. the trouble happened with amazon's computer servers that host web sites for other companies. social network foursquare was among those taken down during the outage. the amazon service allows companies to store data and run software without having to own the technology themselves. >> tom: stocks and metal prices continue climbing, despite nervous investors, and that's a good sign according to tonight's market monitor. mark leibovit is chief market strategist at vrtrader.com, and author of "the trader's book of volume." he joins us from troy, michigan. mark, welcome back, grea

mattel must now pay mga $88 million in damages. >>> another recall from toyota. letters are going out to the owners of more than 200,000 rav-4 and 94,000 hilander vehicles. toyota needs to fix a problem with the air bag sensors. that may inadvertently make the air bags deploy. no injuries have been reported. that's your "moneywatch." for more just head to cbsmoneywatch.com. in new york, i'm alexis christoforous. >>> just ahead on the morning news, the controversy grows over smartphones tracking your every move. >>> plus astronaut mark kelly on his wife gabrielle giffords, as he prepares for his mission next week. this is the "cbs morning news." here's to my pants not leaving marks on my waist. achieve small wins with a healthy lifestyle and dannon light & fit. the light fresh yogurt with 80 calories vs. 100 in the other leading brand. here's to 80 calories tasting crazy good. live light and fit. so i'm taking charge with claritin-d. it relieves even my worst allergy symptoms. nothing works stronger, faster or longer for nasal congestion and sinus pressure without

federal jury ruled mattel does not own the sketches or the idea for the popular bratz dolls made by mga entertainment despite the claim that the designer made the drawings while employed by mattel. >>> finally, not sure what to do with that drawer of t-shirts? for about $250, you can have them made into a soft and cuddly quilt. >>> the dodgers manage to ignore disrakss about in their faceoff with the braves. plus lebron james and dwyane wade plow ahead with their playoff charge. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> heavy rain and flooding is in the forecast right into the weekend. your weekend forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, the indiana pacers are now deeper in the playoff poll with derek rose leading the way for the bulls. here's nbc's mario solis with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> good morning. he did it all season long and now derek rose is carrying the bulls in the playoffs. to indy for game three against the pacers rose driving into a crowd an

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