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Education nation. one laser strong focus for the obama administration fostering u.s. students to embrace a love and dexterity for math and science. indeed children need that push. globally the united states ranks 25th in math and 17th in science. for decades now, one of the vehicles motivating the children has been nass space program and the now retired shuttle fleet. of course thats in a bit of a holding pattern and still nasa continues to work to inspire the next generation. i am delighted to ...

Docked at the international space station this morning bringing a science expermit. the last mission before nasa retires the shuttle fleet. there was a preview of a possible baseball playoff series last night. it had the same kind of october dramat dramatic. st. louis leading philadelphia in the eighth inning when the phillys jimmy rollins popped it up. tyler green drops the ball. he was in as a defensive replacement. rollins made the score to tie the game. then in the bottom of the ninth -- y...

the governor of louisiana says the record water levels could last more than a month. houstons newspaper reports that doctors will perform major surgery on gabrielle giffords. but first, we have an idea of who will leave al-qaeda and its not who youd expect. dan rivers is in london. who is this man? >> this is saif al-adel, who is a former egyptian special forces officer, a veteran of al-qaeda, the chief of their military committee for many years. a veteran of afghanistan and somali...

last night, the irish police received a warning about a device which would be on some form of public transport. it was discovered on a private bus just outside dublin. the passengers were evacuated and the devices made safe after about two hours. it was defused. this can is coming now three hours before the queen is supposed to touch down at the girng of a four-day states visit. this is the largest security operation in the history of the irish state. some 10,000 police and army are gu...

And given to a museum in los angeles. roughly 400,000 people will visit brevard county to watch the liftoff. the shuttle was supposed to take off late last night but concerns with the shuttles heating system scrubbed the launch. >> we havent seen one in a couple of years and this will be great. >> reporter: the mission promises to be an emotional one for commander mark kelly. his wife, u.s. congresswoman gabrielle giffords will be there. in january she was nearly killed when a would-be assassin ...

Run more test after they replace the blown out circuit on the shuttle. there is one other scheduled mission. nasa plans to retire the entire shuttle fleet. >> im shepard smith. this is the fox report. its the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. more on that news of a missile strike aimed at the terrorist suspect anwar al awlaki. the initial reports came from the "wall street journal" which is owned why the parent company of this network. the journal reports in todays edition and on...

Conference to discuss this with the present press core. you have gabrielle giffords whose husband mark kelly is commander of the flight. she will stay here over the next three days. they are not moving her back to houston she is going to sit and wait this out. president obama, his wheels up out of alabama on his way to florida. tonight in miami the president is giving a commencement address to miami-dade community college. it seems plausible since hes on the way to miami any way and he had alrea...

>> shepard: with the shuttle fleet almost history, nasa has a new space race on its hands. the agency awarding more than $260 million to build the next space contract. boeing getting the big contract. a few start ups the list. dream chaser for syria, nevada corporation. they make very good beer. the dragon by space x which has already completed a successful test flight. more on the space race head over to foxnews.com. one of the last scheduled launches on fnc. endeavour to blast off on wedding d...

That the commercials in her final show will not be cheap. advertisers are expected to shell out a million dollars or more for a 30-second ad. that is considered a staggering amount of money for a daytime show. but it is actually about half of what advertisers paid for the "friends" finale back in 2004. oprah has set the date for the final broadcast. it will air may the 25th. but that ad rate is actually similar to both what they paid for cynthia mcfadden finale and the "everybody loves raymond" ...

Craft and one prototype, theyre all about to get new homes. >> booster ignition and the final liftoff of "discovery." >> reporter: for the space shuttles, the final frontier, retirement. >> theyve served the nation well. >> reporter: 21 museums wanted to be home to the worlds first reusable space vehicles. just four erupted in cheers when nasas chief announced the winners. >> well showcase my old friend "atlantis." the california science center in los angeles will be the new home of the shuttle ...