tell supporters he does not support amnesty, did he have his biggest crowd of the campaign yesterday in florida. 750 strong and pollsters say while most people consider romney the front runner, gingrich could be the one to knock him out of first place. romney does have a number of liabilities as a candidate. so while he s probably more electable now, it isn t clear to me that that s necessarily going to be the case for the long haul. the former speaker and current threat to mitt romney, newt gingrich, is going to spend the first half of this week in south carolina. arthel? arthel: peter doocy, thanks. rick: nasa s largest mars rover ever blasting off to the red planet. zero and lift off of the atlas 5 with curiousity seeking clues to the planetary puzzle of life on mars. rick: it s headed on an 8 1/2
ate his owner s inheritance check. oh, my goodness. the bank now reissuing those checks. we re waiting to get the remnants if you know what i m saying. our next guest loves playing hockey on and off the ice but recently, 14-year-old lexi peters was playing an nhl video game when she wondered why there were no players that looked like her. but her curiousity didn t end there. that s when lexi decided to write a letter to the video game company asked why there were no female characters but now there are. after receiving the letter. e. a. sports reversed course and added a character using lexi s likeness. joining us now, the new star of the game, lexi peters. good morning to you. hey, lexi! good morning. oh, my gosh. are you sick? you don t look too excited to be up bright and early. yeah. i m fine. i just had a cough. ok. all right. you took it upon yourself to write a letter because you were playing this game and you re
martian surface since 83. they were only engineered to last 90 days. but fast forward seven years later, and opportunity is still moving around up there, making new discoveries all the time. the existing vehicles are small and have limited technology, which is why this new upgrade is so exciting for the nasa scientists. this project, by the way, is two years behind schedule. only adding to the urgency of getting curiousity out of the laboratory and into outer space. pretty cool. rick: very cool. good stuff. thanks so much. arthel: i agree. pretty cool. it s that time of year, folks. a road trip to campuses all across america. people getting ready to take their kids to college. but here is the question: how should you pack the car to avoid those last-minute headaches? you want to keep your family safe. consumer reports fills us in next.
thanksgiving day. but it will take about eight months before it even reaches mars, even traveling speeds of more than 12,000 miles per hour. that is fast. take a look at this thing. pretty spectacular. the rover built here in california at the nasa jet propulsion lab. it weighs about a ton and is the size of a car with a price tag of nearly $2 billion. curiousity will roam the mashes surface, collecting rock and surface samples and scientists on the ground with capabilities they ve never quite had before. this rover has got 17 cameras on it, so y all are going to see lots of cool pictures coming down from the surface of mars. these are full colored cameras. h.d. resolution, focusable lenses. of course, the whole goal of this nasa mission on mars, to rye and unravel the planet s history and see if life could have once existed there. by the way, there are two other nasa rovers hard at work on the
come at some of our challenges and our problems from a real different, different perspectives and i thought this is a way to started our meetings kind of unifying ourselves and saying hey, we re all on the same team. right. on your team, the mayor was not a big fan of this. she one of the things she said is if there s one thing the flag stands for, it s that people don t have be compelled to say the pledge of allegiance or anything else. let me ask you this, mike. do kids in eugene, oregon, start the day at school saying the pledge of allegiance? once every monday. that s correct. that s it? yeah. every monday. once a week. all right. because in my kids school, they do it every day out of curiousity. well, i did that, too, when i was a kid. like i say, eugene is a community where we value lots of different points of view and i understand the mayor s point of view. i don t often agree with our mayor but i got to tell you, from my perspective this isn t should be a tes