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Bedrooms and three and half baths and 2 255. and a dining room that societies ten. and hoover and eisenhower was in the hotel years after loving office. better to be safe than sorry. >> that is a shame. that is a gorgeous hotel. >> thank you so much. great to see you. >> and nasa new horizon probe be making history with the drive by with pluto. phil keating has more. >> reporter: a spectacular week for space exmroration and nasa and all earthlings a brand new book on pluto. it is the first ever ...

That is it monstage of pluto through the years beginning with the telescope view in 1930 and the improving images by the hubbell and new horizons. >> new horizons is two and half million miles behind pluto and will fly and zip through the belts and off in to intertelear space. in miami phil keating, fox news. >> james holmes found guilty for killing 12 people but his trial is far from over. what happens next as it moves in the sentencing phase. and dozens of cats in needs of good homes. shocking...

Largest moon. these are the clearest most detailed photos anyone has ever seen of the murky end of the solar system. >> nasa says the photos show pluto has an icy mountain range, up to 3300 meters high and methane ice is present, as well. fascinating. the new horizon probe will send all sorts of data to earth over the next 16 months. earlier i spoke to a retired astronaut about these new very exciting discoveries. >> i want aliens. >> on pluto. >> dont we all. >> and what are the secrets they ma...

A republican will never win by striking fear in peoples hearts. >> how about ted cruz ben carson and others say what trump said is right. you have to mention them too. >> reporter: those republican candidates are embraceing trump. ted cruz has gone out of hi his way to compliment the billionaire is meeting privately with trump in new york today. >> fascinating. one more thing on trump, his filing showed he loans his campaign $1.8 million in the first days of the campaign. to self finance his run...

And on fire. they had to call the u.s. forest service to put out a small brushfire. they did find the bodies. they have been recovered. at this point it seems it is up to the federal authorities to determine what happened. it is in the ntsbs hands. we can tell you there was bad weather prior to that plane going down. thats thats according to autumn. thats what she relayed to the authorities. there was cloudy weather and she couldnt see much in front of her. >> donald trumps political campaign ha...

Astronauts may one day melt some of that ice to get rocket fuel for perhaps a return journey. >> interesting you think theres radioactive material there. >> well, why is the earth active gee logically? its because the center of the orth is radioactive. thats what causes the center of the earth to churn and we have continental drift. pluto is radioactive in the center, about you we dont know for sure. >> nine and a half years to get there. whats the next ten years look like on research on this? >...

First-ever close-up. >> i dont think any one of us could have imagined that it was this good of a toy store. [ laughter ] >> this is what we came for. [ laughter ] >> this exceeds what we came for. >> pluto is so far away a radio signal takes about nine hours to get there and back. from pluto, the sun appears to be a tiny star lost in the milky way. the craft was launched in 2006 costed $723 million. its traveled a staggering 3 billion miles in nine and a half years. with this achievement, the u...

Temperature, about storms, weather. is there anything like that? would we learn from this mission those kinds of things? >> pluto does not have weather as we know it. however, it does have some kind of atmospheric activity. so were tantalized by the fact that it violates the usual rules of planetary evolution. we now believe that pluto may be radioactive. that may be the source of energy that drives the resurfacing of the planet. maybe well see geysers just like on some of the moons of jupiter. ...

Killing the dinosaurs. remember, the dinosaurs did not have a space program, they had no way to deflect that comet. we do. and pluto is the largest object in the belt of comets. >> did you ever think youd see this in your career in your lifetime? >> no. when i was a kid, i thought in my lifetime i would never see pictures if three billion miles into outer space, but there they are, in living color, detailed photographs of the surface showing that its young, and been resurfaced a few hundred mill...

>> an awful lot. this is the space spectacular of the decade. we thought pluto would be a dead planet like the moon. we dont see craters, look at that. we dont see craters on pluto. parts are as smooth as a babys bottom. how can that be unless the surface was resurfaced a few million years ago? we believe pluto was gee logically active and that upsets all our understanding of these objects. theyre not frozen solid at all. theyll probably have geysers, volcanoes and theyre gee logically active. >...