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the crisis, by drought, poverty and violence. half of the camps are fled to ethiopia and kenya. a man who was accused of strangling a woman, has been sent to prison. her killer went to extraordinary lengths to avoid arrest for more than two years, altering his face through cosmetic surgery. the space shuttle "atlantis" is about two hours from landing at the kennedy space station. the crew will fire the engines to re-enter the atmosphere and end america's 30-year shuttle program. those are the headlines from cnn. i'm monita rajpal. "world business today" starts right now. >> a war...

There is a lot of ill feeling toward the president in the central florida and orlando area, the kennedy space center area, because of the fact that he did cut the moon program, he cut the constellation program that president bush had and he is talking about reaching an asteroid or mars in 2030 which given the fact that if he win as second term he would be gone by 2016 seems a reach and he is talking about commercial space projects in the intervening years. interestingly, congresswoman gabrielle giffords from arizona who he may or may not meet with, the wife of the shuttle astronaut mark kelly,...

Insists constellation was not a waste of money. >> the constellation program has taught us the things that work, the things that we could have done better. >> reporter: ironically, the flap comes at a time nasa says it may not have enough money to building a new, bigger rocket congress and the white house have mandated to replace, you guessed it, the constellation program. senators hutchison of texas and nelson of florida have introduced a bill that would allow nasa to stop paying for the aries program. right now that bill is sitting in committee. ali? >> john, thanks very much. and of course,...

I'm in front of spacex, a private rocket company that nasa is doing business with but says its hands are tied because congress is forcing it to pay bills for the canceled programs. if you look at the rocket launch from 2009 that, was part of the $12 billion constellation program that president obama canceled. but congress in the 2010 budget told nasa it had to keep paying all the contracts in that thing until there is a new budget in 2011 which we still don't have. nasa says by the end of march, it will have wasted $215 million on contracts for stuff it doesn't want and if there's no budget by...

>> listen, nasa has been stripped to the bone. they've killed the shuttle program. we knew about that. but they've killed the constellation program, we weren't expecting that. we have to pay the russians a king's ransom to get into the space station now. we have to borrow it from lebron james, see if he's open to it and now all of a sudden, you have to wonder if they're going to back away fra this statement. they're not. here's what they're saying. administrator understands that the core mission is scientific. here at home, inherent to the success of that mission is cooperation and collaborati...