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i'm veronique. here's this week's top story. of the highest compliments you can pay someone is to call him or her a rocket scientist. but as our next report shows, you don't really have to be aet and successfully launch it. >> before we get into that, here's a short lesson on the history of rockets.ays ] when the chinese invented the first rockets, they didn't care midair because they mostly used. fast forward 2,000 years, and a british soldier named congreveapons, an idea he borrowed from india. but controlling their flight was difficult, and his own soldiers were as likely to be hit by thesiles as the enemy. rocketry really didn't take off until an american named goddard successfully launched the firstet in 1926. [ explosions ]ngland was bombarded by german rockets called the v1 and the v2. hitler hoped his "vengeance rockets" would pound the english into surrender.y didn't. after the war, rockets began to be used for more peaceful purposes. [ up-tempo classical music plays ]oon is in the placed in orbit by a russian rocket. >

with "flag facts," i'm veronique. >> bet you didn't know that onehood books was written on a bet. the publisher of the dr. seuss books challenged the author to write an entire book using fewers. dr. seuss rose to the challenge and wrote "green eggs and ham." and so he won the bet. all i can say is glad i am thateggs and ham." >> this important message is brought to you by the national road safety foundation. [ hard rock music plays ]c plays ] >> i'm ready to go.es squeal ] >> dude, i'm running late. i'll be there as fast as i can. [ mid-tempo music plays ] [ hard rock music plays ] t ] [ hard rock music plays ] [ tires screech, glass breaks ] [ siren wailing [ heartbeat ] [ police radio chatter ] [ soft music plays ] [ crowd cheering ] [ heartbeat ] [ flatline ] >> all: life is not a race! go your own pace! [ cheering ]ays ] a hole in the tucson desert helped to keep our country safe >> nuclear power -- when used for peaceful purposes, it can light up entire cities.lear power can devastate entire cities. nicole reports on how weapons based on splitting a tiny atom arms race. [ dra

i'm veronique. here's this week's top story. as much as life would be great if we never had any issues with our family and friends, the fact is issues happen. and too often and too quickly,ems. emily gets some advice on how to deal with conflicts. >> we've all experiencedven our closest friends. like, stopped talking to me. me. >> since we're such close friends, we argue a lot because we spend so much time together. >> but usually, like, if have a disagreement, we might, like, blow up about it. handled resolving the conflict well, or would you have wanted some advice on how to fix the situation?hought the issue was really bad, and i was very upset about it, but then once i started making new friends, i got over it really quickly, and i don't even think about it anymore.t pretty well because we're still really good friends today. we hang out a lot. so that's good. >> i wish i had, like, just ace on, like, how to make it better, i think. yeah. >> getting into an argument is easy. what's hard is preventing ito resolve it before you

i'm veronique. here's this week's top story. as much as life would be great if we never had any issues with our family and friends, the fact is issues happen. issues turn into problems. emily gets some advice on how to deal with conflicts. >> we've all experienced bad experiences with even our closest friends. >> a while ago, all my friends, like, stopped talking to me. and that was really hard for me. >> since we're such close friends, we argue a lot because we spend so much time together. >> but usually, like, if have a disagreement, we might, like, blow up about it. >> so do you think you handled resolving the conflict well, or would you have wanted some advice on how to fix the situation? >> at first, i thought the issue was really bad, and i was very upset about it, but then once i started making new friends, i got over it really quickly, and i don't even think about it anymore. >> i think i handled it pretty well because we're still really good friends today. we hang out a lot. so that's good. >> i wish i had, like, just a

i'm veronique. here's this week's top story. one of the highest compliments you can pay someone is to call him or her a rocket scientist. but as our next report shows, genius to build a rocket and successfully launch it. >> before we get into that, here's a short lesson on the history of rockets. [ asian-style music plays ] when the chinese invented the first rockets, they didn't care that their rockets blew up midair because they mostly used them to create fireworks. fast forward 2,000 years, and a british soldier named congreve turned rockets into weapons, an idea he borrowed from india. but controlling their flight was difficult, and his own soldiers were as likely to be hit by the erratically flying missiles as the enemy. rocketry really didn't take off until an american named goddard successfully launched the first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926. [ explosions ] during world war ii, england was bombarded by german rockets called the v1 and the v2.

with "flag facts," i'm veronique. >> bet you didn't know that one of your favorite childhood books was written on a bet. the publisher of the dr. seuss books challenged the author to write an entire book using fewer than 50 different words. and wrote "green eggs and ham." and so he won the bet. all i can say is glad i am that he wrote "green eggs and ham." >> this important message is brought to you by the national road safety foundation. [ hard rock music plays ] [ mid-tempo music plays ] [ hard rock music plays ] >> i'm ready to go. [ engine starts, tires squeal ] >> dude, i'm running late. i'll be there as fast as i can. [ mid-tempo music plays ] [ hard rock music plays ] [ heartbeat ] [ hard rock music plays ] [ tires screech, glass breaks ] [ siren wailing ] [ cheers and applause ] [ heartbeat ] [ police radio chatter ] [ soft music plays ] [ heartbeat ] [ flatline ] >> all: life is not a race! go your own pace! [ cheering ] [ theme music plays ] >> coming up, i'll tell you how a hole in the tucson desert from nuclear attack. >> nuclear power -- when used for peaceful purposes, it

i'm veronique. here's this week's top story. as much as life would be great if we never had any issues with our family and friends, the fact is issues happen. and too often and too quickly, issues turn into problems. emily gets some advice on how to deal with conflicts. >> we've all experienced bad experiences with even our closest friends. >> a while ago, all my friends, like, stopped talking to me. and that was really hard for me. >> since we're such close friends, we argue a lot because we spend so much time together. >> but usually, like, if have a disagreement, we might, like, blow up about it. >> so do you think you handled resolving the conflict well, or would you have wanted some advice on how to fix the situation? >> at first, i thought the issue was really bad, and i was very upset about it, but then once i got over it really quickly, and i don't even think about it anymore. >> i think i handled it pretty well because we're still really good friends today. we hang out a lot. so that's good. >> i wish i had, like, just

i'm veronique. here's this week's top story. as much as life would be great if we never had any issues with our family and friends, the fact is issues happen. and too often and too quickly, issues turn into problems. emily gets some advice on how to deal with conflicts. >> we've all experienced bad experiences with even our closest friends. >> a while ago, all my friends, like, stopped talking to me. and that was really hard for me. >> since we're such close friends, we argue a lot because we spend so much time together. >> but usually, like, if have a disagreement, we might, like, blow up about it. >> so do you think you handled resolving the conflict well, or