american innovation, intellect, and achievement. as we approach the 50th anniversary, the award winning cnn film apollo 11 takes a breathtaking new look at the historic mission. it includes remarkable audio recordings that take you to the heart of the moment that changed the way we looked at the world forever. now five minutes, 52 seconds and counting. verified, go for launch. booster flight. sro, verified, go for lunch. verified, go for launch. flight channel usage. we have some 7.6 million pounds of thrust pushing the vehicle upward. a vehicle that weighs close to 6.5 million pounds. joining me now, the director
give me a go, -go for launch. booster. go. guidance. guidance go. surgeon. go flight. ecom? we re go. gnc? we re going. control? go flight. procedures. go. inko. go. fao? we are go. network. go. recovery. go. hepcom. we re go, flight. launch control, this is houston. we are go for launch. seriously, if that does not give you goose bumps i don t know what s wrong with you. that was ed harris playing nasa s famous flight director gene krantz in the movie apollo 13. tonight another nasa flight director is gaining worldwide attention. he cuts a different figure than the buzz-cut krantz. bobak ferdowsi was the flight director who helped land the $2.5 billion rover curiosity onto mars monday. once cameras caught his unusual look a frenzy broke out over the internet with online memes,
it s not clear if he ll attend the hearing. one person who will is deborah. she says she hopes manson will be there. i think that he needs to look into our eyes, victim s eyes and see the pain that he s caused. i think that is something that is essential to his coming to peace, perhaps before he passes. as you said, this is probably going to be his last parole hearing. we are monitoring the hearing in california and will bring developments as they happen. in a couple hours, we are going to hear from trayvon martin s parents. they are expected to speak at a news conference. attorney general eric holder spoke about the investigation into the martin case moments ago. they will conduct a thorough and independent review of the evidence. in less than 72 hours, we could know more about the state s investigation. it s when angel corey will release new information about the case and decide whether or not george zimmerman will face charges for shooting trayvon martin. we ll go
neighborhood just makes him more accessible to people. and it s a little bit of a challenge because unlike president obama, he doesn t have teenage children. he doesn t have young kids. he has adult sons. so going back to the file footage is sort of the option he has if he wants to show himself in live action, so to speak, in those kind of settings. and alex, when we see this come out and basically, you know, portray the wider narrative of the candidate, it doesn t mean that the negative ads are going to stop. no, it certainly doesn t. and i think that, you know, one of the balancing acts romney s going to have to execute as we really move into the general election phase of this is figuring out how to both build himself up on the airwaves, try to adjust that problematic image that he has nationally while also ramping up his negative ads against president obama. politico s alex burns, alex, great to see you. thank you. north korea is a go for launch. pyongyang space officials sa
this country and its people forever. it s changed our security and our priorities. and most of all, it has changed the day-to-day of everyday life in the united states. what has changed since 9/11? maybe the question is, what hasn t? a 6-year-old girl searched before boarding a plane. a wheelchair becomes a red flag on airplanes, trains and subways, intense scrutiny. backpacks are searched and sniffed. even a trip to the ball game is an exercise in homeland security. homeland security, an entire government bureaucracy that didn t exist a decade ago. an agency that gave us the terror alert level. the federal government was raising its threat level to orange. reporter: before then orange was just a color or a fruit. hardly an assessment of potential threats. there are threats the 9/11 generation is used to. they ve grown up during two wars and they re still just kids. there was 9/11, then london, the shoe bomber, madrid and mumbai. rounding out a decade of anxiety that mark