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it's beginning to orbit an astroid, called vesta, which is 117 million miles from earth. this image was sent back last month. isn't that remarkable in and of itself. right now scientists are listening to the spacecraft to send new data and images from much, much closer. again, nasa wants to go to an astroid about 15 years from now. astroids are made from materials that orbited the sun about 14 billion years ago that. is truly out there. >> it looks like there is some fog or cloud cover at vesta this morning? >> yeah, you can see down on earth we have a deep marine layer out there. emeryville look at alcatraz this morning. you expect to see the low clouds there but we have them all the way into the inland valleys. mist and drizzle, to boot, and cooler temperatures today. the forecast coming up. >> also a bear hunt in yosemite. the search for a 200-pound animal that's found its way on sure, pulling the mold, ldntew, and grime from out of the porous caverns of grout takes the right tools, but it also takes a gentle, caring touch. before you can deep clean, you learn to get a

the london based even vesta gating of phone hacking by journalists at news international has been expanded from forty five to sixty police officers on stealth is the scandal intensifies this comes off the m.p.'s warn that any delaying completing the investigation would put back the start of the planned public inquiry russian billionaire alexander lebedev meanwhile says he may be interested if we were put murdoch shane views of the well tabloid he already owns two other british papers the london evening standard and the independent emmet reports now from london with a phone hacking scandal want to know him another dog will say prime minister david cameron trying to answer every point. this is tom. i'm enjoying this so. who will survive the phone hacking scandal and keep his job cameron comes under fire for hiring andy coolth and former editor of the now defunct news of the world he's accused of encouraging his staff to hack into private voice mails there's been a large amount of fingers and just a kind of heads in the sand and that is lethal for a prime minister and he's now in a real fight

now yes it looks like with all those debates which mostly political i would say yes they frighten vestas to some extent and push them out of for the u.s. currency i don't even think you should will be sold because there is no single party there is no single major power in the us so we could benefit from more from from the mantle prono inclusion could be seen in my opinion well if the crisis in the u.s. and europe we see continuing thing with the money was tough going to peripheral currencies like the ruble australian dollar franco yes that has already been happening actually countries which exporter materials that have benefited the lot from this situation in the. beginning of the crisis there was a famous idea of a couple emerging markets most of the best of developed one it came to our core in two thousand and eight and the beginning of two thousand my daughter who were like oh yes if. not tonight it's developing countries they are becoming more and more less and less dependent on the developed ones they're trying to diversify their export flows they're trying to rely more on themselve

sailing since nine hundred fifty five that means more than fifty five years are blue water uncertain vesta gazing ignores the gaiters right now trying to figure out where it was looked after properly during that time a second one being a human error many are are putting the blame when the captain that's the point and we knew he shouldn't have under such weather conditions and the third one being weather conditions very difficult to operate any of us so in fact because it was very windy and so good that was very difficult to use to sail at that point so those are they shoes that they investigative committee are always looking into right now the timing of a call for a moscow time but now we want to talk to stone thank you both for bringing us up to date with what you know. well arty's been hearing from a river transport supervisor who told us that it's the port authorities who are responsible for safety and for letting the boat leave dock in the first place. but . you know it's a very old ship it shouldn't have been used moreover it was built to correspond with safety requirements of the one

if the united states has not and vesta gated in the past though and you hope that they will but they haven't reacted in any way showing that they will launch a serious investigation does this mean that they don't take what you're calling for seriously what i think that they we hope that they will take it seriously that the problem and the reason why it's so important is because it undermines u.s. credibility when they are trying to promote rule of law and human rights issues in other countries if the u.s. doesn't prosecute and investigate their own abuses at home so we feel it's a really important message and one that we will not start making if the united states doesn't investigate then does that discredit your organization what is the point of what you're calling for if the u.s. doesn't act on it well we we call on investigations in many countries and sometimes they they don't investigate it doesn't mean that we're not going to stop calling for investigations we also call for a nine eleven type independent nonpartisan commission sort of truth commission in the report and we also ca

that because they're saying well if you look at how the story even came to be it's thanks to real and vesta gate of journalism you don't need government meddling hearing you don't you need more regulation and some of the daily telegraph even said don't let politicians turn the british press into an american style lapdog of the establishment when you say that. well i'm certainly i didn't george the idea that the rest needs to avoid blackguard and i think there's a new middle ground between that and hacking the voice mails of the queen and her children and grandchildren yet of nine eleven murder victims teenagers and i think there's a lot of room and you know goofy american and british personnel proven it over decades there's a lot of good solid investigative journalism doesn't have anything to do with this and early in the evening in the in the in the bushmills of it i mean honestly that's really kind of the story and you need to assume people for a story you might be investigating wrong and people are saying to you that this could be just the tip of the iceberg of the worst still to come so

. >> surrounded by the blackness of deep space 117 million miles from earth is the asteroid vesta.captured by a nasa probe. in the not-too-distant future, u.s. astronauts could be looking out their window at a sight just like this. >> i can either float along it, or i can have a tether to me, and then i can sample rocks, i can chip a rock. >> this astronaut and his team are working on the kinds of equipment and techniques they'll need for human exploration of an asteroid as early as 2025. before either the moon or mars. >> what we're doing is building a simulated asteroid underwater. >> and this is not some high-tech laboratory. and because money is tight -- >> we're all about being cost effective. you know, glad bag type of thing. >> not everything they're developing is some fancy state of the art widget. >> this is a soil collection device. >> there's a lot different things on earth that you want to pick up without touching. >> for instance, this quite valuable earth tested device. what you're saying is that a pooper-scooper could be used on an asteroid and work perfectly. >> a s

tum tums >>> surrounded by the blackness of deep space 117 million miles from earth is the asteroid vestared by a nasa probe. in the not-too-distant future, u.s. astronauts could be looking out their window at a sight just like this. >> i can either float along it, or i can have a tether to me, and then i can sample rocks, i can chip a rock. >> this astronaut and his team are working on the kinds of equipment and techniques they'll need for human exploration of an asteroid as early as 2025. before either the moon or mars. >> what we're doing is building a simulated asteroid underwater. >> and this is not some high-tech laboratory. and because money is tight -- >> we're all about being cost effective. you know, glad bag type of thing. >> not everything they're developing some fancy state-of-the-art widget. >> this is a soil collection device. >> there's a lot different things on earth that you want to pick up without touching. >> for instance, this quite valuable earth-tested device. what you're saying is that a pooper-scooper could be used on an asteroid and work perfectly. >> a specified

. >>> surrounded by the blackness of deep space, 117 million miles from earth, is the asteroid vesta.captured by a nasa probe. in the not too distant future, u.s. astronauts could be looking out the window at a sight just like this. >> i can either float along it or i can have a tether to me and i can sample rocks, i can chip a rock. >> astronaut mike gernrardt and his team are working on the kind of equipment and techniques they'll need for human exploration of an asteroid as early as 2025. before either the moon or mars. >> what we're doing is building a simulated asteroid underwater. >> and this is not some high tech laboratory. it's key largo, florida. and because money is tight -- >> we're all about being cost effective. glad bag type of thing. >> not everything they're developing is some fancy state-of-the-art widget,. >> this is a soil collection device. it does a lot of things on earth that you want to pick up without touching. >> for instance, this quite valuable earth-tested device. >> what you're saying is that a pooper-scooper could be used on an asteroid and work perfectl

that is beginning to orbit an astroid named vesta 117 million miles from here.e was sent back last month. right now scientists are listening for the spacecraft to send new images from much closer in, images -- that looks pretty good to me. nasa wants to go to an astroid for a landing about 15 years from now. planets form from similar material orbiting the sun more than 4 bye years ago. it's mesmerizing to think how far away that is. >> low cloud deck is quite extensive so cooling around the bay. we'll see sunshine here but numbers in the 70s later on this afternoon in san jose. >> a bear hug in yosemite. search for a 200 pound animal that has found its way on the park's most wanted list. beth! hi. looking good! you've lost some weight. thanks! you noticed! you know these clothes are too big now, so i'm donating them. nogoing back the again. good for you! how'd you do i eating right, whole grain. whole grain? whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't... multigrain cheerios has five whole grains an

. >>> surrounded by the blackness of deep space, 117 million miles from earth, is the asteroid vesta.mages captured by a nasa probe. in the not too distant future, u.s. astronauts could be looking out the window at a sight just like this. >> i can either float along it or i can have a tether to me and i can sample rocks, i can chip a rock. >> astronaut mike gernrardt and his team are working on the kind of equipment and techniques they'll need for human exploration of an asteroid as early as 2025. before either the moon or mars. >> what we're doing is building a simulated asteroid underwater. >> and this is not some high tech laboratory. it's key largo, florida. and because money is tight -- >> we're all about being cost effective. glad bag type of thing. >> not everything they're developing is some fancy state-of-the-art widget. >> this is a soil collection device. it does a lot of things on earth that you want to pick up without touching. >> for instance, this quite valuable earth-tested device. >> what you're saying is that a pooper-scooper could be used on an asteroid and work per

it's beginning to orbit an astroid, called vesta, which is 117 million miles from earth.was sent back last month. right now scientists are listening to the spacecraft to send new images and date that you from much closer. nassau wants to go to an astroid will 15 years from now. astroid are made from materials that orbited the sun about 14 billion years ago that. is truly out there. what's going on locally? >> we have a lot of fog out there. it not only extends from the delta into the valley 3,000 feet deep. this morning the sun is up at 6:00. we have plenty of clouds before we see the sun and that will bring a cool day once again. i will tell you how cool next. >> also ahead a bear hundred in yosemite. the search for 200-pound animal that's found its way on to [ kara ] over three thousand entered. five made it to times square ♪ and one rose above the rest congratulations to courtney reid the winner of this year's folgers jingle contest. ♪ a man can only try... and try...and try. i heard eating wle grain oats can help lower my cholesterol. it's gonna be tough...so tough. m

the other day, the nasa chief was talking about the future, this is an actual video of the asteroid vestas. spacecraft called the dawn is expected to arrive at its orbit around this asteroid. now what is so cool about this is you can see this in the night sky. it looks like a star to you. unless you're -- have a lot of expertise in it, it will. that's the only asteroid visible to the naked eye. that's going on right now and through next month and also next month, this will be happening, the juneau spacecraft launches a five-year cruise up to jupiter. this is animation here. both the efforts will help scientists better understand the solar system and how the planets evolved. and nasa says it is committed to further exploring mars. this is the plan for the next mars rover, the curiosity that leaves in november and would land in august 2012. a lot faster trip than the one to jupiter. nasa says it is also going to stay in the lead with manned space flight. here is administrator charles boldon. >> so when i hear people say or listen to the media reports that the final shuttle flight marks the

spacecraft has sent back the first close-up since orbiting the solar system's third largest asteroid, it's vesta and it's never been seen this clearly. >>> still to come, rupert murdoch answers parliament's questions about the tabloid hacking scandal in great britain. no, he's not responsible, he says. and, no, he's not quitting. wer . while energy developement comes with some risk, north america's natural gas producers are committed to safely and responsibly providing decades of cleaner burning energy for our country, drilling thousands of feet below fresh water sources within self contained well systems and using state of the art monitoring technologies, rigorous practices help ensure our operations are safe and clean for our communities and the environment we are america's natural gas. it's schwab at your fingertips wherever, whenever you want. one log in lets you monitor all of your balances and transfer between accounts, so your money can move as fast as you do. check out your portfolio, track the market with live updates. and execute trades anywhere and anytime the inspiration hits you. ev

this is actual video, this is not animation, this is an asteroid called vesta and in just a matter ofcraft "the dawn," will be arriving at its orbit around this asteroid. what's so cool about this, it's the only asteroid you can see in the night sky, because it emitted so much light, reflects so much light. and especially like now, but a little bit more in august, you'll be able to see a great deal of it. and there's also an animation i can show you in this next video. we'll be getting images, and this will help scientists understand better the evolution of planets throughout the solar system. which is pretty amazing. something else that nasa says it's committed to is going to mars, which is the next video here. they're working on the next mars rover, the curiosity, that is going to be taking off in november and is supposed to land in august 2012. so they're saying, look, we have all these missions that are planned there. even saying they're going to do more manned space flights. here's the administrator just the other day. >> so when i hear people say or listen to the media reports,

after a four-year flight, nasa is ady for a rendezvous with the giant asteroid vesta. the unmanned "dawn" spacecraft has flown 1.7 billion miles, and if all goes well, it will enter orbit around the asteroid tonight. it is expected to search for clues about the solar system's origin. the spacecraft uses ion propulsion so it can approach the asteroid slowly at just 60 miles an hour. a year from now, it will move on to an even larger asteroid. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to ray. >> suarez: next, the state of california struggles with some tough choices brought on by a recent supreme court ruling. "newshour" correspondent spencer michels reports. >> reporter: it was scenes like this in a gymnasium at solano state prison in central california that convinced the u.s. supreme court last may to order the state to reduce its prison population of 143,000 inmates. justice anthony kennedy used three photos of jammed prisons to illustrate his majority opinion. the court found that more than a decade of overcrowding in a system with nearly twice as many pri

reporter: surrounded by the blackness of deep space, 117 million miles from earth, is the asteroid vestaaptured by a nasa probe. in the not t-too-distant future u.s. astronauts could be looking out their window at a sight just like this. >> i can either float along it or i can have it tethered to me and i can sample rocks, i can chip a rock. >> reporter: astronaut mike and his team are working on the kinds of equipment and techniques they'll need for human exploration of an asteroid as early as 2025. before either the moon or mars. >> what we're doing is building a simulated asteroid under water. >> reporter: and this is not some high-tech laboratory. it's key largo, florida. beneath the surface at the site of an undersea habitat called aquarius, they have created an asteroid proving ground in the near weightless environment of water. >> we work there, we live there, we can put anchors, we built a rock wall like a climbing wall. we can climb up that wall in zero gravity. >> reporter: with the shuttle era over, nasa is going back to going outward. what most everyone agrees it does best. t

and actual video of an asteroid called vesta. in just a few days, a u.s.ht there. you can see this in the night sky. it's the only asteroid that you can see in the night sky and you can only see it this month and next. when you're looking at it you can know that's right when the u.s. spacecraft got there. i want to you hear from the nasa administrator who has been talking about fact that he's absolutely convinced that nasa will maintain the lead. his name is charles boldin. here's something he said just the other day. >> when i hear people say or listen to the media reports that the final shuttle flight marks the end of u.s. human space flight, i have to tell you -- you all must be living on another planet. >> said nasa wants u.s. astronauts to travel on private space missions and they're working on new types of vehicles to bring people to space. nasa calls these the flagship of its next-generation space fleet. a multipurpose crew vehicle based on the orion vehicle. to assist in space they're creating more of these robo-nauts, a torso version is up on the

it took four years to reach vesta, which is not technically an astroid, but it's referred to as a minorlanet. >>> nasa started rapping things up in the last final mission. the astronauts said good-bye to their counterparts at the space station. we have more on the historic fair well ceremony. >> reporter: randy, 30 years of flying space shuttles came a little closer to the end today onboard the international space station, the six space station crew members bidding farewell to the four other crew members. they left behind an american flag that they attached to the hatch leading from the space station to the shuttle. now, that american flag flew for the very first time back 30 years ago on the very first space shuttle flight. >> we close that hatch when these guys go by, we're closing a chapter for the nation, in the future when another spacecraft with crew members onboard docked, we will open up a new era on new exploration, and it's an honor for us to do that and a great place to put it. >> the hatch was closed. now that flag that we were talking about, that will be retrieved by the ne

reporter: surrounded by the blackness of deep space, 117 million miles from earth is the asteroid vestan the not too distant future, u.s. astronauts could be looking out their window at a site just like this. >> they work on the kind of equipment and techniques they need for human exploration of an asteroid as early as 2025. before either the moon or mars. >> what we're doing is building a stimulated asteroid under water. >> reporter: and this is not some high-tech laboratory. it's key largo, florida. beneath the surface at the site of an undersea habitat called aquarius, they have created an asteroid proving ground in the near weightless environment of water. >> we work there, we live there. we built like a rock climbing wall. we can climb that wall in zero gravity. >> nasa is going back to going outward, where most everyone agrees it does best. an asteroid could be the first step, a baby step, because there's no gravity and an asteroid would be much closer, its's simply an easier first mission than mars. so once you get to mars or the moon or an os detroit, how are you going to get ar

of a spacecraft snapped pictures of vesta, the brightest rock and sent them home from 117 million miles away. almost looks like the moon there. absolutely spectacular. 7:19 now. let's turn it back over to matt, ann and al. >> that is a pretty picture, natalie. >> almost looks like it has acne. >> a space rock with acne. meanwhile, a haboob? >> a dust storm. it originates in the middle east, that phrase. but, yes, kind of a mini haboob. >> good segue. here we go. >> let's take a look and see what's happening outside. and we've got that heatwave. it will not go away. 62 million americans affected by this record-breaking heat. from texas all the way to the dakotas. look at these temperatures. 101 in bismarck. air temperature. lincoln, nebraska, 101. of 107 in wichita falls. factor in the humidity, it's going to feel like 112 in bismarck. 108 in wichita falls. and you can see -- you go out west, where there's a little bit of a trough, temperatures much cooler. seattle, 7 degrees below normal, 69 for a high. 75 in medford. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning to

asteroid, and right now our dawn spacecraft is approaching one of the biggest in the solar system, vesta, and we're scheduled to drop into orbit around that asteroid the middle of this month. what it finds out could help inform such a mission. the president is asking us to harness that american spirit of innovation, the drive to solve problems and create capabilities that is so embedded in our story and has led us to the moon, to great observatories, and to humans living and working in space, possibly indefinitely. that american ingenuity is alive and well, and it will fire up our economy and help us create and win the future now, but only if we put aside our differences and come together to work hard, dream big and imagine endless possibilities. the space shuttle is an amazing vehicle, and the incredible program it pioneered has taught us many things and helped make tomorrow's exploration possible. every shuttle mission has showcased the amazing talents and expertise of our astronauts in robotics and science. each mission was different. each was exceptional and challenging and expanded

asteroid and right now, our don space craft is approaching one of the biggest in the solar system, vesta and we are scheduled to drop into orbit around that asteroid this month. what it finds out could help inform such a future mission to an asteroid. the president is asking us to harness that american spirit of innovation, the drive to solve problems and create capabilities that is so embedded in our story and has led us to the mon, to great observatories, and two humans living and working in space, possibly indefinitely. that american ingenuity is alive and well. it will fire up our economy and help us create and when the future. -- and when the future. only if we put aside our differences and work hard and dream big, and imagine and was possibilities. the space shuttle is an amazing vehicle. the incredible program it pioneered has taught us many things, and helped make tomorrows exploration possible. every shuttle mission has showcased the amazing talents and expertise of each of our astronauts in robotics and science. each mission was different. each was exceptional and challenging a

asteroid and right now our dawn spacecraft is approaching one of the biggest in the solar system, vestaled to drop into orbit around that asteroid the middle of this month. what it finds out could help inform such a future mission to an asteroid. the president is asking us to harness that american spirit of innovation, the drive to solve problems and create capabilities that is so embedded in our story and has led us to the moon, to great observatories, and to humans living and working in space, possibly indefinitely. that american ingenuity is alive and will and it will fire up our economy and help us create and win the future. now, but only if we put aside our differences and come together to work hard, dream big and imagine endless possibilities. the space shuttle is an amazing vehicle, amazing vehicle. and the incredible program it pioneered has taught us many things and helped make tomorrow's exploration possible. every shuttle mission has showcased the amazing talents and expertise of our astronauts in robotics and science. each mission was different. each was exceptional and chal

in a few weeks dawn is going to begin orbiting vesta juno will take us to jupiter in fall.the largest mars rover. it will be lowered on a sky crane down to the surface of mars. and nasa is working on a hubble replacement. there's another big program and it's seen some cross groves and challenges but it will allow us to see 10 times farther than the hubble telescope and further back in time into ever before. but this new commercial space has really been going gangbusters and has -- we've seen more results, i think, faster than we had expected. and it's just amazing progress. and last month nasa just announced four new contracts for competitors ranging from, you know, boeing here in nevada. blue origin. these are the faces of the new frontier where the commercial sector is stepping up. in this case there's four different capsule vehicles. some are lifting bodies. some are capsules all competing. two rocket systems. there's the space x's falcon and launch alliance would serve three of -- you know, atlas 5 would serve 3 of the 4 potential capsules and their atlas 5 just made th