i only applied to university of michigan. i didn't go look at schools. when people say, what happened if you weren't going to university of michigan, that implies i had some sort of strategy. emily: luckily you got in. dick: my dad did get me a radioshack computer. i learned to program in basic. by the time i went to michigan, i did know i'm going to study commuter science. i didn't know what to do beyond that. emily: when you got to university michigan, you took theater classes. dick: i had like eight arts credits. i thought, what is the thing i can take that will be the least amount of homework so i can focus on my operating systems class? i figured acting. i will show up and say some lines. coincidently, my first semester, senior year, i started doing standup at the student union. by my second, senior year, it was like, i am having a lot of fun with this. i decided, i am not going to take any of the programming jobs i have been offered. i'm going to try to go to chicago and study at second city. emily: you worked with steve carell. dick: rachel dratch

michigan, i did know i'm going to study commuter science. i didn't know what to do beyond that. emily: when you got to university of michigan you took , theater classes on the side. dick: i had like eight arts credits. i thought, what is the thing i can take that will be the least amount of homework so i can focus on my operating systems class? i figured acting. i will show up and say some lines. coincidently, my first semester, senior year, i started doing standup at the student union. by my second term senior year it , was like, i am having a lot of fun with this. i decided i am not going to take any of the programming jobs i have been offered. i'm going to try to go to chicago and study at second city. emily: you worked with steve carell. dick: rachel dratch became a friend of mine. horatio sanz. it was a really fun time. emily: why did you stop? dick: i didn't get any of the things i auditioned for. i eventually decided i had to figure out how to make money. emily: i imagine people screaming at you in the theater. i wonder if improv is good training for wall street? dick: when you are improvising, people are

she's currently and erhardt foundation fellow at the the university michigan which is researching her next book on anthony weiner.on mayor is the author these two books that are used by childrenat throughout the united states including the by chi ohio adventure and a journey throughin main. winner of a gold lamp award for best book from the association of educational publishers. today she'll be talking about her latest book, "the other trail of tears: the removal of the ohio indians." please join me in welcoming author mary stockwell. [applause] >> oh, thank you. thank you so much for inviting me to gaithersburg. it's very beautiful here. it's an honor to be at this festival. thank you, everybody in this hot tent today, for being here. and thank you to c-span for covering the gaithersburg festival. it's so wonderful. i have to say i'm glad you mentioned the fact that i am a teach or, at least i was a teacher. there was one name, if i said it to my student ises, it would cause a near riot in the room, and that name was andrew jackson. if i said andrew jackson to a room full of undergra

the university of michigan comes in at 88.6. now it was 99.9 last month.nd that was forecast that it would be the same. it looks like it's dropped to both in the expectations and current conditions index. current conditions fall to 99.8 from 107. or the next six months, 81.5 from 88.8. something happened to really worry consumers. we'll look at it with the folks from the university of michigan coming up shortly. expectations have picked up 2.9% from 12 months inflation. now, the fed has wanted to seethat, this may be all the reflection that the gas pryce prices should be rising. gas prices up. people don't feel good about their prospects and see more inflation in the numbers but these don't always transfer to what happens in the stores. alan greenspan once famously said we watch what they do not what they say. >> stocks took a nose dive. the s&p 1%. erik: they had already dipped negative before the number came out but now they have taken a leg lower. they are not down by a lot. we are still in record territory but red as opposed to green. >> we started in

professor of the university of michigan law school of business.nother round of talks, another round of no deal with greece. and the european union. betty: the german finance minister is considering a parallel currency for greece, what it could mean for the future of europe? ♪ pimm: welcome back. i am pimm fox. betty: let's get straight to a check of the markets with the julie hyman. looking at a few stocks. julie: expedia shares trading at all-time high. selling its stake in a chinese company. 670 $1 million, a 62% stake in the company it had. investors are happy. even though expedia is now out of china. the shares getting a big boost. take a look at gas. -- gap. the company announced its earning early. then they came out and match those estimates. earnings per share were $.56, that is a decline of about 3% year over year. the company has been struggling and did not raise forecast for full-year earnings. that helping to push those shares to their lowest levels since november. down 1.4%. campbell soup sales are down, the company said it was hurt by

he went on to graduate from high school and enrolled in the university of michigan. the tuition proved to be beyond his reach area to help his costs he bought and ran a pizza shop area is -- ran a pizza shop. he bought the detroit tigers and won the world series next year. when i met tom, i was surprised to find him seated in a closet sized chamber to what had been a luscious spacious executive suite. he sold the tigers and the car. he had signed the village -- assigned the millionaires of out of poverty. he would not drive a luxury car, fly in a private plane, or assume any of the wealth that had been included. he explained in reading the bible and the essays of cs lewis, he had been reminded of his upbringing. he wanted to change his life and devote his years to service. all but a small living steeple back then he turned around and donated to catholic charities. i asked him just a few weeks ago what was the most rewarding part of his life. was the world series, building dominoes from nothing, or driving that you got? you can guess his answer. he said i'd had enough

using 3d printing university of michigan doctors created tiny splints. they keep the airplane ways open. they use the special material which changes as the baby grows. littlejohn has been thriving since he became the first to get an implant. the other two are also doing well. >> it's been exiting to watch as these children went from a situation where it looks like their parents would have to be preparing for their funerals, instead they are watching their children grow and develop. overtime the splints dissolve as the baby grows on their own the technique opens a new door for creating many life saving implants. there's over two hundred thousand students in philadelphia. jim kenney and tony williams are fighting over public schools versus charters. i think they're both wrong...it's making sure they all get a good education. teachers should have their contracts respected. they also should be held accountable. and it's wrong philadelphia gets less school funding than other parts of pennsylvania. i'll work with harrisburg to change that. but if they refuse i

he enrolled at the university of michigan at ann arbor where he earned his ph.d. hematics at age 24. in 1967 he became an assistant professor at the university of california berkeley teaching undergrad courses in calculus and geometry. he was the youngest professor ever hired by the university. but kaczynski was not popular with his students. >> he didn't get very good ratings as a teacher in berkeley. he was very uninvolved with his students. rather contemptuous of them and their minuscule intellects compared with his own. >> during this time, kaczynski was growing increasingly disillusioned with contemporary society. >> this was somebody who was deeply disturbed. and if you can't deal with society as it is or people as they are, how are you going to deal with a society that's changing? >> it was when he was at ann arbor that he started fantasizing about killing people who were tools of the industrial society. but by the time he went to berkeley, he was already determining that he was going to work for a couple of years, save up money, then go move out to the wood

. >>> university of michigan football coach jim harbaugh getting in hot water showing support with the of the movie "american sniper" at that school. he is meeting with muslim students to explain his view. we'll talk about why there is no problem of being proud of what chris kyle accomplished. >>> the secretive spacecraft made its way into orbit today. this is not the rocket's first trip. we may finally know what it's been doing, on a mission our government has been keeping under wraps for a very long time. >>> house select committee investigating benghazi ordering the appearance of sydney blumenthal. he is a confidante who traded e-mails with hillary clinton. he was a senior white house advisor under president clinton. he was paid to do research and message guidance for the clinton foundation. he sent secretary clinton at least 25 memos on libya in 2011 and 2012. chris plant is a syndicated radio talk show host, lesley marshall fox news contributor. this is problematic, is it not? he's been subpoenaed to give a deposition june 3rd in front of the benghazi select committee. >> right. i

there was an update in the university of michigan case where they canceled the screening of "american sniper" then the football coach jim harbaugh said we're screening it too bad, we're going to show it i'm a patriot. he came out and said we're proud to be an american if that offends anyone, so be it. now he's meeting with the husbandmuslim students at university of michigan because they didn't feel safe and don't like what he said. >> i call this the oberlin-izatio of america. the mayor there was a classmate of mine. of course we heard that language. which has been used for decades now in these ivory towers of safe space. that somehow young generations of americans should be protected from speech with which they disagree. and you can see how this has -- you can see -- you can connect the dots between that and between the festering, like you said culture of victimhood that's going on because, of course it whitewashes the true root causes of the problems in these urban communities. plus it just takes away people's sense of empowerment. >> that's how we get out of these situations wheth

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alix: i was looking at the consumer sentiment that came out, the university of michigan consumer sentiment, showed a drop from april, plus inflation expectations increasing at the same time. jpmorgan had a note out, rising inflation is not good for consumer spending, especially when income expectations are drifting lower. joe: it's interesting. the fed will look at that, maybe they will get more confidence they could raise rates if inflation expectations are starting to rise, but if consumers feel prices are going up but they are not seeing commensurate wage growth, it does not particularly augur well. alix: eggs, bird flu, by the big story of the week has to be china. a credit suisse note came out today talking about chinese stocks, saying they are 23% overbought after this huge run-up in the stoxx, and they are in a bubble. joe: the chinese market has been really fun to watch. it's incredible. on thursday, there was a 6.5% crash in chinese stocks, but that only brought the market back to where it was on may 22nd. variations of the chart have been going around for a while. if you look at

university of michigan sentiment smith today, so we will get a nice wave of retail data and see where things are. alix: from where i sit in the will of commodities, it was opposed to be the quarter for the consumer. oil prices fell off the cliff. where was that windfall? bank of america had a no doubt about that. they want to save more or add a lot more to their savings, actually, we are going to hold right now. we have access to governor charlie baker who is beginning a press conference on the boston bombing death sentence on dzhokhar tsarnaev. their ability in to find perspective in all of this, i think is extraordinary. reporter: [indiscernible] gov. baker: i have not thought about that yet. i'm still processing what happened. reporter: [indiscernible] gov. baker: i think every time we run the marathon -- i do not run the marathon -- i think anytime anybody runs the marathon and participates in the marathon, i think this'll be impossible to be too far from the top of people's minds. for me, this certainly ends the sort of ongoing trial piece of this, but i think it will be a really

university of michigan consumer sentiment. what could surprise? >> i think all eyes are going to the end of the week. that is the number one question, is how deep was it in the first quarter? composition?he it's really about the details this year. what's the mix of growth? home sales, inew think that will get a lot of attention, because existing home weak this week, but housing starts are really strong. so new home sales could tip the terms of what's going on in the housing demands. >> 20% increase? >> yes. some of it making up for lost time in earlier months. compositiononed the of growth, housing had been stronging this year. really high hopes. >> and also, we're going to be extremely data-dependent from out, until june 17, because earning season is by and large over. have 486 out of 500 companies in the s&p 500 that firstome out with their quarter results. so everyone is going to be every little data point. >> the pace of our rate hikes, ben after the first, will completely data-dependent. i think the market is probably going to be completely d

according to researchers at university of michigan it can give some women the pleasure kind of like sex say and to find out if that is possible abc placed a camera on a 30-year-old and followed her brain racketing hitting the stores. facial tracking company "envision," an hissed her expressions and fund roberted was on a shopping high. >> the stores are set off to hit your brain in the pleasure center and hit something in human behavior that wants you to buy. you are buying yourself happy. lights. music. immersing yourself in the feel-good experience. >> roberts said learning the science behind her shopping habits will not deter her from getting the fashion fix. >> all right...next an adorable case of stun gun determination. >> wait until you see what this guy doze with the ultimate dog dile is there an elk in your bed? with sleep number, now there's an adjustment for that. only at a sleep number store. save $500 on the memorial day special edition mattress with sleepiq technology plus 36-month special financing. ends monday! know better sleep with sleep number. a >> coming up at 4 thie

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reports surfacing the university of michigan has violated four ncaa guidelines with regards to recruiting however they are minor in nature and usually the ncaa does not harshly punish schools but tell you what jim harbaugh will have to get used to the way of doing things in college football. the giants are up 3-1 on the astros. 4th inning of the game in and ask the a's take -- and the a's take the field tonight. [ talking at the same time ]. >> mom is active on twitter too. >> i love that. [ talking at the same time ] [ laughter ] >> thank you. >>> coming up tonight on the 10:00 p.m. news, mark tamayo takes us to heche. y reservoir. -- hetch hetchy reservoir. thank you for making ktvu channel 2 news your choice for news. we are always here for you on www.ktvu.com and you can follow us on twitter and facebook. thank you so much for joining us. enjoy the great weather. see you tonight. it took tennis legend serena williams, fencing champion tim morehouse and the rockettes years to master their craft. but only moments to master paying bills at chase.com. depositing checks at the atm and tran

. >> some are investing in off road facilities, university of michigan is spending $6.5 million for a facility to use robots as pedestrians. >> assuming you do your own driving renewing your license can be the way. >> we're all ears >> yes. . >> i have put the dmv to the test. >> yes. >> waiting in line is a major part of the torture. what if i told you there is a way to cut down on the waiting or eliminate it? >> dmv is famous for long lines and waits. there could with more waiting. >> i prepare myself to wait 45 minutes or so. >> there is another way. >> how would you like to do that? you can. the dmv posts the results online and in realtime. if you don't have an appointment, you could have 11 minutes. i checked a wait time a couple weeks back. it was 26 minutes. when arriving the time jumped to an hour. and then the wait time was an hour and a half. i waited the dmv declined an interview but did tell me the wait time posted for each is merely an estimate reflecting an average of the longest wait time for customers at that particular field office. there is one hack many don't know.

. >> some are investing in off road facilities, university of michigan is spending $6.5 million for a facility to use robots as pedestrians. >> assuming you do your own driving renewing your license can be the way. >> we're all ears >> yes. . >> i have put the dmv to the test. >> yes. >> waiting in line is a major part of the torture. what if i told you there is a way to cut down on the waiting or eliminate it? >> dmv is famous for long lines and waits. there could with more waiting. >> i prepare myself to wait 45 minutes or so. >> there is another way. >> how would you like to do that? you can. the dmv posts the results online and in realtime. if you don't have an appointment, you could have 11 minutes. i checked a wait time a couple weeks back. it was 26 minutes. when arriving the time jumped to an hour. and then the wait time was an hour and a half. i waited the dmv declined an interview but did tell me the wait time posted for each is merely an estimate reflecting an average of the longest wait time for customers at that particular field office. there is one hack many don't know.

erik: consumer confidence from the university of michigan. julie hyman has the details. a -- actually it is mike mckee. mike: 95.9. we had some reverses in the stock market. some reverses in the economy. line --sought gasoline also sought gasoline prices go up. current conditions rise to 100.8. consumer expectation. also from the preliminary numbers, both of those down from april. the fed keeping an eye on inflation expectations. we will call that essentially unchanged. the fed doesn't believe first quarter gdp is as concerned about chicago purchasing managers. doesn't give you a lot of indication about what they are going to do going forward. julie: u.s. stocks were lower before the number came out. they pared some of their games for the month of may. higher price means lower yield. 2.17%.g the two-year at 61 basis points. erik: the news you need to know at this hour. u.s. economy shrank by 7/10 of 1%. a smaller contraction than most expected. bad weather was a factor, so was the stronger dollar. this is the third quarterly contraction in six years. in switzerland the e

university of michigan index was lower than the lowest estimate of economists surveys. the u.s. stalled in the first quarter should many americans outlook, and people are more worried about losing their jobs than it any time since 2009 the increase in gasoline prices since march also hurt. virtuallyy output flatlined last month. when you add in mines and utilities operations, total production in the u.s. declined for the fifth consecutive month. manufacturers have been hurt by the strong u.s. dollar, but there is one bright spot. automobile makers increase the production of cars and auto parts. and amtrak hopes to fully reopen its northeast corridor by tuesday. service from philadelphia to new york has been suspended since tuesday night, since an amtrak train derailed, killing more than 80 people. killing eight people. it was going more than 100 miles per hour. in colombia, the government has defied the united states and of cocoaial sprays farms. the markets are closing in europe, and for the very latest let's go to john. a 5100 am looking at that is indeed read. the whole map i

the university of michigan index was lower than the lowest estimate of economists surveyed by bloombergnews that the u.s. economy stalled in the first quarter shook many americans outlook. gas prices in march also hurt. people are more concerned about losing their job in 2009 -- since 2009. unchanged in was april, and for the fifth straight month total production decline. manufacturers have been hurt by the stronger dollar. your top stories at noon. much more in the next hour. as the -- has the bond selloff run its course? u.s., advance for the second day. pimm: we will look at the challenges of operating a business in myanmar. betty: and this weekend, the kentucky derby winner is a preakness. win the can he goes all the way and when the -- when the trouble crowd? crown?the triple is there and the economic andngth to most stocks high keep interest rates low? betty: we want to bring in mr. goldilocks pimm:. he is sitting right next to us. let's answeroff, the question. did we see a temper tantrum in the bond market? >> i do not think this temperature interval looks like last year's becau

at 10:00 a.m., consumer sentiment from the university of michigan. all morning we will get a gauge of tom's sentiment about everything. tom: let's go to equities, bonds, currencies, commodities. we can do this in three seconds on a quiet friday. crude back under $60 per share. we are wasting precious seconds with michael darda. why is greece somnolent? why is greece quiet right now? brendan: because eventually they are going to figure it out. tom: capacity utilization back 30 years, it is cyclical. here is the financial crisis. it is a well contained trend. we have recovered nicely. we are not there yet. brendan: but also you have these trendlines going down. almost every chart we look at every time period, bigs the question how far back do we go? i am looking right now -- the fed's average 1972 to 2014 is 80. that is about where we are now. when you look at the beautiful 90's -- the beautiful 1990's, you miss what is going on farther back here. tom: let's move on now. what a treat on a friday. this time is different, and we will lurch forward in som

the university of michigan consumer, and confidence increased in april for the first time since 2007. wage growth is helping confidence. the fed left open the possibility that they will raise interest rates in the second half of the year as the economy gained strength. six baltimore officers have been charged in the death of freddie gray. the charges include murder and manslaughter in all six officers are in custody. gray died after suffering a neck injury after being unrestrained in a police vehicle. marilyn mosby: the officers failed to establish probable cause for his arrest as no crime was committed by him. lieutenant rice, officer miller and officer mills illegally arrested mr. gray. emily: gray requested medical help at least twice. salesforce held talks last year with sap about possibly joining forces, according to people familiar with the matter. one option discussed was sap buying salesforce. salesforce ceo marc benioff was said to call the sap chief before sap reported its quarterly earnings last year. talks include the current status of any takeover is unclear. earlier this

the university of michigan's consumer con that -- confidence index increased since it second highest level since 2007. wage growth is helping to strengthen confidence. earlier this week, the fed left open the possibility that it will begin raising interest rates the second half of the year as the economy continues to gain strength. six baltimore officers have been charged in the death of freddie gray. gray died after suffering an injury from being unrestrained in a police vehicle. the maryland state attorney held a press conference earlier today. >> center ice, officer miller -- lieutenant rice, officer miller, failed to proceed up or really. accordingly, the officers illegally arrested mr. gray. cory: -- emily: gray requested medical help at least twice. new rules have an agreed-upon by the u.s. and canadian governments over safeguards required for railroad oil tank cars. new tankers must have thicker steel walls and more protection at the end of the car. existing cars and use would have to be replaced or retrofitted beginning in 2017. the agreement comes almost two years after an u

supposed to be screened at the university of maryland but has been postponed indefinitely the university of michigananceled the screening. >> i don't think it should be shown. >> i don't know that it does but even if it did a large student supposed to be exposed? campuses are smothered in politically correctness but one college professor says they are wrong a historian whose steady student activism. >> what you see in american campuses is a willingness to argue when they find something obnoxious. >> isn't there much more political correctness? >> people never used to get punished for what they said. >> baer rarely punished now but what we hear more often is people get yelled at or criticized harshly. >> what if condoleezza rice was not allowed to speak of rutgers. >> she was allowed but she withdrew. john: you are correct but some students were protesting calling for a war criminal. [chanting] >> condoleezza rice will not speak at commencement record university. >> the most recent on every degree was given to her last week so it isn't as if she is not being permitted to speak. john: brandeis, berkel

he graduated from yale and the university of michigan medical school.ector of pediatric neurosurgegy at johns -- neurosurgery at johns hopkins. he was encouraged to run precisely pause he's not a politician -- because he's not a politician. also this morning, carly fiorina announced her bid. she becomes the first female candidate to seek the nomination for 2016. she's never held public office. in 2010, she ran for the u.s. senate in california, losing to barbara boxer. she said her business background would make her an effective president. >> i think i'm the best person for the job because i understand how the economy works. i understand the world, who is it in. i understand bureaucracies. and that's what our country has become. >> tomorrower mike huck you can -- huckabee is scheduled to announce his bid. he won the caucuses in 2008. but he dropped out because he could not raise enough money to compete with john mccain. the. >>> european union approved $222 million in aid to help -- $22 million in aid to help the nepalese government. nepal is among the

consumer confidence fell this month by the most in almost two years, that is according to the university of michiganndex out at 10:00 a.m.. outlook of many americans, the rising gas prices also hurt. mark: the art world has never seen anything like this. this painting went for $50 million last night at christie's. it was an auction record for a modernist painter. it was after a two-day frenzy of selling in new york. more than $2.7 billion has been auctioned off, and that is more than the old record set last november. mitt romney has thrown his hat into the ring this time, and it really is the ring, a boxing ring. boxingaking on taxing -- champion evander holyfield to help impoverished people around the world. holyfield's advice to romney, just try not to pass out. [laughter] mark: that is a look at the top stories this past hour. that is an understatement. betty: i wonder how many people will pay to see that match? mark: but it is a good cause. hopefully romney will just get out of the ray -- way. home depot cofounder ken langone says why he wants to end income inequality, and he calls it his curren

the university of michigan's consumer confidence index fell 36-month low in may.e decline from april was the biggest since the end of 2012. 56% said the economy was improving, down from 68% at the start of the year. pimm: shares are rising today. "the new york post" reporting intel is close to a deal to buy the semiconducter maker. last month, bloomberg reported altera had rejected an offer from intel. biggest technology deal is $37 billion. when pimco went looking for a new chief executive in 2013, it turned to goldman sachs. bloomberg is reporting the president was on the short list to succeed mohamed el-erian. pimco's i get never regressed beyond conversations. not commenting and is considered a possible successor to lloyd blankfein. in japan, a volcano erupted on a small island sinning smoke and ash miles into the sky. the video showed clouds of dust exploding from the peak. more than 100 were evacuated. it is the second time it has erupted in 10 months. the island is located about 620 miles southwest of tokyo. those are your top stories of the morning. it is

henry bloch was a student at the university of michigan when the u.s. entered the war. having learned in school the horrors of trench warfare in what was then known as the great war, world war i, he resolved to do his service above ground and enlisted in the army air corps. trained as a navigator, he was assigned to the 95th bomb group. as it turned out, he had chosen the most perilous service of world war ii. the rough equivalent of serving as an infantryman in a world war i trench. the eminent historian of world war ii, rick atkinson, has written of the very period henry was flying. “the losses were dreadful. only one in four air force bomber crews could expect to complete the minimum quota of 25 missions.” henry bloch completed 31 missions, including a raid on berlin for which the 95th was awarded a third presidential unit citation, making it the only unit of the air force to win three during the war. restored to civilian life, mr. bloch joined with his brother richard to build one of kansas city's great entrepreneurial triumphs, h&r block. with his late wife marion,