your wake-up music this morning was coming home sung by gwyneth paltrow, for the entire crew and was picked by your isis control team. one bedroom in a high-rise a pretty good gig, gwyneth paltrow has her time to sing and gets up into space. the shuttle comes home for one last time before decommissioning. join us live for our coverage of the discovery s historic homecoming. touchdown is set for just before noon eastern. if they can t do it then, the second availability to land is just after 1:30 eastern. either way, we ll be covering it, so you ll want to be with us. tornado warnings and watches in the deep south. meteorologist rob marciano is tracking all these developments. how have things changed since we saw you last? everything is moving east and to the populated areas. tornado watch for much of the florida panhandle until noontime, and another one that includes tallahassee and parts
motion sickness. you have to be careful and move steadily and slowly to keep your wits about you. clay, we re told two minutes to landing there. can you gives us a sense of what s the most critical aspect of this to have a successful landing. steve s going to guide the orbiter by flying it through the stick but eric bow has to bring down the landing gear for steve. we assume that the landing gear will koom down normally, but the crew is ready to follow the steps that they would need to do to bring it down in an alternate fashion if they needed to. but i think it will be just fine. we ll listen in to hear nasa to find out what they re saying about this landing as we watch. speed 370 miles an hour. this is space shuttle discovery s final minutes of flight.
they are going to have another weather briefing in 45 minutes to figure this all out and make sure the winds are within the limits, but it looks real good right now. right now, as we re watching the clock 9:25, discovery is entering its last-ever orbit of the earth. this is the final time it will go around the earth before they start that deorbit burn. it s a real, real difficult time here for the people at the kennedy space center saying good-bye to these vehicles. we talked just the other day to stephanie stillson. she is discovery s flow director which means for the past decade, her responsibility has been to get shuttle as ready for every one of their launches, discovery s in particular. she says this is a particularly tough time for her. the absolute hardest part, i think you get the same answer no matter who you asked, is the fact that that that we re having to lose people. people are leaving, people are being laid off. you re coming to the end of a
arizona cuts state medicaid funds for transplant recipients. just as one man who has waited patiently for a new liver becomes third in line to get one. wisconsin s governor, scott walker, is taking a lot of heat over a bill that would end most collective bargaining rights for public worker unions. well, a couple of guys have the same name are feeling the heat, too. third, ever wonder what to do with all those leftover mardi gras beads besides hang them from your rear view mirror? vote by texting, vote one for arizona transplant crisis, two for being scott walker, or three for mardi gras bead art. the story will air in the next hour. well, we re continuing the countdown to shuttle discovery s final touchdown. you re looking there at live pictures from kennedy space center in florida. discovery is set to land in less than half an hour.
there at ras lanuf, and we ll be paying close attention to how it plays out. thank you, ben. we re counting down to space shuttle discovery s return. the maiden voyage was august 30th, 1984. here s a question for you. besides the crew, what was discovery carrying during that mission? decisions, decisions. which beneful prepared meal tonight? roasted chicken recipe? - savory rice and lamb stew. - [ barks ] you re right. tonight is a beef stew kind of night. [ announcer ] beneful prepared meals. another healthful, flavorful beneful. the one time of year red lobster creates so many irresistible ways to treat yourself to lobster. like our new lobster-and-shrimp trio with a parmesan lobster bake, our decadent lobster lover s dream with both sweet maine and buttery rock lobster tails and eleven more choices,