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Astronaut and fox news contributor. tom, some amazing shots as we see the enterprise head toward intrepid to get lifted up there on the deck. tell us a little more about enterprise though. we know it never actually entered outer space. why is it, why is it such an important shuttle? >> well, jenna, it was the first space shuttle to be put together t was built out in palmdale, california. i got to see it when i was a air force cadet in the 1976. it took flight on five drops from the 747 to prove ...

she has a benign brain tumor. and one win away from the first stanley cup but its what l.a. kings are doing off the ice that has us talking. theyre on a crime fighting mission. good morning to you. im carol costello. thanks for joining us this morning. the wisconsin recall is over. republican scott walker wins big. who knows. he may be in the running for the new job as mitt romneys running mate. there is still work to be done. wisconsin is still bitterly split. case in point, keep your...

the last time well see this happen in all of our lifetimes. wow. that is something to behold. good morn wk everyone. good to have you with us. welcome to "early start." im ashleigh banfield. >> im zoraida sambolin. first, it is a failed recall. delivering a wake-up call to the white house this morn ing. wisconsin governor scott walker keeps his job, becoming the first governor in u.s. history to survive a recall election. a real slap in the face for democrats. literally. take a look ...

Will replace the twin towers, set to replace the empire state building as the tallest building in new york. nasa uses it for as do test flights but it never want up in state and they scrapped the shuttle program and "enterprise," heads to the uss intrepid now a floating museum on the west side of new york city. early this month "discovery" arrived in washington, dc. you saw the bird flying around. >> i ran up to the top floor of the courthouse, it went right by the empire state building and all ...

>> so no, only in enterprise has there been a crew that have flown in the space shuttle when it was on top of the 747. there were some active test flights where it stayed connected to the airplane, i think they did three of those, this was in the late 1970s, and then five flights where space shuttle enterprise was released from the top of the 747 and those were the approach and landing tests, landed at the runway at edwards air force base. when the shuttle is ferried, there is no crew in the orb...

43 passengers kept on board a plane for more than three hours. the cause, a bug bite. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning to you. im carol costello. you are bere its final flight. the granddaddy of a program. it was the next wave of a space race that had americans holding their breath. a craft so futuristic and exciting president ford told nasa to name it after captain kirks ship from the legendary show "star trek." >> space, the final frontier. these are the voyages of the sta...

landing today at the big apple. if youre flying into jfk today, you could get an interesting look. i just gave it away. >> you can watch those pictures over and over again. a piggybacking 747 and a shuttle? sweet stuff. lets get started off the top of the hour here. up first, a six-figure shocker in the trayvon martin case. legal experts say its something that could land trayvon martins killer george zimmerman back in jail. zimmermans attorney mark omara told anderson cooper that he ...

and jason carroll is out watching in new york. jason, why dont we start with you. what have you been able to see, feel, hear? give us an understanding of the landscape. >> reporter: what do i hear now? i think its the staples singers singing "ill take you there." i think thats what they are playing now. and the shuttle took a lot of astronauts to a lot of different places. but the "enterprise" never made it to space. but still exciting nonetheless. exciting for the hundreds of invited ...

With him face to face for the first time. here he is already pleading his case moments after stepping off the plane. >> everybody that had three or four deployments to the middle east is probably going to have some form of ptsd. i dont know anything specific about it. i know he had a concussive head injury. >> his family releasing a statement saying "they are stunned but stand behind the man they know as the devoted husband, father and dedicated member of the armed services." and the f.a.a. reco...

Thats not one of them. the iranians themselves said they considered merely sending the drone itself in to be an act of war. >> so iran considers the drones presence an act of war and considers its possession of drone victory for them and intelligence failure for us, harris. >> harris: peter, thank you. paving the way for the space shuttle to go to its new home on the hudson river in new york city. the days of blasting off to perform test flights are over for the enterprise. this after nasa retir...