john glenn was a national hero. congratulated by president kennedy. with a traditional ticker tape parade. and welcomeded at a somewhat less traditional ceremony in the waters off hyannisport. >> mrs. kennedy and high-flying glen practically go into orbit aboard water skis. >> reporter: john glenn retired from the space program in 1964 and went on to become a four-term senator from his native ohio. >> i declare my candidacy for president of the united states. >> osgood: although his bid for the 1984 democratic presidential nomination fell short, john glenn made headlines again in 1998. when he returned to space at age 77 on a nine-day shuttle mission to study the effects of space travel on aging. hard for some of us to imagine, but john glenn will turn 90 later this year. for the original seven mercury astronauts only glen and scott carpenter survive. >> when i raise my skirts with dexterity.... >> osgood: next, gypsy rose lee, remembered. and later, watson, we presume. ,, ♪ let me entertain you >> it's sunday morning on cbs and here again is charles

it carried john glenn back into space years later. it's got a crew of veterans headed to the space station. beautiful launch, burning enough fuel to fill two swimming pools per minute. enough acceleration to hit 9,000 miles an hour, just six minutes into the flight. beautiful in florida, but behind it to the west, the long tail of a storm system, whipping across the mississippi valley, carrying some big, bad embedded weather along with it. so much so the weather channel has troops deployed in advance to cover it. meteorologist jim cantore among them. he's in downtown memphis tonight. jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. only four tornados in the month of february for the memphis area. let's hope tonight is not the fifth. but this is a far-reaching storm that's going to affect a lot of people through the day on friday. look at this, snow from kansas city up through cleveland into northern new england. heavy rain and wind will spread all the way to the east coast with high wind warnings even out for new york city as we'r

. >> and john glenn made his flight, his return to outerspace in the "discovery" as well.uperstar in the fleet. >> i wonder if he's going to be there today. >> time for a look at our weather forecast. she said giddy. i'm thinking of something more manly. >> manly? >> happy. >> happy? >> what's a manly happy. >> bemused. >> let's take a look, see what's going on outside. it's 4:51 and a pretty quiet morning in san francisco and all the way across the bay bridge over towards oakland and berkeley. let's take a look at live doppler 7 hd. over the last three hours the storm is moving, the individual cells moving more west to east but that whole broken shield you see right there will be moving south. in fact, we could have snow as early as the next hour or so in lake county. let's get you caught up on everything. we have a went weather advisory from 4:00 today until 10 a.m. tomorrow morning. that's for the north bay mountains. so accumulating snow could start at 4:00 this afternoon from a thousand feet all the way up. we could get over or more than i should say 6 inches above 25

. >> and john glenn. >> according to the report i addressing how to prevent poor children from becoming poor adults, what action does the prime minister intend to take to address the sixth recommendation of the report that promise should be given to the earliest years in public policy? >> the gentleman is quite right. it is good that this report has been produced about how we try to help children out of poverty. the two most important steps we're taking is funding a two- year-old industry education. the second thing is a pupil-free meal for all children so that the money follows them into schools. they shake their heads. they had 13 years to do it. they never did. >> there were 4000 storm bursts in the u.k. last year. will the prime minister give the guarantee there will be no cut in the funding in the causes of silver? >> there is no cut in the national health service. we're putting extra into the national health service. that is against the allies, including those among his own front bench. i will get back to him on the specific research he talks about but i know we have met constitue

. >> john glenn. >> thank you, mr. speaker. following the report in december of the right honorable member on how to prevent poor children from becoming poor adults. what actions does the prime minister intend to take to address the central recommendation of the report that greater prominence should be given to the earliest years in public policy? >> the honorable gentleman is quite right and i think it's good that the honorable member has produced this report about how we try and help children out of poverty. the two most important steps we are taking is funding 2-year-olds in nursery education, a pledge never made, never delivered by the party opposite and the second thing is a pupil premium for all children who are on free school meals so that the money follows them into school. they shake their heads. they had 13 years to do it. they never did. >> thomas? >> thank you, mr. speaker. there were 4,000 stillbirths in the united kingdom last year. the pain for those families is utterly unimaginely. will there be no cut in fundin

it carried john glenn and the first female into space. both "the challenger" and "columbia" accidents. the launch is scheduled for 1:50 this afternoon. right now all systems go. the weather is looking absolutely perfect here. and as they are fueling the tank right now, those cracks that they were concerned about when trying to launch back in november have been fixed. they are not showing any signs of being a concern at all later today. they are watching those closely. right now no technical issues either. so all systems go. it looks like we could have a successful launch later today. back to you. >> let's hope it is all smooth today. thank you, kristen. >>> meantime, do you have stuff from your ex laying around the house that you want to get rid of or maybe a strange gift from a mother-in-law that you just want to smash rather then a regift? >> never. "today in the bay's" bob redell is live with how to dispose of unwanted stuff and get a little revenge or feel good in the process. >> something like that. >> reporter: exert some range with

the second flight of john glenn into space after his long time away from space after being the first attorney in orbit the earth. >> sreenivasan: when we look at the bigger picture of the space shuttle program, they thought it was going to be making money. what was the promise that we had with space shuttles versus what they delivered? >> well, the promise of the space shuttle program, when you look at how they were selling in the front of congress was just pure fancy. there were all these studies which indicated the space shuttle fleet could be flown on the order of once a week and that it would have airliner-like capability for turning it around once it got on the ground. but it's an incredibly complicated system and there wasn't a full appreciation at the time for really how difficult it was to fly a reusable spacecraft to and fro space. nasa was trying to meet that promise and then of course we lost "challenger" 25 years ago. >> sreenivasan: so what happens to "discovery" next? when you see some of the most recent pictures, it looks like of worse for wear, that it's been through

pilot into space, the shuttle that carried the first african-american space walker and carried john glennn his historical space mission. it was chosen after the columbia disaster took place to carry americans into space. it has been a part of american history. this launch was first supposed to go back in november when they noticed potentially dangerous cracks in the external fuel tank and were able to roll the shuttle off the launch pad, fix those, engineers don't expect them to be a problem later today. the weather is looking great as they started the tanking process. so right now all systems go, laura. >> thank you very much. very exciting. >>> right now we want to check in with christina and take a peek at our forecast. we are talking snow here. >> yeah, we are talking snow at very lo levels for the bay area. and if it does happen in your backyard we want your pictures. i think the best timing for that to happen is the lowest of the snow levels anticipated early saturday morning. we'll take you through today, though, because we have showers on the way as of this afternoon. 37 degrees r

i traveled to europe with senator john glenn. he was really a rock star all over europe. he was a global hero because he orbited the globe. but no one in our national legislature comes close to the level of worldwide fame than the congressman from the southern tip of the philippines, mr. pakayo. during world war ii when the pacific nation was a commonwealth of this country, brave filipino troops served under the native american flag. with the leadership of senator dan inouye who acted so her rockically in the second -- heroically in the second world war, he fought here in the legislative branches of our government to give those filipino troops well deserved and long overdue pensions they earned during a time of war. now congressman pakiyo is a member of congress from the philippines. he's also a boxer who holds many other title than that of congressman. he holds the title of super welter weight champion. he's the only person in the history of boxing to hold eight world titles. he's the first person in history to win ten world titles in eight different weight divisions.

. >> john glenn. >> thank you, mr. speaker. following the report in december of the right honorable member on how to prevent poor children from becoming poor adults. what actions does the prime minister intend to take to address the central recommendation of the report that greater prominence should be given to the earliest years in public policy? >> the honorable gentleman is quite right and i think it's good that the honorable member has produced this report about how we try and help children out of poverty. the two most important steps we are taking is funding 2-year-olds in nursery education, a pledge never made, never delivered by the party opposite and the second thing is a pupil premium for all children who are on free school meals so that the money follows them into school. they shake their heads. they had 13 years to do it. they never did. >> thomas? >> thank you, mr. speaker. there were 4,000 stillbirths in the united kingdom last year. the pain for those families is utterly unimaginely. will there be no cut in fundin

i can see john the going see john glenn link over or two say who the hell is this guy? but i somehow survived it. we went ahead with bombing. and head of the red team played his cards very well. curtis lemay's scenario was that once we started bombing north vietnam, north vietnam would try to retaliate by bombing saigon, that they did not have sufficient aircraft to do that will, so they would call on their chinese allies, and that the chinese would supply them pilots and aircraft to be used to bombing saigon. this would enable lemay to retaliate against china and take out its developing nuclear capacity. well, the wargame was a disaster. the red team retaliated in a very astute way. it did not retaliate militarily. it retaliated psychologically, and the impact of bombing not only worked minimally in terms of military context, but it works very badly in terms of world opinion of what we were doing. and curtis lemay grew furious at the final session of the working, and he leaned forward and yelled at general buzz we've had been head of the red team and he said buzz, you,

research center in california and the glenn research center, named after our former colleague, senator john glenn, that's in cleveland. langley research center in virginia, the driden flight research center. and that's at edwards air force base in california. and these nasa centers are unique in their ability to leverage the complementary and ever-increasing synergies between the space and the aviation systems through these incredibly experienced technical researchers, and they make remarkable advances in aerospace-related disciplines, in things like materials and structures, flight controls, aerospace systems, health management in aerospace systems, in high-speed aerothermal analysis tools. we take for granted when we get on commercial airlines some of the improvements that have been made. we will, where do you think a lot that have came from? it came from nasa, in the research there. and these advances not only accelerate space and aviation systemsystems but also other vey complex systems such as the smart grid, remote medicine and medical robotics, smart cars, a whole bunch of things. so nasa'

i have the distinction, i guess you'd say, since the retirement of senator john glenn, i am now i believe the only, the last remaining active commercial pilot in the united states senate. so when i look at the f.a.a. bill, i have a lot of interest in it. i had an incident, though, that occurred to me back in october, it was october 20 of this past year, when i was flying my twin-engine airplane into a field in south texas. it was called cameron county airport, a noncontrolled field. and i experienced something that is going to make me go back and revisit to see if perhaps what happened to me, if it happens to someone else, that people in the f.a.a. would be just as generous as they were with me. i have to say before i tell you what happened that the f.a.a. could not have been better, they could not have been more cooperative. i sat down and i talked to them about the incident, but i'm going to tell you what happened. i was flying some passengers in one of my planes, a twin-engine plane, into cameron county airport. this happened to be a nice day. it was a v.f.r., the visual flight rules i

is it julieanna staunch, john stewart, keith olberman, gwen to -- glenn beck.regarding wikileaks how does it differ from npr? [laughter] >> oh, my. welcome in every imaginable way i would think. an investigative reporter at the national public radio would work as hard as he or she could to get access to those documents, and then having gone through them would evaluate, would decide where the leaves were, where the new information was, check then back. all they are our documents in the rare form. it's like pentagon papers i suppose in that way. but would then try to provide some context for that information that was available. i think that would be part of it. anything to add to it? >> i always turn that question around slightly because they find it impossible to define a journalist. i think it's easier for me to think in terms of defining journalism and i like to think of journalism as information in the public interest that has certain characteristics including proportionality and verification. so you can argue over whether wikileaks is or is not in the public

ironic that john cole would make that note and you know and sort of jump on those they're very good at manipulating them and getting them worked up and crazy over things like you know glenn greenwald wiki leaks whatever and that's what they're taking advantage of so i think that if people are worried about class warfare they should also worry about their participation in it because it's not it doesn't come out in the form of elites it by the time it actually presents itself it will look like a grassroots effort now within this power point there were some things that i personally thought were a little comical they had a picture of a bunker in sweden i don't know how the picture is going to help anybody they had some very painfully basic information on julian a sign that you would have assumed these people are they knew if they just read a newspaper but they also stated that without the support of people like glenn greenwald then we would fold that's true i think would be very difficult for wiki leaks to sustain the on slot that they're under right now i mean one of the things that we worked with with glenn last year was exposing the fact that all of the charges that were

cincinnati, glenn -- glenn, you need to turn that tv volume down. moving to john in arkansas. democrat, hi, john. >> caller: good morning, peter, and thank you for c-span. a couple suggestions here i want to make. one, redo the tax code, close loopholes, especially for dirty energy. cut the house and senate salary and pensions by 20%. close 70% of the 870 military bases around the world. these are from the democrats and republicans and a closed political system. this is the problem. a, have public financing. the term limits to two to three terms in the electoral college have a 50% vote and have real debates for presidents, not the canned show we now see. >> john, before you go, there's a lot on the table. >> caller: i know i did. i'm sorry. >> host: that's okay. i just want you to follow-up on why you support term limits. >> caller: realm, what we keep -- well, what we keep seeing here is i listen closely to the tea party people. we see the back and forth of the left and right and media makes money on businesses to inflame the wedge issues, and we never get to the real core pr