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Because of the divorce. we'll get to that in just a sec. first on monday morning. a lifetime of death-defying stunts. felix baumgartner can relax this morning, and so can all of us, right? everybody who watched the 4:20 free fall from 24 miles up, we're all breathing a sigh of relief. >> especially his mother, who was crying before he jumped. she had to be going crazy. baumgartner, though, is now officially in the record books as the first skydiver to break the speed of sound. abc's ryan owens has more on the man who literally fell to earth. >> release! [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: w...

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And from our parade of papers, arlen specter, the longest serving u.s. senator in pennsylvania history, died yesterday at his philadelphia home from complications of cancer. it was just two years ago that his long career in washington came to an end. and president obama released a statement yesterday honoring the late senator for, quote, never putting party or ideology ahead of the people he was chosen to serve. willie, let's -- oh, we have one more paper, i'm sorry. >> there's one more. this is an incredible story. "the cedar rapids gazette," and every paper in the world frankly talking about...

>> i wish you can see what i can see. sometimes you have to be up really high to see how small you are. i'm going home now. >> wow. that is the view from outer space. my goodness, before a human being took a plunge from 24 miles up. supersonic freefall. an austrian daredevil jumping from space becoming the first person to break the sound barrier using only his body. felix baumgartner made the jump from 128,000 feet, 120,000 of which were in a free fall that lasted four minutes and 20 seconds. he reached the speed of 833.9 miles per hour or mach 1.24.

Provide the leadership to really get this economy going. just shows he has a failed policy that hasn't worked. we're seeing that medium household incomes have dropped. not enough jobs, jobs are not being created at the rate they should be created. under his plan, it would cost 700,000 jobs. that's not the plan we need to have for america for a real recovery. >> i did want to ask you about the hispanic outreach effort. but i want to any that you did not answer my question about the joint committee on taxation's, their report and how the numbers don't add up. we'll get to it next time. hopefully...