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Later in life, glenn would poke fun at the risk. >> we used to joke about in the the past when people would say what do you think about on the launch pad? the standard answer was "how do you think you would feel if you knew you were on top of two million parts build by the lowest bidder on a government contract?" >> reporter: until glenns flight, the russians led the space race. glenns success bolstered american spirit and give credence to john kennedys pledge to put men on the moon. glenn would...

Florida and north carolina to hold it. arizona, georgia didnt get off the launch pad with an overwhelming white vote. the democratic party, this was the nightmare scenario. he forced them to move the base from the rust belt to the sun belt. they werent strong enough in the sun bet and he knocked down the door. >> cory, on a personal level as somebody there from the get go and went through a lot with this man, this candidate what youre still obviously close to, what is it like to see this? what i...

More enthusiastic to vote than the donald trump voter. >> its going to be a nail-biter down to the end. well see what happens with 21 days to go who will peak at the end. >> absolutely. >> ed rendell, thank you. we have the final face-off coming up along the vegas strip. what happens tomorrow night in vegas surely wont stay in vegas. but could the third debate seal the deal for either candidate? first, though, a chance along the east coast last night to see a rocket that is making a special ...

Is preparing for a provocation sometime around the time of the election. tonight, new satellite pictures of the satellite launching station in north korea which indicate something could be brewing. >> what were seeing now is activity near here. we see crates on the launch pad and we see activity here near the fuel oxidizer bunker. theres some vehicles out front. so this could mean that the north is getting ready to launch a rocket. >> reporter: this is a recently upgraded rocket station, where n...

Were keeping our eyes right now on some ominous developments in north korea where theres new signs that kim jong-un is about to order another dangerous military provocation. brian, the north korean leader, what is he up to this time? >> reporter: these new satellite pictures show signs that kim jong-uns regime may be preparing for another rocket launch. youve got activity near the launch pad here. you have vehicles next to important fuel buildings here. this kind of activity has been seen before...

Lives of their first responders. they dont want their officers out because it becomes very, very dangerous for them. a little bit further north we were talking about this earlier, there is a satellite sitting on the launch pad inside the vehicle center that is a $1.2 billion satellite, there it is, it is the goesr satellite, it is supposed to take us into the next century when it comes to predicting storms. this satellite could be damaged or destroyed by this storm. this is a major concern among...

Unrelated to the accident. drag racing is clearly a dangerous sport, but thats all part of the attraction. >> any time you stick 3,500 horsepower in a suspended door car it will add a little more excitement and a little bit of fun. anything thats fun and exciting, its going to be dangerous. you cant hardly walk to the store without having a little bit of danger. coming up, a truck ramp turns into a launch pad. >> cant imagine id ever get anything like this on tape, again. >> when "caught on ca...

Knowledge. in may, north korea claiming it has miniaturized nuclear weapons small enough to put on a missile. >> this situation is dangerous. theres no constraints on his program, and north korea seems determined to build up the nuclear arsenal. >> reporter: they also seem determined to develop rocket technology despite the sanctions, including recent upgrades to a launch site. they believe theres a movable building and a cover over the launch pad designed to hide activity from prying eyes in th...

Vehicle back upright, not in a splashdown in the ocean. it came back down, six miles away from where it launched. >> the trails, what it looked like going up, what it looked like coming down. musk shared it on social media. is that what makes this din, the returning part, reusable. >> correct. normally what happens you have expendable rockets where you launch into space and the spacecraft survives, hopefully, but the launch vehicle is not reused. a lot of times, in fact in most systems the soyuz...

Orbit. the 23-story rocket lifted off with the main stage successfully returning about ten minutes later to a landing site six miles south of its launch pad. hear all the cheering in the distance there? musk celebrated with a tweet saying there and back again. the company says it intends to try to reuse the first stage booster in its nine engines. doing so would help reduce the cost of space travel. lets turn to business now where u.s. stocks rallied as investors shrugged off weak oil prices. ...