is it not a planet? is it the tenth planet? finally i had to say, "okay, it's the tenth planet." and i will tell you when everybody kept on calling me, congratulating me for discovering the tenth planet, i felt fraudulent the entire day. why? william herschel pointed his telescope in the sky and found uranus-- uranus. uranus is a major part of the solar system. and he found it. that is a pretty big deal. i discovered a little ice ball out on the fringe and it just didn't seem like the same magnitude of a discovery. and i had been struggling with this for years. like, what do you do when you finally find one bigger than pluto? i did not believe that astronomers had the guts to ever demote pluto, because it's just too publicly painful. tyson: and if tiny pluto was a planet, shouldn't mike's discovery be one too? so he forged ahead, ultimately selecting a clever name for his discovery: eris, the greek goddess of discord and strife. eris instilled jealousy and envy among men, driving them to battle. mike's choice perfectly captured the destabilizing effect eris was destined to have on

but the new planet needed a name. across the atlantic, an 11-year-old english schoolgirl would come up with one. on march 14, 1930, venetia burney's grandfather, a librarian at oxford, was reading the morning newspaper and came across the story. an american has just discovered a new planet. i wonder what they'll call it. tyson: venetia had just finished studying the roman gods and jumped at the opportunity to name it after the god of the underworld. they could call it pluto. pluto. perhaps... yes. tyson: her grandfather thought that was a splendid idea, so he wrote a note to the lowell observatory. the director at lowell liked it, especially because pluto's official symbol would be the overlapping letters p and l, the initials of the observatory's long-gone founder, the man who started the search for planet x, percival lowell. for most americans the name "pluto" didn't exactly conjure up affection. it was associated with a well-known laxative called "pluto water," a popular product that promised "relief from constipati

the announced the discovery of the planet that is the same size. poverthey believe the planet is unlikely to support life. >> i think we will find life out there. i think we will be there. >> the telescope is scanning, it is likely that one of the 250,000 stars has a planet that is like our own able to support life. >> the valley has been in the grips of an insurgency. dozens of been killed in separatist violence. they are turning increasingly to music to express their desire for peace. >> he has long [unintelligible] it is also where we make music. ♪ ♪ increasingly it is western sounds to do with protests. it has its own rebel tune. he dedicates his songs. >> i have seen people die, and get shot, i've seen crackdowns. >> the day-to-day experiences are what has him write songs. >> they are expressing themselves. >> the restrictions are many. they do not have a recording studio. as a means of expression, they are shifting attention. they say their music [unintelligible] they are keen to popularize their best song. >> you have been watching "newsday"

♪ from the planet lexicon ♪ watch out, villains ♪ here she comes! "reminisce" and "skirmish." it's time for another episode of the city's favorite interview show, "getting the scoop with scoops." and now, your host, todd "scoops" ming. greetings, and thank you. any time. uh, that was for them, for tuning in. today's guest is known for her "astonishing strength, her dazzling intellect, and her voluminous lexicon," which i think means she's smart, strong, and knows a lot of words. she's here today to talk about what it's like to battle the evil dr. two brains. please welcome my guest, word girl. [applause] thank you for joining us today, word girl. certainly, scoops! i thought we might show some scenes from your previous adventures, and then afterwards we'll talk about them. how does that sound? sounds fun! you know, i love to reminisce about past victories. let's remind our viewers how the friendly professor steven boxleitner came to be known as dr. two brains. roll it! narrator: dr. steven boxleitner was word girl's friend, until an experiment with

>>charles: according to nasa scientists, the planet is twice the size of earth. it's year is 292 days and has a comparable average temperature of 72 degrees. >> if this planet is rocky, we could rock around on the surface in be perfectly fine, more comfortable there and they would be in the bay area today. >> this is the first planet we have confirmed it is in the habitable zone. >>charles: it is the area around a star or the planets orbit must live for life to survive. the plan is its in the habitable zone but they do not know what it is made of, rock, gas or liquid. >> that is part of the future work, to observe and pin down the mass of the planet. once we have the massively can infer something about the composition. >>stanley: coming up i will show you how to avoid a to mothers $60 parking ticket. >>catherine: stanley roberts found some people behaving badly. >>stanley: you are looking at an ac transit bus stop at the macarthur station in oakland. the truth is, this could be any bus stop in alameda or contra costa county. i chose this one because this is a favo

we have a national geographic expert on iceland. >> iceland as a place where the planet is absolutelylive. the crest of the earth is gripping apart. mckenna's are emerging. volcanoes are emerging. it is cold much of the year. you have fire, ice, what more could you want? >> it produced a great deal of cash. -- ash. people are quite intrigued by its recent eruptions. the three times it is known to have erupted, they have all been precursors. that has everyone thinking it may be about to go. the icelandic people are fairly resilient and fairly well adapted to living with their volcanoes. they monitor them. they are wise about where they lived. they do not live on the huge grovel planes on the southern coast of the island. they live on ground that is protected by high ground. when it drops, almost certainly, it will melt ice. if it is a major eruption, it is likely to melt a lot of ice. what that will do is release 8 very sizable [inaudible] wendy's produce major floods, the water has equaled the float of all the world largest rivers combined. staggering volumes of water flowing into the

. >> does something move across the planet? just a little bit, it's a small planet, maybe like earth. focused on one part of stars near the milky way, it takes a photo every six seconds. >> reporter: scientists have found more than 2,000 candidates planets and 48 that they think could hold life. but this latest one, kepler 22 b, as it is called is the most promising so far. >> was there ever an ah-ha moment when you knew there there was something really important? >> yes, there was. >> it's a feeling of utter satisfaction. we've worked for 20 years to get this moment, to see this data. and people said it couldn't be done. it was just impossible. so it was very satisfying to see the data. yes, we're getting the answers that we've worked so hard overall these years. >> reporter: rookie and his colleagues cannot see 22 b. it would take 24 million years to get there. scientists also know little about the atmosphere or what the planet is made of. it could be more like gassy neptune than earth but they can interpret data. >> what can

it's all about the hydrology of the planet. for every one degree centigrade that the temperature rises on this earth, the atmosphere absorbs 7% more precipitation from the ground. i just sucks up that precipitation. so that means the whole water cycle of the earth is thrown off kilter. more floods, more droughts, more wildfires, more extremewet patterns, and that's exactly what's going on. and now we're seeing a dramatic impact on agriculture and infrastructure from extreme weather. the ecosystems cannot catch up to this shift in the hydrological and water cycle. they just can't do it in such a short period of time. so how bad is it? i advised the european union, we went to copenhagen, we were hoping to talk the world into mitigating climate change at 450 parts carbon per million by 2050 with the thought we'd go up two degrees. devastating, but we might survive. no other country even wanted to play our game. but then james hanson threw a cirve -- curve on us. he's the head of the nasa goddard state institute, and he said if you

now we-to the other end of the planets. -- dash to the other end of the planet. getting ready for the 2014 olympics. it has one of the mildest climate in russia. the region is also a huge building site in its bid to impress the world during the olympics. this facelift is taking its toll on nature. >> sochi is situated on russia's black sea coast. it is some to one of the oldest national parks in the country. he came to love the area as a child. he and his parents used to go hacking for the forest along the black sea coast. -- hiking through the forest along the black sea coast. today, he is an environmentalist. >> it means a lot to me here. every tree, every bush. their fate matters to me. i grew up here and die and a nature lover. i am a local patriot -- i grew up here and i am a nature lover. i am a local patriot. >> the sensitive ecosystem is threatened. sports complexes and tunnels are under construction and head of the 2014 winter olympics. these days, he is confronted by heavy machinery every time he goes out walking. he does not have much faith in the gove

the newly discovered planet is dubbed kepler 22b. nasa says it's orbiting a star similar to the sun. and the space agency says it's nearly 2 1/2 the size of earth and 600 light jeers from us -- years from us. too far away but might not be too early to plan the vacation. >> there's water and weather. >> and weather is always happening. >> there's weather without planet. every planet in the solar system. that's we are reserving -- that's what we are researching all the trips to mars. let's focus on planet earth. this morning we have rain across the mid-atlantic. we have had spotty showers. some moderate and the are wet. and at least whoa don't have the thick fog we had yesterday i that you -- at least we don't have that thick fog we had yesterday, but i thought that would return. 56 in bel air and ellicott city. look at the national picture. look at the cold air, it's below zero in denver where you know, some of us have been jealous of the snow. but they are getting other stuff. the hour by hour forecast highlighting the fact temperatur

. >> brown: and censer michels reports on the discovery of a so called goldilocks planet. not too hold, not too cold, maybe just right to support life. >> it will be hard to learn too much more about the potentially habitable planets any time soon since it's 600 light years away. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's naur. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the secretary of health and human services has waded into the politically charged issue of birth control for younger girls. in a very public and high-level disagreement, kathleen sebelius today blocked the food and drug administration from allowi

the space telescope. it looks for stars twinkling as planets pass in front of them. up until now, researchers found the most recent being kapla 22b. it is nearly two and a half times the earth. today they announced the discovery of a plan of the same size and one that is a little smaller -- of the planets and the same size and one that is a little smaller. scientists believe a planner at the same size as ours is more likely to support life. >> i think we will find life. maybe not intelligent life, but i think we will be there. >> scientists may not have long to wait. when with a telescope scanning 150,000 stars, is likely one of them will be able to support life. >> before we go, a hotel in china is using a novel style of christmas decorations to help the environment. staff at the hotel in the southwestern province have constructed a christmas tree from around 23,000 used plastic water bottles. they say they wanted to take a different approach to protect the environment and encourage recycling. an environmentally friendly christmas season. >> that is a way forward. ju

today, they have announced the discovery of a planet that is the same size and one that is a little smaller. scientists believe that these are more likely to support life. >> i think we will find many more plants that are earth-like planets. i think that we will find life out there. maybe not intelligent life, maybe green slime, but i think we will be there. >> the telescopes looking at 150,000 stars, it is likely that one of them will look like our own. show to aings today's close. for all of us here world news america, thank you for watching. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global strength to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news america" was presented by kcet los angeles.

it is one of the greatest environmental crises on the planet. i am representing thousands of supporters worldwide who have sent in letters to the board of san francisco. they're asking you to support legislation to protect the sharp park wetlands. they are crucial to our environment. 80% of america's wetlands have been destroyed. frogs are very important in the ecosystem. we are in support of a world where humans do not destroy every last bit of habitat on the planet. that is what is happening now. sharp park, death by a thousand cuts is the term for slowly destroying every habitat. many frogs are already extinct in california. let's do something to keep san francisco the leader o-- the whole world looks to california. california should do things that make people look to us for leadership. here is our chance now. we have drained the wetlands. the pumps are located where the california red-legged breed. we're pumping federally endangered species out to sea. let's stop. shut down the golf course. let's have a national park. many people like nationa

this is from their web site -- much of the planet's life depends on the existence of wetlands. i can't believe we have the consideration of losing money for april are in favor of having golf on a wet lab outside of san francisco that you can do think it to on a bus. it is preposterous and i hope this but chelation passes. thank you for the most sensible legislation that has been offered a long time. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> my name is sandy tatum. i am here because i am thoroughly concerned about what i think this legislation is having to do. that is to destroy a priceless recreational resources which also is a historic treasure. in the context of considering golf late political setting, the misrepresentations and misunderstandings about the game are legion. and they do mislead. the fact is gulf is not an elitist game. -- gulf is not an elitist game. it's anything but. 80 percent of the golfers in this country are public course golfers. more than 90% of the games that are played in any given year are played on public courses. public golf is the heart and

the human species and its impact on the climate have become the equivalent of emir of striking the planet similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. any biologist will tell you we are already on the way to losing massive numbers of species on the planet. you can see it happening all around us. that brings us to key species. these are threatened and endangered species because they are hanging on by their toenails. they are not thriving. [tone!] with the global warming problems coming into the coast line especially with a berm artificially holding seawater in when it floods, the golf course is an anvil. the species are on that. the climate humans and induced are the hammer striking and will. we should restore it to the natural habitat without a golf course. -- striking the anvil. >> are there any other members of the public who would like to comment? now is the time. see no one come forward, i will close public comment. i would like to thank all of them members of the public on all sides of the issue for being here and spending most of your day to be here. clearly we have a piece of l

this is the, michael is to make sure the planet gets hotter and species are lost forever. i don't think that's going on. so that seems like a pretty big question. why are we together created the world that not only would we not choose, but actually violates our common sense and our deepest sensibilities as human being. so that really is the question. over the decades i've had a lot of help from a lot of great thinkers. and finally began to dawn on me, certainly one particular thing eric from what the book, the anatomy of human destructiveness and that's what it really began to click that if we think about how we got into the place we are, that we have to look at what is unique about the human species. one of the things is how we think, how we see. that unique quality of the human mind as we see the world according to a mental map that we have soared in its culture. each culture develops a way of seeing life and what really we can see with outside of our mental map. they thought. but a filter. this is wave mindworks. to. to make a case i want to take you to my kitchen last t

more about the planet named for the telescope team that found it. >> reporter: the artist render is anow confirmed planet 600 light-years an. >> this is a planet 2.4 times the size of earth so it is bigger. but it is orbiting a star very much like our sun. so it is a sun twin. >> reporter: as they say in real estate it is all about location. it orbits its star from a distance similar to earth in what is called a habitable zone. the science team guesses the surface is a comfy 72%. -- 72°. >> it is a big planet, a lot of life, ocean planet made of water and ice, all ocean. >> reporter: one more big announcement from the keptler team more than 1,000 potential planets or what they call planet candidates more than 22300 the total number of planet candidates that the telescope has identified. an astronomer -- says it is a system ripe for more exploration which is what they are doing. >> we are asking a perfectly reasonable question of the universe. somewhere else laws of physics and chemistry lead to beings with technologies that we might discover if we looked. >> reporter: whether a room f

frances moore lappe is the author of 18 books including the classic diet for a small planet. he is co-founder of three organizations including food first, institute for food and development policy and more recently the small planet institute. of collaborative network for research in popular education seeking to bring democracy to life which she leads with her daughter and at lappe. they co-founded a small planet fund which founds resources to democratic social movements worldwide. frances appears frequently have a public speaker and on radio and as a regular contributor to huffington post. her most recent work released by nation's books in september of 2011 is eco mind:changing the way we think to create the world we want. jane goodall called the book powerful and inspiring. eco mind will open your mind and change your sinking. i want everyone to read it. other recent books include getting a grip:clarity, creativity and courage in a world gone mad and getting a grip 2:courage for the really -- world we want. hope's edge written with anna lappe, democracy's edge and you have th

planet. if we don't do something about clean air. i'm unhappy with the democrats too, it's not just the republicans. but this should be a top priority. so they all worry me because i don't think they're really telling the truth, or maybe they don't see the truth about what's happening to us. we have to tax the rich, we have to help people who are struggling, we have to do everything we can to create jobs for the people who are able to work, we have to help children become educated so that we have a workforce that's going to be productive in the future and we have to do everything we can to save the planet. >> what do you think of barack obama? >> i hope he gets re-elected. i wish he would be stronger. i think he will be in his second term. i think he's going to be re-elected. i think that he's -- i think he's a good man, but i wish that he was tougher on the issues that i care about and that a lot of people care about. >> a lot of people say about president obama that he's -- you know, he's a very nice guy, people like him. he's clearly intelligent. he's

wave that washes over us. >> reporter: we took this sociologist to one of the loudst places on the planet -- times square. >> you interact in an old fashioned way. >> and the oscar goes to -- >> reporter: so, if "the artist" does, in fact, have the last word at february's academy awards, don't be surprised if the roar of the crowd is downright deafening. t.j. winick, abc news, new york.

>> about the planet. >> oh, yeah, keebler 22b. >> that's kepler. >>> welcome to "the wendy williams show and giuliana rancic. plus, the best gifts and which reality star just checked into rehab? "hot topics," "inside stoop" and all of your favorite stars. now, here's wendy! ♪

russia has now launched 16 probes to the red planet. unfortunately, every one of them has failed. . ld-famous naturalist david attenborough has waded into the debate on climate change. >> the antarctic continent is smothered by the world's greatest ice sheet. >> they're the remotest, coldest parts of the planet, the polar regions. after 23i78ing there over a number of years, a giant of natural history broadcasting, david attenborough, is convinced that they're changing dramatically. >> this penguin is the most solitary nesting of all penguins and like the polar bear up in the north their dives -- liveds are dependent on the sea ice. >> his big concern is the effect of rising temperatures. here a huge iceberg breaks way from greenland. this does happen naturally, but the melting could accelerate if the arctic and part of antarctica continue to worm up. >> it's not like that -- >> when i met him for an interview, he explained that it was the speed of change that was the most striking and worrying. >> this exchange extremely swift. this change is happening within our lifetime and we've

that we're talking about these are the future of the planet but that's a whole different can of worms i will notice that the policies do indeed have a good serious fact in addition to delegations to fighting global warming catastrophic global warming i'm having a bit of that so you get out you get away those concerns first of all i disagree with williams first statement that this it's not possible to avoid an economic downturn when you are trying to mitigate climate change we had a report from the administration of energy information destruction was wearing. just today that came out that said it had actual policy that would require a certain amount of energy to be generated from clean renewable sources would not have absolute minimal facts on g.d.p. between now and twenty thirty five it is very possible to do it very talked about g.d.p. for our for any given day he participates in what about the developing countries really do need to develop their economy should they have the exact same. no relaxed standards that we had i guess you could say lack of standards because we got to do it f

we're melting arctic sea ice that's one of the biggest we're destroying at a very rapid rate the planet's coral reefs that's you know the great barrier reef the biggest the biggest biological feature you can see from space you know and it's disappearing we're drying out the amazon as temperatures rise around it the parts we're not cutting down we've got to back off in a serious way because we're moving into really dangerous territory how. how do we do that the only the only way to do it is to get off fossil fuel and that's easy to say but hard to do doesn't it as much mean getting on to alternatives to the scenes getting some of each but the problem is i mean this would be hard enough to do in any event i mean it's fossil fuels the center of the economy and it would be a rapid transition more rapid than our economies can easily deal with it be like what we did at the beginning of world war two to cure up for that what are hard enough to do but harder to do in our political era because the power of the fossil fuel industry is so large that it blocks even so. all obvious sensible changes so

toadless two planets, are the right size. they are solid rock planets but they are both broiling hot on 20e, glass would melt. >> we are getting in on the right temperature and size. >> reporter: she showed me this graphic you will see nowhere else. size verses temperature of new planets, earth is lower right, the finds are zigzagging toward that ideal and fundamental answers, are there other earths, are they habitable, do they have life? >> all of those questions are with in our reach. we will know the answer to all three of them with in the next decades to come. >> reporter: data is coming in and we should prepare for a major announcement in about six months. she wouldn't say more. john fowler,. >> the electronic arts is redwood hopes the force is with them for the debut of its new game star wars the old republic. chewbacca was on hand for the opening bell to launch it. industry exports say ea spent between one hundred and $300 million to create the new game. obviously a lot is riding on its success. the stock gained 3.5%. a

the area. this is route 301 near 450 in bowie. >>> an out of this world discovery for nasa, a planet so much like ours is being dubbed earth's twin. details next. >> this is fox 5 news edge at 11:00. ♪ [ female announcer ] during the holidays, there's a lot to get done. and safeway select appetizers help you rise to every occasion. ♪ from delectable to amazing. there are over 20 affordable safeway select appetizers ♪ to make all of your gatherings just as merry as can be. ♪ only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>> this is the issue. a snake in our christmas tree. >> a north carolina family found an unexpected decoration on their christmas tree. this is cell phone video of a snake hanging on the tree. mama says her daughter was turning off the christmas lights when she saw the thing moving and eventually set the snake free in the woods near the home, maybe decided to lock the door because they found it after the tree was already decorated. >>> an earthlike planet has been discovered, could be ripe for life dubbed kepler 22b, the planet lying in a so-called inhabitable zone just 600 light years from earth. nasa scientists have no

give gift that is help people and the planet with a click of your house. dr. a family allergy in gaithersburg is here with great, healthy gift ideas. let's start with gifts for friends and loved ones for the holidays. people who are suffering from health problems like diabetes and obesity. >> if you look at the statistics of people who are overweight, it's two-thirds of americans. a diplomatic way is help them with portion sizes. dinner plates that are luncheon plates and glasses. beautiful glasses that are thinner. you eat less and they will appreciate that. ways to cook, like a pizza stone or cedar plank. you cook without oil. >> they make for delicious baking. >> exactly. >> you can find those items on the internet. you suggest gifts of aid. i like these. >> these are gifts for others. you can give them in the name of somebody. primarily, for the united states, it's through the red cross. they are the first people to come in for a disaster. you can give $25 for a vaccination. that would vaccinate 25 people. comfort kit for soldiers or $50 for an emergency ki

planet. nasa says the weather on the planet is a lot like ours. average planet is the same day as a pleasant day here on earth and it looks like mtv already has plans for it. >> this spring, nasa in association with mtv precept an old of this world television event. join snooki and the rest of this gang and they travel 600 light years from earth to find the one place where people don't hate this them yet. "jersey shore," kepler 22-b. >> we're going to outer space, bitches! >> jimmy: well, i think that looks like fine programming. i tell you. [ applause ] and chen khloe and kim will take kepler. speaking of new jersey, in medford today, the mayor resigned. chris myers is a republican married, two kids and being accused of, anyone? anyone want to take a guess? that's right, sex with a prostitute. i guess he got mad that the mayor gave him only $500 and didn't deliver on his promise of a car and other gifts. apparently he had the mayor confused with oprah. because who gets a car? no male prostitute i ever went to asked for a car. [ laughter ] so, to g

>>reporter: her because the planet is about twice the size of earth, the year last about 292 days andt has a comfortable temperature of 72 degrees fahrenheit. >> if this planet was rocky, we could walk around on the surface of it in fact he would be more comfortable there than in the area. >>reporter: john jenkins analyze the data from the kept a large telescope that from the planet. the habitable zone is known as an area around the star seen any green were scientists believe a planets orbit must lie for hours like life to live there. they say they noticed it's in the in handel's own, they do not know what it is made of the that rock, gas or liquid. >> we do not know much about this particular planet. once we have the mass of this planet we can infer something about its composition. >>reporter: while it is too early to say whether or not there is a life on the planet, chieftain says the scientists will study the plant for years to come. >>justine: we will take a quick break on this tuesday morning with a live look outside from our roof camera and san francisco as there is a freeze war

the chp. >>> a dramatic announcement from nasa. researchers discovered a planet very similar to earth and could sustain life. here with the breakthrough and the team behind the discovery. >> reporter: people have been talking about this. it's a huge discovery. not just for these scientists, but also for stargazers at home. it's a lifelong question. could life exist on other planets? she's on the research team. >> the planet is about 2.4 times bigger than earth. >> reporter: it's called kepler b. >> to see something for the first time nobody in the world has ever seen, that's a tremendous feeling. >> the light comes in through and bangs off the mirror in the base of the structure here. >> reporter: john jenkins said the $6 telescope purchased in 2009 allows the researchers to see what has never been seen before. the kepler is one of thousands planets that could support life. >> the behavior and the interior structure and dynamic of stars. >> reporter: they hope it gives younger generations to be star struck. what's exciting is all the information is being put onli

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planet. one of the possibilities in fact it's a planet made of water and ice. all ocean. : one more big announcement from the keepler science team. it discovered more than 1,000 potential planets what they call planet candidate. that brings to more than 2300 the total number of planet candidates that keepler space telescope identified. famed astronomer jill carter says it's a system ripe for more exploration. which is exactly what the center for research in mountain view is doing. >> we are lacking to see if that signal comes from the direction of only one target. >>reporter: the non-profit center is battled back from funding cuts and ironically on this day of an earth like announcement once again pointed the telescope to the keepler system to listen for signs of life. >> we are asking a perfectly reason question of the univers universe. somewhere else do the law of physics and chemistry lead to sent gentleman beings with technology that we mate discover with we only looked. >>reporter: whether a room full of scientist or one woman, tonight keepler 22 b has given an age ol