chris ferguson promises a special tribute from space for the hundreds of thousands of people who have been a part of the program, but he won t say what that tribute will be. the launch team had a special district. jimmy buffett performed for them after the shuttle had cleared the tower. at the old ball yard in boston it was a swing and a miss again and and again. david ortiz of the red sox tangling with kevin greg of the baltimore orioles. they exchanged a few punches. they were both ejected from the game. it was the second time in tining that both benches cleared. nothing really happened. just some sore feelings. you re watching msnbc saturday. whoa.
resignation of richard nixon. her greatest legacy may be the contribution she made against the battle against addiction. here what is president obama had to say about her passing. he says today we take comfort in the knowledge that betty and her husband former president gerald ford are together once more. michele and i send our thoughts and prayers to their children, michael, john, steven and susan. and this from flansy reagan. i was deeply saddened this afternoon when i heard of betty ford s death. she has been an inspiration to so many through her efforts to educate women about breast cancer and her wonderful work at the betty ford center. me was jerry ford s strength through difficult days in our country s history and i admire her courage and facing her personal struggles with all of us. she wasn t afraid to speak out. it is something that set her apart from other first ladies. cnn s special correspondent soledad o brien has more on her life and legacy. reporter: rarel
first official visit to the united states. we ll get to those stories in just a moment. i m craig melvin. we start tonight with a violent morning in columbia heights neighborhood. three people were shot, two of them killed right in the middle of the street. it happened early this morning on parkwood place, just off 14th street northwest. darcy spencer is live on the scene. i understand we re starting to hear about a possible motive. what can you tell us about that? reporter: what we re hearing is that this shooting may have somehow involved gambling, or possibly a gambling debt. we re told that there was a craps game being played on the sidewalk outside of the house early this morning, and that s when the shots rang out. sources say gambling may have been behind a triple shooting that left two men dead in the 1400 block of parkwood place in northwest washington. gunfire erupted around 5:45 in the morning. annie jackson said she heard about eight shots. i heard the shots.
and personal struggles with this nation and the world. betty ford has died at the age of 93. the wife of president gerald ford said she liked challenges and she certainly faced a number of them during her years in public life. here s nbc s bruce hall with more. elizabeth bloomer ford, better known as betty never expected to be first lady. i gerald r. ford do solemnly swear betty ford was thrust in the spotlight after water great. and she saw the job as an inner challenge. the event that probably had the biggest impact on my life was the day my husband took the oath of office as president of the united states. she married gerald ford in 1948 and began her life as the wife of a politician and mother and housewife. i like my career as a housewife and a mother. i think my life has been much fuller and much broader. and i m happier than i would have been in what is somewhat a their owe life that you have to give up everything to become a professional. as first lady