he'd lived in ann arbor for a few years in his early 20s, dated a college girl and worked on swimming pools when the economy was booming. customers had often paid him in cash, so he travel with the a stack of $20 bills in his pocket. he'd celebrated a friend's birthday at the fanciest steakhouse in town where waiters refolded his napkin when he went to the bathroom, and the $8 salad looked like yard debris. now he parked in front of the courthouse. framed photos of obama and vice president joe biden hung on the wall of the entrance. just beyond the metal detectors, directly above those photos was a printed sign, "bankruptcy proceedings," it read, with an arrow pointing up the courthouse stairs. jay followed the sign to the second floor lounge where bankruptcy hearings had taken place every other wednesday for a year because the courtroom was always overbooked. it looked like the waiting room at a doctor's office with fake flowers at the entrance, four televisions hanging from the ceiling and back issues of fortune magazine -- an ironic choice -- spread across coffee tables. forty chai

join us on a lot of talk for fireworks at the ann arbor. >>> and we hear that the weather is going to be okay for new year's. >> a chance for showers, but it doesn't look like the kind of rain we had today, which is really good news. >> that's great because it was drenching today. >> we've had some really cold years. so we will get to that in a moment. first, today. got rather heavy rain. just a couple lingering showers out there, that's about it. that is slowly going to love to the east. as we head through the overnight, all of that will die down. let's show you what was going -- what we've got going on. just when the clouds came in and they became heavy at times, we saw a line of thunderstorms passed through. the skies are starting to clear. it noticed out with some of the changing colors. this is going to become snow showers and even a little bit of accumulating snow. here is what we've got going on. it's going to be the second part of this story. the winds are really out of the south and they were high at times turning around to the northwest. that will be a drier win for us and a

a warm day to day, unseasonably warm december day. 15 at warmer than the normal of 48, 65 at the ann arbor. more on the way. temperatures are still mild, running in to sixties around the baltimore area. the cold air is starting to see in, dropping to 46. the front coming into the region tonight in generating showers will be with us in the morning. it looks like a wet rush-hour, 52-57 at 7:00 a.m.. it is the northwest breeze behind the front that will start to drop the temperature, and as low pressure rides along the front, it will pull the cold air with a vengeance and to generate more precipitation. as the new law was racing bike, that is when we have the chance for winter precipitation. thirties' just to the west of us, that is going to come screaming in here tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night. there goes the rain in new york and boston late tomorrow night and early around the midnight hour on thursday as we transition. the rain changes over to snow in northern baltimore. it will be moving quickly by 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. only a few hours the change will occur. a little bit of

the high temperatures which will pleasant and -- hitting 60 in ann arbor. that is where we will end up. we will go 51 mount vernon. the airport closer to 50 probably and we take you down -- low 350's instead of near 60. places like shady side. across the area, skies clear. other than that shifting wind you wouldn't know a front is a living but you can take a look at the east coast and see high pressure continuing to slide in. we will stay high and dry tonight. high and dry on sunday. sunday a few more clouds and by monday, our next system starts to edge in, could mean rain by monday night and tuesday. overnight, down to 30, clear and cold, with the north breeze. the saturday forecast 50, cooler and breezy, sunny and tomorrow night down to 34. partly cloudy, dry and chilly. take a look at seven day forecast and here is how things shape up. the trend is basically for a good weekend here. sun, mid50s, monday mostly cloudy and warmer. there is the interesting weights maker due in tuesday night into wednesday. we may have enough cold area round -- that could mea

he lived in ann arbor mandated a college girl customers had paid him in cash so he traveled the stack of $20 bills and celebrated a friend's birthday where waiters people the napkin when he went to the bathroom now he drove past that restaurant parking in front of the courthouse. just beyond the metal detector directly above the photos with a printed signs bankruptcy proceedings with an arrow pointing up the stairs. he follow the signs to the second-floor lounge where they grousing hearings had taken every other wednesday for year because there were overbooked look like a waiting room. big flowers and come afford televisions in issues of fortune magazine across the coffee table. 40 chairs arranged around the room in the bankruptcy officiant sat in a suit at his table. and surveyed the room around him and another man wearing mismatched tennis shoes a motorcyclist with the unkempt grisly beard and one woman's genes were warned to the owe later he learned they had vetted by still look as destitute as possible to reinforce the impression of a bankruptcy. dress to depress in his baseball h

. >> photo number three comes in from jim in ann arbor, michigan. good it's 24 hours.now when your feet may hurt. that's not the funny part. suddenly it's like new! 24 hour toe service. next a photo from jeannette. it's a bird. it's a plane. it's a bungee jumper? literally, that could hit your car. don't they look like "avatar"? >> they look like sperm going into a fallopian tube. that's what i thought. >> things have changed. gloria -- hoda, take that one. >> gloria mcmunagal. >> i don't think this translates very well. passa a wind. super noi tutti. it's italian. doesn't it read funny? it's like a telephone company. >> i thought it was about flatulence. >> now it is. finally, are they trying to tell us something? let's just cut right to the chase. there's nothing good here. >> nothing good for you, that's for sure. >> thank you, sara. >>> still to come, the voice winner, javier colon is here with brand-new music. >> the guy that sings this music. hot chelle rae is here. vv >>> we're back on this winesday wednesday. we're ready to play our weekly trivia game. our frie

he joins us from ann arbor, michigan. so thanks for being here.s sullivan, i rattled off what seemed like an exceptional year of weather, but put this in perspective. how rare is this? >> well, the prior record-breaking year was nine significant events, well above the three to four that are typical. that was 2008. so a third again in number of events, each of which had greater than a billion dollars. many other events, of course, fell below that billion-dollar threshold through the course of that year. quite a remarkable string, quite a remarkable array. i came aboard noaa as the deputy administrator early in may and the preceding month of april in one month alone. we had record-breaking flood, wildfire, tornado outbreaks within one single month. it was certainly unprecedented in my experience. >> reporter: jeff masters you've said in your blog you never saw a year like this. what else stands out to you? >> in one year we had three of the most remarkable extreme weather events in history of the u.s. we talk about the dust bowl summer of 1936. well

>> guest: when i visited it was in ann arbor michigan.c-span: what did you find about those two schools most interesting? >> guest: they were attracting some extremely smart kids even though at the time neither one of them were credit -- accredited yet and they were attracting kids who did not want the kind of religious ghetto but bring their ideas to bear in a world of public policy or law or any number of other fields. c-span: at commentary how how long were you there? >> guest: three years. c-span: norman podhoretz? what did you take away from that experience? >> guest: well i was in charge of editing the letters there, which i don't know if you are familiar with commentary but an extension of letters section and i kind of became familiar with the intricacies of a lot of the base about foreign policy and politics and i also you know kind of became more familiar with the way the magazine works and how it actually gets printed. c-span: going back to this book, "the faculty lounges" and other reasons why you won't get the college educatio

donna in ann arbor, michigan. go ahead. >> this is from earlier today. we're going live to capitol hill to hear from senate democratic leaders after party lunches. >> republicans are doing their best to convince the american public that they support the payroll tax cut, that they're not in favor of raising taxes for middle class americans, about 160 million of them. but what a strange way of proving that's how they feel. we saw what happened on the senate floor last week. the proposal that they made didn't even get a majority of the republicans. yesterday republicans criticized our plan, our revised plan and they hadn't even read it. if they'd taken time to read the legislation, they would have seen that, basically, every piece in there is bipartisan in nature. including now the tax on millionaires. so it, unless there's something changes quickly, it doesn't seem the republicans are going to follow their leadership. leader mcconnell, speaker boehner both said they support extending the payroll tax cut. i repeat, funny way of showing it, the way they've b