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Year to bill. martha: look forward to seeing you tonight. >> thanks, martha. martha: take care. bill: oh, usually that is the portion where the animation comes flying in. martha: interesting, right? bill: very much so. sean, thanks for being on with us. back to bed now. kidding. hard to believe today marking five years since the miracle on the hudson. captain "sully" sullenberger and his passengers expected to join some of the ferry crew that is rescued them from the cold river in 2009. us air...

It was 50 years ago tonight jacqueline kennedy, still mourning her late husband, went on national television to thank americans for their expressions of condolences. today the kennedy library released some of those moving and heartfelt letters for the first time ever. the story tonight from nbcs andrea mitchell. ♪ >> reporter: she had been widowed for only 53 days, less than two months since the assassination. joined by her husbands brothers, bobby and teddy wearing black.

Bridge, thats annoying. >> and we come full circle. well see if dobbs speaks to you again, dominic. great to see you, rick, as well. thank you. a fox news alert now, its five years to the day almost to the exact how since a u.s. airplanes flight took that incredible landing on the hudson river. everyone on board miraculously survived. the hero pilot, captain sully sullenberger joining the crews that rescued them. captain sully spoke moments ago. take you to what happened that day. flights star...

Handling the breaking news. what we learned is it was a flock of geese that hit the plane and thanks to the quick thinking of the pilot, everyone survived. speaking of, lets go right to sulley sullen berg speaking to mark that moment. >> 155 people faced a sudden unexpected challenge. many people came together and did their jobs exceedingly well to give us such a wonderful out come. landing in the hudson only solved the first and biggest problem of the day. it didnt solve the problem. we then ha...

Finally tonight, a success story about a bird that once faced extinction, now flying high once again. nbcs erica hill on the return of the crane with the help of another set of wings. >> reporter: it is not your typical bird call. but for eight young whooping cranes hatched in captivity, that sound clearly signals one thing, it is time to fly. >> it starts out when theyre still in the egg, we play a recording of the aircraft. >> reporter: all part of the plan to create an environment that is as ...

It was on a saturday morning 50 years ago today when the u.s. surgeon general made history releasing a landmark report that said smoking causes lung cancer and probably heart disease.

Space. anyone can build a satellite and launch it in space if they have a ride. and there is another swarm called the flock by a company in san francisco called planet lab. this is like 28 satellites and tiny cubes that will watch the earth from space and take pictures in that time. >> that makes sense. that makes sense about what we might learn from the technology going up in space. what will we learn if ants are weightless? >> it is to reach out to kids and get them involved in space science a...

Unemployed right now. >> profits are up. wages are stagnant, and companies arent hiring. companies have parked lots of billions of dollars overseas, all of those kinds of things. clearly the top-down, the trickle-down theory doesnt work very well for this country. republicans still want to subscribe to it for whatever reason. but thats -- the reason im optimistic, though, i think pope francis said something pretty interesting. he was exhorting his parrish priests. he said go out and smell like t...

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