. >> host: the university of wisconsin, does it hold treasuries? >> guest: that's a good question, i actually don't know. probably. not the university itself, but sort of retirement system that its employees are invested in. >> host: all right. we say that the chinese are buying our debt. >> guest: uh-huh. >> host: what does that mean? how does that operate? >> guest: well, the way to think about it is the chinese, for a long time, were exporting a lot, lot more than they were importing. and they would, as a country, earn proceeds. and most of it was was in the form of dollars. so they exported a lot of stuff to the rest of the world. most of the goods they sell are invoiced in dollars, so they get receipts in dollars. and the question then is if they're earning a lot more from their exports than they're spending on imported goods, then they're going to have a pile of foreign exchange accumulating. and you could keep it in currency, but, you know, currency gets you zero interest in practical. so what they do is, typically, it's held in the form of t

. >> host: what do you teach your at the university of wisconsin? and wed. >> guest: your students to leave with? >> international macroeconomics to both undergraduates in the economics department and the macro course to higher level students. though one thing i want them to know is to read what is going on in the world and what you have learned in class why is it certain individuals in richmond say what they say? verses what journalist said? used their mind to analyze and dissect the argument rather than somebody says something because they look authoritative i want them to question everything. >> host: why can a small country like greece affect our giant economy? >> met is an interesting question. there was an interesting statement about construction in the u.s. did people say the construction of housing is a small part of gdp so how does that affect us? but this interconnections matters in particular in the case of housing but people owed assets in and in the derivative was the value based on the house but those that had assets that were issued b

great inflame the 20th century they had nietzsche to think with about these issues. >> host: university of wisconsin professor jennifer ratner-rosenhagen. teaches hoyt here at the university. here's her book "american nietzsche: the history of an icon and his ideas. over watching booktv on c-span. on saturday evening a discussion on william f. buck buckley's run for mayor, and groom discusses his book, the generals. >> one of the first questions i'm usually asked when i do a tv or radio show is why did you choose these three men, from second world war? and the answer is that they embodied, i believe, super characteristics of courage, character, and patriotism. >> on sunday night at 8:00, a look back at a turning point in world history in 1932, the rise of hitler and fdr. and at 11:15 p.m. eastern, alyssacast discusses her book, the influence machine, the u.s. chamber commerce and the corporate capture of american life. >> there's a around chose the chamber of commerce as a subject for my book. and it's because it sums up the temperature how we got here to this place. ... >> >> >> could be the welcom

ao will contain packages from university wisconsin, goddard space flight center, and other scientificgencies and universities. completedype model altercation tests at the contractor. it will serve as a leader spaceflight craft. markedt year saw a progress toward establishing an observatory in space that can be used by a number of astronomers free from the distorting effects earth's atmosphere. additional export satellites were launched. of the most important areas of research is the magnetosphere. it has been the result of experiments by early pioneer satellites and confirmed by the first interplanetary monitoring platform. .m.p. alloweder i afterudy of satellites the first in 1963. particular, they are exploring these shockwave and transition region on the sunward side of the magnetosphere, and the extended tail on the night side of the magnetosphere. april, explorer 27 was put in orbit. it is measuring earth's gravitational field through doppler tracking. in addition, it's transmitters provided to observers and 36 data on the content of the atmosphere. this is a major element in our

grateful in the 20th century that they had nietzsche to think with about these issues. >> host: university of wisconsin professor jennifer ratner-rosenhagen teaches history here at the university. here's her book, "american nietzsche: a history of an icon and his ideas." you're watching booktv on c-span2. >> here's a look at some authors recently featured on booktv's "after words," our weekly interview program. gilbert gaul described the rise of big money in college football. roberta kaplan recalled her successful supreme court argument in favor of gay marriage. in coming weeks on "after words," michael marma will report on the factors contributing to america's health and wellness gap. darcy olson will make a critical look at the review period new medications must undergo to receive fda approval. also coming up, karl rove will discuss the importance of william mckinley's 1896 presidential campaign. and this weekend nurse and new york times columnist at least a brown -- teresa brown will talk about the challenges patients face in the health care system. >> i really wanted readers to get a sense of how i

. >> now on booktv we want to introduce you to university of wisconsin professor or jordan ellenberg. professor ellenberg, what do you do here? >> guest: i'm a professor of mathematics, i teach math to big kids, little kids, all kinds of people. >> host: you also write books. "how not to be wrong." wrong."mathematics is not settled, what do you mean? >> guest: well, be it were settled, i mean -- >> host: i thought math was certainty, math was form laic, math said this, one plus one equals two at all times. >> guest: well, that part is settled, one plus one equals two, we can agree on that. there is much more that's not settled. math is a process that, you know, it's many thousands of years old. there's never been a culture or civilization without math any more than one without music or drawing, it's one of the basic things that we do. in many ways we are still wrestling with the questions that were confusing to the ancient greeks and sumerians and the egyptians. we've expanded our circle of knowledge to a large extent, but there's much more that we don't know. >> host: what's an examp

. >> host: university of wisconsin professor ratner-rosenhagen teaches history. "american nietzsche" a history of an icon and his ideas" booktv on c-span2. >> and they make good money

in wisconsin, the program provides more than 20,000 low-income students with more than $41 million in aid. students like andrew, a current student at the university of wisconsin's stevens point campus. without the support of his perkins loan, andrew said he would not have had the means to attend college with the little to no income at his disposal. today not only is andrew making the dean's list every semester, but he also has his sights set on attending law school at the university of wisconsin. andrew said -- quote -- "without the assistance i get from the perkins loan, i would be forced to take out other high-interest loans, or delay my graduation, or drop out, which is the last thing i would want to do." end quote. i am pleased we have reached an agreement to extend this program for two years to help students just like andrew and i look forward to working with my colleagues on the help committee to ensure that campus-based programs like perkins are a part of the future of federal support for higher education. again, i thank the chairman for this colloquy and his hard work on reaching this resolution for the moment and look forward to the larg

. >> the event registered on the richter scale at the university wisconsin milwaukee and had an impacthere. >> the terrifying accident is caught on camera by an employee of the occupational safety and health administration, a federal agency charged with setting and enforcing workplace standards. osha inspector patrick ostringa is on site that day for a visit. seconds before the collapse, his colleagues begins recording the crane, not for work but for pleasure. >> we were videoing it just to see, and it turned out to be the best evidence we have. >> iron worker jeff kasinski is watching the lift from a man basket, a buck ed suspended from a crane inside the stadium. >> you don't go to work expecting, you know -- you don't expect to see one of the most catastrophic accidents we've ever had. >> the retractible roof is the show piece of the cutting-edge baseball stadium, but lifting the pre-constructed structure into place isn't easy. it weighs 400 tons. >> you may as well be lifting the world. that's a lot of iron to be lifting at one shot. >> the crane, nicknamed big blue, is the largest

her phd in cling consolidate psychology from the university of wisconsin. served on the faculty at the medical college of wisconsin and for many, many years researched and aluated children and young adults who have brain injuries. she's here with her husband, dr. richard roberts, a staff psychologist for unity point neural clinic in waterloo. university of -- phd from the university of iowaand has an add joungt in the department of psychology there. for more than 35 years, he's been studying what happens to adults with histories of traumatic brain injuries. obviously, we don't have timeme to go through the complete resumes, they're awfully impressive. the roberts have written a few book and we're dog to show you that late yir. it's called "mild traumatic brain injury, episodic symptoms and treatment," and it's based on all your extensive research and fascinating research ons could cushions andmild traumatic -- concussions and mild traumatic brain injuries. what has surprised you, you think, the most over the years about the research in thisis very important

bo ryan has stepped down as coach at the university of wisconsin effective immediately. >> ryan coached the badgers for 14 full seasons. and led them to the ncaa tournament of the year during his tenure. the surprise was the timing. ryan had said he would coach one more season then retire as for last night's sports highlights we go to those guys, great guy, our favorites at espn. >> good morning, welcome to our "sportscenter" set in los angeles along with neil everett, i'm stan verrett. the warrior streak is over but patrick kane's streak still going as of tuesday night. >> it was, it was. would it end or would it continue? patrick kane looking to extend he has the american born record. he's got the blackhawk record. the record is 51 by a guy named gretzky. against colorado, colorado was up to the task, man. they had some dudes who had some speed and all good things must come to an end and so does his streak and for the avalanche, they win the game. 3-0. >>> cavaliers and celtics, they played in the playoffs last year. another cool thing off the court. special olympics athlete before ti

mattison previously worked at the university of wisconsin-green bay. she replaces deneese hones, who stepped down last may. laura: taking a live look outside on this saturday tonight from our iowa dot cameras. some real december cold for a change. jason, sunday it will be warmer. right? jason: it will. we had some cold, feels like in the temperatures in the teens we have multiple days of that. right now, it is pretty chilly out there. mainly in the northeastern portions of the state, in the middle teens. looking through the southwest portions of the state, middle 20's. we will gain on this temperature as we had throughout the day. as you wake up, it may feel warmer than it is now. you can see a beautiful sunset, this is out at brushy creek. there are tons of these over at our u-local page. maybe take some of your own. we pick up some patchy drizzle and fog to go along with fairly gusty wind. that will take us to 45 by noon, on track for 50. i will have the latest on how much warmth and sunshine we will get, and your holiday forecast, coming up shortly.

researchers at the university of wisconsin evaluated more than 600 patients whose cancer spread. 35%rked full or part-time, 45% had to stop working because of their illness. overall 58% had some change in employment status. doctors say more efforts need to be made to manage symptoms and help patients continue to work if they want to. >> coffee drinkers less likely to die from a variety of causes like heart disease and diabetes according to a new study that compared people who regularly drink coffee to those who don't drink it at all. the risk was lowest for people who drank four to five cups a day. coffee contains many active com pounds like potassium and caffeine. >> battle of the presidential front-runners. donald trump could expand his response to democrat hillary clinton on the "today" show later this morning. the flap started during the democratic debate saturday night when clinton claims isis uses trump's comments as a recruiting tool. that comment drew fire from trump who called in to nbc's "meet the press" yesterday. >> nobody has been able to back that up. it's nonsense. it'

the center for state courts and studies by law professors at the university of wisconsin show, that we do not file more civil lawsuits per capita than western countries, and stunningly, that we file fewer civil suits per capita today than we did in the 1840's. >> reporter: the study that supports that claim is from the mid-1980s. a more recent study shows more lawsuits per capita are filed in the u.s. than in other industrialized democracies. a new report by the national center for state courts finds a slight drop in civil cases filed in the u.s. in the past decade. nader ran for president four times as a third party candidate and would like the 2016 candidates to focus more on consumer protection. >> although the law of wrongful injury affects millions of americans every year, it's never discussed in political campaigns, except negatively. >> reporter: what title do you prefer for yourself? >> public citizen. i think we all should be public citizens with a few hours every week. how else can our democracy work? how else can we have a good society? >> this is pbs newshour weekend, satur

on, wisconsin, performed by the university of wisconsin marching band. i think it's a great idea.-born husband watching at home right now is probably not particularly amused. and that's my off the record comment tonight. >>> live twitter votes on the screen right now. do you think president obama is out of touch? 17% say no, but 83% say yes he's out of touch. check this out. this is the best social media picture of the day. this is a brand-new adorable photo of britain's family. all smiling for the camera. the royals also announcing the future king prince george will start nursery school in january. and never miss my favorite pick of the day. never miss the best social media pick of the day. if you can't watch live on the record, just watch after you finish watching your-favorite fox programs. thanks for being with us. see you monday night. go to gretawire.com. there's a lot going on there. there are poles foals there. i post all weekend long. there's also my facebook page. lots going on there. see you monday night right here at 7:00 p.m. eastern. bill o'reilly is up next. >>> ton

i know there's a student from the university of wisconsin madison and you're like my school is the berserkeave the midwest, okay, close call their. i went to the school where the lack of intellectual diversity on campus was not ashamed, it's something you're proud of. at some point he realized that the self-anointed progressives who claim your mind because of your chromosomal makeup, right gals? feminist just assume that you belong to them and a lot of the racial grievance mongers, this is perfect, michelle obama spoke at commencement last week, match made in heaven. , that somehow they should claim every last minority on campus in the inner-city by virtue of your skin color or the city. that is the entitlement they have needs to be pushed back against by people with an alternative view. yes [applause]. so that is why said it, it was such a perfect setting to come here, when i wrote this this book, i did not just want to write it for folks who hear me on tv, or agree with what i have to say, this is why am so glad book tv is here to reach out to a much wider audience, i'm in particular wan

at harvard university, nationalism and ethnic politics at the university of madison -- or university of wisconsin at madison. islamic origins at the university of chicago, and an asian values debate at columbia university. she has also participated in almost a dozen midwest faculty seminars at university of chicago. she was a recipient of the burlington northern award for excellence in teaching and the fulbright teaching research scholarship. she has published in the area of ethnic politics, gender and politics, islam and human rights, and militarism and motherhood. she is a visiting scholar at woodrow wilson center in washington, d.c., for 2015-2016. she's working on a book project entitled "the state and secul secularizing sharia, politics in the age of the nation-state." on a more personal note dr. hawk has been a personal adviser, mentor and friend. i studied under her tutelage at monmouth college. her care for my future led me to graduate school. following the completion of my m.a. dr. hawk was instrumental in giving me the opportunity to teach as an adjunct professor at monmouth for a year,

the university of wisconsin men's basketball team has a new coach this morning. bo ryan retired last night in a post-game press conference. ryan says he thinks it's time to retire to spend more time wiwi family. he coached the team for 14 seasons. the interim head coach. country of origin food labeling tariffs could ststt as early as next week. in n day's agribusiness report, when canada and mexico could start retaliating against u-s labeling laws. but right now, here's a look at today's opening farm markets. good morning! good morning this is the agribusiness report. i'm david geiger. ---- the u-s-d-a is starting a second phase of a data gathering survey to see nationwide farm management and conservation progress.. u-s-d-a's natural resources conservation service is the lead agency for the project.. they say the c cservation effects assessment project is critical to quantify the impacts of will help improve u-s- d-a policies and practices that improve voluntary conservation delivery.. "we truly believe that voluntary conservation can work. we truly believe that

. >> c-span: you went to the university of wisconsin and studied and went to harvard law and practiced law and didn't like it. then you got into the writing business. one of the first thing that got my attention was my favorite teacher. a piece for esquire. >> guest: that is right. it was about a teacher of mine who was a kind, gentle man who seemed to see the loneliness of people walking around. and there were many lonely students and that felt dis disconnected. we were lonely in the world. he noticed everything, too. he was very kind to the lost souls of this school where everyone seemed to have it made. people gravitated toward him and trusted him. he wasn't just my biology teacher but the athletic trainer at school and i would see him taping up members of the football team in the locker room and things like that. he didn't come to school one day and there was an announcement he wasn't going to be there but on all of the radio and tv they were announcing his arrest for the murder and rape of a son of a chicago police man. as it turned out, this wasn't his first kidnapping and abduct

we found this picture from the university of wisconsin on facebook. shows the shadow of the sunset moving across the u.s. the winter solstice happened here at exactly 11:48 last night. that means we are officially past our darkest day of the year although it's been so warm here it's hard to imagine it's winter. >>> now you think it's warm here, how about the other side of the hemisphere. extreme heat is making kooalas in australia pass out. poor guys. we saw them on buzz feed. they're spraying water on them. when i think of >>> neighbors are stepping up to help a virginia family hit by a real life grinch. they stole the decorations. jennifer drake and her family put up dozens of those inflatable figures all over their yard. police say last weekend someone took five of them. since then neighbors have donated several replacements. drake says she's not interested in pressing charges. >> you didn't just hurt our family because of the hard work we've put in to bring everyone joy, you've hurt an entire community. if you have them, bring them back. >> the fa

danielle: great question. 1998, i was a master student at the university of wisconsin. was helping my professor clean his office. that is what i was paid to as his assistant. we were listening to npr and about gertrude perkins. i said, who is gertrude perkins? it was so shocking to me that he thought she had something to do with the montgomery bus boycott. i felt compelled to go to the archives and dig up old newspapers, and read about gertrude perkins. , and i didn'tory know what to do with it. it was the first story i found about this issue about sexual violence in the south. there was no way to connect it to the mug am -- the comely bus boycott. i put it aside and didn't really know what to do with it. the couple months later i was working on the tallahassee case. he said this is an interesting story. why don't you look at this. i said ok. i started to look into that case. and i did that for a masters the sis. i put it aside. i finished my masters and went to work for two years and didn't know what to do with it. when i came back to graduate school i said there has t

new study out of the university of wisconsin more than a third of people with incurable cancer do continue on with their lives. they continue to work. the research team analyzed data from 3,000 patients under going treatment for one of the four most common solid tumor types breast, prostate, colon and lu lung. researchers focused on about 700 people working age with cancer that had spread to other parts of the their body. they found that 35% are working full or part time. >>> talk about a record break it appears the force really has reawaken. have you seen it yet. >> no. i'm waiting until all the kids are here. we're going to together. don't tell me how it ended up. just how much new star wars movie made in its first weekend in theaters. >> plus, a woman capitalizes on the dinosaur frenzy. the kits she's now selling and why she says she made them. ♪ this holiday season, my good friend gave to me ♪ ♪ 7 powerball tickets ♪ 6 match 6 chances ♪ 5 cash 5s ♪ 4 cash4lifes ♪ 3 pick 3s ♪ 2 mega millions (joe) happy holidays, rita. (rita) thanks, joe! (man) what a great gift! (announcer) pennsylvani

the university of wisconsin's promotional highlights showcase number 44, chris borland's aggressive hits. after four seasons, pay dirt. >> the san francisco 49ers select chris borland. >> it was a dream come true. i can remember my brothers jumping up and hugging me, and it's surreal to see your anymore across the ticker and the analysts start to talk about you, and you're playing in the nfl. >> the 49ers gave him the number 50 jersey, a four-year contract worth nearly $3 million, and a signing bonus worth more than $600,000. >> he was just a heat-seeking missile, this guy. he was looking at a long-term career. yeah, he was looking at everything that the nfl brings you. >> but as borland was becoming a star, the nfl's concussion crisis was hard to ignore. >> he began the think about all the violence he was inflicting and experiencing, and i think he found that morally trouble sonl. >> he began reading everything he could about the effects of football on his brain. >> i knew of cte. i didn't know what the acronym stood for. i started with google searches. i started looking at things, what

. >> host: university of wisconsin professor jennifer ratner-rosenhagen, who was frederick nietzsche? >> guest: he was a 19th century german philosopher who wrote many, many, many, many books on philosophy and all sorts of different forms. and all of them some after riskic, some essayistic, some longer formally teaks, and all of them -- critiques, and all of them had something to do with the challenge of universal truth. so he took as his enemy the notion of universal truth, and pretty much all of his work has something to do with his effort to tear it

one of these fellowships was a guy by the name of jake wood who played left tackle for the university of wisconsinand wanted to serve -- and was dean's list, and wanted to serve when he got out. but the marines wouldn't take him because of his football injuries. and the army wouldn't take him as an officer because of his football injuries. he had six operations on one foot. and finally, he found a recruiter who needed to meet a quota at the end of the month -- [laughter] and he became a grunt in the marines and rose to sergeant. when he got out after tours in iraq and afghanistan as a scout sniper, he was watching the haiti earthquake on tv. and he said, hey, we could do something about that. he was filling out his mba applications. anyway, he called a bunch of his friends, four of whom joined him, and they found three doctors, and one of his friends, william mcnulty, contacted the jesuits who needed people to run medical supplies into haiti, and team rubicon was born. and four days, four days after the first phone call, team rubicon was running the emergency room in the largest hospital in port a

. >> host: we've been talking here at the university of wisconsin with mathematics professor jordan ellenberg, "how not to be wrong," is the name of the book, "power of mathematical thinking." this is booktv on location in the madison on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] >> you know, perhaps, that i have the record for the longest single answer to a question on book, you know -- [laughter] so you cut me off if i -- actually -- >> okay. if i could have your attention, we'd like to get started. i'm brian anderson, i'm the editor of city journal. i'd like to well i don't mean cow -- welcome you all today on behalf of the manhattan institute to what will be a fascinating morning of discussion devoted to the classic book, "the unmaking of a mayor," which has just within released -- been released in a 50th anniversary commemorative version. crime and drug abuse were rising alarmingly, murder was up more than 30% since the beginning of that decade. and by some estimates as many as 80,000 addicts were living in the city. more than 500,000 people were on welfare. businesses and residents were running

wisconsin town. >>> and liberty university is weighing in on the gun control debate. find out how the school's president plans to protect students. >>> news4 at 6:00 starts now. >>> off the top at 6:00, nbc news has learned that the fbi raided the california home of the man authorities believe originally bought the assault rifles used in the san bernardino shooting rampage. the fbi says the man is not considered a suspect in the shooting. also, isis has called the couple who carried out the attack, quote, supporters of the islamic state. but isis has not claimed responsibility. and we have learned that tashfeen malik posted a pledge of support to the isis leader on facebook around the time of the attack. right now, investigators are searching for a definitive link between the couple and any known terror groups. nbc's jay gray has the latest tonight from san bernardino. >> reporter: as the memorial grows outside the inland regional center, so does the terror investigation in san bernardino. >> the investigation so far has developed indications of radicalization by the

mattison previously worked at the university of wisconsin-green bay. she replaces deneese hones, who stepped down last may. 6:05, your weather never more than five minutes away. frank: i will tell you, we have the sunshine around most of the day yesterday and then the clouds started to roll in yesterday evening. they are out there and will be out there for much of the day today. a whole lot of cloud cover all across the midwest. i wish i could show you some clearing out west that is not the case. sunshine, not so much. 43 in des moines, 29 in that is a warm front that will be lifting through the state, and then you have a cold front with cooler temperatures behind it. we are right ahead of that system and that will mean warmer temperatures in the 40's. or three day outlook, we have more warm weather if you like it, today 53 degrees. tomorrow, 40 degrees and sunshine back on tuesday with highs in the mid 40's. marcus: the big four classic meant big business for restaurants near the iowa events center last night. the basketball teams drew in big crowds.

a two-year-old wisconsin boy is recovering at the university of iowa hospitals and clinics after nearly dying from a disease doctors called a mystery. liam young has gone through more medical treatments than some people do their entire late october. tv9's forrest saunders joins us at the desk this morning. forrest, have doctors figured it out what caused all the trouble? not 100%, but they have a good idea. and if they're right, it's something that could happen to anyone. like any little boy, liam young likes to think his dad is the strongest man in the world.dad, chris young, thinks it's just the opposite: "if i had half the strength of him, i'd be the second strongest man in the world that i knew."that's because little liam has been through a lot since late october. he came down with symptoms a lot like the flu, fever and nausea. things seemed to get better for a moment, but by the weekend liam was still weak. his parents took him to a dubuque hospital. "the doctor, he just came in the room. he looked at liam and looked at me and he was like, 'i already called the helicopter, they're

for instance, the university of wisconsin names these groups in its race conscious admission policiesat's huge for 20% of the asian american populations. i think asian-americans themselves are resisting this narrative that they are hurt by affirmative action policies and in fact we see ten years of surveys, a solid majority of asian-americans support race conscious admissions policies. >> holly, 30 seconds here. >> the complexity is one of the reasons why it's important to bring socioeconomic status into that conversation. if you look at the rate of poverty in which a student is living in their neighborhood, if you look at the wealth that their family has, if you look at their parents' educational background and you consider that student's race you're able to come up with a much more robust understanding of that student's background, the disadvantage and the context through which you should view their application and their achievement so far. >> part of what i heard you say janay is for middle class students of color they bring a different diversity story. it is part of addressing the

university of wisconsin. urt could say to all those universities, before you use a race conscious plan, you ought to try a plan like texas. that could have an impact if they were to say that. host: democratic line, we have mike from albuquerque. caller: good morning. i wanted to go back to the question of the allotment of power in terms of voting. in law school, we have argumentative tools. horribles, statistical weaknesses. what do the voting rights groups , for example, my former professor, very instrumental in that history. those universities used a lot of those arguments. you look at the troublemakers back then, they used that. what is the present argument you see from those experts on that side of the argument of the different argumentative tools being utilized to say, an undocumented immigrant -- within the households, there are different people with different legal statuses. go ahead, david. guest: the argument they make is follow what the constitution says. you count every person. children cannot vote,

a two-year-old wisconsin boy is recovering at the university of iowa hospitals and clinics after nearly dying from a disease doctors called a mystery. liam young has gone through more medical treatments than some people do their entire lives and still has more to go. he's been in the hospital since late october. tv9's forrest saunders joins us at the desk this morning. forrest, have doctors figured it out what caused all the trouble? not 100%, but they have a good idea. if they're right, it's something that could happen to anyone. not just a little boy from louisburg, wisconsin. like any little boy, liam young likes to think his dad is the strongest man in the world.dad, chris young, thinks it's just the opposite: of him, i'd be the second strongest man in the world that i knew."that's because little liam has been through a lot since late october. he came down with symptoms a lot like the flu, fever and nausea. things seemed to get better for a moment, but by the weekend liam was still weak. his parents took him to a dubuque hospital. "the doctor, he just came in the room. he looked at

a two-year-old wisconsin boy is recovering at the university of iowa hospitals and clinics after nearly dying from a disease doctors called a mystery. liam young has gone through more medical treatments than some people do their entire lives and still has more to go. he's been in the hospital since late october. tv9's forrest saunders joins us at the desk this morning. forrest, have doctors figured it out what caused all the trouble? not 100%, but they have a good idea. if they're right, it's something that could from louisburg, wisconsin. like any little boy, liam young likes to think his dad is the strongest man in the world.dad, chris young, thinks it's just the opposite: "if i had half the strength of him, i'd be the second strongest man in the world that i knew."that's because little liam has been through a lot since late october. he came down with symptoms a lot like the flu, fever and nausea. things seemed to get better for a moment, but by the weekend liam was still weak. his parents took him to a dubuque hospital. "the doctor, he just came in the room. he looked at liam and loo

bo ryan has stepped down as coach at the university of wisconsin effective immediately. >> ryan coached the badgers for 14 full seasons and led them to the ncaa tournament of the year during his tenure. the surprise was the timing. ryan had said he would coach one more season then retire. as for last night's sports highlights we go to those guys, the great guys, our favorites at espn. >> good morning. welcome to our "sportscenter" set here in los angeles. along with neil everett, i'm stan verrett. the warrior stak is over but patrick kane's streak still going as of tuesday night. >> it was, it was. would it end or would it patrick kane looking to extend his point streak to 27. he's got the american born record. he's got the blackhawk record. the record is 51 by a guy named gretzky. kane going against colorado. colorado was up to the task, man. they had some dudes who had some speed, and all good things must come to an end and so does kane's streak and for the avalanche, they win the game, 3-0. >>> cavaliers and celtics, you remember they play ded in the playoffs last year. another cool

. >> reporting in university city trish hartman "channel 6 action news." >> gunfire breaks out inside a mall in wisconsinuring a hite of holiday shopping we'll have the latest. >> and history comes to life in valley fovrmingt we'll show you how they commorateed a important event in american history and plus eagles prepared to do battle against one of nfl best. jeff skversky has a preview of the eagles cardinals game when jeff skversky has a preview of the eagles cardinals game when "action news" comes right >> syed farook's relatives came to move things out. they found an arsenal of ammunition and homemade bombs inside that apartment. >> a disturbance ended in gunfire. police in madison say a 1 19-year-old plan was shot in the leg and expected to fully recover. police are still looking for the person that pulled the trigger. they're also stressing that this was an isolated incidents and not an active shooter situation or terrorism. the mall was closed for a few hours though as police investigated. >>> and police in philadelphia are trying to find the shooter who murdered a 23-year-old man five months ago

wisconsin wins 76-70. one of the local hoops games, jackson beat la sell 56-53. on the high school gridiron start in jersey three final. at rowan university. up three in the fourth. a double hand-off, what's that. grabs a 21-12 lead. they try and respond. 4th and 15, pass falls incomplete, wins fourth straight championship, 21-12 is the final. final clayton on 4th and goal. what a stop there. pensville wins south jersey championship 28-6. hosting blue jackets tonight. that will do it for sports. i'm amy fadool, back to you. >> thank you. santa claus no stranger to the sky. today in south jersey, he got a different lift than his usual sleigh. >> merry christmas. >> the police department's hot air balloon took santa for a ride early this morning from gloucester county community church. it was the site of the first air balloon flight back in 1793. blue skies out there. so clear and nice today. >> a beautiful day. tomorrow is going to get better. temperatures are going up about 5 degrees. high pressure is right over our area. we're going to stay above average really for the next seven days. temperatures in the mid-50s tomorrow and monday we t

wisconsin school and williams. historians,r a few one of them is the book "global cold war" for focusing too much on global universalismsand not enough on u.s. foreign-policy. i'm curious to know what the panel thinks of anderson's call for renewal of williams and the wisconsin school, the virtues and limitations of that particular approach. >> i think williams was a great historian and an important thinker. i think his concept of empire as a way of life does get at the fundamental connection tween consumer culture on the one hand and imperialism on the other. we have that formulated unforgettably by tom friedman in his phrase, "if we want to have mcdonald's, we have got to have mcdonnell douglas." there are other examples of that abound,thinking that but rarely is the curtain drawn o and the connection made so overtly. people, to some of my comrades to my left, not on the panel here, spatial left, but ideological left, have criticized my notion of magnetic tooism as something that is detached from the economic realities of the economic roots of american empire. i think williams was very aware of the interaction between

wisconsin only once this year -- in late february. farm values in iowa drop for the second straight year. on average, values are down by according to iowa state university. the average cost now a little more than 76 hundred dollars an acre. farmland values peaked in 2013 a navy officer's plan of surprising his kids at the zoo was scrapped by snow. but jonathan gonzalez tells us how an airport provided an even better element of surprise. (nats) when it snows this much out... flight delays, cancellations... "it was supposed to be 1-3 family cares about... delays. "my mom's boss, miss jones. it's taking forever." only miss jones won't be walking through today... "yeah, navy. yeah, he's over in japan right now though." it'll be their dad -- who's been deployed near tokyo. "yeah he's supposed to come home in january for a little bit but then he's gone until september." but mom's got a special present. and it's arrived on schedule. "she had the idea of opening all these girls have had theirs tested... "yeah. this is our second waiting... "i've flown a plane. i know you have." and waiting... "mommy, which one will miss jones come out of, that one or shopping a

university specially proclaimed simon estes, an internationall y renowned singer, as an honorary doctor of humane letters after he performed the national anthem. holiday shopping is interrupted by a gunshot. police in wisconsin search for mall shooting. meteorologist britley ritz joins weather wise question. happy sunday morning! temperatures are significantly warmer this morning than what they were yesterday morning. our highs will also be significantly warmer ttn yesterday. a warm front lifts through the area bringing a strong southerly flow 10 to 20 mph. our highs this afternoon will top out in the middle 40s. this puts us almost 20 degrees above where we should be for this time of year. clouds will hang over head for the day, but we'll stay dry until late this evening. better chances for rain arrive overnight as a cold front begins to move through. this front will only drop our temperatures into the upper 30s, keeping us our temperatures will continue above normal for the rest of your work week and into christmas day. thanks britley. police in madison, wisisnsin say a mall packed with shoppers was closed for hours after a shooting. investigators say 1 person the east towne mall, firing at least 1 round.

compassion but one wisconsin mother says the muppets went too far why she wanted it banned from kindergarten classrooms why she called the contents inappropriate. >>> now seven lehigh university football players are facing charges connected to salts and mistaken identity. >>> but we begin with a warning for one jersey shore town, don't let your guard down at the at tm, after two women were robbed at two separate banks in toms river this week. nora muchanic is working this story. >> reporter: police in toms river say you have to be alert and aware whenever you use an atm, especially now with these two robberies a couple of days apart. >> i guess it can happen anywhere, it's scary times. toms river police are warning the public to be careful after two different atm robberies in town. one happened at this bank of america on route 37, a berkeley woman just entered the pin number in the machine, they came up behind her and said this is a robbery, and pushed her. >> the suspect was in his late 20s wearing a wool hat and brown jacket. the second happened 7:40 many. a 19-year-old toms river woman was approaching to make a deposit when she was surprised from behind. he put his hand ne