of the flight deck of space shuttle atlantis and only then and there will we understand the enorm mit ity enormity of n and we are the last ones to say houston. i don t think we will be able to grasp and understand how amazing this vehicle and system and the people that made this amazing journey possible until we are past it and we are looking back at it. then people will actually see and realize wow, this was special. and you are watching an extraordinary program and one that nasa will soon as you know put on hold. just before the launch this morning, commander ferguson added the shouldl shuttle is as going to be a reflex of what a great nation can do. let me catch you up because if you are watching you are probably wondering where is
yemen recently met with a somali terror suspect who is now in united states custody. catherine herridge works intelligence for us. live in d.c. tonight. what do we know about the meeting, catherine? the terror suspect is described by u.s. officials as a senior commander with the al-qaeda franchise in somalia. he was in yemen for one year where he met with anwar al-awlaki. al-qaeda s franchises in yemen and somalia are planning a merger. u.s. officials say this is more evidence that al-awlaki has become one of the group s major players. shep? shepard: we information about one american who tried to make the trip from yemen to
los angeles are going about their business. if you go to wilshire boulevard you wouldn t know the royal couple is on their way here. a lot of people say hey, we have a lot of other things going on. shepard: casey, thank you. the former editor of the disgraced british tabloid is now under arrest. police busted andy coulson over allegations related to the the news of the world hacking scandals. investigators say they hacked into the voice mail accounts of people whom they were covering perhaps on thousand thousands f occasions. the man police arrested today is lass former communications chief for the british prime minister david cameron. today, prime minister cameron reiterated his call for a full examination of this scandal. everything that happened is going to be investigated. the witnesses will be questioned by a judge under oath. lefto stone will be jest
for a mission to mars but that will start and has already started. shepard: senator nelson predict that will make up for some of the job losses. meantime, the history we witnessed today. 11:29 eastern daylight time right here at kennedy space center. shuttle atlantis launching into the sky for its final flight. nasa s last shuttle mission ever. its four person crew the smallest on any nasa mission in three decades. back in april i got the honor of going to the johnson space center in houston and getting a first hand look at how this group of astronauts train for what they are doing today, including sim eu lakes of what happens when things start to go wrong. astronaut training in a hanger at the space center in houston. the four astronauts practice ascending into space and im in
up we will go back to him. tempers flaring between rival players. players ripping off helmets and throwing punches right in the middle of oven o seven on seves wednesday. tensions were high from the beginning. it took several minutes for coaches to get everything under control again and once they did the scrimmage was over. i understand we have shepard smith back up in florida. shep. shepard: we ll see how the rains work. there are 911 calls that nobody would ever expect to make like the one by an ohio man reporting a bizarre attack outside his wireless store. listen to this. some kid in a banana costume just tackled my mascot? it the mascot okay? the kid came up and speared him. this is the mascot. the store manager says it it all happened very quickly. the banana clad kid leveled the