aldrine questions the motive. he say that the moon is a barren world.nd will not advance america. >> by the time we get to the moon it'll be past the 50th anniversary. 50 years ago we pioneered the moon. why are we going back to pioneer the moon again? >> reporter: instead aldrine wants the future leaders to think boldly. >> we need u.s. global space leadership over all. that's the objective right now. >> reporter: to send the goal of sending humans to mars and not just to take pictures but to make the plant the first homestead in space. >> he's very passionate in going in that direction, then i applaud what he's saying and yes, yes, we should be taking a very, very good look at this. >> and that's it for this week's second look. i'm frank somerville. we'll see you again next week.

said it right to buzz aldrin's face. [laughter] i mean, i was a little more polite about it at the time, but i just said, you know, i think you might be a little misdirected in your thinking. that's the polite way to say you are clueless about what's actually driving human motivation. [laughter] and so, okay, couple years would go by. i get a phone call. it's the white house. this is april 2001. the white house. it's the george w. bush white house. i get a phone call. they say, oh, is this neil degrasse? i say, yes. they say, oh, we want to check your interest to see if you would serve on a presidential commission. i said, a commission on what? i don't even know what a commission is. what, what -- first of all, i'm an academic, i don't hang out in washington. i don't know anything about washington. in academia politics is the barrier between where you're standing and where you want to go. whereas in washington politics is the currency of all interactions. so this is not my culture. they want me to come to washington to s

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singer maries on monday and buzz aldrin will jone christie yamagucchi and banita fitzgerald mosley as honorary marshals. there will be dozens of giant balloons, marching bands and floats. >> don't miss javier colon. >>> we have the stories in this morning's look at entertainment. >>> louis dreyfuss turned out for her new hbo comedy series. >> did the president call? >> no. >> reporter: she plays a fictional american vice president and learns the job is nothing like she expected. >> i pulled from everybody. ultimately i created this person who doesn't really exist. under no circumstances is it a parody. >> reporter: the first episode airs april 22 on hbo. actor george clooney is playing host with the most for a multimillion dollar presidential fund-raiser. clooney is opening his home for a $40,000 a plate fund razer for president obama -- racer for president obama's reelection campaign. 150 donors are invited. he's a long-time democratic supporter and recently attended a state dinner at the white house. guy pierce is starring in the new futuristic drama lockout. pierce plays a falsely

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. ♪ [ buzz aldrin ] we landed on the surface of the moon. ♪ [ al michaels ] do you believe in miraclesguy ever. now, a lot of people didn't see this at home but -- >> whoa! >> in the commercial break, it got rough. >> it was bad. i got stuck in my jacket. [ light laughter ] this jacket is a new jacket. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and -- as you can see, it's pretty fancy. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. [ laughter ] >> now, the way -- now, of course, patti always -- always says i never get dressed up enough, you know? and -- but it's like -- the thing is, it's like -- can bruce springsteen dress too down? that's the -- it's like -- that's impossible. >> jimmy: yeah, impossible. >> it's like elton john getting too dressed up. you can't -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it can't happen. it can't happen. >> i can't get too dressed down. >> jimmy: exactly, yeah. >> when i get -- >> jimmy: i wanna show everyone a clip of what just went down. >> when i get dressed up, as in a few of those pictures, you can see, it's -- i have problems. [ laughter ] i have a problem. >> jimmy: look what -- look at what happened over the

choir director has been arrested accuse of spying on female students during a feel trip. 26-year-old aldrinholas used a pen with a camera to soy on girlsen eastbound at ere leave is where he currently ws. >>> coming up at 5:45 the note found in james hookers possession that caused a judge to confiscate his passport. >>> 5:35. occupy oakland protestors vow they will continue to carry out their message. >> it has been three weeks i was living in a broke down car. >> this is only a little bit of the speeches yesterday. it was six months ago that occupy demonstrations and camp outs began. stay away orders and then the rain or weather limited -- the occupiers say they are. it's normal people have questions. beelike we are just as long. >> on mays in that may day. local vennlators say they will try to -- long awaited report about the pepper spraying incident at uc davis. alameda county judge has approved a deal if ore lease that -- to release that report. the police union wanted to protect the names of the officers involved. under the settlement they will be posted online. >>> bart is making its

buzz aldrin will join olympians.ncludes debbie gibson, javier, finalist from american idol and miss america 2012, laura capler, and giant balloon floats, marching bands, all to celebrate the blossoms. >>> the caribbean tradition that drew hundreds and thousands of people to georgia avenue have come to an end. the president of the caribbean parade say lack of money are to blame. the parade is about $200,000 in debt to the city. he says previous mayors have come to the rescue, but this administration isn't interested. gray's office says they are disappointed that an agreement couldn't be reached with the event organizers. >>> still ahead, a teenager and a bus driver being called hero. stopped a hit-and-run driver. >>> i'm kristin fisher outside police headquarters where a man has been charged in yesterday's accidental fatal shooting involved a six-year-old boy. i'll have the latest on the investigation coming up. >>> new details in the tragic death of a six-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself after finding a gun

come on back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ [ buzz aldrin ] we landed on the surface of the moon. ♪ [use ] >> jimmy: our next guest stars alongside jon hamm and january jones in the acclaimed drama series "mad men," which airs sunday nights at 10:00 p.m. on amc. please welcome to the show a very talented young actress, kiernan shipka, everybody! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: oh, my gosh, kiernan -- you look gorgeous. you're so cute. thank you for coming on our show. >> oh, thank you. thank you. >> jimmy: i'm a big fan of yours. >> thank you. i'm a huge fan of yours, too. >> jimmy: oh, my gosh. thank you so much. >> "sixbey" last night. "downtown sixbey" was amazing. >> jimmy: hey, you saw that? >> brilliant, yes. >> jimmy: that's awesome. your parents let you stay up that late? >> well, i'm on west coast time. >> jimmy: okay, good. so it's kind of early. >> it's early for me. >> jimmy: i saw you in -- here's this big magazine called "vanity fair." here you are, and here's, like, a slumber party for kid actors. and there's you playing the -- playing the "guitar hero." they're roc

astronaut buzz aldrin and olympic champion kristi amtrak guch retwo honorary -- gucci are two honorary marshals katie couric and alex trebek co-host. the parade is this saturday from 10:00 to 12:30 p.m. fun. >>> big changes could be coming to the national mall. 12 different sdan pladesign pla the areas around the monument, constitution gardens, and union square on display for all to see. the winning designs will be announced in three weeks. they plan to finish by 2016, the 100th anniversary of the national mall. >> such a beautiful area. >> gorgeous up and down. >> we're so lucky to have that as part of our city landscape. go visit it. even better with all the changes. >> uh-huh. >>> people will go to extreme lengths to wake up in the morning. we know that for fact. you schedule wake-up calls sometimes, you set multiple alarms all over the place -- >> three. three. >> phones, clocks, the whole nine yards. and we've seen it all. >> that's right. now there is a new alarm clock that guarantees you'll never be late to work again. you had. 25-year-old paul sammet invited the ramos alarm clo

astronaut buzz aldrin and olympic champion kristi yamaguchi are among the honorary marshals. >> you know what, the cherry blossoms are pretty much gone -- >> gone. peaked earlier than expected with the mild winter. >> tomorrow is going to be gorgeous for a parade. >> you can't ask for better weather. meteorologist tom kierein, thank you for preparing us for a gorgeous weekend. >>> yes, well, we'll know better monday, won't we? we are off to a clear and cold start farther out west and north. it's down near freezing now. we have clouds passing over the metro area, points south and east. you see a little of that half moon, a little bit coming through in the southern sky. we're generally above freezing. and there may be a little frost forming, though, west and north of us. highlands of west virginia, western maryland, shenandoah valley, panhandle of west virginia, over the next couple of hours. even in montgomery county, frederick county, howard, into loudoun, fairfax, princ william, there may be some scattered frost over the next couple of hours. right now, not quite yet. southern maryland,

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aldrin jason nicholas was chaperoning a school trip near watsonville over the weekend when investigators say he used the spy pen to film girls 13 to 17 in a hotel bathroom. he's facing charges of producing child porn. he has been suspended from his jobs with the youth choir and salinas high school. >>> police in san mateo addressed -- arrested a kung fu instructor. the girls are 9 and 11 they were taking classes with the suspect. investigators now want to talk with parents of any 8 to 12-year-old students had who may have come in contact with wong a redwood city resident worked at the academy from 1999 to 2011. >>> time for another check of the weather. >> more about the rain lisa? >>> good morning a rain/snow mix in the sierra winter weather advisory yesterday's friend in the sand joaquin valley now we have rain closer to home in petaluma west of petaluma spring hill road also looking at showers developing up by sea ranch occidental friends in cloverdale wet weather down the peninsula into the mountains from magnolia street pescadero right now upper 40s to low 50s this is the low that w

i was 10 when he landed armstrong and aldrin on the moon and i was 14 when you stop going to the moonaltogether. over that time i was excited for you and for america, but the vicarious thrill of the journey so prevalent in the hearts and minds of others was absent from my emotions. i was obviously too young to be an astronaut but i also knew that my skin color was much too dark to picture me as part of that unique adventure. not only that, even though you are a civilian agency, your most celebrated astronauts were military pilots at a time when war was the war was becoming less and less popular. during the 1960's the civil rights movement was more real to me than it surely was to you. in fact it took a directive from vice president johnson in 1963 to force you to hire black engineers at your prestigious martial spaceflight center in huntsville alabama. i found the correspondents in your archive. james webb head of nasa, row two german rocket pioneer werner von braun who headed the center and was the chief engineer of the entire manned space rogue ram. the letter boldly and bluntly dir

really just fear of death and sort of wanting to have your name in the history books alongside buzz aldrin so long as there are history books? isn't that still the? >> it could be with the individual but you don't control that much money. >> it's not big enough for humanity? >> right. i'm talking about large-scale projects that divert a major fraction of your gross national product, gross domestic product inhuman capital or financial gap to just because you want to tombstone, the cost doesn't -- your tombstone and the pyramid are not the same thing. so the pyramid, they want to live forever, as they had the power to do it. it's inexpensive tombstone and people did in the service of the federal. he has the power. people build the pyramid didn't. so it is a power thing. it is a fear factor as well. >> so, spent we are all too small spent in less spent lsu working, in fact, our version of a king to do this would be bill gates. say bill, take us to mars spent the bill and melinda gates foundation -- >> he would be like our king and he would be spending the crown jewels to do this. i will talk