kennedy. barbara perry, former judicial fellow of the supreme court recalls the transforming effect mrs. kennedy had the office of the first lady. from her renown celebrity to her engagement to the arts and championing of cultural institutions. this is about an hour. >> thank you for putting this series together, for that very nice introduction and thank you to mary and felicia and the u.s. capitol society. we were chatting just before and that it is especially appropriate to talk about jacqueline kennedy at a historical society such as this because it was jacqueline kennedy who kicked off a movement to have historical societies for our branch of the government. the white house has the first historical society founded by mrs. kennedy in 1961 and the capitol historical society followed one year later in 1962 and a few years later in 1974 the supremes, u.s. supreme court historical society was founded in 1974. we are grateful to these associations because they're very helpful in keeping alive th

kennedy and president kennedy where beautiful on television. they were even more beautiful in the glossy life magazine cover. think about those. practically every week one or more of the kennedys, and this is is president and mrs. kennedy. the brothers and sisters and sisters and laws and brothers and law and nieces and nephews, always being portrayed in one way or the other. so as is typical of icons of pop culture icons they both reflect the time in which they live and become a lens by which we view that time in which they left. and since television was going on the scene, this mill funnel is a still from the famous toward her that mrs. kennedy gave on valentine's day 1962. remember, she took into the white house, showed him all the rooms vessey had redecorated, but without a script. she just went through. was not reading from cue cards. she had all of this. she had remembered all of the antiques, all of the portraits, all of the painters, all of the upholstery, all of the furniture, every story that she could tell. she won an emmy award for

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president kennedy said to go ahead and do what you have been doing, but jackie kennedy went at him, and said you are married to, you know what goes around, be discreet. >> i will take a moment for station identification. the audio for this program, you are listening to "white house chronicle" with myself, llewellyn king, george wilson, and kenneth walsh. we are discussing his book, "family of freedom." it is a very important book about the relationship, physical and otherwise, with presidents and the african-american community going back to the time of slavery and the white house all the way off to the day of an african-american president. you have the opportunity to interview him. we have a picture of you talking to him. >> i did for the book. a lot of people ask what he is like in person. >> if you look very attentive. i would look very attentive if fiat were interviewing the president. >> it is interesting. -- if i were interviewing the president. >> it was interesting. there was no small talk. a lot of people say this. he came into the room. we shook hands. he said i have been thoro

my favorite example of what i call a noble lie is what kennedy told with the cuban missile crisis. he hoped to end that by getting christian of to withdraw the soviet missiles from cuba but the end of the crisis before it can in the word remove those munn from the jupiter missiles. kennedy had no problem and in fact, told pentagon to get them out of turkey before it that he agreed to a deal to take those missiles and he told kristian of and could say nothing and did anyone of the american media suspected ideal to ask if there was a deal, a kennedy would have to live but khrushchev should understand the deal was still on. of course, the media quickly picked up the possibility there was a deal and ast kennedy and his lieutenants about it and they lied. it was smart because kennedy ended the cuban-- cuban missile crisis given the gravity of the situation it was imperative he bring it to an end without the possibility of war. he felt the only way he could do that was to tell a lie. >> host: did fdr lie to get into world 42? >> he tried in the late summer of 1941 there was unable incide

kennedy hoped to end of the cuban missile crisis by getting khrushchev to simply withdraw the soviet missiles from cuba, but the end of the crisis khrushchev told him he would only remove the soviet missiles from cuba if kennedy would remove the equivalent missiles that we had in turkey. those were the jupiter missiles. kennedy had no problem removing those missiles in fact he told the pentagon to get the missiles out of turkey before the cuban missile crisis. but he understood full well he could not tell the american public and he could not tell the europeans especially the turks that he would agree to a deal we would take the jupiter missiles out of turkey, so he told khrushchev she could say nothing about the deal, and if anyone in the american media suspected the deal and asked him whether there was a deal, kennedy would have to lie so khrushchev should understand the deal was still on and of course the media quickly picked up the possibility there was a deal in the asked kennedy and his lieutenants about it and they like it, and i think that this was a smart lawyer to tell becau

a dark shot, but that is a shot of kennedy space center right now.he word of the day. surprise, surprise, got to do with space. a phrase, it says "words are wheels stop." find out what they mean and why you need to know it after this. >>> and there it is. on the right of your screen. that is the space shuttle "atlantis" now in visual range of the kennedy space center. 54 minutes after the hour. two minutes to landing. back to our word of the day. it's wheel stop, a phrase from nasa. it's a phrase that will be uttered by the commander, chris ferguson, when the orbiter comes to a stop on the runway. it will be said once, and it will be the last time it is heard. that's when the space shuttle lands, when these words come out of chris ferguson's mouth today, it will signal the official end of the space shuttle program. that's it for "a.m. wake-up call." a special edition of "american morning" starts right now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> good morning, we are now starting "american morning." a few minutes early, witnessing history. this is breaking

you were 12 years old, and you were a volunteer with the bobby kennedy campaign. (bender) the presidential campaign in '68. (paulson) in california? mm-hmm. (paulson) and you were with rosemary clooney as well? well, she was-- i met her that night, and she was performing that night as artists-- she was one of those who had campaigned for robert kennedy. a lot of artists went out on the campaign trail for candidates, and i was with her that night. and actually, at the moment that senator kennedy was shot, i remember that it was the last time i've seen her, which was 32 years ago. she was supposed to sing at the overflow room downstairs, and the senator was supposed to exit one side of the stage where-- to see rosemary clooney, and at the last minute-- you can hear it on the tape. someone says, "this way, senator." and he goes the other way. what happened that night was obviously, for a kid-- i remember seeing people in shock, and i--you know, when you're 12, you've never seen that. i didn't understand why adults were crying, and people were doubled over and, you kn

john kennedy was still a junior senator from massachusetts.castro spent most of his visit hugging and smiling and saying all the right things. there were some americans including some in the eisenhower administration who had pretty serious concerns about eisner. many that he was a communist in the making. many found it to be quite charming and certainly charismatic. after a few days in washington, castro went to new york city. from the moment he arrived what he was greeted like 20,000 people, he had a grand old time. he went to the top of the empire state building. he shook hands with jackie robinson. he went down to city hall. went to columbia university. the policemen who were assigned to protect him, they're all these assassination plots surrounding castro. these were reported in the press every day, and none of these turned out to be real but the police didn't know that. caster was impossible to protect. one afternoon on a whim he decided to go to the bronx zoo. the press followed. federal agents fall. the new york city police follow. and

kennedy i will confuse the life out of you that i have a son named for john f. kennedy. you know, i really liked kennedy in so many ways. but the historians who are biased toward him have tried to argue that eisenhower really had set this up and kennedy just carried it out. i am convinced -- and one scholar i know who has seen the documents that i haven't seen is convinced that eisenhower would have never done it the way kennedy did. he withdrew the airport and even the plan with the air support just didn't look like an eisenhower kind of intervention. eisenhower would have done in what he did in lebanon in 1958 when he landed 14,000 troops. i mean, he really believed in overwhelming force and you do it. now, he was open to covert action and we know in that guatemala and iran so he was not an angel when it came to covert action but the cuban invasion is a strange phenomenon. you know, the cia -- if you knew today what contingency plans the cia has, you would be horrified. and so these contingency plans were around and so when the new president came in, as the -- every of

here at the kennedy space center, there is a strong sense of relief that the final shuttle mission was safe and successful but for some 2,000 employees it's time to look for work. >> it's where they bring the solid racket motor segments in. >> reporter: at 59 years old, glen davis is looking for a job. >> you don't realize when you're sit there is looking at the computer yourself that there's, you know, thousands of other people looking for that same computer screen trying to get that same job that you might be after. >> reporter: he is hoping to stay in the area and perhaps work on a future nasa program. but with the end of the shuttle. >> thank you, columbia, challenger, discovery, endeavor and our ship atlantis, thank you for protecting us and bringing this program to such a fitting end. >> reporter: the long-term future of american space exploration is uncertain. manuel gallegus, cbs news, at the kennedy. >>> well, it was a bitter sweet good-bye for workers at nasa ames at moffett field. now, this site has played a major role in nasa shuttle programs. former astronaut says several

live pictures now of "atlantis" on the launch pad at kennedy space center. shuttle program's final flight scheduled to blast off in just a little bit more than two hours. but the weather? pretty iffy. cnn's john zarrella and chad myers are there. john, let's start with you. nasa say they are a go for the launch right now, right? >> reporter: yeah. for now. you know, what would a shuttle launch be, kyra, if it wasn't for a weather issue, right? i recall back in 1988 on the first flight after the "challenger" accident, the flight of "discovery," we were here. it looked like this. no way they were going to go. right before launch, the skies parted. it was clear blue. and "discovery" took off and then 30 minutes later, it was all cloudy again. i think nasa is saying, look. we are going to count this down. we think we've got an opportunity to get off the ground. that's what they are saying. and that is what they are going to go ahead and do. the crew is on board. all four astronauts are seated on the shuttle. they are ready to go. the vehicle is ready to go. ther

we'll have a live report from kennedy space center. it is thursday, july 21st, this is "today in the bay." >> this is also early when you've been on vacation for a few days. good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. i want to check in with meteorologist christina loren. it's been warm. >> it has been, making it feel that summer like when you're on vacation. 96 degrees in livermore yesterday, 95 in almaden valley, 94 for cupertino and walnut creek. we're going to be warmer today than yesterday but the good news it will not last long. i've got the full weekend forecast, help you make those plans when it comes to weather and outdoor activities coming up. 5:00 a.m. >> we'll take you quickly to a look at the maze and the overview. the sensors showing you close to the limit in most spots. we have the eastbound 580 at park boulevard hooked up to a tow truck, should be clearing from lanes. we'll track it. so far no slowing. we have a look coming up. >> thank you, mike. it's 5:01. the final mission of the modern day space pr

kennedy it was a sandals and no stockings going to church in florida. >> thank you. you mentioned dr. deborah king, who unfortunately was unable to make it due to a family emergency, a medical emergency, he wrote an interesting paper regarding mrs. obama and her role as a mother which we will eventually get to with regard to dr. gilkes. >> but not right now. you mean when they come back around. >> yes. our next panelist is dr. hill and he has written a fascinating book on obama and "the first black president." i have a number of questions for him but i will start with one. the most important question i believe about the contribution of this work is that the obama administration is a direct legacy of martin luther king and would you explain that to us? >> sure. before i sort of address that question directly i want to sort of provide a brief context for the conversation. i think that the biggest challenge is that when obama's him the presidency, it was tremendously symbolic in many ways, just to sort of echo dr. reid's comments about some questions about sort of how s

kennedy lifts one to the big field gamemeet, match. holland complete game, rangers win, 5-0. that'll do it for us. but don't forget for the latest on the sports scene check out the highlight express. until then, i'm cole wright. >>> up next, down to the wire. word of major progress in the nfl lockout just days before training camps are set to begin. >>> more on our top story, a collision between airliners late last night. we all have internal plumbing. but for some of us with overactive bladder, our pipes just don't work as well as they should. sometimes, i worry my pipes might leak. but i learned there's something more i can do. now, i take care with vesicare. once-daily vesicare can help control your bladder muscle and is proven to treat overactive bladder with symptoms of frequent urges and leaks day and night. if you have certain stomach or glaucoma problems, or trouble emptying your bladder, do not take vesicare. vesicare may cause allergic reactions that may be serious. if you experience swelling of the face, lips, throat or tongue, stop taking vesicare and get emergenc

kennedy, we are out of time.preciate so much your point of view on all this stuff and thank you so much for being here. >> thanks for having me. [applause] >> good to see you. [ applause ] >> funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by hillco partners, texas government affairs consultancy and its global health care consulting business unit, hillco health. and by the mattson mchail foundation in support of public television. and also by mfi foundation, improving the quality of life within our community. and also by the alice clayburg reynolds foundation and viewers like you. thank you.

our kristin fisher is heading to the kennedy space center for this launch. it leads up to the final blastoff scheduled for 11:26 friday morning. when it is done with space travel, atlantis will be put on display at the kennedy space center in florida. here in our region, we'll be getting "discovery." the shuttle will go to the center near dulles airport. it took its final flight this past february and it is the first shuttle to be retired. nasa is making sure "discovery" is ready for museum life. >> we've taken care of her for all of these years. it will be hard for many people to realize we're no longer responsible for that. someone else has to do that for us. it will be a big change for some folks. >> nasa will make sure the shuttle is free of any dangerous chemicals or classified equipment. no timetable for when it will make its smithsonian debut. >> i'm going to be down there as well. >> kristin has a unique perspective, being the daughter of two astronauts. her mother and father. they flew in the shuttle. you're going back. >> i hope to see it. i tried

and they historians who have tended to deify johnette kennedy , i'll tell you i was sending john kennedy, but anyway, i really lay kennedy in many ways. but historians were biased toward senate try to argue that eisenhower really had set aside at kennedy carried it out. i am convinced in one scholar i know who he seen the documents i haven't seen is convinced that eisenhower would've never done it the way kennedy did. he would tear the air support and even planned with the air support and look like an eisenhower kind of intervention. eisenhower would've done more or less what he did in lebanon in 1958 when he landed 14,000 troops. and he really believed in overwhelming force and you do it. now, he was open to covert action that we know that in guatemala and iran. so he was not a nature when it came to covert action. the cuban invasion is a strange phenomenon did you know, the cia -- if you need today what contingency plan the cia has come to he be horrified. and so, these contingency plans are around so when the new president came in, as every officer does, they took in the plans to pres

it is raining on and off in kennedy space center, florida, with occasional lightning strikes. nasa says there is only a 30% chance that the space shuttle "atlantis" will lift off as scheduled. >>> the operator of the fukushima daiichi plant is working to allow the injection of nitrogen to prevent an explosion. workers spent ten minutes in the building on friday to determine whether pipes can be connected to the containment vessel. the utility says workers confirmed the connections are intact and that work can start saturday. this is the pillar of the plan to bring the facility under control. but the work to insert the pipes has already been delayeded and the nuclear and industrial safety agency must spend several days doing safety checks before the nitrogen injection can begin. it e are mains uncertain whether it can be carried out by july 17th as scheduleded. >>> prime minister naoto hkan abruptly decided to conduct additional safety checks on all reactors in japan. kan told a cabinet meeting on friday he was late in giving instructions on the so-called stress tests and feels

we're going to take you live to kennedy space center as nasa reflects on the end of an era. and it's back to the drawing board for the redesign of terminal 3 out of san francisco international airport. we're going to tell you why they are starting over and what the cost could be. plus, new rules for shuttles at ucsf. that and more and fun coming up in a few minutes. >> and welcome back again. facebook freaks out when you're not here. >> really. >> even a vacation. you get what, two, three weeks. >> thank you, yeah. i just couldn't -- i couldn't stand to be away. >> that's what it was. last week belonged to potter mania, this weekto fans camped out for comic-con, a four-day convention of all things fantasy. today is no the first day of the convention, all three of the films main stars are expected to be on hand. also making an appearance, andrew garfield, the new spider spiderman. >> they are going to give it the full 360-degree here's what we expect from this movie now please love us and forget about the earlier movie. >> the convention is expected to attract more than 130,0

kennedy, we are out of time.preciate so much your point of view on all this stuff and thank you so much for being here. >> thanks for having me. [applause] >> good to see you. [ applause ] >> funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by hillco partners, texas government affairs consultancy and its global health care consulting business unit, hillco health. and by the mattson mchail foundation in support of public television. and also by mfi foundation, improving the quality of life within our community. and also by the alice clayburg reynolds foundation and viewers like you. thank you. of the best of europe. venice seems to be every italy connoisseur's... prague has always been beautiful... germany... the irish civilization... the eiffel tower was built... hope you've enjoyed the magic of... checkpoint charlie, the most famous border crossing between the american and soviet sectors, stood about here. the place is marked by a replica checkpoint, a thought-provoking post with a young american soldie

we're live here at kennedy space center in florida.hours and minutes until the final launch ever of the space shuttle "atlantis" and the shuttle program. it is scheduled for 11:26 eastern time today. let me show you a few really great pictures of a -- live pictures, a view from the top. few guys in orange suits looking for ice, checking to make sure none of the condensation has turned into ice. they have to check everything. something called a firing room, the place where you think of it as a control room, they're going to determine -- they're going to launch it from there. everybody is there, they're ready to go when it happens. and we've got various other pictures we can show you about them getting ready. this is called the white room you're looking at. it's where they get into the capsule, where they get into the shuttle. you don't see anybody there but over the last little while we've seen people going back and forth. there is a shot of the profile, the side of the space shuttle "atlantis." this is mission 135. 135 for the space sh

kennedy.n exclusiva para latinoamerica en tres diferentes canales y bueno para cathy ha sido una gran experiencia que ya jackie kennedy ha sido y sera un personaje muy querido a nivel mundial. cu los residentes del area de la bahia siempre presumimos de que en 20 minutos podemos ir a las montaÑas o al mar, y ahora tambien podemos ver de cerca a ballenas azules. vo --en las ultimas semanas se le ha visto a un grupo de estos enormes mamiferos pasar por la bahia de san francisco a aproximadame nte 20 millas del puente golden gate. --y mire nada mas el video que le tenemos de ellas....increible! --el capitan tom bernot, es quien con su barco y experiencia, las encontro durante este recorrido al seguir ...dice, ciertas pistas como las aves, por que al parecer estas le indican donde podrian estar las ballenas ...por que increiblemente, las aves y el animal mas grande del mundo que mide 110 pies ... comen las mismas cosas. take vo ---2 meses despus de poner en espera su regreso a hollywood por el esc

they will land at runway 15 at kennedy in florida. bill karins is with us.this is ideal weather right now. >> it's perfect. everything's going well. it's past kind of the critical point. as the shuttle comes in, it has to go through our atmosphere and that's the most dangerous part. that's when the heat tiles take the most abuse and i think it's past that point. it's now passing cuba and about to head over florida. then it will do a bunch of high-speed turns to lose some of its momentum as it approaches the runway. the sun's coming up, you couldn't ask for a more picturesque morning for the last shuttle landing ever. obviously the heat is the big story, yesterday oppressive heat across the country, that has now arrived on the east coast. you will feel it this morning in the humidity levels that are much higher than yesterday. we have heat warnings in orange that spread from tulsa, chicago, pittsburgh, all of ohio and right up the busy i-95 corridor. this is the amount of moisture in the air, and that dew point is high. the heat index today going to be ridicu

i'm scott pelley at the kennedy space center.cbs news all around the world, good night.

it will now be on display at kennedy space center.>> a taxicab caught on fire in front of our studios on van ness ave. the cab was smoking and burst into flames. there were two people inside of a taxicab. there are taken to hospital. the driver of the super shuttle was not taken to hospital. they were traveling at a pre fast rate of speed. police say one vehicle ran a red light. >> a committee meeting in debut after a recent officer involved shooting turned chaotic. the shooting happened saturday night. more on those stories in a minute including a live interview. on wall street, stocks are doing well. >> stocks are up and temperatures are up. " >> a live look in walnut creek. that is one location that will see 90 degree weather once again. here is what we are expecting otherwise. in the bay area, fairly nice visibility and blues guides. hot in lynn's this afternoon. we will still be in the a complete check on weather in a little bit. let's check on traffic. >> we are currently not tracking any hot spots. east shore freeway traffic is

we're coming to you live from the kennedy space center. i'm erica hill along with chris wragge who is in new york. we look at a live picture there of the launch pad ready to go. >> so much buildup. at the mercy of mother nature and that is the big story all morning but looks like things look pretty good around you right now so our fingers are crossed and hoping for the best. >> consensus is positive. as for this morning's scheduled law firm we don't know if mother nature will cooperate but we are watching closely. cbs news correspondent bob orr has the latest for us this hour on the launch. >> reporter: "atlantis" is ready to go. no technical issues. the astronauts are now strapped into the spacecraft. the weather is still iffy and the launch is still uncertain. despite diminishing hopes for a friday liftoff, nasa overnight pumping 500,000 of liquid fuel in the large orange external tank of shuttle lnts"atlantis." they are continuing their final preparations for launch but for the past two days the weather at kennedy space center has been

president kennedy made a had a -- had a quotation. many of you have been following the recovery of my waf -- wife gabrielle. we are so appreciative of the outpouring of support, the hopes and prayers of some many people are a tremendous source of strength to her, me, family, friends, and her staff. i love her very much. i love the space shuttle very much. it has been very get to this country. it is difficult to let go. the space shuttle will rocket off the planet one last time. the town many have seen this before? i am assuming everyone else has seen a space shuttle in person? you may have not. you have one week to figure it out. as atlantis heads off on its last mission, we can be sad for a little while. that is ok. nasa will open a new and exciting chapter. we will continue to inspire a four children and continue to be a great investment for the american people. i announce my retirement from the navy a couple of weeks ago. it is great to completed by planting the space shuttle in june. it was the highlight of my career. there has be

and we are back here at the kennedy space center where we watched "atlantis blast into space.rst shuttle launch in 1981, the u.s. launched the first woman and african-american into space, and if it weren't for the shuttles, the international space station would not exist. the shuttles also enabled the hubbel telescope to reach further into the universe to send back amazing images for all of us. space correspondent jay barbree is back with us. starting off with the hubbel telescope, and "atlantis had five repairs and involved greatly to getting the telescope to where it needed to be, but people ask this question a lot, how has nasa or the shuttle program improved our lives. how has it improved the united states? >> do you love gps? >> i do. >> and do you like the tweet? >> yes. >> it does allel of that. and what most people don't realize is if we had not gone to the moon and had there not been a space program, we would be 50 years behind in science as we are today. because, when they decided to go to the moon, kennedy did for in a decade, they had to invent the transistor, and

democrats are already preparing to use that against him, just as ted kennedy's campaign did in 1994, when romney ran for senate in massachusetts. today, politico posted a kennedy ad that never aired attacking romney's record at the consulting firm bain & company. >> mitt romney says he caved bain & company. but he didn't tell you that when he took over he had his assistant fire hundreds of people. or that he took a $10 million federal bailout. the rest of us had to absorb the loss. ro romney and others made $4 million in the deal, which cost ordinary people $10 million. >> joining me now is dana milbank, national political reporter for "the washington post." dana, that is the campaign against mitt romney, if he makes it to the nomination. but will republicans -- will any republican be able to exploit that kind of thing against him in a primary fight? >> i don't see why not. i mean, and the only reason this ad wasn't used is because mitt romney had already been wiped out by other ads pointing to other deals at bain that had gone sour in the first place. it seemed this would be applica

kennedy saw prostitutes? >> he got permission from kennedy because he caught j.f.k.oover caught j.f.k. having a fling with a prostitute from east germany. the f.b.i. alleged indicated she was east german spy. hoover could destroy kennedy. they leaked it to whispering willie williams who is determined to tear down kennedy by exposing this affair. the kennedys had to turn to hoover. hoover had sex files on every senator, every congressman, anybody who is anybody in america. >> john: and washington was cess pool of sex and sexual blackmail? >> that's right because hoover used these sex files to create a government within a government. he brings in the head of the senate and shows the sex files. no more investigation into this east german spy miss stress but hoover wanted in return for that one, his reappointment as f.b.i. director. >> john: which he got. >> and to bug and wiretap martin luther king which he used having affairs to persecute king. >> john: one more example we learned about the teapot dome scandal in school. warren harding's sex life caused it. >> the teap

and by the end of august 1,000 people. >> here at the kennedy space center. yeah. it has been a devastating blow for the space coast up and down here from brevard county all the way up to daytona and south. they've had some warnings and they've tried to prepare but we've spent some time here over the years talking to the people who work on the shuttle program, and many of them are very worried about how they will feed their families because the economy is in such bad shape. there's nothing really to ping the slack at the moment. they would like to see a commercial space vehicle come along and provide jobs here but so far the commercial sector isn't yet ready to lift astronauts into space, and so we're going to have a period of three to four, maybe five years in which american astronauts have to hitch a ride with the russians and this place, the kennedy space center's going to be awfully quiet. >> and we're accustomed to seeing seven crew members, but this time around four because of that reason. there's no backup shuttle here. so if god forbid anything happened the

teddy kennedy jr. and list daughter, kylie, she was there.they both wanted to avoid the cameras today but he did make it clear, he said, look, i'm representing the kennedy family, this is a proud moment for us. and i kept asking, bitter-sweet? nobody wants to use that word because there is a sense of loss. it's an emotional experience. >> the one other major event that's going to take place, when the shuttle comes back down, on the 20th, if they just do the 12-day mission, and they land over here at the kennedy space center and chris ferguson, he said he's bound and determined to be the last person off the shuttle. but beyond that, all of the workers who have made this possible -- >> absolutely. >> -- thousands of them, whoever is herer, they're going to be allowed to walk out on the runway -- that's the plan. >> really? >> to touch the vehicle, be there, after everything is done, that's the plan right now. one time that everybody who has been so much a part of it can say good-bye. >> it's emotional and people want to touch it. they want to b

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tonight "atlantis" is on the launch pad and bob orr is at the kennedy space center. bob, what are the prospects for launch tomorrow? >> reporter: "atlantis" is ready to go, as you say, but things are not very good. for the past couple of days, frankly, the weather has been horrible. we had thunderstorms go across the kennedy space center earlier today and just afternoon we noticed a couple large lightning strikes in the area. we found out later one of them apparently hit the top of the launch support structure and that caused nasa engineers to go and look and see if there were any problems. we don't think there are any but they're still checking systems. the bigger problem here, though, is really tomorrow where we expect more rain, maybe winds, maybe lightning. nasa looking at the forecast says there's only a 30% chance the shuttle will get off and even some people say that might be optimistic, scott. >> pelley: bob, what's the mission all about? >> reporter: it's all about the last big haul of material up to the international space station. the shut kl carry a huge

it touched down at kennedy space center morning.d thousands of people who put it into orbit "atlantis" retired and stay at kennedy space center and put on display. >>> under half of the country is sizzling today under advisories that cover more than 30 states and not just uncomfortable out there. it's dangerous. the national weather service saying the heat may be responsible for at least 22 deaths. >>> new development in the phone-hacking scandal. british police expanding their investigation to include many other uk newspapers according to the british information commissioners office. >>> atika shubert joins us with more on this. obviously, a lot of attention focused on this hacking because of the news corp. scandal. >> reporter: previous, the investigation was focused on "news of the world" and other media associated with news international. we have learned the police requested files on another private investigator who was illegally obtaining information and not just for news international, for newspapers like "the daily mail" and

. >>> the space shuttle "atlantis" is about two hours from landing at the kennedy space station. the crew will fire the engines to re-enter the atmosphere and end america's 30-year shuttle program. those are the headlines from cnn. i'm monita rajpal. "world business today" starts right now. >> a warm welcome to "world business today." >> these are the top stories on thursday, july 21st. nickly sarkozy and angela merkel see eye-to-eye ahead of debt crisis talks in europe. >> the same can't be said in the united states, where legislators are considering a short-term fix to the borrowing limit debacle. >>> and for all the talk of tablets, don't write off the p.c. just yet. we'll talk to intel on how it's bucking the trends in the tech sector. >>> first, leaders of the euro are racing against the clock to talk about the economies. this as an emergency summit gets under way in brussels today. there's two, pressing issues to be resolved here. one, the terms of a second bailout package for greece and also a way to keep the crisis contained to prevent it from spilling over to larger e.u.

we want to give you a live look from kennedy space center right now. you can see a press conference just starting there as they talk about this historic day this morning. certainly a bittersweet moment for the people who are have watched this shuttle program over the last decades and today it comes to an end. i wonder can we listen in for a minute? we see what they're talking about over at the kennedy space center in florida as they talk about this final mission. >>> thank you, charlie, we really appreciate those remarks. i'll tell you what, you know flying in space is a real dream, but flying in space has a lot more to do with who you do it with than what you do. and these three folks, rex and sandy and doug, i'll tell you, a commander couldn't ask for three better people to go and perform an aggressive and to a certain extent historic mission. there's no doubt that there was a lot of attention paid to this mission because it does bring to a final close 30 years of space shuttle history. i'm going to speak on behalf of them and just say that we're all

were it not for jacqueline kennedy's appearance at the door that sunday morning john kennedy almost surely would have been killed. there never would have been a president kennedy. the secret service chief at the time said in his memoirs, we were seconds away from that disaster. then what? some of you here look like? remember, some of you may have read it in history. we're talking about a month after the election, a transformation of generational change from the oldest president to the youngest elected. how would we have dealt with that and a time when violence against public officials was virtually unheard of. how lyndon johnson felt it, where robert kennedy would have gone, and how johnson with assumptions and a mind-set so different would have dealt with civil-rights or with the cuban missile crisis? that is one of the questions i have tried to answer in this book called then everything changed. what this is is a trio of alternative histories the center on contemporary american politics or at least contemporary for some of us. they are all rooted in one common notion, and that is that th

brooke baldwin is at the kennedy space center for that final launch. how exciting that you get to be there. set the scene for us. >> i'll tell you what, edie hill. this is a dream assignment for me. people who watch the show, they know i went to space camp 20 years ago. i always wanted to be an astronaut, to be covering the 135th launch of a space shuttle is just really a dream come true. so many stories to tell down here between the 1 million spectators, you heard me right, 1 million people. the space coast tourism bureau anticipating coming down to attend this launch. the crew of four going up in "atlantis." the weather, as you mentioned and the possible lightning strike at the launchpad behind me, but one part of the story that we have to tell is the 7,000 or so men and women who are going to be or have been laid off because of this 30-year era ending. i met a couple. a man actually broke down in tears telling me a story. take a look. through the decades brenda and jerry mulberry marked major milestones with the launches of the space shuttle. >> we

soon it will be on display permanently for tourists to see at the kennedy space center. here in nasa ames, bob redell. >> a chance to look at history. thank you, bob. our coverage of "atlantis's" final landing continues at 6:15 when we'll have a live report from the kennedy space center. >> new this morning, fairfield police think there may be an armed and dangerous man hiding somewhere in a neighborhood after a s.w.a.t. standoff that lasts for hours. an elderly woman called police to her home around 8:20. she told officers her son, michael austin, pointed a gun at her head and choked her almost unconscious. after hours spent trying to coax the suspect out, the s.w.a.t. team burst through the doors to find austin was gone. we'll continue to update you on that story this morning. >> 6:05 now. we also have an update on a very strange attempted kidnapping case in the south bay. a 26-year-old woman is expected in court this morning after trying to take a 3-year-old girl out of the hands of her mother. marla tellez is following the case this morning from san jose. good mornin

sunrise here at kennedy space center and still clouds hanging over pad 39-a. still the launch team continues to work through final preparations at the pad hoping that maybe we get a break in those clouds and we can see the launch of "atlantis" this morning. 11:26 eastern time is the scheduled launch period. right now weather officers heater nasa aren't holding out much hope. they say it's a 70% chance still of no go for launch this morning. they are working with mission managers. if that is the case, if we have a scrub of the launch here, the best opportunity it looks like it would be sunday or monday morning. right now we have close to a million people that have poured into the space coast hoping to get one final glimpse at history as "atlantis" goes into orbit. many of them say, look, we will continue to wait this thing out. we understand it's a shuttle launch and maybe we'll have to wait a couple of days. again because of the crowds and because the team needs to get back home and get some rest and there's concern they could get through that clutter and cong