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We are just one day away from the deadline to sign up for obamacare in order to get coverage by january 1st. as the clock ticks down a court ruling impacts the controversial contraception mandate. more on that in a minute. first, peter doocy is here making headlines. peter? >> a massive and deadly storm system is heading east just in time to snarl holiday travel. so fa are it has brought everything from snow and ice to tornadoes. in fact two deaths in mississippi are already being blamed on thes...

New york and new england. a story out of south sudan which has seen a week of deadly violence. the u.s. government believes several americans evacuated today on united nations flights. pentagon official have is been working to get them out. they aborted a mission to airlift americans yesterday after four u.s. troops were injured when their aircraft came under fire. and astronauts spent several hours yesterday trying to repair a broken cooling pump on the international space station. the next s...

Astronauts spent hours working on a broken cooling pump on the space station. the second walk was scheduled for tomorrow but that is now being delayed while they make adjustments to the space suits. what should we make of the delays to this space walk? >> he is also the author of the book an astronauts guide to ear earth. nasa says they are delaying this space walk to make adjustments to a new suit for one of the astronauts. what happened to the suit from yesterday? now what? >> the spacesuits, ...

Of the ocean near south wales. were told they will be okay. important and dangerous work underway on the international space station. a key part of it in the history books today as two american astronauts ventured outside the station and successfully removed an old cooling pump. also during the space walk, a small oaring started floating away. >> it floated out, but its -- i can get it. >> okay, copy that. best effort and get that in the trash bag as well. >> i got it, i got it, i got it. bare...

January, well see the chilly temperatures at the start of 2014. >> thats going to be fun. >> i know. >> way to go, jennifer. >> helping you to get the cold healed and then the cold weather comes again. >> all right. jennifer gray, thank you for that. really interesting stuff there. that will do it for us. thank you so much for being a part of the saturday morning with us. >> weve had a lot going on. well continue to look at -- through the morning and the early afternoon to this space walk. >> ...

Will not be able to find it. two nasa astronauts spent more than five hours on an emergency space walk today trying to fix a critical cooling pump on the international space station. without the system, they had to turn off some of the important electronics. nasa says they got more accomplished than expected today and the problem just might be fixed during the next space walk scheduled for monday. back here on earth, a holiday travel mess. just as tens of millions of people hit the road and ...

The pump stations structural truss. they had to disconnect all the fluid lines. they got that pump out of its receptacle and out of the cooling system and parked it in a temporary parking spot. theyll go back monday and retrieve the spare cooling pump that will be removed, put on the robot arm and put into place and reconnected. if they get through all of that on monday, they wont have to go outside on christmas day. thats sort of a christmas gift if they have to do a third one. >> lets talk abo...

Take it out and put in the new one, which is a spare thats stored outside the international space station. so a lot of work today. just prepping to do the change-out of the bad box with the new pump, and, you know, pam and victor, this is considered one of the top dozen critical items that require immediate attention from nasa, and from the astronauts on the space station, because there are two cooling pumps. you have one go down. puts a lot of stress on that second cooling pump. so this is some...

Theyve been out there for a few hours already. two astronauts were scheduled to spend about 6 1/2 hours outside the station today, but that has been extended. theyre working to fix a critical cooling system. nasa is also taking special precautions today after an italian astronaut almost drowned on a space walk when his helmet filled with water while back. john zarella is following the space walk. what kind of progress is being made, john? this is painstaking, isnt it? >> reporter: its unbelievab...

The next space walk, which is due in the next few days, is by no means going to be any easier. take a listen. >> theyll go back monday and retrieve the spare cooling pump that will be removed, put on the robot arm, transferred to the new site and then put into place and reconnected. if they get through all of that on monday, they wont have to go outside on christmas day. although thats sort of a secret christmas gift that they actually have to do a third one. >> well, they might not have to do a...