. >>> nasa's latest mars rover lifted off over the weekend. the curiosity rover, the most sophisticated rover ever built, will hunt for signs once life existed on the red pan et. >> propulsion. >> go. >> hydraulics. >> go. >> reporter: detectors were radioactive plutonium were in place, just in case. the 19-story atlas 5 rocket shedded a coating of frost and headed for the clouds and for mars. the launch is two years late. the delay alone costing $2 million. the plutonium detectors ready in case of an accident would not be needed. >> and we have first pair and second pair. both sets of srps have jetsonned from the vehicle. we have reenabled guidance. >> reporter: on the way to space, a camera caught the nose cone, no longer needed by the mars rover carried by the rocket. >> we do this a lot. but it never changes. it's very exciting. >> reporter: it will be the most capable rover sent to another planet. nuclear-powered, ten feet long, it's supposed to lost two years and could last longer. scientists hope it gives the first confirmation of the b

the space rover "curiosity" launches towards mars. a report on the multibillion-dollar fission noigz figure out if life could exist on the red planet. and a rebound for the n.b.a. and the planets. tony guida looks at the tentative agreement to start the basketball season on christmas day. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: and good evening. some encouraging news for the economy tonight. new figures out this evening show retail sales yesterday were the biggest in black friday history. up 6. the 6% over last year for a total of $11.4 well. that's a full billion more than 2010. as elaine quijano tells us, the hopeful predictions follow the earliest black friday opening ever. >> reporter: the turkey wasn't even cold when toys "r" us opened the holiday shopping season at 9:00 p.m. thanksgiving night. santa hats were passed out to customers to encourage a fustive mood for black friday spending. >> retailers have having to be more and more aggressive to go after their customers. >> rep

mars. you see the rover's entry system cutting through the martian atmosphere. a parachute will help it drift toward the surface eight months from now. a thruster system will set it down, curiosity a fully loaded space laboratory goes to work. >> reporter: the radioactive plutonium in place just in case. the 19th story at las five rocket headed for the clouds and for mars. its launch is two years late, the delay alone costing $500 million. all seem hopeful as the big rocket pierced the clouds. the plutonium detectors ready in case of an accident would not be needed. >> and we have first pair and second pair. >> reporter: on the way to space, the on board camera caught the separation of the nose cone, no longer needed to protect the mars rover. it will be the most capable rover ever sent to another planet. it's designed to explore for two years and could last years longer. scientists hope it will give human kind its first confirmation of the building blocks outside earth. using a laser, drill, and on board lab, it will look for complex carbon based molecules, the

nasa unveils its latest mars rover.nd the british comedian steve ku fwmbings an tells the inquiry into media ethics that reporters rifled through his rub herb bin. -- rubbish bin. his days as prime minister may be over but burlesconi is still in the spotlight. he is facing tax evasions charges and he's reviving one of his passions outside of politics, releasing a new album of love songs. >> 10 days ago, sylvio burlesconi was running italy. today he was heading for a courtroom where he's fighting allegations of tax evasion. the case is just one of three he faces. he's also charged with having sex with an underage prostitute, a nightclub dancer, calling herself ruby. now that he's no longer prime minister, mr. burlesconi can't argue he's too busy to come to court. he denies all allegations against him and despite his legal and political troubles, the party-loving ex-prime minister is still in the mood for music and love. mr. burlesconi just brought out this c.d. he doesn't actually sing on "the true love," but the words a

mars. the curiosity rover is going to take off here in just a bit. ill arrive on the red planet of mars, in eight months or so. john zarrella is keeping an eye on all things space related to us, he's at kennedy space center. i asked you this question last time we talked. it's important for our perspective of the viewers. just how big of a deal is this and ambitious of a project is this for nasa? >> reporter: well, it's ambitious, t.j., on a lot of fronts. ambitious from the standpoint the landing system they're going to use, they've never done before. it's the first time they'll ever have landed with what they call a sky crane system. low aring it on tethers to the surface, then the tethers break and fly off. that's ambitious. it's ambitious from the standpoint that for the first time in history, they actually are going to be able to sample rock, sample dirt on the martian surface, put those samples into detectors and if they're really really lucky, that's important to stress, they might be able to find organic material, and that is a key to the build

the mars rover spacecraft is due to take off on saturday and will take the better part of a year to reach its destination. >> for centuries, people have wondered about life on mars. now nasa is launching its largest, more expensive mars rover mission ever to try to find the answer. nicknamed curiosity, the new rover has cost over $2 billion to design and build. it's as big as a car and nearly double the size of its predecessors. it will be embarking on one of nasa's most complex missions. after entering mars' atmosphere, the spacecraft will deploy a parachute to slow it down. then it will hover just above surface before slowly lowering the rover. just before it lands, wheels will be deployed, which will allow it to cover large distances. the rover will spend nearly two years on mars. it's armed with drills, lasers, and a whole range of scientific instruments to analyze rocks and soil on mars. scientists are hoping the mission will tell them whether mars has or ever had what it takes to nurture some form of life. >> there's going to be a challenge in recognizing it. even if it ends up bein

for life on other planets gets a boost tomorrow that's is when nasa is scheduled to launch a new mars roverto the red planet. lee cowan reports. >> reporter: there is only two rovers like it. one is waiting for a liftoff to mars. and this is the other one. so this is pretty much your baby? >> yeah. this is the only other rover that exists. >> reporter: the chief engineer rob manny gave us a behind the scenes look at nasa's $2.5 billion dream machine. dubbed curiosity, it will analyze looking for evidence the planet could have harbored life. so this is sort of the business end? >> this is the business end. >> but this is the lab part of it? >> this is the lab. the lab is inside the main body of the rover. >> reporter: weighing almost a ton powered by a small nuclear reactor, curiosity will be the largest, most complex piece of equipment that nasa has landed on any planetary soil since the days of apollo. it's designed to last one martian year or two earth years and expected to travel the length of two football fields per day. >> it has the capability that other rovers didn't have. >> reporte

explorer, sending it off to the most mysterious planet in the solar system, a six-wheeled one-armed mars rovered off from kennedy space center in florida at 7:02 this morning. it's going to take 8 1/2 months for the unmanned atlas 5 rocket to arrive on the red planet. the rover about the size of a car nicknamed curiosity and rob's been tracking it. rob you say the last of the rocket boosters came off, the heat shields. >> it's on its way which is great news. they were congratulating themselves, great to see. >> they just turned off our feed, we were watching them as they were, woo, sighing a bit of relief and celebrating what was a very successful launch. now we have to wait 8 1/2 months for it to arrive. i'm sure that we will get some status updates from nasa. they're very proud of this one. and we also talked with william of the black-eyed peas, you wonder what does will.i.am have to do with nasa. >> after they get to the martian's surface we've got some plans to keep them stimulated on the journey there by using music, by using what system simulation and websites, apps, different things. >>

journey to mars. >> liftoff of the atlas five with curiosity. >> on board is the most sophisticated mars rover ever built. then comes the mars landing right out of a science fiction novel. >> nasa's rover is a science dream machine. it's loaded with extra sensors, 3-d cameras and lasers. the explorer will sample sanlt and drill it's way across a giant crater. >> it will look at the places that are happen tackle. where there some type of life on mars. >> first it has to get there. it's a 354 million mile commute that ends in august. >> the novel design is for a rocket jet flight that flies the rover down and lowers it down on a tether and lands it on the ground and the rocket jet flies off and we're done with it. >> everything has to go exactly right. the history of mars exploration is littered with disappointment. out of 40, 26 probes have failed. >> nasa hopes curiosity has better luck. they are counting on the $2.5 billion mission is to tell us whether mars is safe. >> our next goal, the next goal is to go to mars. >>> good news for warriors fans, north koreans and players reach a tentative

saturday, it plans to launch a new mars rover. was the red planet able to support life? cow an tells us this could be the spacecraft that finds out. >> reporter: there are only two rovers like it. one is sitting atop an atlas 5 rocket waiting saturday's liftoff to mars and this is the other one. so this is pretty much your baby. >> yeah, this is the only other rover that exists. >> reporter: chief engineer rob manning gave us a look at the machine that will analyze dozens of samples, looking forest the planet could have harbored life. this is sort of the business end. >> this is the business end. >> reporter: but this is the lab part of it. >> this is the lab. the lab is inside the main body of the rover. >> reporter: weighing almost a ton, powered by a small nuclear reactor, curiosity will be the largest, most complex piece of equipment that nasa has landed on interplanetary soil since the days of apollo. it's designed to last one martian year, or two earth years, and it's expected to travel the length two of football fields per day. >> it's a fantastic vehicle. it's got

in mars -- at any point in mars' history can support life. joy past rovers like spirit and opportunity had been huge successes. >> and liftoff. >> out of 40 mars missions launched from earth, 26 have failed. russia's probe blasted off earlier this month. and it is now stranded in earth's orbit. >> mars does not want us there for some reason. >> nasa is hoping curiosity has better luck. they are counting on the $2.5 mission to tell them if mars is a safe place for humans to eventually visit. >> it is a lot of fun. we are all attacking this like we might have a chance to do that, so those who come behind us will be the beneficiaries of the work we are doing now. work that for now scientists on earth will have to do my remote control. abc news. >>> if you are stumped for a holiday gift for that certain someone, how about burning man tickets? being on monday for the first time you can register for a crack at pre sale tickets to the festival that sell brits radical self-expression. it is part of the new lottery system. born out of last year's sellout, it is the f

i spake speaks everywhere are getting a really excited about tomorrow's launch of the new mars rover it took eight years of planning and despite six hundred million in cost overruns and a two year delay nasa is mars science laboratory also known as curiosity will be taking off tomorrow from cape canaveral florida are calling it the most ambitious mission yet to the red planet with the goal of assessing whether mars has or ever had or still has environmental conditions favorable to microbial life would be the fourth rover in fifteen years to set its wheels down on the planet but only after an eight and a half month journey so it's expected to touch down in august of two thousand and twelve now unlike other rovers which use solar power to run curiosity will be carrying a generator powered by a nuclear battery made of plutonium two thirty eight with a lifespan of fourteen years and also has a much improved set of instruments including a drill that can pick up rock samples of brush to remove dust from rocks or equipment and spectrometer observations for a high definition camera and a lase

punishment around it all and next down respond to a viewer that watched our interview on the latest mars rover curiosity needs evidence set on you tube thanks alone effort including interesting science information in your shows please continue including science segments in future shows now i'm so glad that you enjoyed our interview on the latest mars rover because i have to admit i had a lot of fun myself doing the research and the interview kind of a sucker for the space stuff so we'll definitely read we working to bring you more science related interviews in the future so keep watching and finally i want to respond to a kind new fan little guy blog tweeted that as we just discovered at the low to show it's a great non mainstream news show. a lot of citizen power journalism check it out so thanks so much for tuning in our effort here on the show is to bring you the voices that you won't hear on the mainstream media and that includes the best citizen journalism has to offer so we'll keep working hard to bring you on the ground reporting from the voices you won't hear anywhere else that's at my

we have a look at the mission to mars. >> reporter: what is what nasa's $2.5 billion rover will look ke. this is called curiosity. calling it complicated may have worked, too. >> yes, this is the most complicated mission we have accomplished on the mission of mars. science demands that. >> reporter: in this case, science is trying to determine if mars is or ever could have been a place that harbored life. that's what curiosity will be looking for, driving for miles across the red planet's landscape. it's the sis of a car with six wheels. >> this rover, curiosity rover, is really a rover on steroids. it will go longer. it will discover more than we could possibly imagine. >> reporter: after the launch sometime between 10:00 and noon saturday from cape canaveral, the capsule carrying curiosity will separate and spend eight november months traveling to mars. >> fascinating stuff. >>> coming up at 11:00, three people found dead. the crime may trace back to a job offer on craigslist. >>> the disappearance of a woman from maryland in aruba may be released from custody. tonight at 11, the vi

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the mars rover has begun its journey to the red planet.launched from cape canaveral, fla., this morning. the curiosity rover is nuclear- powered and the size of a carpet is scheduled to land next august. it will spend 10 years analyzing rocks and soil on the planet. >> i was able to walk up and say hello to the president. i told him welcome to baltimore. we're also talking about football. we have a lowlight coming up later in sports. >> another nice day to day with just some clouds. rain to the west. that is what we're watching. the forecast is next. look at all the lights. is that time of year. it should be colder. we made it to near 70. right now, is down to 53 at the airport. >> a closer look at the radar and satellite shows the high clouds. it cut into how warm it could have gotten. at noon, we were up to about 70. it is a pretty sunset. there is rain to the west. we will have more on that in a moment. we made it to 70 at the airport. that was at lunch time. temperatures dropped off a bit as the clouds got thicker this afternoon. we mi

>>vicki: the atlas 5 rocket blasted into space today with the mars rover on board. there is a growing body of evidence that there is life beyond earth. >> the atlas 5 rocket carried a rover and a lifted off right on time from cape canaveral. after 44 minutes the spacecraft separated from the upper stage rocket . it will arrive in august and scientists say that they expect some incredible science. >>vicki: the barnes and noble nook tablet is now available. with a price tag of around $200, if it is tossed a lot of wish lists. gabe slate helps you decide which one is right for you. the battle of the kindle fire is now on the market. if find it in best buy or more on amazon.com. the and and and and an added cost is only $200. that is $300 less than the apple ipad. here is a look at it too hot holiday tablets. the fire has a 7 in. display. the ipad has a 9 in. display. the kindle fire runs on the google android operating system but cannot run apps from the android market. i have to point this out, running applications is a factor. the apple online applications or has mor

mars. tonight the world's biggest extra-terrestrial explorer is on its way to the red planet. nasa's rovered curiosity shot towards mars on the atlas v rocket just after 7:00 this morning. the journey will take more than eight months and this is video of a nasa animation illustrating what the journey and arrival is expected to be like. so its mission, you ask? searching for evidence that the planet might once have been home to microscopic life. >> microbial life could have persisted for hundreds of millions of years on ancient mars, and perhaps even today. >> do we anticipate that we'll learn a whole lot about mars? absolutely. do we know what specifically that will be? no clue. >> all right. the six-wheeled, one-ton explorer is as large as a car. if all goes well it will be gently lowered by a sky crane like that. the rover is also essentially a mobile lab that will be able to sample the planet's soil and rocks and anticipatalyze them o surface. the price tag $2.5 billion. >>> nasa has support now from a big-name celebrity. music producer and front man for the group black eyed peas will w

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. >>> the newest mars rover is on its way to the red planet. the unmanned atlas 5 rocket is carrying that rover nicknamed curiosity. it will take 8 1/2 months to reach mars at a price of $2.5 billion. but nasa says the price is worth it. >> science fiction is now science fact. we're flying to mars. get it on the ground and see what we find. >> curiosity is scheduled to reach mars on august 6th, after traveling 354 million miles. >>> a florida bank robbery suspect's attempt to hide the cash is unique, to say the least. 28-year-old victor santos was arrested in fort myers on friday. he complained of feeling ill so he was taken to a nearby hospital. he told the police that the money was tied to his private parts. after a thorough search, police found the money and he was arrested. >>> thinking small for the -- no correlation between the two. let's show some video. we'll show you about holiday shopping and how local merchants are trying to change your shopping habits. >>> those early store openings for black friday were a smacking success. macy's i

the mars rover curiosity now on its way to the red planet. curiosity is the most advanced rover ever sent into space. the mission is to spect samples of the martian atmosphere and surface. it will drill down into the ground to see whether or not mars ever supported life. a key component on curiosity was built right here in maryland at the goddard space center. >>> a stomach-turning murder accusation. a pakistani woman is arrested after she tried to hide her husband's body and cutting it up and hiding it in this pot of stew. that woman is in police custody. >>> a new local ad is meant to shock and hopes that you will shop. a baltimore county jewelry store is trying a new approach to boost their sales but will it work this holiday season? andrea fujii as the story. >> reporter: it's not your typical jewelry store advertise, already running in the city paper and baltimore sun. the slogan is let's grow old together, featuring diverse couples, including two lesbians. >> i think same-sex couples just want the same american dream that straight coupl

. >> just after 10:00 the latest mars rover will begin its long journey to the red planet. we have more on the mission. >> reporter: this is what nasa's $2.5 billion mars science laboratory will look like once it reaches mars. this rover is called curiosity, but calling it complicated may have worked, too. >> this is the most complicated mission we've attempted on the surface of mars. the science demands that. >> reporter: in this case the science is trying to determine if mars is or ever could have been a place that harbored life. that's why curiosity will be look for driving for miles across the red planet's landscape because it's the size of a car with six wheels. >> and this rover curiosity rover is really a vo ver on steroids. it will go longer. >> reporter: after its launch some time between 10:00 and noon saturday the capsule carrying curiosity will separate from the atlas rocket and spend the next eight and a half months traveling 60 million miles to mars. >>> we're coming up on 9:27. still ahead this hour, cabbies on alert. what you can do to help police nab the vio

but the mars rover "curiosity" is on its way to mars. but my one last question, and i'm asking this because of our viewers. i am getting a lot of response, messages coming in via twitter which is right here in front of me now. people are wondering, during these economic times, and i know nasa gets this question all the time, at what cost? $2.5 billion for this, is this what we need to be spending money on right now? what does nasa, who gets that question all the time, what is their response when people are critical of is this the west use of our money at this time? >> you know, the reality is that nasa's intujt like, you know, pennies on the dollar is how much nasa gets out of the federal budget. literally like 5 cents on the dollar if that goes to nasa's budget. but the fact of the matter is, the way nasa will tell you is it's exploration. do we want to answer the questions is there other life in the universe? it's a basic question that people have been skl asking since the dawn of time. those are the kinds of things that, you know, it

these are live pictures, nasa tv, the mars rover nicknamed curiosity, blasting off from cape canaveralatlas five putting them on a trek to the red planet and curiosity will look for evidence that mars may once have been or suitable for life. we have more 30 minutes away. >> brenda: options for bankruptcy over bailout. harrisburg, pennsylvania was trying to do just that, but a judge just blocking the cash strapped city from doing it. and gary b, you say this, no to bankruptcy says yes to more taxpayer funded bailouts? >> exactly, brenda, look, we saw this happen in the hue and cry about the financial industry was essentially companies that were not allowed to go bankrupt that the taxpayer had to pick up the bill for, we saw it with general motors for crying out loud. for cities it can work, out in vallejo, california, bankruptcy in 2008. guess what now about to be coming out of bankruptcy and the lean eest budget. and the programs are cut down to the bone and the city is thriving and doing well. it can work for harrisburg, but the government won't let it. it's silly. >> brenda: tobin? >

. >> holman: the newest mars rover, "curiosity," is scheduled to begin its 350-million-mile journey to the red planet saturday. hari sreenivasan gets a peek at "curiosity's" innovative capabilities from a mission manager. that's on our "science" page. why does healthcare in the united states cost so much, and how do the outcomes compare to other nations'? we look at a 34-nation study. that's on our "health" page. on "making sense," paul solman takes on 30-year mortgage rates and why the rate changes over time. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> brown: and again to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the iraq and afghanistan conflicts. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here, in silence, are eight more. >> warner: and that's the newshour for tonight. on monday, we'll talk to the head of the european commission as wall street and washington watch the widening financial crisis in the euro-zone. i'm margaret warner. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on mos

the mars science lab and the curiosity rover. headed to mars, august 6th.ed to you at one time, t.j., if you and i were standing on the surface of mars august 6th, 3:00, noon, right there, it would be. >> and this ain't your grand daddy's rover here. >> no, it is not. >> give us an idea of the size of this sucker. >> okay. so the first rover they sent back on path finder was about yay big, the rover, the whole thing. this is a mock-up of a wheel. one of the six wheels on curiosity. so the wheel itself is as big if not bigger than the entire sojournor, the first of those that landed on mars. so a 2,000 pound vehicle. they are hoping to get some incredible, incredible science out of it. i'm already booking my tickets to pass tina, california, to the jet propulsion laboratory because i want to be there when that thing lands on mars in august. >> good stuff this morning. and thank you so much for walking us through it. we appreciate you, as always, john zarrella. >> sure. >>> and coming up next, what is will.i.am have to do with this launch? he was there with a

it weighs one ton, about five times more than the mars rover predecessors, that went to the red planet back in 2004. you talk about all those instruments on it, five instruments, 10 including a rock vaporizing laser. there it goes. there it goes! heading up into the sky this morning, right on time. there it heads into the sky. >> really not since the twin viking landers touched done on the martial surface in 1976 has an an advanced lab gone up. here you are nasa still moving forward as it looks to go to mars. >> 8 1/2 months it. will not be a short trip for the curiosity. but it is headed out there on time, on schedule right now. 8 1/2 months before it reaches mars. >> nba owners and players say it is time to tip off. early this morning the two sides came to terms on a tentative agreement, and that means the hoop dreams of basketball fans have been answered. allie rasmus is live with the story. >> reporter: some are talking about the possible deal on twitter. charles jenkins says woke up to the best news, opportunity of a lifetime. other players like jeremy linsay he's excited to have

mars. this rover is called curiosity. but calling it complicated may have worked, too. >> yes, this is the most complicated mission we've attempted on the surface of mars. the science kind of demands. that. >> reporter: in this case, the science is trying to determine if wars is or ever could have been a place that harbored life. that's what will come from driving across the landscape because it's the size of a car with six wheels. >> and curiosity rover is really a rover on steroids. if will go longer, it will discover more than we could possibly imagine. after its launch, smiem between 10:00 and noon saturday from cape canaveral, the at last rocket will separate and travel 60 million miles to mars. >>> now to a mission of a very different kind. about to get started off the coast of sdalg. it involves the carcass of a 67-foot fin whale that washed up in san diego bay. today, it was towed 12 months to sea. the team used several tons of steel to sink the whale in water a half mile deep. scientist at scripps after aggressive

in mars -- at any point in mars' history can support life. joy past rovers like spirit and opportunity had been huge successes. >> and liftoff. >> out of 40 mars missions launched from earth, 26 have failed. russia's probe blasted off earlier this month. and it is now stranded in earth's orbit. >> mars does not want us there for some reason. >> nasa is hoping curiosity has better luck. they are counting on the $2.5 mission to tell them if mars is a safe place for humans to eventually visit. >> it is a lot of fun. we are all attacking this like we might have a chance to do that, so those who come behind us will be the beneficiaries of the work we are doing now. work that for now scientists on earth will have to do my remote control. abc news. >>> if you are stumped for a holiday gift for that certain someone, how about burning man tickets? being on monday for the first time you can register for a crack at pre sale tickets to the festival that sell brits radical self-expression. it is part of the new lottery system. born out of last year's sellout, it is the f

business bore that's making the suggestions and tomorrow nasa will launch the biggest baddest rover yet to study mars and search for signs of possible life and which i can will fill us in on why this rover outshines the rest and the threats to future missions and we have all that and more if you don't i couldn't get us of happy hour but first take a look with the mainstream media has decided to me it's. all right so today is a lack friday really bizarre and was sickening display of consumerism here in america where people line up even camped out to be the first to enter the largest corporate chains to get a small discount in the past it's gone so crazy that a man was trampled to death by the swarming crowds running into the store this year we saw numerous shooting incidents outside of stores and this year or last night i guess i should say we saw another horrifying development. black friday shopping off to a painful start police say a woman took competitive shopping to a dangerous level authorities say a woman waiting in line pepper sprayed other customers they're looking for a woman they say pepper

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. >> the newest and biggest mars rover curiosity blasted off this morning for $2.5 billion mission. car sized rover will spend two years analyzing the surface for -- >>> summertime we always talk about the hot temperatures. cool temperatures coast side. this time the complete opposite. regrouping and will be a factor as we head into your sunday morning. right now on the maps i can show you this. just a few high clouds moving in. you can see the fog -- you can't see the fog developing but right around the fairfield area already reporting a quarter mile visibility. and also some fog reports right around santa rosa. but away from the inland spots for the coast a few high clouds pushing into the region by a mid to late afternoon. those high clouds still a factor for tonight and the fog we do have a fog advisory in place. this started a few minutes ago. 10:00 in place until 10:00 tomorrow morning. north bay valleys, east bay and right around san francisco bay. visibilities will be coming down to less than a quarter of a mile. so the visibility is dropping. overnight lows you can see the

and this morning the most complex mars rover recover of developed will launch from tape canaveral. it's armed with high-tech 3d and x-ray vision. >> good morning. there's fog in the north bay. temperatures in the 40s but we are beginning to see a drying trend. >> good morning, i'm terry mcsweeney. occupy san francisco protestors plan to march through the mission district this afternoon where they will hold a 4:00 rally for immigrants rights. yesterday they confronted black friday shoppers in union square and blocked traffic for a time but there were no arrests. >> reporter: occupy oakland and san francisco together in union square as shoppers take in black friday festivities. for the protestors that means occupying the entrances to stores like macy's and saks fifth avenue where they didn't always get a warm welcome. [yelling] >> but police never far from the action, even as the demonstrators gathered at the tree lighting ceremony. >> it's a really good day to do it. people are hyped up looking for the sales, and not thinking about people at all. they are thinking about money. so it

john zarella has a pook at how the mars rover could prove we are not alone. .4 minutes the spacecraft ssparated from the upper stagg rocket putting puriosity on its way towwrds the ree lanet traveling at 22 thhusand miles per hour. t will arrive there in august and scientists say thee expect some incredible science.probes to mars. telescopes searching for other earth's. listeniig proof yet but the body of evidence is growing. we are not alonn.thing that strikes yoo is that every time we learn something newwabout the universe, what we learn is that our situation doesn't seem to be all that special. and thaa suggests that life is not all that special either. but, it is stillljust that, a &pastronomy in overload finding frrm telescopes like hubbell, spitzer, chandra.. new ddscoveries at a breaahtaking blowing grandeuu of the universe. consider these heavenly numbers just for a minute:perhaps one trillion, wiih a t thatts right, trillion gglaxies in the universe. stars you ask. ok. sextillion? that's three where does that leave us with planets? more specifically pl

mars. tomorrow the rover curiosity will blast into space. here is more on its link to maryland. >> reporter: it's the biggest and most advanced rover to walk the red planet. tomorrow this machine curiosity will launch to mars taking with it a key component built right here at the space center in maryland. >> this is the most complex instrument that has flown to another planet. >> melissa trainer is talking about the sample analysis at mars instrument. it's a set of tools that will collect samples to the atmosphere and surface and send that data back to scientists. >> that's going to be huge step in our understanding into whether or not it could have supported life. >> it will take 7 minutes for it to land. that landing itself will have scientists on pins and needles because it's the first of its kind for nasa. >> of course it's most 107 min -- tense 7 minutes that i will have. >> reporter: the team will anxiously be watching as the rover lands on mars. unlike its preed december sorries it's too heavy for air bags. a rocket power sky crane wi

first step of mankind flying off and going to hopefully try and set up some form of settlement on mars. rover and tom barton following the martian adventures for r.t. . remember you can always visit our website r.t. dot com for the latest news comments and videos here's some of what's there for you right now or should you log on to find out how nato forces face an investigation from the international criminal court into possible war crimes during its bombardment of libya. converted me appear to embrace the dominance of the u.s. and china he now ranks second between barack obama and huge untile in forbes list of the world's most powerful people those stories online and r.t. dot com. u.s. and u.k. officials have been quick to deny they're seeking military confrontation with iran statements were released by spokesman from both sides fairly media reports of a potential operation aimed at tehran's allege and you can hear weapons facilities however they did say the west has no intention of easing pressure on the islamic republic and would use what's described as a wide range of means at their dispo

nasa's next step in the search for life on mars is set to start tomorrow by getting the latest mars rover going on its long journey to the red planet. all systems are a go for the launch. we have a look at the mission to mars. >> reporter: this is what nasa's $2.5 billion lab will look like once it reaches mars. this is called curiosity. calling it complicated may have worked, too. >> this is the most complicated mission we have tried on the surface of mars. science demands that. >> reporter: in this case, science is trying to determine if mars is or ever could have been a place that harbored life. that's what curiosity will be looking for driving for miles across the red planet's landscape. it's the side of a car with six wheels. >> this rover, curiosity rover, is really a rover on steroids. it will go longer, discover more than we could possibly imagine. >> reporter: after its launch between 10:00 and noon saturday from cape canaveral, the capsule carrying curiosity will separate and spend eight and a half months traveling 60 million miles to mars. >> should be quite a trip. >> i'll say