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Canceled an hour and half later. live look at orlando from fox 35. one of the big stories there tonight, astronauts from the international space station take a spacewalk to install a new mechanical hand on the facilities big robot arm, the first of two original hands on the canadian built arm replaced last october. work on this one will be completed next week. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we are at the warehouse tonight. we'll be right back (keyboard sounds)

And i had to evaporate all my tears before i could properly see. so it was a little bit disconcerting. but hopefully that won't happen to scott and chel today. >> i hope not either. what kind of precautions do they take before they embark on the spacewalk? >> more than you could believe, carol. they've trained for years and years. they've spent hundreds of hours under water at the johnson space center in houston training for it in a virtual reality lab with a helmet and gloves on, and then on board for the last few weeks, they've been going over these procedures. we've been preparing these spa...

Another media mega merger in the works. at&t has agreed to buy direct tv for nearly $49 billion. the deal would make them the second biggest paid tv provider behind comcast that just bought time warner. regulators are worried the television and internet services are being increasingly controlled by just a few corporate behemoths. >> a cargo ship at the international space station for a month is back on earth. an astronaut used the big robot arm to release the so-called spacex dragon. five hours later it was in the pacific near mexico's a baja off the california coast. it carried two tons of ol...

If nasa decides this is a no go? >>guest: well, everything on board the dragon capsule food, clothing and equipment and supplies is expendable. so, worse comes to worse they can send it back to earth. if everything goes at planned it will come a mile and a half and, actually, closer than that, the big robot arm operated by the residents on the space station will grab it, bring it in, and they will dock it, and berth it with the space station itself, and tomorrow on saturday, or, rather, saturday, they would unload the cargo. check out what the solar eclipse looked like from space. a big black ...