this battle around his huge interest even comrade stalin joins neil collins crew to watch the encounter from his all terrain vehicle. at last the first shots ring out. according to the battle scenario british paratroopers kicked the germans out of a small dutch town and quickly took up defensive positions. british intelligence then revealed the enemy was sending large numbers of infantry troops and tanks to take back the town. unnecessary bloodshed the. negotiators to the town. or surrender. the. british paratroopers fierce fighting erupted again the best german troops launched an attack of their own. superior german. the british inflicted heavy casualties. on the strength of british troops began to fade as germany units flooded in then all of a sudden the sound of bagpipes rang the exploding shells. paying attention to the bullets whistling overhead and calmly walked across the battlefield. exhausted soldiers. it's possible the organizers of this show wanted to pay tribute to the. six nine hundred forty four. from his commander beaches of normandy. soldiers fighting on the battlefield.

. >> reporter: and that sat atop that rocket, bringing neil armstrong, mike collins and buzz allrin to the moon the summer of '69. >> we were around our television and were amazed at what is happening. >> it's one small step for man. >> reporter: neil armstrong descending upon the moon and this is what it would have looked like, one of the first lunar modules. >> he was the first man to go on the moon and died two days ago. >> reporter: he watches in seoul, south korea. >> and didn't have many places with the tv and you go to the house with the tv. >> it was something that touched james coney. he's from the african nation of swam bia. >> and he's passing a great loss and hopefully an inspiration to many. they can try to achieve the impossible. >> reporter: armstrong himself was last year at the smithsonian's air and space museum three years ago o40th anniversary of apollo 11. >> history is a sequence of random events and that is why the future is difficult to see. >> if he took his responsibility as a spokesperson seriously, because in some sense, that was part of the mission. but he d

. >> reporter: it's the very space capsule that sat atop that saturn 5 rocket bringing neil armstrong, mike collins and buzz aldrin to the moon that summer of '69. >> i remember. we were all gathered around our television and just amazed at what was happening. it was like surreal. >> it's one small step for man. >> reporter: few can forget, if old enough to see it, neil armstrong descending upon the moon. here's what it would have looked like, this one of the first lunar modules. >> he was the first man to go on the moon and he died two days ago. >> reporter: jun chang watched the historic journey at a neighbor's house in seoul, south korea. >> at time we didn't have many place with a tv, so you go to the house with a tv and everybody scream. >> reporter: it was something that touched james kony from the african nation of zambia. >> i think he was a very courageous and intelligent man and is one of the most renowned pool in the world. so his passing is a -- people in the world, so his passing is a great loss but hopefully an inspiration to many to try and achieve the impossible. >> reporter: armstr

neil prescott. the plaintiff, the contractors association. david collins will have the latest on that and >> back to the games in london and return trip to the pool. in our exceptional olympic moment of the day, bringing home a gold, silver, and bronze medal. she won the 200 meter freak last night with an incredible performance. she is been training with the newly proclaimed greatest of libyan of all time. reminder, wbal -- wbal-tv 11 is your channel for the games. >> ravens practice is open to the public this week. in the meantime, they are getting the job done in owen's mills privately. >> a bit of a few fans. they have a lottery to come and watch practice. not quite the training camp will come to know in westminster. practice is getting done and focusing on this. it is safe to say he had some mixed messages. he talked about retiring and frustrations with the team, but he cleared some of that up today. what is so important for this team is he is back and playing, healthy and level that we've come to know, which is one of the status -- greatest state fees

neil young, and i'll forget somebody. laura nero was really important to me. judy collins, bonnie. that was it for me. that was it.ll my feelings and to what i wanted to do with the guitar. i loved to play it, and it was like the gates of heaven opened up and i had all this stuff to emulate. that was good stuff too, as we know, in retrospect, again. it was really good stuff too. then i just went off track and did -- not that i don't like country music, but i was in bands, i was in a lot of bands. rock and roll, country music, bluegrass music, pop music, tried to be a celine dion pop singer, and it just didn't work. i didn't feel comfortable with it. i took a year off at some point, after i got sober, actually, because i was told, "your identity is not necessarily -- that's not who you are, the music. you're another entity. the music is what you choose. it's what you do." i thought, well, i'm going to choose not to do it, then, and see who i am. about a year later i thought, but wait, i'm good at music. what if i never really try to find out who i am musically? that was a very quick trajectory from there for me to

there was a private memorial service today for neil armstrong, a reunion of his apollo 11 crew mates, buzz aldrin was with armstrong on the moon and michael collins there. he of course circled above to fly them home afterwards. john glenn and his wife annie were there. there will be a national memorial service for neil armstrong in washington on september 12th. by the way, tonight up in the sky perhaps for neil armstrong a rare blue moon as they call it, the second full moon in the month of august. >>> 15 years ago tonight a lot of people remember where they were when they heard the news princess diana had died in a car accident in paris. her fans and admirers left tributes on this anniversary date in both london and paris where the mercedes she was riding in crashed in that tunnel as it was being tailed by papparazzi. diana, her boyfriend dodi fayed, and the driver of the car were all killed in the accident. >>> tourists in washington this holiday weekend will find water in the lincoln memorial reflecting pool for the first time in two years. it was actually stimulus funding that paid for the major renovation project. $34 million worth. the site

>> within a decade, three american astronauts, neil armstrong, buzz aldrin and michael collins soaredr. it's become a friend now. >> you're one of the closest friends the moon has. astronaut buzz aldrin still hosts full moon parties to pay his respect to the old friend he visited over 40 years ago. >> the actual descent to the surface of the moon was a battle. >> apollo 11 flight director gene krants coordinated the landing from 240 miles away. >> we locked the control room doors and those doors would remain locked until we either landed, crashed or aborted. >> i was huddled around the tv along with the rest of the planet. we were all in the living room, we were all watching and my mom had made jiffy pop popcorn. we're all waiting. the descent was riddled with issues. the proposed landing site was strewn with boulders. >> he didn't say anything. he just leveled the spacecraft off. people on the ground were wondering why he leveled off. >> everybody was sucking air. i mean, it was about as tight and tense as you could get. >> it was quiet. you'd hear this his in between the word and tr

but i think neil will go down in history as probably an exceptional -- >> reporter: the first pictures from this private memorial are coming out. you can see buzz aldrin and michael collinsir respects. in 2010, something that drew neil armstrong out into the public eye what his dissatisfaction with cuts in the budget that impacted nasa and space exploration. his colleague from apollo 8 said it's time for entrepreneurs to step up the way they once did for aviation. alisyn: some call this a fitting cosmic sendoff. a rare blue moon tonight as we remember the late neil armstrong. this won't happen again until the year 2015. so look up wherever you are tonight. think of neil and give the moon a wink. we'll be right back. okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle health has revigor and protein to help protect, preserve, and promote muscle health. keeps you from getting soft. [ major nutrition ] en

see the commander of apollo 13, and john glenn, and michael collins paying respects and you will see the family members and grandchild of neilrmstrong. you mentioned, neil, tonight is the blue moon and the family of nearly armstrong wants that to be an opportunity for everyone to pay their respects or give a salute to neil armstrong by looking up at the blue noon and giving a little wink. >>neil: thank you very much, mike tobin. my mention guest is a very good friend of neil armstrong and i have had the pleasure of heating and chatting with him, a hero in his own right, colonel warren joining me on the phone. you remembered and knew neil armstrong very well. a very sad day. >>guest: yes, i knew neil pretty well. we worked together a lot over the last few years. as you probably know, neil was not big on public appearans. he was certainly not big on commercializing what he had done which is, i think, the thing that i still worship him for because i think he had a certain vision of what he represented and what he did and what it meant to the country. i think he maintained that vision and did the right things his entire life. he

collins blasting off and apollo 11. it was an historic journey, four days 250,000 miles. the world watched and waited. the eagle landed. on july 20, 1969, neilot on the moon with his famous words -- >> it is one small step for man one giant leap for mankind. >> in about 2.5 hours, neil armstrongand aldrin planted an american flag and set up scientific experiments. neil armstrong left nasa to teach engineering at the university of cincinnati, inspiring another generation of space explorers. >> president obama released a statement saying "neil armstrong was among the greatest of american heroes not just of his time but of all time." . armstrong was a husband and father of two. >> reaction to his death comes from a fellow former astronaut who has made the chicago area his home for a long time. >> how jim lovell is remembering the first man to step on the moon. >> jim lovell best known as the commander of apollo 13. he and neil armstrong were good friends. lovelel says even though his friend is gone, neil armstrong will continue to inspire. >> the eagle has landed. >> neil is the symbol of what this country stands for, what we can accomplish a r

neil armstrong blasted off to the moon. his voyage would take him where no man had ever landed before. traveling had women had edwin bus aldrin and michael collins. >> after landing they had hours to stand there 15 feet above the surface. long before we actually got out on the surface we already pretty good appreciation for what the moon was like. >> it's one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. >> armstrong made world history when he stepped off the eagle and set foot on the moon on july 20th. hundreds of millions of people gathered in front of television around the globe to witness it. they became national heroes. president praised the heroics with a special long distance call. >> hello, neil and buzz, i am talking by telephone from the oval room at the white house. >> neil armstrong was born august 5, 1930 in ohio, at 16 years age he had his student pilot's license before he drove car. he joined the navy and at the age of 20, flew 78 combat missions over korea. he graduated in 1955 with a bachelor of science degree with n aeronautical engineering. he joined the astronaut program in 1962. four years later he got his first taste of s

neil armstrong blasted off to the moon. his -- and going where no man landed before. traveling with him was edwin buzz aldrin and command module pilot michael collins. >> after landing, we had hours to stand there a mere 15 fight above the surface and along before getting on the surface, we had a good appreciation for what the moon was like. >> that is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: hundreds of millions of people gathered in ont of television's around the globe to witness this feat. the men of apollo 11 became national heros. the president praised their heroics with a special long- distance call. >> neil and buzz, i am talking to you by telephone from the oval room at the white house. >> reporter: neil armstrong was born august 5th, 1930, in ohio. at 16 years of age, he had his student's pilot license before driving a car. he joined the navy and at the age of 20, flew 78 combat missions over korea and graduated from perdue university in 1975 with a degree in nautical engineering. he joined the astronaut program and four years later, he got the first taste of space as commander on the gemini 8. two vehicle were succ

11 commander neil armstrong blasted off to the moon and his voyage would take him where no man had landed before. travelling with him were lunar module pilot buzz aldrin and michael collins>> and after landing we had hours to stand 15 feet above the surface, so long before we actually got out on the surface, we had a pretty good appreciation for what the moon was like. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> armstrong made world history when he stepped off the eagle and set foot on the moon on july 20th. hundreds of millions of people gathered in front of television the around the globe to witness this monumental feat. the men of apollo 11 became national heros, and praised them. >> hello, neil and buzz talking to you by telephone from the oval room of the white house. >> neil armstrong born 1930, at 16 years of age he had his student pilots licenhe drove a navy and tender age of 20, flew 78 missions over korea, graduated pr per -- from purdue, and four years later got his first taste of space as commander of gemini 8. in this mission two vehicles were successfully docked in space at the first time, however, ran into complications and armstrong m