a rube goldberg machine is a contraption that is deliberately over-engineered to perform a simple task in a complicated way. "they had to use three different simple machines out of the six we learned about and have a minimum of five steps to complete whatever task they went with," said seth sackmann, a sixth grade science teacher at mater dei nativity. "my sixth period was mixing baking soda and vinegar." students used toy cars, dominos, homemade pulleys and other items to accomplish their goals dorenbach with the forecast... << << work week today as temperatures soar into the 40s after starting the day in the 20s! we'll see a few lingering clouds and perhaps some patchy fog early this morning, but the rest of the day looks sunny and calm. winds will pick up just a little bit saturday which will help boost our temperatures into the 50s and 60s with lots of sun ahead of our next frontal system set to move through saturday night. this will result in a cloudier and cooler day sunday with highs close to 50, strong wind and possibly a quick shower or two. we'll end the month of february on

a rube goldberg machine is a contraption that is deliberately over-engineered d perform a a mple task in a complicated way. homemade pulleys and other items to accomplish their goals "they had to use three different simple machines out of the six we learned about and have a minimum of five steps to complete whatever task they went with," said seth sackmann, a sixth grade science teacher at mater dei nativity. "my sixth period was mixing baking soda and vinegar." the students started reading about simple machines and planning about three weeks ago. buying a home can be a huge undertaking. coming up next, how a company in ohio is helping its employees travel the path to home ownership. ben: and i'll have your complete << >> << wx timer @ 2:45 it'll be a great way to end the work week today as temperatures soar into the 40s after starting the day in the 20s! we'll see a few lingering clouds and perhaps some patchy fog early this morning, but the rest of the day looks sunny and calm. winds will pick up just a little bit saturday which will help boost our temperatures into the 50s and 60s

and we ended up with this, like, jury-rigged rube goldberg kind of approach the cadillac tax to try to scratch that itch. but i applaud your efforts to try to do something geographically in the president's budget. >> we have the support of those economists still. they all signed a letter. >> they sure have. they sure have. we got their names. i think it was mentioned the infrastructure and whether or not the repatriation for international tax reform should be used for that purpose. i said to the president and i certainly say to you, if the congress wanted to pass and i supported an actual tax reform, part of the working group led by senator schumer and senator portman, but i said if we could actually pass that use that money for at least for a while for infrastructure that would be fine by me. although it runs counter to what we've done for 50 years and that is to pay for the people the businesses that use the roads highways bridges actually pay for them. it's not a wild, crazy idea. it seems to work out pretty well for half a century. i was intrigued by the $5 oil fee that i think the