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I just hope that we celebrate, really take the time to celebrate the wonderful things that have come from this program. >> the vehicle has exploded. >> reporter: "discovery" led the way back into space after both the "challenger" and "columbia" disasters. richard jones, the flight director for the mission, was right here in mission control when "columbia" went down eight years ago. >> i still carry a scar. to this day, it was the worst day of my life. >> ignition and we have lift-off. >> reporte...

antimortem data such as finger printeds, dna, dental records. >> about 120 people were inside a christchurch office building that collapsed and caught fire. among them were 80 asian students learning english. its believed, though, there are no survivors. boeing has landed a $35 billion defense contract. one of the biggest ever. boeing will build nearly 200 giant airborne refueling tankers for the air force. these are considered flying gas stations. the last ones were made about 50 ye...

oprah: what is your dream now that you hold for yourself and your family? >> to stay sober, to just be loving and kind to them, to not have to go to the suffering place when its not necessary, to--whenever, you know difficulty comes our way, that we deal with it in the most honorable sort of connected, supportive way. to raise our daughter with the right sort of support and freedom and, you know, that she gets a real understanding of whats right and wrong. ive been completely honest wi...

Turmoil there could be quickly felt here at home. abc news business editor dan arnold explains why. >> we have two things happening. a lot of concern about the movement of oil around the middle east and the potential knock-on effects of egypt seeing a major change in its political system. thats driving the price of oil up significantly around the globe. analysts tell us every time we see the price of oil go up by $10 you can expect that to translate into real change in prices at the pump. right ...

you. >> wow. the icy weather in kansas city is being blamed for a pretty nasty accident involving a fire truck and a school bus. that bus was on the way to school when it slid on the slick streets straight into a utility pole and then the fire truck responding to the crash slid into the bus. two kids on that bus did suffer some minor injuries but everyone else is okay. >> wow. president obama has hit another major setback in his health occasion overhaul. a federal judge in florida ...

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mmm. i like the green crunchy ones myself. whoa. explore nature. there are surprises everywhere. go to discovertheforest.org. police are using military armored vehicles to patrol the shantytown. 23 people have died so far. the police moved into the drug-ridden slum earlier this week to clean it up before the city hosts the soccer world cup in 2014 and the summer olympics just two years later. three teens who had been given up for dead have been rescued in the south pacific after near...

the north is lashing out, warning this weekends joint military drills by the u.s. and south korea is pushing the peninsula to the brink of war. alex is following the developments from seoul. >> reporter: the bodies of the two civilians killed in the island attack arriving on the mainland for burial. arriving amid an escalation of force and rhetoric. south koreas president ordered more troops and equipment to the maritime border with north korea, including the island that was hit. warni...

prince william has pulled off his first rescue as part of the oil air force. he flew a chopper to an oil rig off the northwest coast of england over the weekend. william and his crew rescued a heart attack patient and flew him to an emergency room. imagine looking out your window and seeing this coming down your street. a flood of toxic sludge has engulfed several towns in hungary. the environmental disaster so monumental officials have now declared a state of emergency. workers are ...

>> reporter: al qaeda continues to aggressively recruit people, both abroad and here at home. officials say theyre most worried about al qaedas reach online. there was a setback in efforts to free 33 miners in chile. one of the hammers on a drill used in the rescue mission became detached yesterday. the crews were drilling through rock when it happened. the drill was repaired and work continued. rescued in early november, six weeks sooner than first expected. one lawmaker on capito...