children at a day care in illinois. the latest to be potentially exposed. we will get answers from dr. david agus. truth or consequences. a jury tells alex jones there is a price to pay for his sandy hook lies. and later, wrestling with diversity. a chicago program beating the streets by creating champions on the mat. i m making a difference because i made some impact on them. that makes it worth it. this is the cbs weekend news. good evening. adriana diaz is off. i m mark strassmann. tonight in washington the senate s working in a rare weekend session and has started to vote on a sfraulg climate and health care bill. it s a scaled down version of the democrat s build back better bill. passing it would continue a week of wins president biden has desperately needed. red hot jobs numbers, cooling grand prixs, kansas voting down abortion rights restrictions. natalie brand at the white house where there is also good news about the president s health. reporter: mark,
Space museum and a member of curiosity s science team. as a recover it went to mars with the lab equipment, with the cameras, with its instruments and really started probing into whether there were habitable are environments in the past on mars. and low and behole, we discovered fairly early on that in fact there were. lift-off of the atlas 5 with curiosity. reporter: curiosity was launched in space from cape c canaveral november 26, 2011. eight months, ten days and 100 million miles later it arrived. and three weeks later curiosity was sending back stunning images from the planet s surface. but it was also on the move. its seven-foot robot is designed to scoop up soil samples and drill into rocks, looking for the chemical building blocks of life. curiosity landing in the crater has found evidence of a
Shovels to clear the streets of three feet of snow. some are upset that secondary roads weren t plowed. the heavy snow fall overwhelmed the work crews. and now here s your first look at this morning s dish of scrambled politics. a new tv ad on gun control features gabrielle giffords, the first ad from her new gun control super pack. take it from me, congress must act. let s get this done. other guests of michelle obama tonight s state of the union include 6-year-old star of the beast of the southern wild and nasa mohawk guy will be a guest for the first lady. he ll get a lot of attention for working on the curiosity landing on mars. he ll there be to highlight the president s call for more vees
Bill: curiosity landing on mars. they are looking for signs that mars supported life. patti ann: governor romney taking the stage in des moines, iowa, speaking to supporters as we get details on a vp short list. bill: in 1980 ronald ray began asked americans if they were better off than they were four years ago. it became a key phrase in his campaign. we ll talk to one of the brightest political minds you will find today. ed rollins on deck next in america s news hour. mom: ready to go to work?
landings in history. but for now, all eyes on this. the very first video of the curiosity landing, released today. the grainy video was shot onboard moments before touching down. john zarrella and chad myers join me now for more. so, john, let s start with you. you have been following the story very closely and are live at nasa s jetropulsion laboratory in california. tell us about this new veo and what exactly are we seeing? reporter: well, in fact, zoraida, what we re seeing in this video are images taking from the descent camera, made by space industries down in san diego. and the video shows the curiosity rover as it is descending down through the atmosphere to the touchdown on mars. it was 297 images all put together into one continuous short video. and then there was the haz cam image. they finally did get a higher resolution picture which shows mt. sharp in the distance. and that mt. sharp is, of course, critical what they are hoping to do is get over to mt. sharp ev