this is not a nasa thinker this is the nation.congress and the administration, nasa and industry and academia, we have academia represented here, i will not call out the name of the school, but they are here. these are exciting times. anybody who was ever on a college campus over last 10 years and walked into an engineering school and sudley dearth of research going on -- and sought the dearth of research going on, that will change. help us to tell the story. i think it is exciting. >> yesterday was the anniversary of the columbia accident. it is my understanding that the constellation program was assembled as a direct response to that accident, the findings in the columbia accident investigation board which mentioned the absence of a national mandate prior to the accident and the fact that nasa was stretched too thin. how do you a corporate the lessons of columbia in this new venture, particularly the part that they identified as a lack of a national mandate? >> you limit the sources of lessons learned. our lessons learned cobol

we have experienced cuts to other nasa -- critical nasa programs including a science, earth observation, and on its, robotic space exploration, science, education, and more. and we would have cut short the operational light of the international space station at the height of its promised potential. we believe that the technology shortfall we face is so fundamental that incremental change or tinkering on the margins will not be sufficient to address current or future need. rather, a fundamental rebates lining of our nation exploration efforts needs, we must invest in fundamentally new innovations for space technology. and new ways of doing business if we are to develop a space exploration and develop the program that is truly sustainable over the long term. this plan gives us a roadmap to even more historic achievements as it spurs innovation, employs americans and exciting jobs, and engages people around the world. it pledges us to a renewed commitment to invention, and development, in the creative and entrepreneurial spirit that is at the core of our country's character. the president

nasa lost the study to map the carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas and nasa recouped funds for that program set up will also create jobs. it's sort of a cliche that the money spent here on space affects those. host: next caller, good morning. caller: it seems that nasa had its greatest success when not lost focus. in the future does it look more broad with the global warming and maybe education and things that are not of the core mission of space? guest: that's an interesting question. the columbia accident investigation board that was set up after columbia crashed in 2003, highlighted a lack of focus on the space program prior to that accident. i expect this to be a point of contention in the coming debate on this policy. nasa has been always stretched too thin even in the days of a-pola. -- apollo. and when lockheed martin reviewed the space program, what they recommended was $3 billion more just for constellation, that's not there. so a focus, it's a good question and you will hear a lot more about that this year. host: jacksonville, florida, john. caller: yes, one thing i am interested

>> well, i think this is a long overdue change for nasa. it's a paradigm shift away from government being the only ones that can do human space flight, that it's so special that it has to be government. we don't let the government do our health care. we don't let the government fly our airlines. so, the government isn't the only ones that can do human space flight. with all due respect to administrator griffin, the orion program, the aries program that he referenced, both of those got all the funding that they had expected and more under the previous administration. in the end, their costs were billions of dollars over cost and many years behind schedule. the augustine committee pointed out that they would require at least $50 billion more over the next 100 years or excuse me over the next ten years in order to get to... back to the moon. then we would get there about a decade late. the problem with that is that it was unsustainable. it was a monolithic program. all the money was going into one massive effort. i believe that it collapsed un

room for a public-private partnership as nasa goes forward? >> of course i do. i'm a primary sponsor of commercial space flight. it's something that i believe will happen and must happen in time. it's simply that i... as i often say, we manage to have military aviation and civilian private aviation exist in the same country. i personally do not see why commercial operators cannot develop their capability without deciding that they have to take down nasa's capability to do space flight. >> ifill: as someone who represents commercial operators, i'll start with that and work back to the question about the future. >> i think what the administration has done is say that we do need a paradigm shift in human space flight. bringing the private sector into it will bring efficiency into it. it actually, what they are planning to do is have commercial companies develop vehicles. these are the same commercial companies that traditionally act as contractors to nasa. the major aerospace companies in the u.s. that have been the industrial base that have buil

nasa lost the study to map the carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas and nasa recouped funds for that program. the budget doesn't really, most of the money in the budget is going for technology development for exploration. there is a pretty clear plan about what nasa can do to develop scientific data to guide decision makers in setting policy on climate change issues. as far as the military is concerned, a lot of technology that nasa uses to study the earth climate is dual use. just like a weather satellite doesn't know if it's military or civilian. some sensors are the same kind of things that the military would use. host: raleigh, north carolina, good morning. caller: good morning, with the economic problems we are in these days with record unemployment and more people carcerated. do you think it would be a viable option to shut the space program down for months and funnel that money into the economy and community and back to the people? guest: no, i don't. the money spend on the space program is spent on earth, on jobs and education and scientific research. and it's also a driver for our e

we have experienced cut to whether nasa -- critical nasa programs including earth science, earth observationeronautics, robotic space exploration, science, education and more. and we would have cut short the operational life of the international space station at the height of its promised potential. we believe that the technology sure if we face is so fundamental that incremental change or tinkering on the margins will not be sufficient to address current or future needs. rather, a fundamental rebate claim he never nations exploration is needed. we must invest in fundamentally new innovations for space technology and new ways of doing business if we are to develop a space exploration and development that is truly sustainable over the long term. this plan gives us a roadmap to even more historic achievement of this verse in addition, employs americans and exciting jobs, and engages people around the world. it pledges us to a renewed commitment to invention and development in the creative and not you but the real spirit that is at the core of our country's character. the president has asked us

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and working congress and the administration, nasa and industry, nasa and industry and academia, we havea represented here -- i won't call their name of the school because i don't want to advertise them, but they're here. these are exciting times. anybody who was ever on a college campus over the last 10 years and walked into an engineering school and saw the dirt of research going on -- daerth of research going on in space science because there was no research money i think that's going to change. so help us. help us tell the story because i think it is exciting. >> from aviation week. general, as you know was the anniversary of the columbia accident. it's my understanding that the constellation program was assembled as a direct response to that response, the findings of the columbia accident investigation were, for example, which mentioned the absence of a -- i believe they use the terminal mandate prior to the investigation and the fact that nasa was stretched too thin. how do you incorporate the lessons of columbia in this new venture, particularly the part that they identified as be

as nasa partners with aerospace industry in the u.s. do you have any plans to involve russian companies in any way in the future after the shuttle retirement and can you please specify the process of delivering a astronauts to iss in terms ossianpaicipation? again after the shuttle retirement. >> i had just a conversation with a friend of the head of the space agency to make sure he understood that where the president wants us to go he was excited as for all of the partners about the president's support for extending the life of the international space station to 2020. they were all excited about the funding that's going to commercial entry of commercial space into exploration and low earth orbit. the russians have been an incredible partner through the years and will remain so. i think most of you know when daschle retires at the end of this year our primary means of getting astronauts to the space station and anywhere else will be the spacecraft. i love it, i've never flown on at the the bad part about is it leaves us without redundan

nasa wants the private sector to build nasa's next generation of spacecraft. they'll carry astronauts and supplies to the international space station. >> susie: take a good look at the retail shops in your town and your neighborhood. many of them could be closing their doors this year. merchants all across the country are still struggling to survive. take searle, the trendy boutique in new york city. as erika miller reports, it's open for business, but it's been operating under bankruptcy protection for almost a year. >> reporter: come to this searle boutique on madison avenue at lunchtime and you'll see plenty of women browsing and, more importantly, buying. to find out how business is going, i spoke with founder steve blatt and his stepson rick weinstein, the company's director of sales. would it be too much to say that you are cautiously optimistic? >> hmm. "optimistic" is not the right word. "cautious" is the right word. i'm just proceeding from week to week with a plan against last year and the year before, and trying to exceed what we've done. >> reporte

instead he wants nasa to focus on the future. it has been nearly 40 years since the last moonwalk.ow after spending more than $9 billion on plans to return to the moon, nasa is putting that dream back on the shelf. president obama wants to boost nasa's budget, he says, but none of the money would go to a moon mission. instead, he wants the money spent on developing new technology. so let's talk about it with that astronaut you saw bouncing around there, gene cernon, the final astronaut to walk on the moon. takes you back, doesn't t. watching those pictures? >> yes, sure does. you had to have a little fun while you were there, jon. jon: i'm sure it was fun. i'm certainly envious, a lot of people are, but obviously, the president said, you know, these are lean times in this country, we've already kind of been there and done that. what do you think about the idea to cancel this moon program, the orine program? -- the oryan program? >> i'm extremely disappointed, angry at a time or two. we talk about investment in the future, he's taking that investment and put it on the shelf as far a

nasa of plans to study it in greater detail than ever before. the solar dynamics observatory will be the first telescope to take high-definition pictures of the entire surface of the sun. once in outer space, it will take pictures once every three quarters of a second. enabling scientists to see the processes unfold as they happen. this picture is of a solar flare in the process of erupting. here the magnetic field is getting tangled up and suddenly released. by comparison, the earth is the size of my hand. the purpose of the new telescope is to better understand how the process has worked. >> ultimately we would like to be able to predict when a solar flare goes off and if it will interact with our atmosphere. will that affect our spacecraft? >> solar flares can damage communications satellites, affecting navigation and power systems on our. by studying the magnetic field of the sun, scieistsope to predict them and make steps to reduce the damage. >> taking a look at something out there that is down here, so many people did not know it was. a s

nasa says it will help humans work and explore from space. for information on all of the stories, log on to the technology page of abc2news.com. those are your tech bytes. i'm vinita nair.

so we do have actually a small budget increase for nasa. >> we're expecting to hear from nasa, by theof stealing shoes for decades and storing them in his home. police say they tracked him down after he stole shoes, apparently, and photos from a frat house in delaware. they say he's been stealing shoes for about 20 years. >> there's 150 boxes full of various amounts of shoes, but a safe estimate is that there are several thousand shoes there. >> anything i didn't ask? >> there's plenty, but none we want to talk about. >> wow. by the way, the frat brothers said they want their pictures back but they really don't want the shoes back. no thanks. >>> just a short time ago we learned who's up for a best actor oscar. there's jeff bridges for "brayzy heart" and george clooney for "up in the air." collin firth, a single man. morgan freeman, invictus. carrie mulligan, an education. meryl streep from julie and julia. >>> 35 minutes past the hour. bob, you know, it's true after the nominations come out you go, oh, okay, now i know which movies i want to see. >> yeah. >> you kind of don't want to

the challenge for nasa is to find a way to go relevant and stay in the game at this point. jane: brian wilson in d.c. for us, thanks. jon: when you talk about war strategy, you generally think they should be shrouded in secrecy, right? think again. the u.s. military and our allies are giving away one set of plans apparently to let the taliban know we are coming. the announcement is the exact date of the first big battle of the surge, the exact target, i should say, the town of marjah in helmand province. senior afghan officials went as far as holding a news conference to discuss a pending strike. is this good military planning or does it put soldiers at greater risk? let's talk about it with retired major general bob scales, fox news analyst joining us from washington. so we put out a press release, we have told the taliban, okay, we're going to take on the town of marjah, we're going to clear the insurgents out of it. is that smart? >> yes, it is smart, jon. look, to explain it, let me give you the army war college 101. this is a counterinsurgency campaign and in these typ

ten days in a hospital bed to -- so nasa could study muscle wasting. this appears to have been a troubled 32-year-old man. >> what do you know about the students. >> reagan weber, the girl, was treated and released. she's at home and her father says she has bullet fragments in one arm. the boy, matt, is in children's hospital. we understand from a statement released by his mother he's got a fracturedded rib and lung injury but he's doing well and as you mentioned, his situation today upgraded from critical to serious. >> well that's good. jonathan hunt, thank you. >> the mother of one of the students there says she saw the shooter and then the teacher to stopped him in action. her story when she talks live with us in 90 seconds and we'll cover the rest of the toyota hearing too, so hang on. dr. denky assessed the situation and without ten concern to his life he tackled the guy. >> a bus driver in littleton, colorado, commenting on the shooting there. for more on what happened and how teachers responded, i'm joined by a parent who was picking up her dau

. >> when i was really young, the first book that i ever read was about apollo and nasa. and my parents both worked at nasa, down at goddard space flight center. >> reporter: and the fact that he'll be making one of the shuttle's last flights means liftoff near the end of an era. alexalex demetrick, wjz eyewitness news. >> following his mission, only four more shuttles will fly. the last shuttle to the space station is set for september. >> by september, it will be a lot warmer. a lot nicer. but we've got a really difficult period coming up tomorrow into saturday. could be. same as december or even a little worse in some areas as far as snowfall amounts. take a look at the area. west winds, 6. barometer still healding -- holding steady. and we'll look at some updated snowfall amounts for you. ,,,,,, >>> we have some breaking news to tell you about. there has been a scooter accident. been a scooter captain mike perry, what can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, this is a car versus a scooter, denise. this is in north point, baltimore county. trap road, near plainfield road. t

we have a small budget increase for nasa. >> nasa's administrator says the budget will not prevent futuren the senate hearing room to present an outline on how don't ask don't tell policy can be repe repeal repealed. our carol costello is covering this story. >> plenty of people in high places say now is not the time to talk about the issue. others say those things are precisely why this is the time. they say don't ask don't tell is costing taxpayers in dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars. with the country gripped by economic anxiety, republicans say it's not primetime to revisit such a divisive issue. >> at a time when americans are asking where are the jobs, why get in this debate? >> but those that support repealing don't ask don't tell say it's time. the general accountability office says it costs taxpayers more than $190 million. if you factor in the cost to recruit, train, and then discharge gay troops. critics say none of this justifies repealing don't ask don't tell. $363 million is a drop in the bucket. >> well, the discharge of 13,000 people is small in comparison to what t

and try to put -- nasa lot of pressure to put on the young goalie. he's a solid goalie.ayed in big playoff games. it's a lot of games to go into. ottawa is a solid team. every team they play is a solid team. >> a warmup for the second part of the season and olympics who will be joining the russian national team. allen will be back after the game. i'm keeping the seat roam send up t . l jenkins surprisia th coach a favorite in local commercials. and he's actually really, really good. >> he is. >> that does it for this edition of geico sportsnite. >> get on csnwashington we have everything you ever want to know. the capitals taking on the senators. papa john's opening faceoff. next. enjoy the game. we'll see you next time. it't cth pper knowold mus. you!of te! exc... what grndwithan

president's budget proposal ends tax cuts for the wealthy and will cut spending on programs such as nasa. >>> even before slots have opened in maryland, some state law makers are talking about table games to generate more money. state delegate frank turner told "the washington examiner" he'll file legislation to add poker, blackjack and craps to slot sites. they would require a ballot vote which means law makers would have to wait until 2012 if not done by the november election. opponents call the measure premature. they want to wait to determine the impact of slots first. >>> u.s. transportation secretary is blasting toyota for its slow realization about the scope of its vehicle safl problems. lay lahood said toyota was a little, "safety deaf" and officials needed to wake them up. the government has considered civil penalties against the car maker. the executive vice president said repair parts are on the way to dealers right now. >>> it appears the safety concerns are beginning to affect toyota sales. sales were down 8. 7% in january compared to a year ago. ford sales are up 35%. jn mo

>> i'm on the way to germantown to meet a co-worker to go to nasa and clean up snow. >> you are one of the crews we want on the road. >> we need to get on the road and it needs a little more clear and clear the sidewalks so the kids can come out and do what they have to do. >> when i started to chat with you, you told me you were waiting if oar cab. how long were you waiting for a cab. >> since 2:30. >> two hours. my goodness. i don't think that cab is coming. i don't think it is coming either. i'm going to walk to germantown and meet my co-worker. >> how long do you think it will take you to get there. >> an hour and a half, an hour. >> oh, my gosh, you are going to walk in this for an hour and a half. >> i have to get to the money. i have to pay my bills. >> that's what you have to do in these conditions. he's willing to walk in an hour and a half in the snow to get to work. what do you think of the snowfall compared to last weekend. is it not as bad as the weekend what do you think. >> we just came home from nashville, the night before last night, i think tuesday night -- no, monday

killing nasa's $100 billion plan to return astronauts there.esident wants to use the money for rocket research instead. nasa says shutting down the program will cost $2.5 billion in contract termination liability. >>> meanwhile, remember that anthem recorded by a bunch of stars, "we are the world." it's now making a comeback. ♪ >> all right. celine dion and quincy jones, dozens other stars making the classic to raise money for haiti. they're recording in the same studio where the original was done in 1985. the new version will premiere at the opening ceremony of the winter olympics later on this month. >>> the $700 billion tarp program supposed to spur banks to lend us money and keep our economy alive. but tarp special inspector general says it didn't work and it's not working. >> neil broski joins us live. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so wait a minute, this didn't work because a lot of people say if we didn't do it, the entire economy would have toppled. >> the tarp had a number of different goals. one of them was bringing -- with

what it means, this budget decides to go after nasa and take away the constellation program."time" magazine said the best invention was the ar inch es rocket. this was our problem to replace the space shuttle. i think space exploration is one of the core responsibilities of the federal government. in taking this out, what you are doing is cutting 7,000 jobs nationwide of people involved in space, engineering, math and science, which the president wants to encourage kids to study, go in, engineering, science and math but we don't have any responsibility to encourage that on the real side. where the problem comes is the people that make the motors for these rockets make the motors for our missiles. mr. akin: let me get the connect because you are building up to something here. what you're saying is there are solid rocket motors being built in america which are very high tech and being built by a particular company and used for the space program but also used for something else, is that correct? mr. bishop: in defense. mr. akin: not just space but our defense? mr. bishop: both o

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so we do have a small budget increase for nasa.ogies that will allow us to go further in space and not just repeat what we have all written in -- what we have already done, especially in a program that is behind schedule and over budget. we in the back there. >> i have a question on the bipartisan tax panel. in your past life, i think your institution was certainly involved in that and they called for looking at two sacred cows, mortgage interest deductions and employer-provided health care. some of that is addressed a little bit in the health-care bill. but looking forward, as you start this bipartisan process, it is something as sacred as that on the table? >> we put forward the proposals that we favor both on the revenue side and the spending side of the budget. the commission is not even yet formed and i think one of the important principles here is that we need to respect the work of the commission and let it do its work. and that is what we intend to do. >> some advocates of the fiscal commission, while pleased that you are g

then we will hear from a nasa administrator. the senate is not in session tomorrow. democrats can go to their annual retreat. president obama will attend the meeting and give remarks. live coverage from the museum is at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c- span2. later in the day, health and human sources secretary testifies about the hss budget request. that is life in the senate finance committee at 330 eastern -- 3:30 p.m. eastern. >> we know is darkly that market often to not work. >> this weekend, the 2008 economic collapse and the effect on the global economy. >> now senate hearing with senior intelligence officials on national security threat. we would hear from national intelligence director dennis blair put the directors of the fbi, cia, and defense intelligence agency. dianne feinstein chairs the intelligence committee. >> the hearing will come to order. the committee meet today in open session to receive a coordinated and analytic assessment of the intelligence community of the threats facing the united states. we welcome our witnesses. at the mountainous blair, the d

noaa and nasa will oversee the procurements for the nation's civil environmental monitoring means and the department of defense will do so for military needs. so this j.p. ss joint polar satellite system will continue to leverage our partnership with the air force or ground system development and operations. in addition, it will increase our focus on developing international partnerships to ensure the continuous availability of climate and weather observations. and it j.p. ss will specifically address many of of the noaa's requirements to provide global environmental davis such as cloud imagery, sea surface temperature, atmospheric profiles of temperature and moisture. data and image dream from the joint polar satellite system will improve forecasts and warnings reducing loss of life and property and benefit the industry throughout the united states. turning to other satellites efforts, a couple of highlights. we depend on the noaa satellites for a variety of data and information. the continuous flow of environmental observations supports whether and corrine forecasting, climate asses

nasa doles out $50 million to private companies.ill use the stimulus money to develop technologies and concepts for commercial spacecraft. >>> president obama wants nasa to rent space on private vehicles once the shuttle fleet is retired next year. >>> five americans being held in pakistan for allegedly planning terror attacks say they are being tortured. the claims are written on a tissue the men threw from a van window on their way to court today. they say both u.s. officials and pakistani police have tortured them. it is the second time that they have made such accusations. >>> and six more weeks of winter. are you ready for it? well, that's what punxsatawney phil's prediction is today after seeing his shadow. don't be too upset, though. cnn meteorologist chad mier says phil is right only about 40% of the time. you can label as "different." like janice. uh-huh. yeah. fashion deficient. and tom... copy incapable. it's open kimono time. looking good, dan. oh, we want to make sure all our ducks in a row. yeah. volume control syndrom

speaker, i rise today to discuss nasa funding.ling united states human space flight. this shift to the private sector is not a taxpayer savings. the federal government has already spent $9 billion on nasa's constellation program. the new budget proposes to spend an additional $2.5 billion to kill the constellation and billions more will be spent on un-- private sector entities. so we're wasting $11.5 billion to ensure that america's 50-year reign as the global leader in human space flight is over. the president's budget does not even cut nasa's funding. it simply shifts funds dedicated to actual human space flight to unproven commercial entities, forcing us to re invent the wheel on human space flight. it's not good for america's future. i urge my colleagues to join me to support efforts to restore constellation funding. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: wi

student loans, nasa, veterans programs. you name it. we'd have to cut by 60%. 6-0. >> reporter: the president also said one of the problems with trimming entitlement programs is that people like them. that's why lawmakers keep mandating cuts in medicare like reducing fees for doctors who treat medicare patients than backing down the moment seniors complain. the house killed those cuts in doctor fees last fall but simply added the $220 billion cost to the deficit. the recent healthcare reform bill also call for cutting spending in medicare by some $500 billion. but that money wasn't dedicated to make medicare stronger, but rather to pay for other things including a new entitlement permanent subsidiaries for health insurance. >> if you take the medicare cut can and apply them to creating a new entitlement before you fix medicare, how are we going to fix a medicare program? there are no ideas left. >> reporter: which gets us back to the fundamental problem. government is way better at promising things than paying for them. the day of recko

the shuttle's six astronauts will spend more than a week installing a new room and domed lookout and nasas all of the picture and information collected during the first two days of the flight indicated "endeavor" suffered no serious damage during monday's liftoff. >>> in los angeles, rain has some homeowners fleeing the foothills. 500 people have been ordered to evacuate over fears of mudslides. those who refuse to leave had to sign waivers saying they were staying at their own risk. >> toyota's problems keep growing. federal officials are looking in to complaints from corolla owners. 80 drivers have reported difficulty with steering saying cars tend to wander out of their lanes. this is after toyota already recalled 8 million cars because of faulty breaks and problems with sudden acceleration. congress was scheduled to hold hearings on those problems today but the weather has postponed the hearings. >>> it is 6:54. we'll be right back. g÷gyç i love winter. with my subaru forester and its all-wheel drive... ... handling even the toughest conditions... is just another day at the beach. >>

teeny weeny bit of shrinkage ♪ ♪ we have two wars that won't end soon so nasa can't send another mansensus, obama may have to g his way, after hours, by going through the back door spending authority. [ laughter ] back door spending authority, it's budget authority provided for in legislation that goes beyond the usual means of funding. why don't you follow along, jimmy. [ laughter ] ♪ got tget it om the back door ♪ ♪ >> if the president is going to act, he better do it quickly. ♪ passing legislation during an election year is always tricky ♪ ♪ don't need a veto or justice alito now let's pass this like a precious burrito ♪ ♪ and let the congress know that there's no time to lose and that is how we slow jam the news ♪ >> oh, yeah. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: give it up for the roots and brian willms, everybody! ♪ okay. burn it up come on ♪ ♪ hard working mr. dynamite ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: we have a great show. thank you, brian williams. we have a fun show tonight. busy this weekend. questlove, you are deejaying tomorrow at bell house in brooklyn, new york. >> ques

student loans, nasa, veterans programs, you name it, we would have to cut it by 60%. to happen. that is why we called for the commission. because we have to look at some tough, long term policy objectives. that is why we have to -- and i will personally do this -- i will say to my republican friends, i want to solve it, i don't want to play politics, but you have to step up. you have to fill these slots with this commission we are going to set up, put these people in a room and actually solve some of these problems. i hope they do. maybe i am not leaaiive. i am still counting on the notion that good policy over the long term is good politics. if you do the right thing and you explain it clearly and you do it openly, i am confident that the american people, you can have an adult conversation and say it's not going to be easy or painless, we will be struggling for a while, but our future is bright. if we show the same pretend determination the previous generations have shown, for i have every confidence that we are going to have a 21st century that will be an american c

we got ahold of video from a local denver affiliate in which he was taking part in a 2005 nasa-funded study on muscle wasting. he talked in that video about taking part in this study. listen. >> -- watch television and get paid for it dude, it's awesome. >> now, his father has also been speaking out today. he tells us that this shooter, strongeagle was haunted by columbine and in the past few weeks his behavior had become increasingly erratic. he had been yelling to imaginary friends and complaining that eating macaroni and cheese made too much noise. we understand he had a long arrest record, violence, domestic violence, and assault and, of course, now two counts of attempted murder, shep. >> shepard: eating macaroni and cheese. >> made too much noise. >> shepard: what did you say his name is. >> brocco strongeagle eastward. >> shepard: it's almost here. get ready the big health care summit in washington as they are calling it tonight, both sides are telling us what they have in mind for tomorrow's meeting. we're live in washington. that's coming up. (pouring rain) i had a great time

student loans, nasa, veterans programs; you name it. >> the president also said one of the problems withrimming entitlement programs is that people like them. that's why lawmakers keep man dating cuts in medicare like reducing fees for doctors who treat medicare patients then backing down the moment seniors complain. the house killed those cuts in doctor fees last fall but simply added the 220 billion in costs to the deficit. the recent health care reform bills call for spending in medicare by some 500 billion but that money wasn't dedicated to make stronger but pay for other things including a new entitlement, permanent subsidies for health insurance. >> if you take those medicare cuts and apply them to creating a new entitlement before you fix medicare, how are we going to fix the medicare program? they are basically no ideas left. >> which gets us back to the fundamental problem. government is way better at promising things than it is at paying for them. and the day of reckoning is getting closer. >> shepard: jim angle in our washington newsroom tonight. thank you. sending people into

know wu proposes increase 9.5 million for refurbishment of existing nasa satellite, discover. this will allow noaa to receive vital data which can help anticipate and mitigate geomagnetic storm damage of one to $2 trillion. and finally, program support. to deliver sound science and sound services, noaa must continue to invest in its information technology, infrastructure, the quality and construction of noaa facilities and the recapitalization and maintenance of our fleet. within this broad category of program support, i have highlighted two, the pacific region center and noaa facility construction. noaa needs to continue replacing key facilities to insure employee safety and maintain mission continuity. the budget includes a total of 14 million for the pacific regional center which brings together all the noaa programs on oahu. while the ara fund helped, while the ara helped fund the basic construction of this facility, additional funding is needed in 2011 to procure and install the information technology infrastructure for the new facility. and i have highlighted miller free

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nasa moon walker, alien coverup.tly there was a story about how anderson cooper was allegedly adopting a haitian baby. does that factor in at all? >> it does in the real world. because people say the enquirer is trashy and we are going to give the enquirer the most prestigious award in journalism? to a trashy paper that writes about the loch ness monster? except in this case. that's the only thing that matter. in this case they did what the big important mainstream newspapers should have done. they humiliated the "new york times" and they humiliated "the washington post" and the "boston globe" and the "l.a. times." they uncovered the story before the others. john edwards could have been president. could have been vice president. could have been attorney general an was a phoney and a liar. give credit'"national enquirer" even though they do those goofy stories. no one is giving them aaward for those stories. but for this ones they should be considered. megyn: october 2007 the enquirer first published the story that wa

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nasa shut down program. here is how it looks. >> critical functions from here on out. t-see -10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 2, 10. booster ignition. lift off of endeavor. >> on track to flight to international space station. 28 seconds into the flight. endeavor is flying at a leaven hundred miles per hour. that is according to onboard computers. and never's -- endeavor engines are going down. endeavor, go at throttle. throttle up. >> the three-man engines are up. it is flying at 1,800 miles per hour. as 11.5 miles down range. that left off, the boosters weighed 4.5 million pounds. all systems continue to function well. three good main engines, three good power generated fuel tanks. the next step will be the burned out and separation of the rocket boosters. they provide 5.3 million pounds of thrust to propel the order tour toward space. >> performance is as expected thus far. take a little minutes 19 seconds into the flight -- two minutes, 19 seconds into the flight. the officer confirms that the engines are firing, providing endeavor with an extra boost to orbit. >> space shuttle

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serious concerns, you will hear today from eddie and rhonda smith, of severeville, tin nasa, toyota customersho had a bad experience with their products and these are very tough times for toyota today. bill: what about the u.s. government agency, responsible for watching over the auto industry? how will that fare in this, brian? >> reporter: listen, that is the question that has not really been focused on a great deal. sure there are many questions about toyota, there are also questions about how the government has responded, how the government negotiates these kinds of recalls, with the automakers. i mean, there is -- these agencies, gnanhtsa is supposed be a watchdog agency and some on capitol hill believe the watchdog had become a lap dog and had become too friendly with automakers, bill. bill: thanks for that and watch for us inside the hearing room and in 20 minutes, neil cavuto is with us in new york to tell us what it means in the end, thank you, brian, here's martha. martha: demanding answers on what ledded to a catastrophic train derailment, day one of federal hearings on the deadly

we believe in the future of space flight and that nasa can spike -- can inspire americans to decide toegin vances' -- scientific advances. development and find those new technologies that will i actually allow us to go further in space and not just repeat what we have already done, especially for a program that is behind schedule and over budget. [> your past life, and your institution certainly was involved in that, and he called for looking at two sacred cows, mortgage rate deduction and health care, some of that is addressed in the health care bill. but looking forward as you start this bipartisan process, is >> izod said before, we put before you -- we put together the budgets we were looking at and we have to respect the work of the commission and let it do its work. that is what we intend to do. fiscal commission, while pleased that you are going in that direction, would like to see more from the)sw administrationd -- and then just tough talk about choices that will be necessary. it was there any consideration when you put the boating -- the budget together paying for some of the

justice, labor, state, treasury and the corps of engineers, the environmental protection agency, gsa, nasand national science foundation, small business administration and the social security administration combined. combined. in just four years the interest that the government will have to pay on our federal debt will be more than it spends on the departments of agriculture, commerce, education, energy, health and human services, hud, interior, justice, labor, state, treasury and the corps of engineers, the environmental protection agency, gsa, nsa, national science foundation, small business administration and the social security administration. combined. the nat will have an opportunity to write a new budget this year. our leader on the issue, senator gregg on the matter and we need to get our budget in order. i'll have much more to say on the individual pieces of this blueprint including the administration's priorities on our national and homeland security. but now it's crystal clear that this budget is more spending, more taxes, and more debt. more spending, more taxes and more debt.

, labor, state, treasury, and the corps of engineers, the environmental protection agency, g.s.a., nasa national science foundation, small business administration and the social security administration combined. combined. in just four years the interest that the government will have to pay on our federal debt will be more than it spends on the departments of agriculture, commerce, education, energy, health and human services, h.u.d., interior, justice, labor, state, treasury and the corps of engineers, the environmental protection agency, g.s.a., nasa, small business administration and the social security administration combined. the senate will have an opportunity to write a new budget this year. our leader on this issue, senator gregg, will have much more to say on the matter as we work to do what so many americans are doing, and that is to get our budget in order. and i'll have much more to say on the individual pieces of this blueprint, including the administration's priorities on our national and homeland security. but now it's crystal clear that this budget is more spending, more