[indiscernible] >> mike hopkins on the left. rick mastracchio on the right finding some resistance on the demating of the fluid connection lines. this providing a temporary flow of ammonia through the plumbing on the starboard truss of the international space station during the swap out of these pump module components. >> we're just thinking, can you take a look if we had hopper securing the box, both hands on either side of the box to secure it. rick, could you get up to operate that bail? >> yeah, i can. i do not think i could put the force he is putting into it. he is putting in more force. >> copy that. standby. >> we wanted to make a suggestion. i note you are using the two bails. we would like you to try down on the side of the qd and to the centerline of the forward bail. >> copy. >> that may give you better leverage. >> there you go. >> telling them and consulting with the lead spacewalk officer. mission control. thecally fine tuning technique that hopkins is using for the tools he has at his thissal to try to demate flu

. >> and our first view of mike hopkins. >> reporter: astronauts mike hopkins and rick mastracchio floated outside the international space station. >> that's a beautiful view. >> reporter: the americans operating in concert with the japanese astronaut, operating the robotic arm to install a new cooling pump. >> go ahead and remove it from bolt two. >> reporter: from command mission, step by step instructions. >> and we'll install the pump module in this order, bolt one, four, three, two. >> reporter: the biggest challenge say those who have done space construction before? >> it was kind of like putting on your scuba gear and then putting on the sleeping bag and then the snow jacket and snow boots and the biggest, thickest gloves you have ever worn, and then going up on your roof at night in the winter and trying to fix a watch while everybody watches on national tv. >> reporter: 45 years ago on christmas eve eve, apollo 8 circumnavigated the moon. it was a first for mankind. >> we close with good night, good luck, a merry christmas, and god bless all of you. >> reporter: today? >> mike hop

american astronauts rick mastracchio and mike hopkins start their work. the test inside their space suits, bone dry. they gave them a close inspection on monday, food who can blame them. one leak, one tear, and they are dead in an instant. i know you train for it. but is it scary when you're up there and there's nothing else? >> it is scary. it's a matter of just managing that fear. >> reporter: recent problems with those 35-year-old spacesuits have added to that fear. in july, an italian astronaut nearly drowned when water leaked into his helmet.

this is mike hopkins camera. the number 18. number 18 is hopkins's camera.ber 20 is rick's camera. they are working on their tether to make sure they are completely attached to a tether. >> it is extraordinary being able to see all of this. you are breaking it down word for word what's going on. thank you for keeping an eye on things for us. give us an update later. appreciate that. >>> the last minute rush for holiday gifts. which place will be open incredibly late on christmas eve and it's not just 7-eleven >> what is thomas roberts's favorite holiday movie? the answer ahead. ♪ [ chicken caws ] [ male announcer ] when your favorite food starts a fight, fight back fast with tums. heartburn relief that neutralizes acid on contact and goes to work in seconds. ♪ tum, tum tum tum tums! the day building a play set begins with a surprise twinge of back pain... and a choice. take up to 4 advil in a day or 2 aleve for all day relief. [ male announcer ] that's handy. ♪ >>> in today's three big money headlines, surprise showing, beat the clock and sacre bleu. good mo

. >> reporter: traveling almost 18,000 miles per hour, 260 miles above the earth, astronauts mike hopkins and rick masstrachio stepped outside the international space station to make the urgent repairs to the cooling system. >> mike hopkins taking a special sleigh ride on this christmas eve, holding the pump module. >> reporter: teetering on the end of the space station's arm, they installed the refrigerator- sized pump. it took more than seven hours. it was difficult and dazzling. bill harwood is cbs news space consultant. >> working in these big cumbersome space suits is not easy. it's almost like you're wearing multi-layer clothes in the wintertime, so much so that it's hard to move. >> reporter: while connecting one hose, the astronauts' suits were sprayed with ammonia ice crystals. ammonia is used in the cooling system. to keep the noxious chemicals out of the station, they had to stay out long enough for it to evaporate in the sun. >> we do not want to bring ammonia back inside the ship. >> reporter: retired canadian astronaut chris hatfield took two walks outside the space station.

. >> reporter: mike hopkins on his first walk and rick mastracchio will try to fix the cooling systems which keep the nine room space station, long enough inside to take up more than half a football field, from overheating. >> mike hopkins will be the free float crew member. >> reporter: space walks were supposed to be suspended after astronaut luca parmitano nearly drowned earlier this year, when a full gallon of water from the suit's cooling system leaked into his helmet. >> my head is wet. >> reporter: nearly robbing him of oxygen. a terrifying malfunction you can see happening again, when the suit was retested. >> i experienced what it's like to be a goldfish in a fish bowl, from the point of view of the goldfish. >> reporter: now the last minute macgyver like fix, 20 inch snorkles fitted inside. so the astronauts can breathe through the tube, if water leaks in again. equally low tech, absorbent pads, velcro'd inside the back of the helmets as a warning system. if a pad feels squishy, astronauts are told to alert mission control. >> we train hours, days, weeks, months, years for th

reporter: astronauts mike hopkins and rick mastracchio risking their lives to replace a cooling pump on the international space station. that's hopkins holding it. it looks like a huge refrigerator. this is hopkins' first trip to space. the missouri native is a former college football captain who recently bragged about getting his first haircut in orbit. his partner mastracchio is a space walk veteran. this is the 8th walk for the father of three from connecticut. >> nice work, guys. >> reporter: it took two spacewalks, 12 hours in the black vacuum of space, but the duo did what they came to do. >> we have a pump that is alive and well. >> reporter: and maybe more importantly, they reported no problems with their spacesuits today. no water leaks this time. >> everything is nice and dry. >> best christmas ever. >> it took a couple of weeks to get it done but we got it. >> reporter: we are inside a mockup of the airlock here at the johnson space center. this is what the astronauts actually train in and just a couple of hours ago those two returned safely to a room just like this to rep

mike hopkins and rick are going out on this morning. rick is very experienced guy. this will be his seventh space walk, mike, his first time so i know he is very excited. there is many risks to space walking. you try to keep it all in mind at the same time and do everything while you're doing your job. >> you mentioned mike hopkins, his first time. i know he is trained for this. i had an opportunity to train a few years back and train in the simulator and the earth is spinning so quickly below you and it's very disorienting. is that something you can practice or do you get out there and like, whoa, i didn't think it would be like this? >> you get out there and go, whoa. >> you definitely do? >> you know what the training does it allows you to figure out how the cools work and where you put your body and what exactly to do. but the sort of the sensory surroundings and what happens around you is brand-new. >> i don't believe in stupid questions but i thought about this too. a lot of us have seen the movie "gravity." and pieces flying through space which we know are tr

they did change out a pump fan assembly in mike hopkins' suit.t necessarily planned, but do the repair to the international space station. we are prepared for those spacewalks. there are general safety concerns. you want to make sure your tether is in place. you always want to check your buddy's safety tether. you want to be careful with your gloves. they will do glove checks to make sure there is no rips or tears or wear in the glove. they don't want a leak in the suit. the gloves take a lot of work and abuse. i don't want to say abuse, but they are used frequently in the spacewalks. you have an absorption pad in the back of the helmet. they want to make sure no water is in the suit. >> mike massimino, thank you for offering your perspective. the astronauts are an hour into a 6.5-hour mission. it seems like now, smooth sailing. >> mike, thanks. >>> the president closes out 2013 with a little rest and relaxation in hawaii. he left washington in his rear-view mirror, but that was after getting the last word. live coverage here on "new day saturday

mission control calls it the best christmas gift ever. >> mike hopkins taking a special sleigh ride on holding the 780-pound pump module. >> the astronauts tweeted some pictures back to earth showing today's mission. it was the first christmas eve spacewalk since 1999 when nasa conducted a repair to the hubbell telescope. glad it all went so well. >>> well, we turn now to the surprise christmas message from america's most wanted fugitive, edward snowden. declaring i've already won. abc news reporter pierre thomas with new video. >> reporter: edward snowden, the fugitive whistle-blower has emerged from the shadows for a victory lap. >> hi and merry christmas. >> in this holiday message recorded for britain's channel 4, snowden is resolute, leaking nsa secrets was the right thing to do. >> privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and what we want to be. >> in fact, snowden was confident enough to tell "the washington post" he has already won. >> the conversation today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that

. >> the shot that you are seeing is helmet cam shot from mike hopkins.y started this work on saturday. they hope to finish today. the coolant system is what has been giving them problems on the international space station. this is something they have got to get repaired. they are working on one of the lines right now. we'll keep you posted. ♪ >>> wall street staying in a buying mood this christmas eve. the dow is up right now, 56 points, on track for its first straight record. the stock market closes early today 1:00 pm eastern time and it is closed tomorrow because of christmas. the government reports business has stepped up their spending on orders for long-lasting goods in november. the rise gives a boost to the manufacturing industry. holiday sales are pointing to a bah humbug season for retailers. shoppers in brick and mortar stores sold 3% compared to last year. retailers are struggling despite big discounts and longer hours. >>> for decades it has been standard medical practice to give vitamin k injections to newborns. but now parents are declinin

a spectacular selfie in space of astronaut mike hopkins during that christmas eve spacewalk outside the international space station. the earth, as you see there, big and blue and just beautiful behind him. >>> and the folks at nasa have put together a collection of the most amazing images of the year taken by satellites orbiting the earth. some incredible sights including typhoon haiyan before it made land fall in the philippines, and a volcano erupting in alaska. >>> all is ready to go in times square here in new york on new year's eve. the last of the 2,688 waterford crystals that light up the ball were put in place today. this year's design features a special crystal with a rose based on a drawing from a 12-year-old cancer patient at st. jude children's research hospital in memphis. the rose is said to represent the gift of imagination. >>> when we come back, our tribute to some of the famous names we loved and lost in the year that was. >> some day soon, you will have families of your own. >>> finally tonight our annual tradition, looking back at the year that was. as we close out t

nasa astronaut mike hopkins snapped this photo of himself in the middle of a space walk on christmas eve, then he tweeted the photo with the caption "wish i could find the words to describe the experience. truly amazing." the 45-year-old astronaut helped fix a pump on the space station which has been in orbit since 1998. did he really take that picture himself and then you got to kind of hold on to the camera because you don't want to lose the camera while you're out there? >>> we'll check in with meteorologist. >> things that make you go hmm. and gravity, that all comes into play. we do have a red flag fire warning in effect for tomorrow, diane. this is going to run through tomorrow morning. it will expire at 10:00. but here's the thing with this being one of the driest years on calendar. we're looking at the potential for fire to actually break out. and if that does, we can be talking about more red flag fire warnings in 2014 and also we have to continue to spare the air each day. the red flag warning does go for the hills above 1,000 feet and includes the east bay as well, mount d

during the first spacewalk saturday american astronauts rick mastracchio and mike hopkins removed a coolingm pump with a bad valve, but they cut the walk short after mastracchio complained of discomfort. water was found in the suit. a backup suit is being prepared. al third spacewalk if needed would be carried out the day after christmas. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch" apple and china strike a major deal and cracker barrel reverses a ban on "duck dynasty." alexis christoforous is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, alexis. >> good morning to you, wendy. apple inked a must-have deal with a mobile carrier. china mobil has 700 million subscribers, twice the population of the u.s. while the two companies announced sunday china mobil will start selling the iphone 5c and 5s beginning next month. apple hopes to sell up to 30 million iphones next year but they've lost a lot of ground to china whose companies sell much cheaper iphones. hong kong's hang seng added half a percent. the shanghai composite gained a quarter percent and tokyo's nikkei is closed for a holiday. >>>

. >> mike hopkins taking a special sleigh ride holding the 780-pound pump module. >> reporter: they installedhe refrigerator sized pump. it took more than 7 hours. it was difficult and dazzling. bill harwood is cbs news space consultant. >> working in these spaces is not easy. almost like you're wearing multilayer clothes in the wintertime, so much so that it's hard to move. >> reporter: while connecting one hose, the astronauts' suits were sprayed with ammonia ice crystals, it's used to keep the noxious chemicals out of the station, they had to stay out long enough for it to evaporate in the sun. >> we do not want to bring ammonia back inside the ship. >> reporter: this retired astronaut took two walks outside the space station. >> the environment in space is harsher than most people think. in the shade, it's minus a couple hundred degrees. in the sun, it's plus 300 degrees. so we don't go outside unless there is a good reason. >> reporter: with the cooling system down, astronauts had to power down all but the bare essentials so they wouldn't overtax the remaining system. initial tests show

. >> astronauts rick and mike hopkins spent more than 7 hours outside the station installing a new ammonia pump. this was their second space walk in four days. the astronauts removed the faulty pump saturday after one of the space station's two external cooling lines shut down. the crew was not at risk, but the astronauts had to turn off all non-sheshl equipment including experiments. the work to install the new pump was scheduled for monday but delayed after he accidentally got water in his suit at the end of saturday's walk. he needed time to assemble a new suit. >> they have to work. this is an extremely hostile environment, and obviously you want a space that's in good shape for that. >> the astronauts didn't encount ernie major problems, but ammonia flakes floated from the replacement pump onto their suits requiring decontamination as they reentered the station. >> merry christmas to everybody. it took a couple of licks to get her done, but we got it. >> the christmas eve mission was an international effort. a japanese astronaut and russian helped the two americans complete the walk.

so mike hopkins has his feet in the robot arm. his feet are planted.to a handrail to keep him really steady. so you have these tools to help you remain really solid. but you really want to get into a good position. >> how many steps have they had to memorize in completing this process? >> you know you don't necessarily want to memorize everything, chris. you want to have kind of a game plan in your head and be able to visualize it. it's a technique that astronauts have handed down. there are certain things you want to know for sure that are really important. but generally you want to have the flow of the spacewalk. kind of like the flow of a game. maybe when you're doing your broadcast. you want an image of what that's going to do and then play it over in your mind as you're thinking about it before you go to bed and have that in your mind. the details of every little tool setting, that's more than you want to memorize. you'll mess it up if you try to memorize everything. that's why we have a checklist. there's a person inside, working the robot arm. t

nasa astronaut and stanford grad mike hopkins snapped this shot of himself while out on a space walk outside the international space station. the image was taken on christmas eve and it captured a spectacular view of the earth from space. hopkins and another crewmember were changing an outside pump on the space station when the picture was taken. look, mom! i'm in space! >>> fred inglis is here to tell us about the cal bears going at it in berkeley. >> it's about time where we have to find out which team is really the best team here. cal golden bears. they are not expected to make much noise in the men's pac-12 this season, but if the nonconference schedule is any indication, visitors are going to have a fight on their hands at the pavillion. these youngsters haven't seen cal lose at home this season. they are now 9-0. today, the furman palace has never saw what hit them. cal led by 18 at half time. here comes wallace, hurt so good. second, lot of time, and jeff powers made six of the seven three-point shots for a career high 18. cal wins by 30. they open the pac-12 conference schedu

. >> reporter: astronauts rick mastacchio and mike hopkins were scheduled to be outside the international space station for six and a half hours. matracchio asked to end the spacewalk after five hours and 28 minutes. >> my feeling would be to call it for today but it is up to you guys if you really want to go out there. >> could you give us an idea if it's temperature, your temperature? >> it's a little bit of a couple of things. >> reporter: the couple of things was never explained but cbs news has learned there was a buildup of water inside his suit. last july, another problem involving water nearly drowned an italian astronaut when his helmut flooded. >> it feels like a lot of water. >> reporter: cbs news space consultant bill harwood: >> the water floated around his head in weightlessness. it got over his eyes, his ears and encroaching on his mouth and nose. that raises the possibility of drowning in space if you can imagine such a thing. >> reporter: nasa asked the astronauts to expedite drying the suit and has postponed the next spacewalk one day. it had been planned for monday, mar

. >> reporter: tomorrow morning american astronauts rick mastracchio and mike hopkins will step out of the space station to finish what they started this weekend, replacing this critical cooling pump. >> i know you trained for it, but is it scary when you are up there and there is nothing else? >> it is scary. it's a matter of just managing that fear. >> reporter: adding to that fear, those aging space suits. astronauts spent today inspecting them. in july an italian space walker nearly drowned when water leaked into his helmet. >> my head is really wet. >> reporter: saturday another problem. >> it's very, very cold. >> reporter: tomorrow they hope to finish the job. >> christmas morning we find a new pump module under the tree in the space station? >> reporter: and you thought your holidays were stressful. ryan owens, abc news, the johnson space center in houston. >> we'll be watching tomorrow. >>> back on earth tonight and into the firestorm after comments from one of the stars of "duck dynasty." a major sponsor running from him and now tonight apparently running back. abc's matt gut

. >> mike hopkins holding the 780-pound pump monthed yule >> astronauts showing the mission, the first space walk since 1999. >> former national security agency contractor edward snowden will speak to british viewers today. snowden faces accusations of leaking information. channel four plans to feature snow den. >> he wanted the public to know what is being done do it in terms of surveillance. he wanted decisions made outside of the bubble they have been made since september 11thth. >> russiana granted temporary asylum to snowden. >> pope francis has begun celebrating his first christmas as pontiff. >> he placed a statue of baby juice jooesus in a replica of a manger. >> he carries a statue himself, usually an aide does that. >> it's the only public mass. tomorrow he will deliver his message from the balcony overlooking st. peter's square. >> thousands gathered in bethlehem the church sits on the spot where the bible says jesus was born. turnout was the highest, ever. santa claus and decorations adorned the courtyard. thanks to a period of calm, tourists to bethlehem have been growing

american spacewalkers rick mastracchio and mike hopkins removed a broken 780-pound coolant pump. >> don't tlaet go. that's a stocking suffer. >> reporter: but a malfunction in mastracchio's suit -- >> my toes are quite cold. >> reporter: forced the postponement of a second spa spacewalk, scheduled to complete the repairs. >> we want to dry that suit out overnight. rrl if the second spacewalk in a row, water in the suit was an issue. just to be safe, the as troy naughts will use a backup suit. >> it's their life support system. somebody on the ground, team on the ground is making a big plan to put that new suit together. >> reporter: this is the suit they're wearing. behind glass in a display at the johnson space center. at 35 years old, it could be a museum piece, but nasa always facing budget constraints, must make old things work. >> we've done over 11,700 hours of spacewalking. i think it was just a small blip in the road that happened to catch us. >> reporter: and so nasa and the astronauts on board the space station have this christmas hope. that those ageing spacesuits are gifts tha

meantime colonel mike hopkins reported no problems with water which is especially notable because he was wearing the same space suit an italian astronaut wore last july when a malfunction filled the helmet with water. the helmets now have makeshift snorkels and absorb dlenlt pads in case the water reappears. nasa says the water that developed inside the space suit in july that the water detected yesterday are not the same problem. >> okay, rick, pull back. >> reporter: on tuesday the astronauts will continue their repair mission to replace a cooling pump that malfunctioned. >> the space station is running with only a single cooling system which means it is vulnerable to that one cooling system having a failure. >> reporter: tonight the astronauts look forward to the next space walk. they're preparing for what they hope is routine and dry. kerry sanders, nbc news, miami. >>> the state department says an unspecified number of americans were safely evacuated today from the african nation of south sudan where there is a growing conflict between government and rebel forces. the americans

astronaut mike hopkins snapped this photo, capturing himself free floating on christmas eve. nasa uploaded the pic and so far, shares have also reached astronomical pro portions. >> haha. >> that is about the coolest picture, ever. >> well, twitter shares stumbleed and amazon sees record-breaking demand for prime services. >> hi, john. >> hi, dan, hi, cheryl. santa was good to amazon this year the company released stats about 2013 holiday shopping season. it revealed clues about part of the business that doesn't always tell us much about. amazon prime said it added a million new prime members during third week of december the service had such a high demand ann amazon said it had to halt sign ups it's only been six months but artio announced it plans to shut down its video streaming offering known as video. the company has given gift cards to those who purchased content n battle over shopping droid devices accounted for roughly 4.5% of orders. u.s. stocks closing slightly lower today. and twitter shares taking a hit tumbling 13%. this after mcquarry capitol cut stock saying sh

breathtaking doesn't begin to describe it. >> mike hopkins taking a special sleigh ride on this christmas holding it. it looks like a huge refrigerator. >> looking good, guys. >> reporter: this is hopkins' first trip to space. he's a former missouri college football captain who bragged about getting his first hair cut in orbit. his partner is a space walk veteran. the eighth walk for the father of three from connecticut. >> nice work, guys. >> reporter: it took 12 hours in the vacuum of space but the duo did what they came to do. >> everything is alive and well. >> reporter: and no water alex. >> everything is nice and dry. >> best christmas ever. took a couple of weeks to get her done but we got it. >> ryan owens, abc news, the johnson space center houston. >> memorable christmas eve, huh. >> oh, man. the good news is it went off without a hitch. everybody was worried about that space suit. hey. >> you were up there. you got back very fast. parachuted, right? >> yes, i did. i'm a quick astronaut when it comes to that kind of stuff. >> i went up fixed the space station and here i am again

. >> astronauts kimberley marten and mike hopkins got the job down with an hour to spare. n.a.s.a. is trying to identify the cause of tump failure and whether it's a software or hardware issue. today's spacewalkeneded at 12.29 pm, a 5 hour 20 minute ex-us curbings. it's to go back out. this was the first space walk since july when an italian astronaut nearly drowned. >> this time they rigle snorkels in the suit. n.a.s.a. is on track for the next phase of the rer pair. >> in future disaers engineers develop the day. this weekend in a rob at olympics it is testing what is possible. as scientists and technology >> here at a speedway outside miami florida robots are trying to do such things. climb ladsers, they don't look like much, it's a challenge to stay up right. don't laugh. when they are stable, fast and strong enough to rush into a nuclear meltdown or leak, where no human rescuer could go, they could saviour life. the task could look easy but they are hard. working alongside us. they have to be as compact as a human. they have to do the tasks autonomously. they carry powerful pr

they are confident in the repairs to the suit that they'll give it to mike hopkins. >> in addition to training given to the crew on how to respond in the event that they have water in the helmet, we have upgraded two pieces of hardware. this is a helmet absorption pad, a modified pad designed to be installed on the back of the crew members's helmet. >> the two astra nauts will have their work cut out. they will attempt to complete the mission on saturday, in monday's space walk. if necessary a third is scheduled for christmas day. >> if we have free time to think about the fact that it is christmas and we spend time looking back at the earth, we'll have time to reflect on that and enjoy ourselves. we are always on the look out for santa up here. we have a great vantage point. we'll report any sightings. >> nasa put the repair mission as a top priority, cancelling a launch that was supposed to bring supplies to the station this week. >> like many big cities, dallas has a traffic problem. what sets it apart is a solution that is surprising and unique. mark schnyder has that story. the l

scheduled 6.5 hours, but rick markstraccio, and mike hopkins got the job done within hours to spare. n.a.s.a. is trying to identify the cause of the pump failure and whether it's a software for hardware issue. n.a.s.a. took to twitter saying the space walk ended at 12:29. a 5 hour, 20 minute excursion. this was the first space walk since july when an italian astronaut nearly drowned when a leak in his space suit filled with water. >> n.a.s.a. said they are on track for the next phase of the repair. >> heart transplants are some of the riskiest operations around. surgeons in france are trying to change that. france performed its first artificial transplant. >> similar devices have been used, but recipients will be able to keep this longer as they wait for donors. >> this is the world's first, an artificial heart designed to sustain the body for five years. surgeons at a paris hospital implanted another in a male patient on wednesday. so far he's doing fine. >> translation: the patient is doing very well. he is getting better every day. i saw him before coming to see you. we are talkin

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astronaut mike hopkins and rick markstraccio will be going on a space walk, the second. what are they fixing up there? >> what they are fixing is an important temperature mixing valve that allows them to regulate temperatures in the loop for the electronics on board. they have a backup system, but it's really important to have the two main systems up and operating in case one fails so they have a backup. that's what they have to fix. >> electronics - if they don't get cool, could there be a melt done? >> the problem is you can't run everything at full efficiency or have everything operating as you might like if one of the cooling systems is down. they have to reduce the heat load by reducing the full load of electronics on the system. they shut down some nonessential operations on the space station. >> the astronaut have been having problems with space shoots. in july 1st had his helmet flood with water. they had to outfit them with snorkels and wads. on the last space work keeping worm -- warm was a problem and his toes was cold. what happened? . >> the heating elements

the other astronaut is mike hopkins.ou have a robotic arm and that's being maneuvered by one of the japanese astronauts as well. this is coordinated in terms of how they can replace this and make sure that it's working, correct? >> yeah. it's a big ballet. you have a person on the ground actually talking to the astronauts in space, walking them through the procedure. you have two spacewalkers. you have the japanese guy you referred to he's working the robot arm. there's three russian crew mates up there as well and they are helping out. they help with getting the suits ready and so on and you have the control team on the ground in houston. everyone in the krol center, the instruct jobs flight controls, everyone. it's a gigantic team to help do this, the spacewalk the right way. >> yeah. and let's take about 15 seconds and listen in because you can hear what they are saying. stand by one second, mike. >> okay. >> okay. hopper two handed tier. pull forward and depress the button then. >> mike, walk us through a little bit.

mike hopkins, the big boom arm seemed a sparkling, module which weighs 800 pounds on earth, not of theirace statiin, swung him all the way to the other side, and snug in to place. >> another trend to continue. okay. >> mission control and the astronauts in this space walk for four hours at this point, now at a point where they are trying to attach the fluid lines, each elliptical lines, the fluid lines that will allow the ammonia which helps cool the space station into the module and into the system, tangled up tinker with that this moment. connell: as we follow that, it could wrap up today. could it be christmas day what is the plan? >> it is possible with the current issue with the tangled line and the couple to figure out, and a bump test which will flush the ammonia through the pump module which was towed up there to see if it works and at 8:00 central time, a full line test, the cooling system is again pulling this space station they won't have to go on christmas day but for the past two weeks with only one cooling system working up there it reduced all the research of fare by 30% a

especially when mike hopkins, the american, strapped in by his boots to the big robotic boom arm swunghe way to the other side. carrying him 800-pound cooling pump module with just his hand. of course, with nothing up there. he was steer flood place. rocket science took a back seat as rick holding on guided it into place 2 old-fashioned way. >> little bit more. maybe another turn. >> okay. >> i think that's good. we can stop there. >> nasa then did a bump test to make sure the pump appeared to be working. that was pretty effective. it does appear to be working. once back inside the air lock both astronauts did what is called a burnout. a ten-minute deacon contamination procedure for their space suit. during the space walk, as you control in houston noted, ammonia flakes floating out as they were attaching the fluid lines and that would decontaminate space suits for the next one on the agenda. >> i guess later tonight we will know for sure whether the cooling system actually has been repaired. >> yeah. that will basically justify the preliminary approval of the bump test. the pressuriza

on saturday astronauts rick mastracchio and mike hopkins success dpli removed a broken pump but it needsd. >> the five-hour mission was actually cut short when that is trackio complained of cold feet after water leaked into the space suit. here to talk more about this is astronaut ron guerin joining us from houston. you know, you've repaired that broken pump. how tough is that? you know, you've got 35-year-old space suit to blame for this in a way. what kind of can problems does that is cause? >> well, you know, when we go out on a space walk, our space suits are really self-contained space ships. and there is a lot of moving parts, a lot of things that protect us for one thing but also make our job a little difficult. one of those things is the pressure in the suit itself. everything, every time we grab something with our hand or move we have to fight against the pressure of our suit. and those suits when you put all the tools on it and all the equipment, they could be up to 350 pounds. obviously in space, they're weightless but we're still moving that mass around and still have to deal

. >> reporter: nasa scheduled six and a half hours for the work, but astronauts rick and mike hopkinsdone with an hour to spare. >> good inning ventura good luck back for hopper. >> reporter: nasa is still trying to identify the cause of the fay our and whether or not it's a software or hardware issue. nasa took to twitter to up doubt the mission. saying today's space walked ended after a five hour 28 minutes excursion, the crew second scheduled to go back out monday and install a new ammonia pump. it was the first space walk since july when an italian astro now the nearly drowned after a leak in his suit filled his helmet with water this. time they rigged snorkels in their suits so they could breathe if it happened again and it didn't. nasa says they are on track for the next phase of the repair. >> this is the first space walk in months, earlier i spoke with sarah a professor of science at the nasa institute of technology and i asked her just about the prepare process. >> i want people know it's not a real emergency, like it has been reported in some places in the news. it's more li

astronauts rich mastriaccio and mike hopkins are doing the space walk now.> he may have wanted a third, although it was goi ining to be christmas. >> the reality tv show's network, a&e is staying quiet. >> more than 200,000 people have signed petitions demanding a&e and phil robertson's suspension, but the network executive told cnn, the network isn't second-guessing its decision and noted that conversations about robertson and the show will continue after the holiday. although important to note here, a&e is having a "duck dynasty" marathon tomorrow. >> he was suspended indefinitely after "gq" published an interview calling homosexuality unhappy and sinful, and saying black people were happy before the civil rights movement. david johnson, ceo of strategic vision, a branding and public relations agency. >> when he said, what is sinful, and the first thing he said was homosexuality. oh, well, the murderers, rapists, child molesters, hey, we got the pass this time, because really, don't you think those things are worse than -- you would think in the good book,

that's mike hopkins holding on to the 780-pound ammonia-driven cooling pump module.he new one, the replacement one. he's about to slide it into the gap. they removed the bad module you can see on screen right. by the end of today they should know whether this is going to work and resume the cooling of the space station. nasa did some graphic animation. it's amaying what we just witnessed. -- it's amazing what we just witnessed. right now we are 2, 2.5 hours into the space walk. it's supposed to go 6 hours today. jamie: is there a possibility if they don't complete it they could have a space walk on christmas day? >> reporter: nasa hope not, the astronauts hope not. once the module is inserted and all of the fluid lines, electronic lines are hooked up, the big test, does the one of two cooling systems that keep the space station laboratory cool which generates lots of heat with all the electronics. if it starts working properly and the cooling resumes, christmas day won't require a space walk. but for all those rocket scientists home on christmas break watching the sp

mike hopkins is a rookie astronaut, but he's a great space walker.f they have to replace a module, if that's necessary, they can -- bill: what do you mean in the pool? >> that's where we practice our space walks, and we do a lot of training in there to prepare for things like this. will: you can certainly relate to things they're going through right now. are they concerned? >> i think they're definitely concerned about it, and they're trying to work with the ground be, the control team. you've got these really smart people who are working around the clock to try to fix this problem on the ground, and they're working with the crew. the crew is saying what can we do to help? they understand the systems, they're ready to go, and they're working closely with the control center. bill: a cooling loop does what on the international space station? >> you've got all this equipment humming along, it builds up heat just like a television set or a refrigerator this your house. believe it or not, it builds up heat. you've got to get that heat away. so ammonia is

. >> reporter: from the space station yesterday during their prep day, mike hopkins gave a smile forera checking out the spacesuit he will wear tomorrow morning. that spacewalk begins after 7:00 a.m. eastern time tomorrow. it should last about six hours. martha, we'll see if they get everything done and give themselves christmas off. martha: we hope so. we wish them well. phil, thank you very much. >> reporter: all right. gregg: a big about face on "duck dynasty." a major restaurant chain that dealt with a big backlash after pulling duck merchandise. is the tide starting to turn for phil robertson? our panel is here to debate it coming up. martha: this is great story this morning a former cheerleader for the philadelphia eagles, turning in her old uniform in order to put on a new uniform. why the team and fans are cheering for her now. >> i call philadelphia home. that is where my heart is and always will be. i'm a die-hard eagles fan. >> do you have any moves left in you. >> i my e might have a few. i don't know if anybody will be able to see them but i might. gregg: the markets jus

. >> on saturday, rick and mike hopkins took the first space walk of their repair mission lasting more than five hours to remove the defective pump. scary as it seems to the average person, the astronaut said not to worry. >> and you have a person on the ground actually talking to the astronauts in space, walking through the procedure, and you have the control team on the ground in houston. everyone in the control center, the instructors, the flight controls, everyone, it is a gigantic team to help do this -- the space walk the right way. >> the american space duo plan to continue the work on monday, but there was another problem. this time with his space suit. so nasa pushed the second walk back a day making this only the second christmas eve space walk in history. the first was a multi-day mission in 1999 to repair the hubble space telescope. >> we're well trained and this really is an extraordinary experience for the astronauts to get a chance to do this. >> in washington. >>> and coming up on the kron 4 morning news, we'll tell you how many residents were finally able to go home ju

ammonia system on the trust and the new pump module that was installed earlier today by spacewalkers mike hopkins and rick mastracchi o. during the time the third of the four fluid connection lines d was beingemated from a pump module jumper box to maintain duringte of the ammonia the time they were pretty smal. between the disconnection and removal of the faulty pump module on saturday, and the new pump earlier today, the third in this series of lies, the so-called m-4 line was very stubborn. it was finally disconnected but some some dissipation, flakes of ammonia that the crew believes came in contact with their suits. they are in the process of inspecting one another and beginning decontamination procedures that are part of the normal flight rules that any handling of these ammonia lines in the vacuum of space. meanwhile, the thermal systems officer, the spartan as he is called in mission control, has informed the flight director that with the valves open, 35 pounds of ammonia have flowed from the ammonia tank assembly in an adjacent slot on the starboard truss of the international space stati

astronauts rick mastraccio and mike hopkins went on a rare christmas eve spacewalk. they successfully installed a 780-pound pump to fix the station's cooling system. nasa says all the equipment should be up and running by this weekend. >>> and a christmas lump of coal from the postal service. on january 26th the price of a first class stamp will jump three cents to 49 cents. regulators say the rate hike will only last two years, just long enough to recover almost $3 billion in losses. the time,, >>> the pope has called christmas an encounter with the lord. the pope is asking not just catholics but the great human family to journey together towards hope, peace and justice. we invited new york's cardinal timothy dolan to help us celebrate christmas and share its meaning. cardinal dolan, welcome. >> a blessed christmas to all of you and good to be with you. >> merry christmas. >> a good way to spend christmas morning. we can open up gifts afterwards. >> and pass around the egg nog. >> so early, we can't open up gifts. what kind of gift would you like to open and you go

american astronauts rick mastracchio and mike hopkins start their work.he test inside their space suits, bone dry. they gave them a close inspection on monday, food who can blame them. one leak, one tear, and they are dead in an instant. i know you train for it. but is it scary when you're up there and there's nothing else? >> it is scary. it's a matter of just managing that fear. >> reporter: recent problems with those 35-year-old spacesuits have added to that fear. in july, an italian astronaut nearly drowned when water leaked into his helmet. >> i experienced what it was like to be a goldfish in a fish bowl, from the point of view of the goldfish. >> reporter: from part one on the spacewalk on saturday, a different problem with water in the suit. >> we want to dry that suit out overnight. >> reporter: plus, an astronaut kept explaining how cold he was. >> it's. >> translator: very, very cold. >> reporter: the american duo is hoping to finish their mission today, replacing this massive cooling pump on the space station. doug did the same spacewalk three

these predicts are taken from one of the astronauts helmets, mike hopkins, from missouri, in case youwondering. they're working on putting in a cooling station. saturday they spent six or seven hours removing a faulty ammonia pump on one of the units. today they'll install a new pump that will also take hours and hours, painstaking work. it looks beautiful in space, doesn't it? you hope everything goes okay so they don't have to do another spacewalk on christmas day. >>> 150 u.s. marines are assembled outside south sudan's border, ready to evacuate americans from that troubled african country. 100 citizens are believed to be there as the country inches toward civil war. four navy s.e.a.l.s were wounded when their rescue mission came under intense fire. >>> several high-profile cases. >>> and the famous arctic 30 environmental activist jailed for protesting on an oil platform have a breakthrough today. russia has dropped one of its cases and possibly more. most of the activists were released but still face charges. >>> victims of a nationwide meningitis outbreak. 64 deaths and hundreds

our life support backpack so they replaced that on that suit that luka wore, the same suit that mike hopkinsar tomorrow and the suit has been, that part has been replaced, the suit has been checked out and working fine. we don't expect any problems but just in case. >> that snorkel thing, explain that to me. >> just in case, you mentioned the snorkel. water absorbing pad is going to be in the back of the helmet to soak up any water that might spill out and the snorkel is not like a snorkel you imagine if you're going snorkeling in the ocean or a swimming pool. it's a hose, more like a piece of tubing that is a piece from a larger piece of tubing that we use in our space suits so it's an approved piece of material, that tube is placed unside of the suit so if the astronaut needs to get air just in case, they can lean over inside of the helmet and get to this piece of tubing which they're calling a snorkel. so we have a fix in place, so the suit should be fine but just in case, we also have another qu device inside of there to help us if we need it. >> you're brave people, michael massamino th