discovery, celebrating its 25th birthday by racking up science and supplies to the space station. >> houston is now controlling the crew to the international space station. discovery is rolling into proper alignment for its mission. 32 seconds into the flight and they will soon drop back and reduce the stress on the shuttle as it goes transonic. discovery is 3.5 miles an altitude, 4 miles down range from the kennedy space center. standing by for the throttle up call from the captain.

>> the discovery, go with throttle up. >> he is joined by his other crew members. they are itching to run for three months on the international space station. >> one minute 30 seconds into the flight. all of the discovery's systems are performing normally. they are 18 miles down range. one minute 50 seconds into the flight. stand by for solid rocket booster separation.

the booster officer says it was a good separation. >> there you have it, the launch of space shuttle discovery for a 13 day mission on its way to the international space station. this is the 128 space shuttle flight and the 30th to the international space shuttle. we want to bring back and fill keating who is at the kennedy space center. it looked like a gorgeous lot from this vantage point. you are there on the ground. >> that fireball is so enormously bright that it suddenly turns from night to day down here. there are only six launches remaining in the space shuttle program as it is currently set up. only one dark locks -- launch is

scheduled for february were able goal of fraud before sunrise around 6:00 a.m. in the morning. they are headed up to the international space station which is orbiting 220 miles aboard -- above the earth. there are a whole lot of supplies and food and there will also be the addition of that treadmill. there is only one female on this flight and she is one to join the space station crew. she will be replacing a man who has spent the last month in zero gravity. he will certainly find gravity a little different than he remembered before he went up into space. also, the most fantastic story is that of jose hernandez. he grew up a moderate farmer's son and help his parents work the fields and the help them

with his brothers and sisters. they did back breaking work picking cucumbers and tomatoes but his parents only had a third grade education and told him that if he studied hard and got a great education, he could become everything he wanted to be. when he was in high school, he just launched into space, despite how hot he will be, undoubtedly he is undoubtedly with his parents and a much higher orbit. jose hernandez has his own twitter account. the crew is really impressive. you have covered so many launches. tell us about the difference between covering a daytime launch and a nighttime launch. >> they are all spectacular.

i tell everyone that i know that if you have time, you can come up to this beach area and it is spectacular. it is so bright that the length of the flame is six times the length of the entire act shuttles back. what is the best aspect is that when you have a nice ocean breeze coming toward to because several seconds after launch, once the sound waves hit this area where we are, it gets so loud as the effects of the atmosphere and the humidity in the air are felt and heard by everyone around here there was a

fill and drain valve that pushes the propellant. the space shuttle is gaining speed and heading into lower or early -- orbit and it will lot of the one day 3. if everything goes to plan, but everyone will land here at the end of the mission. >> thank-you for giving us the idea of what is going on at kennedy space center. we want to bring tom jones back into the picture. he is a former astronaut. you just watch that launch, one of the astronauts doing now?

>> they are pinned back into their seats with about three times the force of gravity. if you look at the mass of video, you can see the flickering exhaust of those three motors climbing up the sides of the orbiter. it is actually a startling appearance when you look out the back window and you can see these tongues of flame flickering up towards the cockpit and it makes you wonder if everything is going wild. at night, this is especially pronounced to see that exhausts creeping up. athletes feel very heavy, three times the force of their normal weight. they will receive 17,500 m.p.h. to remain in orbit. what's your one of the very few that know exactly what that feeling is like. talk about their mission. they have three space walks planned.

these space walks are pretty long, on average about 6.5 to 8 hours. >> the space station is about 85% complete. the focus is moving away from installing components to maintaining those components. they are one to install an 800 lb ammonia tank. that will occupy one entire space walk and it will remove some the science experiments and then they will put the bridge that stretches across, the with the but the ball field. those three space walks will take off at spacewalking a time 3 >> real quick, how is the food up there? >> the food is like backpacking food. you compromise a little on the culinary qualities of the food

is of the is quick and nutrition choked food called his of the food -- the qualities of the food so that it is quick and nutrition. >> booster ignition and liftoff of discovery, celebrating its 25th birthday to take supplies to the space station. >>

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everyone has come to have to pitch in. >> here is no surprise, rush limbaugh did not like what the congresswoman had to say. >> represented to betsy markey told a gathering of constituents that some people will have to give it a chance to fix the system. >> no one is one to suffer any benefit cuts. but here are the democrats running around. there have to be. folks, medicaid and. he is also a doctor.

>> people are going to revolt of that what happens. >> they have the votes. he can do it. he does not have to listen to you. why should they really care if they really felt passionate about this bill. >> let's see if they really do have the votes. and we have to u.s. senators that will vote against this bill.

it is up to you to make sure that your other senator also votes against it. there are others that are concerned about voting for this, especially with what is going on economically. we do not have -- we are looking at a mountain of debt. some recipients will have to help reform the medical benefits. >> she is talking about a medical bill that has 33 new entitlements. this is a huge expansion and it is not meant to do this. you talk about rationing care,

this is a continuation of the rational and -- the rationing. >> why would she do that? is it a slip, what happened there. >> maybe she had a moment when she saw what others saw. the people are going to lose benefits. people are going to lose benefits. at one moment they say they are not going to lose it if you like it, and they said they will eliminate medicaid its advantage. there are 11 million people on medicare advantage and it does some things to coordinate care and to help with preventive care and it deals with the issues that seniors care about. those 11 million seniors did not want to lose what they have. >> they say that gop leaders did not want health care reform.

? >> there is a lot that needs to be fixed. >> there is a lot that is wrong? >> there is a lot that is wrong. i want to get the prices down. president old, voted against that. he voted against individuals who get their own insurance to get the same benefits that big companies get. we need tort reform and lawsuit abuse. it is nowhere in any of the bills. there are tests of that are ordered. >> they're not going to bill the president? >> not at all. >> thank you, sir. >> up next, a twisted and very disturbing mystery, a couple accused of holding a little girl prisoner. that is only the beginning. you'll be shocked to the court.

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the accused said he is innocent. you're going to be really impressed. she is now 29 and free. john, it is hard to believe. take me back to 1991. what happened at the time this child was kidnapped. >> she was on her way to catch a bus and was walking up a hill in front of their house and her stepfather was out front and saw

a car pulled down the street, swing around and then head back up the hill. the car cut her off and the woman reached out and grabbed her in a spinoff and he took off on his bike to try to catch them, but there was no way he could peddle of hill fast enough. -- uphill fast enough. >> was anybody under the suspicion? was anyone a fall suspect at that time? >> at times, he was thought to be a suspect. i do not know how seriously police took him as a suspect, but members of his own family thought he was the last person to see her. a private investigator investigated him and led to the breakup of his marriage. they are still married, but separated. the whole kidnapping has ruined their lives since then. >> saddest -- fast forward till now.

where are they tonight? >> they are in jail. their house is in antioch, witches several hundred miles -- which is 100 miles from lake tahoe. that rose suspicion of campus police. he had these two little girls with him dressed like they were from little house on the prairie and behaving like robots. a campus police officer noticed their behavior and did a background check and noticed he was on parole and the parole officers said that he does not have kids. that is when the suspicions took off. >> every single fact about this

story that we are hearing is horrible. it is being reported that two of the children that this man fathered, has actually been verified by the police or is that what people are saying? >> that is what they are saying. there is no questioning that. she was kidnapped when she was 11 and when she was 14, she gave birth to their first daughter and then four years later, gave birth to her second child. >> were they living in the backyard of this couple's house? >> they will living in a backyard within a back yard. it was a crazy, falls back to the backyard. there was a fence with a lot of junk with trees up against it and then a tarp covered a little hole. if you crawled through that part, there was a soundproofed

outbuilding that was only open from the outside were one would presume they were kept. there was a shower and they lived their entire lives there. the kids were born there and they never went to a hospital and they have never seen a doctor and had never been to school. they have hardly been out of that compound except for a few field trips. thank you. he did business with the accused kidnapper. when was the last time you were inside the house? >> i was in the house a long time ago. i would call and come over here and i would meet her by the gate. she would come out and talk to me and we did our business in a matter of five or 10 minutes.

i believe that the last time i met her was about by 1.5 months ago. >> let me back up. the guy that is in custody is in some type of [unintelligible] at the house, i assume you saw his wife and the girl would come out to the fence? >> she was in charge of doing all my work. she was doing all the graphic design and sending me proofs and stuff like that. she was the person behind the scenes, running a printing press. >> did anything seem weird to you? >> not really. at the time, she was introduced to me as his daughter and he said that he was running a family business so i did not see anything wrong with that.

his wife was there and there were two young girls that were introduced as his two younger daughters. i did not see anything weird, other than that he did not entertain any friends or anybody at his house. he did not encourage anyone to come into the backyard. he was kind of a religious fanatic so they do not like to associate with other people and they feel like they are better than everybody. i felt that there was nothing wrong with that, so i did not see anything weird. >> what was this printing business that he had? how big was it? >> i have no idea. as far as i'm concerned, what ever work i gave them, they handled it very nicely and very professionally and very neatly. >>over the years, i have referrd

him to some of my associates and others in the business. i said that this is the guy that they would get a good job from and pay a reasonable amount. >> thank you, very much. pay a reasonable amount. greta: thank you very much. >> thank you. greta: nevada is running greta: nevada is running television ads comparing

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the psychological impact of this economy will help us. " they have the most amazing regulatory. you cannot do business anymore in california. the tree to like your an enemy of the state. in nevada, the role of the red carpet for us. nevada will come back, i am not so sure about california. i blame a culture of liberalism for 40 years in sacramento. they simply will not get the government under control.

they have huge pension problems and huge problems with the labor unions. they are driving out their wealth producers because they feel like those people are the atm machines. i think california is in big trouble if they do not do something about this. >> arnold's schwarzenegger has this tax reform commission which could be a big deal. >> i think that the odds are funny and i think it is funny. california really is in deep trouble. if you really deal with the high taxes, people will leave you lose your income base. >> things are so bad that surfboard companies had to move out of come -- california. if you cannot even make surf boards in california and boston on >--

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>> this is america's news headquarters, i am lauren sivan. the space shuttle discovery is on its way to the international space station. it launched just a little over half hour ago. the discovery celebrate his 25th anniversary. three earlier scheduled launches were cancelled this week, twice for weather and once because of a faulty fuel valve, but friday night, all systems were go. the astronauts will deliver supplies and equipment to the international space station. there are six people living on the station and it will be pretty crowded. jose hernandez's was a migrant

worker when he was growing up, so you can bet they were watching tonight's launch. we now had back on the record rector on fox. greta: and north korean ship carrying weapons bound for iran has been seized by the uae. this violates a resolution by the u.n. and included rocket propelled grenade and missile launchers. the items were destroyed. bernie madoff's mistress is talking. he is behind bars. apparently he told lies to his wife. his mistress has written a book. earlier, she went on the record. nice to meet you. you have a book, you were the

other secret. what is thhow did you first meet him? >> we met in a business meeting. there was a major donor and part of the stimulatiostipulation wat would be held by bernie madoff. it was a meeting to figure out the logistics. greta: in the book you talk about an affair with bernard madoff. that did not start off as professional. >> no, it started off as professional and then it became physical in nature after five years. greta: were you infatuated with him were interested in him? >> well, he was with me. he made it very clear that he would like to take it further.

i made it clear that at that point that there was not really -- i was not really into that. i was not interested in having at a fair. gret-- an affair. greta: why was this okay? you had worked with him for five years and then you had an affair. you certainly did it, i understand you have remorse but at the time. >> at the time, i was having problems with my husband penn to my life can check -- i was having problems with my husband. my life was changing. greta: what would you say about

bernie madoff in 1995? >> i would say he was a good friend. if i had a problem, i would feel comfortable calling him. greta: you have lost personal money. >> i lost money. greta: you were wiped out > >> yes. greta: what do you think of him? >> i think that he should not be among normal human beings. i think he should be kept in a cage behind bars. i think that he cared for no one. greta: were you in love with him? >> no, there's no place for to go. greta: why do you write in your

book that you lost your entire fortune? >> that would be an exaggeration. greta: you lost your family members, your apartment, your investments. you took on enormous financial hit. you don't say the amount. >> because it really doesn't matter what you of lost. what matters is that you have lost. some people have lost $100, if this was their last money, does this make any more or less important than someone who lost a million dollars? greta: when you stood in court to make your statement, did you look at him? >> i would have but his back was to us. greta: so he was not looking at you?

>> no, he had his back to us. i think he is sorry he got caught. greta: there are stories that he is sick. is this true? >> i hope he is not. i want him to lift a long life in prison. -- live a long life in prison. greta: there is nothing in you that feel sorry for him? >> there was a moment that he was overwhelmed during sentencing. he did not have his wife or children or anyone there. no one had written a letter for him. at that moment, there was a bit of pity that i felt. the other feelings overwhelms that little bit of pity i felt. greta: did you see the pictures of ruth madoff after she got

thrown off of her -- out of her apartment? >> yes, i did. greta: what did you think? >> i don't feel sorry for her. i think that part of her ignored the situation. she benefited from a lot of other people's money. greta: and do you have any reason to know or to think -- any indication that she was part of this or was aware of it and look to the other way? >> i don't have any true knowledge but if i was to give an opinion, i would say that she looked the other way. greta: what makes you say that? >> because she was a financial person.

nothing got by her. she was involved in this business for a long time. i do feel that when everything said and done, this has started a long time ago. greta: how do you think he is going to do? >> well, he is managing. i read he had cancer. i don't know how much credibility that anyone can put into we are reading. greta: do you hate him? >> yes. he stole my family. he stole my dreams. he still dreams for all of these people. he was an equal opportunity destroyer. it was about him and histamines and morality and everything else paid second chorafiddle.

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differences could be bridged. >> to fight the unbeatable foe to bear with unbearable sorrow >> to years ago when i've been coming out of surgery, i got a call from teddy. between going for prostate cancer surgery and doing town hall meetings, you made a great choice. >> the tool of, pure and chased from afar to try when your arms are too weary >> people have called teddy in the the odd couple, which was certainly true. there are few men with him i have had less in common. >> other times, in committee, in

the floor or in the press, teddy would lay in to me with the harshest liberal rhetoric you could imagine, but just minutes later, he would come over and put his arm around me and has callie did. >> loves makes fools of everyone in the rules we make our broken >> thank you for being with us tonight. we will see you all again on monday night. don't forget to go to gretawire.com. don't forget the greta wire form and it is debate and talk nonstop through the night and the weekend. i will be blogging with you all weekend, so do not miss out. we will see you monday night. until then, keep it right here onox