issuing a bulletin that al-qaida operatives could hold insider positions at chemical and nuclear utility facilities. the alarming report compiled from the information inside of bin laden s compound. bin laden, of course, talked about an attack between now and the 10th anniversary or marking the 10th year since the 9/11 attacks, department of homeland security, however, says there s no specific threat. meanwhile, later this morning, the u.s. senate will consider the house s cut, cap and balance act. that s good news. measure calls for deep cuts and makes it difficult to raise taxes. president obama is signalling he s willing to accept a short-term increase to the debt deal if it gives lawmakers time to craft a broader deal. he likes the gang of six deal. the country has until august 2nd before defaulting on our obligations. a group of soldiers return home after spending nearly a year in afghanistan. they arrived at colorado s fort carson to their overjoyed families. it was great.
now. a prayer service was held last night for that murdered 8-year-old brooklyn boy a week after he was found dead. this is just the saddest story we ve heard in such a long time. an autopsy showed that leiby kletzky was given a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs before he was smothered and then dismembered. they say aron abducted him and bound him in his apartment. he was officially hit with an eight count indictment including first degree murder. new terror warning here at home. department of homeland security issuing a bulletin that al-qaida operatives could hold insider positions at chemical and nuclear utility facilities. the alarming report compiled from the information inside of bin laden s compound. bin laden, of course, talked about an attack between now and the 10th anniversary or marking
of space shuttles. stay tuned. lit take as you little while. we are still working on it but keep watching. we will be launching again. we will stay in the business, as they said, the united states is not out space business. absolutely. we have proven for 30 years that we know how to get to lower orbit. we built this fantastic international space station. lit keep operating at least through 2020, conducting research in this incredible laboratory with the micro gravity environment of space we cannot replicate here on earth. we are going to still explore and research there but we have proven we know how to get to lower orr. it next step is we need to go on. absolutely. that s going to be the challenge for you and the rest of the folks at nasa. as we see atlantis sitting on the edge of the runway, it is, in fact, over for the space shuttle program. that s right. thank you for that. we want to get the take of what it is like in haas ton at mission control where i
reporter: it really depends on where you are. where we are, we do still have power at the moment. we re monitoring the situation right now from our hotel where we are lucky enough to have power, running water. i can tell you, two years ago that was not the situation. the floodwater made it all the way to some of the utility facilities there, including the water plant that provides the water for all the residents of lumberton. many people had to make do without water for 30 days. that s why we have seen people try to get ahead of it for the last several days, not only city workers grading concrete barriers, but strangers, people who didn t even know each other, coming together to fill sandbags and block off parts of the city where they believe the water made its way into the houses and caused so much devastation two years ago. i should note, martin, many of the people who were affected by