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shuttle. we are now less than one hour away from the final space shuttle landing. just in the last half-hour, we got a go for landing from nasa. the deorbit burn took place in the last couple of minutes. in the burn, the shuttles engines are fired to help it slow down before it hits the atmosphere. in less than 30 minutes the shuttle and crew will start to feel the effects of the atmosphere. theyll be about 80 miles above the earth at that point. as the shuttle comes through the atmosp...

self-imposed deadline for a deal and still there is no deal. some on capitol hill, some of even the presidents allies are saying this is now in their view time to cut bait and stop going for this big deficit reductions package theyve been talking about and just find the easiest path forward to get the debt ceiling raised and worry about deficit reductions at another time. >> you know, it seemed like there was some enthusiasm and some progress yesterday. but if the two sides are even fu...

thats more than were killed by hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, and floods combined. cnn meteorologist chad meyers joins us. its more than the heat. >> its more than humidity. if you set your steam roam at a gym at 105. that feels like 200 degrees. even though its 105, it feels so much hotter because your body cannot perspire, and it cannot cool itself down. a sauna is 160 or 170, but it feels cooler because the air is dry. now, this is a 10-year average, 170 people die of heat-relate...

>> now, the plan does not address the debt ceiling. you see the debt clock there. it ticks down to august 2nd. thats when the u.s. could start defaulting on some of its bills. it could be a jumping-off point for a bigger deal. here are some of the highlights of the plan according to cnn senate forces, it shaves about $4 trillion off the debt load. rejiggers the tax load, cuts short-term spending by about $500 billion. it changes the entire budgeting process and it reforms social securi...

koulson quit the job in january, and was arrested last month. now, the prime minister is now in the mood to apologize. >> what the public expect is not pedestriany political point scoring, but -- [ jeering ] what they want is to solve the issue out once and for all, and its in that spirit i commend this comment to the house. >> just yesterday rupert murdoch, his son james, and top british executive for news corp, rebekah brooks, were in front of the committee. of course, theres the pri...

the nations debt ceiling is fueling hopes the government wont run out of money on august 2nd. obama saying the deadline drawing close and congressional leaders need to talk turkey in todays meetings. most of the central heat under a heat alert. some areas feel as hot as 126 degrees. . the taliban blaming u.s. hackers for a text that announced the death of mullah omar. the taliban says, no, he is alive and well. one day after rupert murdoch tried to repel the british assault on hi...

reconsiders laying on the table. >> thats the house tonight passing h.r. 2560, better known as cut, cap and balance. now its a republican and tea party sponsored measure calling for massive spending cuts, a spending cap, and congress passing a balanced budget amendment. only then would the debt limit be allowed to go up, ending the current crisis. the measure was passed with just five democratic votes. senate democrats say theyll defeat it. if somehow they fail, president obama says he...

obama has just summoned congressional democrats to aarr white house. to be clear, democrats only. were also hearing the top two house republicans, john boehner and eric cantor are to meet with mr. obama at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. so clearly a busy afternoon shaping up at the white house. tell you what, i want to take you now straight to senator coburn who is live for me. sir, good to have you on the program. let me just begin with this. we mentioned these meetings at the white house. m...

british parliament hearing today in london but they were upstaged momentarily by an intruder who somehow managed to get very, very close to the murdochs, too close as youre about to see. watch. so no official word yet as to who exactly that guy in the plaid shirt was. we know he was shouting you greedy billionaire, but he pushed a plateful of shaving cream into rupert murdochs face before he was grabbed, first by his wife, if you watch it, not in this shot but you can see she was weari...

read the wall street if you go see fox movies, harper collins, if you watch american idol, youre a rupert murdoch customer. the murdochs both father and son have their work cut out for them. >> they have two different things in their testimony tomorrow. they got acknowledge responsibility. they have to say that what is completely obvious is that this wasnt abe ration, it was apparently thousands of people who were hacked and the idea they didnt know is propest rous. at the some time, t...