when did you realize that you were the gerber baby? >> when i was very young i probably was about three years old when mother pointed out the baby food jar and said that was my ticketer. i thought it was quite a lovely thing. >> is everybody's idea of the perfect baby. >> the original pencil sketch is treated like a holy relic at gerber headquarters in michigan. maryland knox is c.e.o. >> is this possible that this picture really had a role in the success? >> there's little doubt. that face is honored as, we're doing the best for our child. >> no wonder the face is carved in stone near the main entrance. but cook's not the only v.i.p. in this great american success story. >> it is how -- meet sally gerber now 86. she was just a few months old in 1927 when her mother, dorothy, was struggling to make fresh baby food by putting peas through a sive. >> my father is in the canning business, we can do that in a minute at the plant. she said, well, why don't you. >> gerber baby foods was born. over the next 85 years growing in to the multi-bi

doreen gerber, patient: i certainly feel so much better after these treatments. i didn't lose all my hair. i'm not bloated any more. so far, the results of this experimental genetic study are encouraging. dr. pegram: we see no evidence of recurrence of the ovarian cancer following her gene therapy treatment. but patients will continue to be monitored to determine the long-term results of this new treatment technology. another class of drugs, known as angiogenesis-inhibiting drugs, also hold great promise in the ongoing battle with cancer. these drugs cut off the blood supply to tumors, depriving them of the nourishment necessary for growth. dr. glaspy: the angiogenesis-inhibiting drugs... there are a lot of them out there. some of them have exciting pre-clinical data. they're in early clinical trials, and they may sort of change this gameboard a lot for us. then we... get into the realm of experimental treatments, drugs like herceptin, which... attack something that's different about a cancer cell, and make that cell either stop growing, or make it more sensitive

: "world news now" weather brought to you by gerber life insurance. ♪ >>> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by gerber life insurance. weather brought to you by gerber life insurance. ♪ ♪ of >>> there was a wary eye on the sky all weekend, counting the minutes until a defunct research satellite would eventually crash back to earth. >> they knew when but not where it would land. this morning we are now told it completely disintegrated upon reentry. we have a report on the wait and the worry. >> reporter: it's a galactic heads up. scientists say the satellite had fallen back to earth. the problem is, nobody knows exactly where. >> we cannot say when reentry will happen. >> goce launched in 2009 studying earth's gravity field. but now it is out of gas. another piece of spiraling space junk. nasa estimates we are surrounded by 20,000 pieces larger than a softball zipping along at 17,000 miles an hour. causing disaster for astronauts when russians blow up a satellite in the movie "gravity." but in real life, when it falls to earth, mo

doreen gerber, patient: i certainly feel so much better after these treatments. i didn't lose all my hair. i'm not bloated any more. so far, the results of this experimental genetic study are encouraging. dr. pegram: we see no evidence of recurrence of the ovarian cancer following her gene therapy treatment. but patients will continue to be monitored to determine the long-term results of this new treatment technology. another class of drugs, known as angiogenesis-inhibiting drugs, also hold great promise in the ongoing battle with cancer. these drugs cut off the blood supply to tumors, depriving them of the nouriment necessary for growth. dr. glaspy: the angiogenesis-inhibiting drugs... there are a lot of them out there. some of them have exciting pre-clinical data. they're in early clinical trials, and they may sort of change this gameboard a lot for us. then we... get into the realm of experimental treatments, drugs like herceptin, which... attack something that's different about a cancer cell, and make that cell either stop growing, or make it more sensitive t

martin gerber. scientists regard carbon dioxide emissions as the biggest threat to the climax. greenhouse gas levels have continued to ronnie's making in two thousand ten goal of limiting temperature rise below two degrees celsius almost unachievable. but if emissions are not kind and temperatures current and future risk and the philippines and many other coastal regions of the earth is unpredictable always joined by perseus ilbo based climate expert at the free university berlin ellis from today's scientific evidence is there a correlation between devastating storms like icing on the and and human made climate change. one is an issue that is still owed not to marry. i'm guessing it they're ipcc says this is one of the issues that has still to be solved. it is evidence from a few studies that they do say that with the warmer temperatures. at this he says his day is an increasing risk of that intense typhoons and all small cartoons especially in the pacific basin. what do you think. well i sink say as at the end of the most likely thing is the widget high potential that we have

milk but this coffee and chocolate milk manufacturer also owns or helps market purina dog cat food gerber baby food ralph lauren cologne and hair care products these giant corporations essentially have a stranglehold on most of america's consumer market but there's a bigger and even more disturbing picture here many of these corporations are interlocked and interconnected themselves over it they ruled that dot net you can track and discover the connections between america's largest corporations for example according to they ruled out now its most recent information pepsico has a board member who serves on the board of the colonial williamsburg foundation alongside a board member who serves on the board of the kellogg corporation and johnson and johnson had a board as a board member who serves on the board of the u.s. chamber of commerce foundation with a board member of coca-cola. it wasn't always like this believe it or not there was a time when there was plenty of competition in the american marketplace when one corporation didn't own two hundred other companies when the corporations la

milk but this coffee and chocolate milk manufacture also owns or helps market purina dog and cat food gerber baby food ralph lauren cologne and hair care products these giant corporations essentially have a stranglehold on most of america's consumer market but there's a bigger and even more disturbing picture here many of these corporations are interlocked and interconnected themselves over it they ruled that dot net you can track and discover the connections between america's largest corporations for example according to they ruled out now its most recent information pepsico has a board member who serves on the board of the colonial williamsburg foundation alongside a board member who serves on the board of the kellogg corporation and johnson and johnson had a board as a board member who serves on the board of the u.s. chamber of commerce foundation with a board member of coca-cola. it wasn't always like this believe it or not there was a time when there was plenty of competition in the american marketplace when one corporation didn't own two hundred other companies when the corporations la

next on the patriot, we have ryan allen, voted most likely to have just graduated to gerber stage 3. [ laughter ] isn't he a cute little kid? beautiful little boy. next from the broncos is star quarterback, peyton manning. [ cheers ] he was voted most likely to look like a fun house mirror image of himself. [ laughter ] from the patriots, we have sebastian volmer. he was voted most likely to be called for depressing the passer. [ laughter ] okay, buddy? i hate football. [ laughter ] next up from the patriots, we have logan ryan. he was voted least black name. [ laughter ] hi, logan ryan. how are ya? hi. logan ryan. also from the patriots, matthew slater. voted the second least black man -- [ laughter ] hey, matthew slater. pleasure, nice to meet you. here's another patriot, julian edleman. he was voted biggest little rascal. [ laughter ] i remember him. i remember him. and finally, from the broncos, we have chris cooper. he was voted most sober rob ford. there you go. there are your nfl superlatives. [ cheers and applause ] we have a great show to give it up! [ cheers and applause ]

babies that are having soy formula, well, they're drinking adm products, and once they graduate to gerber food, well, guess what? they still are. it's sort--sort of, you know, americans get raised on a taste of adm. in the late 1980s, they decided that the future of this business was in a form of bioengineering, not creating a new food, but using bacteria with specific jobs to create other ingredients, and the first one they went into is something called lysine, which is used to fatten up pigs and chickens by adding it to their feed. and that requires a particular bacteria, which goes into a gigantic fermenter. you feed them corn dextrose, or at least adm feeds them corn dextrose, and the bacteria ultimately converts that dextrose into--into lysine, which is then packaged and sold to the farmers and goes to the chickens, and we ultimately pay for it ourselves when we buy our chicken mcnuggets. c-span: how big of gross business do they do every year? >> guest: it's a $20 billion a year business. c-span: how many employees? >> guest: i don't know, but i know it numbers into the thousands. c

bill gerber, a member of cnbc's global council. raked in record revenue and the stock is up more than 17% so far this year, which, i asked bill off camera and he said it's really management. the ceo and the cfo basically responsible for it. really? >> yeah. you might as well. >> if it goes down. >> so have you -- one thing we've been talking about a lot is do the stock prices of the social media companies reflect a froth that's been nowhere to be seen for the past five years? seeing that you deal with retail investors, are you seeing evidence that is true? that there is some froth? or are they back a little bit at least? >> well, we believe there's a little froth in there, absolutely. when companies start getting priced again on revenue versus earnings. >> but what about the phone call. not just your opinion about whether the stock's cheap, are you seei ining anecdotally incrd activity, customers coming in. do you have a broker of the day? >> no, not as much. >> no? >> no, we don't see the long-term investor is really not back yet.

aunt barbara is here spreading her holiday ♪ >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by gerber >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by gerbar life insurance. gerbear life insr life insurance. >>> a courtroom drama is playing out in washington that could forever change the way we see water shows at sea world. >> t >>> a courtroom drama is playing out in washington that could forever change the way we see water shows at sea world. >> the issue is whether human trainers should be allowed to swim with killer whales after the recent death of a trainer. abc's david wright has more. >> reporter: since the days of shamu, the bond between killer whales and their trainers have been the star attraction at sea world. dazzling families with acrobatic fetes and in 2010 they were -- feats, and banned from getting in the tank after a trainer was dragged to her death in florida. sea world asked the federal court to lift the ban. sea world argues having their trainers swim with whales is fundamental to its business. they argue banning it is like imposing speed limits at nascar r

. - what about gerber dsies - i don't think daises look good with lilies. do you wt this cake? i'm going to tell you right now, when you look at the cake, it's going to look very plain. - i'm the expert. - i'm not saying you aren't. - listen to me-- listen to me and focus. have you even looked at bridesmaids dresses? - yep. - this is a good length, but these dresses are not that cute. - you don't think they're cute? - no-- i don't think they're that cute. you know it's going to be cold in march? - yep. - so what are you going to do about that? - i'm going to wear a shawl. - no. - as a bridezilla i come off as i speak my mind and to be honest i'm doing it to benefit the bride. the future brides they need to learn. thank you for coming. i'm so sorry again i was late. did u grab a card? - yeah. i want someone to tell me the truth instead of telling me, "oh, okay, that's really te." uh no, i wanted her to tell me that. she's an expert. - coming up... when andrea's stylist falls down on her dye job... - it's not [deleted] colored. what the hell is the probl? - ...it turns into a hai