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bob orr on the glorious final launch. kelly cobiella with the hundreds of thousands who witnessed history. but after the thrill, for space workers, the layoffs begin. what's next? anthony mason has today's national jobs report. troubling new information on hiring. and with a tragedy at the game, are the ballparks to blame? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. reporting tonight from the kennedy space center. >> pelley: good evening. today for the last time america reached for the heavens with its space shuttle. "atlantis," the last in the fleet, roared aloft on a tower of flame, the 135th shuttle launch over 30 years, an ending to what is perhaps the greatest engineering achievement of all time. but this day was bittersweet because many people who shared in that achievement and depended on the shuttle for their livelihood will soon be out of work in the toughest job market in decades. these are the numbers that brought the country back down to earth today. the labor department repor

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now, bob orr is in washington with more on this. bob, oslo, of all places? i mean, what are you finding out about this? >> reporter: well, bob, believe it or not, norway has been on al qaeda's hit list for about eight years now. leader ayman al-zawahiri, back in 2003, warned norway would be targeted for supporting the u.s. war in afghanistan. then after a norwegian newspaper reprinted cartoons of the prophet mohammed in 2006, once again al qaeda called for revenge. then last july, three alleged al qaeda operatives were arrested inside norway for plotting to hit targets there. but i have to say, there have been no claims of responsibility. u.s. officials say right now there's no solid evidence this is al qaeda. there's a wide field of suspects, including political radicals. >> schieffer: okay. well, thank you very much, bob. bob orr in washington. well, yes, it is july, and it's supposed to be hot in july. but it's hard to remember it being this hot. today the east coast got a full dose of the heat wave that's blamed for 34 deaths nationwide. in new york and

bob orr is in washington with late information. bob, what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, scott, as you said, this is a fundamental failure of the most basic u.s. aviation security policies. a man with no valid boarding pass, no valid ticket, was cleared through a checkpoint and took a cross-country flight. virgin america flight 415 had taken off from new york's kennedy airport and was already in the air heading for los angeles last friday when a flight attendant found something strange on board. there was a man in 3e, a seat that was supposed to be empty. when asked for his papers, the man pulled out a day-old boarding pass issued for a different cross-country flight the previous day. and the name on the boarding pass did not match a university of michigan i.d. bearing his real name, olajide noibi. noibi, sources say, made no threats and was carrying no weapons, so the flight crew determined it was safe to fly on to l.a. as virgin flight 415-- call sign "redwood"-- approached l.a.x., the pilot gave controllers no hint of a problem. >> reporter: but upon

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bob orr reports a american-born muslim soldier was arrested and admits he was planning an attack. ben tracy on why the cameras that catch you running a red light created a mess in one major city. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening, scott's off tonight. i'm bob schieffer. well, republican speaker john boehner's plan to end the debt crisis in grave doubt tonight. conservatives in his own party turned against it and the vote had to be postponed. the house spent most of the afternoon debating the speaker's plan, but just a while ago when it became obvious the votes were not there to pass the measure, the vote was postponed and the house took up legislation to name post offices around the country. nancy cordes is at the capitol tonight. nancy, i don't know what to ask you now except what happens next. >> reporter: well, bob, this just shows the perils for either party trying to go it alone without compromising here. speaker boehner does not have any democratic support for this bill, so that means he can only afford t

bob orr is with us. so right now?couple hours ago i wouldn't have given you a dime for our chances here because the weather has been so bad the last couple of days. they've been watching this at mission control in houston. they saw an opening, they thought. they took the astronauts out, they buckled them in. we're in a countdown with a little less than a half hour to go. the question is no rain no lightning, no low clouds and no strong winds? fingers crossed. >> the tough part about florida, which we joke about, but it's very serious, wait five minutes and the weather could change. even right now if everything were perfect, they couldn't launch because the launchpad is not perfectly aligned. >> people say, if it's good let's go. you can't do that, they're trying to line up with the orbit of the space station. hopefully we have a ten-minute window. and hopefully conditions will hold. if they're like they are now, maybe we'll go. >> we're talking in eastern time. a lot of folks on the west coast watching us live. subtra

bob orr has the story. >> reporter: virginia america flight 415 had taken off from new york and already in the area and headed for los angeles when a flight attendant found something strange on board, a man in 3e, a seat that was supposed to be empty, when asked for his papers the man pulled out a day old boarding pass issued for a different cross-country flight the previous day and the name on the boarding pass did not mass a university of michigan i.d. bearing his real name. nwebe made no threats, carrying no weapons so the flight crew determined it was safe to fly on to l.a. the pilot gave controllers no hint of a problem. >> clear to land, 2-4 right. >> reporter: upon landing the mystery passenger nwebe was questioned from the fbi. the nigerian national told he was in l.a. for his software business. he found the unused boarding pass and admitted not buying the ticket. the rightful owner confirmed he had lost the boarding pass on a new york subway and simply printed another one at the airport kiosk. when the fbi found no apparent connections to terror, nwebe was turned loose but only

tonight "atlantis" is on the launch pad and bob orr is at the kennedy space center. bob, what are the prospects for launch tomorrow? >> reporter: "atlantis" is ready to go, as you say, but things are not very good. for the past couple of days, frankly, the weather has been horrible. we had thunderstorms go across the kennedy space center earlier today and just afternoon we noticed a couple large lightning strikes in the area. we found out later one of them apparently hit the top of the launch support structure and that caused nasa engineers to go and look and see if there were any problems. we don't think there are any but they're still checking systems. the bigger problem here, though, is really tomorrow where we expect more rain, maybe winds, maybe lightning. nasa looking at the forecast says there's only a 30% chance the shuttle will get off and even some people say that might be optimistic, scott. >> pelley: bob, what's the mission all about? >> reporter: it's all about the last big haul of material up to the international space station. the shut kl carry a huge p

for more on the domestic terror threat we turn to bob orr in washington. >> reporter: the attacks in norway underscore a threat u.s. officials have been worrying about since timothy mcveigh and terry nichols bombed an oklahoma city federal building. domestic terrorists present a lethal and often invisible danger. the most dangerous is the lone wolf who evades detection as he maps his plot. law enforcement knew little about james von brunn until after he shot up the holocaust museum and killed a security guard in 2009. unabomber ted kaczynski lived anonymously for years in a montana cabin as he mailed out bombs and his leftist manifest owe. domestic radical groups also span the political spectrum. environmental terrorist torched an upscale seattle neighborhood. in 2010 nine members of michigan hutaree militia were charged with conspiring to kill cops, so-called right wing militants outnumber those on the left. ten years after 9/11, the greatest home grown threat still comes from islamist radicals trained or inspired by al qaeda linked terrorists. nidal hasan inspired by anwar al awlak

bob orr sat down with the head of the t.s.a. to find out how it will work. >> reporter: the goal is to streamline airport checkpoints by separating some frequent travelers from those passengers the t.s.a. knows least about. >> and so we have to make sure that folks on the highest risk... >> reporter: t.s.a. administrator john pistole says with terrorists still intent on hitting aviation, this approach will leverage limited resources and target the biggest potential threats. >> we want to make sure that those that we know very little about, that we can focus proper time and attention on them while at the same time recognizing that virtually everybody who flies is not a terrorist. >> reporter: the new screening initiative will be phased in this fall starting with two airlines at four major airports. selected frequent travelers boarding delta airlines in atlanta and detroit and some frequent fliers on american airlines in miami and dallas will be invited to participate, as will u.s. citizens who've already passed background checks

cbs news justice correspondent bob orr has more. >> reporter: private first class naser abdo has made no secret to for his contempt of the u.s. army. the 21-year-old muslim born american refused fight what he called an unjust war in afghanistan. >> i refuse to go to afghanistan because it was against my islamic conditions. >> reporter: he accused the army trumping up charges he possessed child pornography and three weeks ago awol from ft. campbell, kentucky. on tuesday his anger took a more ominous turn when he went to a gun shop in texas and bought six pounds of gun powder and asked a strange question. >> what is smokeless powder? if you don't know what it is, why would you buy six pounds of it. >> reporter: police arrested abdo at this nearby hotel with gun powder, a pressure cooker, batteries, clocks, semiautomatic handgun and more than 100 rounds of ammunition. sources say abdo has told investigators he wanted to attack soldiers from nearby ft. hood, perhaps by bombing a restaurant outside the base. abdo explained he was, quote, seeking revenge for what the army did to me. abdo's

bob orr has the latest now from washington. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning, chris. air traffic controllers around the country are already under fire for a series of lapses on the job and this undoubtedly will bring more outrage. cbs news has now confirmed a controller in denver has been sent home after failing a drug and alcohol test. the controller in question reportedly a veteran and former union rep worked at the denver air route traffic control center. a busy facility responsible for almost 300,000 simpar miles of air space on nine states. on july 5th the unidentified controller was tested through his shift directing live air traffic. the faa will not disclose his blood alcohol level but since removed from duty. if the allegations against him on true the latest in a string of disturbing incidents. earlier this year, at least nine controllers were investigated for various transgressions. among them, february 19th, a controller is found intentionally sleeping in the radar room in knoxville, tennessee. forcing colleagues to assume his duties. that offender has sinc

bob orr on the glorious final launch.ly cobiella with the hundreds of thousands who witnessed history. but after the thrill, for space workers, the layoffs begin. what's next? anthony mason has today's national jobs report. troubling new information on hiring. and with a tragedy at the game, are the ballparks to blame? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. reporting tonight from the kennedy space center. >> pelley: good evening. today for the last time america reached for the heavens with its space shuttle. "atlantis," the last in the fleet, roared aloft o

and as we count down to the final flight of the shuttle, bob orr rendezvouses with john glenn who wonders who really did the space race? >> i don't like this at all. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the f.b.i. tells us that in any given year as many as 300 children under the age of five are murdered by aen

bob orr is here with the very latest from the kennedy space center. >> reporter: as you say, this is the grand finale of a 30-year space odyssey has kept the united states's president john kennedy observed the great space bearing nation on earth. when "atlantis" comes home, the shuttle program will be shut down but the last act could be delayed. while "atlantis" is ready to go on launch pad 39a sh, the weather is dicey. nasa says the chance of a friday morning liftoff is no better than 30%. >> we still do have a lot of moisture in the atmosphere the next few days so it's not certainly clean and green. >> liftoff! >> reporter: whenever "atlantis" blasts off, it will be the 135th and final mutshuttle mission. stunning successes. hubble space telescope carried into orbit by shuttle discovery and 12 years 36 shuttle missions have built and supplied the international space station but the program marked by twin tragedies which killed 12 astronauts. "challenger" in 1986 and. >> in the history of this program lost one going up and one coming down. it is -- it is a tremendously risky endeavo

bob orr has the story. >> reporter: virginia america flight 415 had taken off from new york and alreadythe area and headed for los angeles when a flight attendant found something strange on board, a man in 3e, a seat that was supposed to be empty, when asked for his papers the man pulled out a day old boarding pass issued for a different cross-country flight the previous day and the name on the boarding pass did not mass a university of michigan i.d. bearing his real name. nwebe made no threats, carrying no weapons so the flight crew determined it was safe to,, the service was very moving, wasn't it? yes, it was. i'm so glad we could be here for larry. i was surprised to hear there was no life insurance. funerals are so expensive. i hope larry can afford it. i know. that's why i'm glad i got a policy through the colonial penn program. do you think they have coverage for me... something that'll fit into my budget? yes. you can get permanent coverage for less than 35 cents a day. if you're between 50 and 85, your acceptance is guaranteed. you won't have to take a physical or answer any he