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>> i hope she's sitting that one out. i wonder if she is a member. >> right. moving to south africa this morning thousands of mourners from all corners of the world are paying their respects to nelson mandela. today is day two of his lying in state at the union building, the site he was sworn in as the country's first black president nearly 20 years ago. he will be buried in his childhood village of qunu. putting an unfortunate blemish on nelson mandela's memorial, news that archbishop desmond tutu's home was robbed while he attended the memorial on tuesday. no arrests have been made and n...

Cooling loop. so nasa officials say power can be rerouted from other sources to keep systems running normally, and they say the crew is not in any danger. nasa has scheduled a news conference at the johnson space center in texas for 3:00 central time. we hope to learn more then. jon and jenna become to you. jon: sound like a very difficult plumbing job ahead. >> reporter: indeed. jon: thank you. jenna: speaking of outer space a sight to behold for sky gazers, the ring of fir fire eclipse, and the amazing pictures next.

On the space station. and, leroy, that's a big deal because this isn't like your air conditioning going out on earth. the temperature extremes on that space station are very different from what we experience on earth. >> well, that's right. the cooling is one of the challenges that we have to overcome on the space station. the temperature in tas can be plus or minus 250 degrees fahrenheit depending on whether you're in the sun or in the shade. the cooling system has to deal with that temperature extreme. the external cooling loop was the one affected by this module. it took down the american s...

Was a critical repair because without that second cooling loop, very little research work or other things could have been done. basically they would have been in a survival mode. although conceptually simple, this e.v.a., disconnect the lines, take the old purchase out, put the new pump in. sounds easy to do. but when you're in a space suit wrestling with the ammonia fluid lines which are pressurized and trying to get them on and off with the sticky disconnected because they've been up there so long ekt connected, no surprise to me that it became such a challenge. but these folks pulled it off...

Barrels may cause. and looking high into the sky, warning alarms wake up the crew op. board the international space station today, a power spike we're told forced a cooling loop and other systems to shut down. the crew wasn't in any danger and went back to sleep shortly after the alarm went off, but an engineer did stay away to troubleshoot the problem. it is shark week, you know it by now, and you love it by now. they've been doing this for 20-plus years and they're kicking off another week. we have one of the shark experts along coming up that helped the discovery channel put this week t...