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you might think that hispanics are the fastest growing immigrant group in the country but you d be wrong. a new pew studies shows that asians have surpassed them. 31% for hispanics. 10 years ago asians made up 19% of new immigrants. the number has almost doubled in just a decade. let me bring in deborah faye err rick. a lot of people are talking in our morning meeting about what this means politically, what it means economically. asian immigration way up. it still only makes up 5% of the u.s. population. explain this to us. reporter: it s not 5 or 6%. what we re talking about is a record 18.2 asian-americans in the united states. three or four adults were born abroad. they came from dozens of countries in the far east, southeast asia, the indian subcontinent. the shift occurs over the last decade. in 2005 you see the number of hispanic immigrants dropping while the number of asian immigrants begins to go up sharply. four years later, in 2009, asians become the largest ....
with news that could furtherer ratchet up the tensions. the pentagon is saying t ining s getting ready to send ships to syria. i want to go straight to the pentagon to barbara starr. i was listening to your exchange there in the pentagon briefing earlier today. you were pressing them a bit. tell me about the exchange. reporter: there s been a bit of confusion. there s a urth vessel that turned back to russia. it was a bit of a surprise when the pentagon announced it has information that three warships from russia were headed to syria. i want you to have a listen to what they had to say. the russian military is preparing to dispatch some we think it has supplies and perhaps personnel to their base there. we have no indication that these vessels and that material is being sent to syria for any other puose than the russian military has acknowledged themselves that it s for re-supply and with protection to have that at that facility. what reporter: so far the russia ....