are driving up the cost of roses and add in the bad economy. martha: let me get my violin gregg: orly salinas knows. orly, tell us where the flowers come from. look, most of these flowers come from latin america, specifically columbia and ecuador, stacks of these coming in have been coming in for about 45 days is what i m told. we are now inside the sunburst farms, this is their location here in miami, florida. we have been here just for about 45 minutes or so. joining us right now, this is gino valdez, the president of sunburst farms. gino, if you could, you were telling me ear, this is sort of like your super bowl. absolutely, this is the super bowl for us, it s a time when everything we ve worked for as far as the company, as a group, is right here, and ultimately,
and florists say for the most part, sometimes it is a hard sell to get people to buy flowers and have them delivered on a sunday, because most then who buy these roses, they don t like to have their stuff delivered on a sunday, they want it delivered on the workplace, on a work day, so people can brag and say look, look what my man sent me. we re here at sunburst farms, this is 120,000 square feet of refrench rated warehouse. the trick to this place is keeping everything at a very cool, a very constant, 34 yes. that is the trick. we are now, like said, inside this warehouse. look at this, these are lots of different colored roses. joining me now is gino valdez at sunburst farms. real quick, how do you keep this stuff fresh, and why? the main reason is we got to keep it at 34 degrees and 90 percent relative humanity to keep the flowers fresh and basically keep them dormant. the longer we can keep them
gretchen: tomorrow on the show, country singer matt kennen. have a fantastic day. steve: see you tomorrow, everybody. time for cake. march good morning, everybody, we start with this fox news alert and two big stories that are breaking right now in america s newsroom , the first one is the latest peek that we are getting at the u.s. economy, brand new numbers just out for you on jobs in america, 440,000 americans, that is the number on this thursday morning, they filed first-time unemployment benefits last week. the good news is that that number is actually better than what economists were expecting. what does it all mean? stuart varney joins nous a few minutes. then there it this big story this morning, iran promising the world that on this day they would deal a harsh blow, and now we know on the 31st anniversary of the iranian revolution, ahmadinejad declared today to the people of his country they are now, quote, a nuclear state. the iranian president says they have