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>> weve been watching the live shuttle launch of discovery. its always amazing to watch this happen live. almost unbelievable in a sense. i want to bring back former astronaut tom jones for his take. tom, i know that the president is going to be down in florida. am i correct, on april 15th? and are we awaiting what he exactly will be talking about with nasa? i mean, hes made some very important decisions, most of them to cut the funding, right? >> well, back in february, gretchen, he did announc...

Bringing 34 foot waves there to hilo. and it was very destructive. and many people died as a result. jacqui jeras is also watching this. what is interesting here is there has been a tick tock, almost like a countdown to a shuttle launch. and in this case, it is the countdown to the arrival of the tsunami. we thought that maybe five minutes after the hour that the first wave might hit. calculations off a little bit. but, you know, theyre looking for other signs such as a pull you described earlie...

Florida concern is how soon the space jobs may come because of the thousand of nasa lay offs that are coming and have already begun pay an average of $77,000 a year. the real negative impact to the areas surrounding kennedy space center will be approaching a billion dollars. >> ignition and liftoff of shuttle endeavour. >> mondays spectacular launch of endeavour temporarily allowed the thousands of nasa employees to forget about their far from spectacular future. most like ken tower preparing re...

Were not done yet. because mother nature has no respect for the nations capitol, shes about ready to hammer this area once again with another snowfall in less than a week and reported accumulations of 10-18 inches of snow, jon. jon: the space shuttle endeavor is to dock with the international space station in about 12 hours but around the kennedy space center, floridas space future is very uncertain, thousands of jobs at stake. phil keating, live at cape canaveral. >> reporter: its melon choly d...

Painstaking work that theyre doing. >> make sure you stay with cnn for all the latest on this developing story. if you have a prius in the driveway, youll want to hear what toyota has to say this week. is another recall on the way? and nasa will restart the countdown at the kennedy space center. the agency hopes it wont have to cancel a shuttle launch twice. may the best truck win. in the north of england to my new job at the refinery in the south. ill never forget. it used one tank of petro...

>> its a very good show. much, much more where that came from. make sure you watch cnns "state of the union" with candy crowley every sunday, 9:00 a.m. and noon eastern right here on cnn. well, while you were sleeping, the people at nasa, well, they will be working while youre sleeping tonight, and theyre take a second shot early tomorrow morning at sending up the space shuttle "endeavour." the first one had to be scrubbed because of cloudy weather. so we want to get to our john zarrella. hes ...

So this is very slow, very painstaking work that theyre doing. >> make sure you stay with cnn for all the latest on this developing story. if you have a prius in the driveway, youll want to hear what toyota has to say this week. is another recall on the way? and nasa will restart the countdown at the kennedy space center. the agency hopes it wont have to cancel a shuttle launch twice. ( whooshing ) announcer: you could buy 300 bottles of water. or just one brita filter. ( drop plinks ) brita...

Well, they will be working while youre sleeping tonight, and theyre take a second shot early tomorrow morning at sending up the space shuttle "endeavour." the first one had to be scrubbed because of cloudy weather. so we want to get to our john zarrella. hes standing by live at the kennedy space center in florida. lets hope the second time is the charm. >> reporter: yeah, don. whats this sleeping business? im going to be here. everybody should be awake with us watching the shuttle launch tonight...

>> when you start calling your kids the dogs name, i have done that too, kind of bad. >> and details on the super bowl commercial a lot of people are talking about. how did letterman, leno, and oprah end up on the same couch? and the last shuttle launch of the program. it happened a few hours ago. well show you that, when we come back. 6 today, were giving my living room a much-needed makeover.

Actively searching for an american civilian who disappeared last month in baghdad. isis olami is with the u.s. army. a new video surfaced showing the missing american, but cnn has not confirmed the mans identity. a korean american missionary is on his way back home to the u.s. from north korea. robert park was detained for 43 days for illegally entering the country preaching christianity. park had been outspoken about political and religious reform in north korea, but he is now quoted as being...