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And im gio benitez in for kendis gibson. We begin with president elect Donald Trumps cabinet picks back in the spotlight. Confirmation hearings get under way for betsy devos, his pick for education secretary and congressman ryan zinke. Meanwhile, the inauguration boycott is picking up steam led by john lewis. At least 35 lawmakers are planning to sit out and lana zak has the latest. Reporter in just three days donald trump will become the 45th president of the United States. And as the Nations C...

Meanwhile, another warm day. Average high for this time of year is in the low 50s. Right now we are going to get right over to the brushfire happening right now. It burned a pretty significant distance. It burned about 3 miles wide and a quarter mile deep. There are still hotspots flaming up. You can also see the line of where the brush burned black and where it didnt. 128 and wayne would is where it stard. s spread more than 300 acres. High winds of up to 20 Miles Per Hour marked ascension, hel...

Other breaking news were followingshots are fired near the Milwaukee County courthouse. It happened this morning. Pete zervakis is live with what we know thus far. Milwaukee police are right now stressing there is no threat to the public. As you can. The intersection of 9th and state where the shooting happened is now open to traffic. Li were fired around 9 30. No one was hurt. The shooter is in custody. The weapon was recovered. Those in the area were left frightened. We need these people to st...

Were back live now at the Smithsonian National air and space museum where the museum today is celebrating its 40th birthday. It was 40 years ago today that president gerald ford dedicated this museum. In about a half hour, well bring you live coverage of the events celebrating that anniversary. In the meantime, we want to hear from you. Our phone lines are open. 2027488900 for those in the eastern or central time zones. If you live out west, 2027488901. Send us a tweet at cspan history or join u...

Were back live now at the Smithsonian National air and space museum, where the museum today is celebrating its 40th birthday. It was 40 years ago today that president gerald ford dedicated this museum. In about a half hour, well bring you live coverage of the events celebrating that anniversary. In the meantime, we want to hear from you. Our phone lines are open. 2027488900 for those in the eastern or central time zones. If you live out west, 2027488901. Send us a tweet at cspan history or join ...

So it didnt quite make it so it didnt quite make it to the moon but it did get to the mississippi. This is whats left of the saturn 5 rocket. Nasa designed the boosters that sent astronauts to the moon in 1973, but the apollo 19 flight was then canceled. The 40mile move from new orleans took several days. They had to move it at just three miles an hour. Wow, speedy. Im guessing it was planned to go faster than that when they were planning to go to the moon. In mexico, a runner greeted to somethi...

Other passengers have been charged with illegal gun possession. And in another bizarre twist, police say they found the girl cramsey was looking for, and she told them, i dont need to be rescued. Police are still investigating. Gio benitez, abc news, new york. There is a 12pound fugitive jumping around a massachusetts zoo this morning. Dizzy, the monkey is on the run sort of at the forest park zoo in springfield. He escaped from his living area tuesday and has been swinging from a tree ever sinc...

Cowling, what i mean is that theres a tight figtting metal covering and allows the air to flow over more efficiently. So, mark burket of the spanish Swiss Company has designed a very important series of automobile engines in the prewar era. He adapts this to the aeronautical application by taking two of his inline four engines, makes it into a v8, and what he does thats very unique is instead of having separate cylinders attached to the crank case, he casts a row of cylinders out of a solid piec...

Prizewinning flight, but it was the recordbreaking flight. And so they went to the trouble to reinstall the dented engine nozzle on it. Our next stop will be sky lab, and were going to look at that because it is one of the original artifacts on display here since before this Museum Opened. Sky lab is so large, it was brought into the museum before the building was closed out. Now im standing in front of a model of sky lab thats as tall as i am but the real sky lab orbital work station behind me ...

The moon. So its actually fairly flimsy in some areas. The legs are obviously strong and mount for the rocket engine is strong but the craft itself and particularly the crew module or crew cabin was really fairly spartan. It had two windows. Neil armstrong had command of the craft during the final descent to landing. Both of them were standing. They were fully suited in their space suit and they pretty much filled that interior volume in that position with those space suits on. It was not really...