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Obama Says Devastation Unlike Any He Has Ever Seen
By not in system - AOL NewsTUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Expressing amazement at the destruction all around him, President Barack Obama on Friday stepped through the wreckage left by rampaging tornadoes and pledged help to those who survived but lost their homes in a terrifying flash. Said the president: "I've never seen devastation like this." "We're going to make sure you're not forgotten," Obama said as he and first lady Michelle Obama walked the streets of a reeling neighborhood. He said that although nothing could be done for the many who were killed - "they're alongside God at this point" - Obama assured support for ...
NASA Delays Space Shuttle Endeavour's Last Launch
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA abruptly called off space shuttle Endeavour's final launch Friday because of a puzzling heater failure in a critical power unit, disappointing huge crowds converging on the area for the afternoon liftoff. President Barack Obama and his family were planning to watch Endeavour blast off. It would have been the first time in NASA history that a sitting president and his family witnessed a launch. Already at Cape Canaveral for the liftoff was wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, wife of the shuttle's commander. Launch commentator George Diller said the next try likely ...
Excitement Builds for Next-to-Last Space Shuttle Launch
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- It's still a day before space shuttle Endeavour is set to soar one last time. But already, the excitement level is approaching an all-time high. It's the next-to-last shuttle flight, as well as Endeavour's final voyage. Add to that the presence of the commander's wounded congresswoman wife, and Friday's visit by the president and his family. Forecasters, meanwhile, were slightly more pessimistic Thursday. Still, there's a 70 percent chance of good weather for Friday's 3:47 p.m. launch. Endeavour commander Mark Kelly is married to Gabrielle Giffords, who arrived in ...
NASA Braces for Giffords, Obama, Huge Launch Crowd
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords left hospitals behind Wednesday for the first time since her tragic shooting nearly four months ago and traveled to NASA territory for the next-to-last space shuttle launch with her husband in command. "Gabby is looking forward to some time away from the rehab center & the chance to see Captain Mark Kelly launch again!" Giffords' staff posted on her Facebook page. Space shuttle Endeavour is due to blast off Friday afternoon with Kelly at the helm. It will be Endeavour's final voyage after 19 years of spaceflight, as the shuttle era nears the ...
Tragic Romance Eclipses 2nd-to-Last Space Shuttle Flight
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Looking back on the horror of that Saturday in January, this seems miraculous today: that Mark Kelly would indeed command the next-to-last space shuttle flight and that his wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, would be here in Florida watching. Yet that is what is expected to happen Friday. Handout / AP Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, are shown in an undated file photo. Doctors have cleared the recovering congresswoman to attend her husband's shuttle launch on Friday. The Kelly-Giffords ordeal has been a national drama since ...
UK Woman Dropped Into Sea in Botched Rescue Dies
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- A 73-year-old British woman who was accidentally dropped into the Norwegian Sea as rescue workers took her off a cruise ship late last month has died, the hospital where she was treated said Saturday. Janet Richardson fell ill while on a Scandinavian cruise and was being transferred to a rescue boat on March 29 when coast guard officers let her stretcher drop into the sea. The woman spent four minutes treading water in the sea, which was just a few degrees above freezing at the time. "It is with regret that Mrs. Janet Richardson passed away on Thursday evening," North Cumbria ...
Obama Pumps Plan to Develop Renewable Energy
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says one answer to high gasoline prices is to spend money developing renewable energy sources. "That's the key to helping families at the pump and reducing our dependence on foreign oil" in the long term, he said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. Obama raises the issue of rising fuel prices during almost every public appearance and says that he understands the strain higher fuel costs are putting on some family budgets. As he has before, Obama said Saturday there is no "silver bullet" that will slash gas prices immediately. But ...
Wash. Considers Annual Flat Fee for Electric Cars
By not in system - AOL NewsOLYMPIA, Wash. -- Drivers of electric cars may have left the gas pump behind, but there's one expense they may not be able to shake: paying to maintain the roads. Ted S. Warren, AP General Services Administration chief Martha Johnson tours an electric vehicle charging station at Bellevue City Hall in Bellevue, Wash., on Wednesday. Electric car advocates say the state risks alienating users of the cars with proposed legislation that would impose a $100 annual fee on electric cars to make up for lost gas tax revenue. After years of urging residents to buy fuel-efficient cars and ...
White House: First Family to Attend Shuttle Launch
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- President Barack Obama and his family will attend next week's launch of Endeavour, NASA's next-to-last space shuttle flight commanded by the husband of critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. A White House official said Wednesday that the president would be at the April 29 liftoff, along with wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha. Commander Mark Kelly will lead the six-man shuttle crew to the International Space Station. He has said he hopes his wife will be there when he blasts off, and is awaiting her doctors' final approval. Giffords, a Democrat from ...
Plane With First Lady Came Too Close to Cargo Jet
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Air traffic controllers directed a plane carrying first lady Michelle Obama to abort a landing at Andrews Air Force Base because it was too close to a military cargo jet, officials said Tuesday, in yet another embarrassment for the Federal Aviation Administration. While there apparently was little risk to Mrs. Obama, the episode puts the FAA back into the spotlight as officials struggle to calm public jitters about flying that have been raised by nine suspensions of air traffic controllers and supervisors around the country in recent weeks, including five for sleeping on the ...
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