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We dont have real good imagery of it at the moment. we will try to get that for you. certainly, an unnerving event if you are a pilot or a passenger. updates throughout the morning. on this side of the pond, a little bit of moisture arcing over the top of the great lakes. that will be sneaking into the northeast later today and tonight. until then, it looks okay. temps in the mid-80s in a lot of spots. we will have more updates on this and whats going on in europe in 30 minutes. john and kiran? ...

Final frontier, but should it also be a privately funded frontier? president obama thinks so, well hear from him live this hour. the future of the space program is one of our big stories today. president obama is at floridas kennedy space center, and we are less than an hour away to his remarks to workers about his five-year plan for space exploration. heres the basics. the new budget takes the space shuttle program out of the mix. it replaces it with more money for deep space exploration. the...

>> reporter: yes. and the first thing he did, tamron, was he went to launch pad number 40. now, thats where theyre going to launch falcon 9. this is the commercial group the president wants to get flying. they do have a rocket on the pad out there getting it ready to go and the president did get to talk to some of the space workers there and that was good because he will be speaking here shortly to a very closed group and the rest of the space workers will be as we are watching on tv. but as you...

Schultz, a democrat from florida. youre calling on nasa to actually speed up the creation of the next generation of rockets. do you have problems with the program as what youre hearing from the administration, parts they want to cut and something else they want to develop? >> well, yes. in short. but its not just about job creation for florida although it is incredibly important we make sure we create jobs in the space program for florida. what its about is making sure that we can maintain the u...

Kennedy space center in florida. >> table nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before the decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. >> reporter: to the moon we went, as j.f.k. promised, not because it was easy, but because it was hard. now the space program that gave us mercury, apollo, gemini is at a crossroads. shuttle program is coming to a close. follow on constellation program that was supposed to take to us the moon and mars canceled. so...

Archived. >> reporter: i also notice you seem to get a pretty good vacation plan as an anchor. as a correspondent you were always around, morning, noon, night. it seems like a pretty good gig. ill look into it. >> youll have to look into it. you are going to be monstitorin the presidents speech? >> reporter: yes, it happens at 2:45. the nation still does have the connection to the space program, maybe not what it was decades ago. but its a chance to go to florida where many people will be affect...

Before. built to launch rockets into space. under president obamas new space program, it will now sit dormant. white house officials say that president bushs mission to the moon was doomed from the start, overbudgeted and behind schedule. >> president bush articulate aid beautiful policy back in 2004. there wasnt a follow-through. there wasnt a follow-up. they drifted. nasa, some of the money -- >> reporter: the obama administration is worried it is losing the public relations battle. the white ...

Principles entl ss enshrined fre constitution is disappearing. >> bret: one thing, your tax dollars are going toward is the space program. up next, president tries to sell a new space plan. anncr vo: ...call emergency services... anncr vo: ...collect accident information. anncr vo: or just watch some fun videos. anncr vo: its so easy, a caveman can do it. caveman: unbelievable... caveman: wheres my coat? it was suede with the fringe. vo: download the glovebox app free at geico.com.

Far enough. what theyre hearing in a few hours, what they are expected to hear but dont think it is quite on the beam. one of the things jim lovell said you dont throw money at research and development without knowing exactly what the ultimate goal is. you set the goal and do the research and development. those are critics. president will try to answer them today. at stake, a lot of jobs on the space coast and around the country because nasa employs a lot of people. megyn: brian, white house put...

Ones ever seen before, and we havent been doing that since apollo. and the thing that has really concerned me about the last many years in space is that weve kind of had a bait and switch space program. the space shuttle was supposed to make spaceflight routine and lower the cost of getting into space so that all of us, i want to have the experience that dr. weber has had, but it didnt do that and nasa said we cant change it now. we put too much into it. the space station, i dont think they ever...