gregg: and loss of life would be hundreds to thousands. gregg: all right. john rundle, not some great news. seismologist at uc berkeley, thanks very much for your expertise. sure. jane: also a story out of california today, he s the doctor charged in michael jackson s death. we re getting reports of what would be a real shocker in his defense strategy, did michael jackson kill himself? dr. conrad murray is expected in court today, live pictures of the courthouse there. he ll be facing members of the jackson family. there are
international space station, chris gutierrez has the front row seat at kennedy space center. reporter: it was a beautiful liftoff this morning. as you mentioned, it was a pre-dawn launch at kennedy space center down here in florida. discovery actually carrying 27,000 pounds worth of science experiments and spare parts for the international space station. this is scheduled to be one three-day mission in which our astronauts will conduct three space walks, gregg. gregg: kris, thanks. supreme court justice announcing his plans for reterm, leaving the door open for president obama to appoint another judge to the high court. melanie wilkes is live in washington. reporter: justice john paul stevens is 89. he won t say exactly what he s leaving the supreme court but says it will surely be during president obama s term, the leading liberal on the court is quote newspaper interviews this weekend. white house press secretary robert gibbs said this morning if someone resigns for the preem c
of replacements, ambassador arlen specter says he worries about a partisan nomination fight and hopes stevens waits another year to step down. gregg: the annual white house easter egg roll is underway now n. a tradition dating back to the late 1800s and kelly wright is live on the white house lawn reporter: it has a new twist this year, the first family greeting 30,000 people to the white house south lawn for ready, set, go n. keeping with first lady michelle obama s let s move initiative, which of course is a d.c. and which is a move to combat childhood obese tevment it s a great day for this and later on the president will toss the first ball for baseball. so a great day of activity. back to you. gregg: log on to foxnews.com to watch the white house easter egg roll, streaming live. crist, melanie, kelly, thank you very much. jane: we want to get to a bit of business news. the price of oil is slowly climbing back towards dipel
belted themselves to a wall using their own belts so that they slept on the wall for three days before they were getting into a floating mining cart that came through. gregg: hey, bill, how did they manage to subsist? what did they eat or drink? according to reports they ate bark from the, from the, from the wood that holds up the, holds up the tunnels there. anything they could find. they didn t they knew the water wasn t very good, so they didn t drink the water. the water was, of course, murky and bad, didn t try that, but finally after about five days they got some glucose and some, some things that were healthy sent down to them. gregg: and authorities, bill, still believe there are survivors down there and they can get to them? 38. you know, it was reported, one of the major parts of the story
people who were in the mix before sonia sotomayor would still be high on the list, and press secretary robert gibbs said if somebody resigns from the supreme court, they will be ready. jane: melanie in washington for us, thanks. gregg: now back to the baja earthquake. hundreds of aftershocks rocking the area right now near the mexico/u.s. border. this after sunday s powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake. could this be a precursor to something even bigger in southern california? joining me now is john rundle, a seismologist at uc berkeley. thanks very much for being with us. is this a precursor to something larger? well, of course, we don t know that for sure. one thing we do know in the past 15, 18 years there have been two magnitude 7 earthquakes, this one on the southern end of a section of the san andreas fault that runs up north, and the other one was the 1992 landers