. >>> i'm scott bud man at nasa, where it turns out star wars isn't science fiction after all. the amazing discovery coming up. >>> netflix feels the fallout from its recent price hike. we'll let you know in a moment. >>> look at the wind, southwest at 25, low clouds rolling in. 59 degrees right now, with the weekend ahead, weekend ahead, we're tracking a big warmup in your seven-day brands for him. everything for the home. and get an extra 20% off all jewelry. the savings are that simple! see you early saturday. go to jcp.com to see everything on sale. we make style affordable. you make it yours. jcpenney. >>> from star wars to the real world, an out of this world discovery that turns science fiction into fact. scott bud man spent the day at nasa today. you you made some really cool discoveries? >> it is pretty cool. especially for those of us who love "star wars." a scene from a movie that more than three decades later comes true. here's how nasa chakked down a planet with two suns. a planet with two suns, surely something that could not possibly exist with one exception. >>

science fiction, not that story. this one. it comes true.at astrong -- it was all fun and games until spongebob got a tacked. ,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, fireball streake >> was it a bird, a plane a ufo, something that looked like a fire ball streaked across the sky changing color as long the way. the light show was over in the blink of an eye, but the unidentified object had thousands of people puzzled from phoenix to los angeles. >>> it was a shooting star. >> i thought it was -- was it? >> it started changing blue, green, orange, blue, green, orange, rapidly. then it looked like it was about to hit. >> i am going with the transformer idea. >> an expert tells us exactly it was. it is something called a near earth asteroid about the size of a basket ball. it likely burned up before ever hitting the earth. >>> how about something even further out in space. it is a planet with two suns and a galaxy far, far away. on a discovery that is more like science fiction. >> start, one, zero as the delta rocket. >> three years ago, nasa launched the telescope to s

sometimes fiction turns out to be fact. and then there are stories just a few in which fact and fiction fuse and that's where we're going tonight. a twilight zone world of illusion and deception and deceit. follow the howling wind north across a vast prairie through brief summers and winters as frigid as any others to the metropolis to the north where the police department stays busy. this is detective bill clark. the city is edmonton, canada. >> today i got a call from a family whose son was killed in november. >> nothing in a long career so strange as the case of the man who went missing and bill clark found himself in another world between fantasy and illusion. ever see a case like this before? >> never in my life. >> when it started out it seemed perfectly simple. a missing man. some guy just dropped out of sight. the kind of thing that tends to sort itself out once the so-called victim sobers up. >> i'm not thinking much is going to come of this. >> after clark's 31-year service in the city with the highest murder rate

and it had to be fiction, because it hasn't happened, and was a fictional scenario, but it also, i wasspectives around them that we've all wrestled with. >> brown: so in your case, the process to pick an architect-- all goes well until it turns ouç his name is mohammed gan. but he's a muslim american, grew up in suburban washington d.c., fictionally, university of virginia. >> right. >> brown: in many ways, your average ambitious young architect who was trying to get ahead. >> it's not a central part of his identity at all. but when this attack happens, it's thrust to the center of his identity, and of course, after he wins the competition, that's even more true. >> brown: and once you open up the story, the layers of particularly new york-- but nationally as well-- open up, right? you've got politics, you've got the media, you've got class. what was that like to try to explore that large a picture? >> it was challenging, but i felt like that's this decade that we've lived through, all oç those elements are very present in the debates around islam, the war on terror, how we react to 9/

[laughing] now, sheldon, you've written books about a fictional defense attorney. the stories that you tell really get into, i think, the issues and stories of our time. and that's why your books have been so popular. first of all, you know, how did you become a writer? why did you become a writer? and how did you end up writing did a criminal defense attorney in san francisco, of all places? >> i was not told i would follow tony serra. i need to go back and prepare a little more. [laughing] i learned something, too. i guess i better stand up. [laughing] i'm really honored to be here. i'm the toy department. i write novels about the types of cases that lawyers like tony handle. in the daytime i work for a big law firm of the type that tony probably would not hold in the highest of esteem, but i'm delighted to be here. you know, i think if you talked to most authors, they will tell you that there is something hot-wired into our system that says we need to try to tell a story. there is nothing at all in my background. i am an absolutely accidental writer. there is no

. >> people looking up at multiple sunsets and so on is a familiar theme from science fiction. but this is the first time that it has become science fact. >> reporter: a real planet, 200 light-years from earth named kepler 16b. cold and inhospitable, very different from the one you saw 30 years ago... ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: tatooine the fictional desert planet george lucas used in his "star wars" series. he envisioned that planet orbiting two stars decades before nasa proved it was possible. john knoll is a visual effects supervisor for industrial light and magic. >> every time we think that we're doing something exciting and dramatic and exotic, it's often that the science shows that we're not thinking exotic enough, that the reality is cooler than the fiction. >> reporter: nasa is excited about what the orbiting kepler telescope will found next scanning for more planets. now that nasa has proven that planets can orbit around two suns, they are asking why not three or four? it opens up new research. don ford, cbs 5. who should get it? i really love jennifer. yeah, she's grea

(laughter) try again. >> jon: okay, fictional, right? superman. (laughter) >> illegal immigrant.ughter) >> jon: come on! that's ridiculous! here's someone who could lead the tea party. optimus prime! >> he accepted the auto industry bailout! >> jon: all right. the terminator. a machine that took away good-paying american assassin jobs! (laughter) >> jon: wow. you might be right. i mean, even jesus fed the poor byby redistributing loaveses and officials. >> wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. did you just disjesus? (laughter) >> >> jon: no, i was saying from an ideological pe perspective tt they might... >> jon, if there's one thing that i've learned from this debate-- and i quote-- "boo! boo! let him die! let him die!" >> jon: we'll be rigig (cheers and applause). >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight, the executive editor and anchor of pbs newshour, his new book is called "tension city: inside the presidential debates from kennedy, nixon to obama obama/mccain." welcome back to the program jim lehrer. sir. (cheers and applause) nice to see you again. very nice to see you again. >> goo

i was writing fiction, and then i ran into a true story. and that's been the way, "accidental billionaires," same thing. sitting at home, and i get an e-mail at 2 in the morning, and it's a harvard senior. he's actually from houston. and he said, my best friend co-founded facebook, and no one's ever heard of imhim. so i go out for a drink, and in walks eduardo. and he's angry, furious, you know, mark zuckerberg screwed him, and he wanted to tell his story. and suddenly i was in another true story. so it's been this weird kind of stumbling my way through nonfiction. >> in bringing down the house you were part of that culture, and that's what brought you -- >> yes. >> okay. i want to stay with this for a minute because it's interesting, i think, in terms of what readers expect when they sit down with a book as to what it's billed as. i think that we all have that kind of classic notion of the willing suspension of disbelief, so your point with cleopatra or abraham lincoln, i think, is well taken. in "bringing down the house," there were scene

intellectuals world wide one of the filmmakers trademarks is the peering in there are people in his fiction films secure of his famous for experimenting with film language he's russian ark became a sensation in two thousand and two as it was made in this single ninety six minute long shot in the one nine hundred ninety six worked on his famous to troll exploring the effects of the war on one's personality the first three films were biographies of some of the most powerful political leaders of the twentieth century . and hero. the fourth film of the to troll would you follow sed broke securities biggest cinematographic award the golden lion of the venice film festival. mr secretary thank you very much for joining us good afternoon and a warm welcome from st petersburg. first of all i would like to congratulate you on the goldline award for the it's a great achievement for the russian filmmaking industry as well as for you personally. but before we start discussing the award in new dance that surrounded i would like you to comment on the latest news of the russian filmmaking community. after

but as a work of fiction, why does this movie work?> i play peter brand, who is a fictional character, a composite character. a few different guys using saber metrics in working for billy at that time. in the book it was a character named paul podesta, who was a real person, but a composite of a few different people within that time as well. so i knew paul. and he's great. he's awesome. and i got to meet theo epstein. he used the saber metrics to break the 100-year-old curse of the bambino. i got to use just my own creation. it was really, really an interesting experience. >> at the oakland premier where bean and pitt shared the spotlight, the star shared why he gravitated to the story. >> it's a big universal themes here that goes well beyond an underdog story and ideas of value and how we rate ourselves successfully or as a failure. and they bring up some interesting questions. >> there's an important point where brad's character says "adapt or die." if you don't adapt you're going to get left behind. it's not about abandoning everyt

the author is russell banks, a much-honored writer with 17 works of fiction including "continental driftu to this story? >> i think the trigger that kind of got me rolling on this was the fact that i spent a good deal of time in miami and on miami beach side in an apartment that looks out over miami mainland and looks out over the julia tuttle causeway. about four years ago pieces started appearing in the "miami herald" about this colony of men, of convicted sex offenders who were dropped off after they had served their time and were living, were homeless and living there because of the fact that they were prohibited from living within 2,500 feet of anywhere children gather. >> reporter: this is based on real life? this is what you saw? >> that started it. i could see that causeway from my terrace, and i just started imagining what it must be like to be under there and to have this group of people clustered together. i mean, it intrigued me more lots of reasons, one of the ones being is an ongoing theme in a lot of my work is the unintended consequences of good intentions and the irony o

>>reporter: until today this was science fiction shun. existence of planet orbiting 2 suns.cas created such a police as luke sky walker home in "star wars". now we may wonder if he had an inside tip. how did george lucas know about this before nasa. >> i don't think he did. >>reporter: and yet nasa had oscar winning john knoll in the house today as it announced a major discovery. first confirmation of a real planet orbiting 2 suns. binary plane planet. >> indication of what is possible. something entirely new. >>reporter: one that literally opens a universe of possibility for finding earth like planet according to the team. >> half the stars in the sky you lack at are binary, double the number of potential habi habitable planet. >>reporter: the telescope is looking at only a small portion of the sky. 156,000 stars in a galaxy with more than 1 billion of them. already found hnss of planets by detecting changes of brightness of this is stars when planets pass between them and earth. we know that this new planet keepler 16 b twice00 light years away and gas giant orbiting 2 sun

. >> superman was a fictional character, right?nfirming. >>> and then another man working for the republican domination for president, jon huntsman, he was there at a gun show. he says if he cannot get the gop nomination he will not run as an independent. >>> a week from tomorrow we'll be in tampa for the cnn tea party republican debate. the event is cosponsored by the tea party express. that's a week from tomorrow right here on cnn. >>> we're coming up on the 10th anniversary of september 11th. people still asking the question, just how safe are we? candy crowley joining us next with a report card on national security. [ male announcer ] they'll see you...before you see them. cops are cracking down on drinking and riding. drive sober, or get pulled over. there's another way to minimize litter box odor: purina tidy cats. our premium litters now work harder to help neutralize odors in multiple cat homes. purina tidy cats. keep your home smelling like home. really? 25 grams of protein. what do we have? all four of us, together? 24. h

>>reporter: until today this was science fiction shun. existence of planet orbiting 2 suns. george lucas created such a police as luke sky walker home in "star wars". now we may wonder if he had an inside tip. how did george lucas know about this before nasa. >> i don't think he did. >>reporter: and yet nasa had oscar winning john knoll in the house today as it announced a major discovery. first confirmation of a real planet orbiting 2 suns. binary plane planet. >> indication of what is possible. something entirely new. >>reporter: one that literally opens a universe of possibility for finding earth like planet according to the team. >> half the stars in the sky you lack at are binary, double the number of potential habi habitable planet. >>reporter: the telescope is looking at only a small portion of the sky. 156,000 stars in a galaxy with more than 1 billion of them. already found hnss of planets by detecting changes of brightness of this is stars when planets pass between them and earth. we know that this new planet keepler 16 b twice00 light years away and gas giant orbi

the system but i think group should be made since i make most of my films both documentaries and fiction with government funds i am obliged to present my films to the audience the taxpayer should see where their money goes to them this is the general situation and should be changed. it can be changed. but mr sekulow judging by the response your films have attracted in the united states when you say that the intellectual level of the american people is not much higher absolute and out in more than russia. there are certain problems over there too where the general cultural level of the population is undoubtedly higher than in russia unfortunately you know as a citizen of russia i'm saying this with a heavy heart i think this is one of the principal losses the post perestroika era inflicted they were mostly losses in the sphere of culture and huge global losses too of course the cultural level in the us is higher and they have alternative ways of self-expression and alternative systems of distribution. do you think these losses were natural and inevitable when such a huge lead to capitalis

>>reporter: until today the was science fiction. existence of planet orbiting 2 suns.s created such a place as luke sky walker home in "star wars". now we may wonder if he had app inside ti tip. how did he know about this before nasa? >> i don't think he did. >>reporter: yet nasa had oscar winning john knoll in the house did as it announced a major discovery. first confirmation of real planet orbiting 2 suns. >> indication of what is possible. something entirely new. >>reporter: one that hit real opens a universe of possibility for finding earth like planet according to this team. >> the half the stars in the sky you look at are binary. double the number of potential habitable planet. >>reporter: the telescope is looking at only a small portion of the sky. 156,000 stars in galaxy with more than 1 billion of them. already found hundreds of planet by detecting change of priceness of those stars when planet pass between them and earth. we know that this new planet keepler 16 b is about 200 light years away and gas giant orbiting 2 suns one smaller one larger. life as we k

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