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Out both the earth and the moon. at that point nasa reports earth was 100 million miles away from mars. how about that. >> on this day in 1964, beatle mania broke out here in new york city when the fab four arrived for their first trip to the united states. thousands of screaming fans were waiting at kennedy airport for john, paul, george, and ringo, and they had their their first hit in the u.s. and then showed up at the ed sullivan show. an estimated three million americans toupe in. 43% of th...

This altitude. it slows it down. that is exactly what is going on with this out of control satellite. make a look at the satellite here, when it reenters the earths atmosphere somewhere it will break apart into 26 different chunks of stainless steel and titanium. the smallest chunk 10 pounds, the largest chunk 300 pounds, like a refrigerator falling from the sky. where that stuff will land at this point nasa still does not know, jon back to you. jon: we had our brain room, kris. we had brain roo...

This afternoon. now its late tonight, maybe even early tomorrow. jon: kris gutierrez, manning you. jenna: i wonder how the request to get his wife in the bunker goes. how does that go? all right. nasa is getting some help finding another space relic. amateur a tron mores in the u.k. are teaming up with a group of school children to find snoopy. its not the actual snoopy its a lunar capsule used in apollo 10. the last record of snoop poes location is now more than 40 years old. tracking it may re...

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...

Back off that request. the latest on this international showdown, coming up. also, are you looking skyward? the countdown to a satellite thats coming back to earth. nasa says theres a one in 3200 chance someone could get hit by the debris today. jenna: thats not a high probability, right? one in 3200. jon: its better than the lottery! coming up, who is clear, who is not?

Breaking news from florida now. nasa has postponed todays scheduled shuttle launch of "endeavour" and the postponement could last longer than 48 hours. it was supposed to leave in three hours or so but the auxiliary power unit heaters failed. they dont know what the problem is, they have tried troubleshooting, but cant diagnose the problem, cant fix the problem so they have scrubbed the launch. officials are hoping to announce a new launch at a time as soon as they get a handle on how big a prob...

Nasa tweeted a picture of the shuttle on the launch pad in the middle of a lightning storm. in fact we have that for you. were pulling that up. theres the lightning thats coming down. weve seen it before where lightning has actually hit the launch pad and that in and of itself has caused problems but in this case its just a really incredible picture by nasa. but looking behind you in the live picture, jay, it looks like you again have clouds rolling in. was there some contsternation over the wea...

There. so all of a sudden here in the last hour, the weather went balooey. then these two auxiliary power units overheating, so its a scrub. >> jay, i know youll keep tabs on that and bring us any updates that you get from nasa. thank you. lets talk about whats hot on the web today. you know, all the trending topics on twitter are about the royal wedding. topic, sarah burton. shes the designer at alexander mcqueen who designed kate middletons wedding dress. after months of denials that she was...

Launch of the "endeavour" this afternoon. however, the shuttle has been scrubbed, the launch has been scrubbed because of technical issues. we have not heard from the presidents folks about how that will change his schedule at this point, but the plan was that he and the first lady would go there and see the liftoff of the "endeavours" launch and of course congresswoman gabby giffords made that trek from houston, texas, disrupting her rehabilitation there in order to see her husband command this...

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