augustine beach when a bolt of lightning struck right next door. everyone was fine. the guy says it gave him quite a good scare. >>> i'm reynolds wolf for hln. we're following one, two big weather stories today. first is the chance of rough weather across parts of the nation's mid section where kansas city you've already had some storms today but back into st. louis perhaps even memphis even little rock, arkansas and dallas may get in on the mix later on today. the reason why is because we've got this slow moving frontal boundary that's going to be sending across parts of the central and southern plains and moving into the mid mississippi valley so a good chance of severe storms, possibly some flash flooding in the dallas area. for the rest of the nation, though, relatively dry, very warm for the pacific northwest where, again, high temperatures are well above normal today, going to 90 degrees for seattle. 59 degrees in san francisco. 81 in los angeles. about what you expect this time of the year for both las vegas and phoenix with highs in triple digits. 80 in denve

a florida man was videotaping a storm in saint augustine when a lightning bolt hit next door. everyone was fine. the guy says it gave him quite a good scare. >>> a border patrolman is laid to rest as some 4,000 people pay tribute. there's one issue that will not rest for the mourners. >>> suppose you were in the middle of the country and needed to be seen by a doctor in california. one doctor actually has a way to make that visit without either of you taking a trip. dr. sanjay gupta takes a look at futuristic medicine in today's "vital signs." >>> dr. chung regularly sees patients via the wireless robot. he can see patients in the room from just about everywhere. >> let's go live. >> we're here controlling this robot in santa barbara. we're here in texas. dr. chung does this all the time. he can control a robot in this hospital or anywhere in the world. >> anywhere around the world. >> a high quality robot allows his head to move from side to side. and record images from all angles. there's a laptop and remote joy stick that lets the doctor zoom in and check a patient's pupils

a quotation taken from augustine, to my mind, the greatest writer on time. the question that began to preoccupying the ones weather time -- whether there is such a thing is time, because people tend to talk that way. we have to work with time as if there's something called the times. i began to be authors who wrote about time and came to the conclusion that it isn't real, it is the psychic phenomenon of memory that is involved. without memory there would be no time. there is movement. that was that book. this was a collection some friends made of essays. they are about everything. one of them is about talking about madison's memorial, there's one on the declaration of independence. so it is a collection of various things. this one was the first book in what i thought of as a series. it is the description of life beginning with the imagination. this consists of two parts. one his reviews of what people think of the imagination. great battles about everything, the battle of the imagination, whether we have mental pictures, mental images, or whether these are p

augustine's shadow.hen you find something like this, a stone cannon ball that was brought here from 1559 and is anti-shrapnel, they haven't made these things for 400 years. >> that is so cool. what is it about pensacola that you love so much? what's the charm of that place? >> well, they voted for me. no, i've had people for years that i went to college with just kept asking what i loved so much with b. pensacola. it is absolutely a gorgeous place. it doesn't cost a lot to live will. and it's great. every time i fly home, i feel like i'm going on vacation because the water ways are all over the place, the water is like 85 degrees. it really is just absolutely gorgeous. as a historian, i think his story what makes it such a remarkable place. >> well, lots of history to be celebrated today. doctor, congratulations on all the festivities. i'm sure joe will celebrate from afar. joe, thanks for sticking around. >> thanks for talking about our hometown. very exciting. >>> and if you all are up at 6:00 on the w

i talked with the panel's chairman norman augustine at his offices in bethesda, maryland.he's the former ceo of lockheed martin. thank you very much for talking with us. >> nice to be here. >> you are just back from the white house. you made this presentation. what was the reaction? >> really, we've given the white house a dilemma. the space program we have today, the human space flight program, really isn't computable with the money we have. so either we have to do something with the current program that's not going to be very successful, i'm afraid, or spend for something really exciting and workable and that's the challenge the white house is going to have is to sort that out. >> reporter: "not computable." is that because of the cost? >> primarily the money." there are real technical challenges. for example, we don't really know the effect of galactic cosmic rays on human beings that are in outer space for long periods of time. we think the effects could be very bad. we also know that weightlessness has a serious impact on humans when they've been exposed to it for a l

augustine, florida. he said the force of the strike knocked him backwards. says for a moment all he saw was light. >>> i bet he wants to be grounded for four days now, literally. >> the day before that was not so strange. >> i bet he won't do that again. >> we talked about the tornado in the whisky creek, and i got an e-mail from carla palomi, i think it is. she was on the 13th hole. and i asked her to describe it. and what was the most startling was the sound, the rapid formation of the sky appearing to be moving right toward us. it was almost surreal, especially since there was no buildings around us to obstruct what we saw. it was almost like the sky wanted to keep rolling over and over again. and it was moving toward us. it was literally unbelievable. and there was no thunder or lightning. and the sound. this is what -- we had our sky watcher, too, in time lapse. these storms, it was a tornado, a small tornado. and when we get a lot of spin in the atmosphere -- i wish i had seen that. i'm glad she made it off the fairway. i think it was a par or birdie h

augustine. i always heard the history about st. augustine. >> well, we live in st.n 1565. there are signs that say american's oldest city and settlement. we are the oldest settlement attempt. and they are the oldest permanent settlement. we have a friendly rivalry between us. >> and give us the perspective here. and 1600, hamlet was written by shakespeare, and then jamestown was founded. and pensacola comes first. and there was a natural disaster, and tell us about that and the evidence that you have to back that up. >> one of the things that happened, five weeks after they landed here in pensacola, there was a direct hit by a hurricane. we recently have experienced that also. and it sunk 10 -- six of the 10 ships here in pensacola. we found two of them. but it turned the great settlement attempt with 1500 people, and all the food was stored on the ships, and it turned it into a disaster and rescue mission. well documented. >> you have all the documentation and history, and then you can say how joe was allowed to be a citizen? >> we are proud to have him as a citize

augustine. a bolt of lightning struck right next door. everyone was fine, but the guy taping it says it gave him a good scare. >>> getting a pool may have seemed like a good idea, relaxing, refreshing, but what do you do when you don't want it anymore? >> this is strong. very strong. you could park a truck on this. >> and you could save a lot of cash. how one man is saving big on his monthly bills. >>> here is another way to save some cash. why not retire your pool? get rid of it. as christopher sign from affiliate knxv shows us, one man is saving big on his water and electric bills now that he's turned his pool into a deck. >> we came from new york and we had to have a pool. >> reporter: but these days, len spends much of his time indoors instead of in the water. >> we've been in it probably in 20 years ten times. >> reporter: feeling the heat financially, he covered the pool and showed me his bill to prove it helped. this time last year he used 4500 more gallons of water, his electric bill was around $181, most of it spent operating tha

augustine, florida. >> pretty intense, isn't it? you see pat of the intercoastal water way out in the distance. near highway a1a. there was an intense thunderstorm all the way from st. augustine through sawgrass, eastbound as far south as dayto daytona. it's the lightning capital of america. >> really? >> it is. the lightning capital of the world is actually in central africa. >> how do you know this stuff? >> because i'm a geek, a nerd, a meteorologist. >> these folks here at this house, you would think maybe serious damage or something. they didn't lose power. all they lost was their internet connection. that was it. >> i would have lost a lot more than that. no question. >> when you say the lightning capital of the u.s., this area you're talking about, do you have an idea of how many lightning strikes that means per year? >> i can tell you that lightning strikes our planet an average of seven times per second. every second. lightning strikes are going crazy right mao. it just happens you have it in central florida because it's on

and presented it to the augustine committee a few weeks ago.and, of course, i've presented it as well to the policymakers in the space business in washington and congress and any administration, the transition team, et cetera. the team that led the roadmap is listed there, but a lot of other input went into it. this is the team that really wrote the roadmap. our chief recommendations are listed on this slide and it really comes in to a couple of major ones. one is to establish global space exploration partnership. the international aspects are very important. the whole basis, the whole rationale for human space flight is based on international, global and geopolitical considerations. one of the key results of one of the input workshops that we had into this process was to engage the human space flight community and astronauts in particular wh many of them had heard other rationale for human space flight really to get back to the geopolitical and international and national policy considerations. second, was to establish a program architecture t

augustine, florida. >> i know. that sounds fabulous. how is that going? it's going good. >> it's a beautiful town. >> and it's right on the ocean. >> oh, that's great. >> where are you in school these days? >> sid well friends school. >> good for you. >> yeah, they're the best, i think. >> i'm going to be the most unpopular person in the room. and of all of them i'm going to say sign faster, talk later because we have a long line. >> shall i stay here. >> you've got a long line of people and i'll say a few words. >> sign fast. >> duvery much for coming. >> thank you for your service to the country. how are you doing? my gosh, i should have had the beautiful tie on that you gave me. i've worn it. >> how do you remember things. >> i don't forget gifts like that. i know what a wonderful tie costs these days. >> i now hooked up with teresa. she and i partnered and so if you could make -- she couldn't come tonight if you could make one out for her. >> does she have a h. >> no, t-e. she's stuck at work at tony's firm. she said she's really sorry she couldn't ma

augustine, florida. >> i think it is augustine. >> is it really now? >> isn't it?ad. >> i don't know if this is true but i thought i read on the blog it is friday. >> for the love of god it is two minutes to 11:00 on friday. >> cut the man some slack. >> all right. we are so done. coming up at the top of the hour, breaking news at to support your prostate and colon. new centrum silver ultra men's. . o. 78. >>> we begin with breaking news out of florida. tonight the possibility, the shocking new motive revealed in a double murder that stunned the country. melanie and byrd billings the parents of 13 adopted kids were shot to death in their home near pensacola earlier this month, killed by intruders dressed like ninjas. investigators say they were victims of robbery. our source says the state's attorney's office believes there was more than one motive. beyond robbery. the billings were the target of a contracted hit, that the crime was part of a murder for hire plot. sheriff david morgan is responding to that report. david mattingly joins us with the breaking news. da

peter school, ourly did of -- our lady of victory and saint augustine. >>> a student at the university of maryland is hospitalized this morning after surviving a four-story fall. the 20-year-old ll from the garage at the business school in the middle of the night. less are not confirming whether wacol hos involved but several witnesses quoted in the campus paper say the man was intoxicated. >> it looks like they have orange things on the windows. so, yeah, i feel like you have to be either real drunk -- >> reporter: fall classes at the campus start later this morning. police have not released the student's name and are continuing their investigation. >>> a maryland driver faces dui and other charges in the death of a teenager. 16-year-old -- benjamin died when riding his bike when a car struck him. now he man is charged with causing a life-threatening injury while driving under the influence. and court documents show he has a prior drug-related arrest. >>> time for a first "living $mart" report of the morning. wall street starts looking to revive last week's winning streak. it took a p

. >> reporter: so augustine and his committee tried to find an ail a-- an affordable alternative but say it is not possible. they say the only way astronauts will explore beyond earth's orbit is if nasa gets a bigger budget. >> we think we are at a tipping point. >> reporter: and it could be a tipping.for contractors many based in the greater washington area. >> the impact of the various options could be quite serious in the terms of work force. we travel to nasa centers most involved and people want to know what is the outcome and in fact i'm curious to know what will be the outcome. >> reporter: there you have it. the bottom line is no one knows what is next for nasa. august strene and his commission will deliver a report record -- report in mid september then up to the president to determine what is next for nasa if anything. and we are seeing nasa at the most uncertain time in the agency's history and it is coming at the start of the next space race. a lot of people say you have china and india wanting to return to the moon by 2020. >> korea just lunched something. >> it will be

this is out of saint augustine, florida. tony sent us the pictures. set up his camera to watch the surfers. unfortunately watched lightning hit his neighbor's house. nobody was injured. the home was fine. however it did fry the computer and internet connection. >> that happened to me before. >> been on the computer. lightning. >> i had a surge protector too. >> still happened. >> i would look to know. i want my money back. >> wiped out my television sets. we could go on. i was very upset. >> a serious situation. something to remember. we head throughout the weekend icht you hear it can sit you. if you see it better flee it. lightning caused a number of injuries and fatalities. more people die from lightning than hurricanes and tornadoes. anything else. a lot of light thing today from the i-10 corridor, across much of the deep south here. we'll continue to see that throughout much of the day. showers, thundershowers, spread all the way up into the great lakes. the biggest concern is some really heavy downpours right now. from dallas, extending all the

>> well, one proposal in the public meeting of the augustine panel this week is to extend the life of shuttle to minimize our reliance on letting space seats from the russians over the next few years after it retires and support the operations of the space station and i free the space station needs to be supported and we need to get people up there. you need to look at the cost. if you extend the shuttle program 3 to 4 billion a year, money spent on testing a successor, but extends the risk period for the astronauts to climb onto the shuttle. there are seven missions left. we lost the columbia in 2003 and of course, there's no escape system on the shuttle for astronauts during launch and landing so in my view, it would be smart to retire the shuttle on schedule and use the funds to accelerate the development of a successor and i hope the white house will actually bump up the nasa spending to accelerate the arrival of orion and the aries rocket e how far along are those in terms of production? do they have all the capabilities that the space shuttle has in terms of maintaining the spac

. >> i think that's augustine. >> is it really, now? >> isn't it? >> this is one of those things i probably read, too, before going on the air with it, don't you think. that does it for 360. thanks for watching. "larry king" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> tonight, exclusive. who was the real michael jackson? his protege who lived at neverland reveals what she knows about michael's kids, his relationship with other children and the boy named omar. is he the pop star's secret son? then, shark scare. will you go in the water knowing this is out there? meet the people who dared to take a dip and came face-to-face with a mouthful of daggers. they survived. and they're here to share their death-defying stories next on "larry king live." i'm jim moret from "inside edition" sitting in tonight for larry king. our first guest is nisha kataria. she was a protege of michael jackson and lived in neverland back in 2003. she recorded a duet with michael. she is an artist in her own right, thanks for joining us. >> thank you so much for havin

. >> i think that's augustine. >> is it really, now? >> isn't it?this is one of those things i probably read, too, before going on the air with it, don't you think? >> i don't know if this is true but i thought i read on a blog earlier that it's friday. >> for the love of god, it's two minutes to 11:00 on friday. >> cut the man some slack. >> all right. we are so done. coming up at the top of the hour, breaking news out of florida. stunning d double murder in florida. we'll have the latest right ahead. where will you find the stability and resources to keep you ahead of this rapidly evolving world? these are tough questions. that's why we brought together two of the most powerful names in the industry. introducing morgan stanley smith barney. here to rethink wealth management. here to answer... your questions. morgan stanley smith barney. a new wealth management firm with over 130 years of experience.

augustine at the florida heritage book festival. look for authors jonathan latham and and. than the cast at the brooklyn festival. the west texas book festival will sponsor nearly a week of author events throughout the city of aberdeen. later in september, baltimore book festival hosts a weekend of workshops, author talks and literary events. from the national mall in washington d.c. book tv brings you live coverage of the 2009 national book festival. please let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area and we will add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> book tv visited with author and teacher eva brann in an apples, md. talking about her life and work. she has been a tutor at st. john's college since 1957, she discussed her interest in the classics and talked about some of the philosophers her students read. this is just over 30 minutes. >> in 1957 when you first started at st. john's college, what did you think of it? >> i thought i had come to heaven. i never had to change my mind. it was everything that i hope for. learning is as much a part o

we could make this work with whatever comes out of augustine.if they want to go with an ares iv, whatever they want to go with, it will work. you are taking up mostly hardware, not so much propellant, you use this electric propulsion system to spiral you out, you get to mars, come down, remember how that looks, you have a big frame with these individual guys, stuff that has to go down, you can get that down. the other really cool thing is you are entering mars orbit, basically you fly this trajectory out to mars, match velocity nicely, put yourself in orbit, people will say how does that work? this is a fuzzy boundaries. the europeans just did it a few years ago with smart one, the gravity of the planet captures you nice and slow, you go into orbit and you are not screaming in, you are in orbit around the planet so you drop down with stuff that needs to get down and it is a little bit easier to get to the planet's surface, then you keep coming down, go to d m deim deimos, keep coming down, you have some synchronous -- this is a one sol synchrono

but -- i would try augustine na. >> nicky, what are you working on? >> this is actually an important part. >> nick. >> guest: what are you working on. >> i'm working on the digital audio edition, so right now, i am waiting for -- here's your list, waiting for a final audio file to come from michigan, from our audio studio there, and i will proof them and do that right here in the booth with headphones and then, once i am okay with them i'm going to up load them to our dp site and let our vendors know that the audible e-music and overdive and can go on there and pull done the files and put them on their sites and we'll have an audio edition. >> in other words you have already recorded an audio version. why in michigan? >> our -- we have a great relationship with the studio out there. so, he's just done good work for us and we love him and he's fast and reliable and... we'll use him. >> and he was willing to do it in one day, we got him the manuscript at 11:00 a.m. yesterday. and he got us the final by this morning. so, he, you know, we need -- and he r

rough stuff in the last couple of days in central part and up in saint augustine, we showed you that yesterday. today a little bit better. going up the eastern seaboard into places like philadelphia, like new york, some thunder boomers and mid-day philadelphia some thunderstorms right now. i'll enlarge this shot for you and you can see a few cells moving between allentown and philadelphia. delaware river that runs right along here and this morning along the banks you'll be getting some delusions, heavy rainfall coming in possibly strong wind gust taos. you could see toppled trees. meanwhile back more towards the southwest of that area just north of washington, d.c. we're seeing scattered showers. washington may be in the mix for more storms in the afternoon. a slig risk of storms as far south of the outer banks of north carolina, charleston out to the parade grounds. some storms there. scattered activity throughout the southwest. cooler in the great lakes, especially the western half by chicago. wrigley field nice day. chance of storms popping up in parts of south dakota and into min

these are being debated now by the augustine commission, rightfully so.ne of the ones it would be most enabling returns to our mind as we think about going to mars which is the kind of heavy lift launch vehicle now on the drawing boards. putting hundreds of metric tons into low earth orbit is the enabling step, the same with the transcontinental railroad goddess to california and we were flown to watch the dodgers in los angeles on the 707's. those kind of the vehicles and the information technology and the science planning tools and the next generation of kids that will be doing that are necessary ingredients to opening the mars frontier. they really are. there's no getting around it. there's no need the -- easy path to space to the going to space. since we live in space, it is natural. the shuttle has given us one way to access it. there are other vehicles. let me finish with a couple thoughts. one of the best ways to get to know mars is through robotic missions that we are flying out of the mars reconnaissance orbiter and the rovers. odyssey, the europ

we could make this work with whatever comes out of augustine. if they want to go in between or what they saw it out, whatever they want to go with i think it will work. okay? you're taking up mostly cargo now, not so much propellant, and to use this electric propulsion system to a spiral you out, you get to mars, you come down. remember when you get there how this worked this frame with little individual dies, the stuff that has to go down when you get to the one apparatus you can drop that down. the other quaffing about this you are entering mars's orbit basically you fly this trajectory all to mars, match velocity nicely, starting to put yourself in orbit. people say how does that work? well, guess what? the europeans just did a few years ago. they flew a hall of roster and works fine. the gravity of the planet captures your nice and slow coming to go into orbit and then you're not screaming and. you're in an orbit around the planet so you drop down with your stuff that needs to get down and it's a little bit easier to get stuffed down to the

augustine, florida. good morning, bill. caller: good morning, folks. before i talk about cooperatives, let me address the gentleman. he kept using the word "we, we americans." how about the 10 million americans that voted for barack obama above and beyond john mccain? do we account? ç-- and do we count? let me get to call whaco-ops. the public plan -- everybody says it takes 60 votes to pass it. it does not take 60 votes. it takes 50 votes. what happens in the senate, it takes 60 votes to shut off session. i guarantee the day the public option comes up, you will see the vice president' in the senae chair and you might even see ted kennedy role in their in a hospital bed with the doctor biocide and an ivy in his arm. -- by his side and then i-v in his arm. the public option is alive and well. it will be in the bill and the president will sign it sometime in october and you will probably have a heart attack, sir. guest: well, if i may, in terms of the dynamics of the senate -- and the senate rules, obviously, our unique and that is why there is discussi

augustine, florida. good morning, bill. caller: good morning, folks. before i talk about cooperatives, let me address the gentleman. he kept using the word "we, we americans." how about the 10 million americans that voted for barack obama above and beyond john mccain? do we account? ç-- and do we count? let me get to call whaco-ops. the public plan -- everybody says it takes 60 votes to pass it. it does not take 60 votes. it takes 50 votes. what happens in the senate, it takes 60 votes to shut off session. i guarantee the day the public option comes up, you will see the vice president' in the senae chair and you might even see ted kennedy role in their in a hospital bed with the doctor biocide and an ivy in his arm. -- by his side and then i-v in his arm. the public option is alive and well. it will be in the bill and the president will sign it sometime in october and you will probably have a heart attack, sir. guest: well, if i may, in terms of the dynamics of the senate -- and the senate rules, obviously, our unique and that is why there is discussi