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. >> derrick pitts, thank you for jining me on "the ed show." >> thank you. and my best wishes for your wife's recovery. >> welcome back, my friend. >> it's good to be back. thank you for your kind, wonderful communication. i appreciate it so much, rachel. so does wendy, obviously. >> while you guys are new york, our company is you and we're all together. >> thank you very much, rachel. >> thank you, ed. i appreciate it. and thanks to you for staying with us in the next hour. for over two weeks there's been a masshooting with multiple casualties. and apparently random, mass shooting at a movie theater in the middle of the night. yesterday, yesterday morning, another mass shooting, this time in oak creek wisconsin, which is a suburb of milwaukee. this time, because of the location of the shooting, because of who was killed, and, frankly, because of what is known so far about the apparent gunman who was killed in the assault, we are now grappling with the possibility that the target in here was not random. it was deliberate. and wisconsin six people were murder

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derrick pitts has the latest on the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet. >>> good toght. thanks for watching. the romney campaign is spending half its advertising resources on a commercial that is a total lie. romney's welfare attack on president obama is the latest falsehood republicans going to ride. today, the obama campaign hit back. >> have you seen this? mitt romney claiming the president would end welfare's work requirements. the "new york times" calls it platantly false. the washington post says the obama administration is not removing the bill's work requirements at all. and president clinton's rakz to the romney ad?

derrick pitts, john jones, great day for america. >> it is.enna: does that make him a martian by travel? gregg: love to be a martian. curiosity is registering radiation levels on mars and the trip there to make sure it is safe for astronauts to travel to mars. jenna: we'll hear from nasa by the way in a few minutes. they will have a live news conference. maybe they discovered something already. gregg: that would be great. jenna: we'll turn to oklahoma. that state having terrible trouble with 18 wildfires that are raging there, destroying dozens of homes. we'll be live with the governor of oklahoma coming up next. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. [ man ] excuse me miss. [ gasps ] this fiber one 90 calorie brownie has all the deliciousness you desire. the brownie of your dreams is now deliciously real. when they taste the food that you cooked, it do something to your