we have to see if we can work it out. >> talking about a new app sponsored by tom hanks. time for the bwest byte where we focus on one number that tells a whole lot. it had better be good. >> i don't know. how about this, 8? sending an e-mail. >> well, the average american attention span last year was eight seconds. in 2000, it was 12 seconds. that puts the average american in second place behind old fish. have the attention span of nine seconds. if people can think about something for 12 seconds, maybe they realize it is a joke, eight seconds, they don't get it. >> you would have to wonder how much smartphones and ipads have had to do with this. obviously, it enables our attention spans to be shorter. >> well, it is a serious issue. i was reading a study today that talked about how short attention spans lead to poor ability to read and even see things as well. this leads to a dumber populous. that i reado admit the abstract, i did not read the entire study because i don't have the attention span for that. >> if you are tired of watching ," no problem, it is over. that is

joining me is the head of the company that helped tom hank develop this app.nally worked with him? >> we had a team of 20 people. they were all passionate about it. it was exciting to be on the phone with tom hanks and hear his input. >> what did he want, what did he say? >> he wanted something to give to his fans that love typewriters. he wanted to bring back the sound of creativity. it wasn't just about typing on your phone and hearing the click but hearing the symphony of the typewriters in the past and bring them to life. >> that is quite a metaphor. he himself is a typewriter enthusiast. that sounds like a lot. it seems so simple. what were all of these 20 people doing? >> you have the people that designed it and this sort of 3-d modeling and you have those that bring it to life through animation. you have the programming people, the testing, the copy. it is a fun process. >> we have seen kim kardashian app become a big hit. are celebrity sponsored apps the next big thing? >> we work closely with a lot of celebrities and we are trying to get that space we

award-winning actor tom hanks taking it old school with his new app hanks writer. typewriter simulator now the number one free i pad app on the app store. asked what inspired him to inspire this he wanted the sensation of an old manual typewriter. he teamed up with our next guests. co-founders of a tech agency specializing in mobile games. so, guy, it's a free app. top of the app store. a big deal. in-app purchase working there. what are you trying to sell in this free app, and are you selling any of it? are you making money? >> yeah. we're, we have a couple different typewriters you can add on whenever you download the app and also a special bundle package you can have to get access to all of the different typewriters. >> chris, how did you guys get connected with tom hanks and when you first connected this seemingly simple idea, how long did it take to then develop this app? >> chris? >> well -- so basically, hits sense has been doing a lot of game development and one of our big games, draw a stickman, successful in the industry and won quite a few webby awards f

the free ipad app from tom hanks that shot to the top of the ipad charts. is ed cofounder of the company that help tom hanks designed that app. >> were about 10 to 20 people that worked on this project. it was exciting to be on the phone with tom hanks and here is input. -- here is input. >> what did he say? to give something to his fans that love to typewriters. he wanted to bring back the sound of creativity. it wasn't about typing on your phone hearing a click, but actually hear the symphony of the typewriter as it passed, and bring that to life. >> the symphony of the typewriter, that's quite a metaphor. he himself is a typewriter enthusiast. 20 people, that sounds like a lot. it seems so simple. doingorld peace. people -- what were all of these people doing? programminge people, but at the testing people, we get the 3-d animators. it was a fun process. >> have seen kim kardashian's videogame become a big hit. our celebrity sponsored apps the big -- the next big thing? >> we work closely with a lot of celebrities. we are trying to get to that space wher

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. >> i was just going to say when tom hanks tweeted his love for "factory man" week before last, i called and said, do you know who he is and he's read, listen, i may be a dinosaur, but even i know who tom hanks is. >> another question from the audience. john, how are you preparing for the stephen cobert show? [laughter] >> that guy is quick and it depends on the question he asked. it really does. if you read the book, this guy can get somewhat risquÉ and so i can hold my own with that. [laughter] and so he put in the book that he has two great loves, furniture and sex and i said welcome you got it all wrong and they said what you mean and i said they should have said that smack and then furniture. >> so he calls me and it was this also from passionate, she goes to california and when i said he wants you to come on, he didn't know who he was, but he's a very quick ready and he went and was watching it and so the other night he says she's on tv, turn it on. so i watched and then right afterwards he calls and says, what if did you think and i said i thought she was great and he said she was

. >> i made the help like tom hanks in castaway. heard the helicopters on more than a few occasions. they were in the distance. get emotional, are they going to see me? and then nothing. >> reporter: before he was rescued, he survived on water from puddles. he didn't think he would make it out alive, so he carved a note to his family on a piece of wood. >> pine needles, that's a new one. >>> and college football's defending champs, the florida state seminoles, starting the pre-season at number one. >> and baseball, talk about drama. details. >>> welcome inside "sportscenter," i'm robert flores. major league baseball and little league. world series in williamsport, pennsylvania and texas, tied at six in the final inning. ty shanahan grounded to short. wild throw, zion spearman scores, mo'ne davis and her pennsylvania teammates advancing 7-6. >>> double header, a crazy pair of games between the reds and rockies. rockies score five in the bottom of the ninth, capped off by this three-run walk off homer by the former red. they win 10-9.

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even tom hanks is doing an app. >> he needs to come out with a volleyball, right?ing with wilson. >> yeah. that would have been better than the hanx ipad typewriter. >>> bill gates, elon musk, some of the names taking the ice bucket challenge over the weekend. now the moment we've all been waiting for. re/code's kara swisher takes the challenge live here on "squawk alley." that's next. if energy could come from anything?. or if power could go anywhere? or if light could seek out the dark? what would happen if that happens? anything. >>> coming up at the top of the hour from right here at the new york stock exchange, with stocks reacting big time with geopolitical concerns, don't be scared. then the billionaire and the dollar stores. we're breaking down the big players and which companies could be next. and herb greenberg raises the red flag on tesla. why is he calling foul on the company's earnings quality? we'll see you at noon in just a bit. >> scott, thank you. looking forward to it. >>> let's get a quick check here of markets with our julia boorstin and a "mark

that's not what my good friend tom hanks calls me. when we're hanging out at george clooney's place. >> oh, i love george. i wish he could have joined us when i had lunch with meryl streep and ecuadorian president hamirafael correa. >> oh, rafi. he is such a cut-up, especially when we go camping with oprah. ( laughter ). >> oh,. >> does that surprise you? >> no, "o" is just what all her real friend call oprah. q. i know paul mccartney.>> i nd karzai. >> stephen: i shared an office with steve carell. ( laughter ). >> i held high-level talks with chinese state counselor "dye bing gwo." >> stephen: well, now you're just making words up. i will have you know, madam, i once did an entire show with president bill clinton. >> oh! ( applause ) i hate to break this to you, stephen, but i've met him, too. >> stephen: gosh, you know everyone! what kind of loser do you have to be to not be included in your book? >> well, you're not in it, stephen? >> stephen: oh, aren't i? you ever notice how president of turkmenistan gurbanguly berd-muha-meadow

. >> when tom hanks tweeted the week before last, i called and i said it do you know who he is [laughter] he said i may be a dinosaur but even i know who tom hanks is. >> and another question from the audience. how are you preparing for the stephen cold air show? -- stephen colbert show? >> this guy is quick. i'm watching him and, you know, it depends on the questions he asks. it really does. i mean if you read the book, he can get somewhat risquÉ so if he goes there i can hold my own. [applause] she put in the book he has two great loves, furniture and sex. i said you've got it all wrong. it should have 69 and furniture. [laughter] >> my mom is on the front row. [laughter] >> they turned the tv on and there was this author that wrote that the california. when i told him he wants you to come on he didn't know who it was that he was a very quick study and he went and was watching it and thought of it. we talked about it so the other night he called and said she's s on tv. turn it on. and so i watched and right afterwards he calls and he said what did you think? i thought she was fine and

. >>> well, oscar winner tom hanks has another hit on his hands. literally.he actor newly launched typing app now at the top of apple i tune charts, app free, lets users replicate the experience every using a manual typewriter including that clinic sound of typing each letter. of course there are some of the comforts of modern technology, delete button, no need for white out if you make a mistake. not even labor day but starbucks thinking fall. the coffee company moved up the launch date for its popular pumpkin spiced latte to today, but there is a catch. customers can only get one if they know the secret code word, so starbucks tweeting out clues. if you can't figure out the code, you will have to wait until the official launch date in september. they are making us work for it, ukee, erika. >> code? >> a loft work for a latte. >> dude, give me a latte. >> give it up! >> california's governor delayed state of emergency, an earthquake in nappa valley. tremor knocked out power to thousands sparred fires, water mains, authorities report more than 170 injuries, i

. >>> one of hollywood's longest love stories tom hanks and rita wilson dealing with a bump in theirge? j. lo and casper reunited. the new pics of their secret date and how hard he's trying to get her back. >>> emmy host seth meyers today on the plans for the show robin williams' tribute. >> i think everyone in the audience will bee looking forwad to that. >> bruce willis security scare. why cops had to step in at the "sin city" premier. we're there with jessica alba and row sair ya dawson dressed to kill. >> i'm real expensive tonight. >> you look fierce in this. >>> plus. >> my special guest tyra banks. >> like what? >> what? >> yeah. >> now on "extra." from universal studios hollywood, the ent capital of l.a. >> "extra." [ applause ] >>> hey, everyone. welcome to "extra." i'm mario

telling the truth when he said -- >> bad boys for life. >> and in the most ironic move of 2014, tom hanksa relaxed hanks writer. no longer must you surrender to modern luxuries like the delete day. with the hanx writer you'll hear the rhythm of your work. finally the als ice bucket challenge has been taking the country by storm for the worthiest of causes. now adam levine, justin timberlake and jimmy fallon have taken part in an effort to raise awareness. even joe and mika submitted to the soaking. now the movement is making its way to the titans of tech. >> here we go. that was really cold. >> what you didn't see was mark zuckerberg challenge bill gates. i can't wait to see how that turns out. back to you, joe. >> thank you, louis. so how did this bucket thing all start? of course it came to us through thomas. >> it began with a young man, peter fratus, played baseball at boston college. tragically came down with als. he's 29 or 30 years of age and he began this. he and his friends, his wife and his family began this about five or six weeks ago and it has literally gone coast to coast. i

forward to sitting down across the table from will smith and asking him how he would like to be the tom hanks of world war i. something like that, particularly given who he is, a major production like that would do more than anything the commission could do over the next four years to bring awareness and interest to world war i. that is the nature of our society. our mission is to penetrate the american consciousness through every channel possible, whether through fine art or other -- or education. the history channel has already featurestwo prime time this year on world war i. there are also ways to introduce content to secondary and primary education. there are so many different ways to bring people into world war i. we hope to deploy all of them. questions, i have another one. has any consideration been given to the fact that the pershing memorial will go down as the eisenhower memorial goes up and general pershing will be rolling over in his grave? >> first of all, i don't know that pershing will be leaving the site. that is a discussion we have not had yet. that will be a question, but i

marilyn lovell, married to jim lovell, a wonderful couple to this day, he was played by tom hanks and apollo 13. when he was going into space on one of his gemini flights, marilyn found out she was pregnant and she hid her pregnancy from jim for a few months which is pretty remarkable until he finally found out and she said i am sorry, i didn't want you to get bumped from the flight. cheese said good idea, we should keep it secret for a longer. this is just a taste of the astrowives lives. i would like to open up the discussion to questions now because it is such a rich topic and i could talk a little more about what it was like going into these historic figures's living rooms and what it was like getting to know them as well. if anyone has questions, please do line up.

>> league of their own. >> tom hanks. >> is there crying in the little league, there is no question biten watching our dragons here. you know, the texas pitcher he could not get the ball across the plate. he was upset, crying. i have seen crying in almost everyone of the games. there is too much pressure, but there was about 33,000 people. they have not played in front of the big, crowd like that before ever. >> espn. >> yes. >> you break up a little bit. >> even with a couple viewers that we have. >> yes. >> i cry every now and then. >> plus, the app parents have been waiting for. you can prevent your kids from ignoring your calls. how you can have complete control offer your child's

. >> i made my "help" kind of like tom hanks in "castaway." heard helicopters on more than a few occasions, but they were in the distance. you get emotional, hey, they're going to see me, and then nothing. >> he didn't think he would make it out alive. he carved notes to his family on a log. but last sunday rescuers finally found him after spotting his s.o.s. sign. he said seeing them was quite a sight and he plans to buy them several rounds of beers when he gets the chance. >>> car enthusiasts are still buzzing today over a record price somebody paid for a vintage car in carmel. this ferrari sold for $38 million at an auction yesterday. it's the highest auction price ever paid for a car. the ferrari was originally owned by french racer joe schletzer and it was used in the 1962 automobile race. only 39 cars like it were ever produced. the previous record price for a car was 30 million for a 1930 mercedes benz. >>> check out what some san francisco developers came up with. it combines two favorite cell phone activities, selfies and texting. use

. >> one of hollywood's longest love stories, tom hank and rita wilson, dealing with a bump in theire? >>> j. lo and casper reunited. the new pics of their secret date and how hard he's trying to get her back. >> "extra." >> emmy host seth meyers today on the plans for the

of course he is played by tom hanks and apollo 13.n jim was going into space one of his gemini flights maryland found out she was pregnant and she actually hid her pregnancy from jim first for a few months which is pretty remarkable, till he finally found out and she said well i'm sorry, i didn't want you to get bumped from a flight and he said good idea. we should keep it secret. i actually would like to open up the discussion to questions now because it's such a rich topic and i can talk a little bit more about what it was like going into these historic figures living rooms and what it was like getting to know them as well. if anyone has questions please do lineup. [inaudible conversations] >> in your book you talk about one of the episodes on one of the lunar landings when a camera didn't work and there was virtually sort of a cover-up because they didn't want to show that. i was wondering if he could go into that. >> sure. one of the most exciting things of course about walking on the moon and being on the moon for the guys and fo

tom hanks may be your guy. he has a new app called the hanks writer. this app turns the ipad into a manual type writer. it replicates the sounds and moves from one line to the other. he once owned 200 type writers in a collection. >> i can't type for -- >> it's here. >> look at this. take your time. just keep showing tom hanks. this is not -- >> it's ugly. look at that. >> i know. it's the other way. that's what i asked you to do. >> look at this. >> that's wolverine. coming up, captain america or the hulk? do you know all your marvell versus d.c. guys? we're going to talk mostly marvell. but they're altogether and put on a great show. the ring master putting the marvell universe on tour. ken, it's the greatest show on earth. find out what his next show is going to be coming up on squawk. developers are all about speeds and feeds. it's all about latency. it's all about how fast does it run. i often sit with enterprises who ask me about how mission critical and how's the performance of the cloud. and i tell them, if you can make gamers happy, you can ma

williams was an extraordinary guys, one of the great family comedic actors of the last 50 years, a tom hanks level box office star. besides hanks and eddy murray hardly anyone sold tickets in a nonaction capacity. he has extraordinary credibility in the hip world. he was a great stand-up comic and had a brilliant mind, as i am sure you saw. it's an inconsistent lating thing that -- scintillating thing that bounced off walls. >> i saw him perform in chicago. he is the fun yist human being i saw. johnie carson thought so too, he was one of his last guests. he struggled with substance abuse and entered rehab and was open about his drinking problems. he studied at julliard, went to l.a., did the comedy clubs, landed a role new york on "happy days", and so impressed gary marshall and was given his own shows, one of the funniest shows, "mork arnd mindy." >> exactly, he was one of the first big stars that could improvise on television, in a way that did the practice a little bit of justice. he was an enormous, you know, sitcom star back in those days. again, he had a credibility as a stand-up guy.

that's not what my good friend tom hanks calls me. when we're hanging out at george clooney's place. >> oh, i love george. i wish he could have joined us when i had lunch with meryl streep and ecuadorian president rafa rafael correia. >> rafi is such a cut-off especially when we go camping with oprah. >> oh? >> oh, did that surprise you? >> no, o is just what all her real friends call oprah. >> i once did an entire show with president bill clinton. >> oh! i hate to break this to you, stephen, but i've met him, too. >> okay, come on, that was funny. but i think i would have rather had lunch with george clooney. >>> come up in "the newsroom," russian troops are massed along ukraine's eastern border and an attack could come at any moment. fighting between the rebels and israeli military is intensifying. nick paton walsh is there. >> reporter: carol, i'm in donet donetsk. we've heard jets over the skies and distant rumble of artillery as the ukrainian army moves in. ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they

. >> tom hanks. >> is there crying in the little league, there is no question bit. we have been watching our dragons here. you know, the texas pitcher he could not get the ball across the plate. he was upset, crying. i have seen crying in almost everyone of the games. there is too much pressure, but there was about 33,000 people. they have not played in front of the big, crowd like that before ever. >> espn. >> yes. >> you break up a little bit. >> even with a couple viewers that we have. >> yes. >> i cry every now and then. >> plus, the app parents have been waiting for. you can prevent your kids from ignoring your calls. how you can have complete control offer your child's smart phone with one simple down load. >>> and busy parents rarely have time for retail therapy but we are making your lives a little bit easier this morning. how you can skip a trip to the mall and still find bargains. we love that. >> it is a little dangerous for me. >> yes. >> by the way, i will take a picture of this. i bought something on qvc again during my vacation. >> you are a qvcer. >>

as tom hanks would say, we're an american family. we have six kids, 11 grand kids and there's more on the way. they are not 20-somethings anymore, they are 30-somethings and have jobs and have kids and they have dreams and i ask them at the lake when we talk late at night, do you know where you're going to be when you're 40? do you have an idea of what this whole thing about life is going to be when you're 50 and how this is going to work out? what are your goals? what's your imagination? use your imagination and dream about how this is all going to work out and what you want to do and drive like hell to get there. that's life. that's america. that's what we do. we dream about things and then we go out and try to make it happen. so tonight, i want to start in relating that personal story and just a little flavor of the shultz family, i want to start with a picture of this man, this gentleman. this is a man who is determined. this is a man who we all know, if you watch this show, senator bernie sanders. he's my favorite senator becaus

that's not what my good friend, tom hanks, calls me. when we're hanging out at george clooney's place. >> oh, i love george. i wish he could have joined us when i had lunch with meryl streep and ecuadorian president korea. >> oh, he is such a cut-up. especially when we go camping with oprah. >> oh? >> oh, does that surprise you? >> no, o is just what all her real friend call oprah. . >> i will have you know, madam, i once did an entire show with president bill clinton. >> oh! i hate it break this to you, steven. but i've met him, too. >> i don't think that was entirely unrehearsed or surprised. any way, next up, despite its dysfunction and obviously sagging approval numbers, washington, d.c. might be the ideal place it live. at left according to forbe's magazine which ranked washington, d.c. number one as the coolest city in the country. access to amenities, food and culture activity as well as population, age and growth. i'm not sure what that means. with washington in the top spot, seattle, washington, in the state of washington, took

. >> yeah, tom -- we got tom hanks to be a gust because he collec typewriters, like vintage typewriterspeople. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: no, that's a lie. > he's the best. he's the best. >> so he, uh, we sent him a a 1934 smith corona, and then i typed an invita maybe like a month later, i get from that typewriter on his letterhead. it's like, "how dare you think you can bribe me with the most beautiful 1934, and he's like all right, i'll come --" it was like the most tom hanksian kind of a response. he was so amazing. >> jimmy: you have to frame that. yeah. >> i know. i love him so much. >> jimmy: he's the greatest. i mean, he's one of the coolest gentlemen ever. but this is why people love you you. i mean, you got all these fun things. all these fun people coming your way. "talking dead." and then, amc now picked up your celebrity all-star celebrity bowling. >> oh yeah, you guys -- we bowled with questlove and jimmy and a.d. miles and steve higgins. and neil degrasse tyson. >> and neil degrasse tyson. we do this thing on our youtube channel. so celebrity bowling. we bowl against like the

interesting, for any of you that saw saving private ryan, it is sort of a prelude to tom hanks character in that movie. one of the most bloodsoaked sectors of omaha beach, which again, john talked about in his discussion. these early movies showed sanitized versions of the war. they're relatively bloodless. overcome the enemy on d-day. they created very tidy narratives for what are essentially commonplace events. there were examples of major films of how wars should be fought and won. largely in reference to the second world war. we can take a brief moment to talk about the steel helmet, which is not a world war ii movie. it was written and directed by sam fuller. -- he threw this movie together in late 1950. it was going to be another world war ii movie, but he realized with korea public attention is shifting to the new war. he rapidly shifted it and made it into a korean war melodrama. he threw the guys together behind m&a -- enemy lines. what is instructive, is that sergeant zach was a d-day veteran. he constantly referred back to d-day and the men of normandy as an example of how sol

tom hanks, $200 million net worth. >> unlike hillary, i'm broke. [laughter] >> in "the wall street journal" review he picks up on it very first thing. everybody is getting it wrong. we all kind of worked for charlie wilson. president ronald reagan, you tell us exactly in the book but i don't use this punchline on page 99. charlie wilson's war existed only in charlie wilson's mind. it doesn't come from me. it comes from frank anderson. i'm saying it was a u.s. government program and legal. since you mentioned hollywood i don't think that we read a book through it. i think that we read a chapter or two and it just doesn't work. but he was in the business. i must tell you over the years i changed my mind. we all have problems with parts of it. but when you think about the bottom line they said every 16-year-old girl is leaving the theater wanting to be her and i think james bond -- if you want to look like sean connery, or you have a second option who doesn't want to. it helped us for people who think we are so powerful and there is a mystique about u

hey, actor tom hanks i guess has a new app and he is going old school with it.t that's all about. >> reporter: yeah. the academy award winning actor created a free ipad app called the hanks writer. it turns your ipad into an old school manual typewriter replicating that classic clunking sound after you type a letter but the good news, frank and juliette, unlike a typewriter, the app has spell check and delete. no white-out needed. >> i needed to use that years ago. crazy stuff. >> you did? i never used that. >> you used to write a lot. [ laughter ] >> jill wagner of cbsmoneywatch.com. thank you. >>> it is 5:40. broadway honors robin williams. after the break, see how the theater district paid tribute to the iconic comedian an actor. >> reporter: and saying so long to the stick. what to expect as sir paul mccartney does the honors tonight coming up next. ,, female narrator: the mattress price wars are on the mattress price wars are on at sleep train. we challenged the manufacturers to offer even lower prices. now it's posturepedic versus beautyrest with big savin