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North korea flexes muscles with missiles firing two into the sea off the west coast. its north koreas response to the start of the annual joint exercises with the u.s. and south korea. while you were sleeping blas blast off. >> three two one. spacex launching from cape canaveral, florida the rocket carries two boeing made communication satellites to distribute television programming, internet, and mobile phone connectivity across the world. elizabeth and brian? >> thank you peter. right now, t...

A nasa spokesman says there was apparent lay an automatic shut down by the on board computers. instead of blasting off cape canaveral the rocket stood theren othe launch pad. engine problem is expected. next launch attempt will be on tuesday if the problems can be fixed on time. certainly hope it can. good luck. the kennedy family once again saying good by to a loved one much much too soon. a funeral for mary richardson kennedy set to take place in just a few hours in bedford, new york. mary is ...

Some sort of military facility, perhaps to learn more information or to learn north koreas version of events. rachel, i have a surprise for you. i have a scale model of the rocket which i keep with me at all times. and it shows the three-stage rocket that you were describing. this is the first stage, liquid fuel. second stage, also liquid fuel. the third stage, not exactly sure. either liquid or solid. and it appears that the rocket exploded, crashed, failed sometime as the first stage was burni...

Well ever get tchl the footage shows the three-stage rocket being prepared for launch. it was designed to carry a satellite into space. a communication satellite. ey thats what they said. the launch, however, was the object of major international and american consternation because although no one particularly cares about whether or not north korea has communication satellites, there are a lot of countries that care about whether or not north korea has a long-range intercontinental missile that c...

About what is happening north of the border. right now, well leave you, shep, well try to get some harder confirmation from the officials nature and quality, most important the quality whether this thing is working on this launch. back to you. >> shepard: greg palkot live pyongyang, north korea this early friday morning. within a matter of 15 minutes of the launch we have been assured we will know whether this test has been successful. north koreans have tried exactly this test at least twice be...

Confirms sort of where we are. that this is a big concern. its something that we have to worry about and focus on. but its not something that is going to be, you know, something that we have to deal with right away. >> shepard: diply -- diplomatically speaking it seems like it would give some wiggle room. >> yes. they dont have something imminent essentially that they have a dlferry system that can reach the united states. thats something that we dont have to worry about. the other thing is that...

Way for people to, for them to sort of market themselves in terms of what they are capable of doing. they have done this thing in the past. for another rocket launch. north korea shot six missiles, shorter range missiles in a in very tight sort of configuration which showed how well they could sort of target this. and then shot the larger range missile as well. this is a way for whomever to let them know that this is their capability and theyre working on it and, again, they have shown their wil...

2009 model. thats the last time the north koreans have tried an intercontinental ballistic missile launch and that failed when the third stage went. this third stage of this rocket said to be of a better grade and, in fact, with some cross pollination with the iranian rocket specialist. so there is a little bit better chance of this going off and as we have been talking about, the trajectory of this launch, completely different, not going over japan. not heading towards other areas that might be...

But it would have to go way off course to be heading towards japan as opposed to due south towards the philippines. we dont expect that to really -- those patriot missiles to really come into play even if they are going after the descent grated parts of the missile, its unlikely they would be able to strike them. right now we will know in the next few minutes whether this was a successful launch. south korean tv reporting it has happened. >> shepard: 30 seconds ago as jennifer was speaking u.s. ...