how did these obiters get into space. >> one thing you have to keep in mind as you worked through theht last night. >> main thing was weather we have what is called a wind restraint system allows us to pick it up and lift it off the 747 that is not easy you cannot do it with winds greater than 10 miles an hour. winds were height during the day at night calm worked, through rain a little bit but the team stood in there, been about 10 hours total going through the process of basically unboating the obiter -- unbolting the obiter and lowering it down and putting it on the ground. >> you were in charge of flow of discovery before while shuttle missions were going on. >> yes at kennedy space center from the moment it landed and launched again we called it processing flow, hence the title flow director i have the honor of leading the team for 11 flights. >> but this is your last go around. >> yes. >> what are you thinking >> i am so excited to be here and honored to be here i haven't had time to let myself soak in i am giving debt coverry to valerie neil, -- giving discovery to valerie neil

to be a national repository we are delighted to get discovery the work horse of the space shuttle obiter fleet here as a permanent home. >> president trips to space i want to show viewers video tape within the last hour, we went inside enterprise the pro toe type this also road on the back of a 747 but with john young and bob crippen just lifted off over the california desert to prove it could fly, enterprise has been here a number of years this is going to new york the spot inside where people have seen enterprise is where discovery will be what will people do just see it. >> be able to see it we have had enterprise in there she is shiny and beautiful and white we are bringing in discovery what visitors will notice is how worn discovery is, as you mentioned discovery went to space 39 different times, did everything a space shuttle obiter could do she is a little charred, dinged up is dirty and we are excited about that. >> so are we, thank you we will be here for the fly over the landing with all these many thousands of people for right now though i would like to turn to my colleague sh

police say a pair of thieves ripped off grieving families using information from the owe -- obits.n. a man says the crooks cleaned out his family's home on the day of his mother's funeral after they saw her obit in a local paper. he says they took a lot of jewelry, two safes and more. cops say they got a tip and found some of the stuff. >> it's like going to a wrecking yard and they just wrecked most of the stuff, especially the high end stuff, unfortunately. >> shepard: thieves apparently stripped the gems from all that jewelry. virginia. investigators are blaming a huge apartment fire in the roanoke area on a cigarette. they say somebody left the butt in a plastic container on a second story balcony. nobody hurt but 18 people lost their homes. new york. ten kids went to the hospital after their school bus collided with a car in queens. a city official says the car cut in front of the special ed bus, two adults also hurt. california. meet robo squirrel. researchers at uc davis say they made the thing to face off against rattle snakes. one scientist says they are trying to figure o

if you lost a loved one and you post the obit. in washington state burglars are targeting people that are just lost their families and friends, john was robbed at his mother's funeral. he finally got his things back outside a daycare where they were found. >> going through this and having my loss of my mother, you have have get a break and they made a break for us. >> police are still looking for the two suspects. they believe they were responsible for other crimes. >>> and he can really bust a move and it just may be his dancing. look at this guy. galveston texas, this guy has been dancing his heart out. broke into a vehicle and officers released the video hoping someone will recognize him. >> he has -- mc hammer break dancing. >> let him go. >> parachute pants. >> you have to get a little excited about it. >> never know. >> and a freezing start to the day. north of the city take a look. northern maryland. you can see a freeze warning up that will last through nine. above freezing by 7:30. cecil up through garret on the state lin

to keep the public aware of the fact that it was a real obiter people seem to thing it was a model weid no, it is a real orb tore just wasn't ready to go into space. >> what is the biggest difference when people come and see discovery, in this space. >> when people approach discovery and see the nose i think they will think they are looking at enterprise as soon as they veer left or right they h realize this is an orb tore that has been flown in space some of this thermal blankets arediscolored, the bottom looks like a charcoal grill the tiles are grey and chalky and dusty, you can tell exactly how the air and heated gas flowed over the obiter looking at those tiles on the bottom. >> now you have a whole new program that can be offered in terms of telling its story and the significance of discovery. >> exactly that we are doing something we never attempted before linking the display here with a new gallery in the museum on the mall so people who come to the mall museum will be able to see and explore discovery virtually and then people who come here will have some insight into the exh

-- bloomberg accidentally ran -- a friend of mine said they ran it in air or in print a steve jobs obite years ago. >> dana: they knew dick clark being a famous american icon, they knew it was probably not going to be too much longer. in 2004, he had a stroke. you remember, he missed the new year's ball dropping one year. regis filled in for him. remember how wonderful it was when he came back. he had to teach himself to speak again. he did that. it was a good moment. >> bob: i didn't think it was a good moment. i thought when he came out, dick clark that you remember in your mind, see a guy who was remarkable, he was able to come back after that. but it unit wasn't the same dick clark. >> andrea: it was important for him. if you watch the special, remember he came out and emotionally said how important it was for him to do this and how good it made him feel. i know maybe it made some people feel awkward, but for someone like him who gave us all the music greats -- >> dana: madonna is one of the people that was on "american bandstand." >> bob: she was? >> dana: she first goes on "americ

so again, you can read several of those obits today on the journalistic legend. but we want to get back to the phone about america's place in the world. want to know what you think. we're going to go to cliff on the republican line from california. good morning. caller: good morning. well, without a change in leadership, our position is to continue to bow and apologize and scrape, to beg iran to negotiate with us while we stab our allies israel in the back and get played like a sucker by china and russia and continue our general path towards the direction of the e.u. which every liberal must ask him or herself what went wrong in the e.u. but with the change in leadership, we could pursue an aggressive energy policy to mobilize this nation like f.d.r. did in world war ii. this nation desperate for solution in energy production which creates great jobs, careers, even, high paying, with room for advancement, great benefits, pensions, health care, instead of wasting of hundreds of billons of dollars in bankrupt like solar trust and the chevy volt which has suspended