i know planetariums are the gateway drug for science. when kids get into a place like this and get blown away by their --erience >> the open house is this weekend. the first programs for all students will be coming shortly. planetarium.org site. web >> it's going to be a fun weekend. back to you. >> we will try to put the information on our web site, wjla.com. we have much more to come. we have a preview from new york of zero what is ahead on ♪ [ harry umlaut ] hey you know what, i speak european. [ sally umlaut ] european isn't a language. i think they speak all kinds over there. nah. it's basically one language with a few variations. my cousin has a passport. uh-huh. take this fascinating muller yogurt. frut up. means "fruit up." as in creamy yogurt down below. and a delectable, aromatic layer of blended fruity, moussey, uppiness on top. frut up. as the europeans say. in their language. wow. you really are biingual. yeah, i dated a comma in high school. [ male announcer ] muller. the european for yummy. [ mitt romney ] there are 47% of

i love the planetarium. i think i remember the first time that i went because i was little. as 85 or less even. my parents took me because at any age could sit there and you look at the sky. it is captivating >>> we're trying to take a different direction. sort of focus on some of the creed of energy on looking at earth as a planet incident earthquakes. >>> we set his earthquake component to a new show. i'm sticking are quick to be looking at the earth and things rumbling in changing. is just a view from sky or deal with the sky during earthquake also >>> were seeing is out with a supply transforms and changes over time. we're looking differently about how our society has changed over time. and how we live and earthquake area >>> this is part to show that were seeing. >>> this is what you see in the show. we highlight parts of the earth. the action recreate the city as looked the century ago and looking at a tsunami simulation. >>> all those colors in their the kind of let up. and what was that? >>> we actually don't underneath the surface of the planet and look at what happ

he grew up right near the planetarium. this was athe skies, from time lapse wintergreen. the morning fog and clouds. think there will be some more tomorrow morning. look at the temperatures, though. is 76 degrees. are some showers, but none the wild whether we had around last night. look at the cooler air off to our north and northwest. that will be the air coming in as they go through much of the weekend. lot better.looks a here is what is going on in doppler right now. there are those showers 40 parts ofthe northern parts southern maryland. -- for you in parts of southern maryland. you can get a general idea of widespread they are. n is one we patter have the drier air continue to come in. winds turn more to our nw. a lot of those showers will be well to our north -- well to our south. look at the morning low temperatures. by tomorrow morning, it into 50's. the feel of fall will be any air. clouds duringher the afternoon. free admission for skyline drive tomorrow. temperatures will be in the 60's. sunday, there is chance there might be a few showers popping up in the to

there are certain things you can see every week you can go to the museum, visit the planetarium, and we bring in bars and a deejay or band. it is a different feel from during the day, something different every week. tonight , we have beer and music. -- tonight we have great beer and music. it is beer week. we have a dozen local brewers in african hall. we have a deejays to set up throughout the museum and a live performance at 9:00 p.m. tonight. >> what has been your favorite part as a participant or as an observer? >> my favorite part is to walk around the aquarium in to see people with a drink in their hands, getting to know maybe somebody new, may be looking for a day, or chatting with friends. there jellyfish. i mean, they are beautiful. >> the culmination of the animals. >> it is very impressive. we do not have this at home. >> tell us a little about some of the spider's we see here on display. >> at the california academy of sciences, there is a very large collection of preserved and live specimens, which are the evidence about evolution. we have the assassin spiders, which are

in addition we have lots of other programs, a new planetarium show opening next week. " when things collide that will be very exciting and wonderful and then later on this year we have a bill my exhibit opening up and a great exhibit in december on the sun that will blow your mind. >> very exciting, not just a day but 12 months out of the year at the space center. if you want more information visit us at cbs sf .com. a historic day here at the space center, glad that mobil weather could be here. frank, elizabeth, and wants. >> that was something to see. you never get tired of seeing that. >> you could hear the screams and cheering, >> then you would was coming ... >> it got down lower when it went over. those pictures are unbelievable. it was not about the shuttle, apple also had a launch of its own. sands helped employees countdown as the union square store opened its doors at 8:00 this morning. it was the first day that the new iphone 5 went on sale across the country, and for those that had been camping outside for days, was it worth the wait? >> it feels like a massive burden has been l

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he's the director of the hayden planetarium here in new york. >> when you wrote this article in "foreign affairs," which i was struck by -- >> it made the cover. >> it was the cover. and they talked about, you talked in this article in "foreign affairs" about the fact that we were withdrawing from space, a kind of limiting our ambitions at the very moment that china was afternooning up its program. you worry a lot about the fact that people are getting very cost-conscious and very, and really cutting back. and you tell the story about the hubell telescope. tell us what happened. >> in that particular case, the hubell telescope, when it was launched the mirror had the wrong curvature to it, the mirror images were fuzzy. so what do you do? >> because it is up there. >> it is up there. it's a mission to go work on it and be clever about how you correct -- because that problem was not anticipated before hubell was launched. you have to be real careful about what you pull down and swap. you could get data but it was fuzzy data. so what do you do? you

he's director of the hayden planetarium here in new york. >> thanks, thanks. >> when you wrote this articletruck by -- >> cover article. >> the cover essay. and they talked about -- and you talked in this article in "foreign affairs" about the fact that we were withdrawing from the -- from space. limiting our ambitions at the very moment that china was amping up its program. you worry a lot about the fact that people are getting very cost conscious and very -- really cutting back. you tell the story about the hubble space telescope. explain why it's important and what happened. >> well, in that particular case, the hubble space telescope, as you may remember, when it was launched, the mirror had the wrong curvature. images were fuzzy. would be a while before we would get that repaired with corrective optics. what do you do? up in space -- you have to mount a mission and design a mission to correct -- that problem was not aepd before hubble was launched. you have to be clever about what you pulled out and swapped in. so there was some down timetime, if you will, where you could get data but

call our award-winning production of freedom rising a favorite among be of you a cross between a planetarium, a laser light extravaganza and experimental one-man show of our town. what's up with this? >> keep reading on, i say how inspired i was, and it got into my skin even in that short presentation when the we the people is broadcast in kind of a -- it glances past your face, i felt like it was right -- you have to realize the book to get the full understanding, but i'm so inspired by that, that's when i stood up and decided i was going to find the constitution. did i not? >> you did. >> very inspirational. >> i was saying you have opportunities here. you could have a first amendment roller coaster, a second amendment shooting gallery. actually, you probably wouldn't want that. [laughter] there's opportunities we can all exploit, certainly. >> um, you -- you did go searching for the constitution, that's what we're about, we're about getting people active and civically engaged. but you do mention as the nation's museum of the constitution, we fall a little bit short. what else should we be

a director of the hayden planetarium, born and raised in new york city, doctor tyson attended the schoolof science and earned his ba in physics from harvard, and then his phd in astrophysics from colombia. that is right. he has been an adviser to nasa and three presidents on matters related to space exploration. and he has been awarded steen honorary doctorates. he even has an asteroid named after him. widely known as a friend me of pluto, he joins us tonight to discuss his latest book, space chronicles, facing the ultimate frontier. please join me now in giving a warm welcome to doctor neil degrasse tyson. [applause] [cheers] [applause] >> thank you. thank you for the warm introduction. just so you know, this is the only public talk anywhere that i'm giving on this book. this is the only talk i'm giving. you're not missing it somewhere else. [applause] i see you are ready up here. here we go. i will tell you how it all began. there was a big bang -- [laughter] in the 1990s, i was approached by columbia university press write a chapter and an encyclopedia they were preparing to celebrate

libraries, remanded books of the cosmos from bookstores, my rooftop telescope, and it the hayden planetariumafter some fits and starts to my years in school were becoming an astrophysicist seemed at times to be the path the most resistance, i became a professional scientist. i became an astrophysicist. over the decades that followed me, yes, long way, including most recently a presidential initiated congressionally endorsed mission statement that finally gets us back out of world -- orbitz. orbitz does not recognize that route -- value of this adventure to our nation's future and soon will as the rest of the developed and developing world as a spy in every measure of technological and economic strength not only that, today you have much more quickly america, former senior level managers to the most decorated astronauts. congratulations. you now belong to the entire citizenry. examples of this abound, but i especially remember in 2004 when the public took ownership of the hubble telescope, the most beloved unmanned mission. they all spoke loudly from ultimately reversing the threat that t

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