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peppers, "californication" i love that. i like it, i like it. joining us is will cain, mark lamont hill, professor at columbia university and john fugelsang, political comedian. i love watching the shuttle take off going into retirement after 39 different flights. >> even when its taking off on top of a jumbo jet? >> yes, will cain. >> its amazing, look at how huge that is. >> i watched it many times from my parents yard in florida. >> 39 times, more than any other shuttle. its a piece...

Sailboat during a race near san francisco. one sailor died and the search has been called off for four missing crew members. on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the "titanic" an original ticket for the voyage sold at auction in new york for more than $56,000. a dinner menu brought in over $31,000. and the space shuttle "discovery" is being prepared for its last flight tomorrow. the retired orbiter is mounted on a jumbo jet to be flown to virginia before being delivered to the smithson...

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For now, the mexican army has been brought in to patrol the city. the washington monument has extensive damage that left it vulnerable to rainfall. thats according to a park service report that said inspectors found cracks and loose stones along the entire length of the structure. $7.4 million has been allocated for repairs. a collision between a motorcycle and a car. it sent the bikes two riders flying, both hospitalized with major injuries. these are beautiful. the orbiter beamed back imag...

In the last edirection. can you seriously imagining in any other country? russia, it would be putin debating six other cardboard cut-outs of putin. china, what would they debate? how much we owe them? europe, they couldnt even afford the podiums. say what you want but this was a uniquely american experience, like the super bowl or vegan pet food. >> dana: they have that, owe know. >> greg: i know. i tried it. donald trump is going to join us in the next -- >> bob: wow! >> greg: try to control yo...

>> i did. >> welcome to "american morning." >> first, lets get started. could be a tipping point in the wall street movement. patience with the protests wearing thin and more and more cities grown tired of the headaches associated with the protests. in portland, oregon, a standoff on the city streets overnight. more than a dozen arrested as police cleared the city parks of makeshift camps. the mayor of portland telling cnn the every campments are now public health hazards. and two poli...

Another giant leap forward today. engineers launched an unmanned space craft that they say will play a key role in their building effort of their own space station. they say they will try to dock this space craft with an experimental orbiter to see if they can safely bring the two together. this comes a few months after the u.s. ended its three decades long space shuttle program and now add he voyeur cats say our country needs to do more to support private space exploration. >> in light of the f...

Well get you some information on those odds a little bit later on. kris gutierrez is at nasa. they are trying to figure out exactly when this thing is going to come land. hes at the johnson space center in hughes toon. what are you hearing, chris. >> reporter: there are big changes we want to tell you about. the orientation of the satellite has changed, which means its slowing the descent. what does it mean for us? if you think what weve been telling you for the past 24 hours, nasa initially tol...

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...

officials say nothing suggests an attack is imminent. they only say recent incidents reinforce the terror threat. and hope for a grand debt fix was dimmed just a bit in washington. some democrats and republicans are picking apart the latest plan with the same old complaints. liberals say it cuts social security and medicare. conservatives say it raises taxes. republicans have refused to raise the nations debt limit without deep spending cuts and no tax increases. the deadline now is ...