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Question. i hope he doesnt to what he did last time which is to take the kids for whom he raises funds and say the work must continue for the children, and its not elins fault, its someone elses. that was just a display, frankly, i think, of how little things can sometimes enter the core of the man. jane: david, very quickly, what will be your question for tiger? >> i think that certainly its going to be very interesting to see how the press conference is run and to what extent were able to foll...

The fire ignited plastic in the truck which can be a health hazard. also as you can see theyre spraying foam on top of it, that is to protect some of the 200 gallons of diesel fuel, shot all of which has burned. so this is the situation in florida, broward county. fire departments, several of them, on the scene trying to get this under control. top box, defind protesters in thailand ignoring police orders to leave a central bangkok business district today, the third day in a bold rally to force ...

What is it? >> it all depends on the weather situation. most pilots actually like to land and fly airplanes in nice weather. in inclement weather, they might use the system in the airline for that. gregg: do some of the newer planes were have this stuff? >> yes, in fact as far as the late 90s i was flying airbuses and doing r-nav approaches which were with the satellite system and doing a landing without any ground reference equipment for using the landing, which is like an aialexis, which is th...

And its pouring here in los angeles, so im not sure you can see, but were a few hours out, and theres already people who have come out here to express their displeasure for dr. murray. theres also some conspiracy theorists out here. we saw some of these same types of people near lax during the last hearing, and it got rather chaotic down there. at one point there was a significant amount of security needed to keep a lot of these people away from dr. murray, many of them calling him a killer or w...

$50 million a pop. jane: that would be surprising, i think, to a lot of people, were now paying for seats on russian spacecraft. >> yeah. this is the beginning of the outsourcing of the american space program. the hope is whats coming next is building a new private american space industry that will take the place. jane: so youre talking about commercial rockets taking the place of government-funded? >> absolutely. thats the hope, but were not there yet right now. i mean, were in a weird kind of ...

Built. the obama administration has picked up that same to retire the space shuttle. a lot of people argue they have three great space shuttling and keep flying nemle approximate we have a robert na nasa can play. it has their own spacecraft to put in orbit and building the constellation. in the proposal, hes canceling the constellation program. even though hes increased the budget of nasa, there will be less people working witness nasa and contractors, alex. theres no roblt to ride on. they hav...

Our capacity, even for a short period of time, of getting people up. but that $6 billion says, we want to make things move forward. so i think thats a discussion not about, you know, people interpret the cancellation of a constellation program as were not involved in space explo explorati exploration. thats not either shape or form. thats a program where im not so sure it was good to harken back to the glory days of apollo. we have more stuff in front of us. of thats what we have. when we have w...

As president obama prepares to hold a space conference, he faces backlash for his decision to end nasas constellation program. a member of the commission which studied the issue joins us from houston. good to have you. thanks for joining us. were you surprised? i think a lot of people were surprised when the obama administration came out and said the constellation program to go back to the moon and then on to mars, that was the first step toward mars is dead, its over, its carrie kaput. were you...

Nasa. right now the shuttle is on the launch pad ahead of a mission to deliver more equipment to the international space station. despite the presidents planned announcement, floridas two senators say they have concerns about nasas future. thats because the president scrapped the constellation program that was meant to replace the shuttle fleet and without either program up and running, florida stands to lose many thousands of jobs and lots of tax money. the man in charge of the shuttle fleet sa...

Next months program in florida, have not yet been released by the white house, bill. bill: steve, are you still with us? >> >> reporter: yes. bill: what about the shuttle program? what does the president have in mind for that? >> reporter: well, his budget would end space shuttle operations at the end of this year and right now, nasa, a news conference is underway to highlight the next shuttle mission, set for next month, while at the same time, there is a move in congress to push back on the pr...