good evening. elizabeth edwards, 61 years old, died today. she was a mother, lawyer, author and the wife of a man who tried to be president. but that is not why a nation remembers her tonight. it is the steel she showed when life dealt her so many shattering and very public blows. from the death of a son to her marriage, her dreams, her health. and in the end, the word from her doctors that nothing more could keep her alive, for her three children, the youngest now just 10. she said once, whatever happened, she wanted to spend the remainder of her days really living. ron claiborne reports on this day at her home in north carolina for us tonight. ron? reporter: good evening, diane. i am down the road from the estate of the edwards. in the end, she died of liver failure. a family and friends say that she was in no pain, even in the final hours. she passed away at 10:15 this morning. but there was no public announcement because the family wanted to wait until the youngest chil
the world is reading the intimate details today. thursday, october 7th, 2010. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and meredith vieira. i m meredith vieirvieira. people waking up in parts of colorado and utah are bracing for the severe weather system that spawned tornadoes on wednesday in arizona. dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed. the twisters so powerful they derailed a parked freight train and blew 18 wheelers off the road. we ll have the latest in a live report straight ahead. they call himselves previvers. at risk of breast cancer. they don t have the disease yet but choose to have their breasts removed. why, when some consider that to be a radical course of action? we re going to talk to two women about that. they have opted to do that route. the survivor of a vicious bear attack speaks out for the first time describing their horrendous fight. here s a question for you. what was marilyn monroe like? we re going to take a look at never bee
that are critical to enable next generation space light. earth sensing and air aeronautics capabilities. they will spur new businesses such as the recently announced partnership between nasa and general me motors robot, r2. i want to thank all of the nasa employees and contractor who s have worked so hard on the program. their commitment has brought great value to the our agency and the nation. they will continue to play a pivotal role in nasa s future. many of the things nasa has learned from the constellation program. as the crew escape vehicle and test vehicle from lower vehicles. however, as the augustine committee continued, if we continue on our current course, we will have to make deeper cuts to the nasa budget. terminating national space station early and reducing aeronautics. the constellation enables us for the 2010 budget that includes demonstration and development program that allow us with our international and commercial partners and other government entit
cheating to make sure no child is left behind and this story. ten people once lived here, six died including the parents of these small concern, cared for now by their aunt and uncle. boy, the desperate survivors of this week s earthquake in china hungry, cold and waiting. our cnn correspondent in the disaster zone. i m tony harris. those stories and your comments right here right now in the cnn newsroom. captions by vitac first, we want to start with some breaking news from wall street. the government accusing powerhouse goldman sachs of defrauding investors. it is all tied to those subprime mortgagees that led the country into a financial downturn. we will have much more on this story later this hour. now the worldwide travel impacted for a second day. yeah, much of europe a no-fly zone for a second day. some 17,000 flights canceled due to drifting ash from a volcano in iceland. hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded. we are getting reaction from some of t
th this is an abc news special. the state of the union address and the republican response. now reporting from washington, diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos. and good evening on this crisp, clear night in washington, d.c., here with george stephanopoulos, just a few hundred feet from the capitol dome, and we have been watching the house chamber fill. now more than 1,000 people there, cabinet secretaries like janet napolitano, you see her right there, behind her, i believe that s rahm emanuel, the chief of staff. senators are there, members of congress, their guests. and i said to you earlier, george, how many times have we said president obama has to give the speech of his life. we said it at the democratic convention, he had to unify the party, after reverend wright, he had to speak about race. is this another one? no one hates those expectations more than the president, but it s true. this is the first time he s come into this chamber after taking a big hit, the