dr. janet stone. telescope. >> mission control, we are on 4% oxygen and dropping. please advise. >> mission control is not here right now, but can i take a message? [ laughter ] >> what do you mean they're not there? >> well, this is awkward, but the government is shut down. [ cheers and applause ] turns out i'm the only essential employee in the place. [ laughter ] i could have told you that months ago. >> if you can give us coordinates for the international space station we may have a small chance for survival. >> okay. let me get a pen here. i'm going to say that janet from space called. and i'm going to say this is very important. okay, all set. you all have a good day now. >> houston, no. we need a plan of action to get back to earth. >> i do have one idea, but it might be kind of dumb. >> houston, there are no dumb ideas. >> in willy wonka, charlie and grandpa use small burps to come down. >> i'm on 2% oxygen. >> if that's the case, why don't we make this asphyxiation an erotic one? >> hey, guys

dr. janet stone. we've become detached from the hubble telescope. >> mission control, we are on 4% oxygen and dropping. please advise. >> mission control is not here right now, but can i take a message? [ laughter ] >> what do you mean they're not there? >> well, this is awkward, but the government is shut down. [ cheers and applause ] turns out i'm the only essential employee in the place. [ laughter ]

dr. janet stone.ched from the hubble telescope. >> mission control we are at 4% oxygen and dropping, please advise. >> mission control is not here right now blue can i take a message. >> what do you mean. >> the government has shut down. >> i have to say "snl" is doing a very good job in its new season. it could be good news for the fans of "fifty shades of grey" who are seeing red over casting for the movie. charlie hunnam has dropped out of playing christian grey. he step add side because of his busy tv shooting schedule. but there are reports he got cold feet about starring in the movie. many fans were outraged when hunnam was chosen and launched a petition and got more than 80,000 signatures. dakoda johnson is still scheduled to play the lead an sta astasia. >>> the attic of this woman's home, 90,000 bees and likely there for the past year and came as a big surprise to the home owner. >> i mean i didn't even see any. >> the beekeeper who came to clean the house discovered scores of rats, squirrel,

dr. janet stone.ecome detached from the hubble telescope. >> this is awkward, but the government has shut down. >> anyway, the space buffs may be interested to know that today marks the 45th anniversary of the very first live television transmission from a manned spacecraft. it was apollo 7. it was a test mission in '68. >>> next up, i was on "realtime with bill maher" and i pushed back at the notion that the debt ceiling debate is politics as usual. it's not. and take a look. >> first we have the gun to our head because of obama care. they gave up on that, white house the gun to our head still? >> because it is -- >> now it's like we have the gun to our head, we have to figure out why. hold on, keep your head there. >> because it's a great american transition to -- for congress to put the gun to an opposing president. >> when president reagan was elected by a landslide, tip o'neill says there's something called a honey moon. you get a shot. i don't like anything you're going but you get your votes. t

dr. janet stone.tached from the hubble telescope. >> mission control, we're at 4% oxygen and dropping. please advise. >> mission control is not here right now but can i take a message. >> what do you mean they are not here? >> this is awkward but the government is shut down. >> it is the top of the hour. >> funny stuff. he's our visual effects. we thank george lucas for that. that cost us like what $30 million. >> that was gravity. welcome back to "morning joe." "time" magazine mark halperin and leigh gallagher is still with us. joining the table host of msnbc the last word, lawrence o'donnell. and in washington, nbc news white house correspondent and host of the daily rundown chuck todd. >> so i'm on the twitter this morning. >> how is that? >> that's great. lawrence announces on twitter he's going to do the show without kathy -- >> very personal announcement. >> very personal. somebody who follows me says yeah but can you do it without alcohol for once? no alcohol or coffee. >> bring out the breatha