unos 30 mil estuiantes de primaria y secundaria de huntsville, alabama. de estudios concluye con un simulacro de misiÓn en un transbordad or. ¿qué piensan del último viaje de un trasbordador? es decepcionante. ¿qué les dicen? porque el programa de transbordadores está llegando a su fin y estos chicos se preparan para misiones a bordo de uno. ¿para que hacer un campamento espacial sobre eso? el fin del programa de transbordadores es como una graduación. el rama espacial nacional está evolucionando. y estos estudiantes tienen muchas ideas innovadoras. ¿que quieres hacer cuando vayas al espacio? sasha napolov: ir a marte. brooke: marte. avery dalfrey: voy a ser la primera mujer en marte. brooke: ¡muy bien! yo creo que un día viviremos en otros planetas. brooke: ¿en serio? avery dalfrey: sí, definitivamente. brooke: ¿cómo vamos a respirar? avery dalfrey: pues habrá generadores de oxígeno aunque suene exagerado, esto

. -- i should be at hunts still -- huntsville by 2:00. >> there's still tension between muslims and non muslims in the u.s. stopping this execution is a small step toward bringing this community together. >> he can talk to the people, those that were as ignorant as him. there is a chance we can have a better society. execution is not a solution in this case. >> with out a last-minute reprieve, mark stroman will be executed by lethal injection. >> you are watching bbc world news america. still to come off, hoping to swim for olympic glory. one teenager is carrying a heavy load to compete at the highest level. in japan, it has been four months since the devastating earthquake and tsunami and now the country has banned exports of cattle from the area around the fukushima nuclear plant for fears of radiation. >> japanese beef is prized for its quality. now there is concern about contamination. animals from some farms around the nuclear plant had been fed strong containing radioactive material. it was discovered when the beasts were examined in a laboratory and now the government has banned

i should be in huntsville by 2:00 and if all goes well, i will be dead by 6:30. >> 10 years after 9/11, there is an uneasy relationship between muslims and non muslims in the u.s. but 1/3 of all mosques have been built in that time. rais bhuyian is hoping that stopping the institution will be a small step to bring communities together. >> he can talk to the people who are as ignorant as him. there will be a better chance for a better society. execution is not a solution. >> without a last-minute reprieve, mark stroman will be executed by lethal injection. >> you are watching "bbc world news america," still to come on the program -- hoping to swim for olympic glory, one british teenager is balancing a heavy load to compete at the highest level. in japan, it has been four months since the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck and of the country has that exports of cattle from the area around the fukushima nuclear plant due to fears of radiation. >> japanese beef is prized for its quality and now there is concern about contamination. animals from some farms have been fed straw contain

cnn's brooke baldwin goes in depth and is there. >> reporter: if you can't go to space, in huntsville you think space is pretty cool? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: every year, 30,000 kids like 12-year-old sasha come o to space camp or space academy to learn what it takes to become an astronaut. what do you want to do when you go to space? >> go to mars? >> reporter: most of these campers come for a week. but for this astronaut in training, i got a day. >> to get disoriented -- >> reporter: first test, the multiaxis training or m.a.t., which simulates an astronaut tumbling in space. >> your center of gravity is your stomach and that's not going to move, so you're not going to get sick, no matter how you spin. >> reporter: famous last words. five different ways to buckle me in. >> it's going to swing. >> reporter: okay, m.a.t., crank it up. i'm tumbling in space! ah! >> you doing all right? >> reporter: yeah! whoo! next challenge, walking on the moon. >> this one was developed for the apollo program when we had our lunar mission, so you're going to be walking on a lunar surface. >> reporter:

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this happen in huntsville alabama look at this car.olice say that he was driving with his girlfriend when he collided with a semi. he is said to be ok, his girlfriend was not injured either. as bad as it looks, it was not as bad as it looks i guess, police are investigating the not think that alcohol was involved. he won the heisman trophy back in 2009 while playing for the university of alabama. the america cup race is still years away but already it is prompting a lot of people to get out on the waters of san francisco bay. vern glenn explains. >> the america's cup in san francisco bay is not even here yet, but there's already a trickle-down effect. >> we rtc people calling up and saying i want to be a competent sailor by the time the america's cup gets here because i want to take my friends and colleagues out to see this. >> of hot you would not leave the novice sailors that have turned up. >> for the price of going to a giants game, you can sail this cove and back. and you can learn the art of sailing along the way. >> $40 can purc

this happened at the walker county jail in huntsville, tlks, last month.ut the video just being released here. take a look. two inmates attacking the jailers. one of them got away to a car waiting you side the jail. but he was caught three days later. >>> with want to show you this. the benches cleared in boston during a game between the red sox and baltimore orioles. here it comes. and there it is. a few punches thrown. it doesn't look like any of them connected though, right? thrown at the air. the red sox david ortiz took exception to being hit and yelled at by orioles pitcher kevin gregg. they both ended up getting thrown out of the game. it's never just one guy who gets off the bench. it's kind of a team thing there. >>> let's check the weather this morning. reynolds is here for that. there's no crime in baseball but there's fighting in baseball, right? >> funny about it, susan. whenever you see a fight take place you realize instantly why they are baseball players and not boxers because they rarely ever land a punch. very, very rarely. unbelievable.

in august we'll be taking it outside to the range at the test arsenal here in huntsville and we'll be up to 60 seconds. and at that time one of the main things we're going to be dmen stra demonstrating a closed loop autonomous vehicle. and it should last eventually 60 seconds and we're attempting to go up to 60 meters in height. >> a lot of us are watching the space shuttle program coming to an end and you have designed this sophisticated unmanned vehicle, is that what we're coming to? >> it's a possibility, but i would like to point out things like the unmanned missions's capability in terms of characterizing the lunar surface and also other bodies that we haven't visited yet like ast asteroiders or mars. i think once they understand their budget, fiscal realities, then they'll be able to forecast the future for the future robotic missions, there are already orbiters in orbit around the lunar surface and there are plans to go to other aster roids, so there's already plans to be doing orbits around other planetary bodies and would be the next phase of jupiter missions. >> and for much

space and rocket center in huntsville, alabama.culmin e culminates in a mock shuttle mission. >> how do you feel about the last space shuttle going up? disappointing? >> debra barnhart is the chief here at space camp. what do you say then, because the space shuttle program is ending. and all these kids right here are prepping for missions on the space shuttle. then what for space camp? >> the end of the program is just like a graduation to me. we're moving on in our national space program to something else. >> and these campers have lots of ideas for that something else. >> what do you want to do when you go to space? >> go to mars. >> mars? >> i want to be the first woman on mars. >> high five, sister. >> i know one day we're going to live on other planets. >> you think so? >> yeah, definitely. >> how are we going to breathe? >> there will be oxygen generators. >> as farfetched as it sounds, these whiz kids are right on target. they're already planning that next phase of space camp to include inflatable space habitats. >> what's a

also in alabama, apparently they do to shuttle support in huntsville there. and boeing.g would be affected by this, right? >> that's all true. those numbers add up and become larger as you look at the ripple effect. not only nasa employees, but the contractors directly involved in the shuttle. that's the drain we are looking at. it would have been nasa's plan to smoothly transition those people into the next program beyond the shuttle. but that hasn't materialized thanks to political decisions in washington. >> i can't imagine how you feel today as a former astronaut. you have done what you witnessed today, now, you know it's never going to happen again. so what's next? >> well, americans will ride rockets again. i think it will be four or five years before they leave here from cape canaveral. my astronaut colleagues will continue to man the space station and perform valuable research there. it's a stepping stone to where we go next. if you what takes us there is the next question. we need to ask our lead officers they intend to keep america on the front tier. that would

a lot of warm moist air coming in. 115 in huntsville. 107 in d.c. 103 here in new york city.here's why. big area of high pres keeping that jet stream way up to the north. this is just a heat pump that will continue. and the bad news is, this goes into at least thursday. in fact, jet stream guns up a little further into canada so that heat will be creeping up north as the ridge intensifies. we don't see this breaking down at least until the weekend. so the mid section of the country is going to continue to bake the northeast gets a little bit of a break as we head on into the next 72 hours. ann? >> all right, al, thank you so much. we'll get the rest of your forecast in a bit. >>> for now, to britain's deepening phone hacking scandal. this morning there are claims that journalists from other rupert murdoch owned newspapers were involve and the alleged target is former p.m. gordon brown. stephanie goss is in london with this. stephanie, good morning. >> good morning, ann. gordon brown does not mince his words when he spoke to the bbc this morning about rupert murdoch's papers.

we went to huntsville, alabama, to meet a group of space campers who still have plenty of stars in theirmerica's future space explorers, hard at work on a summer's day. eagerly playing the part of mission specialists. >> orbiter. >> reporter: engineers, and yes, astronauts. okay so first thing we have to know, who wants to be an astronaut. lucky for these kids, they can test all the possibilities here at space camp. >> bunny hop. >> reporter: everything from building and launching rockets. >> you can find the center of gravity. >> reporter: to trying their hand at a space walk to that ordinary worldly feeling of weightlessness. >> no matter how many times you do them you never get tired of making your body going to all sorts of angles. >> reporter: more than half a million have experienced space camp since its launch in 1982. it's nearly as old as the shuttle program. >> first space shuttle. >> reporter: which was clearly its inspiration. >> panel c2 shoulden on your keypad. >> reporter: from the moment you arrive on campus the shuttle is everywhere, even part of the logo. so what happen

host: jim hines tweets in -- next call for congressman welch coming from bonds bill, alabama -- huntsvilleabama. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am a democrat who has not always voted democrat. as a person of color, i thought it was important, once voter rights were gained, that we research everyone, and i go with the person do not the best plan. my question is -- i watched c- span is hearing -- c-span's hearing with the senate with bernanke. i was just amazed that the republican response, which was, to me, very outstanding, very open to listening to what was going on. i guess my question is two parts. i wonder if the gang of six hazmat after that and developed -- has met after that and develop their bill. the second part of what i want to know -- tell people and encourage them to start researching the information you here. the media news is not always accurate. i respect c-span for being accurate and not changing the process of what we are going with. but i anchorage all callers, because i hear people calling -- encourage all callers, because i hear people calling who seem to know

you have the people in huntsville just looking at one piece of the procurement puzzle. there are looking at this in the broader spectrum. that goes to the next process and the next. it is typical to figure out what went wrong where along the way because the processes are so bureaucratic. they are trying to get that under control with the systems so you can look across the step- by-step process and understand better where the system may have failed. right now, with these accounting systems being so individualized for a job as, it is impossible. host: don on the republican line. where are you calling from? caller: kansas. the previous guy kind of stole a little bit of my thunder. the point is correct, though. the price of these parts really cannot be compared to what you would buy in a hardware store. first of all, what you buy in a hardware store might be an el cheapo thing made in china or who knows where and it has no inspection history, no reliability information attached to that part. i worked for a company down in dallas that procured manufactured parts from whereve

host: >> it is huntsville, alabama. this is bobby who is a democrat. -- next is hunter mill, alabama. caller: social security, and medicare and all has not added 1 cent to the debt. it is a separate thing and it should not be touched because it has not added anything to the debt. and if you would think back, the republicans have been against social security since the start. they have tried to kill it, try to kill it, tried to kill it. let's don't cut something that has nothing to do with the dead. let's go out to the stuff that increases the debt -- for example, the army, whatever, used to do their own cooking. now they pay outside people to come in and coke -- cook and pay unreasonable prices. let's cut stuff like that that really adds to the debt. don't cut something that has nothing to do with the debt. host: melissa e on twitter has a different comment on social security. in "the baltimore sun" this morning about the politics on this. politically large-scale agreement could benefit both obama and house speaker john

both mpcv and sls at the johnson space center in houston, and the marshall space flight center in huntsville, alabama, respectively. i have established our commercial crew program office at the kennedy space center, and we're going to work on upgrading the center's launch facilities, one of our most valuable national resources, to accommodate more kinds of users. and speaking of those facilities at ksc and across the agency, we have had tremendous interest from our commercial space partners in re-using or leasing these assets - and are close to making some major announcements about them soon. the re-use of our unique nasa assets, like the orbiter processing facilities, will help these companies keep their costs down and create jobs for the space industry of tomorrow. the mid-atlantic regional spaceport is taking shape at our wallops flight facility in virginia. one of the first customers will be orbital sciences corporation, with its taurus ii rocket. last week, we issued a call for proposals for mission concept studies of a solar electric propulsion system demonstration, just one of many te

it happened last month in huntsville, texas.tes staging a fight to get guards to open the door to a secured area and then two prisoners run for it. one of them escaped after a scuffle with guards. but was captured three days later. >>> a fire at a rihanna concert in dallas sent everyone home early friday night. a malfunction with the pyrotechnics, sparks then fell from the top of the stage. there you see it happening afterward. the pop star tweeted we set the stage on fire tonight literally. promising her fans in texas, i got to come back. >>> coming up on "american morning," it's the end of the line for the british tabloid "news of the world." it's been shut down over a remarkable phone hacking scandal. now could tabloids here in the u.s. be using the same kind of tactics? we're going to ask the editor at large of "the daily beast," lloyd grove. >> we want to hear, is it fair to ask employees who smoke to pay more for health insurance. some companies are considering doing it. send us an e-mail, tweet, or facebook. we'll read yo

. >> with great or anyone in huntsville, you guys are part of a very good club, last shuttle mission. what are some of the moments you are relishing the most right now? >> well, i think we're all relishing just the fact wearing space again, able to float around coming here in the space station working with the space station crew, just flipping this environment and working hard to make this a better place to live and sustain it for the next year. it really a special beam that. and whenever we are up here we just try and paper that is much as we can, whether interpersonal mission, second for the last shuttle mission. >> by name is monica monica rick said debbie uss. i have rocket i.d., sandy had been admiring your hair all morning. this question is for you, too. this is your psychic tie tie it at 50 iss. tommy the changes that have gone through the space station and how it looks now. and also come you got six days left before some crew members leave. is there anything you want to do before you fly that way >> well, certainly the space station feels a lot like home. the minute we have in

so we have all the water cress in the world down in huntsville. >> you do?reen is good. >> that's perfect. >> thank you so much. >> tomorrow we'll have a co median, dominic cooper stop by. >> he's an actor. he's great. >> bye, everybody. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. is it a robot? no. is it a jet plane? nope. is it a dinosaur?] [ male announcer ] inside every box of heart healthy cheerios are those great tasting little o's made from carefully selected oats that c help lower cholesterol. stickers? uh-uh. a superhero? ♪ kinda. [ male announcer ] and we think that's the best prize of all. ♪

he received lethal injection last night in huntsville, texas. the case set off a flurry of objections because the defendant had not been informed he could seek legal help from the mexican government at the time of his arrest back in 1994. >>> two people are dead this morning after a small plane crashed into a southern california hospital. both people on board the plane were killed. no one in the hospital was injured. >>> stakes are high ahead of a rare sunday meeting at the white house where leaders from both sides of the aisle are pushing for a deal on the debt ceiling. the deal must be in place before august 2nd for the government to avoid possible default. >>> and, it is the end of an era for a town -- a bridge, rather, on the susquehanna river in pennsylvania. it stood for more than a century. it was demolished thursday. hundreds came out to see the piece of history come down. 7:06 right now. you're up to date. let's turn it back over to ann, david and maria. a lot of tragedy in the news this morning. sorry do that on a friday. >> natalie, t

established program offices for both mpvc and nls, at the johnson center in houston and marshall in huntsvilleful. we're going to work on upgrading the center's launch facilities. one of our most valuable national resources to accommodate more kinds of users and speaking of those facilities at k.s.c. and across the agency, we've had tremendous interest from our commercial space partners in reusing or leasing these assets and are close to making major announcements about them soon. the reuse of our unique nasa assets like the orbiter processing facilities will help these companies keep their costs down and create jobs for the space industry of tomorrow. the mid atlantic regional space port is taking shape in virginia. one of the first customers will be orbital sciences corporation with its taurus ii rocket. last week, we issued a call for proposals for mission concepts studies of a solar electric propulsion demonstration, just one of the many technologies we need to advance and validate as we seek to reach farther destinations. consider how the architectural options for human exploration of the