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To prevent this from ever happening again. >> reporter: separately the house appropriations committee voted to block sanctuary cities from receiving certain federal grants. >> james, thank you. we are getting our best-ever look at pluto tonight. nasas new horizon spacecraft is coming within 7700 miles of pluto. it has taken the probe 9 1/2 years and 3 billion miles. scientists are hoping that pluto, which was demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006 will be reinstated as a full planet based on new in...

Have survived without the shows. the willpower i think got her out of the woods as well as the knowledge from the shows. she can put her mind to anything and she can do it. >> what is it about her -- i was talking to the sheriff yesterday. he said she was like a super hero. what is it about her that make her so resilient? i understand shes in shock, of course. but so calm. >> yeah. i would say, you know, autumn has just always been like that. its just a part of who she is. shes very self-determi...

We have new pictures tonight from pluto. as good as you can get. at the closest point to pluto. icy little pluto got closeups of the area they call the heart. sort of the shape of it. anyway they found you. may think these are warts. theyre not. theyre 11,000 foot mountains. the shocker thats on this planet there are no craters, or former planet whatever you want to call it. you get my point. unlike earth littered with them. that could be hugely significant. what does it mean, the former nasa as...

A whole new world. a planet or dwarf planet whatever you want to call it we knew very little about. we had not very good images you have shown earlier. now we have really great detail about it. >> what are we going to learn? now you say there is 11,000 foot mountains on tiny pluto? what does that mean? >> what are the mountains made out of. we thought it was frozen nitrogen. to have mountain that high it is probably not nitrogen. >> could be real walks. >> could be water, even cooler. if you hav...

They will not like it when its somebody who is supposed to be looking out for them as president. >> thank you very much. we will see. next breaking news with searchers in washington reaching what they now say at this moment is the badly burned wreckage of the plane. the survivor 16-year-old autumn. two of her best friends next. new pictures of pluto tonight. mountains, 11,000 feet high. we can see them. what are we learning tonight?

To prevent this from ever happening again. >> reporter: separately the house appropriations committee voted to block sanctuary cities from receiving certain federal grants. >> james, thank you. we are getting our best-ever look at pluto tonight. nasas new horizon spacecraft is coming within 7700 miles of pluto. it has taken the probe 9 1/2 years and 3 billion miles. scientists are hoping that pluto, which was demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006 will be reinstated as a full planet based on new in...