nbc s peter alexander is live in washington with more on how it s affecting people. peter, you re not alone but i m sure you ve heard a lot. reporter: we definitely heard a lot today as you look like what should be a gorgeous shot down the national mall but there s not a lot to see. national air and space museum shut down, national gallery of art shut down. we ve had people from the czech republic, russia and china and japan and west royalston, massachusetts. nice to meet you guys. give me a sense of the frustration. we came down here for our anniversary and planned on doing the mall here how is that going? everything is closed down. reporter: very quickly, what do you see to these guys at the
drummer and lead singer of the band has died of cancer at 77. during a visit to the henry ford museum, in michigan, president obama was photographed sitting on the bus in which rosa parks made her 1955 protest against segregation by refusing to move to the back. the space shuttle discovery is now at the smithsonian s national air and space museum, and the prototype shuttle enterprise will leave the smithsonian next week for display at new york city s intrepid sea, air and space museum. and look at this guy. the world s oldest living man celebrated his 115th birthday in japan yesterday. he looks amazing. for 115, right? the father of seven children, he has 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great grandchildren. he says the secret is eating small portions of food. hmm. who knew it was that easy. well now here s your first look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,964 after
administration has been trying to play it or the campaign has been trying to play it into a likability thing. but i think at the end of the day it s going to be the economy, not dogs. maybe it will raise the level of conversation where people are talking more about pet adoption, going to your kennels, that kind of stuff. jackie, john, doug, thanks to all of you. take a look at this, amazing live pictures at the smithsonian s national air and space museum in virginia. it s a ceremony to welcome the space shuttle discovery into its collection. the shuttle made its final flight from florida on tuesday. guys. come here, come here. [ telephone ringing ] i m calling my old dealership. [ man ] may ford. hi, yeah. do you guys have any crossovers that offer better highway fuel economy than the chevy equinox? no, sorry, sir. we don t. oh, well, that s too bad. [ man ] kyle, is that you? [ laughs ]
lot of dogs. but this does talk about the quality of the debate. we re not talking about budget deficits and the need for tax reform. maybe part of us would rather not deal with problems we think are almost impossible to solve like gridlock and the deficit and the debt and things like dogs on the roof of a car, we can decide on. we can say, yes, that s terrible or, no, that s excusable. or just plain funny. not to the dog. not to the dog. thank you very much. up next, inside the world s most exclusive club. so par it is an all male club. but first a welcoming ceremony for the space shuttle discovery at the national air and space museum. john glenn helped escort the
a group of hackers is promising a cyber attack today. here s abc s reporter. reporter: the anger is in las vegas. the protests are huge in houston. the frustration is in portland. outrage has the spread all the way to anchorage, alaska. this is a group of protestors certainly growing in size and diversity. definitely tends to be on the younger side. number of college students who say they re not going anywhere any time soon. on a sunday afternoon we are seeing a number of people come out who have never been here before from senior citizens to people with their children. like tom eck and his kids. he has been camping out two days. one of his sons for two weeks. they came close to losing their home last year. it s hard to get, afford food sometimes. i almost lost my house last year. i know a lot of people that have lost their house. reporter: and will hopkins, a 30-year-old veteran of the iraq war. group of people who are upset about the way business is being done and with good r