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fredricka whitfield. get you up to speed this wednesday november 23rd. just in -- egypt's highest ranking muslim cleric is calling on police to stop attacking protesters. this comes as the country's uprising bloodier and bolder. authorities now say at least 35 people have been killed and almost 2,000 injured in five straight days of violence. clashes between protesters and police are happening outside tahrir square. and inside the square, tens of thousands of demonstrators are standing their ground demanding the country's military council quickly hand over power to civilian rule....

And i'm not nervous about it. >> reporter: dan burbank is the only american on this mission. first astronaut to launch into space since retirement of the space shuttle fleet earlier this year. the price tag for his seat $56 million. the russian space agency desperately needed this launch to succeed after two catastrophic failures earlier this year. first an unmanned progress supply ship in august, blamed on a contaminated fuel line. now flight controllers are scrambling round-the-clock to communicate with another unmanned spacecraft. phobos grunt, launched on a three year mission to mars to br...

let's listen in. >> all three are still in good shape as are all of the other sims aboard the orbiter. a team of flight controllers watches over all the systems. 4:20 into the flight. "endeavour's" traveling 5500 miles per hour. altitude 63 miles traveling downrange, about 335 feet in altitude. environmental and control systems officer here reporting a good flash evaporator system reporting cooling to equipment aboard the vehicle. traveling into space on the forward flight deck is mark kelly and greg johnson. between and behind them, flight engineer -- >> to ato. rog roger. >> "endea...

Discretionary spending and that is the only area being addressed now and he will not go above $10.5 billion and is not nearly enough to come close to halfway to where the republicans are. so, they have a lot of goebiating to do the next 12 days and if they don't they will need a temporary extension, for another two weeks, which is a heck of a way to run a government, or we'll have a government shut down. >> eric: what are the answers of the quote, government shut down? will it be partial? we have gone through that before, back in the 1990s. >> chris: yes, if it happens, absolutely, it would be...

Down range distance 3 nautical miles. >> so the 25th space shuttle mission is now on the way after more delays than nasa cares to count. this morning, it looked as though they were not going to be able to get off. >> 1:15. altitude 9 nautical miles. down range distance 7 nautical miles. >> looks like a couple of the solid rocket boosters blew away from the side of the shuttle in an explosion. >> flight controllers here looking very carefully here at the situation. obviously, a major malfunction.