. >> reporter: i'm diane eastabrook in orion township, michigan. still ahead, i'll tell you how general motors plans to make money selling this small car with help from the u.a.w. >> susie: can you say $1,630 an ounce? that's the new record for gold prices set today, before the precious metals encountered selling. in new york trading, gold futures lost $2 to settle at $1,617 an ounce. but, as suzanne pratt reports, gold prices could continue to shine on. >> reporter: at morningstar's jewelers and pawnbrokers in hollywood, florida, business is sparkling. but, it's business from customers looking to sell or pawn their gold. far fewer want to buy it, at least not the wearable kind. owner louis morningstar says the surging price of precious metals is a big temptation. >> they come to us as a bank. the banks aren't loaning money-- especially small loans. people come in here with their gold and their silver and walk out with several hundred or several thousand dollars. whether in florida or here in manhattan's famed jewelry district, people are looking t

>> what they have is a program called orion one day hoping to send astronauts to explore a near either earth astroid, the moon again and ultimately mars, but the next generation rocket to launch that spaceship is still in the planning stages, all the more reason to savor this final space shuttle flight. >> it will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow morning. thank you. >>> and another big story we are following tonight, a break in an arson investigation, a d.c. man under arrest charged with setting a series of fires in northeast and at least one of them ended with five firefighter seriously hurt. police say this same suspect could be behind several more cases. fox 5's paul wagner has the story. >> reporter: inside this house on 48th place northeast not far from where maurice dews was living with friend a witness says he saw 26-year-old use a lighter to set the house on fire this past tuesday. after being taken into custody investigators say maurice dews confessed to setting the two fires on 48th place, one on grant street northeast and two others on hayes street. according to t

. >> the orion. >> yes, and right here from florida. >> but with the orion, you need the heavy lift rockets there, and i want to read something that shuttle director mike linebach had to say to the team. i'm embarrassed without better guidance from washington for the manned space program, and we have always had a program to transfer into it from apollo to gemini, to orbiters. and so if you go through with the heavy lift program, thousands can be employed so why don't we have a date on the rockets that are needed. >> we have dates and destinations. we are building the next generation of vehicles here now at the cape, and we are going to be going beyond lower orbit. unfortunately, i have to disagree that we don't have plans or support in washington. we have bipartisan legislation signed into law last year which supports these vehicles, and we are going to be utilizing the men and women of the space coast and across the country who have developed the space shuttle program in order to take that next chapter. those, the little boy you spoke of, and i have two boys, and they are going to be part

a lot of talk is surrounding orion. but the bottom line is, as jay barbree was so eloquent in discussing earlier during our coverage, you need these heavy lift rockets to get orion or anything embassy out thelse out. and we know on the list of goals perhaps an asteroid, as i mentioned, or even mars. but there's also controversy over the constellation program, which was scrapped in favor of the obama administration saying hey, let's look at privatization, let's look at people like, for example, the man who created paypal and see what they're able to produce. i understand we have barbree, who's standing by with us. jay, congratulations. another excellent job on your part. to hear the words coming from your mouth saying perfect was so comforting i imagine to all of those watching this final launch today. >> well, tamron, you know, we lost nasa there for a minute, mission control. and i want to say, they left here only eight minutes and five seconds ago and they're passing cape may, new jersey right now. they're getting on

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. >> reporter: aerojet is already working on orion, the next nasa craft for human space exploration.et will supply 38 engines using design technology from the olms engines. >> we're driving towards our first orbital flight test which is targeted for late 2013. >> reporter: nasa wanted a simple and safe modular system and went retro. it's jokingly called an apollo capsule on steroids, but orion could land a crew on the moon or an asteroid or some day on mars. >> it's very rewarding to be part of space flight, number one, but especially to be part of human space flight. people are very proud of this. >> reporter: aerojet engineers will be working on orion for years to come. >> that was tom duhain reporting. >>> authorities at yellowstone national park have released the name of the hiker killed by a bear. 57-year-old brian matayoshi from southern california was mauled to death wednesday by the grizzly who was with her two cubs. park officials say they will not try to capture the grizzly bear. according to the victim's wife, they slowly backed away when they saw the bear, but they were a

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they could solve this tomorrow, unlike other companies -- countries like greece orion and. -- or ireland>> still to come, love and marriage take center stage in new york while gay couples are allowed to legally wed, but it is the economy that could also come out a big winner. the family of the british singer has thank herwinehouse fans -- has thanked her fans. >> flowers and a tribute. many around here had met her out and about in camden. >> so sad. >> a multimillion-dollar selling artist, it winner of five grammy awards, she had had lunch with her mother, janice, on thursday. have, janice and amy's dad come to the shrine. >> it is making it a lot easier for us. i knew this was about one thing, and that was love. >> among the group, her manager, her boyfriend, those that had lived with the ups and downs, the successes and addictions, but this was unexpected. this was a -- there had been no signs of crisis. she had been seen by a doctor on friday night. the last person to speak to her was a security guard on saturday morning. saturday afternoon, they were unable to wake her. today's post

. >> we have selected a new space craft, the zero ryan, --the orion and nasa is trying to figure out what kind of rocket booster they will use with their spacecraft. eventually we will probably have people living on some of these other planets or bodies that are in the solar system. >> it will be at least three, to five years before there is a another mantra from u.s. soil. a quick check on traffic. fog over the golden gate bridge, traffic moving fine in both directions and stay with us, more news after the break. >> we are following a grass fire and contra costa county. it is in a residential area and two structures are involved. this is near the corner of newcastle--castleglenn it is a densely populated neighborhood with houses all along this little intersection. there are four houses that stand out as being right near the center of that fire. crews are also getting help from the air we will keep you posted on any details orion ran lotus live in this deal. --i am grant lotus live in the studio. >> now this look like a pipe bomb that was taped to a transformer box and an office buil

they already have a multi purpose spacecraft called orion and its first mission will be to go to an asteroid we're a minute and 43 seconds away from the touchdown, peter. >> we'll ask you to stay with us as we go silent and again, this is the final landing of "atlantis," the 135th and final shuttle mission. >> as it approaches the runway, commander chris ferguson will flare up "atlantis's" nose to burn up excess speed prior to deployment by pilot doug hurley. >> reporter: we have pictures here, if you want to. this is coming from the cockpit of "atlantis" itself, as it is approaching the kennedy space center here. you see what they call the hudhs up display. this is what the two pilots on board, commander chris ferguson and also pilot doug hurley, this is what they see as they come in for the landing. they will be landing to the southeast, moving at 205 knots and it's on the runway 15 here, 150, that is what it is on the compass, 150 degrees. straight ahead, you can see the runway. we're 20 seconds out from the landing. you see an outline of the shuttle itself making its approach. this is wh

members of the orion string quartet, fantastic players, and other wonderful players. doing an evening which is going to be-- both with me and my company-- mozart, late-- string quartet 135, one of the most celestial pieces of music ever written, followed by a piece by a living european composer, gyorgy kurtag. if you can imagine a full movement 17 seconds long. and then there's-- there might be 11 of them, and the whole thing is only 9 minutes long. very, very exciting, very acerbic, very aphoristic, very exciting. and then shostakovich: a piece from, i think, 1932, entitled prelude and scherzo-- two short movements, an octet. and a company favorite. a company favorite, which is d-man in the waters to mendelssohn's octet in e-flat major. these are, at this time, formal works about the style that we are developing. janet wong, my rehearsal director-- we spend hours talking about the way arms move, the way the hips move. the company is still quite diverse. i'm hoping that watching all those arms and hips and different uses of phrasing and intention-- that we'll still be

. >> reporter: a capsule called orion could take americans to an asteroid or to mars.or space exploration is hard to deny. >> it's visceral and it's a vital part of the 20th century. not sure if it's a big part of the 21st century. >> the the next americans to go into space are to pay to go on the russian rocket. >>> you're looking at saturn as a massive storm swirls through. the violent storms only happen every few years say scientists. >>> a bold attempt of going green falls flat. the environment factor that the city says kept its project from taking off. >>> the bay area weather pattern is about to change. coming up the areas that will have a double digit cool down ♪ mmm. oh gosh. oh dear. big deal. you're delicious. so what. i've got news for you. there's no such thing... ...as a bear sheriff. you think i'm afraid of you? hey what? you don't have to be mean to the cake. i do. you don't. i do. just eat yoplait light. they have great flavors like... boston cream pie, raspberry cheesecake. even though i work here, i'veost weight. wow. yeah. carry on. (announcer) 28 de

>> reporter: we talked about shuttle replacement, nasa's proposed new rocket and a capsule called oriond years from now take americans to an asteroid or to mars. the lust for space exploration is hard to deny. >> it's visceral and it's a vital part of the 20th century. not sure yet whether it's a big part of the 21st century. >> reporter: the next americans to go to space are to ride as paying guests on russian rockets. after 12 days in orbit. it's the shuttles final glide. john fowler. >>> and ohio state forfeits all of its games from last season. including the sugar bowl. ncaa could still impose tougher penalties. >>> an appeals court today upheld the right of a national football league to lock out its players. the judge hands the owners a victory. both sides in the labor dispute said today they are committed to reaching an agreement that would allow a full 2011 season. today talks focused on the rookie wage scale and free agency rules. bloomburg reports that the owners and players are close to deal on how to divide $9.3 billion in revenue. >>> the alleged rockefeller imposer pled gui

. >> reporter: a capsule called orion could take americans to an asteroid or to mars.lust for space exploration is hard to deny. >> it's visceral and it's a vital part of the 20th century. not sure if it's a big part of the 21st century. >> the the next americans to go into space are to pay to go on the russian rocket. >>> you're looking at saturn as a massive storm swirls through. the violent storms only happen every few years say scientists. >>> a bold attempt of going green falls flat. the environment factor that the city says kept its project from taking off. >>> the bay area weather pattern is about to change. coming up the areas that will have a double digit cool down tomorrow and when drizzle could return to our forecast. >>> and breaking the rule in the free for all running for the bulls cost one man dearly. >>> napa county sheriff's deputies have arrested man for a marijuana growing operation where two bodies were found. the two bodies were found along with 3,000 marijuana plants. the napa sheriff says carlos guerrero has been arrested on several drug charges

nasa will be -- is working now on the orion program one day hoping to send astronauts to explore an asteroid. the moon again and ultimately mars. that's next, the next generation of rockets is still in the planning stages. so enjoy this one. it will be a while before nasa launches the next space flight. that's the latest here at nasa goddard, back to you. >>> let's take a look at the other top stories now at 6:35 this morning. maryland voteless decide the fate of a -- voters will decide the fate of a controversial law. in may, o'malley signed a law allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition. it was supposed to take effect july 1st, but the petition drive worked. >>> a maryland man caught with thousands of videos of women he secretly recorded was sentenced to 10 years in prison. 35-year-old charles novak of crofton was convicted on burglary and other charges. he must also register as a sex offender. he was arrested in december after a woman told police she found a man sitting in a car in her garage. officers found novak with a camera filled with nude videos of women. >>> coming up ne

this is based on the orion. it's called the multipurpose crew vehicle.uts on 21-day missions. they're also working on new technologies to get people to mars. nasa says it's absolutely committed to staying in the lead on that effort. check out this video. >> what we're doing is we're investing in a broad portfolio technology. some of these technologies are risky. some will pan out, others will not. but in the end, we'll have the technological capabilities to go to places and explore both with robots and humans that we can't today. >> design and renderings of what they're trying to create. humans and robots. >> oh, my goodness. >> that's another part of what they're working on. more of these robonauts. right now, it's just a torso. >> very humanlike. fingers. >> yeah. it has the five fingers. it's based on the human body. they're working to add legs. eventually they say they'll add wheels. i was wondering, why would it want a human shape? but they say everything about the space station and the shuttle was designed for people. so it makes sense to have robo

back into space with a commercial spacecraft in 2014, 2015, are relying on the heavy vehicle machine orion which will take them beyond. and this won't be until 2016 they start, but going into 2025 or 2026 or 2027 area. that is what they are talking about. but of everything that has been done in the 50 years here, the actual highlight of the 166 flights that we have covered, of course, has been theollo"apollo flights and i have on the msnbc.com on the science and technology page an article entitled "no hoax, apollo for real, the highlight for nasa" and we debungt all of the theories saying that the ast astronauts did not do it with the moon, and we do it with the facts. i would like to ask the viewers to go look at that article and take a look at it and read about nasa's finest moment. tamron. >> we will do it. thank you, jay. appreciate it greatly. >>> still ahead on "newsnation" -- it is a new kind of soda war. beverage makers say they are under attack from anti-obesity campaigns like this one across the country and they are taking legal action and plus some democratic congresswomen accus

completamente excitada por la era qu termina y la prÓxima generaciÓn que e mienza. >> que va a aportar oriÓncuando se dijo sÍ >> muchÍsimas gracias a lourdes ustedes por favor mantÉnganse sintonados a travÉs del dÍa, los vamos mantener informados en todas nuestras edicios aquÍ por univisiÓn. >> este fue quÉ gusto tenerte con sotros! >> ¡muy buenos dÍ! poncho. una cosa tan interesante que la gente no sabe muchas veces y es que la cocina es el cozÓn realmente y el alma de todo lo que es nuestra casa. todolo que norodea en nuestra casa se puede encontrar en la cocina. a travÉs de una técnica maravillosa que se llama el fengshui, y eso quÉ quiere decir y con É se come? es la armonizaciÓn de do lo que es un meo ambiente. un medio ambiente puede ser tu cocina en estecaso y puede ser simplemente un baÑo o tu icina y puede ser el cuarto del matrimonio, pueden ser muchas cosas. hoy vamos a arnizar eso. >> en el caso de la cocina se transmite con s alimentos. y eso va a nuestro cuerpo. >> exactamente. >> quÉ bueno que lo acabas de hacer porque la nota vamos a darle laentrada y defintivamente vamos a v

the orion government and industry team, for example, has shown exceptional creativity in finding ways to keep costs down through new management techniques, technical solutions and innovation. but right now, at this historic moment, america is leading once again by making hard choices that will define us anew. we're taking these bold actions because that's what we need to do to create and win the future. thanks to the many achievements of nasa and its partners, the brave and talented men and women who have soared into space and developed so many cutting edge science missions, we now have a strong foundation from which to pursue those larger goals. the space shuttle gave us tremendous insight into how humans can live, travel and work in space. because of the shuttle, we have the iss, which is giving us the breakthroughs in human health research that will help us reach and return from those new destinations and inspire the next generation of leaders. we have choices today. do we want to keep repeating ourselves, or do we want to look at the big horizon and do the inspirational things we

a multipurpose crew vehicle based on the orion vehicle.se robo-nauts, a torso version is up on the international space station. they want to send these astronauts up to mars. so short version here. they're saying look, we have all of these projects, it's not coming to an end. even with all this, a lot of critics are saying, the u.s. will not be in the lead. >> we're talking about the deficit and when you think about trips to jupiter, to mars, that that's where it will be cut. how do we get the funding for it. >> we don't know. there are serious plans that could be cut. and the reason is this year, nasa had a $19 billion budget. that's not going to happen when they figure out the fiscal year 2012. we're going to have to see what gets cut. a lot of people weighing in on this on facebook and twitter. it's an interesting dilemma. you want the u.s. to be in the lead in space. but we have people who don't have enough food in this country and we have to focus on our financial priorities. >> the good news is, it's not over. when you think of the l

. >> orion una nueva generaciÓn de vehÍculos espaciales capaces de llegar mÁs allá de la Órbita de laandÉ por twitter y lo que quieren es acholito con huevo y las papitas y calentamos unas tortillas norteÑas sonoras de harina. >> una receta muy mexicana. >> se parte la papa en cuadritos y se ponen en la cazuela con un poco de aceite y sal y pimienta al gusto. >> tenemos los chorizos mexicanos! yo estoy de asistenta de cocina. >> hoy quien manda en la cocina es josÉ. >> y esto fue lo que desayunÉ yo en el espacio. hasta traje una foto en donde me ven... >> mucha gente se pregunta quÉ es lo que comen los astronautas? cuÁntas veces comen al dÍa? >> llevamos tortillas y la comida estÁ deshidratada, pero nomÁs uno lo pone en el horno con un poco de agua. >> te llevaste tu salsita picante? >> la tuve que pedir en especial para que me la llevaran. >> el huevo estÁ deshidratado. >> si llegas a ir a marte me invitas a cocinar allÁ y tÚ vienes a mi show. >> un intercambio justo. [risas] >> cÓmo se baÑan? >> un baÑo similar a mi rancho en michoacÁn >> con un paÑito. >> en los tiempos que no habÍ

than one percent of the federal budget, and all of the plans for nasa to do with the shuttle based on orion possible asteroid mission in the long run, that is going to be important. >> reporter: and so president obama says that nasa needs to change direction, that is okay by you? >> yes, something that has gone back to the bush administration, so there is a lot of bipartisan support for changing the basic way that nasa does things. >> reporter: okay. we are hope nag the shing that goes off, and we have the fingers and the toes crossed and hoping that everything goes as planned, because people told me yesterday that 1 million people were going to invade the area, and i did not believe them, but boy, i believe it now. >> well, we actually left at 6:00 a.m. from the inn where we were staying which is five or six miles from here, because the traffic, and we knew the traffic would be thick and it was thick. it took us quite a while to get here and a lot of excitement here and people selling t-shirts on the sidef of the road. i am hoping that they are discounted on the way back. i am thinking tha

space program back in 1992 but my mom is still there, she is now going to work on the new vehicle, the orioncry there, had to be quite a moment for her. what was it like for you seeing th th that? >> it's funny i'm embarrassed to admit when i was younger i got embarrassed, as you saw she gets so emotional, so excited, and yesterday i could not have been more proud to be standing beside her. it was, you know it was really something to see the space shuttle launch for the last time. i definitely teared up. you saw my mom did as well. i saw many astronauts tear up, and you know the one thing that i really walked away with was everybody said they just could not believe that this was the last time they were going to watch a shuttle launch at cape canaveral. hard to wrap your mind around that. >> thank you for sharing with us. you take care. >> my pleasure. >> kristen fisher of wusa tv in washington. >>> about 23 minutes before the hour. rebecca out to you. >> reporter: cool story russ. we found some hats out here, a great way to beat the heat and look great doing it. we have one for you and every

we announced the mcv as orion to go on that big rocket. that hardware starts arriving here at the cape later this year for the first test article. soon we'll have an announcement on the exact architecture of the rocket to go on with it. so we are making progress. we're doing all that we need to do to help move us forward. so, you know, the shuttle program has been truly phenomenal. and i take great pride in this team and thank them for all they've done. we still got a lot to do before it's over. and they're going to be doing a lot of work on orbit and then we're going to bring home them safe and i'm looking forward to the landing on the cape and shake their hands. thank you for your support and we're going to get through this and we're going to do well but awesome launch today. mike? >> thanks, bob. let's see. after years of training they tell me to do things in the right order i'll do something in the wrong order. i'm going to start on my remarks by telling you mike tells you a lot that he leads the best launch in the world and i'll inclu

no longer deliver those supplies because our replacement, the constellation program and the future orionso it's the russian space agency, european space agency and japanese space agency which will carry the burden of carrying up all of those supplies as well as the humans, the men and women who will staff the international space station from now until the year 2020 at a minimum. that's for budget. nasa budget is transferred to the constellation program. for workers, 9,000 people in total with the shuttle program retiring, are going to be losing their jobs. some of those have already lost their jobs in waves earlier this year. big wave happens first thing in the morning. 3200 more people. these are highly educated, well paid employees, are suddenly going to be out of a job. the good news is they've had a lot of forewarning of this. there is another wave that the united space alliance is going to do in august as well. then the kennedy space center is not going to be moth balls up. the visitor center gets several million visitors a year. there are multiple rocket launches that will continue

. -- orion capsule. the spacecraft will carry four astronauts 421-day missions and be able to land in the pacific ocean. how is designed to be much safer during ascent and entry than the shuttle. we're nearing a decision on a heavy lift rocket, the space launch system, forsls and we will announce that soon. complement by technology development, these two systems will open up the entire solar system to us. i have established program offices for bothmpcv and sls at the johnson space center in houston and hawksbill, alabama respectively. i have established our crew at the kennedy space center and will work on upgrading the launch facilities. we will accommodate more kinds of users. speaking of those facilities across the agency, we have had a tremendous interest from our commercial space partners in reusing releasing these assets. we're close to making some major announcements about them soon. the reuse of our unique nasa assets like the orbiter processing facilities will help these companies keep their cos

the orion space cast -- spacecraft is a multipurpose vehicle. it is very far along in its testing. i think we have the vehicles. what we now have to do is follow through on our plan and make it work to get it flying. to get -- to get them flying. >> fox news radio for anyone who would like to take it. if someone came to you in april of '81 and said you are going to fight these things for 30 years and, in the process, you are going to hang out at the space station, launched an amazing space telescope, and build this behemoth of a space station -- which you tell them they were crazy? or would you tell them, yes, that is what we are going to do? >> i think people had great vision for the space shuttle. i think the space station was part of that vision. that was the main reason to have the space shuttle -- to go to the space station. we were looking at a space station in 1984. it just took us awhile to get the final design. the russian cooperation part, that might have been different in 1981. but, again, it shows how things changed and how valuable the space shuttle is. look at the uni