which keep our loving the 43-year-old pop singer to police at the time of his are being stopped to a vet. he only had one martini when he was arrested. his next virtual court appearance is scheduled for july 26, hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield a dangerous he waived is growing across the us, leaving more than 100 million americans are under heat alerts. this weekend, many cities including washington, dc, could eclipse record temperatures over the next three days with highs in the upper 90s, even triple digits. joining me right now, cnn correspondent polo sandoval is joining us from brooklyn, trying to keep it cool there. and meteorologist lisa rafah from the cnn weather center in atlanta. good to see you both. all right. polo, you first, how are people handling this heat it s so hard to escape this heat. fred, especially if you don t have any air conditioning, of course for some of the youngest of those roughly 100 million ame
it, it falls into their purview. but that s the thing, is that they take a look at it and saying overall, you know, we ve heard that the obama administration programs to help foreclosures had been criticized. they re just saying this could be doing more. even when it is truly fully operational it s not going to do what they were hoping to do and help out 4 million. we ve got 6 million people in that situation. and even the treasury secretary tim geithner is saying the program is not working as it should and there needs to be changes and modifications. stephanie, appreciate it. that s true. and, also, i just want to say the treasury is saying they never expected all these programs to help out everyone anyway but they do wish they could help out more people. that s all. thank you. i m tony harris. the of the hour in the cnn newsroom where anything can happen. usually does. here are some of the real people behind today s big stories. i grew up on the shuttle. so i pretty much
this question has been around for decades since apollo 17 and all of the way back to 1972. i love looking at this video. i love it. yeah. so many people wondering when the united states will ultimately put people back on the moon and then in more recent years, you ve had another question on top of that. how long, how far in the future before we can get people all of the way out to mars and as we know, the nation that leads the way in space can be the critical piece of the future, but it is, of course, very expensive. here s what happened. this was weeks ago and i was talking to you about this on this show that president obama talked about plans to cancel this. this is from nasa s website and it is the constellation program that aims at getting people back on the moon and studying the possibility of establishing a moon colony. nasa spent $9.5 billion on this, and the project was way behind its goals and it was not adequately efficient. so what he did is he promised a
so you re looking at nearly 40 dwrae years. as we know it was before that that the united states had the first touchdown and that was when neil armstrong was the first human being to set foot on the moon. it was absolutely amazing to have historic pictures right here on the website behind me. nasa has tons of them and everyone remembers what a powerful moment it was. and right now what we re seeing what s happening as you know is president obama is talking about his vision for how to handle space exploration in the future. and one thing that he wants to do is drop this program, which is called the constellation program. and that was designed to bring people back to the moon after all this time. also look into the possibility of creating a colony on the moon which will be a huge new step. so the president said, look, this program, looked at it, it s not efficient, it s not doing its job. he said he still supports it. well, some people disagree with his decision, including neil armstrong
to take crews and cargo deep into space. you know, with only three more shuttle missions scheduled, thousands of nasa employees are wondering what s next? we ll get to know one of them with the cnn of cnn at platform journalest join cowel. we are stand under the right hand wing of atlantis. i carry this model because there is no place that you can step back and see the entire orbiter. we knew from the beginning that the orbiter was designed to fly 100 flights so it wasn t some piece of spacecraft that was going to keep going on forever and ever. all of the gray-looking ones were pristine black like the ones that you see right here. they have been on since original bill. like the rest of our space history, we envisioned that when the shut his done their job that wield go on to the next program of exploration. the orbiter sees an average of 4.5 million miles in each