heads, or in this case, the south pole of the moon? you know what this sounds like to me, my friend? like some engineers looked at this thing and discovered holy cow we don't have enough fuel to get back, so just crash this into the moon and use the other one to take pictures of it. maybe we will find water, even though i'm not sure what we do after that, like go back and whoa up more parts of the moon to find more water. our imaginations no bounds but our budgets do. i don't think this is what carl saggen had in mind about exploring billions of stars. not once did i hear him say if you can't do that bill quons and blown of pieces of of the moon will do in a pinch. this isn't about going lunar. i just think this is looney. i love buzz aldrin. he is a hero of mine. i just don't think that buzz and i are on the same page. that's all i'm saying. i will see you one hour from now on fox bitness network and my guest will be suzy welch, and by the way, if you're not getting

rest plows into the moon. a twofer. >>> 150 middle school students joined by astronauts and the president who wants to encourage study and the wonder of science. >> all you need is a passion for science. from the moment humans first walked on this earth, we have been endlessly fascinated by the stars. we need you to study, do well in school, explore everything from space to the at tom. we need you to think bigger and dig deeper and reach higher. >> let's turn to the chief astronomer. good evening. >> good evening, keith. >> you were at the white house star party last night. what was it like? >> yes, i was there. it was wonderful. the sky looked great. my telescope worked well. the president did a great job making the kids feel at home. he looked through telescopes and participated in portable planetarium domes. >> you brought your own telescope? >> yes. it was my telescope the president first looked through when he gave his speech and the last one when he went for the night. >> why is this issue of water come

on the moon? it's a question scientists will try to answer in a somewhat unorthodox way, by blasting the moon with a rocket traveling 5600 miles per hour, then sending a satellite into the plume to see if water or some form of it rises up with the debris. >> this is a case where you're going to take what amounts to an s.u.v. and crash it into the surface at two or three times the speed of a rifle bullet. >> reporter: the $79 million lunar crater observation and sensing satellite, called lcros blasted into space uni18, and will crash into the moon in two phases tomorrow morning. first, just after 7 30 eastern time air, rocket will slam into the surface with the force of 1 .5 tons of it, nt. four minutes later, the satellite will fly through the debris displaced by the impact, searching for signs of water until it, too, crashes. the attacker a permanently shadowed crater at the moon's south pole. >> this reminds you of prospecting in the old west way back when, except we're prospecting for water. >>

planning to bomb the moon. well, it is nothing out of science fiction. moon will be okay. we just want to find out if there may be water up there. >> two spacecraft are barreling toward the moon right now. one will make impact in the name of research. another one will hopefully get some great image space. stacy cohan this morning is live at the newseum in northwest washington where they're vague watch party this morning. >> reporter: good morning. the. cross mission is rapidly reaching the final stage in that collision with the moon, all of this in the name of science and the search for water on the moon. here to plain it in a much better fashion than i possibly could, we have nasa scientist jim garvin tell me what is this mission about in a nutshell? >> this is the ultimate fittics experiment. we'll whack the moon with 2300 kilograms of stuff and see if we can excavate, dig up from tens of feet deep evidence of water or other stuff we don't know about the moon. this is kind of the ultimate digging experiment t

into the moon itself. astronomers will be able to see the crashes. >>> an illinois police officer has handed in his resignation after an altercation involving a 15-year-old special education student. it happened in may. it appears to show the unidentified officer beating the student. he slammed the boy against the lockers because he wasn't following dress code. the teen had a broken nose. the officer had a scratch to the eye. he was removed from the school. he now quit the invest continues and the parents are considering a lawsuit. >>> in phoenix a man may have escaped being buried alive. his abductors demanded a ransom. he heard his captors talking about burying him. he heard them digging and using a concrete cutting machine. that convinced him to make a break for it. he got out a bedroom window and ran to the neighbors for help. >> he was crying. he was shaken. >> he was pretty freaked out. he had duct tape all over his arms and screaming in spanish telling us to help him out. >> police surrounded the ho

the moon today. did you watch this? this is all in an effort to find out if there is water below the moon's surface. the space agency first shot an empty rocket into the moon's south pole to kick up some of the dust early this morning and it is four minutes later they sent another probe flying through the cloud and the dust looking for signs of moisture. so afterwards, that crashed into the moon. nasa calling today's crashes successful. >> i can certainly report there was an impact. we saw the impact. we saw the crater. we got good measurements. we have the data to address the questions we set tout address. that is the fundamental bottom line. i'm not going to say anything about water or no water but we got the measurements we need to address the questions. >> you heard they have the measurements, some of the data and will take the data to analyze and determine if there is water on the lunar surface. a ucla student is in the hospital after a fellow student allegedly slashed her throat but guess where

on the moon. and also joining us, ryan owens, center in houston.johnson space ryan, are we on time? going to happen soon? >> we are on time. we're about a minute away, space time, from this huge impact. diane, what an impact it will be. as you said, this rocket weighs as much as an suv. so, we all like the moon. we look at it at night. but we're about to hit it twice with quite the double impact. >> and buzz aldrin, what are you interested in seeing? >> i'm probably going to have to look at a replay because i'll be looking at you. i'm interested in the resolution of what we've been getting from our satellite detectors, to give us more accurate information, as to just what is in the vicinity of the impact area. >> buzz, we're going to take a moment of lence from all of us and let mission control take us right to the moon. >> we should be looking for some signs of the impact on the left-most part. >> stand by a minute for changes. >> the left side of the shadow, right below the dimple crater. >> thi

set on the moon tomorrow. nasa is planning to fire a rocket right into the lunar surface. scientists are hoping it will reveal some information that could help lead to a manned base on the moon. jay gray has our report. >> four, three. >> reporter: it's part rocket science -- >> liftoff of the atlas 5 rocket, america's first step in a lasting return to the moon. >> reporter: and part demolition derby. >> we are going to whack the moon in a controlled experiment to try to really understand what's in the lunar soil. >> reporter: early tomorrow morning, nasa will fire an unmanned rocket into a crater near the south pole of the moon. >> 30 seconds to end. >> repter: could it actually contain some of the most important stuff for human exploration and for science. >> reporter: the stuff they're looking for is water. this nasa animation details the el cross mission plan. as a rocket slams into a lunar crater, it will send up a huge plume of dust, rocks and possibly ice. four minutes later, a separate satellite will f

the moon. what some are saying about the less than spectacular show. hey there. thanks for having us over. you're watching hln. i'm virginia cha. >>> baseball fans in colorado will have to wait another day to see the rockies play the home opener in this postseason. the next game is postponed between the rockies and phillies due to this, snow. it's the scene inside the stadium in denver earlier today. the game has been pushed to tomorrow night. right now the best of five series is tied at one game apiece. >>> president obama targeting a plan for america's wars just hours after winning the nobel prize for peace. he and his national security advisors are planning the next phase of the war in afghanistan. they met all week behind closed doors with both military leaders and congressional leaders. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan is believed to have offered a range of options, but general stanley mcchrystal is pushing the president to maximize boots on the ground. meantime, vice president joe bi

into the moon. we're about 30 seconds away. we're listening to obviously what is being said at the moment. scientists hope to find traces of water. the size of this rocket that will be going in is quite large, and of course we'll be watching with that. are we going to stay with this and follow through? it's about a two-ton sized rocket that will be hitting the surface right behind us here, and there will be a small center, another satellite right behind it that will be analyzing what comes up from the earth. okay, let's watch right now and see what happens. >> all stations slight. mark centaur impact. >> that was an announcement by the flight director that the center impact should have -- >> receipt of command. over. curtain start. over. >> cover that. >> we should be looking for some signs of the impact on the left-most part. -- the left side of the shadow right below the crateer on the larger crater rim. >> this is science. make the right changes. mir 2, 0.1 hertz. >> mir 1 at 1 hertz. >> they're

ever. >> suddenly the shell kisses the eye of the moon. >> nasa bombed the moon ♪ >> don't worry about the effect on the ties. >> and the next day new york had been swallowed & the east coast followed snowed snowed. >> nasa said the moon gets hit with things like meteorites with the same impact several times a month. the purpose is to look for signs of water in the debris that is giving people money-making ideas. bottled moon water. forget poland spring. make it spring of tranquillity. it's enough to make the moon blue. >> blue moon ♪ >> leave to to letterman to come up with unintended consequences. >> oh, no! >> may the moon stand strong and god bless america. >> can you imagine if someone shot back? this is set to happen at 7:31 a.m. eastern time friday. grab the cell scope. the calls we are getting in about jon and kate are sending us into orbit. they do a great job. janet in tennessee said stop the show! >> caller: i would hate for a camera to follow anyone in a mid-life crisis like jon or in a divorce phase like kate. people are watching and saying gosh, at least i didn't do tha

earth before it, too, crashes into the moon. so why didn't nasa do this during the apollo missions in the '60s and '70s? >> we were trying to understand the origins of the moon and, by extension, the origins of the solar system, but we never thought we were going to find anything like water on the moon at that point in time. >> reporter: only recently did an orbiting probe detect the first signs of ice on the moon, critical since ice can make future permanent moon bases entirely feasible. nbc's jay bar bar ee is at the kennedy space center. >> it would give them oxygen to breathe and hydrogen fuel for their space ships. >> reporter: since the apollo astronauts brought back 900 pounds of moon rocks, technology has made lunar leaps. now nasa is banking on it to unral even more of the moon's 5 billion years of mystery. >> that was nbc's tom costello reporting. again, the rocket mission is set for 7:30 tomorrow morning. nasa is hoping for some spectacular live tv images. >>> that's "news 4 at 4." >>> news 4 at 5 starts right now. >>

moon, nasa hopes to send people back to the moon. and the cost of this mission is upwards of $600 million. , which i'm told is a drop in the bucket when you consider they could send men up there to look for it again. that would be more expensive. >>> i think we were on yesterday when they talked about the actual cost of transporting even just a gallon or so of water to the moon, it was $600 million for a gallon. it was, you know, just figuratively speaking. >>> i think the best evidence there may not be water on the moon is no grass, no lawns up there. q. that's true. if you saw a nice lawn you'd say yeah, water. >> does that mean all the husbands will move up there, don't have to do yardwork every weekend. >> we're looking at a decent, you know, pretty decent forecast for the rest of this weekend. today as we've been talking about, if you're trying to get an idea of what we were talking about when we're saying it's balmy and hot and sticky, all that good stuff, go outside right now. just don't turn your tv off of course, but go out

the moon. we will be right back. >> president barack obama speaks at the human rights campaign 13th annual dinner. live coverage of the president keynote address tonight at 7:50 p.m., eastern on c-span. today on america and the courts, the attorneys who argued before the supreme court this week in a case looking at the constitutionality of religious monuments on government property. the case to across on the mojave national preserve in california. also four former supreme court justices are honored. chief justice john roberts speaks at the ceremony. america and the court today at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> tonight, just as sonia sotomayor as first television interview since joining the supreme court. >> they remind us that the role we are playing is not a personal role and not a role that should have a personal agenda but one that has an institutional importance and that that institutional importance is bigger than us. >> justice clarence thomas on his approach to oral argument and how it

on the same day our space agency bombs the moon. the mission didn't have the promised visible fire works, will it have the promised scientific benefits? but first, the fight for health care reform. congressman allan grayson, less than habit on the house floor, putting republicans and democrats on notice. americans want reform, so either lead or get out of the way. the freshman congressman's remarkable speech up next. he'll join us live from florida ahead on "countdown." innovating, inventing and building things. it means everything from shipping a new wind turbine every 4 hours to creating some of the world's most advanced healthcare technologies. manufacturing is part of ge's belief that the american renewal is making things right here in america. the american renewal is happening right now. >>> coming up, congressman alan grayson's politics on capitol hill. americans don't care about your strategies, they don't care about your parliamentary process, so either get it done or get out of the way. >>> and later, the week that was in t

peace prize on the same day our space agency bombs the moon. the mission didn't have the promised visible fire works, will it have the promised scientific benefits? but first, the fight for health care reform. congressman alan grayson, less than habit on the house floor, putting republicans and democrats on notice. americans want reform, so either lead or get out of the way. the freshman congressman's remarkable speech up next. he'll join us live from florida ahead on "countdown." >>> coming up, congressman alan grayson's politics on capitol hill. americans don't care about your strategies, they don't care about your parliamentary process, so either get it done or get out of the way. the representative's speech in its entirety. then he'll be our special guest. >>> and later, the week that was in the david letterman extortion scandal and what this week can tell them about letterman's future. that's next, this is "countdown." >> it has been 48 hours since keith olbermann devoted this hour to health care reform as he sees it, concluding with a cal

it provides the basics for human sustainability on the moon if and when we do return. >> the cool part here is you can watch along with us. we'll show it to you live right here on hln. nasa predicts the dust cloud will be so big you'll be able to see it through a mid-sized backyard telescope. again, that happens in about 90 minutes. >>> okay. be sure to bring an umbrella and rain boots if you live in the midwest today. meteorologist bob van dillen is here. how bad is it going to get for us? >> if you're looking for real water we have it across the midwest. it is coming down in sheets from texas through arkansas, the same spot as yesterday. it's that cold front that hasn't moved far to the east, just with thunderstorms training along that. we have all kinds of flash flood watches, warnings, flood warnings, too. here is what it looks like with the warning. you see the dark shaded green. dallas in a flood watch. to the red shaded areas, those are flash flood warnings, so you see what it looks like here. an additional two to four inches today before it all moves to the northeast and down a

nasa will show the moon crash live on the internet. we'll show it live here on fox 5 morning news. >>> we are following developing world news on three fronts this morning. as we just mentioned, a surprise oner of the nobel peace prize, president barack obama. we'll have the latest on that. >>> another deadly disafter ther in the philippines. there are new developments in the u.s. strategy in the war in afghanistan. coming up next, we'll check world headlines. plus. >> what are you having trouble or something? >> hell, yeah. >> conversation between an air traffic controller and an airport employee just moment before a deadly mid-air collision. who was wrong? we'll be back after this. plaintiff ♪ now there's rhythm and sound -- making their hearts pound ♪ ♪ the best part of wakin' up... ♪ ♪ is folgers in your cup >>> welcome back. there is a live look again from oslo, norway where the nobel peace prize has just been awarded and a bit of a surprise for many. the nobel peace prize for 2009 going to president barack obama. the com

some showers on the way, and will you be able to see the explosion on the moon tomorrow morning? we'll tell you about it coming up. >>> it's a habit many of us are already used to. you shred anything that has your personal information on it. you would expect your nk is doing the same. but that's not always the case. tonight at 11:00, the abc2 news investigators go dumpster-diving at a local bank. it's a tactic identity thieves use all the time hoping to get their hands on your vital statistics and our team found plenty. in just a few minutes of trash picking uncovering social security numbers, yes, that woman was shocked -- bank statements and even more. it was a shock to customers whose documents didn't get shredded. they just got dumped. >> what do you think? when you see this? >> i don't understand why these things -- they have, you know, shredders. i don't know. i don't know what to say. >> tonight at 11:00 -- we'll show you which bank trashed your stuff and what they are doing for customers whose information got tossed. >>> he's known for handing out plenty of money on tv. n

the moon. >>> hey there, thanks for having us over. baseball fans in colorado will have to wait another day to see the rockies play their home opener in this year's post season. the game is postponed due to this -- snow. it is the scene inside the stadium earlier today. the game has been pushed to tomorrow night. right now the series is tied at one game apiece. >>> president obama targeting a plan for america's wars just hours after winning the nobel prize for peace. he and his national secure advisors are planning the next phase in the war in afghanistan. they met all wook with military and congressional leaders. the top u.s. commander is believed to have optioned a range of options but the president is being pushed to maximize boots on the ground. in the meantime, vice president joe biden is pushing to keep troops at their current levels. the president spokesman says this is not a decision the president is likely to make quickly. >> there is obviously an agenda where we are going through agai

. >> at 6:00 we started with a picture from the u2 concert of the moon. tonight still gorgeous pictures of the moon thanks to craig little out there earlier. he's one of our photographs. -- photographers. watch this shot coming up n. is gorgeous, too. >> that's beautiful. >> on a wednesday night. temperatures cooling down out there. it's great, too, because with the skies clearing, it's not full but it's getting closer. we have clear skies out there tonight so it's big and bright out there in that sky. if you've noticed, too, the bright light down to the right of the moon, lower right is jupiter this evening. so just in case you've been wondering about that. temperature for reagan national, 70 degrees with some sunshine. very little rainfall. they picked up less than a tenth of an inch with the rain moving through this afternoon. dulles 69 and bwi marshal 67 degrees. in terms of what we're thinking overnight tonight with the clear skies, it's going to be chilly. it looks like temperatures will bottom out out in the suburbs. mid to low 40s. so tomorrow mor

plan to see if there is water on the moon. here's the deal. nasa is going to crash a used rocket into the moon's south pole early tomorrow morning. it will then kick up lunar dust. then a satellite will fly through the dust cloud, looking for ice. it will send back live color pictures then crash into the moon itself. a lot of crashing there. we want you to -- want to show you some amazing video of an ax lanch rescue. we got this on youtube. this man was wearing a helmet cam and he was caught in an avalanche. denlt even break a bone. >>> let's talk about a 27-year-old iraq veteran and former nfl player died unexpectedly. rafer with that story. >>> a tragic story, richard. this guy, tony fein is his name, only 27 years old. nobly served 2 1/2 years in iraq. he was a standout linebacker at ole miss. for him, he was cut by the baltimore ravens last month. even more unfortunately, fein died of unexplained causes after collapsing at a friend's house. his agent calls it an accidental situation. now authorities say he was unconscious,

maybe the moon, maybe mars. it's a test rocket so can i tell you that all the parts are fake in the upper portion of the rocket. isn't that interesting? >>> president obama says that he won't rush his decision about sending troops to afghanistan. some republicans have been pressuring him to decide quickly about deploying up to 40,000 more troops, but he says he's not ready. obama spoke at the naval air station in jacksonville yesterday. >> i will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm's way. i won't risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary. >> well, he spoke on the deadliest day in that country in more than four careers. 14 u.s. troops died monday. >>> the faa is investigating a close call at the los angeles international airport. a witness tells "the l.a. times" that two planes came within 15 feet of each other on sunday. well, an faa spokesperson says it was more like 100 feet. a commuter jet had just landed and did not stop where it was supposed to. it came close to a runway where an

the surface of the moon today. trying to find out if there's water below its barren surface. the space agency shot an empty rocket into the moon's south pole to kick up dust, early morning. then about four minutes later another nasa probe flew through the cloud looking for moisture. it flew into the moon. nasa is calling today's crashes successful impacts. so, this is the question? is there water? that's what it was all about. the space agency is not ready to talk about if the experiments kicked up water or how much. >> i can certainly report there was an impact. we saw the impact. we saw the crater. we got good measurements, spectroscopic measurements which is what we needed of the impact event. we have the data we need to address the questions we sent out to address. that's the fundamental bottom line. i hopes that is what you take away today. i'm not going to say anything about water but we got the measurements we need to address the question. >> it will be a while before the data can be analyzed. >>> the house

besides the moon, saturn appears just as a tiny dots. it is so big, that it would look twice as large as the moon. announced -- astonishing discovery. how come nobody noticed? the experts are stunned. >> this is absolutely vast. you cannot see it unless you're looking at a particular wavelength. it is very diffuse. you cannot see it with the naked eye. if you need special instruments to see it. >> it was one of sadr's moons that was a dead giveaway. -- saturn's moons that was a dead giveaway. admired for its beauty for 400 years, saturn can still surprise us. what else do we not know about it? >> just coming in from reuters, and 8.1 magnitude earthquake has struck off of the north coast of -- it is 370 kilometers north, nw. no immediate reports of injuries or damage. no tsunami warning. also is 6.9 magnitude earthquake in the philippines. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york. still vermont and honolulu, the newman's own foundation, the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, and union bank. >> union b

sides the moon, sarn appears just as a tiny dots. it i so big, that it wouldook twice as lar as the moon. announced -- astonishing discovery. how come nobo noticed? t experts are stned. >> this is absolutely vast. you cannot see it unlessou're lookinat a particar wavelength. it is ryiffuse. you cannot see it with theaked eye. if you need secial instruments to see it. >>it was one of sadr's moons that was a dead giveaway. - satu's moons at was a dead giveaw. admired for its beauty for 4 years, satn can stillsurprise us. what else do we not know abo it? >> just coming in from reuters, and 8.1 magnitude earquake has struck off of the north coast of -- it is 370 kilometers north, nw. no immeate reports of iuries or damage. no tsunami warng. also is 6.9 maitude earthquake in thphilippines. >> nding was madeossible by the freeman foundation onew york. still vermont and honoluluthe newman'own foundation, the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, andnion bank. >> union bank h put its financial streth to wk for a wide range of comnie

the ares is part of nasa's plan to return to the moon and even mars. but the future of ares is uncertain because the obama administration is re-evaluating the space flight program. cool, though. >>> "this is it" the behind the scenes movie about michael jackson preparing for his concert tour that never was is in theaters. a.j. hammer is in new york. i know you will talk about the controversy of the film on the show tonight. part of that being it doesn't show the full picture of his life. you saw the movie, what did you think? >> i thought it was great. i thought it was entertaining. it was fascinating not just because it is against the backdrop of his tragic death. we got to get a sense of michael jackson as nan control brilliant artist. it was a real reminder to us of his talent. people need to see this if perhaps they were waning because of the the drama in recipient years. you saw the brilliance. it was raw rehearsal footage, you heard quite a bit of singing. right there behind the scenes you got to see it as we are looking at footage of this show b

part of an experiment to determine whether there is water on the moon. >> the spectacular show that many expected never really made it to the big screen. >> it is hard to tell what we saw there. especially hard for hundreds that waited up all night expecting a cosmic fireworks show, which turned out to be a dud. >> it would have been nice to see more of an explosion. >> the perspective from nasa's point of view was much different. >> everything worked out well. the space dust flew perfectly. the instruments performed better than expected. >> while the plume of dust, rocks, and possibly ice was difficult to see, sensors indicated that it was there. >> today, we picked up some moon dust. it will be very interesting. >> it will take time to analyze the new data and to answer the question that led to today's crash landing. a valuable resource that could provide a bridge to the next generation of space exploration. >> if water exists there, i think it would clearly be an element for the future of lunar architecture. >> a future that right now is still a bit fuzzy. >> now, you'rer insta weathe

it's supposed to eventually carry astronauts to the moon. however, the white house may be scrapping that plan. 327 feet tall. it's by contrast about 184 feet tall. tall. >> first she lost her title as miss california, usa. then she sued pageant officials. >> lot of talk about marijuana today. marijuana supporters are praising the new obama legislation. obama administration policy i should say, that appears to ease up on federal prosecution of medical marijuana. the justice department memo released yesterday says u.s. attorneys should not waste their time targeting people who use or sell medical marijuana in compliance with state laws. . federal agents are also being encouraged to buff dispensaries using medical marijuana as a front for traditional drug dealing. so -- this is our views question of the day. the vast majority of you are in favor of obama policy. this whole change on pot. we want to get both sides of the issue represented here. first an e-mail. the e-mail from diane. let me read it. it says -- thank you for that. another nurse h

of the moon. it was supposed to hit with such force, it would look like this. a massive explosion kicking up a cloud of debris. not so much. what happened looked more like this. at exactly 7:31 this morning, the big blast was a very big dud. it was a white flash. this morning the "today" show was able to dig up top secret intel about the blast and al roker explain what is really went down. >> the moon bombing thing. we just got it. new video on the moon. a little more spectacular than we first thought. take a look. >> getting there. wow! >> calling bugs bunny. are you there? come in. have you prepared a statement for the press? >> well, yes. i have prepared a statement. get me outa here! >> that's what happened. as we move on tonight, bad boy levi johnston plans to take it all off for "playgirl." one of tv's hottest mommas is stripping for "playboy." marge simpson. nothing but a smile and mile high blue hair. the cover shot has everyone saying aye ka rumba. why marge did it. more stories from the

to the moon and maybe one day on to mars. richelle? >> looking forward to it finally happening. like you say, don't want to take any chances today. thank for the explainer, too john. appreciate it. >> absolutely. >>> many americans speak a foreign language, but is it okay to require them to speak english when they're on the job? we'll share your views, next. >>> a hotel owner is xauzing an uproar in new mexico. name larry whitten who bought a hotel and started making latino workers speak english around him. he also is accused of making some workers anglo-size their name making marcos to mark. protesters pictured the hotel. he's gotten complaint letters. this morning the owner said it's just a misunderstanding. >> my partner and i spent several million dollars to come to this beautiful land of enchantment. it would be idiotic for me to purposely offend the great culture of the spanish to you know -- you could really call me stupid. but i'm not a racist. no intention has ever been done purposely to insult anyone. it was a matte

>> the moon has set and the sun will be up in 45 minutes in a mostly clear sky. looking to the east, live picture from the city camera. there's venus, a brilliant spot in the deep blue sky. our sunrise is at 7:04. right now it's a chilly 51 in washington. that's the coolest it's been since last spring. it's just near 50 in prince george's county. in the 40s now in montgomery, arlington and fairfax counties, and many locations across virginia. only near 40 degrees and out in the mountains there's some scattered frost in some of the deeper valleys. highs today with sun. near 70 tomorrow with increasing clouds. might get a shower late saturday night, early sunday morning. highs saturday and sunday afternoons both days in the 70s. monday, sunny, highs again in the 70s. might get some showers on tuesday and wednesday as we get into the first full week of october. now the traffic. ashley linder, how's it looking at this hour? >> good morning. well, as we travel around hyattsville, we have a problem. queens chapel road headed northbound between queensbury road and 410,

of the moon's surface features. welcome back to 9 news. thanks for joining us this tuesday morning. angie is here. she has a smile onher face. trfic is looking good so far. howard is smiling, as well. the forecast is looking good. >> looking good this morning. >> it was forced? >> well. >> turn that frown upside down. >> we are in good shape this morning. it will be late tonight and early tomorrow we may have a shower but the real concern is temperatures especially at the bus stop. we will have the moms like me.com bus stop forecast coming up at 5:45. in frederick at the moment. so some areas are cold. they will need a jacket. but near patuxent river low to mid-50s. so we are wide range and in the mountains of west virginia and high country virginia had me frost advisories until 9:00 this morning. looking at the day at a glance, upper a 0s by 9:00 and a few more clouds for the drive home. we will top off at 70 degrees. right now 53. some places chillier than that. time for the traffic update. good morning, angie. >>

crater observer will smash into the moon in the area you see here. scientists will study the dust for signs of water. >>> it has taken scientists many years to solve the puzzle of some bones recovered in africa. what they've found raises new questions about where human beings come from. >>> an uj registered pooiting killed a girl earlier this year. now state officials are pushing to get exotic animals out of people's homes. florida state law requires people to have owners permits. this weekend, they extended an amnesty for turning over exotic breeds with no questions asked. they hope to turn it over to a local alligator theme park. >> when new legislation gets mentioned on tv people tend to misunderstand and starts to release animals. >> gatorland will probably pak take in many of the reptiles. licensed handlers will adopt the rest. >>> would you like to take a dinosaur home? an auction house put up a fossilized t. rex for sale in las vegas. it is one of the most complete t. rex skeletons ever found. the auction house is hoping to get $6 million for

our first business was a private mission to the moon to sell the movie rights and having to exit that business and wept through a number of others before we found and had developed enough expertise for practical robots to vacuum your floor and practical robots to go to iraq and afghanistan and help our soldiers. what we did was bring one of the business opportunities, created a little pnl around it. so we tracked carefully what money was coming in, what money was going out. what that led to was a company that could explore a lot of things. certainly as we had ever made an all or nothing bet in the first 15 years of existence, the company wouldn't exist today innovation can come from anywhere within the organization and the challenge for an organization to create hurdles high enough that you don't pursue everything but low enough that good ideas are not crushed. the irobot roomba was an employee idea. we were able to grow this idea from just i've got an idea to something which is a $150 million line of business for the company today. >> nbc universal and american express have joined to

step back to the moon today. going to have to wait. the space agency has scrubbed today's launch of the ares i rocket. today's test launch got within 2 1/2 minutes of liftoff before nasa shut it down. the space agency will try again tomorrow morning. >>> for months we've heard about the obama administration's goal for clean energy. today we're seeing major action on that front. poppy harlow joins us from new york with this. so what are the detail, poppy? >> reporter: big announcement just coming out of the white house today, nearly $3.5 billion investment through the stimulus package. the focus here upgrade our nation's ailing and old power grid. what we're going to see as a direct result of this multibillion-dollar investment is 18 million smart meters put in americans' homes over the next three years. they help you conserve energy, avoid blackouts. they can tell your power company, for example, if your power is out automatically. you don't have to call. this is a way of revamping, bringing our energy system int

the side of the moon. well, it was supposed to hit with such force that it would look like this. a massive explosion, kicking up a huge cloud of debris. well not so much. what happened, actually, looked more like this. at exactly 7:31 this morning, the very big blast was a very big dud. it was just a white flash. but this morning, the "today" show was able to dig up some top-secret intel about the blast and co-host al roker explains what really went down. >> that moon bombing thing. but good news. we just got in new video from nasa's mission to dive-bomb the moon. apparently, a little more spectacular than we first thought. take a look. >> calling bugs bunny. earth calling bugs bunny. are you there? have you prepared a statement for the press? >> yes, i have prepared a statement. get me out of here! >> so there you go. that's what happened. as we move on today. bad boy levi johnston plans to possibly take it all off for "playgirl." tonight, one of tv's hottest mamas is stripping for playboy magazine. marge

onto the dust of the moon, a levee in the heartland, the marble steps of a dream. you may ask yourself: "where is my moon, my levee, my dream?" well, it's here... with you. step forward. megy re is m >> there is much more to acorn than mights the eye it has a complex of networks that some say is complicated by design. >> how many affiliates about does acorn have? >> a certainly a huge number. more than hundred. so it is hard to tell the inventory. the operating cooperation that forethe family of organization is a dozen or less than 20. >> of those 12 main ones. >> we should have brought the accountant. >> i am trying to understand. >> trying to help. >> for starters rathke said main acorn nonprofit and not tax exempt and it is allowed to participate in partisan political activities. rathke said acorn gets its funds from hundreds of thousands of acorn member families that pay $120 in dues. acorn's many affiliates receive money from various sources. charitable donation and state and federal money and payments for companies they targeted with protest. public and inter

. >> then what would be like to walk on the moon and in weightlessness. from textbook to real-life experience -- >> the teachers are excited and they will get the students excited. that is what it is all about. >> one's back on earth, she was still crying. -- once back on earth, she was still crying. all's well that ends well. >> a zero gravity journey will take her to the classroom and beyond. >i cannot be more proud of my mother. she proved that science can be fun. >>> that is so cute. >> did you see all their faces? they are all jumping around. >> absolutely, i gave the palm spaceflight a long time ago what is going on in the clouds? >> there are low clouds out there. let's get down to it. temperatures today will generay be in the low 60's right now. in the outlying suburbs, there will be some 50's. there is reduced visibility out there. there is low-level moisture so we start off with that. we are expecting a couple of showers. there are couple on the radar this morning. in southern maryland, east of i- 95 that we have showers. the front has drifted s

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and what would be like to walk on the moon. and ultimately, weightlessness. from textbook to real-life experience, -- >> getting the students excited is what this is all about. >> she was still flying. >> it was wonderful. >> how are you? >> i feel great. all's well that ends well. >> everything you thought it would be? >> more than. >> she will take it to th classroom and beyond. >> i tell you i cannot be more proud of my mother. she had been trying to tell me that since she was a kid. that science is fun. >> a great story. for more information about the flight and how you and your group can take part, go to the web sites mentioned in the honor section of the duke -- wjla.com. >>> deputies are shaping up to trim their waistline and the department's health care budget. deputies are following in 90 day plan with the help of a fitness gym. the idea is, the better shape they are in, the better prepared they will be to meet the demands of their job as deputies. >> we run three different codes. i was out of breh. >> the healthier his employees are, the less likely

the moon is beautiful. nice crisp morning. >> very fall-like. temperatures in the 50s and in the 40s in parts of the viewing area. very cool start to the day. it will be a very nice day today as well. here we go. current temperatures around the region. 52degrees right now in washington. 48 in baltimore. 45 at dulles airport. frederick at 46 degrees and fredericksburg is at 47 degrees so a very cool start to the day. across the country, let me show you the temperatures. i want to show you this for a couple of reasons. first of all, much of this area here in the northeast up towards michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, there are freeze wantings and frost advisories in effect for much of this area for this morning because of the cold temperatures. check out detroit. 39degrees there right now as you go across country, there is warm air in the nation's midsection at 4:00 in the morning, it is 70 degrees in wichita. 76 at dallas -- in dallas and san francisco is at 57 degrees so cool out on the west coast. satellite-radar composite for the nation, look at. t

we still have the moon out. it is a nice morning, but on the chilly side. 48 at the airport, 58 at the inner harbor. 98% the humidity. the barometric pressure bumped up. we have a west wind at 5 miles an hour. that rain yesterday was so isolated around the area, that nothing was measured in the buckets, official buckets at b.w.i. on tv hill. the kind of unofficial buckets. 76 the high in both locations. morning lows were both in the evening right before midnight at 51 and 62 and the temperatures continue today drop to present readings we have now. easton 54. 55 annapolis. 48 at b.w.i. 45 at frederick. 51 at hagerstown. york standing at 50. and 45 at oakland. and cumberland. a few patches of fog west the bay. east of the bay, visibility down to a quarter mile or so. so a dense fog advisory in effect. east of the bay, cecil county down to the cape and virginia bay and that will be in effect until this stuff burns off until 10:00 in the morning or so. here's our satellite image. again, we don't see anything. the sa

day back to the moon. >>> president obama signed a groundbreaking law that expands hate crime protections to gays and lesbians. it is now a federal crime to assault someone based on sexual orientation or gender identity. >> we must stand against crimes that are meant not only to break bones but to break spirits. not only to inflict harm but to instill fear. we understand that the rights afforded every citizen under our constitution mean nothing if we do not protect those rights both from unjust laws and violent acts. >> the law is named for matthew shepard, a gay wyoming teenager who was murdered in 1998 and james byrd jr. an african-american man dragged to death in texas the same year. >>> people who deliberately expose themselves to the h1n1 virus at so-called swine flu parties could be gambling with their lives. the cdc posted that warning on its website. now the idea is that people infect each other now so that they have immunity later on when a stronger strain might appear. but health officials warn there's no way to know how sick you're going to get trying to do this. >> you can't c

if it passes the senate, federal agents can pursue cases of gay bashing. >>> and you can watch the moon get a new crater friday morning. nasa is crashing an empty rocket to kick up lunar ice. at 7:30 a.m. eastern, another satellite will send back live color pictures. within an hour, scientists will know if there's water. that's pretty cool. thanks for watching. keep it here. i'm richelle carey.

nasa hopes to use the ares for future missions to the moon or mars. >>> the pilots who overshot the minneapolis airport, you remember hearing about this -- they have had their licenseses now revoked. in a harsh letter, the faa said that captain timothy cheney and first officer richard cole endangered the public while they were on a personal frolic in the cockpit. the pilots said they lost track of time while working on their laptop computers. the decision is effective immediately but the pie hots have ten days to appeal. >>> a car bomb exploded in a crowded market today killing at least 90 people, many believed to be women. the attack happened about 100 miles from where secretary of state hilly clinton is meeting with leaders in pakistan's capital. she said those responsible are on the losing side of history. >> these attacks on innocent people are cowardly. they are not courageous. they are cowardly. >> secretary clinton is in pakistan to show u.s. support for the country's bloody battle against taliban insurgents. >>> tennis legend andre agassi made a stunning confession that he once did crys

beautiful full moon this weekend. absolutely gor yous. let's take a look at the day part. we've got just a few clouds in the area through the morning. it's going to be totally sunny in the afternoon and in the evening very, very mrebt. 67 at lunch on the way to a high temp right around 70, 71 degrees. take it away. >> if you're about to move around this planet here's sharon. >> if you're about to move around the beltway we have problems on the top and the west sides. on the west side we have the usual delays. on the topside though we have an accident. our first one on the beltway of the morning. i's on the inner loop on the ramp to the inner loop of the beltway. you can see speeds in that area, all are running smoothly. still blocking the left lane and fire activity continues on parkville at east joppa road. as far as delays go, you can see we have them now on the west side of the beltway. speeds on the topside looking good but speeds at 43 miles per hour as an average between 795 and 95. there's a live look at 695 at 295. no delays there just yet. everything running smoot

the point was to see if there was water frozen in the moon dust. scientists are still analyzing the data which they say is very high quality. the impact made a new 60-foot wide crater on the moon. >>> the colorado couple that called 911 to report their child had soared away in their makeshift balloon could be soaring away to jail. what charges they're likely to face now that authorities have determined it was all a hoax. >>> satellites have given us a bird's eye view of possible signs of global warning. vanessa wants th-- nasa wants -- heene home twice. reverend al sharpton says he'll sue rush limbaugh if the conservative radio host does not apologize to him. limbaugh says sharpton played a role in two new york race riots. he made the claim in a "wall street journal" op-ed piece. sharpton was not involved in the incidents limbaugh referenced. sharpton says both allegations are false and limbaugh is out of bounds accusing him of criminal activity. limbaugh has not commented on the threatened lawsuit. >>> blog world is taking place in las vegas this

you zeal see -- you'll see the moon and the stars and you'll see the clouds. we're seeing the improvement. the temperature right now atbwi at 63 and we were at 100% half an hour ago. the winds are calm and the barometer is steady and across the region, 45 in oakland and 54 in cumberland and 59 in washington county and 2345eu7 ocean city and 62 in elkton. there and 66 on rock hall. and 67 in annapolis and there are showers from annapolis from the 495 around d.c. and the suburbs there. the winds are calm and there's fog with all of the moisture there and the air is saturated and things are calm and still. and we were watching the remnants moving out of here. for the most part, the last bit of shower activity has pushed on through and accept for annapolis and down the 50 corridor and towards d.c.. the milder air is push anything and the dry air is making a push in and the high pressure is settling into the area. the high pressure will be in control for the next few days and wednesday, we'll see another chance of rain. until then, mild conditions in place and we'r

we have the mean bean and the blew cafe and. >> we will get your names. >> yvonne. >> sarah, bloop moon cafe. >> rose and, the village square cafe. >> it is low calorie treats. >> absolutely. >> and i am trying to figure out where the camera is. >> the mean bean is close. and tell us what you brought and what it is. and why it ranked number 1. >> absolutely. >> we brought the polish cowboy which is a traditional staple hearty dish. >> and it is back. >> and but, it has butter nut pancakes. polish fruit. and we brought this along with us. >> see, i las vegas this dish because you are not sure. do i want the sweet or the savory and it is there on one plate. >> what were the key things you were looking at that ranked the restaurants. >> baltimore is becoming a breakfast town. so many great restaurants doing breakfast. >> great food and atmosphere and all these restaurants qualify. >> what is that one. >> captain crunch encrusted french toast. >> bananas. and blueberries. and green apple. >> and homemade cinnamon roll. >> captain crunch. >> that is an evil genius. >> that sounds a little in