thousands of refugees are fleeing libya into tunisia. the united nations estimates 100,000 refugees have left the country where they ve worked as day laborers and migrant workers. cnn has obtained new video of moammar gadhafi s son saif addressing loyalists telling them not to defect, more help and weapons are on the way. no one was dragged out of the wisconsin state capitol building sunday. police had ordered protesters to leave so the building could be cleaned but many refused and police allowed anyone who was already in the building to stay the night as workers clean around them. nobody else is allow in until the building re-opens 8:00 a.m. monday. the astronauts are prepping for the space walk on the 11-day mission. it docked with the international space station saturday delivering a storage module and some spare parts. this is discovery s 39th and final flight. the last of the dough boys is gone. frank buckles, age 110 died
abandoned mill. you can see massive plumes of thick gray smoke. area is being evacuated because chemicals were still inside. and a woman in miami is recovering today after a run-in in purse-snatchers that could have turned deadly. they nearly, watch this with me, look at this, nearly running her over. here s the story. thieves steal the lady s purse from her car and she confronts them, obviously brazen. jumps in front of their car as she takes off. fortunately she is able to call for help after falling to the ground, and now to somewhere a little bit far away. well, maybe not necessarily that picture, but farther up in space. a couple of shuttle astronauts, here we go, live pictures. international space station, astronauts just taking a walk outside the iss. they are getting a couple of things done. the biggie is installing a power extension cable and moving a failed ammonia pump. this is discovery s 39th and final mission.
shuttle discovery are prepping for the 11-day mission. i docked saturday and is delivering a storage module, science rig and spare parts. this is discovery s 39th and final flight. check out this video released by d.c. s metro transit system. people were trying to catch trains right up to the jon stewart steven colbert rally at the national mall last october. all of a sudden, they started tumbling down the escalator, one person seriously hurt. transit officials say the escalator s braking system failed. baseball mourning the passing of hall of famer duke snider. he died in escondido, california. he won the world series in 1955 and 1959. he was elected to the baseball hall of fame in 1980. back to wisconsin, police are allowing protesters to break
was held today to mark the one-year anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake that killed 521 people. chile s president told mourners he remembered the disaster as if it had happened just moments earlier. but he also said chile is moving forward and that nearly half of the hundreds of thousands of destroyed homes, schools and hospitals have now been rebuilt. the astronauts aboard the space shuttle discovery are prepping for the mission s first spacewalk tomorrow. discovery docked at the international space station saturday. it is deliver a storage module, science rig and some spare parts. this is discovery s 39th and final flight. baseball fans are mourning the passing of hall of fame outfielder duke snyder. the former los angeles and brooklyn dodgers star died this morning in es can dedoe, california. he was 84. snider was a feared hitter on dodgers teams that won the world series in 1955 and 1959. he was elected to the baseball hall of fame in 1980. much, much more on t
robot or r2d2 after star wars fame. so far, you know, everything is looking good for him. he is going to spend a couple of years learning how to work on the space station before they bring up others. but his job will be to do those mundane jobs that humans don t like to do. and he ll also do the hazardous jobs, too. but they re expecting a lot out of him, and i see now that you re showing a shot of somebody took from an airliner there of the shuttle going up the other day. as you mentioned, it is discovery s last flight. it will be landing back here at 12:47 p.m. on the 7th of march. that s monday week. and then it will go probably to the smithsonian, lynn. smithsonian gets it first. did you ever think you would be covering a humanoid robot in all the years you ve been covering the launches? there s a first for everything, right, jay? i tell you, if you think back what we were doing, and i know