i went to ann arbor to check it out.et's take a look. [ ♪ music ] >> reporter: ann arbor pammela micheo, a quintessential college town, home of the university of michigan and its transportation research institute where they are developing and testing the future of driving. >> i'm trying to kill him. >> reporter: that was a genuine alert that you were about to collide into a car in front. the city is a big field test for vehicle to vehicle or v2v, a fleet of vehicles talking to each other electronically. you say the vehicles are talking snag. >> in a small range, 200m, the vehicles are sending out messages 10 times a second showing position, speed and the instantaneously. >> reporter: peter sweatman is a director of the study. >> we found that the technology works, the users like the technology. it's aimed at safety and all the testing is showing that it's highly effective. >> v2v works by surrounding each vehicle with a wi-fi-like system called dedicated short-range communication, and it shares data, calculating danger a

heavy rain in ann arbor delaying the michigan/utah college football game, fans evacuated from the stadium known as the big house and meteorologist rob marciano is tracking it all. of course. rob, good morning to you. >> good morning. yeah, it was a rough day across the midwest, want to show you those pictures. flooding will be at issue across parts of the desert southwest with upwards of 3 inches of rainfall in the area and more rain expected as we go through the next couple of days. off to the east where those storms roll through the pacific -- the midwest yesterday, that storm will push off to the east. but here's what it looked like across the great lakes yesterday. several states surrounded by severe weather. in michigan the heavy rains flooded the big house delaying the wolverines game versus the utah utes in the fourth quarter. look as water rushes on to the field out of the stands and then engulfs the entire stadium leaving debris everywhere. by the time play resumed almost all the fan has left. utah held on to win. accumulating hail in minnesota caused this tent to collapse outsid

i think there has been a record of people like ann arbor being successful in building a coalition and would take the same approach. >> you very successfully positioned yourself as the silicon valley candidate. and yet there are people in congressional district 17 who are not part of silicon valley. what do you have to say to school teachers, retirees, some of those long-term unemployed who are not likely to get jobs with google and apple and oracle? what do you say to them about why you're their man? >> that's a good question. and the fact is that technology is changing every field. you can't be -- drive a taxicab now without understanding how to operate uber. you can't be on a factory floor without knowing how to program a machine. we need to understand the jobs of the 21st century, whether you're an artist, lawyer, person working in manufacturing, is going to require new skills and a technological proficiency. so my agenda is very much to help create middle class jobs, but to figure out what are the skills we're going to need in the 21st century to have those jobs. >> mike honda led

. >> pelley: michelle miller in ann arbor, michelle, thank you very much.fl said today that a player should not have been penalized when he knelt to pray after a touchdown last night. kansas city chiefs safety husain abdullah returned an interception for 39 yards and then dropped to his knees and got flaged for unsports man like conduct. olympic swimmer michael phelps was arrested overnight in baltimore, accused of d.u.i. and speeding. police say he was doing 84 in a 45 and failed sobriety tests. phelpss apologized online. d.iewsmed i., and we will be right back. ow. but they were some pretty good moves. and the best move of all? having the right partner at my side. it's so much better that way. [ male announcer ] have the right partner at your side. consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. go long. if you suffer from constipation, you will likely also suffer from gas. introducing new dulcogas, which starts working to eliminate gas bubbles in minutes for effective relief. dulcogas, from the makers o

students on 43,000 the ann arbor campus alone and another 9000 in flint and dearborn.hink it is a wonderful thing i education -- higher education and michigan is viewed around the world as a spectacular key to future success, that we are able to attract students here from all corners of the come and study. in addition to serving a broader population of students, it affects the quality and nature of the education we provide on-campus. we are heading toward an increasingly globalized society.

i'm a michigan boy and i grew up in ann arbor and it's great to hear her calling from michigan. the leader not we are -- so we know what we are doing between now and the rest of the decade. we have the biography of jackie robertson and geoff and i are working on an 18.5 hour history of the vietnam war and the history of country music and a biography of hemingway. for punishment weighed are planning talking about american innovation and technology and of course you would have to include the 19th century. we are thinking about it. if we had 1000 years to live we wouldn't run out of topics in american history but that's a very good one. >> host: can you take a moment to talk about the voices that bring these characters to life in a documentary? >> guest: i have felt since the beginning of my professional life at that third person narrative is all alone and kind of someone that's telling you what you should know. the last time i checked that was called homework. we like to break her films up with first-person voices that read actual letters and journals and memoirs in newspaper repo

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a health research firm in ann arbor, michigan, he joins us now from boston, thank you for being with us, mason, and duarte's piece describes the challenge that there are not enough market participants making these generic points. i thought that was the point. a drug comes off of its patent protection, and now everyone can make it and the price comes down, and why is that not working? >> well, i think, ali, sometimes markets can be very slow to react to emerging situations. i think that you've had a confluence of a lot of things happening with marketplaces in the last couple of years. and part of it is that individual pharmaceutical companies are seeing a wave of many of their products going off patent. and they are embarking on the generics programs, trying to keep the brands alive to some extent. and some of them are buying generic houses, and engaging in activities, and likewise, if you have generic drug houses starting to mainstream into pro appropriate ear drug development. you see these with the dr. righ readies of the world. and economics would suggest that if there's enough pr

that deals with brain injuries, well, he is asking the big 10 to investigate what happened here in ann arbor. >> very interesting because concussions have been a huge story for football both the nfl and college over the last year or so. reporting for us live. well, students in colorado are planning a massive walk out tomorrow to protest curriculum changes. the students will walking out on count down. this comes after two high schools in jeffson county school district were forced to close monday when more than 70% of the teachers called out sick, and after a week of student protests. the proposal would require history courses to promote citizen ship and patriotism, and discouraging civil disobedience. coming up, laws are banning the media from effort aring the name of a girl who was raped, bullied, and then who killed herself. but her parents say they want her name out there, their effort now going viral. hello. i am ray swarez, india's prime minister was welcomed in america, like a rock star, but behind the warm greeting of some big things like military support, and if he doesn't get it, he

we really love ann arbor farmer's market.o michigan's freshest produce for all of its citizens. when you're in ann arbor, you have to go to a university of michigan football game. >> the big house. >> regardless of who you root for, the largest stadium in the u.s. check that out. >> avalon garden bed and breakfast. >> stay at the avalon garden bed and breast brek fast. >> we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc. >> so much bigger. we >>> good morning i'm vai sikahema. if you like the day so far, how about the rest of it? we have your first alert forecast with brittney shipp. >> you will love it more as we go into the afternoons. temperatures will stay in the low 70s. plenty of sunshine. take a closer look at the philadelphia art museum. for the poconos today, high 61. 72 closer to the shore. cooler temperatures by friday plus a weekend warm up by saturday. >> we're following breaking news in west philadelphia this morning where police are investigating the death of an 8-year-old girl who fell from a ninth story apartme

we really love ann arbor farmer's market.s freshest produce for all of its citizens. when you're in ann arbor, you have to go to a university of michigan football game. >> the big house. >> regardless of who you root for, the largest stadium in the u.s. check that out. >> avalon garden bed and breakfast. >> stay at the avalon garden bed and breast brek fast. >> we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc. >> so much bigger. >>> you're watching today in the bay. >> good morning, it is 9:56. i'm kris sanchez. marin county district attorney and the center for domestic peace have come up with a different kind of gun buyback program. every saturday in october, parents and children can surrender toy guns and violent video games in exchange for ice cream. organizers say getting rid of toy guns and violent video games can change the way children handle conflict later in life. >>> happening right now, facebook officials are meeting with local drag queens today to talk about the facebook policy that says people have to use their leg

farah pandith is the fisher family fellow at the kennedy school of government at ann arbor university. she was appointed in 2009 is the first ever special representative to the muslim communities by secretary of state clinton. she worked in that capacity to communicate with muslim communities around the world on behalf of the united states government. for her achievement she was awarded the secretaries distinguished honor award in 2013. prior to her appointment she held senior positions in the u.s. agency for international development and the state department's bureau of european and eurasian affairs. she has also worked as the director of middle east regional initiatives for the national security council. she has earned a master's degree from fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tufts university. we appreciate the witnesses and i guess -- it's a tossup here. how about if we go with ms. pandith. >> good morning and thank you to the house foreign affairs committee for inviting me here today. mr. chairman and members of the subcommittee on europe eurasia and the threats to europe it'

now they have been dubbed isis ann arbor quitting others. my country has also been threatened by isis. we had judicial investigations underway. i do not really leave that isis is that concerned about the president of argentina to tell you honestly. they said that they will threaten me and they have said the reason there's doing this is because i am friendly with the pope and because i am in favor of the existence of the state of israel on the state of palestine . that is the reason they have given. but also in the midst of all of this, we have had saddam hussein, chemical weapons in him, there is fighting with , then the situation got more complicated. the world is getting more complicated. without it was iran and the nuclear threat. now it doesn't seem to be a threat. there is a new terrorist. obviously they have economic resources with regards to weapons. they have the means of dissemination. i do have some questions on what is happening and how we can fight for a legal point of you. on the military front, if we are threatened, we have to

host: we go to a color in ann arbor, michigan.dsi am calling in previous segment and this segment. i appreciate games coming on to help people understand the situation. what we really do need to address is a very difficult find conflict of ahis lot of defense contractors ever since resident barack obama has claimed that the iraq war has come to an end. we have defense contractors waiting this war and our name, using our tax dollars. president obama is attempting to get title x authorization to of a billing dollars to these moderate rebels which they are fighting alongside these defense contractors who do not have to abide by any the convention law and who do not have to follow the rule of law. our foreign policy is only going to be something of a follow-up. stuck back in to a major war in iraq after all. he won the presidency. by opposing the war that george w. bush initiated. he won with his promise that he was going to get the united states out of the wars he inharried, afghanistan and iraq. the narrative is changing. he is goin