the beauty industry and on to the next clean up project, the plastic industry, oil and war industries, too until there are no more toxic chemicals in babies, no more rocket fuel in breast milk or communities burdened by pollution. that is the work before us and that is what we are here to do and thank you so much for joining me for beauty and make over. >> patricia leanne caldwell born in tennessee. daughter of robert and irma. at age of 3 moved to missouri and returned when she was 12 years old. patricia grew up with segregation and injustices which she writes about. she spent many countless hours in the nashville public library. it was her family life that was bountiful and flowing with tales told by her story telling grandfather. raised with love of reading and oral tradition. graduated from tennessee state and degree in english in 1964. she married her childhood friend on december 12. they are the parents of fredrick and twins robert and john. her education continued with a master's degree in early childhood literature, and programming in 1975 from webster university. patricia has

the beauty industry and on to the next clean up project, the plastic industry, oil and war industries, too until there are no more toxic chemicals in babies, no more rocket fuel in breast milk or communities burdened by pollution. that is the work before us and that is what we are here to do and thank you so much for joining me for beauty and make over. >> hi, my name is katie the my first poem is "chipped blue nail polish." heads of the ground focus on her hands, altern ating expressions, multicolored moods, unpredictable. [applause] my second poem is about pro craffletination. that day i had a panic attack. i spent $20 for my class. running late, half-assepd and i still spent $20 for that class. red lights almost every black -- block. the traffic nearly made my heart stop. i ran through my class presentation straight out of the cab. i paid 20 freaking dollars for that cab. thank you. >> hi, my name is daniel and the first poem i'm going to read is shadows. ♪ i'm a shadow that moves away from night falls. i'm a shadow that makes other shadows rise. i'm a shadow that sprints, walks, a

the price of oil has on hospitals. you would not think that it would, but hospitals are a very plastic-based industry. hen oil goes up, the cost of plastics and plastic supplies go up. we predict significant increases in the price of supplies. supervisor campos: that wage comparison you are looking at, that includes health benefits that are given to the employees? >> yes, salaries, wages, and benefits. supervisor campos: to the extent that things like hospital consolidation, the practice that hospitals are increasing costs, then the hospitals themselves are implicated, if they are concluding that cost as part of the wage increase that they are citing as the regioreason for te increase. >> i did not bring it today, but i would be happy to bring you to a look at salary versus benefits. we would be happy to bring that to you. i do not think there has been a big change in the composition. salaries has been a big driver in hospital costs. this next slide just is a graphical depiction. when someone enters the hospital, let's say they are having a heart attack. they encounter so many people in the hospital, f

the higher cost of plastic used in bottles. coke was one of those consumer stocks that held market gains in check. it was the second-worst dow industrial performer, down 1.2%. this is the past 90 sessions. clearly some choppiness. it remains just above its most recent low two weeks ago. also weighing on the consumer sector? auto dealers. auto nation fell more than 4% despite strong profits. group 1 auto fell more than 8%. both dealers warned of the possibility of vehicle shortages this summer due to the japanese disaster. but a different mode of transportation was taking off. delta airlines rose 11%. it lost less money than feared. that's good news. both it and u.s. airways saw stronger revenue, but also higher fuel costs. after the close, southwest air received the justice department okay for its merger with airtran. shares up 1.5% after that news. after the close, amazon.com turned in disappointing results. expenses surged and its outlook was below estimates. shares were down ahead of the news, and were very choppy in after hours-- down 3% to up about 1%. expect some volatility today. finally, the dollar dropped to a fresh two-and-a-

with clipboards to the three stooges running around with plastic bags on our feet and radioactive so there isn't really a stability in the world that's required to operate a nuclear industry and so we should all try to stay away from those locations as much as possible ok so you're advocating basically stay nimble stay mobile stay alert this is why i hate real estate as an investment to have for decades and second to move somewhere some crazy stuff goes on all right well that's all the time we have for the me. you're all of thanks so much being on the kaiser report thank you max all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me next kaiser and stacy herbert and i want to thank my destiny tree or law if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser report at r t t v are you until next time this is max guys are saying bye elf.

the case? we created a new normal. there's a basic plastic founded in the 1970's that were carcinogenic. the industry said it would cost over $1 million. the industry figured out that by enclosing the processes, they actually saved money. it made the industry more competitive. of course these are closed systems. getting there is always a great struggle. >> what lessons do you take on that as you try to move forward? >> we need the support of the public. we really need to make people look at the evidence. the studies showed very clearly that these laws save lives. >> you mentioned that we still have a ways to go. maybe you could talk a little bit about some of the challenges that we still face on worker health and safety. >> first of all, i was at organized labor as a contractor. the thing that i see in my years of teaching and going out to the general public is that a lot of the workers do not have a voice. they do not have a voice in what their rights are. david even said earlier that the osh act is kind of week. we just do not have enough education for the workers out there to know what their right

plastic surgery story we were talking ability. in this tough economy, some people looking for a job are tweaking themselves in addition to their resume. here is the story. >> reporter: in an industry where looks really do matter, nikki wants to get back to work. her secret weapon is something that won't show up on a resume. >> it gives you a bit of an advantage. if it's done right, you look healthy and rested. >> frown. >> reporter: botox, to be exact. it's a way to stay ahead of potential competition. >> i'm getting older. there's going to be younger women vying for the same type of jobs. who knows, they may have an advantage because they are younger. >> reporter: she is not alone. in this tough economy, plastic surgery is on the rise. doctors perform more than 13 million plastic surgeries in 2010. it's a 5% increase from 2009 according to to american society of aesthetic surgery. they attribute it to people who want to look younger as they look for new jobs. >> they want to feel confident about themselves when looking for a new job. >> reporter: this doctor says it's not just people looking for new jobs. male babe boomers also come in. >> they have a job they really want to keep

also ahead tonight a budding wine industry is taking root on treasure island, the unique opportunity for grape growers miles away from the vines. also, fast past goes plastic, all coming up at 6:00. >>> signtys say some deagree from the tsunami earlier in the month is making its way toward u.s. shores. the largest amount is expected to arrive in the waters off of california somewhere between 1 and 3 years from now. they say most of it will be plastics since it doesn't completely decompose but they add, even the large amount of tsunami debris pails in comparison to the litter dumped into ocean on a regular basis. >>> back to the weather right now. all this sunshine and warm weather and that's about to change, isn't it? >> it is about to change, just a little bit. we had three days in a row of record warmth. clouds outside, right now those clouds will thicken up, that will be the main impact tomorrow, mostly cloudy. i don't think the showers will be much to worry about. there's a chance for light sprinkle in the north bay. these are the highs from today. there is your san jose temperature, the old was 83, new record 84 degrees downtown. so that's three days

the best example is for plastics. some were discovered in the 1970's to contain powerful carcinogens. we required full protection in the workplace. the industry said it would cost over 1 million jobs. very quickly, the industry figured out that they could save money. it did not cost a single job. it made the industry more competitive. of course these are closed systems down. we created the new normal. getting there is always a great struggle. >> what lessons do you take from that as you move forward? >> >> the study stabilized and don't cost as much money as people think they will. >> you mentioned that we still have a ways to go. maybe you could talk a little bit about some of the challenges that we still face on worker health and safety. >> first of all, fortunately i have a contract book your that is me extra rights above osha regulations. the thing that i see out there with my years of teaching and going out to the general public, either at a community college or whatever is that a lot of workers do not have a voice in what their rights are. david, you said earlier that the osha laws, they just don't know it. we need better education for

plastic card just like we all have. that was the problem. so i am working with the banking industry, we were able to get bank facilities set up in the army camp so the soldier did not have to run home to pay his family. he did it electronically. that's with a fair leave policy -- everybody home at some point -- we dropped the ua rate to less than 9%. by the time we left, they conduct their own operations. they are deploying the around, they execute the operations, and then withdraw. they are not afraid to take on the enemy. the afghan soldier is a good soldier. he is willing to fight and he is tough in the field. there are several levels of police force. uniformed police -- there is 7500 in the province. there will be north -- there will be more next year. numbers alone and not going to do it. we need trained policeman. so, rather than surge 10,000 all at once, we take it incrementally so when we put police in the beat, he knows what he is doing. there are good units, good precincts. there are others that need more supervision. again, through the partnership program, we are finding

plastic card just like we all have. that was the problem. so i am working with the banking industry, we were able to get bank facilities set up in the army camp so the soldier did not have to run home to pay his family. he did it electronically. that's with a fair leave policy -- everybody home at some point -- we dropped the ua rate to less than 9%. by the time we left, they conduct their own operations. they are deploying the around, they execute the operations, and then withdraw. they are not afraid to take on the enemy. the afghan soldier is a good soldier. he is willing to fight and he is tough in the field. there are several levels of police force. uniformed police -- there is 7500 in the province. there will be north -- there will be more next year. numbers alone and not going to do it. we need trained policeman. so, rather than surge 10,000 all at once, we take it incrementally so when we put police in the beat, he knows what he is doing. there are good units, good precincts. there are others that need more supervision. again, through the partnership program, we are finding

plastic and it's probably better for the voirlt and that's where things work. host: could you make an argument that's the argument to prevent further regulation upon an industry and they enacted their own standards because they didn't want regulation to come down the line? guest: maybe. but wal-mart is an example where they implement changes that because it saves them money but not for near of regulation or standards. i was in wal-mart and the lights were a little duller in the freezers until i opened them and then they became brighter. so again, that's not a driver of a regulation or that they necessarily want to save energy. it's the fact that they are saving energy, because it saves them money, and that helps, because the consumers can then benefit through lower product prices. host: jim on our republican line, go ahead. caller: yes. it's very important. people have to industrialize importance of the old lightbulb. every mobile home had a well and a pressure switch on it. and you needed to put a metal bucket with a lightbulb down there to make enough heat on it so it wouldn't freeze, the pressure switch wouldn't freeze. that was one example. in places we put a