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Low earth orbit. this time only cargo was on board. astronauts and private transportation are still several years away. space exploration technologies of hawthorne, california, or space ex-for short, launched the falcon 9 rocket from cape canaveral, florida, at 8:30 onboard a rocket. a capsule called dragon contains 1,000 pounds of food, clothing equipment, science experiments including 23 designed and built by students. the cargo includes a freezer that can store laboratory samples at temperatu...

good morning everyone. welcome to early start. nice to have you with us. im ashleigh banfield. im zoraida sambolin. were bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. lets get started. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we begin with breaking news this morning. two american tourists kidnapped by gunmen in egypt. it happened in the town of dahab in the region of egypt. the report says that two americans were forced out of a car and taken away. the alleged kidnappers de...

want to begin with this afternoons scary situation on board this air liner and i am sure it was equally frightening for drivers on the ground who say parts of the plane were hitting cars. we can tell you the jet landed safely. i want to bring in lizzie oleary, our aviation spore kond ent. what do we know? what happened? >> we can take it from sort of two sides. what was happening on the ground, those parts of the plane, potentially the debris field and what was happening in the air. th...

speech and is speaking at a plant in iowa that makes conveyor belts and then he will go to a facility in vegas, the university of michigan ann arbor. four of those states are must wins. arizona is on the presidents wish list. only one state matters for the gop primary race. rick santorum with a state rally. newt gingrich spoke at a forum called univision. likely florida voters monday and tuesday and after the republican debate, romney is on top by seven points but 6% say that they are ...

dan wheldon exemplified everything about this series and about why people continue to come to this place, this is the racing capital of the world. >> two other drivers spent the night in las vegas hospitals for observation. dan wheldon leaves behind a wife and two sons. the occupy wall street movement is marking one month of protests today. a campsite in lower manhattan group says they have raised $300,000 and received hundreds of boxes of food and medicine from supporters. protestor...

both democrats and republicans are waiting to hear his proposal, and, of course, so are you. millions of americans out of a job and looking for work. in a matter of minutes, one of the people closest to the president who advised him on this very plan will join me live, with you, first, i want to begin with a fast-moving situation right now. in pennsylvania, really across much of the northeast, the floodwater is rising. people have to get out. more than 100,000 ordered to evacuate. i wa...

phillips. the state of mississippis governor says 25,000 homes could be lost in the flood as well as millions of dollars in farm products. a historical first in dublin, ireland. queen elizabeth becomes the first british monarch to step on irish soil. a security scare of a bomb hours before her arrival. pakistan is returning the tail section from the stealth helicopter that went down in the raid on osama bin ladens lair. coming as they hold a hearing on u.s./pakistani relations. ...

My mommy is the best because she lets me have pizza. she lets me do science experiments and lets me eat good stuff. >> just been loving those on this mothers day as were at 17 minutes past the hour on this cnn "sunday morning." we do have a question for you this morning. a lot of mothers out there. which cities though in this country are the best for a mother to live in? there is a list, an annual list put out by "the daily beast." taking in schools, population, health care specialists and here ...

Shortly we expect that to happen in four hours. there was a hiccup this morning. that was then fixed and they found that that problem was not that great of a problem. they are getting ready. they have said good-bye to their family for this trip up of "endeavour." theyll head up and head home after that. now, "endeavour" as we watch it head up and look at the space shuttle fleet, this is the second to last flight of the nasa shuttle program. after that there are some questions about what will fol...

They connected the ammonia pump lines and cables and it appears to be working well so far. but its not fully operational yet. >> shepard: i mentioned that nasa called this one of the most important spacewalk missions ever. help us understand that and what else theyre saying about it. >> there are few critical elements on board the international space station. one, power. you dont want to lose power. you dont want to lose oxygen or tempt control. its negative 455 degrees fahrenheit in space but t...