. >>> jerry robinson has died. he gave us the characters of robin, the joker and alfred in the early days of batman comics where his characters became icons and downright scary when caesar romero portrayed the joker in the tv series. jerry robinson was 89. >>> you know how contagious yawning can be? a new italian study has found we catch it most from members of our own family, and not because we find them boring. the research shows there is a longer yawn delay if you don't know the yawner. they say the reason might be empathy -- how you feel toward your own kin -- that causes the urge to yawn when a family member does it. >>> well, nobody at blackburn elementary school in florida ever admitted to pulling the fire alarm, but as teachers are fond of saying it didn't just pull itself. the alarm went off and firefighters arrived but found no fire and none of the students or staff members ever fessed up to it. then they reviewed the security camera tapes. we have our perpetrator. a common gray squirrel. it was found to

. >>> and jerry jerry robinson has died at the age of 89. >>> already in the news this morning not again. a shooting on the campus of virginia tech kills a police officer this time. >>> a teacher arrested here. a sex scandal rocks and anne arundel county high school and slow down a new speed camera is coming to the beltway, where you will need to let off the gas or should we say obey the law, more news in a couple of minutes. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

falwell parrot robinson -- pat robertson influence and he found that tyrannical as a political egos. he was saying to the university -- he was threatened for taking it on. he was saying to the university students use your mind to reason, to think, to be independent. we lost him far too early. we have too few giamattis anymore. too few -- i quote john gardner, founder of common cause who had his own populist wisdom how we should conduct ourselves in a civil, social society. >> do you feel he was saying that because in some way young people are not adventurous enough when they go to school? >> this is a pretty adventuress generation. they don't have the lodestars they once did because they found instrumentation -- found it on the screen and how much they serve that to get that kind of wisdom i don't know but they are utterly fascinated with good reason by the new technology. i have a line i use when i go to university campuss in which i say i never expected in my lifetime something as transforming events this is for communication, research, commerce and for ways we can't anticipate. on

robinson wrote in i have $5,000 saved up but i do not want to invest in the stock market. what would be a good investment for me? >> first of all, he is not alone, a lot of people are hesitant about the market. the key is to create some sort of balance but assuming he definitely doesn't want to get into the market, i got to say, one of the greatest investments many families can look at is paying down debt. it doesn't sound exciting or sexy but one of the guaranteed ways to reduce costs or effectively earn a lot of money and you're guaranteed to not owe anyone that money. >> living out of did the a beautiful, beautiful thing. gail, your question from david in st. paul. i'm 54 self-employed, i put the maximum amount into my i.r.a. each year. what else can i do to prepare for retirement? >> i totally agree with what gary did, pay down debt. entering retirement debt-free is the way to be. but to get there people need to track their spending. the nfcc's financial literacy survey revealed 56% of us have no idea where our money goes. okay, don't be one of them. see what you spend