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The international space station. one of two pumps went out wednesday. teams had to shut down noncritical systems. nasa says the space crew, not in any danger at all. we got mixed reports this morning on the state of the u.s. economy. retail sales rose seven-tenth of 1% in november on auto sales, the steepest climb since june. weekly jobless claims also jumped to a two-month high. numbers for the previous week had been at their lowest in almost three months. today, the house of representative...

>> heather: thanks, doug. >> gregg: fox news alert, astronauts just wrapping up a six-hour emergency spacewalk outside the international space station. nasa saying they have replaced successfully a cooling pump and it was perform solidly. they discovered the leak on thursday. nasa has never before staged such a fast and impromptu spacewalk. coming up, well out how dangerous the problem really was with our managing editor. stay tuned for that. >> heather: we have new developments to tell you abou...

The u.s. east coast on twitter from space. earlier during the space walk preps of the international space station he took a couple of pictures of the guys who were going to brave the void of space. how cool is that? we now take you to outer space. youre looking at the international space station right now. nasa astronauts had to perform an emergency space walk, as i mentioned, to fix an ammonia leak. the space walk started this morning. i want to bring in our resident space expert, john zarrel...

Brave workers at the stricken nuclear plant to head off the catastrophic core meltdown that has been the tier of the entire world for the -- the fear of the entire world the last couple of days. they are making some gains. they are getting seawater pumped through fire engines, high powered pumps hitting the stricken reactors to try and cool it down and try to bring the radiation levels down. in the past, about two hours this he have been doing this to reactor four, that is one of the worst and m...

Hope, hope that a cooling pump there works. they are not sure that is going to happen. again, as you say, traces of radio active iodine in spinach, milk, tap water. trace amounts. >> geraldo: so spinach and milk, still selling those in stores with the trace amounts of radiation? >> they are moving against that, okay. they are stopping, geraldo, the sale of that and they are warning people about the water supply as well. but again, it is down to miniscule trace theres. this also, geraldo, as the ...

Brave workers at the stricken nuclear plant to head off the catastrophic core meltdown that has been the tier of the entire world for the -- the fear of the entire world the last couple of days. they are making some gains. they are getting seawater pumped through fire engines, high powered pumps hitting the stricken reactors to try and cool it down and try to bring the radiation levels down. in the past, about two hours this he have been doing this to reactor four, that is one of the worst and m...

Worst disaster in world history. n ter people saying this is already worse than three mile island. that was one reactor, you have multiple reactors here. theres really three battles, the battle to restore power to reactors one and two. thats not going so well. they had hoped on thursday to restore it, they didnt. they hoped on friday to restore, it they didnt. theyre saying today they hope to restore it. even if they do, they acknowledge they dont know if the cooling pump are going to work, if i...

One and two. but they havent hooked the cable up to the cooling pumps and we dont know if the pumps will work. in terms of the battle to cool down reactors three and four, it doesnt seem like theres much good news there. >> yeah, its been a good news/bad news story. its great they have power lines up and running. now we have to hope that all the way through to the cooling pump will work. theyre working on their two best shots first. reactor two looks in pretty good shape when you look at the out...

With m.i.t. and dr. sanjay gupta is with me here in tokyo. jim walsh, in terms of what youve seen, the good news i guess is that theyve at least hooked up this power to reactor one and two. but they havent hooked the cable up to the cooling pumps and we dont know if the pumps will work. in terms of the battle to cool down reactors three and four, it doesnt seem like theres much good news there. >> its boone a good news/bad news story. now we have to hope that all the way through to the cooling p...

From libya all morning and we have a few other headlines. starting with this news alert. video giving us a look at the containment efforts going on at the nuclear sites in japan, spraying the reactors with water to keep temperatures down and stop a melt down. the real goal to restore the electric cooling pump. workers connected an external power line to the plant overnight, but there is no guarantee that will make the pump work, and the government says radiation has now contaminated the food sup...