and some european nations do. remember, the mayor has already spearheaded moves to ban smoking in public places as well as bans on transfats and that soda thing. he has also been a vocal supporter of stricter gun control measures. republican leaders say their party needs to make big changes and they break it all down in a new report which includes this: when someone rolls their eyes at us they are not likely to open their ears to us. what do they plan to do about that? we will get into it. who needs a parachute when you have got a wing suit. you will hear from the dare devils who dropped from the sky and sailed over a big city with little more than the clothes on their backs. that s coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour around the top of the news. [ male announcer ] how do you measure happiness?
to impose a penny per ounce tax on sugary drinks. the mayor and his health officials are right to ashesert that sugary drinks contribute to obesity. mr. bloomberg has worked to improve public health on many fronts. thanks to his efforts smoking is outlawed in most places, transfats are banned. calorie counts are routinely displayed but the big drinks ban was illy conceived and poorly instructed from the start. the mayor will be on the show this morning coming up. let s look at the wall street journal. a ryan reboot. doesn t the house budget chairman understand that the 2012 election settled every political question in president obama s favor? no. the federal fisk is a shambles.
artificial transfats in restaurant foods. in a city of more than 8 million, where the obesity epidemic is responsible for more than 5,000 deaths a year, the mayor says his fight to make new yorkers healthier will continue. overseas now, after more than 11 years of war, we re once again reminded that american lives are at stake in afghanistan every day. yesterday marked the deadliest day of the year for u.s. forces in the country. two separate events took the lives of seven american troops a helicopter crash in southern afghanistan killed five u.s. service members there was no report of enemy activity in the region at the time of the crash, but there is an official investigation underway. earlier in the day, two u.s. special operations personnel were killed during an insider attack at an american post in eastern afghanistan. the attacker dressed in an afghan national security forces uniform, opened fire before being killed in what became a firefight. according to associated press ther
smokers, i don t really mind because i don t light up and hate leaving bars and restaurants reeking and then he came for the folks who like to enjoy occasional transfats or one of those gargantuan sugary drinks and i try to avoid fried foods unless my mom s frying pork chops and think the super sizes are part of the reason why so many have gotten so fat especially kids. well now the billionaire mayor has decided once again to help us help ourselves. he thinks the kids are playing their hip tee hop metal rock too loudly. this week the city of new york announced it was spending $250,000 on a campaign to raise awareness about the quote, safe use of personal music players and the risks of loud and long listening. many worry that this could just be the beginning. your ipod, by the way, gets up to 115 decibels and researchers say 85 is ideal. really? we don t think that people who blast their music think that
bear claw. by definition. that s far more threatening than a pastry gun. i mean he got suspended for two days. what would you do if your kid came home and had a letter from the school saying suspended because eating a pastry in the form of a gun. i don t know what i would do other than laugh uproariously. i know that s not the message to send to the 7-year-old. please let us know your thoughts on this. rick, the only thing that pastry was loaded with is calories. calories, yeah, transfats, maybe. i think it shows a lot of self-control that he was able to actually eat at that slowly and discipline and didn t punch the whole thing in. i never would have been able to do that. take a look at this. we have these big snow storms the last couple weeks across parts of the central plains. that dark color there. state of oklahoma. take a look what happens. since those storms, the drought improving still there we need a lot of