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Guardsmen out sporting the -- supporting the local law enforcement agencies. and were very careful, obviously rg with the perception that the national guard has, and we want to insure that were providing a safe environment to the workers and also providing the security that law enforcement agencies need. and, again, its just to augment the local security elements. jenna: well, colonel, we appreciate you taking the time to join us today, and we thank you for your and your team for your service as...

Sort of mechanical problems with the shuttle. it came as the six man crew was supposed to lift off. the injured congresswoman gabriel giffords traveled to the space center. as you know her husband commander mark kelly is commission commander there but even though nasa scrubbed the launch, president obama traveled to florida as scheduled anyway. and as i mentioned he spent some time with the congresswoman as well as the crew of the shuttle endeavour. phil keating worked the space coast for us and...

Huge bolts of lightening, enhale too close to comfort for endeavors launch pad. inspections show no signs of damage. adding to todays big moment congresswoman gabrielle giffords will be on hand to see her husband commander mark kelly take endeavor into her final orbits. a senior engineer at space-x will be here too. garrett im sure youll tell us that is a good thing, there are a lot of skeptics out there who cant see nasa and the united states government get out of the space business and effecti...

Van when it suddenly made unprecedented u-turn three miles from the launch pad. nasa technicians noticed problems with the shuttle auxiliary power unit. critical during the ascent and descent. when they werent working, nasa scrubbed the launch. the first family toured the processing facility as scheduled and launch control where they were going to watch the next-to-last shuttle launch. he met with the commander crew and astronaut mark kelly, whose wife gabrielle giffords was shot in the head in ...

Weather, isnt that the big issue? hows it looking? >> reporter: it is all about the wind, and right now its borderline had the launch window been right now with these wind speeds, theyre in the 20 and upper 20s as far as knots go. a major issue here not only at the launch pad, but also at the landing strip in case of emergency and the shuttle had to circle back around and land. but at this point its borderline. it all comes down, according to meteorologists, as if wind shift changes instead of c...

More narrow. how much time do they have to launch this at all in your opinion? >> i dont think i know the back end of the window about how long they have this. but nasa works with their russian partners to make sure operations at the space station deacon applicant with their launch date. they have several days this week before they have to worry about rescheduling. lets look for sometime later in the week for a launch and well find out probably sunday when that will be. martha: is it your unders...

Nasa tweeted a picture of the shuttle on the launch pad in the middle of a lightning storm. in fact we have that for you. were pulling that up. theres the lightning thats coming down. weve seen it before where lightning has actually hit the launch pad and that in and of itself has caused problems but in this case its just a really incredible picture by nasa. but looking behind you in the live picture, jay, it looks like you again have clouds rolling in. was there some contsternation over the wea...

Scheduled 6:15 and that is complete and the astronauts woke up 6:00 a.m. and will suit up in 90 minutes and at the top of noon, they will drive the astro van out to the launch pad to load into shuttle endeavour, one by one. bill: how this is crew doing and what did they say yesterday, overnight, anything this morning? >> reporter: they are very quiet, when it comes to the last two days before a launch. however, nasa released this very cool glory photo of the six men, on this last shuttle endeavo...

Look beautiful, babe." jenna: stunning. jon: well, she does. jenna: i like that, babe. jon: all right. coming up, the countdown to the blastoff. shutter endeavor on -- shuttle endeavor on the launch pad at the kennedy space center. the astronauts are suiting up right now, they are ready to go. well get you a live report, plus the list of high-profile guests attending this event coming up. hey susie, why dont you use this ?

Army corps of engineers to break a levee intentionally. they hope it will spare a flood-threatened town in illinois just up river. heavy rain led to flooding throughout both states but missouri filed a lawsuit to try to keep the corps from breaking the levee. the state argued it would damage farmland, but again the judge has ruled in favor of the army corps of engineers. we have new information coming in right now from cape canavarel, florida, where the astronauts are boarding the shuttle "end...