beautiful day in east lansing ge so the promise of higher education -- creating not 1i6rle a job, but a terrific life. and one of our challenges is always to be sure that we work in a way to be as cost effective and relevant as possible so we make people's dreams bigger, that means we have to be at theo front edge ofom -- >> how are you building that affordability for students when it comes to tuition and room and board et cetera. >> when you think about michigan state, most of our students aree very middle class, families of . $125,000 or less. and the number of students that leave with -- it's about one year's full cost of attendance f with our tuition being about $14,000 for in-state students, so we have to make sure that we can do everything we can to reduce costs and one of our we h platforms would be a high performing organization, not simply a cost cutting organization. and at the same time we need to reduce enormous value when thigh leave michigan state at en thi graduation achkd also throughout their lifetime so we're focused on value. hi >> how difficultga has that bee given

secretary lansing was an uncle. leland harrison during world war ii served for the oss in britain. he was a real senior diplomat. the bureau of secret intelligence did a lot of domestic work. in 1916, ever since salty over topping of the telegraph lines led by joseph nye. you would give a daily report to the secretary on what they would learn. one particular in january 1917, nye was able to tell the secretary that the german ambassador was about to tell him later in the day that germany had declared unrestricted submarine warfare out in the atlantic, which is what was one of the big things that brought the u.s. into the war. secretary lansing was so impressed with what nye was doing that he made them as special assistant to the secretary and making him the first security officer for the state department. harrison brought nye into the bureau of secret intelligence and gave him the title of chief special agent. he started recruiting other special agents from the postal service. at least one of these were sent overseas to cairo to report on the military in political situations there.

beautiful day in east lansing ge so the promise of higher education -- creating not 1i6rle a job, but a terrific life. and one of our challenges is always to be sure that we work in a way to be as cost effective and relevant as possible so we make people's dreams bigger, that means we have to be at theo front edge ofom -- >> how are you building that affordability for students when it comes to tuition and room and board et cetera. >> when you think about michigan state, most of our students aree very middle class, families of . $125,000 or less. and the number of students that leave with -- it's about one year's full cost of attendance f with our tuition being about $14,000 for in-state students, so we have to make sure that we can do everything we can to reduce costs and one of our we h platforms would be a high performing organization, not simply a cost cutting organization. and at the same time we need to reduce enormous value when thigh leave michigan state at en thi graduation achkd also throughout their lifetime so we're focused on value. hi >> how difficultga has that bee given

elsewhere its 46 in waukegan. 51 and lansing. kankakee at 51 valparaiso at 50. in rochelle, 39. widespread frost through the work week. not this morning but still you article spot across the region. satellite composite shows a weak line of showers moving through indianapolis. cloud cover will linger through the morning. then it will break up into the afternoon and by early evening we will see clearing conditions. sunset's just before 6:00 p.m.. tonight, if you clouds but that's it. saturday a friend comes through not doing much except moderating temperatures during the day. today, 64 with clouds of a breakup. sting comfortable. '64, warmer than normal. woman the well we have seen. a bit of cooling and partly cloudy tonight. was high just under 70. some day we finish a nice weekend at 66 with some sunshine. >> we do have work on the kennedy causing a slow pocket. in bound form of didn't impacting the far right lane as it will be down for another 40- 45 minutes. last few days they have been slow to pick up some of the barricades. anticipate that we may see things closer to about 5

i think we need to change the political culture in lansing. i plan to do that when i am governor. >> governor, some of your harshest critics would say that you have been pushed into issues that you may not have agreed with by a legislature that is more conservative than you are. how do you answer that? >> it has been about partnership. know theu congressman's record, he was here when we shut down the governor. government. i am proud of being bipartisan. support thergain to bankruptcy. list ofgive you a long different bills. one that touches my heart -- i remember a senator who was with me, we were together. we stood up against bullies. if you don't do the research on the bills that have passed -- over 75% of them have been bipartisan. there have been some polarizing bills. there are bills that some of us don't like. when iot support bills did not think they were right. it happens rarely. i have a great working relationship with legislators. we had heated arguments. when we come out, we try to work together, because were trying to bring up a hi

here are today's contestants -- an assistant professor from lansing, kansas...elementary-school counselor from tucker, georgia... and our returning champion, a director of semantic technology from charlottesville, virginia...

approached us from the rincon point to talk about the construction this area has 5 active jobs on 45 lansing and fremont and 280 field street we've heard from constituents about the impact that night time noise is impacting their life by lack of street by construction noise going on through the night time and often starting up again as earlier as 5 in the morning since july we've been meeting with the city staff from the department of building inspection and contractors and residents to increase the communication about night time noise activities occurring in the area since july night time permits have been declining i absolutely support the growth that is happening in our city in particular the growth in the district i represented i know that i quote that often but director ram said our planning director 80 percent of your construction is happening and 20 percent in the city and the 20 is in our district the south of market and mission bay we appreciate the pace of the development there is a demand for office and residential we have to recognize that are existing residents that have been he

so long from east lansing. >>> saturday night, former sixers president pat croce auctions off his main line mansion but the selling price was way below the asking. >>> plus fire investigators searched for the the cause of a fire that forced more than a dozen people from their home. >>> but the the big story on "action news" is a brutal attack against a man in queen village. it happened earlier this morning and now hunt is on foreman and woman who did it. a "action news" reporter chad pradelli is live at the scene with the very latest, chad? >> reporter: walter, philadelphia police tell me the victim was beaten right here on carpenter and tried to run off on to second street here and he was shot. now he is in the hospital and, according to neighbors, the attackers may be a couple of vigilantes. philadelphia police say the shooting victim was confronted by a maryland will aged woman and man at second and carpenter. they yelled at the victim you know what you did. then the woman began striking the victim in the hupper body with a baseball bat. second later as victim tried to run off the m

joining me president of the united steelworkers international and also mayor of lansing, michigan, vergearrow. good too have you both tonight. >> good to be with you. >> a question for you tonight, leo, you first. if they don't stop now, when will they stop? can we expect things to go back to normal or is this radical agenda going to continue on? >> i think the radical agenda will continue on and it may get more radical because we have to look and see who paid their way to get the governors elected and you went through the minimum wage issue and a number of the issues and the fact of the matter is every one of those governors that you mentioned right now has had an attack on women and has had knowa attack on working people and has denied the right to have medicaid expansion and one of the things that should really enrage people and how many of those governors have tried to suppress the vote. they want to call it voter i.d. and when you shrink early voting. >> it's got nothing to do with i.d. when you tell people that i don't know anything about the minimum wage. look, if the minimum wage

and our returning champion, an assistant professor from lansing, kansas...opardy!" -- alex trebek! alex: thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. don't worry, folks. i'm very talented. i can always grow it back. [ laughter ] big win for shane on friday. today, his first defense against amanda and dan. nice to have you with us. let's go to work, shall we? jeopardy! round coming up. one daily double, and you'll find it in one of these categories. we will give you the official language. you give us the country. please. alex: shane, you start. sure. i'll take food & drink for $200, please. dan. what is india? that's it. food & drink for $400, please. shane. what is irish whiskey? yes. food for $600, please. amanda. what is apple juice? right.

of the mountains just yesterday. 52 here in chicago. 53 at midway. 49 is all that we're getting at lansing. >> friday the sky begins to clear. again to some pacific ear. thirties' away from the lake. forties' right up against the shoreline. '60s on the other hand for lows tonight in the plains. it warms up again tomorrow. we go into the fifties around here. tomorrow night again some thirties inland. back into warmer weather. here's why. to extremes in a wildly the very weighty position right now. see the strong winds coming across to rocketies? that is what warms was up over the weekend. here is the view from kenosha. the clouds and rain fall. here we expect clearing tonight. sometime tomorrow. a little shower thursday. a beautiful weekend coming up '70s and beautiful weekend coming up '70s and the in the criminal justice system the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. these are their stories. hey, you're scaring my dinner away! go play somewhere else. logan: what do y

here are today's contestants -- an assistant professor from lansing, kansas...elementary-school counselor from tucker, georgia... and our returning champion, a director of semantic technology from charlottesville, virginia... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! thank you, johnny gilbert, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen. rena's total would have been much higher if she had gotten the final jeopardy! correct on yesterday's program. today, a different final. hopefully all three of our players will do very, very well. elizabeth and shane, you're the newcomers. welcome aboard. nice to have you here. rena, good to see you again, and here we go now into the jeopardy! round of play with these categories... and, rena, you get to go first. let's take crossword clues for $200, please. elizabeth. what is a sibling? no. shane. what is a septuplet? that's it. crossword clues "s" for $400, please. shane. what is a spaniel? right again. crossword clues "s" for $600, please.

and our returning champion, ssistant professor from lansing, kansas...

there is a lot going on in this lansing michigan shot from our former weather in turn. who is now meteorologist >> that is a pretty cool shot. do we have one more? >> >> is right near the kentucky border. reinforce >> as high pressure control over our weather. by the way tonight tomorrow morning starting at 5:25 a.m. and lasting until about 6:24 a.m. according to nasa the blood moon lunar eclipse. the second for lunar eclipses to take place this year. >> this one because of what the closeness to the earth will be about 5.3% larger than the previous blood moon. there is something to watch. temperatures modestly higher today than they were yesterday. up 3-5 degrees across chicago juliet is at 67 degrees. 66 at midway. 59 at o'hare airport. >> dew points kind of in the lower range. there's enough moisture to crank out a sprinkle every now and then. they're averaging about 14th. the mold, as high. and our report from dr. joseph, those of the '60s yesterday. bumps the chilly air back up to the north again. it looks like the cooler air wil settle software to a bit a later in

let's meet today's contestants -- an esl teacher from east lansing, michigan...ices counselor from hudson, ohio... and our returning champion, a phd student in economics, originally from dubuque, iowa...

let's meet today's contestants -- an esl teacher from east lansing, michigan...m hudson, ohio... and our returning champion, a phd student in economics, originally from dubuque, iowa... [ applause ] and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. hello, ladies and gentlemen. a modest win of $6,000 riday last champion, alexander, with a $20,000 win yesterday. deb and elizabeth, you've got your work cut out for you against this young champion, but who knows what's going to happen in this half hour? good luck. let's go to work in the jeopardy! round. and let's find out what the categories are, shall we? a little bit of everything. have... alex: alexander, start. never been higher for $200. alexander. what's mount everest? yes. never been higher for $400. elizabeth. what is apollo 13? right. never been higher for $600.

and our returning champion, an assistant professor from lansing, kansas...ow here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! thanks, johnny. our returning champion is a gentleman. he's quiet. he's laid-back. he's also a good "jeopardy!" player. so, john and regina, you've got to be at your very best today. good luck to you, guys. here we go. jeopardy! round comes first, as always, and these are the categories today. you identify the show for us. m-b-l-e -- those four letters are coming up in each correct response in that order. shane, start. i'll take which sandwich for $200, please. john. what are bananas? good. let's do surrounded by water for $200. john. what is the arctic ocean? that's the one. surrounded by water for $400. answer there -- daily double.

lansing, 52. here is your radar. light sprinkles across the area. we will move toward sunshine. later today, a mix of sun and clouds coming our way. temperatures continue to rebound nicely. 55 degrees, your high temperature this afternoon. tomorrow, back up to 58. 60's on thursday, 65 friday. saturday and sunday -- theybody is looking for weekend. high temperature of 73 on sunday. wgn investigates. we dig deeper into cook county cost ordinance -- cook county's ordinance. trying to getr is some "breaking bad" action figures off of store shelves. the show's star fires back. listen up, tomorrow, a judge will lay out the timeline in the fight over cook county's puppy mill ordinance that could change where you buy the next dog or cat. >> this one looks into what that new utley the milk ordinance may be able to accomplish. mill ordinancepy may be able to accomplish. >> one look at these faces and perhaps it makes sense why this is closely watched. activists,, animal their goal to shut down some large puppy mills. the other side, the attorney representing a string of stores, including

phd student in physics, originally from boston, massachusetts... ...and an assistant professor from lansing"jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. conventional wisdom would seem to indicate that a returning champion -- or in this case, returning co-champions -- because of their experience, would have an advantage over the challenger. but it doesn't always work out that way, so that's good news for you, candice. nice to have you here. gentlemen, lady, here we go into the jeopardy! round. and here come the categories -- alex: shane, you start. i'll take today's checklist for $200, please. shane. what is a credit score? that's it. today's for $400, please.

ben afleck filming the new batman move any east lansing, michigan. >> indeed he is, home of michiganspartans. >> yes, to keep safe, he's been using the -- whatever, he is in the weight room. to keep shape, asked afleck to speak to the team. he ' agreed, he opened his pep talk by saying i'm batman. >> oh, wow. >> okay, let's talk football. you brought up michigan state. the eagles don't have a game this week, this is our bye week. >> don't mate me. >> that's why we won't play the fight song, good luck charm, every time we play the eagles have won this year, or we forgot when they went to the 49ers. so going to dallas, your hometown? >> yes, going for a speech there. bring them bad luck. go to the stadium. do this. >> i know you're going to speak in dallas, congratulations cents. >> thank you. >> but you need to take my eagles hat, flash it somewhere, and leave it, there so that when our eagles mojo, our philly situation there. >> we can be ready for thanksgiving day. cowboys stadium. >> hopefully jerry jones won't arrest me, because i am going to go to the cowboys stadium, i have some

over here its 44 in the lansing. satellite composite shows no rain today. cloud cover will be coming in from the north and west. a bit of sunshine but this afternoon the clouds come through. computer model, sit down for this one. dry conditions today. tomorrow, chance of showers moving through. as the temperatures fall thursday and friday, and doing the dance to sell this, we are expecting rain changing to snow, possibly early friday morning and then there's the chance of that friday afternoon and evening. into halloween we have the chance of showers. but the plant will love it. that's the best i can do. >> you need better dance moves. >> really? did you learn the jitterbug in cleveland? that doesn't happen. tomorrow is 52. friday we make only 43. can erin do better? >> i was just happy to watch you. we have some slow bombs causing delays. southbound rte. 53 at ferndale to have the entrance ramp closed until 5:00 a.m.. we also have the o'hare work at irving park that's block. are seeing aide slow stretch through the air traffic just under 40. this has been

there is some rain out they're not in our region. 61 in waukegan. 62 and lansing. kankakee is at 63. in this warmer greeting early on. light rain overnight you can see much of it came after midnight. some rain across portions of the southern counties but that it. really we are looking ahead to this afternoon and this evening when the cold front and low pressure system comes through. that's well we will see the heavy downpours. -errors and thunderstorms into the evening. the computer model shows up late grain moving through early on. notes underlining. as we move through the rest of the day you can see thunderstorms popping up later and around dinner. could be rough as computer models are closed to 1 in. of rain before the day ends. today's high temperature is up to 78. scattered showers and essentially thunderstorms. down to 61. the 3 day forecast shows 57 on friday. i mean a low temperature on friday. we all make mistakes ... mine has to be on tv. moscow and hoped erin can save us. >> in new accidence outbound at ridge, left landlocked. i have a shot of this cause

lansing at 45. we have wind. there sustained winds at 20 mi. per hour at midway. 17 mi. per hour at o'hare. 15 mi. at dekalb. this is the type of stuff that blows around your halloween decorations. later today the wind is going to be stronger. 40 mi. already in rockford. midway at 26. juliet at 23. wind could cost up to 50 mi. per hour before today is done. wind chill is could be taking center stage right now it's in the mid to upper '30's. as to go after turkish treating expect the wind chills in the mid twenties to low 30s. it's going to feel more like in the late november into december. the final green early on. the snow is isolated in southern wisconsin making its way back into the region tonight. looking at the forecast, we are expecting temperatures this afternoon in the low 40's. wendy with rain and snow. charles high will only be 43. we try and in too late tonight. that's the forecast. >> i've got a new bag for you. i ruined it. here's what's gonna look like 39 years from now doing traffic. the special with a helicopter. >> that is freaky! >> a foot traffic. the

much cooler in lansing. 43 degrees. we continue to see light showers across portions of southern will county. a little bit across kankakee. not much early on to some white sprinkles with 20 percent chance of rain. today's official high is 66 degrees. back down to 44 tonight. sunshine tomorrow. thursday we make 63. freddie 62. temperatures will warm up in time for the marathon on sunday high-temperature 64. >> the marathon that that that we know you are getting ready for it. coming up ... the judge in ferguson urges change in policies. >>plus -- the supreme court national debate over same-sex marriages.. now that ruling is getting mixed reactions across the country. and -- first it was "bendgate" for the new i-phone six - now there are complaints of a new problem with the popular phones.the details after the break. another historic and unexpected decision by the supreme court regarding same-sex marriage. after refusing to hear state cases yesterday, not everyone is happy. andrew spencer reports. >> to man who sued the st

high temperature only in the low 60s and in some areas upper 50s. 48 at chicago. 39 in lansing. here we go, valparaiso is currently at 40. satellite composite shows cloud cover that will linger but the rain stays into portions of central illinois. besprinkled potential today but that it. still cool temperatures today. 57 by 5:00 p.m.. 59 for the high temperature this afternoon. partly cloudy today. today down 40. crosstie 69. sunday, 61 degrees. i am just saying, if you are buying the neurologist any gifts. and massage or any kind would be appreciated. >> we have to think about this again because we got hot shorts and would cut the little top. you never said anything about a massage. we do have some closures i can show you for the marathon. we have a stretch of them from columbus blocked off. jackson has a closure of boy to lakeshore drive. and the third one a lawyer to michigan avenue, they're not going to pi that up until 10:00 a.m. monday morning. that means there's a lot of skirting around for people this weekend. keep that in mind if you're going to cheer on your loved one.

this evening, the storms will arrive after 10:00 p.m.. 57 degrees right now in chicago. 54 in lansing. we had a light shower across security that has moved off to the lake. our cold front is off to the west. it won't arrive until this evening into tonight. that will bring in the next round of showers and storms. 73 decreased by 5:00 p.m.. the official high, 75. tomorrow, and showers and storms early then we try out. quite a different day as when say we make 53. mostly sunny. >> this is a warning call, you can play hooky. it's for a aram. but the time to think about it. let's take a look at the traffic situation. we have some construction westbound at the leak. left lane closed until 5. should be picked up in about an hour. everything else looks pretty good. we will prepare the travel times coming in just a few minutes. >>illinois is among three states requiring quarantines for health care workers who helped ebola victims in africa. but now there's a debate on whether that is going too far. steve nannes has more. >> this is just completely unacceptable. >> she arrived at newark airport

it will be here over today. 53 degrees right now in chicago. 54 in lansing. not much of a temperature range across the region. the highs are not very high and a los are not very low. a 40 percent chance of rain later on. high temperature only 58. typically tweet would be five degrees warmer. getting into thursday, high-temperature 63. t rain let up early tomorrow and we finally see some dry air. >> any time we get rained it seems like we have tons of accidents and we are trending that way already this morning. we have a crash, a jack mack truck on the inbound ken very close to getting this cleared but to right lanes are blocked. that has been in place for about 45 minutes. we will see what happens as the rain tapers off. at this point there are some treacherous driving conditions. more traffic coming up. >> governor quinn and his challenger, bruce rauner, delivered their pp to black voters, in another campaign debate. nancy loo is live in the newsroom with a reca >> it is early. their second debate was hi upon key issues for the african american community, in

in lansing it is 51. 47 in dekalb. we are expecting to see that rain continued is limited in some portions of the extreme western counties and into portions of western kankakee. we continue to see that rain. it will move to the southeast of dry out of lunch. temperature's only in the fifties. typical hiatt is mid- 50s. clouds will be breaking up later. 60 degrees later. friday we've made 59. we do it all began on saturday. i thought it was friday but it's only thursday. >> i woke up thinking it was friday. >> i hate that feeling. if feels like a friday. let's all call out tomorrow. >> they would love that. larry and rabin would love nothing more than that call early arm. on the tristate construction, eastbound basically from the oasis there is in left lane closed. down to 34 mi. per hour. we have lots of closures for the marathon. east lane northbound columbus with test begins. starts at roosevelt. good stretch blocked off from columbus to lakeshore drive. these will be in place until 10:00 a.m. monday morning. more de

it will warmup for the next few days. 46 degrees right now in waukegan. 50 in chicago. 46 in lansing. 45 in kankakee. satellites composite shows the rain moving across portions of western chicago headed back toward rockford. we will expect light showers early on. the computer model shows the grain moving through. rush hour be on the lookout a could slowly dim. not heavy rain but there is potential for the showers. the tryout into the afternoon but the we have another chance of showers into tuesday. 40 percent chance of rain today and tomorrow. today, high temperatures 60 degrees. typical high for this time of year is mid-60s. 48 tonight. clouds. spotty showers overnight. on the three days forecast, high temperatures 65 on tuesday. wednesday we're back up to 64. early wednesday morning, a lunar eclipse. hopefully we will see that. class town where there it was cloudy until the last few minutes of the show. the big debut. hopefully this time there are some clear skies. >> you were like opening the big save after 14 hours and there was nothing there. here's the big revealed ... but you'r

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tomorrow to rain will come through and temperatures will be up and down. 55 degrees in chicago. 46 in lansing. sublet composite shows we are dry early on. a line of showers and storms heads through western iowa. we think the rain won't develop until well after sunset this evening. 71 decreased by 5:00 p.m.. here is the 3 day forecast. official high, 72. cooler along the lake. and storms are likely on thursday. temperatures are going to wrong way. >> we are starting to write way for traffic. it has been nice and quiet. as good as it's going to get. on the kennedy it's wide-open. it looks like this point we about light volume systemwide. we are dealing with the ongoing project with the road crossing. it will wrap up until friday. a few more days of these posted detour is north and south bound. here's a picture where you can see the main railroad crossing through downtown barricaded off. giving you the sense of the detours. easily adding another 5-7 minutes to your commute. >> a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed on the city's south side. the teen was shot several times just after six last nigh

lansing reading of 51. sublet composite shows we are dry.the region, we have dry conditions early on. this afternoon is a different story. clouds are on the increase with the chance of showers developing after dinner. today's high, 62. trusts have 51. drive for the bears game high temperature 57. for she is standing next me the benches at the traffic wall. it's magic. >> here i am. syria are the grand avenue for this is it worth this supposed to be kicking off but it didn't quite finished that so watch for extra delays along the ramp getting squeezed through rate they're going all the way until five or 6:00. its load through there. still watching the earlier accident on the north end of the stevenson, break for that intersects with 294 still taking of the right lane. not causing any problems on the roads. that's it for traffic. let's go back to the three guys in the black suit. >> we are all wearing black. is it black friday? black fridays? >> do you guys remember the movie director a phobia? remember when all the spiders are crawling down o

lansing greedy at 61. today's high is what we are seeing the know. 56 by 5:00 p.m.. tomorrow's high 51. much cooler. thursday i slid a shower high of 53. the forecast for all hallows eve coming up. the we're waiting for the 01. let's take a look at the construction over by o'hare. read the blocked until 5:00. no big problems cheered everyone is spreading through even with the raid. it looks good but we do have some flashing lights at campbell and the kennedy. we will keep an eye of that every human uptake in just 10 minutes. >>a pizza delivery man was shot and seriously wounded during a robbery. police say it's the third pizza delivery robbery in recent weeks, and the drivers are being set-up. nancy loo is live in dolton with fish the latest. police hope a $5,000 reward will help lead to arrests in this apparent robbery spree. the latest case has a delivery bed still hospitalized with multiple could shots. his head the supervisor was making a delivery saturday night when he was ambushed by three young men as he was getting it out of his vehicle with the pizza. the mi

mike tobin is live in lansing, michigan, with the very latest on this race. hi, mike. >> reporter: hi, eric. governor rick snyder pulled ahead but not enough to get comfortable. he was taking some heat last night n a town hall format the incumbent was criticized for desions particularly with detroit. the city was drowning in debt when he appoint ad emergency manager to take over operations. the result is well-known. a major u.s. city is declared bankruptcy and cutting what otherwise was sacred, cutting pensions of employees. >> i would have personally led unelectable and never thrown detroit city pensioners and police officers and firefighters under the bus. >> i appoint ad emergency manager. that was actually putting detroit in bankruptcy. that is one of the toughest decisions to be made in the united states t was the right decision to make. look where we are today. we're within a month, to two months most likely coming out of bankruptcy. >> latest polls show a toss-up. average from "real clear politics" gives a slight advantage to snyder, 44.7, to 4.5, well

>> and, in night crawl err, jake place lou bloom, ambitious young manning, starts fro lansing as a crimeossing the line between legal and criminal. >> i will never ask to you do anything. that i wouldn't do myself. >> he took on not only the difficult character, but, was a producer on the film. >> i was constantly in the mine set. i don't think i ever left it throughout the shooting of t producing movie, also, you know, you're working all the time. you just don't really stop. >> just constantly in it. so there was no real break playing a character, which was good, for the move. >> i you will be seeing me again. >> we will. at the right time. >> for entertainment tonight, i'm kevin frazier, now, back to you in the studio. >> looks good. stay up-to-date on everything that's happening in hollywood with entertainment tonight. it is on tonight, and every week night, 7:30, on sister station cbs-3. >> i got to get out and see something this week glenn perfect weekend for it, too, katie saying saturday, crumby, cold, rain. >> i let me grab my goobers and twizzlers and get it on. >> goobers and p

this morning the c-span bus is on the campus ofg, michigan state university, in east lansing, michigan, joining us aboard the bus, is lou anna simon. thank you very much for being with us. let me get started right away with the challenges that you see in higher education. g >> good morning, and it's a >> beautiful day in east lansing d and so the promise i think for the value of higher education is bright as the day. i'm a first-generation college student so i understand the value of higher education for hl creating a -- not simply aen jo but a terrific life. and one of our challenges is o always to be sure that we work in a way to be as cost effectivk and relevant as possible so we make people's dreams bigger. dra that means that we have to be able to not only be at the forward edge of innovation and discovery but also be able to be translate that discovery into the lives of our students. >> how are you doing that, affordability for students, when it comes to tuition, room and board, et cetera? >> if you think about michigan state, about 75% of our students are actually very middle cl

now that i'm not in lansing. give you an idea of perspective, as governor you need to be all over michigan, my trackroud of record. in detroit i worked out of than 10 place more days -- 130 days since i've been governor. lot.s a and it's not a ceremonial office.it's a working actually they make fun of me i willes because often wear a tie on tuesdays because capitol day. >> governor, if the sixth after peelst upholds judge freed man's of michigan's gay marriage ban, will you ask the attorney general to pursue the appeal further or will you let the matter rest? >> again there are separate constitutional offices so we each have a choice in that matter and i'm going to wait for the opinion to come down. respect what happens in our court system. >> where do you stand on the issue? i'm waiting for the outcome from the courts. >> congressman? voters deserve to know where the governor will stand on tough issues. me ony not agree with every issue, you may not agree with me on the issue of marriage equality or ending discr

education issues, the point is e cspan bus is on the campus of on michigan state university, in east lansing, michigan, joining us aboard the bus, is lou

they will tour a barge used for drinking the delaware river and offer brief remarks at pend lansing. later the vice-president will head to maple shade, new jersey for a fundraiser. >>> also today a preliminary hearing is scheduled for a philadelphia fire lieutenant charged with kidnapping and sexual assault. police arrested jamal johnson earlier this month on allegations he lured a woman into his car and attack her. woman told police johnson approaching her in his pickup truck while she walked in olney. he is accused of posing as a police officer threatening her with an arrest if she did not perform a sex act on him. >>> 6:10. a shoot-out in the state capitol coming up why one pennsylvania law maker says he wawas forced to pull his gun. >>> also oscar pistorius shows up for his fourth day of his sentencing hearing and gets an ear full from reeve steenkamp's cousin find out what she told the judge. >>> more trouble for steven collins, the seventh heaven actor accused of child sex crimes, the new claims police are investigating, details are ahead. when mom and dad said family vacation,

he's currently filming "batman versus superman" in east lansing, michigan. >> we got a glimpse of himthat bat suit out. he's been working out with the michigan state football team. >> he surprised the team there and opened up with comments saying, i'm batman. he continued by giving the team a brief pep talk which can be boiled down to, go beat indiana. the spartans will play indiana tomorrow on espn. we'll see if he actually inspired the team. >> they should win that game no matter what. anybody can give that pep talk, and they should beat indiana. no offense, but come on. >>> let's turn to kerry washington. love this story. she's the star of "scandal." she's turning heads with her latest close-up. >> the 37-year-old actress posed for "allure" magazine with what they are saying is barely a smidge of makeup. she does look fantastic. >> no makeup or barely a smidge? >> that's why i'm kind of concerned. she plays olivia pope on "scandal," and she's fantastic. >> but the article is talking about confessions of a recovering perfectionist. she went with a no makeup theme. made a subtle mess

they visibly ask you to respond and let us come together to stand for those jobs in that lansing powerplant. i think the fact that you think that those were form letters, i do not think that the hundreds of jobs think that those are form letters read that is a real issue and i care about those people -- letters. that is a real issue, and if i cared about those people, i would've responded to those letters, like a due in washington. >> tom, it seems to me that you are a part of the war against women. [laughter] please, everybody. >> you supported continued wage determination against women by blocking the paycheck fairness act. you voted against women's rights of jews even in rape and insist. -- right to choose even in cases of rape and insist. you have been a bill collector and a lawyer and a washington politician. please, tell me what gives you the medical expertise to make these decisions for women. >> you know, when i hear this question, martha, i just have to say, it is false. this is political rhetoric at its worst. i have eight older sisters. i had a single mother. i am trying to do is

tomorrow, a snapshot of gaming at the jersey shore and we will be joined by the lansing city new jersey as more casinos including trump plaza shutdown. that is all tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. eastern time. ♪ >> it is 56 minutes past the hour which means bloomberg television is "on the markets." i am matt miller. 30 minutes into the trading day and take a look at where stocks are trading. openw little change at the we are starting to see the markets move up a bit but not much. the s&p 500 gained five points in the dow was up 53. the nasdaq is unchanged right now. facebook is dragging on that index. take a look at oil -- it has been one of the most ,nteresting stories and markets not equities but crude and brent oil is trading at $87.13 per barrel and nymex crude is at $82.33. it is all of the lows we have seen over the past week but still pretty close to them. -- joining me for more on oil and the future of the fracking boom in america is isaac armes dorf. need oil to sell for a certain price before it makes sense for them to spend the money to pull it out of shale. which is not easy.