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Impact that we're able to make to help people protect themselves and loved ones and possessions. >> we're operationally flying hurricanes. there are other agencies involved. the air force is one of those. we support the national hurricane center. separately, noaa has g-3s and g 4s can be used for need tasking, if need be. the chute is tucked into the top. and as this ejects out of a plane, there's a little probe at the bottom that is going to collect all of our temperature, dew point, pressure, things like that. it actually gets wind speed and direction from a gps unit embedded in it. it colle...

>> uh-huh. >> greta: do you think number blowç over, or do you think he will resign, should be fired o, our do you think he's doing a good job? >> i obviously don't think he's doing a good)jv job, going baco february of 2009 when he made a comment to me that i found unconscionable, that the united states was a nation of cowards. you look at look at the new black panther voting intimidating case, and you can go on, when you start to use your power to go after the media. you see not just on the conservative side, but also on the liberal side, many people calling for him to step down. he's now...

expected to roll out a plan to cut spending by $2.7 trillion while raising the debt by 274 trillion. reid's plan would not include tax increases which republicans refuse to consider nor would it touch entitlements. my colleague, dan lothian is watching it all from his post at the white house. dan, what is the president's position first on raising the debt in installments? >> reporter: he want it is to go through 2012 and there is a sense at the white house and treasury department in particular even if you had some sort of short-term fix that raises the debt ceiling through the rest o...

shuttle. we are now less than one hour away from the final space shuttle landing. just in the last half-hour, we got a go for landing from nasa. the deorbit burn took place in the last couple of minutes. in the burn, the shuttle's engines are fired to help it slow down before it hits the atmosphere. in less than 30 minutes the shuttle and crew will start to feel the effects of the atmosphere. they'll be about 80 miles above the earth at that point. as the shuttle comes through the atmosphere, it heats up to about 5,000 degrees on the outside. when it breaks through the atmosphere, ma...

of space shuttles. stay tuned. lit take as you little while. we are still working on it but keep watching. we will be launching again. >> we will stay in the business, as they said, the united states is not out space business. >> absolutely. we have proven for 30 years that we know how to get to lower orbit. we built this fantastic international space station. lit keep operating at least through 2020, conducting research in this incredible laboratory with the micro gravity environment of space we cannot replicate here on earth. we are going to still explore and research there but we ...