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The space coast tomorrow. its the first time an entire first family will attend a space launch. and nasa is about to take one of the final steps before liftoff. phil keating is live at cape canaveral tonight. phil, whats happening there. >> well, a lot of wind and rain and lightning and thunder. the worst of it rolled through here 20 minutes ago. the skies turned black. a lot of lightning bolts seeing around the launch pad. this is part of that same system that spawned all of those deadly tornad...

First glimpse of arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords just months after being shot in the head in the deadly tucson massacre. lisa sylvester is monitoring that and other situations in "the situation room" right now. >> you can see her here boarding the plane for florida where she will attend fridays launch of the space shuttle "endeavour." her husband will command that mission. giffords has been recovering from her brain injury at a houston rehabilitation hospital. at the kennedy space cen...

Command his final shuttle mission. well hear more from commander kelly about how his wife has been getting ready to make her trip to the launch pad. thats still ahead. bottom-of-the-hour headlines momentnt away tonight on the fox report. worried about retirement. hed yet thear of mutual funds, iras, or annuities. back then, he had something more important to do. he wasnt focused on his future but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement solutions for our military, veterans a...

Compromise in yemen. the white house is trying to get the countrys president out while not giving all kwids an in. this is a shift in u.s. foreign policy. >> eight people murdered, their bodies discarded on a new york beach. police now on the hunt for a serial killer. details up next. nasa forced to delay the final mission of space shuttle "endeavor" why this is happening, on the launch pad, but not going up any time soon. 14 minutes past the hour. )%)%)%%

Of congresswoman gabrielle giffords from helming the shuttle. and now, from florida. this is a scheduling conflict with nasa and the russians and they are messing up my trip to the cape. i am not happy. >>guest: this has nothing to do with the severe weather on thursday. we have a photograph of the building in the black cloud when funnel clouds and hail and severe rain and winds, but the only damage to the shuttle was on the fuel tank and the folk is inconsequential and it is on the launch pad 3...

Immediately within seconds, we grabbed our masks. we started to look out the window. as soon as i tried to look out the window and put up the shade screen, the aircraft went into a complete nose dive. fast. nasa engineers are inspecting the space shuttle today after lighting struck near the launch pad. foam was damaged. endeavours final voyage is may 13th. a woman stormed into a bank yesterday and demanded cash. that is when 66-year-old helen dunsford tackled and her held her down until depu...

Says there is photo evidence of the massacre. back in this country, nasa workers are inspecting the space shuttle "endeavour" to see if that nasty weather that struck the launch pad this week did any damage. "endeavour" is scheduled to be launched april 19th. our karen maginnis in the weather center. i wonder if all that nasty stuff in the midsection of florida has dissipated, has it moved on. >> it really has. on april 1st we saw snowfall across new england, in some cases as much as 14 inches...

Nature played on us with the noreaster but, boy, did dump some heavy snow especially in northern england. havent seen much in the new york city area. sleet mixed in with the rain earlier and things improving. we are heading in the right direction. still seeing heavy snow in much of northern maine but the temperatures will be getting back closer to average and a lot better than the storm back in 97 that dumped two feet of snow in the boston area so we lucked out, actually, this time. richard, enj...

Health officials in st. luis obispo and spokane, washington, say the levels are 5,000 times lower than the legal limit so not a significant health threat. they are saying that they want to keep the public informed but nothing to panic about according to officials and dairy farmers in washington state. >> radiation can be a scary word but i think its important to remember actually we live surrounded by radiation every single day. it comes from the sun. it comes from our televisions. it comes from...

>> shepard: snow on the way up here, right? >> can you believe it? a lot of this moisture getting caught up in bigger system here. not looking like that much right now but a coastal storm develops overnight. we have winter storm warnings in effect from parts of maine back towards pennsylvania and new york. parts of jersey. by the time its all said and done, some areas up to about a foot of snow. the worst of it across northern areas of new england. we might see a dusting in the city and dusting ...