i am neil cavuto. the congressional budget office giving it a report, suggesting that the government-run insurance could exist with private insurers. this was from an agency not all that long ago talking about the costs. one person is not buying any of it and says it is not a coincidence, and the former libertarian presidential nominee joins us. >> obama must have made them an offer they could not refuse. neil: he just had the cbo director at the white house not even one week ago, and then, lo and behold, we get this, because they are the ones that would say, "your numbers are not adding up." >> nothing is adding up. i smell the smell of dead fish here. a little x-rayed. socialistic program in the history of government, american government, and, suddenly,ç the cbo, which has been the biggest thorn in his side, putting bamboo shoots, underneath his fingernails -- they were in his way, and, suddenly, they caved. neil:ç last week, when the cbo director was over at the white house, it was told they were

i am going to keep my focus on the senate for now, neil. neil: "for now." so you are willing in the presidency? >> anyone who wants that job does not know how much trouble we are in as a country. the republicans are starting to stand together on some principles of freedom that i think the american people are going to take to, and it is time we have a real debate about health care and other issues, because this government takeover approach is not going to work. neil: senator, thank you very much. good to have you on. the president not giving up, but is he rushing because his poll numbers, though still high, are slipping? a gallup poll puts the president's approval rating at 55%. he now ranks 10th among one dozen presidents at this point in their tenures. we have reaction now from uber authur, dick morris. you have the number one bestseller on the new york times best-seller list, "catastrophe." >> i do not want to pick a fight about pride of authorship, but i do not want to have copyright issues against the senator, but i wrote a column a few weeks ago about

neil: welcome, everybody. i am neil cavuto. out of this world. not was space shuttle endeavour ones to do -- not what space shuttle endeavour wants to do tonight. big names like johnson & johnson are looking really good, so good that they are thinking this so- so economy talk is so wrong and that spending more money to goose it is so wrong. on the telephone right now is billionaire donald trump. are we doing better? >> well, i think it is finally starting to come back. the country is looking better, and i think people are starting to get confidence. neil: but we are opening the federal spending spigot more. are we jumping the gun here? >> well, you initially had to do it. they loaded up the banks. we would have had a problem unlike what we had before, and like maybe in 1929, but they did the right thing by doing that, and i see it myself. if i see people having a lot more confidence in the economy, where they are going to be. all of a sudden, you will see housing prices going up. neil: we are getting warn that the president is being briefed on a

neil: i am not a fan of this, even with the public option -- >> neil, thank you. neil: i am not a fan of this. >> it increases taxes. it still adds to deficit spending. the original was nearly one- quarter of $1 trillion. the bill is still not paid for as the president asked. there is this idea about a government-run health care. look. we do not think we need government-run factories or marketplaces. why in the world do we want more government control of our health care? why do we what bureaucrats telling us which doctors to go to, or what services to receive? from my perspective, the democrats in congress and be administration have to make a fundamental decision. if they want to get bipartisan health-care reform done, that can be done. there is a lot that can be done to allow or refundable tax credits, in dealing with frivolous lawsuits, better technology, transparency, a lot of things that can be done to improve healthcare, but it's what they want is another step towards a single-payer system -- but if what they want is another step towards the single-payer syst

neil: politics underground. welcome, everybody. i am neil cavuto. beginning to huddle in the basement of the nation's capital, trying to get everyone on the same page on health care. blue dog democrats are still not biting. that means for now, the president's health-care plan is not going anywhere. jonathan, what is at stake here, and why the powwow underground? >> what is at stake is this national health care overhaul, the reforming of the health-care system. what is promised is higher quality, lower costs to individuals, and lower costs to the government. why it is being held in the basement is that that is where they typically hold a big meetings in congress. there is a beautiful building behind me. that is the biggest space availa!e for the democrats to meet. neil: i got you. my immediate impression was that this was another "wayne's world" situation. let me ask you then. what are the odds that theyç cn cobble together enough of these so-called blue dog democrats? the house for awhile was looking like the easier part of this. where do things st

what do you think >> hi, neil. -- what do you think? >> hi, neil. i think this reflects some embarrassment on the part of the democrats. as you showed, they said they would get this done before the august recess, and they wanted to do that, because they knew if they had the numbers before the august recess and had to face the voters, and they would not come back so enthusiastically. this is what nancy pelosi and harry reid have been talking about since late spring, and they are now saying that it is the media who are the ones that have been obsessing about this deadline. they will not jammed this thing through and the next three or four days. they will take some time to go over this bill that is some 16% of our economy -- they will not jam this thing through. neil: one of the things that came up, and i want you to comment on this, steve, even republicans might be wise to go slow on looking like they are not going to come up with anything, because then there will be the wrath of voters if they do not, and the democrats will blame the republicans for

neil: good seeing you again. >> nice seeing you, neil. that will not have to worry about pay caps or other things, lawyers. congress is even looking at sort of getting back into an unrelated bill. since 1990, lawyers don't $81 billion to political parties, democrats getting 73% of that -- lawyers donating $81 billion. these are staggering sums. >> they are, and they are even more impressive in this current political cycle we are in, this 2010 cycle. lawyers have so far given 84% of their donations to democrats, and, you know, you do not do that unless you want something, and right now, what a group that americans for justice, which used to be the association of trial lawyers of america, they want a tax break which will cost the taxpayers close to $2 billion, and that would allow them to make it easier to bring contingency lawsuits, those lawsuits where they are not paid, the lawyers are not paid, unless there is a big payoff in the end. neil: so not only are we not going to get tort reform, we are going to abuse the system, going along ev

neil: thank you both.: a loser lender with a lesson, maybe, but stocks clearly of on a beleaguered lender posies fortune not looking down, not because the government rescued it, but because private investors did. -- the legal blunder's fortune. -- beleagured lender's fortune. >> bondholders are going to give the lender access to up to $3 billion in short-term liquidity, over 10 percent, by the way. it is going to temporarily keep them out of bankruptcy court, and it is big because cit provides financing to almost 1 million small businesses on the world, and many of those customers are retailers and suppliers, who are battling the economy right now to put forth a good showing during back-to- school shopping season. but here are the issues -- one, will it be enough, given their greatest issue, which is the need to completely restructure their balance sheet, including what will surely be a debt for equity swap, and who once that equity right now? they barely avoided bankruptcy. that leads me into the next, th

neil: all right. just for people, there are serious types at home, relax, we're just having fun, but vincent is taking names if you're laughing at us right now. vincent, could you give them the stare? i so love this man. all right, well, did you see this? millions of dollars in stimulus spending going to pork. i'm serious. it's to buy ham and cheese, actually sandwiches. why someone at "forbes" says that's great news. but first, forget about the cost of national healthcare, wait until you hear about the likely rationing of healthcare. welcome to the now network. population: 49 million. right now 1.2 million people are on sprint mobile broadband. 31 are streaming a sales conference from the road. eight are wearing bathrobes. two... less. - 154 people are tracking shipments on a train. - ( train whistles ) 33 are im'ing on a ferry. and 1300 are secretly checking email... - on a vacation. - hmm? ( groans ) that's happening now. america's most dependable 3g network. bringing you the first and only wireles

neil: it is just the rich. now that it is just millionaires that will foot the bill for government-run health care, it is the way that the president outlined it. republican gov. tim pawlenty says, not quite. you are not buying this. >> this whole health care proposal by president obama is really quite a joke on a number of levels. i think he is scanning the american people. even if you believe that it is only going to tax people over $1 million, what is known to happen is that is only going to cover about 25% of the total cost. the rest will be paid for by saving waste, fraud, and abuse. if you believe that, i have some january teabagging northern minnesota. he is going to expand eligibility, programs, expanding government intervention. it is not going to wear it. -- it is not going to work. neil: i assume that it would not be right to find teatimes. let me get a sense of what republicans do with this. senator jim demand has been targeted for trying to play politics with this. calling this a waterloo moment for

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w neil: why? does a lot of factoring so they help smaller companies get financing to sell their goods and services to retailers out there. so, right now is a critical time when they are placing orders for fall and holiday. >> one thing that was worrisome is the fact the government backed away from the second bailout of c.i.t. because their loans are going bad so quickly even uncle sam didn't want to touch them. if it is happening at c.i.t. you know -- neil: isn't that a reason to rescue them or are they saying this isn't leaving. >> good money after bad. neil: we have been pouring god money after bad for a long time. >> but they are drawing the line and if the loans are going bad that fast at c.i.t. it is bound to be happening at other lenders. >> here is the bottom line. keep your powder dry. there is the business cycle. we have gone through this before. of course sometimes it is harder at the bottom than other times but the notion that we have fallen off the sort of cliff and we were never going

it is in a joke, neil. neil: they got away with this for a long time.arry sabato, this makes me think, what else is going on? >> they should have been caught sooner. do you not think? neil: they were not, and it makes you wonder what is going on now. >> the voters should suspect that in the absence of proof of innocence and that their elected officials in new jersey and some of these other states that have problems, they should assume that there is hanky-panky going on. >> the rabbis are not running for anything. with the politicians, i do not know if you can generalize, but you are right on the money, larry. it is up to the voters to vote smarter. >> it has got to stop. . lots of discounts on car insurance. can i get in on that? are you a safe driver? yes. discount! do you own a home? yes. discount! are you going to buy online? yes! discount! isn't getting discounts great? yes! there's no discount for agreeing with me. yeah, i got carried away. happens to me all the time. helping you save money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. . . neil:

that is neil. i would have liked to have had more time with neil and less historical footage. unafraid the must've been two hours of a paid in that was cut out and would have liked to have him talking for 30 minutes or 60 minutes, but that is the genuine article. that is the real man and i will be disappointed in that come in if we are we ought to look ourselves. there's something missing in our own lives that we aren't satisfied with to the real neil armstrong is. i will get off my soap box and stop and be very happy to answer any questions you might have. >> a couple years ago tricentennial flies celebration i was in the kitty hawk, north carolina and had the opportunity to hear buzz aldrin. buzz aldrin was talking about the landing and seem to suggest very much so that it was the physical continuation -- configuration of the landing of the eagle that determined that neil armstrong was the first off in the unspoken but clearly suggest conclusion was that but for the way it was configured that he would have been the first off. did neil speak to that issue? >> he did and it wa

neil: neil: so do you know how many congressmen or what we're looking at? well, i know there have been published reports that there are at least ten members of the democratic party, the moderates on the energy and commerce committee who oppose this measure. i know we in the ways and means committee last night saw three democrats vote against the bill. listen, i think that moderate democrats are looking at this and saying this bill crushes small businesses, and as you know, neil, the top priority in the minds of most americans is the economy right now and getting people back to work. if we're going to impose a payroll tax of over 8% on small businesspeople, how can we expect them to start hiring american workers again? neil: so let me ask you this -- crunching the numbers, and you're great at this, let's say there are 47 blue dogs. i don't know the number because they keep changing it. let's say more than half of them vote against this. we had one on yesterday but thats was not likely, and most if not all republicans vote against, it the numbers are in favor

neil: all right.s are at the rally right now. not this guy, but years from jersey. he says that both of them are bad for new jersey, that they are to double peace in the same tax hiking, and he is sick of it. you might know him as a johnny from "the sopranos." you are not there. why not? >> you have people out of work in people who took the guy off. neil: the governor is in a heap of trouble, isn't he? >> let me tell you something. you're talking about budget gaps. this may sound crude, but take the kid who grosses $1,000 a day at in any major city in new jersey. where is his tax filing every month? where is his 941 every quarter? if you want to close the gap, beat everybody alone and go after the people the likes of which cannot be contained on one plan that out. why don't you work for a landscaper and goes to a place where money is of the country. take 20% for the government, be mandated to report it and send it in. you talk about closing the deficit -- there is a lot of money out there. neil: they

neil: do you feel as a rich, almost embarrassed to be rich? >> you can never be embarrassed, and do not forget that i and some others give a lot of money away each year to charity, and i am very proud to do it. i employ thousands and thousands of people and create jobs for thousands of people, so you have to be proud of that, neil. there is something nice about watching your show and others to talk about business and enjoy it, but thousands of people are employed by me, as an example,

i did not want to let neil know i was worried.here was a little bit of psychic body english going back to urge him, get this on the ground. >> we are on the ground and neil says, i think we will be a little long. there are no buildings or roadways. he has nothing to really compare the size of the crater to what the actual altitude really is. >> i know that he knows that minimum fuel light is coming on. greta: are you looking out the window? you're looking engages? >> i am looking at the computer. even before this, we started getting computer of arms. >> almost every person in this room had some type of a problem. my guidance officer at a computer problem because the computer was trying to dial us. the flight dynamics officer at the navigation problem. >> by the time it got 30 seconds, i feel bold enough to maybe sneak a peek out the window. i see the shadow as we are coming down and the probe from the landing gear. it is obscured. >> communications guys had problems. other people that electrical problems. i was trying to keep this

that's when neil armstrong walked on the moon. drew levinson reports. >> reporter: 40 years ago the dream became a reality. >> that's one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: astronaut neil armstrong leaped in the history books the first man on the moon. buzz aldrin was right behind him. >> certainly a high point in my life. >> while armstrong shuns the spotlight, aldrin is basking in it. to him it seems like a blip of time has passed. >> president kennedy declared america would go to the moon. eight years later, aldrin, and armstrong and collins were blasting through space. the eagle has landed. in all just 12 men walked on the moon, the last two. back in december of 1972. soon after that the apollo project was abandoned for the space shuttle program. with the shuttle set to retire, america is building a new ship to go back to the moon by 2020. aldrin feels we should have never abandoned the moon and is pleased nasa ising its sights farther in to space. >> we certainly should be to mars somewhere in the ea

> i know very well neil armstrong. a strong man. [unintelligible] i have respect for these people. >> people forget that until the moon landing, russia had been head of america in the space race. this footage from 1965 shows alexei taking the first ever walked in space. it is a moment he can still describe vividly after 44 years. >> on the left side, i saw bulgaria, greece, italy. i saw the baltic sea, the ural mountains. it was like a very big blow. it was fantastic. -- it was like a very big globe. it was fantastic. >>> he waited late in life to find his fame and fortune. at the age of 66, he completed his memoirs that detail a child of other deprivation and squalor in ireland. -- a childhood of thatcher deprivation and squalor in ireland. >> in my wildest dreams, i could not imagine this. we were the lowest of the low. we were cold, hungry. >> traditionally, the irish immigrate to america in search of a better life. his family did not. they went from new york to the slums of limerick. "angeles ashes" were based on t

one is his name and the other is neil armstrong. maybe it should be your name. >> i know very well neil armstrong is strong man. i have result of these people. >> people forget that until the moon landing, russia has been far -- had been far ahead of the u.s. this footage from 1965 shows alexi taking his first walk in space. it is a moment he can describe vividly 44 years later. >> qasab bulgaria, greece, italy. and solve the baltic sea. at the same time, it was like a very big blow. fantastic. >> that is the russian cosmonaut talking to the bbc. and there is plenty on them landing on our website at bbc.com. more news for your -- the interim leader of honduras still opposes the reinstatement of saliva -- of zelaya. and a televised address, he called his position unchangeable. phil negotiations have warned of possible civil war in -- civil war. the present upper room has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison after paying a bribe to his former security chief. he is already serving a term for human rights abuses. and they crimes court

the first shows a picture of neil armstrong in orbit.f you switch around, you can hear the crews describing what kind of food they had up there. >> >> really neat stuff. our website is full of great ways to bait the first lunar landing. check it out at myfoxdc.com. we've put links to several websites. this is probably my favorite one, really great. i'll tell you, kind of creepy. look at these figures and their eyes look so real. looking for more of that later. >> s the new now 7:40. and we are learning more about who will raise the 13 children left behind by the murdered florida couple. >>> and today michael vick's sentence will end. we'll be right back. announcer: during the autobahn for all event, you can get great lease deals. i love it! i just want to know it's the right move. me? irteen days in the future. you get a deal on the car you always wanted. scheduled maintenance is included, it's all good. what's the future like? you love your new jetta. and the suit? you like it? no...i love it! boss: come on in, i had some other things y

neil: i thought i heard her say that. tax hikes that were supposed to goer healthcare are now going to pay down the deficit? where is the lock box? where is the sanity? hi, everybody. welcome. let's get reaction from my crew.

host: your thoughts about neil's words and your words?guest: very appropriate, i think the entire apollo-11 mission unfolded in an incredibly accurate way. it's a tribute, i think, to our reaction to the tragedy of apollo-1 fire so soon after my flight in gemini-12. this was with ed white, and he was a close friend of mine. we were together at westpoint on the track team and the squadron training, and when he told me he was applying for astronaut program. and i thought, ed, i can do that, and i wasn't selected and he was. he was my role model, and without that tragedy he would have been one of the first people on the surface of the moon. host: and in near tragedy averted on apollo-13, and the movie with tom hanks. and where it was said that failure is not an option. guest: yeah, i know, that's a beautiful phrase from gene grant. and once you have a mission in work, failure on that mission is not an option. that's a wonderful phrase. but if failure is not an option in anything you do, you sit on the ground and don't take risks. we are a ve

neil is available. he was present at the 50th anniversary ever nasa, the 40th anniversary of apollo 7, 8, and now certainly apollo 11. he's been in dayton, ohio, with the national aviation hall of fame. he's coming into washington tonight and he's going to be here for the next several days. he's doing a lot of essential things. i just have a message of my experience for the future that i would like to reach people, so i choose to face the public in a different fashion, and that's the big thing about the 24 people that went to the moon, they are not all the same version of the right stuff. we are humans. we do different things different ways. and we should be respected for that. host: by the way, the book includes some photos of past presidents. we'll show you some of that. and a reminder that tomorrow the president will honor those from apollo 11 at the white house. we will cover that event, as well. charles is on the phone from tampa, florida. good morning. caller: hi, good morning. it is a pleasure to

i missed neil diamond for you.l, i'm sorry, but because of that, she wanted to name me sweet caroline and my dad put the nix to that. he wasn't showing a lot of foresight there because sweet caroline would have been a sick stage name. it could get sticky there. >> so your first name would have been sweet? >> yeah. i could have gone into the film industry or been a stripper, you know? leaving all options open. >> well, maybe you think about sweet caroline as a potential name for one of your children and then keep your fingers crossed. >> yeah. i don't know. i don't know. >> maybe you -- >> cracking rosie would be nice. >> did you make up? >> i did. 22 years later, i took my mom to a neil diamond concert. he played a lot of new songs so i was starting to get really irrita irritated. i thought, you better play sweet caroline and he eventually did. he played hot august night, which is my mom's favorite song. >> she could have named you that too. >> hot august heigl. >> that has a better ring to it. >> a nice ring to it

neil, more food stamps? >> i'm not saying i agree or disagree with stimulus, but if you want to get the money out the door, and these are spoon-ready programs, 9 % of this money that you spent out in food stamps gets spent that money. in addition, we have over 30 million people that are relying on this, and for every dollar you sent out, it increases money. this is a stimulus. >> i thought we all agreed that welfare is a drag not only on the economy, but on the individuals who take t. >> absolutely. look, everybody this is a failed policy. it does not stimulate the economy t. accomplishes increasing the government debt or taking money from one person and handing it to another person. it does not grow the economy. >> and quinton, doesn't it create a sense of dependency very often on the people who take it? >> shame on you, shaved. ronald reagan never produced his welfare queen. that's a myth. david: wait a minute, wait a minute. bill clinton said the same thing, quinton. >> it's a myth! they couldn't produce

so neil, do you plan on continuing acting when you're grown up?ah, i love acting it's so much fun. >> and um, this is like a really big part of the set. >> as i mentioned, neil and cassady take turns doing the play. they're part of what's called a "triple cast." >> triple-cast means that the casting directors choose 3 girls to do the part and 3 boys to do the part and they alternate. in fact, we ran into some of the other janes and michaels when we visited the theater. >> oh, my gosh, hi. it's ali and -- >> what's going on? >> okay, this is marlon who is one of the three michael banks' and this is allie who is also one of the three jane banks. >> the stars gave us a tour of the dressing rooms, wardrobe and showed us around backstage. so is this real candy? >> no this is not real candy. it is all plastic and sticks so if you ate that you'd be very sick. but sometimes there's -- we sneak in the candy bag and put some stuff in there. >> you do, eh? see that's part of my job, is to make sure there's no real candy on the set. >> as production stage man

we ran into a man who collects autographs and he has a couple of neil armstrong autographs. neil armstrong has been quite reclusive through the years and we understand at one point stopped giving autographs. this man tells me that one recent autograph of neil armstrong on a check was auctioned off for $27,000. the man i was talking to from houston, texas, showed me two or three autographs he has from neil armstrong through the years. so people gathering this evening for the lecture series getting to hear all three members of the apollo 11 crew together. how exciting. bruce? >> good assignment, dave. thank you. >>> his right arm in a cast and the pope greeted worshipers near his mountain vacation retreat. he underwent surgery friday to reset his wrist after a fall. the pope also blessed a few hundred of the faithful using his left hand. he then raised his right arm immobilized in a plaster cast and made the sign of the cross. pope benedict also thanked doctors and medical staff who treated him after he fell while vacationing near the italian french border. >>> a pilot survive

no picture of neil. i thought neil took pictures of buzz. >> i've seen a picture of neil so maybe the ship had a picture. >> we'll settle that later. 7-pound of rocks. >> three. >> 20 pounds. >> close. you're closer. they brought back 46 pounds of rocks. >> all right. >> they used a special scoop and to thinks to pick those up. they left blind the american flag, the commemorative plaque. that plaque was attached to the legs that helped theagle land. they also placed my men toes for the astronauts that died. so apollo 11 came back on july 24th, splashed into the pacific within 13 miles of the recovery ship. on board president nixon was there. and afterwards, armstrong, aldrin and collins were scrubbed down with an iodine solution. i guess there's not a question here. >> iodine solution. that's the answer. >> i thought there was a question here. maybe not. >> after that they went into a three-week quarantine period in what? >> a tent. >> no. >> you can see it somewhere in d.c. >> have you been there? >> uh

neil armstrong made that giant leap for mankind 40 years ago. here's more from nasa television from that day. >> buzz aldrin develop the choreography for future explorers. the steps with which those who follow will traverse them in. >> you do have to be careful and keep track of where you are. but it time you take two or three paces to make sure you have your feet underneath you. four easy pieces can bring it to a smooth stop. that's the kangaroo hop. forward mobility is not quite as good. >> armstrong next set about taking pictures and collecting a contingency sample of lunar soil. >> the surface is fine and powdery. i can pick up loosely and it does at here in five layers like powdered charcoal to the insides of my boots. i only go and maybe 1/8 of an inch, but i can see the footprints of my boots in the fine, sandy particles. >> then it was time for buzz aldrin to join him. >> are you ready? >> all set. i want to back up and partially close the hatch. making sure not to lock it on my way out. that is our home for the next few hours. let's tak

>> neil armstrong is... the word that's least fairly used to describe neil armstrong is "reclusive." he's not reclusive. he's exceedingly quiet. he's a man who's exceedingly mission oriented and work oriented. there's a wonderful story the astronauts tell about when he was flying the l.l.t.v., the lunar landing training vehicle which basically looked like a giant flying box spring with four legs. it was a monstrously dangerous machine and they would take it up to a thousand feet and play with it and land and that was a lunar lander trainer. and his... this is about a year before he went to the moon. the l.l.t.v. spun out of control neil had to eject, he didn't have much clearance above the ground. he ejected, the l.l.t.v. crashed he parachuted down safely next to it and when people next saw him an hour later, he was at his desk getting his paperwork done. nothing rustled neil. >> rose: is that why he was choseen? >> that's one of the reasons he was chosen. he was chosen also-- and this is what chris craft, o

brenda: neil cavuto next. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] >> more calls in washington for it, even though most americans oppose it, and the it i'm talking about, a second round of stimulus. so who's got it right? i'm charles payne in for neil cavuto, let's get reaction from ben stine, doingen mcdowell, adam, along with ron and damen. neil will be back next week. this week, one of president obama's top economic advisors saying america needs a second surge of stimulus planning, but a news poll showing 60% saying no, thanks. did a majority of americans have it right? >> oh, absolutely. the first stimulus was a disaster. $787 billion, nobody read the bill. only about 10% of it goes out the door in the first year. it was just a democratic party payoff bill, basically taxing everybody, including republicans, to pay off democratic interest groups. this thing was a fraud. >> and then, ben, should we point out, i think you were for the first one initially, too. >> now, bear in mind, i was for the idea of

minutes away from when neil armstrong took that step. relive the moment on our shot of the day. >>> at the top of the hour, president obama's health care battle and what it means for your family. >>> for "the shot" that one small step and giant leap that happened 40 years ago tonight at 10:56 p.m. eastern on july 20th, 1969. apollo 11 astronaut neil armstrong set foot on the moon. at that moment the entire world witnessed one of the greatest achievements of all time. take a peek. >> the eagle has landed.

neil armstrong took one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind in a few hours. heat and bonds -- buzz aldrin and michael collins will be at the white house. they are already calling for nasa to be more ambitious. they think we should be aiming to send a man did mission to mars by 2035. >> i'm going to step off right now. >> perhaps the most famous lending in history, the culmination of the space race. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> the journey had begun four days earlier at the kennedy space center. with blastoff of saturn 5, rocketing neil armstrong, buzz aldrin and michael collins to the moon. billions had been spent. many scientific advances made. but in the and, with their fuel running low, two men in a tiny lunar module that had to guide their lander down by hand. >> the eagle has landed. >> tranquillity, we copy you on the ground. you have a bunch of guys about to turn bluebeard we are breathing again. thanks a lot. >> we knew it was dangerous, but we don't think about those things. you are in there to execute. you are par

this buzz aldrin and neil armstrong with us this morning in the fox 5 studio, pretty much. it is actually their wax figures courtesy of madam tussaud's and they are here to mark the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. what was the first animal se into space in was it a monkey, a dog or was it a rat? think about it. we'll have the answer oming up after the break. coming up after the break. oh, what's this? breakfast. it's kind of early, buddy. you've got to need to take some cholesterol off you. honey, have you been reading the cheerios box again? he got that off the box. (announcer) cheerios is made with 100% natural whole grain oats to help lower your cholesterol. that was very thoughtful of you. very early, but very thoughtful. (announcer) cheerios. good for the heart. dealer: during the autobahn for all event, you can get great deals. yeah it's great. i just really want to be sure. whoa, it's us from... ...the future. 11 days in the future. look, you love your new routan. you love the german tuned suspension. you love not having to pay for scheduled maintenance,you- i

the unforgettable words of neil armstrong.e unforgettable moment in history. >>> good morning and welcome back to "news 4 today." i'm joe krebs o this monday, the 20th of july, 2009. >> i'm eun yang in for barbara harrison this morning. we're going to take a look live outside at 5:30, 71 degrees out there. lots of clouds overhead. a little bit of a change for the weather this week. >> let's go to meteorologist tom kierein in storm center 4. tom? >> after a dry pattern we're kind of going to be going into a bit of a wet pattern for the next few days but it's not wet now. we do have the clouds around, temperatures are pleasant. near 70 in washington, 60s in the suburbs. rural areas farther to our west and north in the 50s. southern maryland checking in with temperatures in the 50s. out of the mountains it's in the 50this morning. still not very humid there, but it's rather steamy in southeastern virginia, down to the carolinas. some of that's going to be arriving here later on today, turning more humid. also a few sprinkles just

. >> neil laning stunned by the loss. neil booth, pilot jeff nordaas, flying instructor niall booth and kim felix. they hit a power line and went down on i70 in washington county. the advanced helicoptergh youth foundation. booth was the foundation's director. in the midst of attracting attention and raise money to cover the mental health needs of troubled teens. kim felix was a community leader in lake leonore. her friends are badly shaken. >> she led the girl scout group and she was pta president last year. >> tonight laning says tragedy will not mark the end of the youth foundation. his three employees and their guests were trying to make fly. >> i'm not sure how this tragic event of yesterday will affect our foundation, but i think it would be in total disrespect to neil and to the rest of the people who put their heart and soul into this to not go through with it at some level. >> reporter: laning and all of the other involved with the helicopter company say they are mist fide by what happened and they're interested

. >> the crew of the apollo 11, astronauts buzz aldrin, neil armstrong, and michael collins, gatheredast night to remember the historic moon landing 40 years ago today. the former astronauts spent only a short time talking about the apollo 11 mission in 1969, but they did urge mankind to send missions to mars despite government budget problems. >> reporter: the sense of wonder of what happened 40 years ago never goes away. machines that took man to the moon and back continue to fascinate at washington's air and space museum. >> the eagle has landed. >> reporter: the moon landing and neil armstrong's first steps were a defining moment of the 20th century. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: but there's still a debate about what it all meant and whether it was worth it. >> i was a pilot about eight years, and then i was an astronaut 18. i've been an artist longer than those two combined. >> reporter: allen bean was the fourth man to walk on the moon and now paints those experiences. >> it changed, i believe, most humans' opinion of what humans can

>> yes. >> reporter: one man that didn't make it inside is from houston and he is in pursuit of neil armstrong and has been for years. >> this is a signed photograph when he was in training. >> reporter: he has been able to get a few autographs from neil armstrong. >> he has signed for me up until a few years ago when he stopped signing. >> reporter: he points out that a check signed by neil armstrong recently was auctioned for several thousand dollars. dave statter for 9news now and wusa9.com. >> the crew was joined on stage by others who played key roles in putting the man on the moon. former senator and astronaut john glen. first american to actually orbit the earth. relatives of a man who drowned trying to save a little girl he didn't know say they are very proud of him tonight. 20-year-old allen heck saw a child in distress in a river in kelso, washington and went in to save her. he handed the girl over to a group of people near the shore and then he disappeared. >> he probably wasn't even thinking. i'm lost. >> all she kept saying was uncle allen is in the water and he is not c

neil: and here is a point i will ask you.ng on revenue projections, soç wrong on unemployment. would not go over 8%, and now it is 9.5%." >> this is an outrage, and this is a story that really needs to get out -- and now is 9.5%. there would be no way -- and now, it is 9.5%. they need a lot of pressure to be put on to get those numbers out, exactly for the reasons i have said. he is trying to get an agenda passed that we know virtually nothing about. why? because if people knew about it, it would fail. neil: you have looked at the poll numbers, and you have written actually some pretty critical remarks about barack obama. his political capital that is slipping and evaporation? >> it is evaporated as we speak. -- slipping and evaporating? he may never get it done if it is not done in the next month or so. neil: he did say tonight that he was willing to push off or that he believes is inevitable, the deadline, but the more people become aware of what is in this thing, if we look at the provisions in the bill, it is pretty asto

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armstrong first put his foot down on the moon, when neil armstrong put his foot down on the moon, he said the following, "that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" not just americans, but all mankind. when these brave explorers left behind their inscription, the inscription said something very important. we come in peace for all mankind. and when buzz aldrin was returning the day before the flight actually landed back on the earth he said the following, "this stands as a symbol of the insasheseable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown." on that day 40 years ago we learned a lot about ourselves. we learned a lot about what kind of people human beings really are. the first thing we learn is that in our heart we are explorers. we have that spark, that urge to see what's on the other side of that hill and then go and find it. and that spark is what led us 50,000 years ago to cross as far as australia all the way from africa. and 15,000 years ago one of my ancestors went as far as eastern siberia in the midst of the ice age. and now today we see it's possible t