as the head n of nasa. and that space professional ought to behn technically and scientifically competent and the skilled executive. more importantly, the administrator must be a leader who has the ability to bring us together to unite scientists and engineers and commercial space interests, and policymakers and the public on a shared vision for future space exploration. and as you know we have set the goal first with the obama administration, and now with the trump administration, our goal is going to mars in the decade of the 2030s. and what pains me, mr. president, is that i believe that the onene who has been nominated to head this, not partisan, not bipartisan, nasa has always been nonpartisan, and to head this agency, i'm afraid we are hittingrd a different standard. my concern comes from having witnessed very directly that tragic consequence when nasa leadership has failed us. when it comes to the ultimate frontier of space, there are always going to bee risks involved, but the nasa administrator bea

ie final piece we bring, when say nasa, the entire team, all industrye nasa team, partners, academia, the folks involved in this. spotlight fora inspiration and leadership. i think, i'm going to steal a tory, a young man walked up jack and goes, i have a photograph signed when i was 10 years old. he says i will always remember that a view on the moon. it inspired me to be in this community. that is what we do. at does not happen very often. discoveries, the knowledge we gain is something nasa can bring to an overall view for the nation and the globe. i go back to when neil armstrong and buzz landed on the moon. if you look above the fold, when we had newspapers, the headlines were we did it. all over the world. was not nasa. it was the globe. a global endeavor. that leadership is important because we live in a time when we talk about what we can't do more than what we can do. do. is something we can when we brought that to the administration, they got into what we were talking about and accepted a lot of those tenants and gave us the charge to come back and bring a plan to get back to

the question, should nasa be reorganized or should a nasa space exploration agency be created? i prefer the former. either way, the responsible agency should have the sole objective of implementation of the president's space policy triktive. essential infreedent of implementation and success of that implementation i think will be defined after the success of apollo after initial difficulty. what was the recipe? geo political imperative, and there was a single minded focus by nasa, a reservoir of young engineers and skilled workers who, seemingly work 16-hour days and eight-day weeks. as near as i can tell, that is what we're doing there. is a necessary base of technology that arose from world war ii from the cold war, and of course, from many remarkable innovations by nasa and it's industrial partners. there was presidential support through four administrations. particularly beginning with the icen hower administration and bipartisan support of the congress. kennedy provided articulate leadership to get things started. johnson carry that had on. and nixon did not cancel it as w

nasa administrator has been well qualified and noncontroversial. but that partisanship that has invadedie far too many areas of government in society today. until now. the nasa nominee nominated to head after last fall the hearing in the senate commerce committee is the most contentious i have ever been a part of. he was voted out of the o committee and senators on both sides of the aisle have expressed doubt publicly and privately on qualifications for the job. the nasa administrator should be a consummate face professional. that is what the senator want, a face professional not a politician. as the head of nasa. that space professional should be technically and scientifically competent. in the administrator must be a leader who has the ability to bring us together scientists and engineers and policymakers on a shared vision for future space exploration. and as you know to set the goal with the obama administration and now with the trump administrationng our goal is going to mars during the decade. but what pains me mr. president is that the one t

model after nasa of 1969. as a note of proof that focus brings results, between september of 196 and november of 1969, that's "apollo" 7 through "apollo" 12 beginning 50 years ago this year, nasa and its contractors and suppliers and 450,000 young men and women, mostly in their 20s launched a saturn 5 class mission every two months. thank you, i'd be happy to take any questions. >> we have again a few minutes for questions and. >> reporter: the current age of civil servants in the agency is 47 to 48 so my question to you is. [ inaudible question ] how does nasa or another agency recruit and retain young people that seem to want to seek gratificati gratification. >> well, i guess my first thought is that you won't have any problem doing that if you push forward and get this program going. my experience in the universities and the high schools is that the jung people will flock to nasa. nasa -- talk to a -- to bob cabana about hiring people. he has young people clamoring to work for nasa. i asked him that specif

nasa is a science agency. its mission is to advance science, aeronautics, and space exploration, and to enhance economic vitality, and stewardship of the planet. that's the mission. that's why past nasa administrators have been accomplished leaders in the fields of government, aviation, and science. the nasa administrator in president obama's administration was charles bolden. he has a master of science degree. he was an astronaut and a commanding general in the united states air force. president george w. bush had two administrators during his presidency. michael griffin was a physicist and an aerospace engineer who helped to design missile defense technology satellites early in his career. sean o'keefe was an engineer in the navy who worked on nuclear submarines. before leaving nasa he served as deputy director of o.m.b., secretary of the navy and comptroller for the department of defense. daniel golden was a mechanical engineer who had previously been a vice president at a space and technology company. he w

i mentioned before nasa has sent 12 men to the moon. we may be on track for the first wellcome to plant -- for the first woman to plant her feet on mars. we women to strive for high careers in stem careers regardless of where they are from or who they love or what color their skin is. sending someone like representative bridenstine to lead our nation's space agency would send the absolute wrong signal and move our country in the absolute wrong direction. so, mr. president, i'll be voting against that nomination and i will be strongly encouraging our colleagues to do as well. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. merkley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that my intern, fiona stywert, be given privileges of the floor. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: thank you. the most important words in our constitution are the first three words, we the people. that's the mission statement of our constitution. our founders did not seek to

so how does the policy evolve here to assure that what should be left with nasa stays with nasa and whatshould go to other agencies? what would be the process by which we evolve nasa and other agencies in order to accomplish the vision laid out? >> all right. i'll get myself in trouble and take a leap at that. you know, nasa does need to focus. i'm in complete agreement on that. but i would argue there's no need to reinvent nasa to do that. the agency has been -- this is something we've struggled with over the last four or five years. we've tried to hold every possible future open. what we need to do is have a very specific future. if it's a deep-space gateway, moving to supporting the commercial sector and international partners getting down to the surface or us getting to the surface, followed by mars, a specific architecture for mars, we can make progress and really focus and still be the amazing nasa that's moving the country forward in aviation, that's doing what the commercial sector won't do to understand our planet, that's doing amazing planetary science, and that's studying our

let me shift over with respect to your nasa background. we have seen growing success of companies like spacex combined with a resurgence of interest of human travel into outer space, and in particular towards mars. what are your thoughts on the private sectors role in that? are there risks associated with the technologies obviously being developed in the private sector in the context of technology transfer? >> so let me make sure we got the right perspective on this opportunity frankly, with regard to organizations like spacex, blue origin, et cetera. let's take us back a few years back. nasa was formed out of an organization called naca, the aeronautics committee. that organization was really put in the position to try to help the fledgling aeronautics industry move forward. so they put -- they had a lot of research, they had a lot of policy discussions about how do we have a -- how do we open up the airspace to these crazy companies that are flying airplanes around and, oh, my gosh, don't we have to have some kind of restrictions on thos

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but that's not stopped nasa. here's a look at their latest mission. >> reporter: when you're this far north, this time of year the sun barely sets. nothing most americans will never experience. but changes to the planet are something we can all feel. back home in washington, whether or not climate change is real seems to be up for debate. but right here, 750 miles north of the arctic circle on the sea ice of greenland, there's no debate at all. climate change is real, it's happening, and this is ground zero. >> this is the iceland down here. so if you were to lick it -- it's salty. >> woe, really salty. >> reporter: nathan is the lead scientist of nasa's operation ice bridge. the mission, to map earth's polar ice to understand its connection to the global climate. >> without a doubt, this is the coldest moment i've ever experienced in my entire life. how is this ground zero for climate change? >> snow, ice, it doesn't seem very complex. but when you get into the -- how all these things come together and form our

host: joining us is martin nasa. with he is with the transit exo-planet survey satellite what is known as tess. intent of the satellite nasa is about to launch? nasa just like every mission launched, it is to explore the universe around us, to understand and develop our understanding of the universe and also to understand our place within it. more specifically, tess is mit, ered between nasa and find, ital atk, to discover and characterize those orbit other stars, but are also nearest to us galaxy.ur our planetary neighbors, if you like. things, a lot of other or missions in the past looked at stars, looking for planets, the is specific about planets with tess? guest: it's a good question. we're on a journey right now, the mission that you're probably keplertis to is called till operating, has been since 2009. befo was launched we didn't know how common stars were. kepler to launch determine that. the answer was, they are everywhere. it would be unusual for a star host a planet. that allowed us to develop and whose p

the nasa nominee, congressman bridenstine, he was nominated to head nasa last fall. his hearing in the senate commerce committee was among the most contentious that i've ever been a part of. he was voted out of the committee on party lines and senators on both sides of the aisle have expressed doubts both publicly and privately to me on his qualifications for the job. the nasa administrator should be a consummate space professional. that's what this senator wants, a space professional, not a politician as the head of nasa. and that space professional ought to be technically and scientifically competent and a skilled executive. more importantly, the administrator must be a leader who has the ability to bring us together to unite scientists and engineers and commercial space interests and policymakers and the public on a shared vision for future space exploration. and as you know, we have set the goal first with the obama administration and now with the trump administration. our goal is going to mars in the decade of the 2030's. and what pains me, mr. president, is tha

and nasa has over twenty earth absurd. the satellites that are monitoring constantly different components of the energy and water and currents and using satellites were able to get a global picture of the land surface and different components of the land surface for example you can monitor and type and amount of vegetation in addition you can also tell how wet the yes well is by using microwaves so if you know how wet surfaces and you have a better idea of the intensity and duration and locations a potential customers. mass is called out space center is the largest organization in the walt monitoring the the soda system and the universe. ten thousand people and several hundred scientists specialize in the king at the. with the information satellites gather from the land sea and air scientists bill computer models that help them simulate past and future conditions. talk to peter conoco is one of the team studying particles in the atmosphere so this is an animation from a global earth system model that we run here at nasa. w

nasa has been led by an acting administrator for a record 15 months. so i hope my completion will join me in voting -- so i hope my colleagues will join me in voting to confirm jim bridenstine today. i'd like to say a few words this morning about mike pompeo, our c.i.a. director and the president's extraordinary choice to serve as secretary of state. in recent days, the world learned director pompeo had undertaken initial conversations with kim jong-un directly -- easter weekend -- to discuss denuclearizing the korean peninsula. obviously he has the confidence of the president, engaged in the most sensitive undertaking one could imagine in today's world, and yet so many on the other side are suggesting they have reservations about this outstanding nominee. pursued with clear-eyed realism and clear objectives, this is a worthy effort. north korea has been a perplexing problem for president after president after president, and mike pompeo is on the point of this effort, which hopefully will finally lead to some outcome. although every commander in chief

and that is why nasa's operation ice bridge is up here.ission is to map earth's polar ice and understand its connection to the global climate. cruising altitude on operation ice bridge is 1,500 feet. perfect for an extraordinary view of our climate's changing in realtime. >> on average, we now know that the greenland ice sheet is losing nearly 300 gig tons of ice per year. and that works out to thousands of tons of ice being lost from this ice sheet per second. >> wait a minute, you just said thousands of tons of ice are lost per second. >> exactly. that works out to a new subdivision worth of homes of ice being lost every second. >> reporter: joe mcgregor is the mission's deputy project scientist. to collect this data and compare it to previous years, he and the other sciences rely on radar, lasers, and a camera that shoots thousands of photos in flight. what do we have got here? >> we have multiple instruments onboard, all with the goal of measuring what is going on with the ice underneath us, how it's changing, what its properties are.

to model that we run here at nasa. what we're simulating in this are the distributions of what we call aerosols or particles in the atmosphere and the different colors represent different kinds of these particles and they come from all kinds of different sources so the blue colors are from sea spray that's blown up by the winds at the surface of the sea the greener colors come from smoke sources and so there we have individual fires that are going off in the model and emitting smoke into the atmosphere and it's transported over long distances the whiter colors correspond to what we call anthropogenic pollutants so things that come from power plants or car emissions and so you can see places especially in china or in the east coast of the united states or even in europe where a lot of these pollutants are emitted and transported and then finally the red or colors that we have correspond to dust storms and so in that case what we're looking at is the effect of the surface winds blowing across a region that has a lot of f

so nasa was able to bring money and prestige to the state. he was able to grow the budget for nasa. another move that kerr was able to make, he was able to get jim webb to be an administrator for nasa. and webb was an employee of an oil company prior to his service in government. he was part owner of kerr-mcgee oil company. so this was seen as a big coup for kerr to get his man into nasa. we have some rockets. different companies would give these rockets to kerr, hoping to get money for their programs. they vary from the pioneer rocket, the jupiter, but also some ballistic missiles as well. i like this one. it comes on its little cart here. this can move the missiles around the country. this picture here is one of my favorite pictures and the -- in the collection. we have lyndon johnson, robert s kerr, the back of kennedy's head. no one is looking at them, they are all looking at alan shepard, who is an astronaut. and so -- this is one of the rare pictures that you have that -- those three people in the room and no one is paying attention to them. they are all paying attention to al

falcon nine carrying tess this isn't the first mission to search for new worlds but it may be nasa is most revealing for the next two years the test last light will take over from the kepler space telescope in search of alien planets whilst in orbit this new telescope will observe two hundred thousand of the brightest stars in the sky mission scientists say could discover twenty thousand new worlds now test is going to dramatically increase the number of planets that we have to study it it's going to more than double the number that have been seen and detected by by kepler and moreover. the planets that we're going to find will will span a much greater range of host star types then was the case for kelp or when the kepler space telescope launched in two thousand and nine it transformed our understanding of planets beyond our own solar system based on its observations astronomers now believe the milky way is home to at least two billion potentially habitable planets kepler only observed a fraction of the sky tess is able to see far more the exoplanet community is very enthusiastic a vi

nasa wanted to launch a conceding mission.hich give us gorgeous amounts of information about saturn. pounds of plutonium. this split the scientific community. on one hand, we wanted this term -- orbit saturn and give us great photographs. on the other hand, if that rocket were to blow up, nasa's own computer program estimated that some of the plutonium could go to disney world. think about that. if you are a taxpayer and you realize that this rocket to saturn all of a sudden caused the evacuation of disney world and he had to cancel your orlando,and cross florida off the tourist map you would get really angry. worth to myself it is not it. chances are it will be a success. chances are we'll go to saturn and get glorious photographs. which is what happened. i said to myself, it is a gamble. do we want to take a gamble/ and lose the space program. i love the space program so much that you have to save it from the nasa bureaucrats. you are saying your book did 544 humans have been in space. in 18 of those have died. what do those

prior to his current role, he served in a variety of top positions at nasa and most recently was nasa langley centers office of strategic communications and development. as well as a chief technologist at the center. >>> nicole turner lee is a fellow at brookings and the center for technology within government studies and research program in her research focuses on public policy designed to enable equitable access to technology across the united states. she is also an expert at the intersection of race, wealth and technology and comes to brookings after most recently serving as the vice president and chief resource and policy officer of the multicultural media, telecom and internet counsel and vice president and first director of the media and technology institute for political and economic studies, we have three terrific panelists here and i am honored to introduce this and guide the discussion, we will be here for about an hour, for the first 30 minutes i will offer some questions to the panelists and for the second 30 minutes we will go out to you. i do not normally ask our panelis

in twenty fifteen nasa launched a new satellite.the satellite makes direct measurements of the soil moisture every few days. you understand how much water's in the land surface that can really help you forecasting and monitoring droughts and floods what we're seeing here the red and yellow colors represent precipitation and the orange and blue colors are the changes and so when we share in the average blue colors represent whether areas and red colors represent drier areas so if you have a direct observation of the amount of more sure in the land surface and you can improve your understanding of the amount of moisture in the root zone that's a very very important variable for improving your understanding of crops. even that it will salute you. you know as good as most in the. to fund words. to people living in dust storm areas new technology could help nowadays it's possible to check the dust for costs online. these phone calls from the boss and on a website all part of the global early warning system there updated daily it provides

prior to his current role, rich served in a variety of top positions at nasa, and most recently was nasa langley research center's office of strategic analysis, communications, and business development leader. and as well as a chief technologist at the entire center. and nicol turner-lee is a fellow here at brookings in the center for technology innovation within the government studies research program, and nicol's research at brookings focuses on public policy designed to enable equitable access to technology across the united states. she's also an expert at the intersection of race, wealth, and technology, and comes to brookings after most recently serving as the vice president and chief research and policy officer of the multicultural media telecom and internet council and vice president and first director of the media and technology institute at the joint center for political and economic studies. we have three terrific panelists here this morning, ladies and gentlemen. i'm very, very honored to introduce them and to guide this discussion. we'll be here for about an hour. for the fir

previous contracts, nasa would carry the risk.chedule for doubt nasa would pay more money to those companies, whereas spacex is paid for the delivery. nevada. is for sierra investors are putting money into spacex and expect a return on investment based on the performance to these nasa contracts. --ould also add that spacex and 60%% are payloads, are commercial payloads and the nasa payloads. julia: you are looking at live pictures of spacex launching out of florida. a science experiment to the international space station, using one of the spacex dragon capsule that has already phoned to the international space station once. this idea of recycling and financingticle to the to the space missions. talk about the return journey because the dragon capsule takes back precious cargo from the , andnational space station it has been on the space station since 2011. robonot 2 was delivered and engineers identified the problems, and what the dragon capsule docks to the iss will remain docked for 30 days for a variety of payloads going up tod

michio: i think nasa became the agency to nowhere.t just spun wheels, went around the planet earth, the space station was supposed to be the gateway for mars and other planets and that became a big , turkey in outer space. i think we have been spinning wheels for 50 years. but last month, last month there was this excitement, this electricity when the falcon heavy rocket blasted off because that was the moon rocket, the first moon rocket in 50 years, the blast off from cape canaveral. guess who paid for? our taxpayer money? a private individual elon musk , paid for a moon rocket and basically gave it to the american people for free. this is unheard of. five years 10 years ago, if you , were to say that a private individual would create his own personal moon rocket and give it to the people of the world, people would think you were nuts. but it actually happened. so we are in a new ballgame now. a new ballgame where prices have been dropping dramatically, where the movie the martian cost $100 million but to go to mars only costs $70 mi

he was able to grow the budget for nasa. another move he was able to make, he was able to get jim webb to be an administrator for nasa. of an oiln employee company prior to his service and government. mcgees part owner of kerr- oil company. this was seen as a coup for kerr to get his man into nasa. they would give these rockets to kerr hoping to get money for their programs. the pioneer rocket, the jupiter, but also some ballistic missiles as well. this one comes on its little cart here. this moves missiles around the country. this is one of my favorite pictures and the collection. we have lyndon johnson, robert s kerr, the back of kennedy's head. they are all looking at alan shepard, who is an astronaut. they are all paying attention to alan shepard. the next collection is the mike steinhauer collection. he's pretty liberal. he's elected first in 1978. he's only 28 years old. he was a fighter. he took on big tobacco. he fights with the nra. he's not afraid to take on the big issues. he eventually gets hurt politically. he e

nasa says the probe will also track earthquakes on mars. this is nasa's first interplanetary mission to launch from the west coast. >>> still ahead on nbc bay area news, extra foot traffic today on the golden gate bridge. >> but these are not your average tourists. why girl scouts took over the san francisco landmark. >>> and some cloudy skies then and now in san francisco, of 3 degrees as we watch the second half of a double-header with the giants and dodgers. we'll see cloudy skies, temperatures cooling and maybe a chance of a few sprinkles. what you can expect and how it might impact your sunday when we come back. ♪ ♪ get high speed internet from at&t. $30 per month. no extra monthly fees. more for your thing. that's our thing. visit att.com/internet. have spotted something a little out of the ordinary. thousands of >>> if you were on the golden gate bridge this morning, you might have spotted something a little out of the ordinary. >> hi. >> hi. >> thousands of girl scouts walked across the bridge as part of a bridging ceremony. that me

. >>> when we come back, epic journey inside nasa's critical mission right here on earth. after he threatened to k people in san francisco -- but now, he )s behind bars... next, what set him off and how he was finally caught. we have the exclusive interview. that )s next. >>> finally tonight, let's take a breathtaking journey to one of the most remote places on earth. nasa has a mission at the top of the world that could prove critical to the future of our planet. our jacob soboroff takes us along for the ride. >> reporter: back home in washington, whether or not climate change is real seems to be up for debate but right here 750 miles north of the arctic circle on the sea ice of greenland, there is no debate at all, climate change is real, it's happening and this is ground zero. this is the coldest place, possibly the coldest moment i've experienced in my entire life. how is this ground zero for climate change? >> thinning ice. shrinking ice coverage. >> reporter: and that leads to climate change? >> yes. >> reporter: this year during the coldest part of the year, the arc

the images go back to nasa headquarters to be analyzed. successful mission, we landed at the base. though it looks like a frozen tundra, the warming world may effect long-hailed traditions here. marcus is a local hunter. part of the reason we came here was to go with nasa and look at the melting sea ice, climate change. >> translator: it'll be very sad when the sea ice melts. things will be much different. >> reporter: with that, marcus set off on a three-day journey home, careful to avoid ice that has been slowly melting the last two years. this place may seem far away, but it turns out, it's closer to home than any of us may have realized. hallie, i mean, the most unbelievable experience i've ever had in my life. you can see the interconnections of our planet looking out the window of that nasa plane. quite literally, what happens in the arctic does not stay in the arctic. >> jacob soboroff, looking forward to part two on this program soon. we'll be right back with today's big picture. >>> it's time now for your business of the week. joh

>> they have built on 50 or 60 years of nasa experience to try to innovate to get to earth orbit. reusability on the first stage, we've seen dramatically, almost out of a science fiction movie. they're working on recovering the nose cone for the rockets. eventually they may try to recover the second stage. the dragon capsule will be recovered after month long use in the space station. that is great experience for spacex, that same capsule, modified version carrying them up to the space station, getting the cargo up to working toward human flight. melissa: why is this important to people out there, maybe they're in all what they're seeing, they're wonder with so many things going on why is this important to us going forward? >> visuals are terrific. the real bottom line this lowers the cost of getting a pound of cargo or supplies or science experiments to the international space station. we tax dayers are on hook for the cargo runs, if nassda lowers cost of cargo runs, they get to spend more of their fund, $20 billion annually for the entire nasa program, they get more for explorat

we'll see how nasa satellites contract us. storms as they sweep across the. the just to lift it up to three or four miles in altitude before it's really kind of scary the way by the way it's. every year the current estimate is anywhere from two to five billion metric tons of news around some just as a nurse atmosphere every year so that's quite a bit of dust. dust isn't always bad scientists are researching the impact of dust crossing the ocean from africa to florida i think the fact that we can see these and pipes are far away is really exciting. so when the rain forest we need the plants to ride their nutrients in a fertilized for dust in kuwait they're pioneering new ways of tackling the problem of dust storms this babson come to blows then they get to it. while technology brings the prospect of daily dust storm full cost. so he says this time the storm warning systems to step up to the real hero as the world's climate becomes more extreme scientists up poaching action. it is the number one killer the number one communicable disease that we are trying to t

returning to the nasa story. space. they're aiming for a gender balanced workforce, but say they can only achieve that if equal numbers of men and women train for science and technology careers. 5 live's anna foster reports. mission control in houston. they are monitoring the international space station. in this mock—up, astronauts train for the rigours of space. except you would be floating in, not walking. of course. we are on the ground, for starters. but for the women here, there is a new frontier. my director is a woman, my former division chief is a woman. we have female astronauts. we haven't put a woman on the moon yet and i think that perhaps the first person to step on mars should be a woman. for a long time now, nasa has tried hard to celebrate the achievements of its female engineers and scientists. 2018 marks a0 years since the first women were picked to go into space, the total workforce here is now one third female, and in 2016, nasa selected its first—ever gender—balanced class of astronauts. but

he was able to grow the budget for nasa.er move that kerr was able to make was to get jim webb to be an administrator of nasa and webb was an employee of the kerr-mcgee oil company. prior to his service of government, he was an employee of the company. to gets a way for kerr his man into nasa. these are different companies that would give these rockets to kerr, hoping to get funding for their programs. vary from the pioneer rockets, jupiter, but also some ballistic missiles as well. i like this one. it comes on its little cart. it moved the missiles around the country. this picture is one of my favorite pictures in the collection. in the picture, we have lyndon johnson, robert s kerr, the back head.nedy's no one is looking at them, they are looking at alan shepard, the astronaut. it is one of those rare pictures where no one is paying attention to them, they are all paying attention to alan shepard. the next question is the are -- sinar collection. he was elected first in 1978, really young. sinar was a fighter. bigook on du

leading engineers at nasa seem to think so and they'll tell us why.—— today, temperatures got up to 21 degrees in north moore footfall stop low— pressure north moore footfall stop low—pressure through a weather front in our direction. we had some quite stormy scenes. tonight, the winds are dying down. still some cloud and rain and another weather front approaching. most of us will have dry weather. my alternate. ten or 12 degrees from most major towns and cities. wednesday promises to be a fine day over many parts of the uk. warm airfor many. the fine day over many parts of the uk. warm air for many. the vast majority of england and wales and scotland will be in the warm weather on wednesday. we can just about see the rain missing belfast. the top temperatures tomorrow will get up to 24 in london, 20 in newcastle, a bit fresher there in belfast at around 16 degrees. thursday is expected to be the warmest day of the week with highs reaching around 25 or 26 degrees. 0ne highs reaching around 25 or 26 degrees. one must spell since 29 august last year. lo

he, of course, served as administrator of nasa from 2005 to 2009 prior to service at nasa, he was head of the space department at johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory and also served as president and chief operating officer of incuetell, private non-profit enterprise, funded by the central intelligence agency to identify and invest in cutting-edge technologies that serve national security interests. as i mentioned undersecretary griffin will be engaged in conversation with hudson fellow rebecca heinrichs. rebecca is well-known in defense circles as both for her work on missile defense and other policy issues. she's frequently called to brief on capitol hill at the white house and the pentagon and she's a former congressional staffer who helped launch the missile defense caucus that writes regularly for the hill, frequent guest on fox news as well. without further ado my pleasure to turn it over to rebecca. >> thank you for being here. what i would like to do this morning is have -- dr. griffin asked i call him mike. my upbringing is telling me i should not do that, but m

. >>> plus nasa launching a new mission today. find out what by living off the grid. completely. or... just set the washing machine to cold. do your thing. with energy upgrade california. >>> this is abc 7 mornings. >> widening the perspective and looking at the state, we have showers along the central coast, 54 in monterey and a mix of rain and snow in the higher elevations, so certainly a much colder day from north to south, 60s in los angeles. a winter weather advisory in effect for sierra nevada. four to eight inches until 11:00 p.m. and could see a foot up to 7,000 feet. slick out there as the system works threw the area. snowshowers, 32 in the mountains, sunny, milder the next couple of days. will there be anymore snow? i'll let you know in a few minutes. >> lisa, thank you. opposition to california's sanctuary law are growing. today leaders in loss al meade does and orange county will decide whether to exempt them from the state law. at least a dozen california cities are taking action against the state's sanctuary status and siding with the federal government. san diego's

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nasa was a way to bring prestige to the state. he was able to grow the budget .or nasa another move he was able to get was he was able to get jim webb to be an administrator of nasa and webb was an employee of the oil company. cgeeas part owner of kerr-mg oil company. this was seen as a big coup for kerr to get his man into nasa. companies would give rockets to kerr hoping to get funding. they varied from pioneer rockets, jupiter, but also some ballistic missiles as well. i like this one on its little part here -- on its little cart here. this picture is one of my favorite pictures in the collection. we have lyndon johnson, we have the back ofrr and kennedy's head. everyone is looking at alan shepard, an astronaut. this is a rare picture where you have those three people in the room and no one is paying attention to them. they are all paying attention to alan shepard. the next collection is the mic sign our collection. he was a democrat from oklahoma. he was elected in 1978 at 28 years old. he was a fighter. tobacco, the nra, he w

nasa's newest spacecraft is built a fine world similar to ours. what will it discover? hundreds of firefighters in australia are still battling large bushfire under control on the outskirts of sydney's southwest. unseasonable hot weather, strong have, and a lack of rain exacerbated the situation. blaze, which the started on saturday, was deliberately lit, anside of the fire has been declared a crime scene. more on this race blaze, which started on saturday, was against time th keep the flames from spreading even fur. reporter: for two days, fires have devastated bushland on sydni's suburban fringe. the fast-moving blaze was aggressive and unpredictable. it has taken a huge firefighting effort to keep the flames away from homes. remarkably, no properties have been destroyed. firefighters, 500 including many volunteers and members of the military, confronted the inferno. they were supported in the skies above by more than a dozen .aircra very warm autumn weather and a ck of rain have created a tinderbox on the edge of ggaustralia's t city. >> we have to deal with the wors

nasa yesterday release add 4 k tour of the moon.on video is the latest imagery there the lurn reconsequencen orbiter mission which has taken photographs since the launch in 2009. >> up close and person with the rough surface of the money moon and the stunning lurn larges. it's the best we get unless you you have hundreds of thousands of course to spend on a tours in space flight. >> that is stunning. >> nasa about to launch a new planet hunting expedition. >>> the agency is set to go on a mission to search for possible alien light pb the transiting exoplanet survey satellite t.e.s.s. easier to say. >> it's expected to map 85% of the sky over the next two years, finding thousands of exoplanets, the planet beyond our solar system that orbit a star. >> we're excited about them because over the past 20 years or so we learned about this crazy plethora and diversity of planets existing elsewhere in the galaxy. they're helping to us better understand our place in that much bigger picture. >> nasa plans to follow up with further exploration

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