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Is offering ferry service to shuttle workers from san francisco to buses south of the city. then on to headquarters in the silicon valley. the catamaran ferry can hold nearly 150 people and will make the trip twice in the morning and twice in the evening. little convenience there. well, weve been reporting on the cold weather for days now. and finally someone seems to have done something fun with it. >> okay. the folks who run a panini shop called hot table in springfield, massachusetts, put o...

Display at a museum as we take a look at macing pictures, the discovery soaring earlier this morning over the washington monument, over the white house, over the capitol building, a little bit of a sight seeing tour for the shuttle. jenna: you dont see it every day. rick: true. jenna: that is the truth. discovery is familiar -- well to most of us a shuttle thats made so many different trips up to space, 39 trips. its actually the most traveled shuttle that was part of the fleet, the oldest one a...

Washington. iit left florida this morning to cheers and tears in some cases as thousands of people watched it take off for the final time from florida, from cape canaveral. now it is heading into dulles. we also watched it take ceremonial turns around the capitol building. it went to the east, and to the west, and to the south, sort of tipping its wings all along the way to people who watched it, only a thousand feet in the sky. very low altitude. we watched it fly by washington monument that lo...

nfl season after four-month labor lockout between players and owners, well, a key vote could break the stalemate. and were also learning this. tiger woods fires his long time caddie steve williams and guess what? he speaks out about the abrupt move. we will hear from the caddie in just five minutes. millions of pro football fans are hoping today, well, that it will be the day the nfls labor lockout will end. players and owners expected to vote on a deal that will hopefully say the 20...

koulson quit the job in january, and was arrested last month. now, the prime minister is now in the mood to apologize. >> what the public expect is not pedestriany political point scoring, but -- [ jeering ] what they want is to solve the issue out once and for all, and its in that spirit i commend this comment to the house. >> just yesterday rupert murdoch, his son james, and top british executive for news corp, rebekah brooks, were in front of the committee. of course, theres the pri...

Of her skull to allow room for her brain to expand and swell. they say that after this procedure, giffords wont have to worry about wearing a protective helmet any longer. and also more good news, this time for giffords husband, astronaut mark kelly. space shuttle "endeavour" will dock with the international space station this morning for the very last time. kelly and the crew wrapped up their routine post launch and the post launch inspection yesterday saying that the initial results looked v...

Time for "minding your business." with the space shuttle program ending, more than 1,300 shuttle workers in three states got layoff notices this week. the employees of united space alliance, nasas prime shuttle contractor, were told they were being laid off at the end of the month. the company has cut about 15% of its workforce ahead of the shuttle fleets retirement next year. two final shuttle missions are currently scheduled for november and february. air travelers who like to take their fou...

Invite former shuttle workers. he has a great one with him on t the program. so they did have people there. as soon as the president found out they were not invited he asked that they be brought. thats being fair to president obama. >> i know. and i know you were upset about the job loss and the like, as well one should be. there are new programs that they hope will generate some more jobs. i know you spoke with senator nelson about the possibility of more jobs comes on board with nasa there so ...

Astronauts will use up on the international space station to dock robotic vehicles. this is the beginning of the end. only five shuttle missions left. it will be a 30-year program coming to an end. don? >> listen, so it is not -- it has been quite a week. the budget coming to an end, the end of the shuttle program and an end of the constellation moon e exploration program as well. >> they flew one test rocket, it flew one time and that was it. the real hard part of all this, youre losing about 7...