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But i did express to him that if he had the chance at all to make his way to birmingham, and we're still hopeful about that. >> well, it may be that the president's schedule changes somewhat because now the shuttle launch has been scrubbed, so we'll be waiting to hear from the white house what the president's next move is. he does have an event scheduled in miami, florida, tonight but it may give him a little more time there in alabama. again, the president said when he was looking at these residential neighborhoods, he's never seen devastation like this, it just breaks his heart. m mayor bell...

Immediate businesses, building up a middle class that can be a fire wall against islamists, and building up the other pillars of democracy. those are steps that we could be taking but we are not. jon: thank you. jenna: the president will still travel to florida to cape canaveral today. he was going to be there for the shuttle launch. we know the shuttle launch is scrubbed but he will continue from the south, from alabama to florida to cape canaveral today. in the meantime i want to add this to your line up of news today, jon has some kreu critics for some hats. >> i thought the hat was about t...

Breaking news from florida now. nasa has postponed today's scheduled shuttle launch of "endeavour" and the postponement could last longer than 48 hours. it was supposed to leave in three hours or so but the auxiliary power unit heaters failed. they don't know what the problem is, they have tried troubleshooting, but can't diagnose the problem, can't fix the problem so they have scrubbed the launch. officials are hoping to announce a new launch at a time as soon as they get a handle on how big a problem this is. today we've been talking online about kate and will's future and whether they can...

Was a 23-minute warning that the tornado was on its way. which raises several questions. were the warnings enough? did people pay attention to them? or was the tornado so big they couldn't escape it? bret? >> bret: thank you. the second part of the president's trip went on as scheduled, despite postponement of the shuttle launch. the president carried through with the plan to go to cape canaveral. he met with the endeavor crew and talked with arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords who was shot in the head at a constituent event in january. she is married to the nasa commander. they are hopin...

Anticipation of this launch. according to the information i have read, you have not seen a crowd this big since "apollo." >> that's true. neil armstrong's lunch we had to spend the night out here. we had millions of people. they were expecting 750,000 possibly. i don't know how many showed up here today, but, again, it's a large crowd, tamron, but it's not going to be like anything for the last shuttle launch which is expected sometime this summer. this is the next to last shuttle launch with "endeavour." >> and this -- "endeavour" will go on i believe to california so that many others will be...