word their husbands are coming home from iraq. how one army base is handling the news they have waited so long to hear. at this moment, somewhere overhead, an old broken satellite is plummeting to earth. no one s quite sure exactly where it will land. it s not the first time we faced a threat from space. experts say it won t be the last. earlier i spoke with the managing editor at space.com. he explained why we re likely to face this threat more often. this isn t the last one that s going to be coming down in a couple years in 2013, a u.s./japanese satellite will fall out of space. we just saw a huge nasa satellite fall last month. these are old. this one coming down tonight 21 years old. similar ages for the other ones. there s a lot of stuff, thousands of pieces of space, hundreds of dead satellites over the years that are going to have to be dealt with one way or another. when it comes back into the atmosphere, how big are the pieces expected to be, and do any of the
coming home from iraq. we ll show you how one army base is handling the news they have waited so long to hear. at this moment, somewhere overhead, an old broken satellite is plummeting to earth. no one s quite sure exactly where it will land. it s not the first time we faced a threat from space. experts say it won t be the last. earlier i spoke with tariq malec, managing editor at space.com. he explained why we re likely to face this threat more often. this isn t the last one that s going to be coming down. in a couple years, in 2013, a u.s./japanese satellite will fall out of space. and we just saw a huge nasa satellite fall last month. these are old. this one coming down tonight, 21 years old. similar ages for the other ones that are coming down now. there s a lot of stuff, thousands of pieces of space, hundreds of dead satellites over the years that are going to have to be dealt with one way or another. now, when it comes back into the atmosphere, how big are the pie
cain on the hot button issue of abortion. and later, happy wives get the word their husbands are coming home from iraq. how one army base is handling the news they have waited so long to hear. at this moment, somewhere overhead, an old broken satellite is plummeting to earth. no one s quite sure exactly where it will land. it s not the first time we faced a threat from space. experts say it won t be the last. earlier i spoke with the managing editor at space.com. he explained why we re likely to face this threat more often. this isn t the last one that s going to be coming down in a couple years in 2013, a u.s./japanese satellite will fall out of space. we just saw a huge nasa satellite fall last month. these are old. this one coming down tonight 21 years old. similar ages for the other ones. there s a lot of stuff, thousands of pieces of space, hundreds of dead satellites over the years that are going to have to be dealt with one way or another. when it comes back into
joins us live. how are families planning to celebrate these soldiers when they come home? reporter: well, you know, i ve been to a lot of mill bases and seen a lot of very tearful departures as the troops have gone off. perhaps the most joyful words you could ever hear on a military base is they re coming home. that s exactly what they ve heard here at ft. bliss. rumors have been circulating here for some time. not long after the troops here deployed which would have been back in july and august. all that was made official yesterday when w the announcement of president obama. that means the 3,500 or so troops that are in iraq for the first armor division will all be coming home as of december 31st. i was talking with denise young. she got the news with other spouses. and even though it s her husband s second deployment, she said that this goodbye was actually harder than the first. listen to what she had to say. it s always a worry. any time he s gone, whether it is at a
trick. how do you get the ball moving? if we want to continue to punt, he punted, but a is not really what is happening. guest: there are closed doors things going on and deadlines ahead. they need a continuing resolution to fund the country. they have to do something about the debt ceiling in may. those discussions will prompt some budget cutting and opening salvos in the battle over this. shepard: it will be fascinating who has the courage, which politician, to step up and say what everyone nose knows, we are going down the drain $13.7 trillion. reporter: the courage will be found in the group, they will have discussions and say, this is what we as a whole decided. and we are all going do taking the political hit.