today nasa is remembering that legendary landing and phil keating is live from the kennedy space center in florida. hi. >> a very special day at the kennedy space center and tonight a who's who from that very unique select few for the "apollo 11" landing dinner. underneath the saturn 5 rocket which remains the tallest, heaviest and most powerful rocket ever to blast off from earth. take a look at today's nasa image of the day. they release these photos every day. today is the eagle en route to the lunar surface. 45 years ago today and commanded by neil armstrong who would soon after make history for the human race. >> houston, the eagle has landed. >> armstrong and aldrin landed in the sea of tranquility and then canceled their scheduled two-hour nap figuring they had just landed on the moon and probably wouldn't be able to fall asleep. pretty smart. flew the surface module up above. took the three crewmen three long days in that cramped capsule to goon. but armstrong and aldrin really only spent 2 1/2 hours moonwalking bouncing around, collecting rocks, taking photos and leaving those

phil keating reports. >> today very special day here in the kennedy space center. enormous saturn five rocke s powered the apollo 11 to the moon after landing neal armstrong and buzz aldrich but their historic footprints where no one had ever stood before. >> as half a billion people around the world stared at their tv screens, the united states landed the apollo 11 in the sea of tranquility. then for just 2.5 hours, neal armstrong and buzz aldrin explored the lunar surface bouncing around taking photos making those special footprints and planting that specially made american flag which still stands there today. it's one of those rare moments in history where everyone who was alive remembers exactly where they were and that triumph moment. >> i moon if you look back what's happened in modern american history is there one thing that you can think of that i can think of more significant, something more expressive of american exceptionalism than neal's first steps on the moon. >> that's the last person to set foot on the moon. former astronaut bruce, was cap conned du

adam: phil keating is live from the cigar city with more on the story. what gives, phil?m over tobacco which now includes e-cigarettes and cigars. in fact this machine here has 10,000 working parts. it has all of this loose tobacco. it goes through this conveyor belt like a model t ford factory, rolling into cylinders. wrapping into paper. eventually polished, rounded tip. pops on out. 60,000 cigars made here at jc newman cigar company. but factory owners of cigar manufacturers around the country say, you know, jobs will be lost and factorytries like this will be close in the fda does not back off. >> this place, it is like a family. we're all family. >> tampa's jc newman cigar factory has been packing, twisting, wrapping cigars like this exactly like this since the 1930s. there was a time when 150 cigar factories here gave tampa the nickname, the cigar city. today newman is the last one but maybe not for long. >> in order to introduce a new cigar, the fda would require 5,000 hours of testing for smoke, nicotine analysis and without new products, we would be strangled and

phil keating is live in coco beach. >> reporter: hundred miles offshore the rain and cloud action that is the back side of tropical storm arsure and soon to be a category 1 hurricane by tomorrow. and on the front side of arthur, the entirity of the u.s. eastern coast line. we'll have all of the news you need to know to keep safe and it could be a wet july 4th weekend for millions, coming up. >> fox extreme weather alert. tropical storm arthur is heading north and mill combrons on the east coast are preparing for the storm's wrath in time for the july 4th holiday. >> reporter: hi, we are on the pier that is popular with the surfers. off in the distance 105 miles northeast of us is tropical storm arthur and for the surfers tis a great day to play in the surf. for anyone on the eastern sea board you have to be careful about rip currents and flash floting and storm surge. and it is packing 60 miles per hour sustained winds and they could get up to 80 or 85 miles per hour tomorrow. and it bears lot of punch. look at that photograph taken by the astronaut on the international space station.

phil keating is live in tampa with a story of the cigar craftsman versus the bureaucrats. >> congressed and expanded the regulatory power of the fa a. and they regulate. industry said the factories are about to close unless the fa a backs off. >> this place is like a family. we are all family. >> reporter: the cigar factory has been doing this since the 1930s. there was a time when 150 cigar fact rows gave tampa the nickname of the cigar city. >> today jc nowman is the last one and maybe not for long. nin order to introduce a new cigar, they would require 5,000 hours of testing for smoke and nicotine and we would be strangled and have to close down. >> and the fda is willing to exempt cigar makers for premium cigars. and most don't sell $10 and up. >> a would have to raise price. >> $10 for a hamburger, no. the the fda said the aim is public health. couple bustible cigars are causes of source health effects including cancer and heart disease. for now nothing has changed and the cigar industry is holding out hope. >> we'll get the public comment. you will have that when jenna has her b

phil keating live for us at kennedy space center with a look back at the unforgettable moment. >> reporter: harris, "apollo 11" undeniably changed the world creating a new university of possibilities that humans could accomplish. it was truly a moment that changed and defined the late '60s, the space race, and succeeding in exactly what we had set out to do. on july 20th, 1969, the eagle lander approached and then landed on the lunar service, commanded, of course, by neil armstrong, who would soon make history for the human race. >> 30 seconds. >> houston, tranquillity base here. the eagle has handed. >> they landed in the sea of tranquillity, then canceled the two-hour nap, figured they wouldn't be sleeping, because after all they had just landed on the moon, probably couldn't fall asleep. michael collins flew the service module up above, worries the entire time if he would end up returning to earth as the only survivor. it took the "apollo 11" three long and cramped days, they only -- bouncing around in gravity one sixth that of earth, collecting the 47 pounds of rocks and oth

phil keating live in miami with that. phil? >> reporter: jon, henry flagler's rail lines built miami, palm beach, all of florida's east coast. now more than 100 years later there is return here to rail travel. [train horn] where today's freight trains rumble between miami and orlando, all aboard florida plans to add 100 mile-an-hour passenger trains, the first privately owned, privately-run and predicted to be profitable passenger rail service nationwide in this case. similar to a privately built bullet train planning to link houston and dallas. it is integrated with commercial and residential development currently in vogue among urban planners. >> as we look at the future, people are telling us they want to live and work in the city centers and so we're developing properties that deliver against that desire and people want an alternative to using their private cars and trains provide that alternative. >> reporter: up and down the tracks opposition gaining steam, citing multiple concerns amount requested $1.6 billion loan, that

. >> that was phil keating reporting for us. chief meteorologist scott williams is here now. scott, will we be feeling the storm's impacts here? >>> actually iain we will see some of the impacts from arthur as we move especially toward the fourth of july. dangerous rip currents as well as some rainfall. but hurricane hunters have been investigating the system this afternoon finding more convection and also more symmetry with the system. so it is intensifying. take look at the particulars. maximum sustained winds are up to 70 miles per hour. need 75 miles per hour to be classified as a hurricane. movement now to the north at about 7 miles per hour and take look at this. we have tropical storm warnings for sections of coastal south california included in that hurt pell beach. hurricane warnings now issued for the outerbanks of north carolina. you'll want to tune in tomorrow morning with good day. our own sue serio will have live reports from myrtle beach, south carolina trackin tracking the lt with tropical storm arthur. as we look at the spaghetti plots you can see pretty good

. >> phil keating, thank you very much. let's go to the border with mexico where people continue illegally streaming across it to get into the country. protesters have blocked bus loads of children and families from entering a bus sdagz. that happened about 60 miles north of san diego. demonstrators turned back three homeland security buses after a stand-off. they were transferring them from overcrowded facilities in texas. the feds say more than 50,000 children are come into the nation since october. let's take a look at the monster wall. they eventually rerouted the buses from marietta to an immigration facility within view of the border. city officials say they have been told to expect bus loads more to arrive every 72 hours. william is live in our west coast newsroom. what else has happened at this protest? >> well, there was a counter protest as well last night, and the two had to be separated by police. those bus loads were the first of many scheduled for marietta. the mayor urged residents to turn out if he couldn't

. >> we are joined now live by phil keating in cape ka 1/2 val, florida, where that moon launch missionody. we have inside the apollo and saturn 5 center here, part of the kennedy space center's visitors complex. that is one of the saturn 5 rockets, the heaviest and most powerful rockets to leave planet earth. it was today when neil armstrong, buzz alderon and made history. >> houston, the eagle has landed. >> as the commander of the mission, of course, neil armstrong had the absolute honor to put the first human footprint on the lunar surface. buzz ald rron bounced around wi him. it was a complex 2 1/2 hours. they only spent 2 1/2 hours on that first apollo 11 mission to the moon. michael collins had the very important job of operating the service module orbiting the moon while aldron and armstrong collected about 47 pounds of samples from the lunar service and took a lot of photographs and planted that american flag. buzz aldron told leah gabriel with fox news earlier this week, one of those experience webs which really is only shared by 12 people. >> you can see it against the black