linzie janis, abc news, new york. a consumer alert this morning from food giant kraft recalling hot dogs due to a labeling problem. 96,000 pounds of various oscar mayer classic wieners recalled because they could contain cheese, they could pose a problem with consumers who have dairy allergies. the usda was alerted about the labeling problem over the weekend before the recall was announced. dozens of customers at a southern california fast food restaurant ended up paying a high price. customer dino and his wife had to pay $10.20 for a meal, and they ended up being charged $10,200. they didn t realize anything was wrong until the bank called them to say they were overdrawn. the restaurant blames a computer glitch and says everyone is going to get a refund. hope it was a good meal. i know. that s a lot of money. wow. all right, now that the bunny has made its rounds there s plenty of easter candy that needs to be eaten. one guy took it as a challenge. competitive eater matt
beloved tv series is going to join us. he s going to talk about veronica mars, about the business. that s going to be fun. what s interesting about that is the wall street and the l.a. out of the moving making business. fans produce their own movies. talk about david versus goliath. two moms taking on food giant kraft. they started a petition online calling on kraft to remove two ingredients from its mac and cheese. now more than 220,000 people have signed on asking kraft to take out the artificial coloring called yellow 5 and yellow 6. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. elizabeth, good morning. these ingredients are just cosmetic. but what was so interesting to me, you put them side by side with them without that artificial coloring and it basically still looks the same. doesn t it? well, i think it probably can look a little bit different. and i ll tell you this color that you get from these dyes that are become so controversial. the blight yello
he s running for reelection. he s sago owe i m saying he s got a lot of explaining to do about the economy if that s what he s out talking about. i don t think the folks in iowa are going to be real excited about unemployment rate where it is and the number of americans who are out of work. this president has been an ab jekt failure when it comes to the economy. republican candidate michele bachmann s bus will be in dpreenville and spartanburg, south carolina, today. today is the national day of action. latino groups will protest the immigration policies. he s been criticized for the number of undocumented immigrants 1:30 eastern in boston. 2:00 eastern in charlotte and 3:00 eastern in miami. now on to san francisco. bart says the trains are running on normal schedules again. transit officials closed and reopened several downtown stations yesterday to keep protests from getting out of hand. protestors are calling attention to several shootings involving bart polic
some 5,000 palestinians reportedly fled a u.n. refugee camp. more than 40 people have been killed in two days. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s news leader. world business today starts right now. good morning. from cnn london. i m charles hodson. and very good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the top stories this tuesday, august 16th. new signs of slowing growth in europe as leaders of the euro zones top two economies try to restore confidence in the region. google announces its biggest bet. what s in it for the company and what it means for consumers. warren buffett says tax the mega rich. just how much of a difference would that make? we ll crunch the numbers. let s go straight to the market action in europe now where stock exchanges have been open just over an hour. here s how they re performing so far today. we re seeing a selloff, in fact a considerable selloff throwing away the gains that we