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>> "columbia," houston, we see your tire pressure messages and we did not copy your last. >> roger that. >> reporter: there was nothing more. people on the ground saw the streak of the shuttle breaking up. >> and suddenly things started raining down out of the sky. and sounded like a boomerang whizzing through the air. >> reporter: at 9:16 a.m. the scheduled landing time came and went. at 9:29 a.m. nasa officially declared an emergency and impounded all data for the investigations that will follow. at 2:00 p.m., the president addressed the nation. >> these men and women assumed great risk in t...

The government wanted. they earned the money and didn't pay taxes. that's why this is potentially a huge story. that's probably what you have here. >> maybe. you don't know. you are in this business. it is people that either want to shield wealth from taxes or people that want to shield wealth because they attained it illegally. >> isn't the whole system rotten? why do you have the cayman islands? >> because you don't have a flat tax. >> if you are going to have -- the suntan oil capital not the offshore banking. >> right. if you are going to have a system in the country where the tax code is ...

The government wanted. they earned the money and didn't pay taxes. that's why this is potentially a huge story. that's probably what you have here. >> maybe. you don't know. you are in this business. it is people that either want to shield wealth from taxes or people that want to shield wealth because they attained it illegally. >> isn't the whole system rotten? why do you have the cayman islands? >> because you don't have a flat tax. >> if you are going to have -- the suntan oil capital not the offshore banking. >> right. if you are going to have a system in the country where the tax code is ...

The government wanted. they earned the money and didn't pay taxes. that's why this is potentially a huge story. that's probably what you have here. >> maybe. you don't know. you are in this business. it is people that either want to shield wealth from taxes or people that want to shield wealth because they attained it illegally. >> isn't the whole system rotten? why do you have the cayman islands? >> because you don't have a flat tax. >> if you are going to have -- the suntan oil capital not the offshore banking. >> right. if you are going to have a system in the country where the tax code is ...

Fredricka whitfield is monitoring the other top stories coming in right now to "the situation room." fred, what are you working on? >> hello, everyone. well, the european space agency says conditions favorable to light may have once existed all over mars. the agency says its mars express and reconnaissance orbiter have discovered minerals in the northern lowlands that indicate water once flowed there. until now evidence of the presence of liquid water had been found only in the southern hemisphere. and what are the odds? in march lightning started a fire in an apartment complex in plain town...