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that's more than were killed by hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, and floods combined. cnn meteorologist chad meyers joins us. it's more than the heat. >> it's more than humidity. if you set your steam roam at a gym at 105. that feels like 200 degrees. even though it's 105, it feels so much hotter because your body cannot perspire, and it cannot cool itself down. a sauna is 160 or 170, but it feels cooler because the air is dry. now, this is a 10-year average, 170 people die of heat-related deaths per year, compared to 62 in tornados, and lightning, 44, and flooding 74. i know people...

Astronauts just as we all did here in astonishment as endeavour blasted off for the 25th and final time of its long storied career. there were no photos of her released. still being kept very private her recovery. her chief of staff did update us a little bit. they say she does understand sarcasm which is food because that's linguistically very complex. >> it's exciting she was able to reach those goals and get here. she adores mark and supports his career. very proud of him and whole human space flight program at nasa. for her, this is imperative to be here. >> so much excitement about her re...

President reagan was determined that the program would go on. were his dreams realized? >> for a while. we seem to have to relearn the lessons of history over and over again. we went through this in apollo and we remember the apollo one crew. i was in grade school in florida. we remember the challenger school, which i was an air force pilot. and then the lesson again most recently with columbia, all on similar dates, end of january-beginning of february. and we seem to learn from our lessons, get motivated, move forward be and then we don't actually carry through. the most recent example is ob...

Years now since kennedy's vision. that we had a destination with dates and we want to make sure we're not overly dependent on commercial space flight or the russians, which for us, would not be entirely reliable. >> so, the greatest concern in terms of competition comes from china and russia, saying they're going to get back to the moon first and beyond? >> i'm not really obsessed with whether we go to the moon. i want to make sure that the human space flight, that we maintain our supremacy in that area and that we have definite goals, that the funds we're spending are spent on definite goals ...

Shortly. speaking of sending a message, tomorrow the president unveils his new vision for america's space program, one that includes retiring the space shuttle and cutting thousands of jobs in the human space flight program. could this be the end of the final frontier? what kind of message led a florida man to an 11-year-old girl lost in a swamp for days? he says he prayed and god showed him the way. could there actually be something special going on in your brain when you pray? dr. sanjay gupta took a close look at this and has the fascinating science behind the power of prayer. we're g...