Showdown at the Fast Food Counter
ROBERTS: 21 minutes after the hour. We're following breaking news this morning. A deadly storm system spawning several tornadoes across the Midwest. In Iowa, four people were killed when a twister ripped through a Boy Scout camp ground. And in Kansas, two people died after a tornado touched down there destroying more than 60 homes and 3 schools. And if you have any pictures or video of the storm that you took, send it to us. Go to CNN.com/i-report. Kyra?</s>PHILLIPS: Well, the fat police are back in New York. A new rule requiring fast food and restaurant chains to post calorie counts on menus has been in placed for just over a month now. But it seems that a lot of restaurants in the Big Apple were not too happy about it. Imagine that. CNN's Richard Roth live for us at the Dunkin Donuts at Manhattan's Westside. Now Richard, anyone coming for jelly-filled doughnut does not want to know how many calories exist in that price.</s>RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's their problem. But New York City is worried about obesity. That's the number one health issue for New York. But since this law went into effect, only 25 percent of this chain food restaurants had been complying says officials. And there's a court appeal by the restaurant association today where this will be bought out right now. Menu calorie postings, a new order of the day.</s>ROTH (voice-over): What's new on the menu at fast food restaurants in New York City? Calories, and they're everywhere. The city has now given chain restaurants an order. Put up calorie counts on menu boards for customers.</s>THOMAS FRIEDEN, NYC HEALTH COMMISSIONER: The food that people get in chain restaurants has lots of calories. Many more calories than people realize.</s>ROTH: Some change such as Chipotle Mexican Grill had complied.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's nice to know the calories that are involved.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think it definitely affects what you order when you can see like what you're putting into your body.</s>ROTH: Some guests have no time for food for thought.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To be honest with you I think it's ridiculous -- the calorie count, because I don't really look at calories. I just -- I want to eat fast food</s>ROTH: Chipotle puts up a range of calories for its choices because of different ingredients.</s>RON DIAMOND, MANAGER, CHIPOTLE: There's been no impact on our business as far as we're concern. It's business as usual.</s>ROTH: Subway also has calorie counts. Jessica Chamberlain (ph) is glad to see them.</s>JESSICA CHAMBERLAIN, CUSTOMER: Absolutely. It makes it much easier to adhere to the weight watchers program for any diet.</s>ROTH: But franchise owners of McDonalds and Dunkin' Donuts are largely ignoring the directive.</s>CHUCK HUNT, NY STATE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: There's a much more intelligent way to address obesity as a problem and it really should start in the home.</s>ROTH: The city disagrees and will start fining restaurants next month if they don't post the calories.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How many calories are in that ice coffee?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: To be honest, I really don't want to know.</s>ROTH: San Francisco and King County, Seattle, also moving this year on menu calorie postings. A little bit of an update, Kyra, for those overweight viewers still with us. This vanilla doughnut was 210 an hour ago. It's still 210 calories. This is not a blueberry muffin. This is a chocolate chip muffin at 630 calories. Notice the comparison. Which do you think has more calories -- this croissant or bagel? It's actually the bagel with more calories. About 50 more calories than the croissant. Kyra?</s>PHILLIPS: You've been there two hours. I want to know how many doughnuts you've had.</s>ROTH: I have not had any doughnuts because, as you know privately, AMERICAN MORNING, has a strict weight requirement and reporters in the field have to go through training just to get on the show. So I'm like a jockey at the big brown horse race. I had to hit the weight.</s>PHILLIPS: And if only our viewers could see you. Thanks, doc. You're quite the sexy reporter. Richard Roth, thank you so much. John?</s>ROBERTS: Not only that, but you know, Richard treats his body like a temple, whereas me, I treat mine like a tent. You're watching the "Most News in the Morning." John McCain trying to steal some those Hillary Clinton voters from Barrack Obama. We'll tell you what message he's spreading in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania. And systematic and extreme brutality uncovered in top secret al Qaeda files. CNN has an exclusive look at the highly organized plan to create chaos in Iraq.