[ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] im jamie colby in tucson, arizona. Wagon trains used to pass right through here on their way to california during the gold rush, and one of the roughandready pioneers who helped settle this area left behind a very strange inheritance. Im here to get the skinny on it. My names jock taylor. In 2009, i inherited a wooden trunk full of family heirlooms going back more than a century. Now im told i could pocket a small fortune. I meet jock, a 60yearold electrical engineer, at his home here in tucson. Hi, im jamie. Im jock. I heard you have something very unusual from your greatgreat grandfather. I certainly do. Come on in. Jock shows me that inheritance an old trunk thats been passed down through the family for more than a century. The trunk contained the family bible, a very ornate saddle blanket, a pair of old jeans jeans . Who keeps jeans . Theyve been in the trunk for so long, i dont think that my mother really knew what else to do with them. According
Left in the session. Yeah. And, of course, it is that holiday shortened trading week so were watching this closely coming up on the show tesla shares surging up another 8 on the day. Tripled in the last six months were going to break down that move with former ford ceo mark fields and the Treasury Department says it has finalized terms of new loans to major American Airlines well speak with the ceo of Hawaiian Airlines in few minutes as well. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching in general today. Mike santoli is looking at market valuations with the dow above 26,000 Steve Liesman is breaking down todays better than expected jobs numbers and how to square the conflicting messages were getting about the economy. Meg tirrell monitoring cases weve seen in some states which dampened Market Sentiment when reported and Kayla Tausche is standing by for disclosures about who received billions in emergency aid from the government, but mike, first lets go to you. We have a tidy little r
Good morning welcome to the show. We begin with breaking news as we have been for the past few weeks. Futures pointing to steep losses after pointing to one of the worst quarters on record the s p down as well as the nasdaq as well markets much lower the dow shedding more than 23 in just the past three months. Its worst quarterly performance since 1987, and worst performance for a quarter on record boeing there, sliding more than 50 since december 31, shaving nearly 2,000 points off the dow itself not much better for the s p 500, losing 20 for its worst quarter in history and worst quarterly performance since the financial crisis oil prices as well down 66 to the lowest level in 18 years coming off the worst monthly and quarterly performance ever down 66 the numbers are not much better right now around the world matt taylor is in singapore. Julianna tatelbaum has the early trade in europe. Matt, well begin with you it has started early in asia and is carrying around the world now. Abso
Great american historian wilford mcclay. Its a book that comes at a time when questions of who we are as a people, of whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither sells short our National Greatness nor whitewashes our National Sins are really live questions in our politics, and what may be in what may be an unusual way. This book is clearly intended to speak to that moment. The couldnt be a better time to hear from bill about his sense of how to approach these questions. Mcclay is a national treasure. Hes first and foremost a teacher, holds the blankenship chair at the university of oklahoma. Hes admired and beloved by students past and present. Hes also one of the great writers of American History. His book the masterless self and society in modern america was judged the best book in American Intellectual history the year it was published by the organization of american historians among his other wonderfu
[ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] [ midtempo music plays ] im jamie colby, and today im heading to the annual blueberry festival in plymouth, indiana. Its not exactly the kind of place youd expect to see a massive california redwood, but this tree rocks because it rolls. My name is jamie allen, and, in 1985, when i was 23, my father passed away, and he left me something that his father left him, and its kept me on the road all my life. Jamie . Jamie . [ chuckles ] how are you . Its really great to meet you. And how funny we have the same name. Lets get started, then. All right, here we go. This is one serious tree trunk. [ midtempo folk music plays ] and the root of the story, according to jamie, is in the late 1930s. When her grandfather, james allen, is a lumberjack in northern california. James, a widower with a son in the army, sees redwood trees so massive that several men can easily fit inside the hollowed trunks. One day, during a sudden rain squal