43 passengers kept on board a plane for more than three hours. the cause, a bug bite. newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m carol costello. you are bere its final flight. the granddaddy of a program. it was the next wave of a space race that had americans holding their breath. a craft so futuristic and exciting president ford told nasa to name it after captain kirk s ship from the legendary show star trek. space, the final frontier. these are the voyages of the starship enterprise. its five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life. we did go where no man had gone before and today we take you to washington where just minutes from now the enterprise will take off for new york city. let s start in miami. john zarrella kicks off our coverage. i m ready for some spectacular pictures. no question about it. this ought to be sensational. it was supposed to be named the constitution but with the power of the trekies they got the
though, new terror concerns as we approach the first anniversary of the daring raid that led to the death of osama bin laden. there is no credible information suggesting al qaeda or its allies are planning attacks tied to the anniversary. but the concerns are real enough that president obama reviewed the threat picture just this morning with this top national security advisers. our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is here with the details. what is the biggest threat intel officials are most worried about. they are very concerned right now about a renewed effort to target western aviation. in fact, the fbi, homeland security, and the u.s. military s northern command sent this memo out to law enforcement agencies across the country. basically alerting them to the possibility of this threat. specifically, they think the biggest threat is coming from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. that is the most active al qaeda group. it s also the group that has tried to attack to u
captions by vitac www.vitac.com the secret service prostitution scandal that exploded in colombia may be just the tip of the iceberg. allegations have now surfaced of similar misconduct involving heavy drinking, a strip club, escorts on a previous presidential trip, this one to el salvador. reporter chris holmsby broke the story and he joins me now. chris, what happened in el salvador just prior to president obama s trip there in march of last year? reporter: we just flew to el salvador this last weekend to try to verify some of the information that we actually received some time ago. we talked to a government subcontractor who worked directly with president obama s advanced security team within the secret service and with military attaches, experts and k-9, bomb-sniffing snipers and this particular sub-contractor tells us that he went with what they call a van load of secret service agents to a local strip club and there he says he witnessed heavy drinking most of th
top of the hour. want to get you up to seed. newt gingrich gets ready to pull the plug on his presidential campaign. sources telling cnn gingrich is going to officially end his run for the white house next week, throw his support behind mitt romney. gingrich expected to help republicans try to win back the senate and hold onto the house. here is what he said earlier today. we re going to stay very, very active. we re working out the details of our transition and we ll have information for the press the next couple days, but i am committed to this party, i am committed to defeating obama. we will find ways to try to be helpful. i do think it s pretty clear that governor romney is only going to be the nominee and we ll do everything we can to make sure he is, in fact, effective. a major retailer in south korea is pulling u.s. beef from its shelves. the store is stopping sales after a single case of mad cow disease was confirmed in california. the u.s. agriculture department
it is deadly. the u.s. agriculture department announced that a case of mad cow disease has been confirmed confirmed in a dairy cow out in central california. let s bring in lisa sylvester. she s working this story for us. lisa, what is the department of agriculture saying. what s going on? reporter: wolf, the usda just released information within the last hour and what we know is that it is a dairy cow from central california that has tested positive for bse or commonly known or referred to as mad cow disease, and wolf, this is only the fourth case ever detected in the united states. normally an animal contracts bse from consuming contaminated feed and this cow tested positive from atypical bse, it s a rare form of the disease and not generally associated with an animal-consuming infected feed and it states, quote, the cow was never presented for slaughter for human consumption so at no time presented a risk to the food supply and milk does not transmit bse. so you can se