ranging from computer programming, and hubble telescope to planning separati e exploration. >> is there an earth twin out there? >> we don't have enough evidence to say anywhere near for sure there is an earth twin. but our data so far shows that small planets are common. they are everywhere we look. we do find small planets. >> what are bio signatures? and what do they tell us? >> well, bio signature gasses haven't yet been found on another planet beyond earth but they are gasses in an atmosphere that are produced by life. oxygen, what we need to survive, is here in huge quantities. without life on earth, planet and other photo synthetic life, we wouldn't have oxygen at all. if there are aliens seeing oxygen, they know something is up here and they can attribute that to life on earth. >> my curiosity is piqued, and i'm enjoying what you're talking about here. but how physically with your teams finding these other planets, earth's twin, the kip kipler and hubble telescope, are you developing technology to take you further. >> we're like a baby who just learned to crawl. we need to learn

the mission follows in the footsteps of the hubble , and a satellite that match out 100,000 stars until its operation ended in 1993. a quick look at the headlines this hour. a historic step for the european union. it has come to a landmark banking deal that marks one of the biggest transfers of national sovereignty since the introduction of the euro. groups say close to 1000 people were killed in just two days of violence in central african republic. amnesty international is pointing the finger that -- i oguee rebels -- at r rebels. and could the nsa scale back on its methods? a white house-picked panel like lettingbs only phone companies hold u.s. phone records and giving only the president the right to ok spying on foreign leaders. ,"u are watching "france 24 and it is another year we can say -- the russian president giving a marathon this conference. latimer pruden has been having a good year diplomatically, and that seems to come across -- vladimir putin has been having a good year diplomatically. he used his press conference to confirm the increasingly conservative course he seems

two discovery stroontds spent more than -- astronauts spent more than eight hours working -- want hubbleelescope. >>> the vallejo native helped give out toys to youngsters this morning, and presented the charity with a check for $10,000. the foundation army said it was facing a shortfall before he made his donation. >>> now trending, children around the world are keeping tabs on santa claus tonight online! the north american aerospace defense command says santa has left the north pole on his worldwide track. at last check, he distributed more than 4 billion presents and was heading toward south america. norrad began tracking santa in 1955, and you can track his movements today by clicking the link under our hot topics section. see you next time! >> today on "tmz"... >> president obama is having a good time in hawaii. but they could end up killing someone out of shock when they cross the imaginary line in the sand. the secret service swoops in on you. thing. cool put a line in the sand. that's what they mean by drawing a line in the sand. actually, i know what it means. >> up until now yo

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. >> the first happened 14 years ago when astronauts repair the hubble telescope. >>> a decades old holiday tradition going even more high- tech. how you can track the jolly red suited globetrotter from your smart phone. that's next. >>> looks like santa delivered more records from wall street today. quick check at the numbers. the dow, s&p, nasdaq all reported big gains. market will be closed tomorrow. keeping with its annual traditon, norad is tracking jolly old elf's journey froe north pole. the military says his sleigh took off >>> christmas has gone off without a hitch for santa claus. >> the military says the sleigh took off on time which means he should be working his way through europe right about now. norad says a sensor picks up the heat signatures from rudolph's nose to determine santa's precise location. we're tracking him live now. he is about two minutes out from london closing in, kids. you know what, google is allowing people to get in on this tracking as well. apparently, you can type santa into the google maps page and you will see exactly where he is. everybody now. this

the first one was in 1999 to make repairs to the hubble telescope. >>> well, get ready for weather more fitting the holiday season. howard is up next with the forecast. >>> but first we take a look back at the life of z and. >>> grammy winning musician yousef lateef massed away. in 1987 he won a grammy award for his new age recording. yousef lateef's little symphony. in 2010 he received the national endowment for the arts jazz award. this is him performing in us a friday ya. he was 93 years old. >>> mclean gannett, the parent company of wusa9 and "u.s.a. today" just got a lot bigger. 17 television stations bigger in fact. began knelt has completed -- gannett has completed its purchase of the belo group. it expands its tv stations from 23 do 40 and its reach to nearly one-third of all u.s. households. the company is now the largest independent station group of major network affiliates in the top 25 television markets. that means gannett news crews now span the country from seattle, washington, to washington, d.c., portland, oregon, to portland, maine and points in between like new orlea

when's the last time you looked up at the night sky and laundered life in the universe well thanks the hubble telescope for now much closer to answering one of the biggest questions of all time whether or not we're allowed to see recently discovered five jupiter sized worlds that contain water in our atmosphere just a few trillion miles from earth and according to a study in a proceedings of the national academy of sciences we now know that there are possibly billions of planets just within our galaxy that up capacity for life but what about the capacity for intelligent life on a man named frank drake came up with a way to quantify believe in measure the likelihood of life within our milky way astrophysicist carl sagan explains it best for the process of elimination so you can get the point gets to a point of how many technological civilizations are likely to exist. if only one percent of civilization survive technological adolescence but that's a big go would be not a hundred million. but only one hundred and then the number of civilizations would be a billion times or hundred the number of

astrophysicists with the best possible data, it is equipped with even stronger magnifying technology than the hubble telescope. >> if an astronaut stood on the moon and gave the thumbs-up sign to show that everything is ok, the telescope would really be able to see his thumb. you would really be able to see it is his thumb he is raising. >> the telescope will allow visitors to examine thousands of times more stars than they have ever been able to, which should help them understand how stars form, how they create elements such as oxygen and carbon that make up humans, and how they die, releasing elements such as gold, titanium. the dust and debris left behind are the stuff planets are made of. >> the satellite is going to give so many answers to so many open questions and make it possible for us to start thinking up important new questions. this is really a milestone. >> that's why scientists are calling the satellite a discovery machine. they believe the data it delivers will change several fields of astronomy forever, and the chart of our galaxy should be finished in about a decade. >> we talked to

local honey take it as he was publicly on and on and on the continent of fun playing it on hubble. who isn't looking like i'm keeping it on the potty. we think it's good enough. north korean state run television broadcasts several photos taken during the meeting in which child was sad the images include one showing him being taken away from the venue. there is korea's ruling workers party newspaper wrote on reported on monday. the party dismissed john from all posts for trying to form his own faction. that said the decision was made at a meeting in pyongyang on sunday attended by kim jong hoon. the north korean leader was reported as saying time was corrected by capitalism and indulge in a depraved lifestyle. for those even added china and undermine the party's authority over judiciary prosecution and security organizations. it said he had done serious harm to the party system policies and its measures to defend people. the newspaper pointed to chinese initiative to promote foreign investment in the country it said he had thrown the country's fiscal management system into turmoil a

the first happened 14 years ago when astronauts repaired the hubble telescope. >>> well, we certainly got an early christmas gift with the mild weather here in the bay area. >> but for much of the country, it's definitely winter. saevens like this in case in point an icy weather caused a 28-car pileup on ohio inther state. snow and bitter cold are blamed for more than a dozen deaths, and tonight across the northeast, half a million homes and businesses are still without power. the worse worst part, more know is in the forecast. >>> no weather worries tonight for santa, however, tracking his progress around the world tonight delivering presence to all the good girls and boys, gives them places like australia are already ripping over those pack ajs. right now he is in north dakotas and making his way west. you can also track santa for yourself. >> seeing visions of wrapping paper flying through the air, mass hysteria. >> this is the one week where it's tough to get everything in the recycling bin. it's so much more fun but taking up so much more space. >>> we've got a great forecast. it

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one of the last time you looked up at the night sky and pondered life in the universe thanks to the hubble telescope we're now much closer to answering one of the biggest questions of all time is it just yesterday nasa revealed the discovery of five jupiter size worlds that contained water in the atmosphere just a few trillion miles from earth and according to a study in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences we now know that there are possibly billions of planets with an our galaxy that have the capacity for life but what about the capacity for intelligent life on a man named frank drake came up with a way to quantify of and measure the likelihood of life within our milky way astrophysics as carl sagan explains it best about the process of the elimination rather sagan gets to a point of how many technological civilizations are likely to exist. if we were sent to civilization survive technological adolescence but if sebago would be not a hundred million. but only a hundred and then the number of civilizations would be a billion times a hundred and the number of civilization of

one of the last time you looked up at the night sky and pondered life in the universe thanks to the hubble telescope we're now much closer to answering one of the biggest questions of all time is it just yesterday nasa revealed the discovery of five jupiter size worlds that contained water in the atmosphere just a few trillion miles from earth and according to a study in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences we now know that there are possibly billions of planets with an our galaxy that have the capacity for life but what about the capacity for intelligent life on a man named frank drake came up with a way to quantify able to measure the likelihood of life within our milky way astrophysics as carl sagan explains it best about the. is a limit elimination rather sagan gets to a point of how many technological civilizations are likely to exist. if we were sent to civilization survive technological adolescence but if so be goal would be not a hundred million. but only a hundred and then the number of civilizations would be a billion times a hundred and the number of civilization

one of the last time you looked up at the night sky and pondered life in the universe thanks to the hubble telescope we're now much closer to answering one of the biggest questions of all time is it just yesterday nasa revealed the discovery of five jupiter size worlds that contained water in the atmosphere just a few trillion miles from earth and according to a study in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences we now know that there are possibly billions of planets within our galaxy that have the capacity for life but what about the capacity for intelligent life or man named frank drake came up with a way to quantify able to measure the likelihood of life within our milky way astrophysics as carl sagan explains it best about the process of the elimination rather sagan gets to a point of how many technological civilizations are likely to exist. if we were sent to civilization survive technological adolescence but if sebago would be not a hundred million. but only a hundred and then the number of civilizations would be a billion times a hundred and the number of civilization of t

is troubleshooting problems and nasa cnducted a christmas eve spacewalk only once before during a hubble back in 1999. and the tallest building in michigan demolished to make way for a family-friendly pla in the heart of the city. the 45-year-old building comin down. 1000 pounds of explosives were ed around the structure. and overpricing of this home, the coldwell banker agentsere portedly caught on security cameras having sex andwe sometimes in this home. both are being fired from coldwell banker. and a record-setting day on wall street. the best annualperformance since 1993. joini us now with his outlook on economies, teddy weisberg. thank yor being here. another day and another record. it's been a remarkable year as we look back. >> only in hindsight. but t it's been really tough. the folks ttat have been on the sidelines watching this. and we see the volumes, even now, during these 53 years ad the markets have seen volatility and they haveeen sold off. but thephones ring, but they are not ringing what they like th were in998 or 1999. and it just doesn't seem to be a lot of interest.

. >> that nasa hubble space telescope, scientists announced the find in san francisco, they believe it could be vapor coming from a geyser connected to a hidden ocean under the moon's surface. there is a lot of speculation there. >> well, a boy is seeing progress in efforts to win support for nasa. >> he started a petition drive to save federal funding for the space program. >> in the weeks since nationwide picked up the story the number of signatures jumped to >> this is the last person to walk on the moon. >> what is the last thing you saw? >> looking back home. and at beautiful weather. take us back to the moon. i will always be with you. on every trip you take. >> how cool is that >> the captain called conner 41 years to the day that he first walked on the moon. >> let's check on the earthly forecast. >> yes. >> it's very, very earthly. air quality not so hot. tomorrow will be poor. looking at sunny conditions. a thunderstorm or two and high temperatures into low 60s, 54 in yosemite. pleasant 48 in tahoe. 74 degrees high tomorrow. 71 san diego. here in the bay area sunny skies, mid

one of the last time you looked up at the night sky and pondered life in the universe thanks to the hubble telescope we're now much closer to answering one of the biggest questions of all time is it just yesterday nasa revealed the discovery of five jupiter size worlds that contained water in the atmosphere just a few trillion miles from earth and according to a study in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences we now know that there are possibly billions of planets with an our galaxy that have the capacity for life but what about the capacity for intelligent life or man named frank drake came up with a way to quantify and measure the likelihood of life within our milky way astrophysics as carl sagan explains it best about the process of the elimination rather sagan gets to a point of how many technological civilizations are likely to exist. if he wins the civilization survive technological adolescence but if sebago would be not a hundred million. but only a hundred and then the number of civilizations would be a billion times a hundred and the number of civilization of the gala

the first was a multiday mission in 1999 to repair the hubble telescope. >> it's an amazing experience [ [ bleep astronauts. >>reporter: in washington, i'm aaron pike. >>> a look at your weather and headlines and a shot from outside, the sunrising on this christmas morning, hopefully your families enjoying the kids opening up the presents this morning. >> welcome back, christmas morning, be glad you're in the bay area, in other parts of the country, in the northeast, they're in the dark. christmas trees are without power, michigan, maine, vermont, new york state, from your local forecast, here's erica. >> good morning, annie, you have to keep in mind the brunt of this system has pushed its way through, we're talking ri sid you'll power -- residual power outages. still in the lakes, we could see three inches accumulate in michigan, but most of the system has moved over the atlantic, we're looking at power outages for millions. we're going to follow this over christmas, here's from our tram cam, taking a cold start to the morning. temperatures below freezing in the north bay, let's look

joining us now, buck kearns, executive director of the snowball express, joining us with dana hubble,and her son nash. welcome. >> great to be here with you. >> buck, a special effort that you work hard to make sure that the children receive attention and get what they need in the christmas season. tell us about it. >> our mission is to bring together children of fallen military. you know, in this country, we are all very lucky to have men and women who volunteer with their lives on the line. to protect us and keep us free. unfortunately not all of the men and women return home. our mission is honor the memory of the heroes and to continue that helping their children. so we bring together the children of the fallen heroes, with airlines to donate the chartered airplane osbring the kids together from all over the country. >> and right now i know you are in fort worth, texas, right now. we are taking look at the live pictures there. >> dana tell me what it meant to you and your family, having a chance to travel to texas and spend time with other families who know firsthand what it is to

the hubbell case -- hubble space telescope was considered the laughing stock. lou: don't touch it.s it is still the leading edge instrument out in space because it is being debated -- updated. resources. lou: and a brilliant idea to begin with. let's turn to the solar minimum that is now maximum minimum. this is starting to get a little eerie, a little chancy, and a little troubling that we are seeing so activity on our son. >> the sun is essentially -- lou: the lowest in the ctury. >> it is essentially a giant bubbling cauldron of tremendously hot gas that happens to be almost a million miles across. we have very little understanding- the basic research about what is happening, very small. will we do know is that as far as the sunspot maximum are concerned, they, once every 11 years, and this one is just terry, very quiet. lou: stubbornly so. >> surprisingly long. we don't know is how it will affect us. lou: we know what happened last time, though, right. >> in 1815 in 181 in combination with a minimum of maximum some spot, up maunder minimum plus a huge vcanic eruption that throu

the hubble space telescope has picked up traces of water. >> but before you start thinking about life huge swirling gas giants but down the road, with the launch of more powerful telescopes perhaps, we might be able to pick up whether small rockier planets kind of like earth may have water on them. >> now staying in space and going where no plants have gone before, let's talk to chad who's here to tell us about growing plants on space. what is going on? >> when i first heard about the story, i thought we're just going to shoot a bunch of seeds into the moon and see if they grow. not quite. we're going to take a little pod like a terrarium. >> i recognize that. >> that's completely self-contained with seeds on it, kind of think of a coffee filter with seeds implanted. we're going to shoot it to the moon. no water in it yet. but when it gets to the moon, we'll put the water in the can and allow it to grow and see if it gross in the lunar gravity in the lunar radiation and see compared to the same plants that they're growing and they water at the exact same time on earth what these plant

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>> a scientist making a discovery that uses the hubble space telescope.water on five more planets? >> a good day for the universe. >> what do they think they found? >> they are looking at the shadows of planets moving in stars and they are about a million times as far away as pluto. this is a long way out. they are looking at the shadow of the planet and the light of the star going through the air around the planet and measuring the gases. they were finding it is like a shadow of a shadow looking to see what is there and what are they made of. >> taking an image and putting it together like a puzzle. could there be life out there? >> on these particular planets, they are easy to look at and they are not great for live. they are big, gassy and hot. but there is water in the systems. we know that now. and woo are woo -- and we are sure there are planets circulateing the other stars. >> we know how to look for it. that is a big change.ing the ot. >> we know how to look for it. that is a big change. what next? >> right now we can only see the weird giant plan

if you are the only one recognizing there may be a hubble, how do you pull together a consensus around >> that as our twitter question of the day -- what is the ben bernanke legacy? you can tweet us what you think. >> hero or zero? bloombergure to watch television for special coverage of the f moc announcement and the ben bernanke final news conference at 2 p.m. live. up, will taper talk house the u.s. housing recovery? ♪ >> good morning, everyone. home prices in china keep rising in the biggest cities. they were up 18 % from one year earlier. these rises come despite efforts by local governments to cool the real estate market. a plunge in law school and enrollment, the number of first- year law students fell 11% this sinceo the lowest level 19 77. the american bar association says the drop reflects concerns about the job market and the price of a law degree. two winners last night and the $636 million mega millions jackpot but none of us one which is upsetting. a gift shop in san jose california sold one of the winning tickets in the other was sold in atlanta. sales yesterday put the

the first was a multi-day mission in 1999 to repair the hubble space telescope. >> we're well trained and this really is an extraordinary experience for the astronauts to get a chance to do this. >> in washington. >>> and coming up on the kron 4 morning news, we'll tell you how many residents were finally able to go home just in time for christmas after being forced out of their home during the big sur fire. >>> and here is a live look outside from our walnut creek camera no surprise that traffic is very light on this holiday. we're back with more. >>> welcome back. just in time for the holidays, all 100 residents forced to evacuate for a wildfire in big sur are now allowed back into their homes. the evacuations and road closures were lifted monday night. 34 homes were destroyed in the fire that is 1 more than they originalliest mated. this fire burned more than 1.4 square miles in the national forest, and that fire even forced the fire chief to evacuate her home as well. >>> it is very dry out there. we need the rain. are we going to get any? here is erica with your holiday forecast.

first one happened 14 years ago when two "discovery" astronauts spent eight hours working on the hubble very, very dangerous. >> today one went well and hopefully day two will go just as well. >> we're rooting for them. >> we are. alina machado, thanks. >>> get ready to shop. that's what retailers are hoping. foot traffic is down a whopping 21%. stores are slashing prices as a result to get you back inside the stores and that includes target. discount prices may not help target this time. customers who were victims of target's credit card hacker are not happy. the retail giant released these pictures of their executive committee meeting. it is working around the clock until, quote, every guest need is met. alison kosik is in new york to talk about target and its woes. good morning. >> good morning, carol. you talked about overall sale this is holiday shopping season. they haven't been red hot for retailers. that includes target. that's as we head into this last shopping day before christmas. you take that, roll it into the lawsuits and the reporters, stolen account information from targ

you have done four to the hubble tell scope? >> that is correct. >> what is it like? be impactf impactfull. >> but dangerous? >> absolutely. and they are going out to fix something that needs to be replaced. you would rather not have to do this, but now you have to go out, you make the best of it. it is a great experience. >> how long did yours last? >> mine were long. two of mine were eight hours and another over seven. >> what do you do for eight hours? how do you get food? >> you want to eat well in the morning. get the nutrition in the morning. once you're in the space suit you are going a long time without eating. we have drinking water. we have a 32 ounce drink bag you can drink. but no food. >> you mention dangerous. and there is drama in this. this didn't seem to have a sense of urgency and now there is. >> they are creative people and they looked at hooking at a different valve to control the cooling pump and that didn't work. software fixes to control the pump and valve they were having trouble with inside the pump. the resort was the replace the whole union

what the hubble space telescope just found was a geyser coming out of the moon 100 miles into the skyjust a magnificent image in a magnificent world. >> speaking of magnificent, the meteor shower. what makes it so? >> it's ghorjs. it's eye candy. we get this hail of particles every year. we know that it's coming. we know when it's going to half. it's nice to know we have something to show for it. >> always fascinating. >> jeffrey, thank you. >>> it's time to show you some of this morning's headlines. "the new york times" says cantor fitzgerald has reached a property settlement. the amount not disclosed. 658 of its employees were killed when an mernl airlines plane struck the canter fitzgerald at the top of the building. >>> officials say thousands of applicants are receiving inaccurate assignments or being given incorrect denials which hamper the process of choosing a plan. >>> the "financial times" of london reports close encounters between a u.s. navy warship and a chinese vessel. the navy said it had to make a quick turch last week while making a visit. it came as joe biden was vis

there was one in 1999 when they went to fix the hubble telescope. >> they don't even get christmas eveope they get double pay. >> do we get holiday pay -- >> comp day at least. >> astronauts and anchors are the same thing essentially. that's the moral of the story. >> whatever they get we want. unless they get nothing in which case -- >> we don't want that. >>> tense moments at a utah ski resort. three skiers partially buried in an avalanche triggered by other skiers above them. new snow had fallen the day before. the slides are rare in utah but there have been 11 this year. this was the first at the resort. the avalanche threw a scare in to the other skiers. >> panicked really. it can happen to any of us. you hear about it in back country but hardly ever inbounds. it does happen. we know the risks up here. nothing to play with. it is serious stuff. just glad everybody's okay. >> as he said, none of the skiers were injured but it is making others think of cutting back some time on the slopes. >> could be several days before power is restored after an ice storm in maine. tens of thousan

walk to ever happen, the first took place two discovery astronauts spent eight hours working on the hubbleyears ago. that is a live look at what is going on right now at the international space station. no doubt, chris, we will be keeping a very close eye on what goes on there and hoping it all goes well today. >> a lot of variables. we'll check in with you. we'll have an astronaut helping us out to understand what's going on. we'll be on it start to finish on our watch. thank you very much. >>> nsa leaker edward snowden giving his first interview in months revealing to "the washington post" that he thinks he's already accomplished his mission. snowden talks about his personal satisfaction in releasing the secret u.s. intelligence that led to a full-scale investigation into the spying program. joe johns is in washington with much more. what more are we learning from this very revealing interview, joe? >> reporter: edward snowden gave an interview to barton gelman of "the washington post" saying he's already won even though he faces criminal charges in the u.s. he gave this newspaper a long

familiar with all of the different kinds of repairs and it's no longer like what you mentioned with the hubbleone particular day's work in space. now you don't know which one you'll have to fix. when you are sent out to the space station, the crew has general space repair training and they have an expectation of having to do any of a dozen different kinds of repairs. so what nasa has done is to prepare a general process, a general set of tools and every box that has to be fixed has to be fixed with these general set of tools and it's worked out because it's got to be the way we're doing now for the rest r of the station program as things break and they will a couple of times of year, the crew will have to go out and fix that break. >> let's just talk a little bit about the history of the program. nasa ended its 30-year program back in 2011 and it hasn't meant the end of nasa. looking toward the future a little bit, what do you think is next for the agency? >> i have great nostalgia for the shuttle because i was at mission control for the very first launch and worked on it it for 20 years, but