life still exists on mars? and the other part of that equation, rob, is this is the last of the grelast exploration missions on the books for nasa. it could jump-start the ability to get more missions on the books, spend more money. fit goes wro if it goes wrong, this could be the end of mars exploration. whether is this goin is this? visually, what are we going to be able to see if anything at all? sunday morning it will be 1:30 in the morning monday morning pacific time it s 10:30 p.m. sunday night. and you ll watch it right here on cnn. we ll be carrying it live across all of our platforms so you will be able to see it anywhere in the world that you live you can tune in. there is an orbitter that will get images fed down earlier of curiosity coming through the atmosphere and landing at that gale crater site. that will be phenomenal. going to be a terrific time out here and particularly if they get it right which is the key. and olympic analogy, rob, they have to stic
it isn t known yet whether he tested positive, the remaining prisoners are being handcuffed to their beds. fighting is continuing in aleppo. cnn turk was able to enter an area under fire and capture this video. today rebels stormed the state-run tv and radio station and took partial control of the building but eventually had to retreat under heavy shelling. in the midst of the shooting, check out this video that is a non-violent protest against bashar al assad. it reportedly happened yesterday. cnn can t confirm the authenticity of this video. 56 people have died in fighting today. closer to home, in oklahoma right now, gusty wind, a raging wildfire, extreme, dry conditions and then there s this. temperatures in oklahoma today reaching a scorching 113 possibly again. homes are on fire. people are running for their lives. i stayed as long as i could and i had to get out of there. when i left other the fire was right at my back door. i don t even know what to think right
air bags and cushion them with air bags and land it on the surface. that was the tried and trued method. but this rover is the size of a car, 2,000 pounds. it s too big to do it any other way than what they re going to attempt in 36 hours. never before happen. and what they will do is hit the atmosphere at 13,200 miles an hour. they ll begin to slowdown. they ll be maneuvering through the atmosphere and then at some point will deploy a parra chute which will further slow the vehicle but not enough to get it on the ground safely. at that point they will fire some rockets on the spacecraft and it will begin to line itself up with the martian surface then they ll use a sky crane where the rover will actually dissend from the bottom of the landing vehicle and the two will dissend on the surface together. then they will fire off the other part of the vehicle that they no longer need. so that will all take place in a matter of seven minutes, from the time they hit the top of the at
earlier i spoke with dr. olympia de la rosa. she s the emergency coordinator for doctors without borders. she s on the ground in uganda and has been treating patients. i asked her if some of them can work through it and survive. yes, of course. in case in ebola outbreaks we don t speak of 100% mortality rates. we are speak of very high mortality rates and it can run from 50% to 90%, but there are survivors. in fact, in these outbreaks, the mortality we re facing is about 60%. this means there are 40% of people who have been surviving and overcoming these diseases. okay. so the positive the positive report that you re giving us is yes. patients who we re concerned for these deaths, so we know there are ebola patients who are surviving and that is also why we set up treatment centers and not just the centers. understood. we believe there are people that can overcome the disease and even though there is no treatment for this disease, we can provide supportive tre
reporter: between now and november, slim to none. i can probably predict it could get worse in terms of polarization here. the big question will be what happens after november in the so-called lame duck session which will be long and very important. that s going to depend on what happens in november. that s really going to decide what happens with some of these big issues especially the one i mentioned. you ll be so busy following the election either way. dana bash from the hill. thanks for that. it s mitt romney versus h r harry reid. the senate majority leader said an unnamed investor at romney s former private equity firm bain capital told him that romney had not paid taxes for a decade. cnn political editor paul steinhouser joining me. how is he firing back and how can he do this short of releasing his tax returns. which he won t do. he is firing back forcefully. this started earlier in the week when the senate majority leader accused mitt romney of not paying his