coming up, julie chen before coming up, julie chen before and after the cbs host's ♪ take me into your darkest hour ♪ ♪ and i'll never desert you ♪ ♪ i'll stand by you yeaaaah! yeah. so that's our loyalty program. you're automatically enrolled, and the longer you stay, the more rewards you get. great! oh! ♪ i'll stand by you ♪ won't let nobody hurt you ♪ isn't there a simpler way to explain the loyalty program? yes. but julie chen didn't always look e way she does now . >>> she is one of the most recognizable hosts on television. but julie chen didn't always look the way she does today. >> she revealed she had secret plastic surgery because her boss and agent said she looked too chinese. here is the before and after. on the left, 1996. on the right what she looks like today. >> one agent basically told me the same thing. i cannot represent you unless you get plastic surgery to make your eyes look bigger. and i did it. >> how do you feel -- >> well, now i sometimes wonder but i will say after i had that done everything kind of -- the ball did roll for me. which, you know,

coming up, julie chen before and after the cbs host's secret plastic surgery to look less asian. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, but julie chen didn't always look way she does now. . >>> she is one of the most recognizable hosts on television. but julie chen didn't always look the way she does today. >> she revealed she had secret plastic surgery because her boss and agent said she looked too chinese. here is the before and after. on the left, 1996. on the right what she looks like today. >> one agent basically told me the same thing. i cannot represent you unless you get plastic surgery to make your eyes look bigger. and i did it. >> how do you feel -- >> well, now i sometimes wonder but i will say after i had that done everything kind of -- the ball did roll for me. which, you know, i struggle with wow! you know, did i give in and do this. >> she became the anchor for cbs morning news and host big brother and now the talk. >> interesting decision. all right. >> we will be right back. ,,,,,,,, there are so many things that we do on a daily basis. we run errands. we run to the grocery store. in

chen said authorities continued to harass his family. he said someone had thrown stones and dead animals into the garden of the family home. >>> some fishermen working off the coast of northeastern japan are back on the water. they've been fishing well offshore checking their catches for safety, then putting them on the market. but fishing was suspended after radioactive water was found to be leaking from the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant into the ocean. 21 trollers left the port in a city of soma all in the morning. >> translator: we have to show tepco, the japanese government and people everywhere that we are really determined to resume full-scale fishing operations. >> members of the cooperative say tests of fish and ocean water did not show any problems, so they decided to return to whork. crews have to fish at least 50 kilometers from fukushima daiichi and more than 150 meters deep. and they can only catch 16 kinds of seafood including squid. those species have significantly lower levels of radiation than government standards. >>>

this is the older, you know, local anchor, dayton, ohio, julie chen. i'm wondering, first wendy to you and then kelly. do you think if she had stayed as we saw on the left side of the screen, do you think she would be in the position she is today? >> you know, that's a tough question. i'll take that first. i mean, at the end of the day, when you look at julie's skills, she's an incredible reporter, anchor, role model. fabulous on-air talent and she's good at what she does. given the climate 18 years ago in the midwest, i don't know. and so, again, i respect her decision to make the choices she made. i color my hair. there, it's out. >> me, too. guilty. >> i don't know if that makes me more successful or not. my husband says let your hair go curly and stop dyeing it. who knows. but all i have to say is at the end of the day, she's really good at her job. she was beautiful before, she's beautiful now, and i think we need to, again, continue to celebrate diversity. but yeah, that's a good question. >> i'm going to leave it there because i love that final

chen did undergo the procedure. chen's story prompted a backlash. some critics accused her of selling out and others claim she had other surgery too. this week chen addressed the question again. >> i do not have cheek implants. i did not take out fat over here to make my cheeks look more -- i did not have chin surgery. i did not have a nose job. i have not done my teeth. nothing. nothing else has been done. >> in an effort to quiet chen's critics, the talk showed a sequence of the application process. at a time when they are not just anchors but news division chiefs many television journalists are under a double standard. joining me is kelly mcbride and wendy is a former anchor for a station in orlando. wendy, how much pressure did one face back then? what do you make of julie chen's story? >> if you talk about pressure specifically as an asian american woman, i didn't really feel anything particular, anything stronger than i would have as a young reporter or a young anchor in large market like orlando. i didn't feel any pressure ever to not appear

brand-new capitalist jerry chen checks in. our reporter, editor of silicon beat and chris from eweek this week on "press: here." good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. i got a job offer the other day and i took it. a job no one, including my boss, knew i had for which i was paid $10. the job involved walking into a beauty supply store in silicon valley and documenting tweezers. yeah, tweezers. so the manufacturers could see if they were stocked properly. tight about five minutes. i picked up the extra work through an app called gigwalk. turns out gig walkers are all around us, regular folks with regular jobs and a smartphone doing small tasks for a little extra pocket money. a mobile workforce of more than 300,000 users and growing all controlled by a small startup in san francisco. matt is one of three gigwalk founders, all former yahoo! engineers, cnn calls the company brilliant, one of the most innovative companies in mobile. joined by chris from eweek and the reporter from silicon beat as well. well, this seems fairly s

: comments about chen's eyes aren't the only ethnic racism she's endured. recently on "big brother," one contestant made a slur toward an asian housemate. >> shut up, go make some rice. >> reporter: she later apologized but chen told tmz the comments bothered her. >> i was offended by the anti-gay, the anti-black, but especially the anti-asian for obvious reasons. >> reporter: many weighing in, saying they don't like chen's explanation. but chen insists he's not rejecting her heritage and never would. >> no one is more proud of being chinese than i am. >> reporter: after a lot of conversation, her parents supported her decision. and she doesn't have regrets about the surgery. she says it took about a year to completely heal. then, at that point, she credits it with, quote, getting the ball rolling in her career. lara? >> linsey, thank you. she looks gorgeous. >> real honest interview. >> very honest. >>> coming up on "good morning america," the contestant making history at this year's miss america competition. going from active duty to center stage. what he

what do you think. >> reporter: talk show host julie chen's revelation that she had plastic surgery to make her eyes look bigger is raising eyebrows across the country. look at chen before and after. >> members of my family wanted to disown me if i got it done. >> reporter: she says she got the controversial surgery only after a, quote, big time agent told her the same thing her boss said, that her asian eyes would limit her success. >> he said you look disinterested, bored, because your eyes are so heavy, so small. >> reporter: eye lid surgery is the most popular for asian americans, more than 10,000 do it each year. that number is on the rise. from 2011 to 2012 cosmetic plastic surgeries for asian americans jumped 21 percent. one of the more common plastic surgery procedures for african-americans and hispanics is nose reshaping while 76 percent of botox and breast augmentations were performed on caucasians. >> we see it as a global phenomenon. >> reporter: chen says the surgery catapulted her career. >> after i had that done everything kind of -- the ball did roll for me. >> reporter

if you look at the after, the eyes are bigger, i look more alert. >> reporter: chen says she got the controversial surgery early in her career, after she allegedly asked her boss if she could anchor a newscast. >> and he said, you will never be on this anchor desk because you're chinese. >> reporter: that boss and later what chen described as a big-time agent, told her her asian eyes would limit her success. >> he said, you look disinterested. you look bored because your eyes are so heavy. they're so small. >> reporter: she says the procedure catapulted her career. eyelid surgery is the most popular surgery for asian-americans. more than 10,000 asian-americans have the procedure done each year. >> this is a growing trend. i think particularly my colleagues in south korea are seeing this almost more than seven times a day. >> reporter: but some say the surgeries cut even deeper, to the core of ethnic identity. >> members of my family wanted to disown me. >> reporter: comments about chen's eyes aren't the only ethnic racism she's endured. recently on "big brother," one contestant made

hello and welcome to america tonight, i'm joie chen. president obama races home tonight after what is shaping to a down to the wire approach for his strike on syria. as the clock ticks down to the case on capitol hill, president obama makes his case directly to the american people. america tonight correspondent sheila macvicar, real toe to toe with syria's strong supporter, sheila. >>> a one on one with vladimir putin. putin really is the winner leer. not only did he -- not only did he find that peerns who might otherwise be allies of the united states were insistent that there has to be a u.n. resolution for any kind of military intervention, he also found i think that his views held sway. syria was on the table, last night, dinner table conversation, they talked about chemical weapons use. the room unanimously agreed that chemical weapons had been used. there was no agreement though on who was responsible for them. and there was further this very strong argument about going to the u.n. which the president addressed today before he lef

let me start by opposing a question to karen chen from the public defenders office. karen, can you -- how about if you start by giving us an overview of how the city handles this conflict between treatment and civil liberties. >> an involuntary hold starts in san francisco when a peace officer or a clinician makes the determination that the person is due to a mental disorder, is a danger to others or danger to self or gravely disabled. gravely disabled means that person does not have the ability to provide for basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter. and the legal representation starts in most cases the first 3 days of the involuntary hold during the initial psychiatric evaluation and then the legal representation also continues with if the person is asked to be stayed or referred for further treatment up to 14 days. during this phase, the attorneys will represent the clients about whether or not they will have to stay on this hold, whether they have to take medications. if a person after at the end of the 14 day hold is found that may need further treatment,

before that, you're probably asking for frustration. >> sharon chen kpix 5. >> apple has a lot riegd on these new iphones. in the past year the company's value has dropped by a third. >>> two dogs found in fremont this week have been reunited with their owner. police say the owner came forward to claim these yorkie miksz. a witness said he saw one of the dogs jump out of a truck on wednesday. someone else found the other dog about a half mile away, but the owner told police today she didn't abandon them. they got away from her while she was taking them for a little walk. >>> paul, now, today definitely with the clouds coming in, tooler temperatures, it's here. >> an official time. 1:44 sunday afternoon when the seasons actually change but usually that first cold front or first wave of fall weather maks you think summer is over. today may have been that day for you. wasn't today probably is going to be tomorrow when it begins to rain throughout the bay area. updated rain fall totals coming up in the 2nd. not the typical low cloud cover. we have clouds on many level of the atmosphere.

sharon chen is at nasa where this spacecraft was design and had built. sharon. >> ken, lots of people came here, thousands of people came here, in fact to, watch the launch on the big screen because this is really a big deal for the folks here. >> 4, 3, 2, 1 [ crowd choring ] . >> the launch of the pride of nasa mountain view scientists developed, built and tested the spacecraft. this engineer worked on its propulsion. >> very happy, very proud, you know, all the hard work we have put in. >> the robotic mission will order the moon to gain unprecedented details about its at moose fear. scientists hope it will also uncover some of the mystery of the universe. >> the moon is such a fak louse fascinating place. it actually holds in cold storage a lot of seek rets and the mysteries of material that fell on the moon in the very early day sgls after the launch, researchers began the next phase, control tg robot. scientists say the couch-sized represents a new crass of explorers. >> this kind of small spacecraft has a lot to offer, and we have a lot of questions

and now julie chen, you may remember, she sat in the newsroom and told me hers was a bomb shell that caused controversy within her family at the time. kev, you were with her after that secret. >> yes, moments after that secret, julie chen's revelation is trending now. >> had eye

chelsea chen is a 20 something from shanghai, the very consumer ford wants to tartar get. chen says china's one child policy has changed the way her generation lives. >> because we don't have any brothers or sisters. so our school mates, our colleagues, might be our best friends, i think our generation are just -- we are looking for ways to group activities. >> their love for group activities such as karaoke prompted ford to sponsor china's version of "american idol," helping to sell cars like the focus now a favorite in china. companies everywhere see this country's 20 somethings as perhaps the most important up and coming consumers in the world. market researcher p.t. black says the secret to wooing them is to understand young chinese move between a modern china and a world of tradition, and that they aspire to master these competing worlds. >> a chameleon is someone who can fit into any circumstance. mastering different circumstances, knowing what to wear to a picnic versus a movie opening, that's the kind of mastery that kids here are really looking for. >> pepsi says

chelsea chen is a 20 something from shanghai, the very consumer ford wants to tartar get. chen says china's one child policy has changed the way her generation lives. >> because we don't have any brothers or sisters. so our school mates, our colleagues, might be our best friends, i think our generation are just -- we are looking for ways to group activities. >> their love for group activities such as karaoke prompted ford to sponsor china's version of "american idol," helping to sell cars like the focus now a favorite in china. companies everywhere see this country's 20 somethings as perhaps the most important up and coming consumers in the world. market researcher p.t. black says the secret to wooing them is to understand young chinese move between a modern china and a world of tradition, and that they aspire to master these competing worlds. >> a chameleon is someone who can fit into any circumstance. mastering different circumstances, knowing what to wear to a picnic versus a movie opening, that's the kind of mastery that kids here are really looking for. >> pepsi says

juliette. >> sharon chen, thank you. and tomorrow, secretary of defense and secretary of state will testify in support of a military strike at the senate foreign relations committee. >>> well, the ads are popping up across the country in the bay area. what women are selling to trick men into marrying them. >>> also, three deaths in less than a week. what's so dangerous about a new drug that's gaining popularity. >>> and the new bay bridge is ready for the big one. ready for the big one. ,,,,,,,,,,,, ♪ take me into your darkest hour ♪ ♪ and i'll never desert you ♪ ♪ i'll stand by you yeaaaah! yeah. so that's our loyalty program. you're automatically enrolled, and the longer you stay, the more rewards you get. great! oh! ♪ i'll stand by you ♪ won't let nobody hurt you ♪ isn't there a simpler way to explain the loyalty program? yes. standing by you from day one. now, that's progressive. too small. too soft. too tasty. [ both laugh ] [ male announcer ] introducing progresso's new creamy alfredo soup. inspired

juliette. >> sharon chen, thank you. and tomorrow, secretary of defense and secretary of state will testify in support of a military strike at the senate foreign relations committee. >>> well, the ads are popping up across the country in the bay area. what women are selling to trick men into marrying them. >>> also, three deaths in less than a week. what's so dangerous about a new drug that's gaining popularity. >>> and the new bay bridge is ready for the big one. see how it was designed to move and shake in an earthquake. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, open. our joe vazquez was one of the first to drive . >>> i'm ken bastida. we're back live, and there it is. the new eastern span of the bay bridge is open. now, hundreds and hundreds of cars have gone by in the last, well, 20, 35 minutes or so. it started with a westbound onslaught. now, the eastbound folks are going from san francisco to oakland on that side over there, and really a relief for a lot of people who were counting on this bridge opening up on time. in fact, it opened up al

here's lindsey davis. >> reporter: julie chen's talk show revelation that she had plastic surgery to make her eyes look bigger is raise something eyebrows across the country. look at before and after. >> members of the family wanted to disown me if i got it done. >> reporter: he got it after a "big time" told her the same thing her then boss said that her asian eyes would limit her success. >> he said, "you look disinterested. you look bored because your eyes are so heavy, they're so small." >> reporter: eyelid surgery is the most popular surgery for asian-americans. more than 10,000 asian-americans do it every year and that number is on the rise. from 2011 to 2012, cosmetic plastic surgeries for asian-americans jumped 21%. different ethnicities often have unique things about the features they would like to change. one common cosmetic surgery for african-american and hispanics is nose reshaping and 76% of breast augmentation and botox operations were performed on caucasians. >> i think we see that across all races. we see aesthetic surgery as a global phenomenon. >> reporter: chen sa

julie chen said she had secret surgery to change her eyes. >> the reason she thought it would make her more successful in tv. here's linsey davis. >> reporter: julie chen's talk show revelation that she had plastic surgery to make her eyes bigger is raising eyebrows. >> members of the family wanted to disown me if i got it done. >> reporter: he got it after a big time agent told her the same thing her then boss said that her asian eyes would limit her success. >> he said you look disinterested. you look bored because your eyes are so heavy, they are so small. >> reporter: eyelid surgery is the most popular surgery for asian-americans. more than 10,000 asian-americans do it every year and that number is on the rise. from 2011, to 2012, cosmetic plastic surgeries for asian-americans jumped 21%. different ethnicities often have you know things about their features they would like to change. one common cosmetic surgery for african-american and hispanics is nose reshaping and 76% of breast augmentation and botox operations were performed on caucasians. >> i think we see that across all race

. >> america tonight with joie chen is next. i'll see you here at 11 eastern time, and you can get your news at aljazeera. come. >> on america tonight - at an end the month-long hunger strike by california prisoners and the grim isolated conditions that led to their protest. >> it's lonely. everybody has their own experience. some people go stark raving mad immediately. >> and the people speak on the question of a strike against syria law makers ready themselves for a tough vote in washington and get an earful back home. >> we are sick to death of war. >> also walmart wages - a new round of protest by some of america's lowest paid workers, and what they hope to get out of this strike. sh >> good evening, welcome to america tonight. i'm joie chen. we begin tonight with an end. after nearly two months without food, california prisoners today halted a hunger strike where many refused to eat. the prisoners were protesting conditions - like holding prisoners in solitary for years. state law planners are planning hearings, and say the

kenneth feinberg talks to joe je chen. he said a similar fund would not work now. >> the idea that you're going to take public taxpayer money, and compensate just these victims, bad things happen to good people every day in this country, and there's not a 9/11 victim compensation fund. there was not a katrina victim compensation fund. there wasn't a tornado or hurricane compensation fund. no, the think the funds should be viewed for what it was. a success, sound, don't ever do it again. not with public money. >> as we remember the victims of 9/11, we're joined by david, his father was on board the american airlines flight 11, the first plane to strike the world trade center. david heard the news while reporting from moscow working as a journalist for "the boston globe." we're pleased to have him here with us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> give your father was on that plane, you came down on the train tonight to new york. what is this day like for you? >> well, you know, it's changed over the years. you can't help fee

deputy chief david chen. deputy chief john loftus. deputy chief michael beal. deputy chief tomakia, my boss and the chief gregory pesir. and last and not least the mayor of city and county of san francisco, ed lee. first i would like to start with vice president turman and president mazzucco to say a few words for you. >> thank you very much, inspector monroe, distinguished guests. tonight i ask my vice president turman to be present, because he actually participated in the selection of these awards. on behalf of the police commission i want to congratulate the officers and their families. we have had a busy week at the san francisco police department, on friday night we graduated 46 brand-new officers from the 235th recruit class, and during my speech to the officers, i talked about being courageous. you are courageous. i talked about becoming san francisco's finest. you are san francisco's finest. on tuesday we had a promotion ceremony and another speech speaking to officers and commanders and i spoke to them about their role and what is expected of them trai

that the fed and we've got you know actually ongoing trouble elsewhere in emerging emerging markets so chen has come out and said that we could say if we do indeed see the situation in syria escalating we could see an oil price of one hundred fifty dollars per barrel can you explain to me one crashes if that was going to happen what prices that would put on the global economy would have a massively detrimental effect on growth pretty much everywhere there are very few beneficiaries you can imagine even officials are going to be the oil producing states in the gulf probably nigeria with africa for pretty much everywhere else it's even for russia it's broadly neutral. and generally speaking the countries which are going to get hit the hardest are those with large relatively inefficient manufacturing bases top of that list india and china india is already struggling china has got a relatively competitive currency at this point to to at it's part of the last thing it needs is an oil price shock and of course that's a knock on effect into a broader sense of consumption if you a disposable income

that the fed and we've got you know actually ongoing trouble elsewhere in emerging emerging markets so chen has come out and said that we could say if we do indeed see the situation in syria escalating we could see an oil price of one hundred fifty dollars per barrel can you explain to me one crashes if that was going to happen the prices that would put on the global economy would have a massively detrimental effect on growth pretty much everywhere there are very few beneficiaries you can imagine when officials are going to be the oil producing states in the gulf probably nigeria with africa for pretty much everywhere else it's even for russia it's broadly neutral and generally speaking the countries which are going to get hit the hardest are those with large relatively inefficient manufacturing bases top of that list india and china india is already struggling china has got a relatively competitive currency at this point or two it's part of the last thing it needs is an oil price shock and of course that's a knock on effect into a broader base of consumption if you a disposable income is a

at the fed and we've got you know actually ongoing trouble elsewhere in emerging emerging markets so chen has come out and said that we could say if we do indeed see the situation in syria escalating we could see an oil price of one hundred fifty dollars a barrel can you explain to me one crashes if that was going to happen what prices that would put on the global economy would have a massively detrimental effect on growth pretty much everywhere there are very few beneficiaries you can imagine when officials are going to be the oil producing states in the gulf probably nigeria with africa pretty much everywhere else. even for russia it's broadly neutral and generally speaking the countries which are going to get hit the hardest are those with large relatively inefficient manufacturing bases top of that list india and china india is already struggling china has got a relatively competitive currency at this point or two it's part of the last thing it needs is an oil price shock and of course that's a knock on effect into a broader sense of consumption if you a disposable income is already b