program. ready to roll, discovery. space shuttle discovery is rolling into head-down position at 1.6 degree, 136. orbit, eventually dock at international space station. reporter: so far, willie, everything is going right on course this morning. soon the shuttle will be climbing into the rays of the sun. now, we re at break of dawn here. and we will have the shuttle in the rays of the sun and it should be something gorgeous. just hold on. we re looking at a camera on board the space station at times i mean, on the shuttle, it s on the tank itself. so everything is going smooth. we re listening to brandy dean in mission control. well, we were.
bra brandy stopped talking. everything is on course. we ll watch it here. we have about another minute. it will be in the rays of the sun. and now one 1:27 into jay, that never gets old, watching that picture right there. again, this is one of the final four missions for the space shuttle program. jay, what s the future of nasa now that we re going to do away with the shuttles? reporter: well, i tell you, that is so up in the air. the president is coming here on the 15th of the month. hopefully he will set things straight. what has happened is they pretty well have cut out human space flight. they don t have another spacecraft under contract to fly astronauts unless, unless they continue the constellation programs. no other areas are being prepared to take astronauts into orbit, willie. we will be flying aboard the russian soyuz spacecraft to the international space station, and
they called today s one of the most amazing rescues in the history of mining. pakistani police are saying four bombs exploded in quick succession today close to the u.s. consulate in the northwestern city of peshawar. there were attackers in two vehicles, some carrying rocket-propelled grenades. while the u.s. embassy has not commented, islamist militants are suspected of carrying out attacks. huge crowds and rave reviewses helped the apple ipad nearly triple the projected sales, selling between 600,000 and 700,000 unit. look at i know. look at it. that s incredible. where s mine? the ipad, of course, joe has one here s a tablet computer bigger than an iphone, smaller than a mac book laptop computer and it.
watch the game. i couldn t find it anywhere. joe, mika and barnicle were up late watching a great game at fenway park. a game that should be pointed out, a game statistically insignificant over a course of a 152-game season. yankees begin their season in defense of their 27 that number hits you, 27th world title, defending that against the red sox. pedro martinez was there for some reason. gives a little hug to varitek there. to the game. top of the second, posada hits the first home run of the 2010 major league baseball season, wrapping one off the pesky pole in right field. 1-0, yankees. first batter in his first plate appearance, curtis granderson, a solo shot to center field. things looking good 2-1. cc sabathia looked good and then he blew up and the red sox rallied down the stretch. they were down 7-5 in the seventh. dustin pedroia lifts one over
get it up to date with a story that let little sunshine to our viewers day. this is a great story. you know the peking ship, the tall ship yes. nice. big tourist traction. a guy from california is there, that has his 2-year-old daughter with him, and somehow she slips off through one of the railings into the east river. his little 2-year-old girl falls 20 feet into the east river, which they say temperature were in the 40s. the dad, of course, sprung into action, jumped off the boat, went in after his daughter, who the witnesses say was under water at the time. they couldn t even see her. he went in, fished his daughter out of the river, pulled her up. you see her back there in the back of the ambulance. also another tourist, a guy from france, jumped in and helped the father. so they took her to the hospital, took her to bellevue, had her checked out. they checked her out after about two hours. she s doing okay, believe it or not. apparently, this french tourist who hel