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right now on "ana cabrera reports" breaking news at a u.s. embassy overseas, a gunman attacking the u.s. embassy at lebanon overnight, injuring a security guard. what we know at this hour as israel says it's prepared for, quote, strong action. plus, day three of hunter biden's federal gun trial, witness testimony resuming this morning as we learn of new drama outside the com. also ahead, political retribution? what donald trump is saying now about potential payback against his opponents including prison. and later, the new space race, boeing preparing to launch its star liner i...

taken them, so they're now four years behind spacex. i think now that they have gotten this flight off, i agree with derrick, this was a critical mission not just for nasa, but for boeing to demonstrate, to give them confidence to demonstrate they have the capability to do this. we're far from complete. we have got to get off the centar, do some tests on the cst 100 over the next day and tomorrow hopefully we'll have a perfect docking, spend eight days on the international space station and then undock and come home. the ultimate test is how does the spacecraft handle the intense hea...

The primary responsibility that they have is to keep the station up at a safe orbit. we could replace them. we'd have to have a quick program to build another signas or modify a dragon for space x and boost the space station back up, but in order to do that, we would essentially have to take over the station and the russians would have to agree to leave in an orderly fashion and turn the lights out in their part of the station, if they went. in other words, it is technically feasible to take over the space station without the russians. politically? probably not. most likely there is no down si...

>> several calls there, endeavor can reach a safe orbit on two engines now, the guidant system is controlling the engines for endeavor to roll to an heads up mission. bill: it is an absolutely remarkable thing to watch on a television, and being here in person, it will blow your mind, the power and the force, to lift 25,000 pounds, and break earth's gravity and send the space shuttle endeavor, headed for the blue heavens above, and this has gone like clock work. every mark that nasa has set out on this mission so far, they have met to the moment. including yesterday on sunday, when they starte...

Coast right now, headed up the eastern seaboard. all ontrack. just about three minutes and 20 seconds. six astronauts onboard headed to the international space station. >> stand by for the guidance system to take over control of "atlantis" and roll the vehicle to a heads up position. this roll to heads up allows r for -- >> "atlantis" single engines, 104. >> single engines go for 104. >> "atlantis" can reach safe orbit on two engines now. >> lucky dog. >> reporter: yes. now "atlantis" crew is flying straight up. >> the guidance system's choice of the roll maneuver.