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Incredible surge. i think if were being honest, were at that point with health care. the president should say i tried, get the experts together, and fix this. if you look at the other channels, theyre talking about how well it is going, the problems are in the rearview mirror, which is not true. >> not true at all. something has to be done and will be done. if it isnt done, could break the american system as we know it today and ruin a lot of health care for a lot of people. meantime, we have ...

Well. >> it seems to be. the international space station is suffering these little mishaps more and more. is that true? is the space station getting old and crusty up there? >> no. we designed the station so it can be maintained. think of the space station as a house although its more big and complicated. your house theres always something that needs work and something that needs to be fixed or something thats failing that you got to go out and buy a replacement. this pump module was designed to...

Walk. the astronauts were on a mission to fix a cooling pump malfunction on the international space station. its a critical problem that if left unattended, could have resulted in an evacuation. >> reporter: this is the second space walk to ever take place on christmas eve and after a very long day, the two american astronauts came out celebrating. >> the headline for the day is that we have a newly installed pump module. >> reporter: after a space walk that lasted more than seven hours, astrona...

International spacestation. they did imagine to remove a damaged pump from the cooling system and could actually finish the complicated repair job during the next spacewalk on monday. we go live to the l.a. bureau and dominic they did most of the hard work today, right? >> yes, and it took about five and a half hours on the spacewalk. two american astronauts doing this. they #r* -- are facing highly toxic ammonia. they managed to remove the bad pump module. they have since connected all of the f...

Think? cell phone crashing. thats like the greatest thing i have ever seen. >> this is the same guy from the people who would do dancing behind people at the mall. see them on escalators dancing, dancing, dancing and as soon as the person would turn around he would stop. >> this guy moved away from him. so he moves over next to him. >> followed him. >> its awesome. so, maybe something to try out if you are bored with the family. >> and you wanted to get punched out at the airport. go ahead. >> t...

Its by no means a record, but certainly a challenge and a physical toll taken by the astronauts when theyre out there. they also had to confront neighbors of highly toxic ammonia which was leaking from the repair site. so the astronauts managed to remove the bad pump module from the exterior. you can see it on the screen there. they had to disconnect all the fluid lines, take out electrical power talks remove the mounting bolts, and then they unhinged that pump out of the cooling system. it wasn...

The pump stations structural truss. they had to disconnect all the fluid lines. they got that pump out of its receptacle and out of the cooling system and parked it in a temporary parking spot. theyll go back monday and retrieve the spare cooling pump that will be removed, put on the robot arm and put into place and reconnected. if they get through all of that on monday, they wont have to go outside on christmas day. thats sort of a christmas gift if they have to do a third one. >> lets talk abo...

Upside-down right now, but i guess it doesnt matter in space. >> normally upside-down. theyve come out of the air lock. been out maybe 30, 40 minutes at this point, and theyve checked out their suits. everything is working fine. theyve set up their work site, and now are getting to work throughout their procedure. still going through some of the setup phases and then will start preparing the old pump module to come out and the new one to be ready to go in. so theyre not going to do that exchange...

Two astronauts completing a spacewalk high above the earth during which they removed a broken cooling pump on the international space station. the damaged system has hampered operations aboard the orbitalant could be finished next week. here is tom jones, author of "sky walking, an astronauts memoir." tom, its good to see you. >> thanks, merry christmas to you. >> lets talk about this. this is a very critical mission for the astronauts on board of international space station. todays walk, spacew...

Those astronauts will be making a spacewalk to replace a failed pump module outside the space station on saturday and maybe even on christmas day. well be right back. stick with power. stick with technology. get the new flexcare platinum from philips sonicare and save now. philips sonicare. this is the creamy chicken corn chowder. i mean, look at it. so indulgent. did i tell you i am on the... [ both ] chicken pot pie diet! me too! [ male announcer ] so indulgent, youll never believe theyre ligh...