from cnn center this is cnn saturday morning. saturday, may 19th. good morning, everyone. i m randi k yi kaye. the clind activist that broke free from china is on a flight to the u.s. president obama hosting world leaders at his retreat in maryland at this hour. the first commercial mission to the international space station is a dud. debt, defense, and diplomacy the theme at the high-stakes g8 summit. president obama welcomed world leaders a short time ago, laying out the ground work they hope to cover. this morning we ll be spending a lot of time on economic issues, obviously the eurozone will be one topic. and all of us are absolutely committed to making sure that both growth and stability and fiscal consolidation are part of a overall package that all of us have to pursue. cnn white house correspondent brianna keilar following the developments near camp david. brianna, good morning to you. tell us the latest from there? they have gotten under way with the w
there in florida? yep. i m here in florida, yep. this is your beat for many, many years as you watch this, as you re kind of going over in your head how many times you have you have interviewed the crews, when s going through your mind? what are you thinking about as we start to watch the craft land? you know, i think like so many people here think and of course, you know, my opinion is certainly somewhat skewed that, you know, it had a lot of flights left in them. all of the vehicles could have flown more except for planning that didn t go perhaps the way it should have. you know, nasa deciding to go away from the space shuttles and go to the constellation program and then killed by the curre administration and now a gap and shuttle could be flying if it wasn t for some political decisions made that a lot of people probably wish and i know they wish could be taken back today. that s the sad point. a lot of people out of work and a lot of people are even at this very ha
morning calling it trickle down taxation. pricey light. the new light bulb to replace regular hits stores this sunday, earth day. this thing lasts for 20 years. it costs as much as 60 bucks. new home. shuttle discovery hitching a ride heading up the east coast from florida to virginia. amazing new pictures this hour. an eye popping eruption you have got to see. newsroom begins right now. taxpayer outrage this morning is growing over the millions of dollars seemingly squandered by unanimous bureaucrats. right now the second hearing in two days. they are facing questions about their lavish convention in las vegas. a rewards program that gave employees ipods and gift cards worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. and a hawaii trip for some spending up to a week there for a ribbon cutting that lasted a mere hour. senior congressional correspondent dana bash is on capitol hill. yesterday we saw some pretty outraged lawmakers and apologetic witnesses. anything new coming
risks becoming mundane. a murder that doesn t even make headlines anymore. that should not be. so tonight we re leading off this broadcast with video of the death of this little boy. now some of you will say we should not show you this video. i understand that. it is sickening. it is hard to watch. it is horrific. but we believe what is even more horrific is dying in silence. murder that is then covered up by lies. lies from a dictator who says it isn t happening, a dictator who says we re not pulling the trigger on sniper rifle that s kill children. we re not shooting on funerals. he says it s not happening and yet every day in hundreds of homemade videos we see it happening. you will see it happening tonight. the little boy s only crime it seems was being at home in syria in the middle of a war being waged by a brutal dictator against his own people. a dictator who in the face of evidence that grows daily continues to die ni everything. we don t feel our people are being
here s some video, by the way, of actually what it looked like when it disengaged. the last time they tried the the falcon rocket, the last time it flew again for exactly nine minutes, and then it failed again and fell into the ocean, and the air force has released a statement saying, and i m quoting here, we do not yet know how to achieve the desired control during the aerodynamic phase of the flight which is short for we can t control this thing. i m confident there is a solution, we have to find it. this, by the way, is the x-5 wave rider they tested about three months ago. this thing flies at mach 5, and it flew like a dream. they re just having trouble controlling things that fly over mach 5. the last test of the falcon was yesterday because they simply do not have enough money to test it again unless the government ponies up more dough, and as we ve been talking about for weeks now, the government doesn t have more dough to pony