hubble should be working for at least five yore years. and with -- five more years. and with 1.2 million observations it's the most scientifically productive spacecraft ever launched. >> scientists say the webb telescope will be about as big as a tennis court, bigger than the hubble which is the size after school bus and will observe infrared wavelengths of light which hubble cannot see. >>> coming up on wusa9 at noon, we hop aboard the carousel. we will be joined by two of the stars when >>> "time" magazine calls is the greatest musical of the 20th century. we're talking about "carousel." it's play, through may 10 at olney theater. welcome. so nice to meet you both. what parts do you play? >> i play billy bigelow. he's a carnival barker. he's got a by of a temper who falls in love with carey's character whose name is? >> julie. >> there's lots of sipping. >> yes. >> you're staying here through may ten. this is one of those plays people have seen so many times over the years. is it a challenge to sell it and make it compelling because it's one people know and love an

>> so, hubble, we expect, to operate to 2020 and beyond, then beyond hubble we have the word telescopeing which will succeed hubble, and infrared telescope, heat radiation, and that is designed to look to the very first galaxy that formed in the universe, and to understand how stars and planet systems form in the dark clouds, the hubble has made so famous. and it will be inside these clouds, and give us a really first look at the, you know, process of star and planet system formation. >> amazing. >> i'm just curious, 25 years how much maintenance have you had to do on hubble? is that tough to do? >> the maintenance had a has gotten harder and harder over the years. so when we did the very first service emissions the astronaunts would have to remove instruments, and put them back, so it is like pulling out of a big box, in the latest emissions there is actually had a lot more work to do, they were services the instruments inside the hubble, taking off panels, removing circuit boards. so it got harder and harder and more challenging for the astronaunts, but always met the challenge and s

on the science beat this morning today marks 25 years since nasa launched the hubble space telescopehonor of that and anniversary they show the gum 29 nebula and thousands of stars among pilars of dark gas and tom ackerman says the hubble completely transformed how we view the universe. >> reporter: in new york city's time square this week the tourists getting a real time display that is literally out of this world, far, far out thanks to the hubble space telescope which launched in 1990 since then from the orbit 500 kilometers above earth it sent 1.2 million observations. by hovering past the earth's atmospheric haze the visual accuracy has been liken to seeing a pair of fire flies in japan all the way from the east coast of north america and as a result scientists have accurate look of planets in the solar system and for the first time identified more planets beyond it. >> the mirror is down on this end and this part points out into space. >> reporter: wanted deeper appreciation of the immense space. >> we know thanks to the images there are something like 200 billion other galaxie

how many miles has hubble traveled in its 25 years aloft?300 million, more than 3 billion or more than 30 billion? we'll give you the answer in a moment. try to calculate it but not using your phones or computers. this week's book of the week is joseph nye's "is the american century over?" 25 years ago he published a book debunking those who believe japan is about to become the world's greatest power. he's done the same regarding china. the book is mostly about america's enduring strength and a clear-eyed recollection that even in the past washington had to persuade to lead. lots of intelligence in this 152-page book. and now for the last look. when the hubble telescope launched into space a quarter century ago, the world it left behind was very different than the one it orbits today. that year something called the worldwide web was in its infancy of development. today hubble has its own twitter account. nelson mandela was released from prison also in 1990. the human genome project was lost. "driving miss daisy" won best picture at the oscar

hubble has traveled more than 3 billion miles chtion.th more than 135,000 times. nasa tells us it will let hubble keep circling until it's time to put it out of commission either by moving it higher into space or gently guiding it into the ocean. thankfully we should have years of these beautiful images to see until that happens. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. don't forget to tune into cnn tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. for our in-depth look inside isis, "blue lineside" "blindsided: how isis shook the world," and i will see all of you next week. >>> good morning. i'm brian sell ter and it's time for reliable sources. it's the morning after the white house correspondents dinner which means there are some hung over correspondents waking up in washington. it was a night where per tradition president obama took some hits. >> after six years in office your approval rate something at 48%. not only that your gray hair is at 85%. your hair is so white now it can talk back to the police. >> "snl's" cecile strong. as alw

but hubble is on its own.motors and installations so they could keep sending them back to earth. >> it will be okay another 10 years or so. cross your fingers it is longer than that. >> abc7 news. >>> and to see those images in 3-d, the hubble 3-d movie is playing at the tech museum. look for other hubble-related links at abc7news.com. >>> conservationists are building an elephant orphanage. the illegal wildlife trade has left many young calfs without mothers and they deteriorate with no milk to drink. they teamed up to establish grounds for these elephants. there will be a grassy area that gets exercise. when they are old enough they can join a large breeding herd in the area. when i am not here this is where i am. >> that's a good cause. >> they might they'd me. >> they might. >> i don't know where to go from there. >> pick a cause and support it like weather. >> you learn something new every day. live doppler 7hd will show you that it is a quiet night. we have generally clear skies out there and that will b

the very deep fields, the most distant objects that hubble has observed were observed when hubble was pointed in the blank pieces of sky. only upono you find there are thousands and thousands of things in the field. it's amazing that hubble could find them when no other devices have done that. anandromeda galaxy, kind of interesting to think that there might be people or beings somewhere else in the universe taking similar images in which we are just a small dot as well. >> those pictures, mesmerizing. nasa is planning to replace hubble with the james webb telescope in 2018. eric holder delivered his fear farewell address today. in an ploacial 15 emotional 15 minute speech he told his workers their work would not be forgotten. >> i told in 2011, robert kennedy's 50 year anniversary that would be a golden age. 50 years from now people will look back at the work that you all did and say this was another golden age. >> holder is the third longest serving attorney general. an artist who died far too young young, jean michel basquiat. >> tonight the genius of jean michel bafng basquiat the

images from hubble.ave blown our minds. hubble has a whole array of images that people around the world love. i think some of the favorite images people know about are the eagle member ewe la, iconic pillars before new cars are continuing to form. hubble has taken spectacular images of planet necessary our own solar system, including jupiter and its moons. one of my favorites is the butterfly deb ewe la. you can see what happens to an aging star 80s starts to become unstable and starts to release its outer atmosphere. in this case a spectacular way. there are beautiful images like the cat's eye nebulae, which is another older star releasing its outer atmosphere and images of other galaxies that take your breath away. these are run regions that contains hundreds of thousands of stars. hubble has become an appreciated tool to help is see the marvelous things in the universe to keep our own lives in perspecti perspective. the telecope is like a time machine. we can use it to see very distant in both space a

magnificent images with the hubble space telescope celebrates its 25th birthday. ♪ 14 people have been and killed by a train in central macedonia, it happened close to the city of valesh the group migrants walking along a well-known balcan route heading to western europe and the prosecutor says from interviewing survivors most of the group was from somalia and afghanistan. the eu has agreed to triple funding for its mediterranean navel mission to tackle the growing migrant crisis and the boost was announced at an emergency summit in brussels and on tuesday italian police arrested two men suspected of trafficking on a boat that capsized off the libya coast killing people and paul brennan is outside the courthouse. >> reporter: it was not clear at first whether the two defendants the ship's 27-year-old tunisia skipper and first mate would actually be coming here to court in katania and have been brought before the judge and will have to hear in person the testimony against them from a handful of survivors from that disaster last weekend in which three interpreters they will detail not ju

the 1993 hubble repair mission the first of five mission to upgrade and improve the hubble was such al mission. when they were able to put what amounts to eyeglasses on hubble suddenly it could see like we have never seen before into the distant reaches of the universe was started out a laughing stock. >> we forget that happened. over the years it sent back so many images. what are some that stand out to you as the most significant? >> the top three, pillars of creation. this is iconic in every way. it's made the cover of textbooks and magazines and it's something that on the one hand has great scientific significance because it takes you to basically the nursery for stars. this is how stars are formed and what hubble is doing is, in a time machine kind of way taking us back to the very origins of our universe and showing how it grew up. and this is taking us back to the baby pictures. the other reason i like it is that it was a tremendous way of engaging the general public. people look at this. you don't have to be a scientist to look at this and be struck by its beauty and the conne

the hubble telescope. the size of a school bus and as heavy as a pair of elephants hitched a ride to the stars aboard the space shuttle discovery. as our harry smith tells us, that was 25 years ago this week, if you can believe it. >> reporter: we marvel when we look at pictures that come from the hubble telescope. photographs of the universe from places hundreds and thousands of light years away. we've seen where stars are born. we see what happens when a star dies. >> three, two, one, and lift-off of the space shuttle discovery with the hubble space telescope. our window on the universe. >> reporter: when the hubble first went into space 25 years ago, scientists quickly learned it didn't work. >> he's going to catch up with it. >> reporter: a repair mission and several subsequent visits had enabled hubble to send back images like this. a photograph of one core section of the universe. each speck of light in this picture, except one, represents an entire galaxy like our own milky way. wow. the hubble has

became our eye on the sky. >> and hubble is still providing new discoveries. mike: orbiting 340 miles above earth, hubble has made more than 1 1.2 million observations and 25 years later, astronauts say the telescope has fundamentally changed our perspective of the universe and our place in it. >> there are seven septillion stars out there and we wouldn't know hardly any of that if it wasn't for hubble. it showed us the age of the universe down to two decimal places. >> ♪ ground control ♪ mike: chris hadfield is better known as the singing astronaut after this video went viral. >> hubble has rewritten almost or created almost an entire art form of itself. mike: at the space and air museum, visitors gaze up at a replica and admire the images that we've saved. tonight, the museum will celebrate hubble's anniversary with a private event for astronauts examine others. tonight, they will host a family day with hubble related activities for all ages. on the national mall mike conneen, abc 7 news. leon: that's so fascinating. every time, imagine how much more we have

happy hdbirtay, hubble space telescope. you can see it in the center of the shot with aliens looking on. very cute. hubble scope hasty own instagram page. i'm not sure if this is la jilt or not. happy 25th birthday. tag me in your hubble posts today. very fun. this woman did her nails related to the 25th anniversary. hubble telescope is on her thumb and you can see some of the constellations across her friends. nebula and cygnus are among those painted there. and this last one. >> when you think it was almost double away with, we have to thank maryland senator barbara mikulski for her love of space and keeping hub him alive as well. >>> -- hubble alive as well. >>> prince george's county recognizes its teacher of the year. >> why some n.f.l. players say the concussion settlement is not enough. >> we are starting off chilly. temperatures are into the 30s, near 40 as you head to college park and d.c. but factor in the wind, it feels below freezing. also i'm talking about rain for the weekend. keep it right here. your full fo

>> plus a milestone for the hubble space telescope.s been so successful for the past 2 >>> apple watches are on sale today but not in stores. >> on our consumerwatch, julie watts explains why people were camping out for that watch anyway. >> it may look like any other apple launch but they weren't camping outside stores. instead they set up camp outside l.a.'s high-end boutique one of only five stores in the world and the only in the u.s. offering the watch today. >> i want to be one of the first people to have the apple watch. >> reporter: they won't be selling watches in its own physical stores for now but they are still filled with folks coming to gawk and why early adopters can buy the watch at the apple store online, some don't want to wait for delivery. >> i like to go in slide my card and get a nice shiny box in my hand. >> reporter: there's been a steady stream of news this week in advance of today's release. starwood hotels which already allows guests to use their iphone as a key announced the feature will now be available on

the solar system and the hubble telescope celebrates its 25th birthday. ♪ hello, the eu says it wille the emergency aid it gives italy, greece and malta to deal with influx of migrants crossing mediterranean from north africa and money used to manage and start reseparate shin centers and provide medical aid to people like this, the dozens more who arrived in the sicily port on friday. the eu is diverting resources to stop the people smugglers. appearing in a court nearby was this man, tunisia man at the helm of a boat which collided with a container ship and sank off the libya coast and at least 700 people died. those numbers contributed to an april record for migrant deaths at sea. more than 1300 migrants thought to have died making the periless crossing and to men appearing in court in sicily in connection with the deaths of the migrants and paul is following the case for us and, paul this was only supposed to be a preliminary hearing but it's taking an awful long time isn't it? >> reporter: it is. and it's still ongoing and it started just after 9:00 here in sicily 9:00 a.m. and i

. >>> for the last 25 years, the hubble telescope opened a window to the stars. its images of distant galaxies and expanding universe gave scientists a greater insight of space and time. we have this report on a grand achievement. >> reporter: in new york city's time's square the tourists get a display that is out of this world, far, far out thanks to the hubble telescope that launched in 1990. the restaurant sent back 1.2 million observations. by hovering past the earth's haze, the visual accuracy is likened to seeing a pair of fireflies in japan, from the east coast of north america. as a result scientists have their most accurate look at planets within the solar system and identified more planets beyond it. >> the mir square is down -- mirror is down on this end. they wanted deeper proeshz of the -- appreciation of the commencement of space. >> we know that there's something like 200 billion galaxies in the internet. each filled with hundreds of billions of stars. >> by tracing it backwards in town, to places 13 billion lit years from earth. >> the gal asies a

hubble is expected to keep operating for a couple of years but an instrument 100 times more powerful the web telescope is due to be launched in 2018. >> and the two operating at the same time so that will open a whole new window on the universe. >> a window that will open up worlds yet to be discovered. >> "inside story" is up next. have a great weekend. night. >>> hello, i'm ray suarez, good news, a local billionaire wants to keep your sports franchise in town. there's a hitch - he wants you and your neighbours to find the bill for the shiny new luxury boxes and expressway exit and doesn't want to pay much rent. may not sound like a great deal, but over and over cities are muscled into municipally funded sports facilities over threat of

far, far out of the thanks to the hubble space telescope which lane offed in 1990.ce then from its orbit 500-kilometers above everything the instrument has sent back more than 1.2 million observations by hoffering past the earth's atmospheric hayes it has been likens to seeing a pair of fireflies in japan all the way from the east coast of north america. as a result, scientists have gotten their most accurate look at planets within our sol or system and for the first time identified more planets i don't understand it. >> the mirror is down on this end and this part points out in to space. >> reporter: and they have won a deeper appreciation of the immensity of space. >> we now know thanks to those images that there is something like 200 billion other galaxies in the universities each filled with hundreds of billions of stars. >> reporter: they gained insights in the course of the universities itself by tracing it backward in time to places more than their thing billion light years from action. >> the galaxies are not only flying away from each other but accelerating

>>reporter: picture worth 1,000 words then since the day of this launch 25 years ago the hubble spaceritten an encyclopedia. >> images a cultural icon. found on coffee cup. record album and even tattoo. >>reporter: the breath taking photo have answered age old question and raised new ones universe expand. expect it to be slowing down but in fact its speeding up. >>reporter: the telescope is the single greatest scientific instrument of all time. >>reporter: that from man who work on the president obama for 20 years. assembled here in silicon valley facility run by rock heed martin. >> this was the largest ramp built where they were covered from head to toe. >> one dust on the mirror is a problem. >> could be. >>reporter: but once astronaut rae least telescope into space turn out dust wasn't the problem. >> immediately after launch they realize there was something wrong. >>reporter: pictures were blurry. very edge of the telescope giant mirror had been ground at the wrong angle so another bay area lab came to the rescue by building the telescope set of robotic eye glasses. >> little arm

time square this week the tourists getting a real time display far out of the world thanks to the hubblehat launched in 1990 and the instrument sent back more than 1.2 million observations. by hovering past the earth's haze the visual accuracy is liken as seeing a pair of fire flies in japan from the east coast of north america, as a result scientists have gotten their most accurate look of planets in the solar system and for the first time identified more planets beyond it. >> the mirrors down on this end and this points out into space. >> reporter: and wanted deeper appreciation of the immense space. >> we know thanks to the images there is something like 200 billion other galaxys in the universe each filled with hundreds of billions of stars. >> reporter: they gained startling insights in the course of the universe itself by tracing it backward in time to places more than 13 billion light years from earth. >> the galaxys are not only flying away from each other and they are accelerating and this tells us the universe is filled with this mysterious energy that they call dark energy. >>

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from hubble's headquarters in maryland tom ackerman reports on one of nasa's grandest achievements. >er: in new york city's times square in week the tourists are getting a real time display literally out of this war, far far out thank to the hubble stays are space telescope which launched in 1990, since then from its orbit 500-kilometers above earth the instrument has sent back more than 1.2 million observations. by hovering past the earth's at miss fear i can haze, the i visual accuracy has been likened to seeing a pair of fire flies in japan from the east coast of north america. as a result sign sifts have gotten their most accurate look at planets within our solar system and for the first time identified more planets beyond it. >> the mirror is down on this end and this part point out in for space. and they won a deeper appreciation of the immensity of space. >> we now know thanks this to images there is something like 200 billion other galaxies in the universities each filled with hundreds of billions of stars. >> reporter: they are also gained startling insights in the course of

a launch of the hubble space telescope has sent back a million images but getting it into the sky isabc7 news looks at the bay area ideas that made it happen. >> 3, 2, 1. >> the hubble test telescope has been like an encyclopedia. they have answered questions, and raised new ones. >> the universe is expanding. >> it's the single greatest instrument of all time. >> that from a man who worked on the program 20 years. >> this was the largest clean room ever built what. we call bunny suits. they were covered from head to toe. >> a speck of dust could be a problem. iet could be. >> once released into space turned out dust wasn't the problem. >> they realized there is something wrong. >> pictures were blurry the edge of the telescope's mirror had been ground at the wrong angle. another lab built it a set of eye glasses. >> little arms came out of this instrument. went up into the light path. and put corrective lenses onto the telescope. >> with the shuttle retired, hubble is on its own. >> looks like it's going to be okay. you know? >> in san francisco abc7 news. >> that would be great. >>

go hubble.ole world. >> that was our producers at their best fading from the hubble. >> it was a hubble fade on juan. >> the universe is in each of us. >> that's beautiful. >> i like it. >> that's it for us, special report up next. >>> this is a fox news alert i'm bret baier in washington two breaking stories tonight, hillary clinton's presidential campaign is scrambling reacting to the release of new information tying her family to a russian effort to gain control of a vital american strategic asset. it is just one story of many involving international contributions to the clinton foundation and lucrative speaking deals for former president clinton. we'll explain. >>> we begin with what president obama calls deadly mistakes. two hostages one from the u.s. the o other from italy were killed in an american counter terror operation gone terribly wrong. kevin corke has the tragic story from the

images from the far side of the solar system the hubble telescope celebrates its 25th birthday. ♪ the. refugee agency says the eu plan to tackle the migrant crisis in the mediterranean is an important step to collective european action eu agreed to triple funding for navel mission and lay the ground work for military action against trafficics and comes after hundreds are rescued from the italian coast guard on thursday and we are joined just outside a migrant detention center so eu is talking about the possibility of using a military force to stop the boats leaving libya, how feasible is that and is that going to work? >> well i have to say standing on this side of the mediterranean and looking at the situation, it seems quite difficult. the eu will probably have to come up with some sort of plan but the way things work here is that there is no fix meeting point for smugglers. i was speaking to the coast guards yesterday and said we have hundreds of kilometers of coast and along the coast in the middle of the night there is a meeting.and the way it happens is smugglers take them by sm

is one of them. >>> three, two, one and liftoff of the space shuttle discovery with the hubble spacescope, our window on the universe. >> wow, that launch was 25 years ago today and since then hubble has given us some spectacular views of outer space. nasa credits the telescope with completely transforming how we see the universe from measuring the age of the cosmos to showing us the existence of those massive black holes. >>> always watching always tracking, wusa9's first alert weather, d.c.'s most accurate. >> topper will be tracking rain for the weekend. you said you were sweating today a bit with the 3-degree guarantee. >> i went for a high temperature today of 60. we know we hit 62. the question is did we go up to 64 or not. let's go to the graphic. at 11:00 we'll let you know. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, down to 61, but look at the relative humidity, only 20%. we have a recipe for a really cold night and the frost advisory is up right inside the beltway, montgomery county and fairfax, winds northwest at 15. they will settle down a

the hubble telescope celebrates its 25th birthday. >>> u.n. says the european union's plan to tackle the migrant crisis in the mediterranean sea is an important step. they have decided to triple funding. this was announced thursday. leaders also agree to lay the ground work for military action against traffickers. april has seen 1,300 migrants dying at sea. italy says nearly all of the people it rescues in the mediterranean depart from libya. >>reporter: it's difficult to see how the eu could carry out any kind of military intervention against smugglers. it's a shadowy yet network and the current political situation is a problem. there are two rival governments. the eu only recognizes one. most of the departures especially lately have been from the western side where there's the court-appointed government in tripoly. the eu has no dealings with that government and they announced yesterday they would stand against any kind of eu military intervention intervention. and then the other issue, the migrant who is have traveled thousands of kilometer

far, far out thanks to the hubble space telescope which launched in 1990.since then from its orbit the instrument has september back more than 1.2 million observations. by overing past the earth's atmospheric haze, hubble is like seeing a pair of fire flies in japan all the way from the east coast of north america. the scientists have been able to see planets and identify for planets beyond it. and they have developed a deep appreciation to the deepness of space. >> we know there is something like 200 billion other galaxies in the university each filled with hundreds of billions of stars. >> they've gain startling insights into the course of the universe itself by tracing tracing it backward in time to places more than 13 billion light years from earth. >> the galaxies are not only flying away from each other but they're accelerating. this tells us that the universe is filled with dark energy. >> the hubble tell cope is the only telescope to be serviced in space by astronauts. a fatal flew discovered in its larger mirror almost made it worthless, but nasa w

and there's lots of examples we can use but the one i'm most familiar is the hubble space telescope. it's given us a window into the universe out there. it's found black holes, dark matter dark energy. inspired many people to continue studying the universe and shown us the beauty and wonder of what's out there. none of that is possible without human exploration. the second thing i want to point out is international cooperation. when i was a new astronaut in 1996, we were starting to work with our international partners to build the space station. none of the elements had launched yet. and sitting here listening to the briefings as a new person not really knowing what was going on at the time i wondered how are we going to make this work? how do we work with all these countries, europe japan, russia. the u.s. was clearly going to be a leader but how are we going to work with everybody? different cultures languages, systems of measurements. but i discovered that when we all had a common goal it didn't matter what country you were from. with that common goal we were able to achieve a gr

a launch of the hubble space telescope has sent back a million images but getting it into the sky isat made it happen. >> 3, 2, 1. >> the hubble test telescope has been like an encyclopedia. they have answered questions, and raised new ones. >> the universe is expanding. >> it's the single greatest instrument of all time. >> that from a man who worked on the program 20 years. >> this was the largest clean room ever built what. we call bunny suits. they were covered from head to toe. >> a speck of dust could be a problem. iet could be. >> once released into space turned out dust wasn't the problem. >> they realized there is something wrong. >> pictures were blurry the edge of the telescope's mirror had been ground at the wrong angle. another lab built it a set of eye glasses. >> little arms came out of this instrument. went up into the light path. and put corrective lenses onto the telescope. >> with the shuttle retired, hubble is on its own. >> looks like it's going to be okay. you know? >> in san francisco abc7 news. >> that would be great. >> yes. >> ten years of pictures. >> to se

nasa today celebrated 25 years of stunning deep space images from its hubble telescope.e whitaker spoke to her about her favorite discovery. hubble pointed out a blank region of space and a lot of time was spent staring at nothing, really. and what we found was tens of thousands of molecules in this tiny region of space. just incredible and the telescope can't be surfaced but nasa thinks it will keep setting back images and in 2017 the web will be 100 times more powerful than the hubble, if you can believe that. >> wow! >> love those pictures. >> yeah. >> the weekend is here. >> what better way to celebrate -- >> michael is here with good stuff tonight. >> it's not, right? we have some artisan tacos here for you. they come from the taco shop in underdogs. it's located over on irving street in san francisco and kind of a unique experience because they've got traditional mexican food and modern taqueria and sports and everybody digs that. there you can take a look at the place right there and happy hour and what you will get is a choice of four tacos carne asada, and howev

the one and only hubble space telescope, nasa has released this footage in honor of hubble's 25th birthday. it is a 3d fly through of a star nursery in the constellation carina. 20,000 light years from us, unlike our eyes, the hubble can see the full spectrum of light from their new stars. they're birthing grounds on the gas and dust surrounding, just imagine history right there right? the glittering light you see made up of 3,000 stars. i can just watch that all day long. >> backs here on terra firm a san quinton state prison in california among the most notorious in the nation largest death row in the u.s. >> but its its inmates the most well behaved some even earn the privilege every playing baseball. >> charlie leduff was therefore opening day. >> we come to the san francisco bay to watch a baseball game. not the major leagues but two teams from inside the san quinn at any state prison. of course, every game here, is a home game. >> here we go. play ball. >> games against teams of free men who come from the outside to play inside the prison yard. but the biggest game of they are all is

hubble turns 25. riga is 25 minutes into a discussion. we await varoufakis. tie or no tie?ll speak in riga. we will have the headlines. back in two minutes with ed hyman of evercore isi. good morning from new york city. ♪ tom: what a wonderful morning. ed hyman with us of evercore isi . we await mr. varoufakis' comments in riga. brendan: lawyers for joe harz and i have -- lawyers for dzhokar tsarnaev will ask jurors to spare his life. loretta lynch will be the first black female attorney general. her aides asay she wants to find common ground and improve cooperation between communities and law enforcement. apple stores will not have apple watches. those ordered today might not be shipped until july. tom: the drummer from riga -- th e drama from riga. leaders speak. dijsselbloem regling. shannon o'neil is here. we tilted to cuba. olivia sterns will lead us off with the mayor of athens greece. really looking forward to that. i want to ask about rem. that's a joke. call it the evercore isi wall of worry. the dollar is too strong, capex is too weak, christine lagarde's new medi

the hubble captured the first image of this. they say the hubble telescope completely transformed how we view the universe. >> hello i'm ray suarez. mcdonald's, cash registers ringing, is a company that americans hate love and hate to love. changing what farmers ro grow and away we eat. now the company's announced it won't buy chickens raised using human antibiotics. mickey d's, changing what people eat and how they eat it. in recycling and nutrition in many ways mcdonald's is a trend-spotter, what will this new policy mean to everyone who sells, makes and eats food? it's is "inside story." >> being a major seller of cooked food in the united states, mcdonald's watches trends closely. when the exan was company was bashed for wasted packaging, it responded with new packaging efforts and new messages to the public. when the world knocked the children's offerings, mcdonald's changed that. supersize me, its move to low fat milk when reporting and activists focused attention how cows were raised for hamburger meat, the company reduce

. >> well, happy birthday hubble.five years ago today nasa launched the school bus sized telescope into space where it is being delivering magnificant images like these, hubble over some 340 miles above earth but it is operated at nasa's control center in green belt marylandment scientists say it is able to look more than 13 billion light years away. in our last hour of "eyewitness news" this morning, we spoke with a nasa scientist, about what hubble's taught us. we have learned the expanding universe accelerated due to the unforeseen force of dark energy, able to see back to about a billion years after the big bang. and closer to home, able to see that pluto, five moons. >> how about this? nasa hopes hubble will keep flying through at least 2020, that's ten years longer than originally planned. >> on your health watch this morning, check your medicine cabinet. there is a recall of some mucin ex products over label concerns. pharmaceutical company rb says the only mucinex fast max liquid products, the ones part of the

katty: as we reported last night, today marks 25 years since the hubble telescope launched into orbith gives us a good excuse to look back at some of the incredible pictures it captured. it is not the only eye up in the sky. among its countless other duties, astronauts aboard the international space station are task with sharing the view. it is a job that commander chris hatfield to great joy in posting on social media. he is the author of "the astronaut's guide to life on earth. go we are -- in space, you say the favorite thing you did was take photograph. cmdr. hadfield: things happen too fast. if you rely on your relation to -- your memory to, it is gone. if you rely on memory, is gone mike that. hopefully after you and you realize you have 30 or 40 years to look for all those pictures and see what you saw. it is not just the magnificence of what you were looking at, it is also the rarity of it and the desire to capture it somehow so that it is not lost. katty: not the same as the pictures from hubble, but i've seen the pictures in your previous book and they are magnificent. you p

. >>> the hubble telescope turns 25 years old this morning. there are 20,000 light years away. is considered one of the most powerful scientific instruments in the world despite relying on 1970 technology. nasa hopes it operates until 2020. >>> when we return, pete rose and major league baseball show signs they are starting to make up. but on the field, things are not so friendly. we'll show you what triggered this brawl between the royals and the white sox. we'll show you what triggered this brawl. not only faster. stronger too. relief doesn't get any better than this. advil ♪ ♪ ♪ all the goodness of milk all the deliciousness of hershey's syrup. i was not aware of how much acidity was in my diet... that it was damaging the enamel. i wanted to fix it right away. my dentist recommended pronamel. he said pronamel can make my teeth stronger. pronamel is helping me lead the life that i want to live. wish your skin could bounce back like it used to? new neutrogena hydro boost water gel. with hyaluronic acid it plumps skin cells with intense hydration and locks it in. for supple, hy

it has been 25 years, a quarter of a century, since nasa's hubble space telescope was launched. >> hubble set off on able 24, 1990. it orbits more than 500 kilometers above earth and takes incredible pictures of faraway stars and galaxies. it helps astronomers learn more about the universe. nasa hopes to keep it running for at least another five years. >> great photos. you can check out more of them on our website dw.de. for now, though that's good buy for all of us here in berlin. >> thanks for watching. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> this program is brought to you in part by c-i-e tours international; for over 80 years featuring all inclusive tours and go as you please value vacations throughout ireland and britain cietours.com. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> patricia: hello and welcome. i'm patricia o'reilly and i'm delighted you could join us for another edition of "out of

and i know this is stuff you get excited other. >> i love the hubble telescope.rything they've done with it. ever since they had the problem with me mirror when it first went up there. what incredible imagery they've gotten out of that thing. they've learned so much about our universe. >> millions of galaxies chuck. >> yeah. i retweeted a video they took that they put together the other day. it's just -- it's like looking out the front window of the starship enterprise to watch all the stuff flying towards you. it's cool stuff. >> very cool. >> speaking of cool. >> jinx. >> yeah. a little chilly outside this morning. who said april can't be cold? they haven't been around here. we were 84 degrees last saturday afternoon. and we will barely make 60 in most neighborhoods today. a complete turnaround across the area. cloudy skies have moved in while you were asleep last night. and cloudy skies will be the rule for the remainder of the day. don't expect much sunshine today. i'm getting more and more confident we'll have sunshine back here by tomorrow afternoon. it's a

a number that tells us a lot about the hubble space telescope. 25 years ago, the hubble went up intoce made over 137,000 trips or nearly that many, and captured data and images of 38,000 objects. it's been -- it was supposed to be an incredible thing. it has been an incredible thing. >> it's interesting, reading the history of it. you know they started building it in the 1970's. and it took years. >> about 10 years to build it. look at that, going up in the space shuttle. just incredible. and i -- it's captured so much information about the universe and really helps scientists. also worth noting it's not the most powerful telescope launched. the most powerful one is a secret project, not pointing towards space. it's pointed toward the earth, gathering data on people not an terrestrial objects. but to the hubble is about to be improved on with the james webb space telecope. it's going to have a much bigger mirror about three times the size. >> another way to bring the universe down to earth. >> space is getting to be really cool. did you talk to branson about that at all? >> he is way

it was 25 years ago today the hubble space telescope was launched. it's given us never before seen imagery and data. the telescope has snapped pictures of stars 300 million light years away. its original price tag was $1.5 billion but officials say the new knowledge that it has provided us is priceless. >> thousands of pictures from the hubble but never one selfie. it needs to take one selfie up there. >> in the next 25 years. >>> you're watching "nbc 10 news." "nbc 10 news today" at 6:00 a.m. starts right now. >>> "nbc 10" breaking news. >> this morning we're following two breaking news stories for you in philadelphia. first, police are looking for the person who gunned down a delivery driver. we are live with details on how the victim tried to save his own life. >> plus, two suspects are under arrest charged with shooting a philadelphia police officer. we'll tell you what triggered that shooting and how the officer is doing in a live report. >>> and we're off to a colder start this morning, some spots under a freeze warning. here's a live look outs