the planet was discovered by the center's keppler telescope and is being called keppler 22b, at leaste working tight. temperature on the planet is approximately 72 degrees. it orbits a star similar to our sun. it also has water and obviously land. >> it's fantastic because now we have something to point at. people can begin to feel the urgency and the excitement about the fact that there may be in very short order, if not keppler 22b, then the next confirmation, be another earth hanging up there in our sky. >> don't back your bags just yet. twice before astronomers have announced the planet not too hot, not too cold habitable zone. one was later disputed, and the other is now on the edge of the zone. maybe a little too hot, so -- >> okay. >> let's just stay where we are for right now. >> okay. >> let's make it through the rest of this year. >> keppler 22b is a lot warmer than earth 1.0 right now. >> definitely. starting to see 40s popping on the map. who says nasa is going away. good news for the space program for sure. let's take a look outside, and can you see clear skies right acro

the artist rendering is what nasa calls keppler, 22 b, 600 light year as way. >> it's about 2.4 times size of earth. it's bigger but it's orbiting a star like our sun. so it's kind of a sun twin. >> as we say in real estate it's all about location. and it orbits a star from a distance similar to earth. the science team guesses the surface is a comfy 72 degree autos it could be an ocean planet. all ocean. >> there is one more big announcement from the science team, it's discovered a thousand phone shall plannis or what they call planet candidates. that brings to more than 2300 the total number of planet candidates the space telescope identified. famed atron mer says it's ripe for more exploration, which is what the center is doing. >> we're looking to see if that signal comes from the direction of only one target. >> the nonprofit center battled back from cuts and and on this day once again, pointed its telescope towards the keppler system to listen for signs of life. >> we're asking a perfectly reasonable question of the universe. somewhere else. do the laws of physics and chemistry l

it's call eed keppler 22-b. catc catchy. it's only 600 light years away.ch means if we send the kardashians now, they should get there by 2612? 600 light years. that means i s it would take 60 years to get any information received on that planet. it was spotted by nasa's keppler space craft which has eidentifid more than 2,000 potential planets. scientists are hoching that on one of the planets they might have some girls who will talk to them. [ laughter ] does it make anyone elseneer vous that nasa is constantly looking for other planets to sustain human life? makes me worried that they know something very bad about this planet. nasa says the weather on the planet is a lot like ours. the average planet is the same day as a pleasant day here on earth and it looks like mtv already has plans for it. >> this spring, nasa in association with mtv precept an old of this world television event. join snooki and the rest of this gang and they travel 600 light years from earth to find the one place where people don't hate this them yet. "jersey shore," kepler 22-b.

. >> they were discovered using the keppler telescope. >> you can see sizes here. >> and there is a about 950 light years away. >> still. >> it's a start.

the two plan etds, keppler 20-e and keppler 20-f have temperatures ranging between 800 and 1400 degreesit doubles the number of earth-size known as 20-e and 20-5. >>> a south bay boy fighting cancer who actual ly had time. >>> also trucks and diapers. >>> i'm jeff rainieri. oakland topping into the 40s from fairfield down to concord. few l have more on your frosty mimorning coming up in just a f mitenu te >>> the united states government paid scientists to create new more dangerous strains of the bird flu virus. now, they want researchers to keep quiet about how they did it. two labs successfully created new h1n1 flu strains that are easier to spread. today federal officials asked those scientists to public lir only the general discoveries, not the full blue print for the man made strain. the worry, they could be hija hijacked by terrorists. this is the first time the government has asked for this level of secrecy. >>> baby changing station apparently not to change dirty diapers. a new study found cocaine was on 93 out of 100 changing stations tested at even churches in the uk. last mon

. >>> as tron hers discovered keppler 22b about 600 light years away in a habitable zone with water andild surface temperature of 72 degrees fahrenheit. sounds pretty good. don't pack your bags just yet. scientists say it would take a space shuttle about 22 million years to get there. >>> the dow opens at 12,097 after adding 78 points yesterday. s&p gained 12 points. the nasdaq was up 28. taking a look at overseas trading. in tokyo the nikkei dipped 114 points while in hong kong the hang seng tumbled 237. stocks road a roller coaster of european developments yesterday. news of an agreement between germany and france for new treaty proposals on title fiscal controls. the gains were wiped out later on reports of possible down grades for eurozone nations. oil fell to about $2.00 a barrel on that news. after the bell, standard & poor's did place germany, france and others on credit watch negative, the step before a downgrade. that sent stocks lower after hours. still there was progress. italy's main stock index jumped after the yield on italy's ten-year bond plunged to the lowest level in a

they orbit a distance star called keppler 20. one is a bit smaller than venus, the other slightly larger than the earth. they're probably very hot, maybe too hot for life. but nasa now expects to find many more planets, some perhaps like the earth. whiteouts on the highway. a deadly blizzard in the plains brings visibility to near zero next. but to be honest, i find the omega choices overwhelming. which one is right for me? then i found new pronutrients omega-3. it's from centrum, a name i trust. it goes beyond my heart to support my brain and eyes too. and these ultra-concentrated minigels are much smaller than many others. it's part of a whole new line of supplements. there's probiotic and fruit & veggie too. new pronutrients from centrum helps make nutrition possible. you spend all day cooking it. so why spend even a moment considering any broth but swanson? the broth cooks trust most to make the meal folks spend all year waiting for. in stuffing and more, the secret is swanson. >> pelley: a blizzard hit parts of the southwest

it's called the keppler project. it's a telescope up in outer space.'re finding lots of planets just like earth. and it may be in our lifetimes we do find life on another planet. it's not so far fetched anymore. >> it's symbolism. people need to have something to feel good about. there is hope. >> we don't have any money to send people to outer space but we're sending pretty cool robots. >> belva: so parks, you think, will get it, those cuts no matter what? and that seems to be an issue very high on the minds of -- >> a few will be saved by private donors but only seven so far. >> i wonder if that's a model or an isolated incident. >> it was rich people in silicon valley who were good enough to put up $900,000 to keep it open for three years. most communities don't have that kind of money. >> belva: we talked about the drift -- no iguess we didn't. drifter material that may be coming from that in the ocean. how serious is that? >> this is really interesting. all of the stuff that washed away from japan during the tsunami is floating with the currents t

and both found by the keppler space telescope. however, these new planets not support life.urface temperature of 1400 degrees. not enough to melt glass. >> a street in the bay view district now being called greenest residential block in the city. and the $1.7 kblinl project features a host of safety and green features. among them, new storm drains and in other things pedestrian safety. >> if santa has a choice for which street he's going to visit first, i think he's going to come to newsom avenue, first. >> this is the latest of the projects the city is planning. eight have been completed and four others underway. one of the biggest will be the market street project. >> and coming up next, our don sanchez has a date with a girl with the dragon tattoo. >> treating children with high >>> a government sponsored panel recommended children be tested for cholesterol but physicians are cautioning some treatments might not be appropriate for young children. >> heart disease runs on both sides of this 13-year-old's family so she's getting her cholesterol checked. it may seem unusual

nasa provided an artist's rendering of what is being called keppler 22 b. the telescope made the discover fully february but today, it became the first to be confirmed using other telescopes. the team is hosting a conference at nasa ames this week, where there is a buzz about this. and best guess that temperatures are 72 degrees fahrenheit. >> this is a planet bigger than earth. it's orbiting a star. >> it's could have a lot of life. it could be an ocean planet. what are the possibilities? it's made of water and ice. all ocean. >> and at nouns many is just as the center for steady research went back on line live today with its allen telescope. funding challenges had stopped that work in april. but it's gone back up targeting the system looking for freak qens skbreez trying to identify signal that's don't look natural. in that quest to answer are we alone. the team says it's discovered 1,000 actually actually, new phone shall planets, more excitement from nasa today. >> that is terrific, thank you. >> and uc berkeley scientists found two biggest black holes

they orbit a distance star called keppler 20. one is a bit smaller than venus, the other slightly larger than the earth. they're probably very hot, maybe too hot for life. but nasa now expects to find many more planets, some perhaps like the earth. whiteouts on the highway. a deadly blizzard in the plains brings visibility to near zero next. but to be honest, i find the omega choices overwhelming. which one is right for me? then i found new pronutrients omega-3. it's from centrum, a name i trust. it goes beyond my heart to support my brain and eyes too. and these ultra-concentrated minigels are much smaller than many others. it's part of a whole new line of supplements. there's probiotic and fruit & veggie too. new pronutrients from centrum helps make nutrition possible. you spend all day cooking it. so why spend even a moment considering any broth but swanson? the broth cooks trust most to make the meal folks spend all year waiting for. in stuffing and more, the secret is swanson. >> pelley: a blizzard hit parts of the southwest

nasa's keppler telescope has spotted a pair of planets about the size of earth orbiting a distant starlanets is unlikely because of the high temps which range from 800 to 1,400 degrees. all right. now, back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." does the state of iowa really deserve to hold the first presidential nominating contest? a lot of people have been saying lately that it doesn't, including a university of iowa professor who's lived in the state for 20 years and writes, "in a perfect world, no way would iowa ever be considered representative of america or even a small part of it. there are few minorities, no sizable cities, and the state's about to lose one of its five seats in the u.s. house because its population is shifting. still, thanks to a host of nonsensical political precedents, whoever wins the iowa caucuses in january will very likely have a 50% chance of being elected president 11 months later. go figure." is it time for another state to be first in the nation? joy-ann reid is managing editor of the grio and an msnbc contributor. erin mcpike is the national

. >>> nasa's keppler telescope is continuing to give us pictures. in on finding a planet like ours. >>> all right. so nasa has some pretty encouraging news in their search for new planets. jacqui jeras is joining us on the big announcement. what do we know? what have they found? >> this is amazing. they've confirmed the planet, in the sweet spot as they've called it, meaning that liquid water can exist on this planet. life could actually happen in this place or potentially could humans go to this new planet. this is a very exciting thing. they've just now been able to confirm it. they've known it's been out there for a couple of years. a couple of things about it. it's larger than the size of earth. about 2.5 times larger. pretty big planet. it's orbiting a star like the i cooler than our sun. it is 600 light years away so way out there in the distance. the temperature -- they're actually able to estimate the temperature of this planet -- 72 degrees. sounds pretty good to me. pretty comfortable and certainly that would be liquid water, not ice. we f

. >>> nasa's keppler telescope may have found our twin. earth ii.s say it circles a star just like our sun and is just the right distance away to allow liquid water to exist and possibly harbor life just like our own little planet. nasa says the average temperature there is about 72 degrees fahrenheit. so san diego everywhere on that planet. don't start packing yet. about 600 light years away. who knows if there's anything on that planet. >> calling it fascination. >> the goldilocks planet, they're calling it. not too far, not too close, just right. >>> 49 minutes after the hour. still ahead on "american morning," mitt romney and the race for the gop nomination. today a former vice president will endorse the candidate. so who is it? we'll tell you. back after this. capital one's new cash rewards card gives you a 50% annual bonus! so you earn 50% more cash. according to research, everybody likes more cash. well, almost everybody... ♪ would you like 50% more cash? no! but it's more money. [ male announcer ] the new capital one cash rewards card. the c

. >> and that keppler telescope. that technology is unbelievable.s, what, like a 19-day orbit, because the telescope is looking at a star and sees something flash in front of it, and we know that's an orbiting planet. amazing what this thing can see. >> imagine like this. looking at car headlights from maybe 100 feet away. maybe 200 feet away. can you imagine seeing the drop in brightness if a mosquito flies in front of the car's headlights? that's essentially what this spacecraft is doing, ober incredible distance with 150,000 stars at a tile. again, my hat is off to the engineers and astronomers that had the ingenuity toy crea creah a system. >> derek, sold. i came in with skepticism how important this is. you've convinced me. >> a good thing. thank you. >> chief astronomer. >>> you're a philly fan. this is a place to visit. take the kids. >> hard to sell me on something that gets a little nerdy. >> that was a comment. >> i meant that in a nice way. >>> it is 46 minutes after the hour. coming up, words of wisdom in the world's oldest stock broker.