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Few people have seen a space shuttle launch, especially from this view. stephanie gordon woke up to see space shuttle "endeavour" streaking towards space and captured it on her cell phone. her photos and video caught fire on the web. stephanie gordon photographer extraordinaire. explain to us what happened. as i understand it, it is something you could have easily slept through. >> i probably could have. i had been up late the night before. i was at the yankees, red sox game, and if anybody had ...

Competition, a national competition, their bar had to meet nasa standards. it did. nasa then cleared it. that energy bar. which has a lot of cranberry and oats in it, they were telling me. that cranberry bar is flying on "endeavour" as a meal supplement for the astronauts and the two girls are here, again, to watch hopefully the liftoff of "endeavour," carrying their energy bar into space. i tasted it. it was actually pretty good. ali, christine. >> proof theres an awful lot of american ingenuit...

he is charged with trying to rape a maid in an upscale manhattan hotel. >> strauss-kahn is accused of emerging from a bathroom naked, then dragging the 32-year-old housekeeper into the bedroom of his $3,000 a night suite and attacking her. >> before his arrest strauss-kahn was considered a front runner to become frances next president. richard roth is tracking the latest developments. strauss-kahn was supposed to be arraigned last night. why was that delayed? >> this was like a night c...

Kellys wife, congresswoman gabrielle giffords is expected to attend the launch, still recovering after being shot in the head back in january. >> do all that to get ready for a space shuttle launch -- >> they scrub those launches theyre in, ready to go, slept right, ate the right things, scrub the launch. >> thats all part of the training. who says tv reporting is a noncontact sport. >> a hard gig. >> check out what happened to reporter tara morgan, doing whats known in the business as a stand...

Website@msnbc.c website@msnbc.cwebsite at msnbc.com. and then we believe the launch is going to happen on tuesday, and the launch team has been told more repair work has been needed. the flight is to be the next to last space shuttle launch that will leave nasa without concrete plans for americas future in space. right now, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims in vatican city are filing past pope john paul ii. and elizabeth, its good to see you this sunday. can you tell us why the pope is being...

Sunday as well. thank you, both. now, the top story this hour is the delay of the space shuttle launch. and coming up after this quick break, we want to introduce you to some young women who are researching away to harvest energy as space suits. it is cool. okay guys, what sounds good for dinner tonight? i dont know, something. [ mom ] something... ♪ mexican. [ female announcer ] thinking mexican tonight? hamburger helper has five festive flavors like crunchy taco. hamburger helper. one poun...

The president did almost immediately was order a massive federal aid there. as i said, he has a very busy day. once he finishes touring there and meeting some of the people, hes also going to be heading down to florida where he will be there for nasas second to last space shuttle launch and of course gabrielle giffords, the congresswoman who was injured so severely in the shooting in tucson is going to be there as well. quite an encouraging sign for her recovery. her doctors say shes been in the...

Upset because theres never going to be enough support from the federal government, but he promised everything that they could do. >> right. when the storms hit, relatively speaking almost immediately he started getting e-mails, started getting e-mails from the white house press office announcing the disaster declarations that have been signed by the president, which is legally needed in order for federal resources to be brought to bear on natural disasters like this. so the federal government an...

Hi, everyone. im tamron hall. coming up on "news nation" at 2:00 p.m. eastern, president obama says hes never seen anything like the devastation he saw firsthand today in alabama. some 300 people now confirmed dead and cadaver dogs are being used to look for any other victims. ill talk to the mayor of tuscaloosa, plus georgias lieutenant governor. a technical problem forces nasa to scrub its second to last shuttle launch. what congresswoman gabby giffords stay in cape canavarel to wait for her...

Hope that this would be something that they could continue as people and the federal government try to right this situation. >> of course he was going into somewhat difficult territory at the space shuttle launch, which has now been scrubbed, because of those technical problems, scrubbed we are told by tom costello for at least 72 hours. but there was a budget cut in that deal, that last-minute negotiated deal to keep the government open, $40 million to help those who had been laid off as the sh...