the capsule is carrying 1,000 pounds of food, clothing and other supplies. mission controllers are thinking positively about the rendezvous. certainly from the nasa side, we are excited. it is a test flight, and we are being cautiously optimistic. the space station crew will have just under a week to unload all of those supplies. the capsule should return to earth next thursday. some powerful winds being blamed after a ferryboat gets stuck in lake michigan. it was shuttling more than 300 passengers and dozens of cars from michigan to wisconsin when it ran aground on a sandbar. the tug boat got back to the dock four hours later. it was the first crossing of the season. and a look at mother nature s might near pensacola, florida. this is a waterspout churning under the glow of that rising sun there. it formed yesterday morning with no warning. dancing around for about ten minutes, and it dissipated without coming ashore. without rain. that s really amazing. that doesn t reall
gunning down 16 afghan men, women and children but the u.s. commander of multinational forces promises a full investigation by u.s. military authorities under u.s. law. and the u.s. defense secretary says that the death penalty is a possibility. leon panetta is in afghanistan now. all u.s. forces pass through there when they leave and enter afghanistan and told reporters and i told, war is hell and terrible events like this one on sunday are going to take place. we ll get live reports from the pentagon and the afghan capital moments from now. super tuesday, it s not not. what happens today could focus the gop race for president. finally, or give all the contenders something they can call victory. the deep south is key to newt gingrich s hopes of challenging mitt romney from the right. polls show that he and romney are neck and neck in both states with santorum in a solid third, ron paul in single digits. 84 delegates now at stake in alabama and mississippi. hawaii caucuse
be part of a possible terror plot against the u.s. planned to coincide with the 9/11 anniversary. government sources say they think two of these three people are american citizens. we will have the very latest in a moment. republicans running for president getting ready for monday night s big debate in tampa. cnn and the tea party express teaming up and sponsoring this event which will feature questions from the audience. we are just minutes away from nasa heading to the moon. a scheduled launch, a new mission, we ll tell you all about it. plus we will show you that launch when it happens live scheduled for about 28 minutes from now. wondering if the weather was going to cooperate there in florida. looks like we re a go for launch today on this saturday, september 10th. i m t.j. holmes. thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. we do start now as the country gets ready to stop and remember the 9/11 events, there is a new terror threat right now that is possib
12 where they had problems. this is the lesser problem area. as you can see it s right next to the water way here. this is the sound. on the back end of the hurricane the water was pushed on to the road over here. it underwashed some of the road. undercut some of the road there they re fixing one of the lanes. traffic is coming through here, but it s having to connect down because of it. the worst problem is much farther south near hatterras where the water actually cut through the highway like it did back in 2003 during irene it did it again. we are hearing the only way you can get down there now is by ferryboat. it s going to be that way for a while. the rest of the island is okay. they ever getting the tourists back in here. the residents came in yesterday and the business owners came in. they re trying to get everything ready for labor day. let s look over here at the problem they re all facing. this is what can happen at some of the businesses when the storm
manhattan. we ll pan over a little bit, chris, i want to show you, look at this long line of people. they re not here making their way out of their city. they re here making their way to the ferryboat so they can go over to one of the world s most iconic figures and that is the statue of liberty, which you see behind me. this is the calm before the storm. and so a lot of people are trying to take advantage of this opportunity to continue with their vacations and their sight-seeing. but on top of that, the mayor has said to everyone get ready. they have already ordered mandatory evacuations as you mentioned for those in the low lying areas here in the battery park area, coney island and others, from nursing homes and from some hospitals so that they might free up some beds in the event that some emergency causes some injuries and hospitals would need to help out. the mayor has also ordered for the new york police department to bring in row boats in the event they might have to rescue pe