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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...

They are going to have another weather briefing in 45 minutes to figure this all out and make sure the winds are within the limits, but it looks real good right now. right now, as we're watching the clock 9:25, "discovery" is entering its last-ever orbit of the earth. this is the final time it will go around the earth before they start that deorbit burn. it's a real, real difficult time here for the people at the kennedy space center saying good-bye to these vehicles. we talked just the other day to stephanie stillson. she is "discovery's" flow director which means for the past decade, her res...

The dragon hauling back 1400 pounds of space station equipment and scientific examples. phil keating has been looking at this live from miami. phil, as jon said, things seem to be going okay now? >> reporter: absolutely. inside hawthorne, california, mission control for spacex the engineers are cool, calm, collected. no emotion or cheer two minutes ago, the deorbit burn and entry into the atmosphere ended with the capsule firmly intact. it is about to jettison the trunk. that is where the solar panels are can'ted with the dragon capsule. obviously those are not needed now that it has one job l...

Equivalent of about a year in space. it will have orbited the earth more than 5,800 times, and logged more than 148 million miles. our cnn's john zarella, he is where all the action is at the kennedy space center. john, it's unbelievable. i know a lot of people, great anticipation for this landing here. describe for us the weather, the crowds. what is happening where you are? >> reporter: yeah, the weather is great. a little bit gusty, but it's gusty in a good direction. there's not a real -- there aren't any crosswinds or any significant crosswinds here that would have restricted "discovery" ...

Some stranded travelers. how nice. another fox news alert, space shuttle discovery is on track to land in florida at 7:34 eastern time this morning. the orbit burn scheduled to take place in about 20 minutes and the weather looks good enough although there is some early morning fog. before landing, discovery will zoom down the continental u.s. the first time the shuttle has done that in three years, people from the dakotas to florida may be able to see it. discovery is returning to earth after a two-week mission. we are going to have a live report on the arrival in a couple of minutes. u.s. an...