you need to avoid, "early" this morning, wednesday, june 1st, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning, everyone. welcome to "the early show." i'm chris wragge. >> i'm rebecca jar sis. erica hill is off this morning. it is june 1st, hurricane season is under way. we'll visit galveston, texas, where hurricane ike did $30 billion in damage. marysol castro is there. the shuttle landed at kennedy space center overnight, closing another chapter in nasa's long running program. michelle miller is here. good morning. >> this was the last trip to space for "endeavour" being retired, the final shuttle mission aboard "atlantis" is said to lift off next month. the shuttle program has only done half the flights nasa intended when it began three decades ago. >> space shuttle "endeavour" is coming in for a landing. >> reporter: when "endeavour" touched down it was its 25th and final landing. the program that has been through 134 missions built the international space station and delivered the hubble telescope into orbit ends this summer. >> the space shuttle has been the workhorse of the u.s. space program for better than 30 years ago. >> it's sad to see her land fort last time. >> reporter: this morning "atlantis" marked the end of an era, now the only american spacecraft to mission for human flight, with its final lift-offset for july 8th. >> there's a certain irony that 50 years later that after the americans supposedly won the space race the only way for u.s. astronauts to get to and from earth orbit is aboard russian rocketships that, sticks in the craw of a lot who work at the space center. >> reporter: "atlantis'" final mission is to prepare for the future. >> they're trying to get the space station stocked up with enough on-board supplies to make it for a year so they think this is critical to help with the space station. >> reporter: the who enis in the next decade to replace the shuttle about a multipurpose vehicle to transport crews further into space, a reboot says former astronaut scott altman that will bring it full circle. >> we went from getting on an airliner and not even think being it, the shuttle was the bridge for us i think to making space flight at least appear to the public to be almost routine. >> "endeavour" commander mark kelly's next step is a reunion with his wife, congress twwoman gabrielle giffords, in houston still recovering from her january gunshot wound. >> cbs' michelle miller for thus morning, thank you. to washington and the noisy debate over our federal debt. president obama meets this morning with dozens of house republicans who voted last night to stop the government from borrowing more money. cbs news congressional correspondent nancy cordes is on capitol hill. >> reporter: republicans held a vote to prove that any attempt to raise the debt ceiling without cutting spending is doomed to fail. democrats called it a stunt doomed to fail. >> reporter: what democrats called political theater, republicans described as an important political statement, holding a vote on a bill they unanimously opposed, to raise the debt ceiling with no strings aattached. >> this vote if based on legislation i've introduced will and must fail. >> reporter: and fail it did. >> and the bill is not passed. >> reporter: by a wide margin, with every single republican voting no. >> that this wild spending spree the president's been on the last two years has to come to an end. >> reporter: 82 democrats also voted no while their leadership continued to blame republicans for driving up the debt in the bush years by lowering taxes and going to war with iraq. >> they ran up the debt and now they don't want to pay their bills. >> reporter: the nation hit its $14.3 trillion debt ceiling two weeks ago and since then has been taking emergency measures such as liquidating some investments which the treasury secretary says will keep the government from defaulting on its debts until august. >> ladies and gentlemen this is not an honest debate, this is not an honest proposal. this is a serious issue. >> reporter: behind closed doors a small group of republicans and democrats led by vice president biden are taking it seriously, trying to come up with cuts worth more than $1 trillion, in order to offset an increase in the debt ceiling but freshman republicans who campaigned on fiscal discipline are pushing for larger cuts. >> we've seen what happened in greece and ireland and i reject that future for the united states. >> reporter: this vote took place after the markets closed yesterday, so it's unclear what, if any, impact it will have today. republican leaders privately assured leaders on wall street that this was just a symbolic vote and they would vote to raise the limit once conditions were met. >> they have a little time before the august 2 deadline. with the biden group does it look like there will be some consensus in the bipartisan group before that deadline? >> reporter: both sides say that's what they're committed to. there is disagreement between the two sides about how much time they have. theed amrgts says august 2 is the drop dead date. that's when the u.s. could start to default on its loans but republicans many freshman republicans in particular say there's no reason why we can't go on past august 2nd and like to hold out for a better deal. >> nanny cordes on capitol hill, thank you. formula alaska governor sarah palin continues her so-called mystery bus tour other republican presidential hopefuls are trying to get the press to focus on them. jan crawford has the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chris. sarah palin is making her way up the east coast in that bus, there is a lot going on elsewhere like in iowa and new hampshire. the republican presidential hopefuls hit the trail this tweak. tim pawlenty was in iowa taking on president obama. >> his plouffy promises don't buy gas, make a paycheck. >> reporter: kong woman michele backman w bachmann was in new hampshire. and herman cain who will likely find himself second in an iowa poll released a new video. >> put your hands together for the next president of the united states -- >> reporter: in it he makes a staunch defense of the tea party. >> to all of those people who say that the tea party is a racist state, eat your words. >> reporter: for the third straight day over the one nation tour, most of the attention was on non-candidate sarah palin, the media chased her by air and on the ground, and even got in the occasional question. >> reporter: do you think you can beat president obama? >> to put it concisely, yes, i do, thank you for asking. >> reporter: palin did down sit down for one interview with her employer, fox news. >> it's not about me, it is about our charters of liberty. >> reporter: and off to new york in a pizza dinner with donald trump who not too long ago was being chased by the media as he flirted with a presidential run. the two of them together, a match made in media heaven. a trump spokesman said he and palin are friends and that they talked about having dinner whenever she and her husband were in new york. he of course decided not to run for president and to keep that television show "celebrity apprentice" but whether palin will take a similar path and stay with her television commitment and speaking engagements and remain a slib rit and not a candidate that is anyone's guess. >> people following the bus everybr, to new york. >> a lot of cameras. >> does all this is tension on people who aren't running, like a sarah palin or chris christie, does this state dissatisfaction current field? >> sarah palin is a phenomenon all unto herself but there is unhappiness among the current candidates, among republicans and we've seen top republicans try to persuade other people to jump in. yesterday, for example, a group of big time iowa businessmen flew to new jersey for a meeting with governor christie. so far he's saying he won't run, but i think when we see all this, we've got to look back. in many ways this really is like 1992. then it was the democrats who were complaining about their candidates and they were begging other people to get in like mario cuomo. when everyone in 1992 was looking for all those big names, begging people to get in, there was this obscure governor from arkansas who was out there, on the campaign trail, meeting voters named bill clinton, so today, i mean many republicans think their next nominee is already in the race and this is just a distraction, this effort to recruit somebody else to get in. >> jan crawford in d.c., thanks so much. now we turn to jeff glor standing by at the news desk with a check of today's other headlines. >> good morning to you. the faa is targeting those lasers that some people point at planes. the faa is announcing this morning it's imposing big fines again anyone caught aiming laser beams into the cockpit of a plane. the maximum civil penalty is $11,000. there's no federal law to prosecute in court. lasers can temporarily blind a pilot. offenders will be "interfering with a flight crew" the same statute that protect them from hijackers. there have been 1,100 reported incidents this year. ratko mladic will be arraigned this morning. he arrived in the netherlands from belgrade yesterday. he faces 11 charges including genocide for his alleged role killing 8,000 muslims. nato will extend its air campaign in libya for another 90 days. officials say that decision sends a clear message to moammar gadhafi that nato is determined to protect the libyan people. more violence in yemen and syria. in sanaa, 41 people died in fighting this morning between government forces and rebel tribesman and near duraa, southern syria, shelling killed at least eight including an 11-year-old girl. new information about the arrest of two terror suspects who appeared in court in louisville, kentucky, yesterday, an unusual case connected back to iraq. bob orr is in washington with more on this story. exactly who are these men and what are they charged with right now? >> jeff as you said very interesting case. both suspects are from iraq originally and the past two years lived in bowling green, kentucky. for eight years alwan and hammadi have supported al qaeda soldiers in iraq. both of the men have been charged with conspireing to provide material support and weapons to terrorists, jeff. >> bob, how did they make the case? >> well it's interesting there, the men moved to the u.s. two years ago. the fbi got some tip and began watching them and used an informant to record the conversations. alwan said he had been involved in attacks. the fbi matched alwan's fingerprints lifted from a bomb in 2005 and alwan and hammadi collect cash and weapons, reportedly going to be sent to iraqi fighters. it was government supplied material under the strict control of the fein. >> bob i think a lot of people might be wondering why these two men were in the u.s. in the first place. >> this he shouldn't have been here it was a mistake clearly. the men came a flood of iraqis seeking safe harbor from the war. 50,000 iraqis have come to the u.s. over the past five years. the screening should have been tighter than it was, the men never should have come here. the screening gaps which caused this problem have been closed. >> bob orr, thank you for your reporting from washington this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you. after one final sweep to look for tornado survivors, kleebup will officially begin in joplin, missouri. the national guard will lead the effort to remove the mountain of debris. more than 8,000 buildings and homes were damaged or destroyed by that tornado more than a week ago. 120 people were killed and ten people are still missing. it is 15 minutes past the hour. chris, you saw the damage down there. it will take awhile. >> a long, long time, thank you. marysol castro is in galveston, texas, this morning, for the official start of hurricane season with our first check of the weather on the morning. marysol, good morning. >> good morning chris and rebecca. good morning everyone at home. the sun is just starting to rise over galveston bay. this very tranquil scene is a stark contrast to just three years ago, september 13th, 2008 was the last time a major hurricane made landfall here in the united states. it was a category 2, packing 110-mile-per-hour binds. storm surges were 15 to 20 feet above normal in galveston bay and bolivar peninsula. 112 people died, 23 presumed missing. it was the third costliest trumped only by katrina and andrew. $37.6 billion in damages as a result of hurricane ike. people here in galveston have recovered somewhat but again today is the beginning of yet another active hurricane season so look at the numbers, we're expected to see 12 to 18 storms, that could be a tropical storm or a hurricane, six to ten of them could be major, with winds of 74 miles per hour or higher, looking at cat 3, cat 4 or cat 5, each range 70% likelihood. as far as your national outlook is concerned we're looking at severe weather as it pushes into the northeast it continues to be warm and humid, in the southeast looking at a bit of a storm system, in the midwest and it continues to rain in the northwest. >> thanks so much. i'll have more on your outlook later on in the show. back up to new york for chris and rebecca. >> thanks, see you in a bit. >> these storms they have a massive impact not only on the humans locally but the whole economy, but we'll watch that. >> down in houston, texas, in that area. >> exactly. coming up ahead this morning, we have new concerns about cell phone use raising the risk of brain tumors. we'll see if it's time to shut off that beloved cell phone. also, pilot error in the crash of air flight 777. what can keep you safe. this is the early show here on cbs. ♪ [ male announcer ] and just like that, it's here. a new chance for all of us: people, companies, communities to face the challenges yesterday left behind and the ones tomorrow will bring. prudential. bring your challenges. ♪ and the ones tomorro♪ ill bring. ♪ ♪ introducing purina one beyond a new food for your cat or dog. introducing purina one beyond i didn't understand it. i found out that connected to our muscles are nerves that send messages through the body. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia -- thought to be the result of overactive nerves that cause chronic, widespread pain. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i learned lyrica can provide significant relief from fibromyalgia pain. and less pain means, i can feel better and do more of what matters. 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