13. nasa sterview is from oral history program of the johnson space center. it is about an hour and 40 minutes. i m going to take you back in time with me. let s go all the way back when you heard of the new organization called the space task force. you tored what prompted get into the scheme of things. how did you first migrate into the beginnings of manned spaceflight? i got out of college in june of 1958. there was a group at langley doing reentry studies. they launched rockets and would drive them into the atmosphere and measure the heat transfer and heat affects on different shapes of bodies. group when i got out of college in june of 1958 doing the same work except we used air launch rockets. we dropped them off the wing of 57.e 57 b- we would measure the heat transfer and so on and so on. when the folks at langley began how whatthinking about became the mercury spacecraft would be designed, at the time, george low was the branch chief, second level of supervision
armed men may be holed up. schools were locked down as authorities received reports that two hispanic males were firing guns at passing vehicles. the students have been sent home. police received a tip there are automatic weapons and potentially explosive material in the home. we are monitoring the story and will bring you the updates as soon as we have them. open warfare in the republican party. mitt romney, the 2012 nominee called donald trump a phony and fraud and playing americans for suckers. and the front-runner fired back in his usual profane way. bruce leshan, i imagine the split is evident at the harbor. reporter: it is. we are in this atrium overlooking the potomac river and there are loud arguments. the antitrump forces figuring they got to stop the billionaire if they want in november. the trump supporters mystified why the party leaders are firing broad sides at the likely nominee. he has neither the temperment or judgment to be president. anybody but t
according to this criminal complaint, cornell went on twitter last summer and posted statements, videos and other content supporting isis. in the fall a confidential fbi source made contact with cornell and they began going back and forth about this. when they met in november, cornell said he considered members of congress enemies and he was planning an attack on the capitol in d.c. he wanted himself and the source to detonate pipe bombs and then use guns to shoot officials and employees at the capitol. cornell also felt he had the authority from isis leaders to carry this out. he made his initial court appearance today in ohio. he s due back in court friday. we ll have live reaction from the capitol coming up on wusa9 news at 7:00. a ward 8 council member candidate and son of the late marion barry is accused of making threats and destroying property at a d.c. bank. our mola lenghi is live in the newsroom to tell us about this. according to metropolitan police reports, ch
home. good evening. i m jan jeffcoat. and i m derek mcginty. the man under arrest for allegedly plotting a terror attack on the u.s. capitol. the suspect is a sympathizer with the islamic terrorist group isis. jims onman is live on capital jim osman is live on capitol hill with more on how the agents learned of his plot. reporter: here s the criminal complaint, seven pages in all we went through tonight and what we found is quite alarming. 20-year-old christopher cornell, the alleged plotter to pipe bombing the capitol and kill lawmakers, never made it out of ohio. when he came out the door, he was about halfway across here to where the cars are parked. by that time the agents had come across the parking lot and two agents were on top of him, two or three. reporter: cornell had exited a gun shop buying ammunition when the fbi apprehended him. the governor alleges cornell crafted an isis inspired plot. in a lot of these cases where a sting is used, you look at
there have always been injuries in high school football, but they re on the rise. they teach us to play hard even when you re hurt. it s instilled in us since we were in junior high school. but what are the costs for the boys who play the game? you re only 17 once. i have the rest of my whole life to worry about pain. tonight, football high. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support ffrontline is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. go to work, go to work, go to work, go to work, go to work. let s go! we go