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that and more on the rise in violent crime many in several major cities. and ongoing concerns about the security of supreme court justices after an activist group offers money to anyone who reports the locations of the six conservative members of the nation's highest court. more on these stories lout the hour. but first, to president biden defending his upcoming visit to saudi arabia in a new op-ed ahead of his trip to that nation and others in the middle east this week. kevin corke live at the white house with that. >> reporter: jon, good afternoon. frankly, no two ways about it, th...

But the landing, you know, the deorbit burn, the high temperatures encountered as it comes through the earth's atmosphere, that is all high-stakes stuff too. it's just that we don't get to see it as well as we do the lift-off. >> that's correct because transmission is not easily transmitted when it is coming down because of the atmospheric effects that go on during the landing process, so -- but the astronauts as clayton will tell you they surely know what's going on. >> jon: so clayton, what are they doing? what's going through their minds, and, you know, how much of this are they actually co...

Of technical glitch that interfered with the normal landing process that's all i can say but as far as we know, there have been no fatalities. is that correct? >> at this point we have not heard of any. as you are talking, we could continue to see that fire truck. again at this point norg confirm casualties. no confirmed injuries at this point as well. we're still waiting to get some official word on that. the source saying the pilot made no distress calls prior to landing. is that customary? >> until they made contact with the seawall. because the plane was probably

Martian recovery. >> here is what is posed to happen. first the space craft carrying the rover will tear through the martian atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour and deploy parachutes. attach from the bottom and take over the dissent. that jet pack is in charge of bringing the rover to within 65 feet of the martian surface and then lowering curiosity in a so-called sky crane. by the way the system will be doing this entirely on its own without any commands from mother earth and this entire landing process is packed with so much uncertainty and so much risk that nasa is calling the whole t...