and it continues as we speak 200 miles above us. this is coming to us from the international space station where two astronauts have been doing a spacewalk and they ve got some serious work they re doing up here and have been at it for the past five hours or so. we ll give you an update about this historic endeavour mission. this is your cnn sunday morning for sunday, may 22nd. i m t.j. holmes. also a big breaking news story we are following for you this morning. cnn has been able to confirm the earth did not end yesterday. more on that in just a bit. let me tell you about president obama following up on his vision for peace in the middle east as he addresses a group in about 2 1/2 hours. apec is t aipac is the name o. they can t be pleased with the president s stance as winds of change blow through the region. calls for change may give way in some cases to fierce contests for power. the question before us is, what role america will play as this story unfolds. cn