. >> wyeth is writing up its latest prescription for investors. >> we actually have six projects nown alzheimer's disease, two of which are in clinical trials. we collaborate with elan on those, and... >> you're collaborating with elan. >> to help with the drug testing, elan and wyeth had hired a university of michigan neurologist named sidney gilman, and through an expert network, martoma had developed a relationship with gilman, who was giving him all sorts of information. >> elan corp. up two dollars and nine cents. the company and its partner wyeth have started advanced trials for their alzheimer's disease treatment... >> narrator: initially, the news looked good, the trials promising. >> wyeth moved up two dollars and three cents to $58.41. there's great optimism about the success of the drug. >> and over the course of 2008, sac built up a huge position that was really, really bullish on elan and wyeth. and inside sac, there was a thought that it was just too risky to be exposed to those two companies heading into the trial announcements. >> there were several analysts and trade

i've stared at andrew wyeth's "christina's world" for hours, but my eyes can never unfocus to see the-rex and the volcano, and as much as i enjoy art, sometimes it's the craziest [bleeped] thing i've ever heard. folks, if you're like me, whenever you see masterpieces by someone like vincent van gogh, whether it be "starry night" or "sun flowers," it always makes you ask the big questions like: what would his chopped-off ear look like? well, wonder no longer. >> would you pay to see a human ear in an art museum? the ear of artist vincent van gogh is about to go on display. in 1888, the dutch artist had a psychotic breakdown and inexplicably severed his own ear. now a german museum has a replica of the ear using cells actually grown from van go's great, great nephew. >> that's right. it's that exciting time in every century when german museums begin displaying human body parts. folks, and this one really disgusts me. there's your european style socialized medicine. van gogh has to wait 126 years to get his ears fixed. [cheering and applause] now, according to the "eartist," diemut streb

wyeth coast starring in 22 jump street right now, and his career is really beginning to move.ate in i wish i was here with zach, opening this week, my son, boston, doing expose on fracking versus anti-fracking, second year in nashville, goldie working on the hundred foundation, basically working on saving the children in the future. and i've got couple of projects, aside from my gogi wine which i am very proud of, couple of projects that i will maybe start one in october, and there is a tarantino project called hateful eight that looks like it may go somewhere around. >> oh, a lot going on. >> so everybody has something. >> i didn't know were you making wine. you know you what got to do, keeping up with the russ else. keeping up with the kardashians? >> yes. >> wouldn't than wonderful? >> you would be doing something. >> giving a kardashian's a run for their money. >> oh, all you have to real dow is drive around, eat salad. >> i mean you have the hair that chris jenner wishes that he had. >> bruce jenner, bruce jenner. he is going for, that but he's not there. >> really look f

. >>> we have wyeth skies overhead, cold front back toward our west, that bridges some even strong thunderstorms at this hour across portions of northwest ohio, northern illinois, pressing southeast ward across lake erie, it will reach us by late tonight, and bring us the chance for some thunderstorms ourselves. but, again, not until we close out this wednesday. 73 degrees in philadelphia, right now, that humidity is rising a bit. doesn't feel too bad, just stepped out there, still nice breeze, go through the day humidity going to sing in on us, and it will be pretty quickly. 73 degrees in philadelphia, as i said, 68 in pottstown, 70 in allentown, 70 in wildwood, 69 in millville. clouds early this morning, though, dissipated quickly. i think we see decent amount of sunshine with that, the heat, humidity build. maybe isolated shower this afternoon, but the main event will be pretty broken line of showers, thunderstorms, that arrives around 7:00. so if the kids have any afternoon activities, they'll probably finds at the camp, pool, where ever, but then later tonight here are strong storms moving

wyeth's letters and theodore roosevelt's letters.and when i had my own children, it was a book that i wanted to read. thought, oh, i wonder what other great americans have written to their children, and i wanted to read those letters and i couldn't find it. and at first, i wanted my father to do the book. my father is the historian david mccullough. and i thought that it was a good book for him to do because i wanted to read it. but i realized after a while -- he thought it was a terrific idea, but he wasn't going to do it. so i went to work on it myself. c-span: how did you do it? >> guest: i first began by compiling a big list of great americans, hundreds of people. and it's amazing that -- then i started to look to see who had children and who didn't. and it's amazing to see how many great americans didn't have children, and that cut the list down very quickly. then i began looking at those who did have children, whether there were collections of letters that were available, and just kind of cut the list down and down and down unt