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NASA's rover has landed on Mars - but there's a fair amount we already know.

it has it's perfectly inflated shape. you can see the dark area which is the dense that lets air escape. -- which is the vent. do not see any apparent damage. there are no visible holes or tearing. victor was taken well into the parachute descent, probably 40 or 50 seconds after parachute deployment. we see a perfectly functioning parachute that looks exactly like we thought. that's great news. more than that, we can get some information by looking at the event times. about 239 seconds after entry compared to 241-263 seconds, so we were in the sweet spot where we thought we would be....

season. in afghanistan, you have what's called a fighting season. in the wintertime when a lot of the taliban are holed up in areas that are inaccessible because of the mountain ranges and the snow, it becomes much harder to fight. and then you've about got the time that they plant a lot of the poppy, the drugs that fuel the insurgency. so you've got window and we're smack dab in the middle, fredricka. >> who are the attackers? >> what did you say? >> who are the attackers, do they know? >> taliban is claiming responsibility. isaf says 50% of the time when you have these green-on-blu...

dome to this incident. there are 12 wells within the area of this sink hole. they are to have to figure out few it's the texas brim salt dome violated or is it an old well. the problem we have in louisiana, we've got about 13,000 of these abandoned wells throughout the states that still need to be mitigated because they are polluted parts of the state of louisiana and that is between big oil, our biggest employee here in louisiana and the government working through legislation and level channels. that's a bigger issue. it's for deq and dnr, director of natural resources to figure out...

also under cover agents are put in tory to fill out some of the recruits to see if they have extremist views. >> appreciate it very much. top of the hour. a giant sink hole is getting so big and dangerous 150 houses had to be evacuated. let's take a look at this. those trees that you see there, those trees that surround the hole are 100 foot cypress trees, giant trees. here are some of the numbers. the hole is 50 feet deep. in one corner it goes down more than 400 feet. this is not something you want sneaking up in your backyard. general, nip idea what is skauzing this thing to sud...