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the day. we're going to take you live to pa so. and unfolding this morning at airports nationwide, frustrated and confused passengers still stranded with southwest airlines in the midst of that meltdown. transportation secretary pete buttigieg is calling for accountability. it comes as thousands are trying to recover from that once in a lifetime blizzard that left more than 60 people dead. we'll take you live to buffalo for the latest. also this morning, we're keeping a close eye on the vatican. pope francis calling for prayers for his predecessor, the retired pope benedict, as his...

Effort? >> well, you know, again, it's already something that has made spectacular achievements from the engineering front. i love nasa's cautious approach of making sure everything is right and doing it one step at a time. what we're really looking forward to is actually getting humans, americans back to the moon, and hopefully getting a long-term presence on the moon and the moon can perhaps serve as a base for us to go beyond. and of course our aspiration is the same for the planet mars. it's hard, it's complicated, and it's dangerous. so you know, it's a slow step-wise process. >> the moon...

That can travel under water. there's amazing things happening on the engineering front. but, to me, it looks terrestrial. it does not look alien. if it's the size of humans if it's what humans do, then chances are it's human in all likelihood, right? if it's anything human-like at all, that's my smell test for aliens. what do humans do? we build vehicles, build craft, we fly around the sky. >> i'm intrigued by your smell test for aliens. tell us more about that. >> well, you know, watch a lot of sci-fi. some of them do actually smell, but we do encounter life on another world, it would have de...

Bp says the new fix will be temporary. the two relief wells being drilled in the long-term permanent solution just moments ago when bp's chief operating office says the first relief well is five feet away from the main well. the response cost now is $3.5 billion. president obama's seven-member national oil spill commission will hold the first public meeting later this morning. cnn's ed lavenderra is live with the latest. is there any hope that the latest containment cap is actually going to work? >> reporter: the feeling is we have been down the road several times on the engineering front in...