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we did it! ♪ good tuesday morning. we're watching a number of developing stories at this hour. happening right now an emotional hearing set to begin in florida where survivors and families of the parkland school shooting will share their stories and their pain in court. this is in advance to the judge sentencing the gunman. it's the final count down now. we're one week from election day. early voting as you likely know is smashing records. more than 21 million ballots cast so far. the campaigning far from over. candidates making their final pitch and cnn is on the trail. the ...

I mean, its very emotional. Columbias three main engines draining a half a ton of Fuel Per second, heading towards space on the first Shuttle Mission of the year. You know how on tv it looks like youre going up really smoothly . No, not at all. Its kind of a wild ride. And theres a lot of vibration. And on my first flight, it was so much, i thought to myself, theres something wrong here. Cannot possibly feel like this. Solid Rocket Booster Separation confirmed. Guidance now converging. Columbias onboard computers commanding the main Engine Nozzles to gently swivel, aiming the shuttle for a pre...

Are those rocket boosters. there are two of them. we're accustomed to seeing those. they help deliver the trust to get you in orbit. they'll eventually peel away. those two are going to come back and land about eight minutes after launch. they'll land about nine miles away from the launch pad. that's one of the coolest things to watch these rockets return, which is part of the mission of spacex, to make space flight more affordable. to do that, you make it more reusable, something with saturn 5 they did not do. >> that is key. cool to see those come back down. our folks in the control room are...

Ignition. >> a launch of the spacex falcon heavy rocket today marked the first time for a rocket with a payload that heavy since nasa's saturn five that took the astronauts to the moon in the apollo mission. today's launch went off flawlessly. elon musk having given it a 50% to two-thirds chance of success. many among the many fantastic factors that could have led to failure were three booster rockets with 27 engines. just past three minutes after launch, the booster separation was a clear success. the second stage sent elon musk's tesla red roadster into space along with a space suit wearing ...

Six, five, four, three, two, one. ignitio ignition. >> a launch of the spacex falcon heavy rocket today marked the first time for a rocket with a payload that heavy since nasa's saturn five that took the astronauts to the moon in the apollo mission. today's launch went off flawlessly. elon musk having given it a 50% to two-thirds chance of success. many among the many fantastic factors that could have led to failure were three booster rockets with 27 engines. just past three minutes after launch, the booster separation was a clear success. the second stage sent elon musk's tesla red roadster i...