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fredricka whitfield. get you up to speed this wednesday november 23rd. just in -- egypts highest ranking muslim cleric is calling on police to stop attacking protesters. this comes as the countrys uprising bloodier and bolder. authorities now say at least 35 people have been killed and almost 2,000 injured in five straight days of violence. clashes between protesters and police are happening outside tahrir square. and inside the square, tens of thousands of demonstrators are standi...

And im not nervous about it. >> reporter: dan burbank is the only american on this mission. first astronaut to launch into space since retirement of the space shuttle fleet earlier this year. the price tag for his seat $56 million. the russian space agency desperately needed this launch to succeed after two catastrophic failures earlier this year. first an unmanned progress supply ship in august, blamed on a contaminated fuel line. now flight controllers are scrambling round-the-clock to communi...

lets listen in. >> all three are still in good shape as are all of the other sims aboard the orbiter. a team of flight controllers watches over all the systems. 4:20 into the flight. "endeavours" traveling 5500 miles per hour. altitude 63 miles traveling downrange, about 335 feet in altitude. environmental and control systems officer here reporting a good flash evaporator system reporting cooling to equipment aboard the vehicle. traveling into space on the forward flight deck is mark k...

Discretionary spending and that is the only area being addressed now and he will not go above $10.5 billion and is not nearly enough to come close to halfway to where the republicans are. so, they have a lot of goebiating to do the next 12 days and if they dont they will need a temporary extension, for another two weeks, which is a heck of a way to run a government, or well have a government shut down. >> eric: what are the answers of the quote, government shut down? will it be partial? we have ...

Down range distance 3 nautical miles. >> so the 25th space shuttle mission is now on the way after more delays than nasa cares to count. this morning, it looked as though they were not going to be able to get off. >> 1:15. altitude 9 nautical miles. down range distance 7 nautical miles. >> looks like a couple of the solid rocket boosters blew away from the side of the shuttle in an explosion. >> flight controllers here looking very carefully here at the situation. obviously, a major malfunction.

This hour. the space shuttle atlantis has docked at the international space station. astronauts are getting to work after the welcoming ceremony. we showed you that live. the six astronauts will spend a week installing six fresh batteries and a new russian compartment. flight controllers had been keeping an eye on a piece of space junk, but it turned out it wasnt a threat. more trouble in the gulf. researchers found large oil plumes 4,000 feet beneath the surface of the water. scientists say the...

It happened on wednesday. 103 people on board the plane were killed and he was the only one who made it. >> there is a picture in the new york post and its so heart breaking. hes obviously very injured and he just looks so sad and he looks so small. just so little. poor kid. the libyan doctors let him take a phone call from a newspaper in the netherlands. this poor kid is being grilled. hopefully things change once he gets home. flight controllers are deciding tonight whether to move the inter...

This year with $75,000. that winner, 15-year-old amy chow from richardson, texas. >> im working on a photo dynamic therapy. i designed a tool to reach internal tissues. >> she and all the other contestants have their eyes on the future. and companies like intel think this is their future, too. in san jose, fox business. >> nasa is keeping an eye on space junk orbiting near the international space station where the shuttle atlantis is heading right now. the shuttle blasted off from cape canaveral...

A lot of people have been focusing on the flight simulator. why would he have a flight simulator? first of all, just pilots like to fly. either with 18,365 hours behind your controls of the 777, it may be that if he wants on his off time to fly, it is just not easy to get airborne in malaysian. it is not like in the united states where you can just take off and fly and have some pastime flying. it is not uncommon for folks to get with these flight controllers at home and simulate paths. also the...

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