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las vegas in the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. >> so when is surge pricing not surge pricing? that is a question that wendy's is scrambling to answer after news of a fast food chain's creative cost plans fell flat, with the public, this morning after a burger backlash from coast to coast. wendy's is trying to clarify its plan to test so-called dynamic pricing, where customers could see menu prices change during the day based on demand or a restaurant's location. initial reports about the pricing plan led to wendy's normally grilled food, getting roasted in the media, so a burger may cost a dollar more during the lunch rush and $40 more at 3 a.m. >> we know you want it. >> just set a price. >> tell me the price. >> don't. don't punish me for going at a certain time. >> senator elizabeth warren even accused wendy's of price gouging . here's how the controversy started. wendy's ceo last week announced she will begin testing
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more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and daypart offerings, along with ai enabled menu changes and suggestive selling that led to comparisons between wendy's plan and so-called surge pricing used by rideshare company like uber, which charge more during rush hour. but now wendy's is firing back, saying when it comes to surge pricing, we didn't use that phrase, nor do we plan to implement that practice. it now insists that any shift in pricing would be to offer discounts during slower times of the day. >> when it comes to dynamic pricing, the price will change based on how much supply of that product exists. surge pricing has to do with the time of day, so if there's more demand specifically for a time of day, you have that surge price, which ultimately means that price is probably going to increase dynamic pricing. the price could go either higher or lower. >> and if you're still confused, don't worry because wendy's is
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not trying this new plan out until next year. >> it seems like they're reversing course a little bit, huh? >> yeah, we'll see if they end up going through with it, because people were really unhappy about burger with a side of apology. >> all right. coming up, the dad who had to take matters into his own hands as he tried to rush his wife to the hospital to deliver their baby. >> but first, why we have leap day every four years. we will explain what it's all about. you're watching world news now. >> they are some of the hottest videos on social media. those videos claiming to instantly get rid of bags under your eyes. annette figueroa is here to tell us why. she says this one is for real. >> this one is for real and what it does is it tightens and lifts the appearance of bags underneath your eyes. and not only does it work on the bags, it works on the appearance of crow's feet, fine lines and wrinkles. >> try it today for only $14.95 plus get free shipping. visit plexadum. trial.com or call the number on your screen. >> i'm john morgan of morgan and morgan. with so many
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can't do. >> happy march 1st. just kidding . case you haven't checked. today is not just another day. it's not march 1st. it is february 29th. >> leap day, which comes every four years. and most of the time, and without leap day, the world as we know it would cease to exist. is that correct? danny tells the mao. >> dun dun dun craziness. >> hold on. i'm not going to tell you i'm going to show you classes in session. in session. okay, here we go. so this is the sun, right? okay, sun. cool. and then here's the earth. and you know, they always say a year is 365 days. well, we're actually kind of rounding down on that because in our revolution around the sun, which is a year, it's actually. 365.25 just about. that's terrible handwriting, but it's 365.25 about. so that's a quarter of a day every four years. we got to add a day to make up for those fourths that we were taking out. so the world would blow up if we did not. >> yeah. do we need this though?
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not like daylight saving where there's a debate. >> can we get rid of it? it's not all about farming like daylight savings, but with this, let's ask ourselves what would happen if we didn't have leap day? >> okay, let's look at july, for example. okay. usually you're at the beach, you're reading, maybe andrew's there working on his tan. there you go. >> at the beach in manhattan. >> that's right. your favorite manhattan beach. that's a callback. but if there was no leap day, suddenly july would be in the wintertime. our whole calendar would get pushed forward after a couple hundred years. >> oh, okay. >> it would take a while, but then suddenly, suddenly, christmas in july, it would actually happen. it would be warm during christmas. >> that's correct. i still don't see the problem with any of this. right. but how rare is this really? >> right. it's the rarest birthday according to the washington post. but how many people on our 8 million person planet have it 5 million people. but what is the most popular birthday guys? can you guess this? >> i have no idea. >> according to the social security administration, nine on september 9th, which do the math. that that means people
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love the holiday days. if you work back from nine months in september, that means see what you did. >> yeah, well, they get a little time off work. >> that's right. they're home. they're getting presents, they're drinking holiday cocktails. >> and the stork comes around september ninth. >> but as you saw, the least common birthday is christmas. >> okay. it's kind of wild. >> interesting. it is. >> guess we do need it. i don't want to lie to be cold. >> i know people with christmas, birthdays, no one with a leap year. personally >> yeah, it goes leap day, then christmas. mm. >> very interesting. thanks, danny. thank you. andrew >> stay tuned to get this five piece bakeware set a $60 value. absolute free tired of that pan that always sticks. it's so scratched and worn you can't cook in it. >> hi chef daniel green here with my new hammered pans from gotham steel. >> this complete nine piece set is guaranteed to beautify your kitchen like never before. >> gosh, what i love most about this design is this hammered copper look, it would just look so fantastic hanging in my
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their car, the sheriff's deputies ems. they arrived shortly after that. >> the sheriff's office says mom and baby are doing great and presumably, presumably so is dad. >> we hope. huge sigh of relief for dad there. >> yeah. oh, i guess i'm doing this. okay >> there you go. next to the north carolina state swimmer who was stripped of his title moment after his win. >> just the video makes me feel really bad for him. all american senior owen lloyd. he finished saturday 650 yard freestyle and first place, and his teammate ross dan finished just a few seconds later. >> lloyd then climbed up to get closer to dan to celebrate, but he fell into dan's lane while the race was still on going, so officials immediately disqualified him for interfere with another swimmer, despite dan having already finished the race, lloyd was devastated but later said on instagram they can never take away my drive, my passion and my love for my team. that is the dumbest rule i've ever heard in my entire life. yeah, because he was done
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swimming. if he hadn't been done swimming, i get it. but they were both done. you can't strip him. that's just. that's just sad. >> we'll get another chance. andrew >> you know what i'm thinking, right? i don't look back. this is what happens in the acc sometimes. a lot of things happens. >> our college a lot of weird things happen in the atlantic. >> this is just an acc rule. this isn't like an all swimming rule. >> it's probably all swimmers. >> oh i don't know that. >> no, i'm going to do a deep dive on that america and i will let you know. >> expose them. >> rihanna i feel bad for him. but you're right. he'll get another chance. he'll keep swimming next to the fragrant flower. you do not want to give your sweetheart unless you're getting a divorce. >> shakespeare famously wrote a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but there's nothing sweet about this flower. crowds lined up in san francisco to catch a whiff of the infamous corpse flower. remember this guy? yeah >> kind of pretty, though, isn't it? from here, it smells terrible. >> disgusting. >> it's an endangered tropical flower. blooms only once every several years. when it does, it smells like rotting flesh. what
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