let s listen in. all three are still in good shape as are all of the other sims aboard the orbiter. a team of flight controllers watches over all the systems. 4:20 into the flight. endeavour s traveling 5500 miles per hour. altitude 63 miles traveling downrange, about 335 feet in altitude. environmental and control systems officer here reporting a good flash evaporator system reporting cooling to equipment aboard the vehicle. traveling into space on the forward flight deck is mark kelly and greg johnson. between and behind them, flight engineer to ato. rog roger. endeavour can reach orbit on two engines, however, all three are still performing as planned. foistal heading to the international space station for the first time. making the first voyage on the space shuttle after flying to the international space station after soyous spacecraft previously. endeavour, single engine up three. that call indicates that endeavour could reach a transatlantic abort si
hours fuel, so he circled waiting for the deadline. and then got the okay. so it was brilliant gamesmanship. don t you worry. we ve been circling around for quite some time. thinking about going to shanon but i decided to land at heathrow. it s open. a little bit chaotic in vancouver because everyone wants to get on a flight. we were supposed to go home thursday, and obviously it s now tuesday night. so it s been three-week holiday. well, at least they have a sense of humor about it. fallout from europe s travel crisis is being felt around the world. authorities say more than a million passengers were effected each day. our stan graham looks at how emirates airlines is dealing with the delays. this is the never center for emirate airlines here in dubai. this is the war room, if you like, as they track these massive disruptions caused by
meeting came together this morning is that, basically, we ve learned that the president in recent days have started placing phone calls to the prospective nominees and feeling them out a bit about the post, perhaps and also trying to pick their brains about where they are in some of these big issues. you ve heard a reporter ask the president about what whether he would select someone who does not support abortion rights. not surprisingly, the president said he does not have a litmus test. the presidents of both parties say that routinely, but pretty much everyone in this town knows that ultimately the president is going to pick someone that he believes is likely to support abortion rights. that s where the democrats largely are coming from on that issue. and you know, look, part of the reason they vet these candidates so carefully is that you hear people in both parties say they don t want another souter in the retired justice david souter who retired last year. he gave this