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Million gone in a ball of fire. Take a look at this. Engines at 108 . Power nominate pal. That is an unmanned rocket exploding six seconds after liftoff in virginia. That rocket was supposed to go to the International Space station with thousands of pounds of supplies. Now an investigation is under way to figure out why this happened. Cnns tom foreman joins with us more. Good morning, tom. Reporter theres a lot of buzz about these refurbished russian rockets driving this. One of them failed duri...

Hundreds of federal buildings and courthouses across the country are stepping up security. Homeland security secretary jake johnson says the move is in response to the continued calls for attacks again. A heightened vigilance in the protection of u. S. Government installations and our personnel. Nbc news justice correspondent Pete Williams with all the details. Pete, whats the latest here . And theres not a specific threat theyre tracking, correct . Right. Thats what they say. This is, you know,...

For several hours today a drama unfolded in the skies all the way down the eastern seaboard, out over the ocean across cuba before ending in jamaica as a privately owned plane, a turboprop aircraft with a veteran pilot at the controls who was unresponsive. Radar systems lit up along the flight route. Fighter jets were scrambled. They reported back they could see the pilot slumped over and it became then a matter of waiting for it to run out of fuel and fall from the sky. Its where we begin tonig...

Cheeks and forehead. Here you go. The mugshot. It happened before Police Showed up. He was shackled with the very same handcuffs that belong to the state trooper he is accused of killing. Coward you low life [ applause ] wouldnt make it in the military you hear the people shouting at him from within that community not holding back. The jeers, the insults, as hes walked into court to hear the list of charges that could send him to death row if and when convicted. A huge sense of relief for the pe...

Berman. Im michaela pereira, great to have you with us. Those stories and more ahead at this hour. We do have some breaking news just in on ebola. Just a few minutes ago, we learned that defense secretary chuck hagel announced a 21day quarantine upon return for all military personnel who serve in ebolastricken areas of west africa. Its important to point out that this policy for returning military personnel creates a separate set of rules than what the white house has pushed for for civilian hea...

This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. Virgin galactic was hoping to turn tourists into astronauts within months, but today, the project was dealt a serious setback when its spaceship two exploded during a test flight over californias Mojave Desert. One of the two crew members was killed. This happened just three days after an unmanned rocket blew up on liftoff in virginia, two serious blows to americas commercial Space Program in one we...

Efforts, 60 miles high to the edge of space. Cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh joins us now. What do we know about what went wrong . Were still pulling in details about the exactly what happened. But heres what we can tell you. Ntsb have launched their go team. The National Transportation safety board . Correct. They have a team headeded in that direction to investigate. The faa is investigating this. As far as what happened, according to the faa, things went wrong at around 10 00 pacific ti...

Only remaining case of ebola in the United States. New York City Health Officials Say dr. Craig spencer is now in stable condition. Meanwhile, a nurse who has recovered from the disease is back with her dog, bentley. Nina pham, the first person to contract ebola in the u. S. , was released in the hospital october 24th. Bentley had been in quarantine as well. Now four of our top contributors take on todays biggest issues. Margaret hoover, cnn legal analyst sonny hostin, mel robbins and cnn politi...

From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. The flaming wreckage of a failed rocket launch on the virginia coast might just be a metaphor for the current state of the u. S. Space program. The rocket that exploded last night stood 14 stories tall. It was en route to the International Space station to supply the u. S. Astronauts on board. Americans who remember the race to the moon against the soviets may be surprised to learn that thes...

That was going into the black sea. That in itself not a hugely significant step because the ship was going to leave tomorrow anyway. What it has done, the navy is for shore leave for future navy visits to turkey, those are all to be determined based on the investigation that happens now with turkish authorities in conjunction with the u. S. Embassy there. The u. S. Ships go through turkey, to the black sea and stop in turkey 8 to 10 times a year. Theyll be watching this closely to see if they al...