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President obama is expected to announce a $6 billion budget increase for nasa. hoping to create about 2, 500 new jobs. but some former astronauts are slamming his decision to cancel a program that would have in effect replaced an aging shuttle fleet. the white house says the president will travel to poland this weekend to attend the funeral of that country's president who was killed in a plane crash last weekend. a male aide filed a sexual harassment complaint against new york congressman eric massa alleging he regularly groped and propositions him. oregon jury awarded a former boy scout...

Matly what has deterred aggressors in the past. as you look at this decision, how does this deter a country like iran or north korea from going away from their nuclear ambition? >> first of all, we have still a very powerful nuclear arsenal. the nuclear posture review sets forth a process by which we will be able to modernize our nuclear stockpile to make it more reliable, safer, more secure and effective. we have, in addition to the nuclear deterrent today a couple of things we didn't have in the soviet days. we have missile defense now. that's growing by leaps and bounds every year, signific...

Nuclear power, muscle, sult matly what has deterred aggressors in the past. as you look at this decision, how does this deter a country like iran or north korea from going away from their nuclear ambition? >> first of all, we have still a very powerful nuclear arsenal. the nuclear posture review sets forth a process by which we will be able to modernize our nuclear stockpile to make it more reliable, safer, more secure and effective. we have, in addition to the nuclear deterrent today a couple of things we didn't have in the soviet days. we have missile defense now. that's growing by leaps and...

We have missile defense now. that's growing by leaps and bounds every year, significant budget increase for that, this year both regional and the ground-based interceptors. and we have prompt global strike, affording us conventional alternatives on long range missiles that we didn't have before. believe me. the joint chiefs of staff and i would not have wholeheartedly embraced, not only nuclear posture review, but also the start agreement if we didn't think the end of the day it made the united states stronger, not weaker. >> it still doesn't answer the question, if you're in iran and north ko...

>> reporter: yeah. and if they win, chuck, or have any kind of delay in it, but they win in this budget, america will instantly become the third-rate nation in space behind russia and china. so there are a lot of things to face here. >> but they got a budget increase overall. nbc's jay barberie, thank you for that. we'll check in with you again. sports is making the news today, of course, with the saints' big comeback victory last night at the super bowl in miami. nbc's janet shamlian is in party central, new orleans, this morning. janet, i guess they've probably been up all night celebratin...