talk now about the way americans shop for food the way that it's changing according to the national association of convenience stores food items accounted for sixteen point nine percent of a record one hundred ninety five billion dollars a convenience store sales in two thousand and eleven so that means americans are more and more turning to convenience stores to shop for food seems like it's becoming another fast food option now to talk about what this means for americans diets jeff lenard vice president of industry advocacy at the national association of convenience stores joins us now jeff welcome so you suggested that the direction that convenience stores are headed. tell us more about this trend. well the trend of having stores with more really harkens back to a certain sense of the old days where drug stores used to have a soda jerk so they sold sandwiches they got you know we there's one convenience store is a lot of the same used to be so i don't know used to be official name but some of the stores what we've seen over the last few years is that in terms of our business for you the key

jeff lenard vice president of industry advocacy at the national association of convenience stores. i want to zero in now on a specific food ever since industrial agriculture has started producing tomatoes they've begun looking the same that's with us consumers want the right best reddest roundest tomatoes and big businesses give them just that the question though is what producing genetically identical tomatoes does for their taste a nutritional value to find out more about what's happened to our tomatoes i was joined by barry estabrook author of the made a lab how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring for. thirty or forty years. her merry way for one thing. didn't support the series perfect looking tomatoes and everything else when a window reader went to the window. you christian want to know and we've ended up with the hard maters we have. and it is so can you talk about what that essentially does to the tomato i mean we have some tomatoes here they look they look almost exactly alike they look good but really what is a do to their nutritional value. and to t

food we want to talk now about the way americans shop for food is changing according to the national association of convenience stores food items accounted for sixteen point nine percent of a record one hundred ninety five billion dollars of convenience store sales and two thousand and eleven so that means americans are more and more turning to convenience stores to shop for food seems like it's becoming another fast food option well jeff letter to vice president of industry advocacy at the national association of convenience stores joined me earlier and talked about this growing trend. well the trend of having stores with more really harkens back to a certain extent to the old days where drug stores used to have a soda jerk so they sold sandwich week while convenience stores a lot of the same they used to be so i don't know used to be official name the seven eleven stores what we've seen over the last few years is that in terms of our business very well the key demand for gas is two thousand and eight so we're gradually seeing less. traffic and that is where you revenue driver and so profit gro

out of the house the next group of go supply that's out there you know during the boom the national association of realtors reported the number of homes that were second homes vacation properties investment properties and the reality was you know just get a surge of people buying vacation property it was a lot of people who just want to jump on board the housing express and flip it you know the greater fool behind them the reality is that even the people who are underwater or can afford to service the mortgages they would love to see higher prices in order to put that burden back on the market get out from under it so that that's the next level of housing that supply that's out there that's before we even talk about all the r.e.o.'s the bank owned real estate real estate own to oreos that the banks have kind of been kicking the can. down the road they've been reluctant to to foreclose because they know what happens with the house with the other properties in the neighborhood typically distressed sales are twenty to thirty percent below identical non distressed so not only are you taking the wri

this week the attorney general of maryland who is also the president of the national association of attorneys general, douglas gansler. our guest reporter, juliana gruenwald, of the national journal. you mentioned cyberbullying earlier and a couple other issues. what about for those under 18? should there be special rules, special laws included when it comes to privacy? >> guest: yeah. and when you talk about privacy, many different areas come under it, you know? we've talked a little bit about data collection and dissemination, and then there's -- we talked about intellectual property protection, there's, you know, online payments on mobile devices. five years from now we're not going to have wallets, we're going to be buying everything request our iphone and turn on our car with our iphone, we're not going to have car keys, how is that information protected? cyberbullying is one of those areas that comes under, in my view, privacy in the digital age. and, yes, we should be looking at how to protect people under 18 in the cyberbullying context and the social media context. i mean, that's all

doug gansler is attorney general of the state of maryland and also the new president of the national association of attorneys general, and he is our guest this week. general gtansler, in your presidency, you chose online privacy as what you wanted to stress. why? >> every president of the attorneys general has a main focus. the last one i chose human trafficking. it is important to have a theme and expose the of the 49 attorneys general to that issue i thought that privacy on the internet was a critical issue as a bipartisan issue and it affects everybody. everybody, for the most part, will be on the internet, whether at home or the library or at work. and it will be buying and purchasing things and be susceptible to having their privacy rights infringed. we do not look at it as if we're going to indict the internet market or providers. we are trying to have a conversation about where the line between privacy and legitimate business rights of internet providers, we're sure that line be drawn? we want to make sure that consumers are protected in terms of their privacy. most of what we do on the i

>> well, the national association of attorney-general has initiatives. the president last year. he picked on human trafficking, a great issue of reason and underexposed. it was important throughout the year to have a theme and expose the other 49 attorneys general to that issue. i felt the privacy in the digital age, privacy on the internet was a critical issue for -- a bipartisan issue that affects everybody. everyone for the most part, at their home, the library, at work, they're going to be buying and purchasing things. susceptible to having their privacy rights infringed. now, we don't look at it as we are going to indict the internet market or the providers. we are doing is trying to have a conversation about where the line between privacy and the legitimate business rights of the internet providers, where should that be drawn? people would drive in a different place, but we want to have that i like to make sure consumers are protected in terms of privacy, but that google and other internet providers are able to conduct business because most of what we do on the internet is

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here's something that people living in florida should know your governor rick scott the national rifle association and the koch brothers funded american legislative exchange council are all working together to make your streets more dangerous restrict your first amendment rights and waste a ton of your taxpayer money and here's how they're doing it last year governor scott signed into law the firearm owners privacy act which bans doctors from asking their patients about gun ownership that law was written by the n.r.a. and has since been introduced as model legislation by the american legislative exchange council it's also a law that was struck down by a federal judge back in july since it clearly violates the first amendment rights of doctors to provide medical guidance to patients. so now governor scott is using taxpayer dollars to defend this law just like he's using taxpayer dollars to defend laws he signed to force welfare recipients to take drug tests to sell public prisons off the for profit corporations and to restrict voting rights all of which have been struck down in court and all of whi

i am president of the national association of advancement of colored people. for the naacp, colored comes in all colors, but there is one color in the rainbow that is almost diminished, and that is the black color. i want to thank the mayor or listening to those of us who've met with him to share our perspective on what we should do collectively and not in isolation to make sure we will not have another press conference to bemoan, complain, wine, cry -- whine, cry about this problem of violence. some do not like to hear this true statement, but the bible says ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. this community will never be free. we will never be liberated from this problem until all of our allies and our friends acknowledge that the epicenter of this problem comes from folk who look like me. i have presided over too many funerals. possibly more than any preacher in this town. persons who are not members of third baptist church. but we are gracious to let them have our facility, to accommodate them. i feel that we have something to shout a

home builders are more confident in the housing recovery this month, according to the national association of home builders with the index rising two points, to 37, up from 35 in july, the highest reading since march, 2007. the index has risen steadily since january. cannon has issued a recall on a popular digital camera. a chemical used in the rubber grit could result in an allergic reaction. contact can usa to get replacement grips installed. there was a voluntary recall of bumbo baby seats because babies can wiggle or fall out of them. consumers are asked to stop using the product immediately. the consumer product safety commission and bumbo baby seats know of 50 incidents where babies fell from a bumbo baby seats that was i raised serious. -- raised surface. 19 were -- resulted in a skull fractures. high temperatures and a lack of rain continue to plague much of the country, and some of the most severe drought conditions are being felt in the midwest, including missouri. we have a live look at how the dry conditions are causing problems. >> at its core, farming can be a hard, demanding

. >> reporter: according to the national association of dent allans, 97% of dental insurance benefitsre offered through employers. for the self-employed and unemployed that leaves few options. now a growing number of consumers are trying discount plans. >> with the economic downturn, discount plans are one of the only products that had been available to individuals to purchase. >> reporter: they operate similar to warehouse clubs. you pay a yearly membership, typically between $75 and $200. >> the dental plan negotiates with the dentist but the dentist gets the full fee or payment at the negotiated rate at the time of service. >> reporter: that discount range can range from 10% to 60%. it lets you compare the cost of more than 30 different dental savings plans. >> it lay louse people to save on procedures, root canals, crowns and even implants. >> reporter: many offer discounts on ortho doesn't ticks and cosmetics. >> through dental plan.com we hooked up were a terrific orthodontist. it came in a little under $3,000. >> reporter: is the plan for you? think about the coverage you need.

the national association of realtors will release two reports for the month of july.dnesday sales for previously owned homes will be released. on thursday we'll hear about the number of new homes sold. they expect the numbers to be better. >>> if you have an iphone or planning to upgrade, the time to trade in is now. the value will drop as everyone decides to trade for the new iphone 5. apple hasn't release lad date yet for the iphone 5 but the rumor is september 10th. >>> money magazine has high praise for one of our local living space. it ranks the columbia ellicott city as one of the best places to live. the area comes in at number eight on the list according to the magazine, columbia and ellicott city offers the best of both worlds. columbia is a laid out community with tons of big box stores. the towns topping the list of best places to live, carmel, indiana. >>> all right, coming up university of maryland students want to kick chick-fil-a out. how they're trying to get it out of their student union, plus mike's update on the forecast. >>> a saturday night run to

the national association of realtors says the national median price for a single-family home rose 7.3%, to $181,000. joining us now to put all this in perspective: stephen gallagher, chief u.s. economist at societe generale. stephen, when you look at the housing market, is it better for buyers@n' or sellers? >> it's clearly bettered for buyers. the lowest mortgage rates pretty much on record, combineed with soft pricing. it's beginning to look a little bit better. >> susie: and for sellers? >> sellers if they're a krntd owner they might have paid more for the home, and if they're willing to hold on algtsd longer speculating that the price may go up a little further from here. >> susie: how would you describe the overall health of the housing market? is it getting back to normal? >> it's getting back to north, but it's a long process. what we're begining to see, and a little more with pricing immediately, is that things are begining to turn positive again. so we're reacting to the3ps fir turn. long way to go to get a recovery to where we were a few years ago, but it's a much better envi

these are numbers that come from the national association of home builders. if you look at multifamily building, for every 100 units produced, 120 construction and construction-related jobs result. a very significant source of job creation in our city. this is a series of statements from our city and economist related to the role that housing played in our economic competitiveness. labor cost tri-cities competitiveness of a business location. two-thirds of the typical businesses expense is labor costs. housing drives the labor cost. housing costs are about 30% of consumer spending. we have the highest priced housing in the region. housing costs are a major reason why the average bay area wages are higher. why san francisco has been a slow growing job center as compared to other jurisdictions in the bay area. what brought us to the table to look at establishing a housing trust fund. we continue to struggle with closing the gap between what people can afford any visible housing -- and the available housing stock. housing production plays an important role in ou

the national association of realtors tracks homes under contract. it's pending sales index rose to a reading of 101.7 in july, that's up nearly 2.5% from the previous month. that's the highest reading since april of 2010, when the homebuyer tax credit boosted sales. on wall street, stocks ended pretty much where they began, the dow and nasdaq both up four, the s&p 500 adding one point. >> susie: hedge funds could start advertising in the coming months. in a four-to-one vote today, the s.e.c. started the process of lifting a decades-old ban on ads for private securities offerings. sylvia hall looks at what it could mean, for the hedge fund industry, and investors. >> reporter: it would be really hard to look around times square and not see an advertisement. businesses of all kinds pay big bucks to put their brands here, but one thing you won't see plastered across these billboards, or any billboard or advertisement, are the words "hedge fund." for decades, they have been banned from advertising to the general public. but earlier this year, congress l

the national association of retailers said that home sales rose to 23% on the june figures. t-mobile hoping to win customers from at&t and verizon, but bringing back their unlimited data plans. it will start selling the plan on september the fifth. they adopted a similar plan last year. at&t stop signing up customers for unlimited data two years ago. last year they were followed by verizon, the number one carrier >> thousands of people are expected to watch the america's cup >> kuerig in the day, it set sail this afternoon around 2:00, strong wind in choppy water expected on the day. few of the votes have tipped over in training over the weekend. today 6 catamarans are set to compete in qualifying races. it all starts around 2:00, so find a c. and check out. >> coming up, new photographs landed prince harry in hot water >> and he is putting,,,,,,,,,,,, >> the model of a michigan startup " don't rush ", look before you flush. they put advertisements on toilet paper. they offered it free to bars and offices and other venues in charge other companies for the privilege of being

before her, such as mary church terrell educator and anti-segregation activist who cofounded national association for advancement of colored people. her greatest motivation comes from a woman who was also a mentor. >> she founded the national council of negro women and who i met in 1936 was a great humanitarian, great leader. on that same day i met mrs. roosevelt. those two women for the rest of their lives were not only friends and mentors but they made a great impact in my life. >> the doctor logged not only historical figures but african american women making history. >> a younger woman, that at 91 everyone seems so young. but i look at the work that others are doing. i look at women in the wide range of fields, there are so many who have gone beyond simply getting skills. they made a commitment to improving the quality of life. and they are great. >> finally, we take you back to ancient egypt. americans may be surprised to learn a handful of women ruled egypt long ago. their names and accomplishments are often over shadowed by those of ramseys, or king tut but can still be seen today. the mos