we have live pictures. expected to touch down in about an hour. nasa saying the weather looks great and everything is a go. discovery s first mission was back in 1984. now to that canine miracle out of tacoma, washington. tiffany and her dog sugar were at a training class when sugar had a seizure. the trainer sprang into action, started giving cpr without any formal training and eventually sugar started breathing again. i was absolutely certain that i was losing my dog. it may not have been the correct way to do it and the way maybe they teach. but the outcome is what it is the outcome and it worked. the veterinarian said sugar is fine but likely has a heart condition and needs to take it easy but good ending to that. we all want to believe our kids or our kids are the future michael jordan s or peyton mannings of the world. what if i told you there s a test that can determine that issue while they re still young in?
spring cleaning in outer space. the crew of the space station discovery docked saturday to perform maintenance and repairs. the big tasks include adding a new room, a robot and some spare parts. this is discovery s final voyage. when it returns to earth on witness, it will be retired and displayed in a museum. whether it s polling or the jobless rate, politics often comes down to a game of numbers. this week, we saw a little identity both with voters sizing up the president s economic leadership as unemployment dropped to its lowest level in years. jonathan is an msnbc political analyst and national affairs columnist, as well. let s get to the latest nbc news/ wall street journal poll that shows people are feeling pessimistic about the future of the economy.
this is the victim, agent high may zapata. investigators say members of a drug cartel shot and killed him in an ambush that also wounded another agent. sources tell fox news that the owner of the gun used in the shooting is a u.s. citizen and that he is suspected of being part of a crime group that helps the cartels by illegally selling them guns. a computer glitch during the first spacewalk of shuttle discovery s final space mission or scheduled space mission. details ahead. reports of multiple tornadoes touching down in two states as severe storms move across the united states. we re live with the extreme weather center coming up. and that s all you really need.
their jobs. looks like the budget battle in d.c. is not going to lead to a government shutdown for now. party leaders are considering a two-week continuing resolution that would include $4 billion in cuts. the republican-led house already passed a spending measure that cut $61 billion from current levels for the rest of the fiscal year. senate democrats consider those too severe and won t pass them. the continuing resolution will keep the country running for another two weeks. the last known american living veteran of world war i died this morning. frank woodward buckles. he rose through the ranks through corporal status. he died of natural causes at his home in west virginia. discovery s astronauts are preparing for their first space stroll. it is the first of two walks
as day laborers. cnn also has obtained new video of moammar gadhafi s son saif addressing cheering loyalists telling them not to defect. no one was dragged out of the wisconsin state capital building. police ordered protesters to leave so the building could be cleaned but many refused and police allowed anyone who is already in the building to stay the night as workers clean around them. nobody else is allowed in until the building re-opens at 8 a.m. central time monday. the astronauts aboard space shuttle discovery are prepping for the first space walk monday on the 11-day mission. discovery docked with the international space station saturday. it s delivering a storage module, a science rig and some spare parts. this is discovery s 39th and final flight. the last of the doughboys is gone, frank buckles, age 110 died early sunday morning in his home in west virginia. buckles enlisted in the army in 1917 when he was only 16 by telling the recruiter he was 21.