for nasa, fema, dod and state. who has the overall responsibility? i was wondering who in this administration who has the single responsibility to oversee these other dvds? >> nasa has the over gene responsibility. on the question of mitigation, who would have the responsibility if an asteroid were discovered on a collision course would be the asteroid and the amount of notice we had. for some missions, you would want nasa to be in charge. further deflection missions, you would want beauty to be in charge. it does not make sense from the mitigation mission to specify in advance which agency would do it. the notification responsibilities are unambiguous. >> so when there is mitigation, duality come together? who takes the lead? what determines who takes the lead? >> we would all come together and we are in fact exercising those kinds of communications. as an exercise coming up in the middle of next month we will exercise those communications of the exercise responsibilities. there's a workshop coming up at the begie

nasa officials participated in a conference where they discussed causes and nasa's safety procedures.ome, everyone to the george washington university school of public policy and aiaa workshop on the columbia, lessons learned. we're pleased everyone can be here. we thank scott pace and george washington university for hosting us near this facility, and right off the bat we'd like to thank our sponsors without whom we wouldn't be able to do this so lockheed martin, mike haws and mary smith. boeing, pat, jeff, and bill are here. and david king and pratt and whitney, and in particular jim maizer who will not be here but is very active in aiaa as a member of the membership commitee. susan and doug. thank you very much for your support today. we appreciate it. we think this is going to be a great event. we have a really great program for you. and so why are we here today? the columbia accident, like the challenger accident before it, it burned into our memories. i have no doubt every person in this room remembers where exactly you were and what you were doing when you got the news that the

one is doug cook who was a nasa adviser commesso nasa person dealing with technical issues. and we have dr. john with us in the space policy institute and he was a member of the columbia investigation board who came in to the board membership after it was formed as it was realized that there were other deep organizational institution issues that needed to be looked at in the course of the investigation. without further ado, doctor? >> thanks, scott. i not the best person to describe the day-by-day operations of the columbia board, because i joined a month after it started operations. and with the admiral's permission since most of the work i was doing had to do with what was going on in washington, i based my investigations year rather than hanging out with the people in houston as they went about their technical work. but i heard enough about what went on. some of it i will talk about, not all. so, what do i push here? in one of the slides this morning, the point made that one of the things happened after challenger was the development of contingency plans should there be a

the aims nasa facility science center as well.he obama administration program, literally hundreds of chinese nationals are gaining access to some of our most sensitive and advanced technology and data. >> they are, and some of the information given to me as to where he had an office and what was available to them -- and keep in mind he has already taken one laptop, one computer back to china. they already have a lot of the information. much of the game that china has made in space has become from their stealing. much of their economic gain has come from stealing. not only in national security but an issue of jobs. as we create a job, they're taking it out of the bottom of stealing it. they're basically stealing. these are fundamentally people who do not wish america well. lou: in his instance he was a representative of -- well, he is hardly alone in this effort to spite, to carry out an espionage against the united states. there are other, some estimated 200 chinese nationals who may not have security clearances in and of themselv

we know that nasa is looking at this.we know that there a couple of private sector opportunities that people have come to us with proposals. we are very interested in the ability to do more in space robotically. that's because it would be, for example, we had a satellite that would have a couple years ago. one of the antennas didn't open which meant that half the revenue for the life of the satellite was lost. had you been able to go, grab a satellite and just tweak that antenna a little bit, you could probably save the entire mission. so we think the technology is there today, and perhaps this is a good opportunity or another hearing. we know that darpa has some forward lean programs that they're working on. and it is a techno- geek that we in the private sector support fully and want to participate in the government on. so it's a valuable thing. that technology would also allow you at a minimum to remove very large pieces of debris from the most useful orbits. >> senator cruz, anything? >> just want to thank all four of

we are acting like nasa ignored this problem triet nasa did not ignore this problem. they redesigned the ramp, they redesigned stuff, they tried all the time to stop foam from coming off but they couldn't do it. secure i am. on the guy that has plenty of engineers to be studied this problem. i know all about it. i go to the flight readiness review a and say you know it's probably going to come off and hit the shuttle again to i don't know what to do about it except to ground the shuttle to get okay what is the answer to that? you want to shut the program downfield pfft because we can't stop the foam from coming off? the only thing i can say is that what we were upset about in this particular report is the risks were not being properly analyzed and briefed. they were being ignored. once you know the risk if you decide to go ahead with the known risks, then you are doing it in an informed way and this was not the case here. >> let me have a little perspective from one point of view on the cost and schedule. >> it was one of the articles as i was growing up in the organi

another aspect in my perspective is that i ended up before i left nasa as i did leave nasa i was in explorationat nasa headquarters which included the programs that came out of the cade experience in the accident these were the programs that follow to be the next programs in the human spaceflight. for seated me as well as a couple of others but i was the last one. and so i have the constellation program. i have been the space launch system and orion and human research program and some technology efforts. so that is my experience and so all of this experience then does relate to where we are today and i want to talk just a bit about that. i want to play a film, a short film. scott showed a little bit of that earlier. this is miraculous and there were a lot of things that were miraculous including all the people involved. but this piece of film as i remember was found lying on the ground by itself, not in the camera, just the film itself. >> don't forget about the -- >> we are checking that. >> columbia houston. we will take item 27 please. >> up code shoot. >> it looks good. >> i went back to au

wolf believes that this lax security culture at nasa may be a problem at many other nasa centers.r a full independent review of their security procedures. bill: got to keep a good eye on the piracy. doug mckelway, thank you. live in washington for us there. martha: all right. back to this breaking news story right now. syria's state-run news agency claims that rebels have killed 25 people in a chemical attack in northern syria. opposition forces are denying those claims. they are blaming assad's government for that missile attack in aleppo. conor powell joins us now live from jerusalem. he has been on this story for quite some time. conor, what are you hearing about which side is to blame here so far? >> reporter: well, martha, we're hearing conflicting accounts of what happened and who was responsible for using chemical weapons but it does appear based on reports coming out of syria and also western intelligence sources that chemical weapons have been used in and around the province of aleppo. this is a northern area that has been heavily fought over for the last two years betwee

another aspect of my perspective is that i ended up before i left nasa, as i did leave nasa, i was, aoration at nasa headquarters which included the programs that came out of the caib experience and the accident. these are the programs that followed to be the next programs in human space flight. so doc preceded me as scott horowitz preceded me as well as a couple others, but i was the last one. and so i had the constellation program, i had then-space launch system at o rye on -- orion and some technology efforts. so that's my experience. so all of this experience then does relate to where we are today, and i'm going to talk just a bit about that. um, i want to play a film, short film. scott showed a little bit of it earlier. this is miraculous. there are a lot of things that were miraculous about entire effort including all the people involved. but this piece of film, as i remember, was found lying on the ground by itself not in a camera, but the film itself. see if it goes. >> and don't forget about the stuff on page 3-44. >> we're checking out. we've got -- [inaudible] working throu

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right now it is rebooted to back up computer which nasa calls its safe mode. curiosity can not explore and analyze sample such as the poyrd it found from drilling a rock last month. nasa believes the computer error was caused by high energy cosmic ray that struck the computer. nasa has not said we know curiosity will get back to the search for life on mars. but amaze what they can to from so far away. >> new research suggest the gas spewed from volcano on earth may help mask the effects of global warming. university of colorado researchers found the sulfur dioxide emitted by volcano create barrier of particle that lean the stratosphere. that helps block sunlight and cools the earth. researchers warn despite the positive effects volcano emission will not counter balance global warming. human activist warming the earth at far faster rate than that. >>> research issues in australia have wild theory about how to save endangered rhino right now there are about 5000 black rhino and 20,000 white rhino left on earth. that's it. they are currently being poached at such

this is dependent on nasa in contrast to the across-the- board cuts that nasa programs now face under. chairman, i am struck by how this complex issue is and how much farther we need to go and i look forward to today's testimony. ld.h that, i yie -- without objection, opening statements will be made part of the record. our first witness is the honorable john holdren. he serves as the director of the office of science and technology policy, the assistant to the president for science and technology, and cochair of the council of advisors on science and technology. prior to his appointment, he was a professor at the kennedy school of government and the department of earth science at harvard. mr. holdren graduated with degrees in aerospace engineering and theoretical plasma physics. shelton is the commander of united states air force, space command. prior to assuming his current position, he was the assistant vice chief of staff and the director of the air staff at the the pentagon. he currently organizes and mccains titian ready space and cyberspace forces and capabilities for the north

this one involving nasa.hinese national, a contractor with virtually unlimited access at the space agency's langley research facility in virginia. he was trying to board a one-way flight back home to his country at the time. live from washington with more, doug? >> reporter: the only reason that authorities were alerted to the potential espionage and arrest, is through the efforts of whistle blowers. who alerted frank wolf's suspect's suspicious behavior. it turned out they were ignorant or willfully naive of what was going on. he was a chinese national working under contract at nasa's national institutes of aerospace on sensitive imaging technology. and fbi and dhs arrested him at dulles airport after he purchased a one way ticket to china. he told agents he was carrying a laptop, a cell phone and external hard drive, but a search later turned up more, including a second laptop belonging to nasa. congressman wolf is concerned that nasa has turned a blind eye to potential espionage by chinese nationals. >> i'

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nasa. go. >> all right. nasa, he is cutting the mars mission from $587 million to 361. >> bill: slowing down the spending. not cutting. >> we can debate whether or not that's a cut or not. >> bill: you can't. >> federal spending has risen -- let me just say. this federal spending has risen under every president going back to eisenhower. >> bill: but nowhere near on the level of president obama. >> slowest rate of spending since eisenhower. >> bill: president obama is the biggest spending president and has spent more money than any other president combined washington up to bush the younger second year. >> that's not a fair metric. rate of spending increase. lowerrer than any president since eisenhower. >> that's crazy. >> bill: you support the mars menu. >> i support nasa. >> bill: you support the mars menu. >> i brought you a few dishes. >> bill: yes or no? >> yes. >> bill: colmes wants the mars member venue. >> bill: this is preparing for mission to mars. >> space missions have created all kinds of jobs and

chang was on an earlier occasion allowed by nasa supervisors to take his work and other nasa researchk to china. hard to believe, jenna. jenna: interesting. you said really there was one whistleblower that brought this to the congressman's attention, so is nasa doing anything now to crack down on this sort of thing? >> reporter: you know, authorities at the langley research center apparently moved quickly, according to wolf, to review security protocols, but nasa is slower to do so. when officials learned of the behavior, one of them wrote in an internal e-mail, quoting now: >> r eporter: wolf is asking for an independent review of all of nasa's security protocols. jenna? jenna: we'll stay on this story, doug, thank you. >> reporter: sure thing. jon: new reaction as the former sec secretary of state, hillary clinton, takes a new stand on a key social issue generating more buzz about her political future. less than two months after leaving the state department, mrs. clinton stepped back into the national spotlight, releasing a recorded video announcement saying that she now supports sa

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comentaremos que ante la noticia de que se acerca un nuevo asteroide a la tierra representantes de la nasaercero más común en mayores de 50 años pero con exámenes perventivos se podrían salvar vidasa. >> y en nuestro espacio salud es vida se analizaron más de 1000 productos que van dirigidos a los niños demostraron tener 70% más de sodio de lo normal y eso derivaria en hipertensión-. >> y en directivo de la nasa ante la pregunta de que pueda venir otro asteroide dijeron que deberíamos rezar porque no hay fondos para las investigaciones pero que eso no ocurrira en mucho tiempo. >> y vamos con el clima con guillermo quiroz. >> hola ¿qué tal? bienvenidos les comento que tienen que tener cuidado por los fuertes vientos que tendremos (información en pantalla) y en lampa tedremos aire fresco que se viene del norte estaremos en los 64 mañana fresco (información en pantalla) en el primer fin de semana de primaver fresco también y la próxima semana podríamos tener precipitaciones (información en pantalla) el viento en san josé continúa cuidado con el viento en la región. mañana más detalles nos vem

nasa scientists say the red planet may once have been habitable. they say their rover curiosity has found the ingredients to nurture life and evidence of a vast amount of water. >> i think we have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life that probably if this water was around and you had been on the planet you would have been able to drink it. >> curiosity drilled last month in search of rock. nasa scientists used the vehicle's observation instruments to analyze the samples. they identified sulfur, nitrogen, phosphorus. some of the chemical ingredients for life. they always found the area the rover searched had a vast amount of water and was almost ph neutral as water is on earth. curiosity landed on mars last august after a 36-week journey through space. scientists are operating the rover by remote control. they've spent the past seven months looking for any trace of life on the red planet where the surface temperature can drop below minus 120 degrees celsius. curiosity transmitted clear pictures of mars' terrain soon

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nasa chief charles bolden was on capitol hill yesterday. he said a small meteor that injured more than a thousand people in russia could have been detected, even deflected, if the right equipment was in place. he says the u.s. needs new outer space telescopes with infrared technology to track meteors because right now there's not much we can do. >> if you detected even a small one, like the one that they did in russia, headed for new york city in three weeks, what would we do? >> the answer to you is if it's coming in three weeks, pray. >> reporter: now, that meteor was only 55 feet long. experts say the chances of a major catastrophe from that is slim but are very real now. there are roughly 10,000 small meteors floating around within range of earth, all of those capable of destroying a major u.s. city. john and diana. >> whoa. scary stuff. all right. devin dwyer in washington for is this morning, thank you. >>> the mayor of kansas city, missouri, must have felt like he had been hit by a meteor as he delivered the state of the city address

nasa has turned to private companies to reach orbit and one of those commercial missions, an unmanned cargo flight to the space station, had to be fixed in orbit today. bill whitaker followed the launch. >> three, two, one. >> reporter: the launch of the commercial space-x craft "the dragon" was picture perfect. the separation from its first and second-stage rockets went off without a hitch. but nine minutes into the unmanned flight, a serious problem struck. >> we are working to bring up the other two pods. >> reporter: three of four thruster pods failed. without the thrusters to steer it through space "dragon" couldn't reach the international space station. engineers on the ground worked feverishly. >> there's added pressure to get it right. >> reporter: bill nye is an aerospace engineer best known for promoting space education. he's a strong proponent of commercial space missions. it is a serious problem for commercial space exploration. >> you don't want to have problems in commercial space because there are -- there is an army of people who don't believe in this commercial space

the part reforms that are examining nasa outputs all the time. so i guess i would just leave you with that. whenever you want to show -- i wish i had the good shuttle launch image that i guess it was ken bowersox showed a little while ago, because, you know, if you want to show, if you want to show an image of culture, you show a french horn. if you want to show an image of american strength and innovation and scientific capacity and the indomitable human spirit, you show an image of a shuttle launch. i mean, you see that all the time. so so whatever we can learn about the program that we can apply to the next kinds of program, um, are important. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. and we'd like to invite, invite questions or comments from the audience. >> you really brought out something that i i had on my mind that i was going to ask about anyway, but i'm going to ask it. we've been talking a lot about the past, and i'm very concerned about where we're going to go in the future. and we were at a point in constellation, which i had supported als

nasa continues to make daily progress on this goal. extreme space weather is another threat being studied by nasa. space weather refers to the conditions on the sun in the solar wind and in the near-earth environment. our ability to understand the sun/earth system is of grow withing importance to our nation's economy and national security. the electric power industry is susceptible to geomagnetically induced currents which can overload unprotected power grids and result in widespread power outages. in the spacecraft industry, intense geomagnetic storms have the capacity to disrupt normal operations such as satellite communication and, of course, they pose risks to our astronauts in space. in addition, space weather can cause irregularities in the signals from our very important global positioning system. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, or noaa, is the official source for space weather predictions for the nation. several of nasa's research satellites have become an essential part of our nation's space weather predic

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group thank you for your time well in the quest to save government money nasa shuttle program was one of the first programs to be put on the back burner as a result the u.s. is increasingly reliant on commercial space companies to carry supplies to the international space station the private company space x. has been the go to group to rocket supplies into space as of late and they did it once again today. but the ride wasn't exactly as smooth as it could have been shortly after liftoff the company's unmanned dragon capsule its experienced a host of problems lost power in three of its four maneuvering thrusters and that prevented it the capsule from releasing its solar panels was actually running on battery power for a period of time now over six hours after this launch it appears that the mission is finally back on track space x. has since gotten for the four thrusters back on line that went offline and it looks like the cast will will dock with the i s s after all just a little behind schedule it was supposed to dock on sunday now this is the first major problem the company has face

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. >> coming up next a discovery from nasa rover on mars. >> new signs the red planet might have the r >>> nasa announced a break through in the search fr live on mars and some research was done here in the bay area. more now from mountain view. it's been seven months since the rover landed on mars as depicted in this animation. now, for the first time, scientists have used the tiny drill... and discovered what is beneath the surface isn't red. >> when we drill just inches down into the ground, the ground went from red to gray. amazing. >> more is mazing is what the onboard x ray found. >> a near neutral environment and slightly salty liquid water. all needed to support live. >> in a announcement nasa scientists showed off the findings that 3.5 billion years ago mars likely had an environment sim tloor present day earth that could have supported live. >> showed not only water but fresh enough that microbes would have a easy live of living there eefdz live on mars would have been possible. scientists have their work cut out for them to figure out if that life ever existed. >> this is sa

fortunately, nasa's on this one. they have scrambled to improve our asteroid detection program. because, evidently, their previous asteroid program hasn't been updated since the 1980s. [laughter] i was good. i was really good. [ laughter ] so clearly, nasa now has a laser-like focus on preventing cataclysmic meteor strikes. so let's check in with the actual footage they released yesterday from the international space station-- the first and only line of defense against terror from the sky. >> so what we're going to do, we're gonna open up our tortilla, get our peanut butter, squirt it on the tortilla, get the honey squirt that on there, and we will have a peanut butter and honey sandwich in space. hmm-- not too bad. [laughter] >> stephen: oh well. it's like the old saying, the world ends not with a bang, but with a light snack. [laughter] nation, four years ago-- thanks to obama's socialist policies-- the new york stock exchange bottomed out at less than 6500. but today-- no thanks to obama's socialist policies-- the dow is back! >> a history-making day on wall street. >> the do

nasa officials say the flash appears be a single meteor event. there were reported sitings from maine to south carolina. >>> nothing here, though. nice calm weather going on tonight. leigh glaser has a check of the forecast. >> leigh: certainly do a few high clouds overhead, that's it. all that live doppler hd is picking up. a few near san jose and a stream across the north bay throughout the course of the day. here you can see from the high definition east bay cam looking over the bay, you can see a few of the high cloud out there but didn't keep temperatures down too much. santa rosa, the high was 69. concord, 69. 68 in livermore. right now, live shots from our high definition roof top cam. the embarcadero of sap frearntion seeing a little bit of a milky sky. san francisco, 59 degrees. 57 in san carlos. a of hamp moon -- half moon bay, 63. another look towards the bay bridge, san francisco in the background. santa rosa, 66. so, the forecast highlights include those high clouds that will stay with us off and on tonight. it will be a cool evening

like our -- nasa better. he was one of my guys and he was a joy that would illuminate a room when he walked in. i miss him terribly to this day and similar stories could be told about all of these wonderful folks. this may surprise some of you coming from the safety guy, but i want to pose the question this morning. how safe is safe enough? but i don't want to come at it a from the perspective of more safety. those wonderful explorers that expanded our worlds, wouldn't have left home in anle environment of over arching safety. the pursuit of great reward comes hand-in-hand with risk. it is this relationship between risk and reward that has to be appreciated. are we today, at nasa and as a nation too risked a vorse? i think so. -- a verse? i think so. we are supportive of accepting more risk if we recognize it as what it is and the rewards that are associated with it. very, very acceptable. unacceptable is to accept more risk and from tend you're not. certainly it has constituted today recognizes it is not lin

water, probably in the form of a mud. >> nasa played a key role in the rover project. parachutes were tested in wind tunnels at mofet field. this is an exciting find and it proves their hard work has paid off. >> the instrument is just working beautifully. it's a credit to the very talented team that worked hard on not only making this stuff, but making it robust and making it work in this very difficult environment. >> scientists plan on exploring more on the planet in the coming weeks. there is talk about sending humans there, but it's a challenge. it takes three days to get to the moon, but it would take six months to get to mars. reporting from mountain view, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a new analysis shows apple's majority rule could disappear. the report claims that apple share of the mobile market will drop from 51% last year to 46% this year. and that android devices will grow from 42% to 49% of the market. an analyst says that's mostly due to the popularity of smaller tablets using google's operating system. >> a $7 million system with 38 states in a data collect

. >>> the epa has ordered nasa to clean up moffet field. the epa says nasa needs to take immediate long-term action to clean up the contaminated soil. the state and the epa will monitor that cleanup. >> in san francisco today, a 162nd annual st.~patrick's day parade marched to the civic center. ♪ >> carolyn: flouts and bagpipes, community groups, soccer teams, walked proudly through the civic center. it was time for the wearing of the green, on a day when everyone is irish, especially someone from ireland. >> ireland is 6,000 miles away, and he is a little irish-american, so it's nice to come out here, see everybody celebrating, and also just knowing that irish culture and the people get celebrated worldwide. >> the official separation st.~patrick's day is tomorrow and because some people celebrate much the police will be out in force this weekend on dui patrol. check points begin tonight and run until 3:00 in the morning. authorities are urging people to plan a safe way home, and designate a sober driver while leaving your keys at home. th

based on the same technology nasa's been studying for over 20 years to promote cell growth and healing in space, newsweek magazine hails, light therapy "can boost the body's own natural healing process." cbs news in los angeles reports, "navy seals use light therapy in the field daily..." light relief uses medical grade light emitting diodes or leds to create a safe powerful stream of warm therapeutic healing light that penetrates deep, opening capillaries, increasing circulation, relieving pain where you need it, when you need it. imagine pain relief without messy creams and gels, prescriptions, pills, injections or refills. and the only side effect is how good light relief makes you feel. it's great for back pain, arthritis,

nasa stated that this happens every 100 years or so.lly do global spreading happens every thousand years. nasa stated if they're not able to predict but they just want to be ready for it. this is why they're talking about to get something put together. >> the time is 5:52 a.m.. we will be right back in a few minutes. >> welcome back. the time is 5:56 a.m.. a group of peace activists in kansas are protesting with paint. if check out the colors on this at topeka, kan. home. there is a message behind this rainbow and it is directed at the homes across the street neighbors, but westbound were baptist churchthe westboro baptist church. the charges known for protest the military and gay fumaroles with inflammatory signs. >> the time now is 557. coming up on kron 4 morning news. we are keeping an eye out on a rain that will stick around for the day. erica is tracking today's forecast at when we will see some springlike weather. >> a preschool is

the nasa folks who study such things called the big meteor city killers, and they say there is nothing we can do to avoid them. listen to the head of nasa who was asked, what if we had three weeks' notice one headed for times square? >> if it's coming in three weeks, pray. >> reporter: his remarks caused fear and trepidation on city streets, oaks, kay, at least am our staff members on a starbucks run. it affects everybody and as we head into this easter weekend, have you been warned officially. next week we want to let you know an important new development in a story you first heard on that this broadcast, about three deaths and serious problems at a narcanon drug treatment facility in oklahoma. if you saw the initial reporting, you know this facility is linked to the church of scientology and after seeing harry smith's report, two former executives have stepped forward and making some powerful claims. >> i personally would never recommend to anybody that they should send their loved one to narcanon. >> they go to great length at quieting people. they aren't going to do that with me. >

nasa's chief provided this answer. >> the bottom line as always, the funding did not come.'s anybody's fault, we all know what we're facing today. and we're all sitting here today as the congress and the administration try to figure out sequestration, something that never should have happened, nobody planned to happen, but we're facing it today. so the answer to you is, if it's coming in three weeks, pray. >> that's reassuring. >> lovely. >> houston, we have a budget problem. chad myers, is the sky falling? >> it isn't falling. we don't know anything that's headed our way just yet. that's good news. nasa says they know where 95% of these big asteroids are, that concerns me that they don't know where the other 5% are. and the ones that came across and hit russia, they know where 10% of those are. i don't like those odds. when there's a 10% chance of rain, that means it's probably not going to rain, but there's a 90% chance of something else, right? >> right. >> we don't know where almost 20,000 of these bigger than bus-size rocks are. they're out there flying around. and it'

nasa's voyager space one space craft hovering near the solar system.that voyager has become the first man made object to go off the grid entirely. nasa launched voyager 1 way back in 1977. the idea to explore the outer planet. this week scientists at a top research journal reported that the space craft recently detected major changes in radiation. consistent with the escape -- with escaping influence of our sun. a scientist on the voyager project says no it's likely still in our solar system, at least for now. still the space craft is way out there. some 11 billion miles from earth. think of it. and along the way it's captured some the clearest pictures of nuclear weapon tune, saturn and jupiter's great red spot. folks can now tweet about voyager or whatever they want because seven years ago today a web developer typed a sentence about what he was doing and posted it online. of course, we're talking twitter. which today celebrates its 7th birthday. second grade. the social media site's founder says he got the idea from emergency dispatchers who communi

what nasa says we can do. if anything. what nasa says we can do. i invited justin over for lunch. good. no, not good. he's a vegetarian and he's going to be here in 20 minutes! don't stress. we can figure this out. [ male announcer ] get the speed to make a great first impression. call today to get u-verse high speed internet for as little as $14.95 a month for 12 months with a one-year price guarantee. this is delicious. ♪ [ male announcer ] save the day in an instant. at&t. ♪ >> catherine: today marks ten years since the start of the war in iraq. in san francisco, veterans against the war gathered outside the federal building. they used chalk to mark the names of those who died in the conflict. they also reminded people that although the war has officially ended. the veterans who fought there - along with iraqis - are still dealing with the war's aftermath. america's third-longest war remains unpopular. check out this poll taken by c-n-n this week. only four out of ten americans now believe it was a smart decision to invade iraq. six out of ten s

nasa's administrator told the u.s.e money to develop technology to find smaller asteroids flying around in space like infrared sensing telescope. the smaller objects pose greater threats because they are harder to detect. today's hearing comes about a month after a meteor exploded over russia injuring more than a thousand people. the general who heads the air force space command said the u.s. detected that event as it happened but not as the meteor approached earth. when somebody asked about the ability of the u.s. to spot incoming missiles. the general suggested a different forum would be the appropriate place for that discussion. meanwhile, nasa scientists say another computer glitch has signed the mars recovery curiosity. it entered safe mode over the weekend after some sort of software error. they still have contact with the thing but right now it cannot zap rocks and take pictures. even roam around on 00 red planet. second reported set back this month. a couple of weeks ago engineers discovered a problem with curi

. >> the latest rock sample from nasa's mars recovery suggests the red planet could have supported livingicrobes. nasa researchers, including a team from ames found sulpher and hydrogen and oxygen compounds in the sample which found clay minerals indicating that water was once present. it could provide great insight into what occurred there. at university avenue, downtown palo alto, it will close with businesses open. crews are based on a reality tv show, and the six programmers are trying to strike it rich in silicon valley. >> let's look at the sunshine. >> it is sunny down there. we are waiting for ours. it is coming. you can see it is breaking through. >> we will talk about what is going on at 11:19 and live doppler 7 hd shows how dry it is with the marine layer of clouds and fog, nothing measurable falling. can you see how thin it is getting in emeryville. we will talk temperatures if you are stepping out we are in the mid-50's in san francisco, oakland, and san jose, and palo alto and mill valley, and check out walnut creek where it has been sunny and 64. this is how it looks in san