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from kennedy space center. we re having fun with your name, bobby braun, like bobby brown in the newsroom. there you go. i m told you know everything about this. you heard what our chad myers is saying, they re not sure because how are they going to get back up in space if they need to at the moment, they have nothing else ready. is that so? this is actually not the last flight of the shuttle. it s the last flight of atlantis. there are two flights planned after this. there are two flights planned in the fall after atlantis. yeah. so we ve gotten that much straight. so, listen, even though this is the last one, you said, for atlantis and the two flights in the fall, is it onward to bigger and better things when it s comes to space exploration, that s a little bit more targeted and that goes a little bit further than the space station? we go a little bit further out into space? well, that s the plan. so the goal of our space program has always been and is still to
that s okay. i did have a gust last hour in melbourne out of the east. and that was 18. that s kind of right at the threshold. but it was just one gust. so we ll have to see. soot thing that i kind of wanted to take your attention to here is the potential for severe weather. this is trenton. this is ft. campbell, kentucky. ft. campbell had two-inch hail an hour ago. two inches. from trenton up toward elkton. this is still rotating and still a rotating on it. if you are in kentucky, tennessee, you have storms coming near you, they could be strong. back to you, don. all right, chad myers. thank you very much. we appreciate it. we re going to keep talking about what is going on with this space shuttle because this is a big deal. the atlantis final, finally scheduled to come out. supposed to be the atlantis last one and the end of the space shuttle mention. i m going to bring in bobby braun, nasa s chief technology technology gist, i should say,
far away. they re pretty hard to get to. i got to tell you it s going to be interesting to see what s next, high tech when it came to the shuttle. and they re about to go away and into a museum. so thank you so much. we appreciate you joining us. it s going to be great to see that. bobby braun with nasa there. it s going to be great to see. you re going to see it live right here on cnn. scheduled to launch 2:20 p.m. eastern time. we re going to have it for you. bobby, good to see you. talk to you in a little bit. also, we re going to have this for you. he was an american kid who spent his childhood on long island but his path twisted along the way and led him right to al qaeda. why did he embrace one of h country s greatest enemies? we ll talk about that. of premi. know it all shared it with single and loving it! who made a cup the next morning for ladies man as he was rushing out the back door. he shared it with blondes have more fun and fiery redhead, who, after finding
reports over the last few days on how big it is. but since no one can get down there in person, we know there s a level of uncertainty. that big dome, the top hat, then there s the jump shot, we keep hearing all of these contraptions, all of these concepts a that bp is using to supposedly stop that leak, none of them have worked so far. so here s the million dollar question. what is really going to stop this thing? we turn now to cnn s david mattingly from new orleans. what is bp doing right now, david, to stop this. we ve heard about all of these terms. we just want to know the truth. what s being done to stop it? here s a new term for you, insertion tube. that s what bp is going with right now trying to insert a tube inside that leak. that s what they decided to go with first. they re going to try to see if that tube will work, if they can seal that pipe off that way and then siphon all of this leaking oil up to the surface to a containment vessel. if that doesn t work,