exactly how it came down. they re all trying to figure this out. but these deaths brings the total foreign troops killed in afghanistan to 529 for this year alone, a new record, a very grim record here in afghanistan. the record is 521 in 12 months, and this was set in only ten minutes. the military has ten months. the military has said this would be a bloody and dangerous year and this sums it up. jenna: thank you very much, conor powell. jon: iran held sarah shourd in prison for a year, often in solitary confinement. she s home but her two friends remain in jail. what are the prospects for the release and what s it like for americans held prisoner in iran? plus a request to put genetically modified salmon into the food chain. that is sparking all kinds of safety concerns. see the big one in the back?
eating salmon for hundreds of thousands of years, humans have, we know it s safe. we ve never eaten it with another species, making it do something different so there are cumulative problems that can happen over time. jon: but the other fish is not poisonous or anything like that. but we re making that salmon produce a growth hormone that is going to that may have long term effects on us. the second problem, of course, is environmental. these fish get out, with the wild salmon stocks, then we have genetically improving those wild salmon stocks. salmon is good for you, it needs cold water, they do fantastically well, so it seems like thiso oel well, while it s important to stud agree and look at may not ab great solution in the long run. jon: but the fish would be farm-raised, they wouldn t be in the wild. everything we try to farm raise manages to escape. that s what s great about nature, it finds a way out. so when you take something
the top 15 or so. reporter: 36. jenna: 36 okay they had multiple lists. these are the hot toys for your kids and we have a few of them. reporter: can you hold that up. jenna: of course i can. reporter: that s ariel. if you put a blond wig on that maybe we can call it tickle me jenna. jenna: come on. reporter: this is for girls. i think it s three years in 8. this is one of the hot items this year. jenna: she is cute. reporter: i think you can enroll your daughter or niece, there is a ballroom dress that you can get. jenna: jon you can play with her, imagination. reporter: imagination. this is the loops, this is this toy should be renamed to how to annoy your parents at all hours of the morning on saturday because it makes a lot of noise. get the game going. do you remember the old. jon: wack it. reporter: it s a coordination thing where it tells you. can you hear that. jenna: yeah we can hear it.
obviously the company spent a lot more money when she left. she ran a very successful company. reporter: that last ad is laughable, trying it portray whitman as failed ceo, and the harvard business review calls her one of the best so of her time. another ad that s untrue, bill clinton s spot about jerry brown, turns out, jenna, when you incorporate inflation and population gains, taxes went down. then for brown to claim i created 1.8 million jobs, well, of course, california doubled well, i ll exaggerating there, california population went up a huge amount during that time. but that ad is very effective, which is why the whitman campaign will not withdraw it, even though bill clinton says okay, i was wrong. jenna. jenna: those political ads may not be the best source of accurate information but they are sure fun to watch, especially with that pinocchio! william, thank you very much. william la jeunesse in l.a., thank you. jon: the american hiker freed after more than a year, locked
galvanize voting blocks i think is reprehensible. reporter: that s language we heard as well from senator collins this morning too, jon. jon: any chance that the partisan gap can be closed here to get this thing done? reporter: you know, folks here on capitol hill certainly hope so. senator carl levin is aeu peeling to them saying remember, this is about our military, about funding them. here is what he had to say. while there are some issues on which we may disagree i think we all know that we must provide our troops the support that they need as long as they remain in harm s way. senate action on the national defense authorization act for fist skal year 2011 will improve fiscal year 2011 will improve the quality of life of our men and women in uniform. reporter: a lot of procedural votes skopling up this afternoon. we will keep a close eye on it. jon: shannon bream, thanks. get back to us.