what about the far flung hard to reach places? travelers heads out to remote locations can borrow one of google s trekker devices, a backpack equipped with a camera to capture a 360 degree view of the surroundings. those will help the rest of us get an up-close look at a volcano, cave or rainforest. on the downside, they will look only slightly cooler than al franken and his one-man satellite uplink. the third awesomest thing on the internet today, a reminder no matter how great your weekend was, no more amazing than jennifer lopez. there were backup dancers and costume changers on the stage. lopez traveled all the way to the country of turkmenistan to sing happy birthday to its president gurbanguly berdymukhamedov. the guy likes jennifer lopez and presides over the most impressive government in the world.
time. what about the far flung hard to reach places? travelers heads out to remote locations can borrow one of google s trekker devices, a backpack equipped with a camera to capture a 360 degree view of the surroundings. those will help the rest of us get an upclose look at a volcano, cave or rainforest. on the downside, they will look only slightly cooler than al franken and his one-man satellite uplink. the third awesomest thing on the internet today, a reminder no matter how great your weekend was, no more amazing than jennifer lopez. there were backup dancers and costume changers on the stage. lopez traveled all the way to the country of turkmenistan to sing happy birthday to its president gurbanguly. the guy likes jennifer lopez and presides over the most impressive government in the
that is what is going on up in space as the mars rover curiosity as nasa scientists are basically doing a brain transplant. a software upgrade that started over the weekend t should wrap up later on today. as you said, no problem. this is what they plan to do all along. we should find out more during a nasa briefing set to take place within the hour. the agency will give a status update on the curiosity s mission so far which started august the fifth when it landed. the rover is able to send back pretty cool pictures even during the upgrade. look at this 360 degree view of the red planet. this is interactive. if you go online and find this at nasa s website and you decide whether you look left or right or up and down. you can zoom in and out. it is very, very cool. curiosity, the most significant, most expensive attempt to learn more about mars and the potential of life there. the mission s price tag about, $2.5 billion. a lot at stake. people want to see return on
totalaryn regime and all orders come from president assad. translator: in 2003 after the american invasion of iraq and the toppling of the regime the syrian regime felt threatened so they coordinate would al qaeda and had an agreement to keep the road open to iraq so militants started coming all over the world through syrian. al qaeda was an ally of assad after 2003 and built safe havens for al qaeda to hide in. i remember one of those safe havens. the americans raided it in 2008 and captured prisoners. this was a hiding place for al qaeda on the border with iraq. it was under the control of a brother-in-law of the president. who is making the decisions in damascus right now? who is directing the syrian government policy facing this uprising translator: the regime in syria is a totaltar yn regime and a dictatorship. there is only one person who gives the orders, one person who is the president. the rest of the regime personnel are people who only obey. does the syrian
degree view of the city. in houston you can sit back and relax at the wine brother inside george bush intercontinental airport. getting thirsty. this might be the best video you have seen all day. those are firefighters. they are really battling a real fire. a car fire in drag. they were on their way to a charity event where each year they trade in their firefighting frok for designer dresses. on the way there they got the call. they hiked up their skirts and went to work. thanks to their quick action no one was hurt in the fire. those are your five headlines at 5:30. always on the job we need them in the skirts on these stools. that s what we need. so maria we have an ex trem weather alert with potential flooding in some parts of the country to talk about. what s the latest on that? unfortunately we have a severe weather threat with the slow moving storms.