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items to his room. moammar gadhafi is ready for a cease-fire, parentally, according to the south african president trying to broker a truce. gadhafi is not promising to step down, which is the main demand of the rebels. sarah palins one-nation bus tour is in gettysburg, finally. there are times when she sounds like a would-be presidential candidate. she still isnt ready to call her tour anything but a campaign for americas constitution. the tour started in washington wag. then, it ...

For us and it keeps our marines and soldiers and sailors safe. what a ride it was. very controversial aircraft because there has been some accidents and cost overruns but those marines stand by it as do the air force to say every mission in the last 20 years would have been improved. >> how do the marines react to you? you look like launch pad from duck tails. >> didnt i look like a marine or are you saying something else? >> you look something like a marine. >> a little princess lea-ish with ...

Beaten at dodgers stadium. doctors said he was stable must have to leave los angeles. so par no one has been arrested for that attack. norfolk, virginia, another home coming. this one for the ships of the amphibious ready group. they left almost nine months ago for humanitarian aid for pakistan. some units also took part in combat missions in afghanistan and over libya. one day after "endeavour" lifts off, 9 atlantis otherwise hea he heads for the launch pad. and lawyers for the internatio...

Prove yourself, and maybe work your way up the ladder. randi? >> all right. alison kosik, thank you. appreciate it. time right now, about 25 minutes past the hour and time for a check of our top stories. we now know why arnold schwarzenegger and maria shriver split. he admits he fathered a child outside his marriage more than ten years ago. the mother was a long-time member of his household staff. schwarzenegger says he told his wife after he left the governors office in january. the flood o...

last night, the irish police received a warning about a device which would be on some form of public transport. it was discovered on a private bus just outside dublin. the passengers were evacuated and the devices made safe after about two hours. it was defused. this can is coming now three hours before the queen is supposed to touch down at the girng of a four-day states visit. this is the largest security operation in the history of the irish state. some 10,000 police and army are gu...

>> reporter: open floodgates, thousands hit by floodwaters so new orleans stays dry. the alternative, city officials say, would have been worse than katrina. >> water is pouring through 15 of 125 floodgates at morganza, louisiana right now, a quarter of the gates will eventually be opened. downstream, water from the spillway is already overrunning some homes. as many as 25,000 could go under water in the next few weeks. president obama is welcoming jordan king abdallah to the white h...

an exclusive island unlike anywhere he has ever been. rikers island. until friday at the earliest, dominic strauss kahn will be a guest in an east river compound reserve for criminal defendants and convicts. its a world away from the swanky manhattan hotel where he allegedly forced himself on a maid saturday and brought himself an array of sex crime charges. reichers houses 14,000 inmates, give or take, and employs some 10,000 guards. its made up of ten separate jails, most of them b...

The space shuttle "endeavour" launched into space. it is taking up extra parts and super tiny satellites. satellites the size of a cracker. yes, a cracker. "endeavour" is scheduled to return to earth on june 1 which is the same day that the space shuttle "atlantis" is expected to roll out to the launch pad in anticipation of the final mission of the space shuttles 30-year history. in todays big breakdown, lets talk about the sheer size of the space shuttle, because unless you have seen it up clo...

A very exciting morning. >> sure is. >> this is always one of those things down to the wire but as of right now, all systems go for space shuttle "endeavour." youre looking at live pictures from the kennedy space center. "endeavour" is on the launch pad, fueled up and ready for liftoff in a little more than two hours from now. 8:56 a.m. eastern time. and historic mission. >> it was scrubbed a couple weeks ago, last week, and here we go again. the weather is perfect. on board for nasas second to ...

Astronauts just as we all did here in astonishment as endeavour blasted off for the 25th and final time of its long storied career. there were no photos of her released. still being kept very private her recovery. her chief of staff did update us a little bit. they say she does understand sarcasm which is food because thats linguistically very complex. >> its exciting she was able to reach those goals and get here. she adores mark and supports his career. very proud of him and whole human space ...