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And all nippon airways to receive the first of 55 dream liners ordered. boeing has orders to make more than 800. the "seattle times" reports boeing may suffer from the 787s delays financially because it may not see a profit from the dreamliners for another nine years. officials with boeing wouldnt say how much money has been spent on developing the dreamliner but did say theyre feeling optimistic. >> this investment is going to serve the boeing company well for many years to come. i am feeling g...

good morning. it is thursday, september 15th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." im carol costello. get ready for the president response to president obamas jobs bill. he and the rest of congress have had a few days to leaf through the jobs plan, the obama jobs plan. so now well just have to wait and see whether boehner picks a fight over the plan or offers an olive branch. president obama is already taking indirect swipes at congressional republican. listen to what he told the congress...

Without asking our russian partners to supply rides on russian rockets. on space-x we are trying to come up with a quick alternative. jon: how far away are you? >> we think that -- the short answer is three years. we currently have a program called ccw2 with a partnership with nasa to upgrade our dragon capsule and falcon 9 to car row people. we think two more years after that and well be ready for the test flights. jon: im all for it if its cheaper, better, smarter. can contractors do that as w...

Its first test flight from everett, washington and landed in seattle about four hours later. more test flights are scheduled before this plane gets certification. production of the new 747 and the mid-sized 787 dreamliner have been delayed. but lufthansa ordered 20 of the new jumbo jets. the planes list price is just over $317 million. live from hong kong and from london, this is "world business today." obviously if youre going anywhere on business, you want to know whats going on with the wea...

Well beyond that. ten years ago when the war on terrorrer really started and began to heat up in the middle east for us and in certain areas, for example in afghanistan, weve moved from those smaller-type drones that can only go up in some cases for just a few hours to ones that can stay up for weeks at a time. youre looking at northrops x47b, this is more like a military fighter jet. it can carry the same payload as a military fighter jet. it is planned to take off and land on an aircraft carri...

Guess ship or vehicle will take us into further into space, into the next era, so to speak? >> yeah. so in a speech actually right here at the kennedy space center on april 15th, the president outlined his vision, his approach for human exploration in the future. and i think that approach is very exciting. it includes early test flights of our new spacecraft, our new human exploration spacecraft in the early part of the next decade. it includes flights to a near asteroid, a destination well beyo...

Finished, the test flights are starting, and hopefully next year well be up, up, and away. >> so, could we see sir richard branson landing and walking on the moon? >> i would love to in my lifetime and, you know, if there are -- i think what nasas thinking of doing is giving grants to private companies to do these things, and were certainly be putting our hand out for some of those grants. and, you know, whether its moon landing or mars landing, were certainly keen to be involved. >> well, we lo...

He will be here as well. weve got a lot to go get to tonight. the big international story tonight continues to be worldwide disruption because of the huge cloud of volcanic ash hovering over europe. a handful of planes did take off today, and more flights are due to depart tomorrow. but after five days of travel chaos, the icelandic volcano that started it all is not done yet. take a look. >> reporter: european officials announced plans to partially reopen the skies to flights tomorrow. the volc...

Once it hits you, you sand blast your windshield. pilots are going blind. first, they see nothing and all of a sudden, their windshields are frosted and they cant see anything at all. right now, some test flights have gone successfully through that area now. >> people nervous flying anyway. they say that its high pressure right now over europe. therefore, its moving very slow. how long can this last? >> were looking for basically windows of opportunity because the thing is still erupting. the er...

Nasa will make a final call on whether to land in the next hour. well have that information for you. also this morning, theres new hope the europe travel nightmare could improve slowly but surely, trying to figure out whether its safe to get back in the skies. they are hoping to resume 35% of all flights today. to nudge authorities here, european airlines conducted test flights to gauge whether or not the ash is disruptive. they say that the skies -- in these test flights showed air travel to ...