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Former president jimmy cart area cut short a trip to guyana for health reasons. he's 90 years old of course. he's in guyana for what would have been his 39th mission. he returned to atlanta. now we know that he is back better today according to twitter, the non profit organization describing the president as under the weather adding the center election mission will continue. this morning the carter twitter tweeted out this picture of him at a conference. you can't keep him down. big set back for president obama's summit this weekend. a major player dropped out. >> john mccain joins me next h...

>> greta: there's much more ahead but first to our new york newsroom. >> reporter: libyan leader qadhafi appearing on state tv a short time ago. he says, misguided and mad groups are behind the unrest in libya. reports show his comments appear to be pre-recorded and his government today using rocket barrages and airstrikes to slow rebel forces to advance on the city of tripoli. u.s. is considering the establishment of a no-fly zone to end those airstrikes. >> discovery is spending its final hours in space. discovery is scheduled to touchdown at the kennedy space center in florida late tomorrow...

Trip over the last hour as this space shuttle is re-year-old into earth, and we can take a look on your screen at the amazing view we have of this shuttle phil keating is live as well in florida, watching this so one of the big questions, really, -- oh, phil, go ahead >> those were the sounding booms those were the sonic booms always a very exciting moment during landing day, it happens two minutes before touchdown and we are one minute, 50 seconds away the only issue weather wise has been gusting winds from the sort southeast, but discovery has done the circle around, to the eastern side, com...

This will be its 39th mission. we wanted to take a look at what it's like for astronauts in those final minutes before takeoff, what it's like to feel weightless, and also today's historic -- the significance with today's launch. bort sound like about question to ask shannon walker, who's good enough to join mess from kennedy space center. before i start talking about butter flies, i've got some astronaut talk i need you to translate for me, okay? our folks have been listens to the folks in mission control, and they say that there is some sort of computer display problem, from the range safety...

Will use our in-plain plus 230. let me know when you are ready. >> copy all two engine tower and ready to copy. >> froze ato, 11.9. press dimicco 15.4. beautiful launch from here, as pretty as you've ever seen, it was number 39 for the shuttle "discovery." its last one. there are two more shuttles in the fleet. " "endeavour" and "atlantis." the shuttles have two more missions. first could be flown as early as april. the second one in june. however, right now, they're still climbing into orbit. everything is on schedule. and as i've said this is the 39th mission for "discovery." this is the 164...