cain on the hot button issue of abortion. and later, happy wives get the word their husbands are coming home from iraq. how one army base is handling the news they have waited so long to hear. at this moment, somewhere overhead, an old broken satellite is plummeting to earth. no one s quite sure exactly where it will land. it s not the first time we faced a threat from space. experts say it won t be the last. earlier i spoke with the managing editor at space.com. he explained why we re likely to face this threat more often. this isn t the last one that s going to be coming down in a couple years in 2013, a u.s./japanese satellite will fall out of space. we just saw a huge nasa satellite fall last month. these are old. this one coming down tonight 21 years old. similar ages for the other ones. there s a lot of stuff, thousands of pieces of space, hundreds of dead satellites over the years that are going to have to be dealt with one way or another. when it comes back into
joins us live. how are families planning to celebrate these soldiers when they come home? reporter: well, you know, i ve been to a lot of mill bases and seen a lot of very tearful departures as the troops have gone off. perhaps the most joyful words you could ever hear on a military base is they re coming home. that s exactly what they ve heard here at ft. bliss. rumors have been circulating here for some time. not long after the troops here deployed which would have been back in july and august. all that was made official yesterday when w the announcement of president obama. that means the 3,500 or so troops that are in iraq for the first armor division will all be coming home as of december 31st. i was talking with denise young. she got the news with other spouses. and even though it s her husband s second deployment, she said that this goodbye was actually harder than the first. listen to what she had to say. it s always a worry. any time he s gone, whether it is at a