International Space Station Has Three More Occupants

The International Space Station has three more occupants.

Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, and US astronaut Sunita Williams are scheduled to stay on the ISS for four months.

They joined US astronaut Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin.

Over the next few weeks the space station will be a busy place, as several spacecraft are scheduled to visit and bring supplies.

Japan's HTV3 cargo ship will be the first.

Since the US retired it's fleet of space shuttles, all personnel have been brought up via Russian Soyuz space craft, and supplies have been sent from various countries.

Six Foot Lizard Loose in Colorado

A six foot long Nile Monitor Lizard is missing in the Woodland Park area, near Colorado Springs.

Dino weighs about twenty-five pounds, and escaped from his owner, on Monday.

The lizard is quite capable of making off with a cat or small dog, but people are being cautioned that if it gets hungry enough it could attack a child.

Pet owners and parents have been warned to keep an eye on pets and children when they're outdoors.

Police and animal control are searching for Dino, but it is a difficult job, the lizard could find many places to hide.

Bug Swarm Causes Accident

Snowplows had to be called out in Minnesota, Sunday night.

However, the plows weren't dealing with snow this time.

An area around Hastings Bridge was swarmed by may flies, which covered the bridge.

Four inches of crushed bugs ended up being the result, causing an accident when one driver lost control on the slick surface, before the bridge was shut down.

Swarms of may flies are common near water, during the summer, and their attraction to light draws them to vehicles at night.

Accidents are not common from them, but authorities say they'd never seen a swarm so large before.

Needles Found in Airline Sandwiches

Four Delta Airlines flights, flying out of Amsterdam, all found surprises in their food.

On each of the US bound flights, a turkey sandwich was found with a sewing needle in it.

Two of them were found by passengers, which prompted the search of a total of eighteen flights.

For now, Delta has stopped serving sandwiches on their flights. All of the sandwiches were prepared by Gate Gourmet.

The FBI and TSA are working with Delta and Gate Gourmet to investigate how the needles ended up in the sandwiches.

Ford Recalling 10,000 2013 Escapes

More than ten thousand 2013 Ford Escapes are being recalled.

Ford is recalling vehicles from the US, Canada, and Mexico.

An error in manufacturing led to extra carpet padding that can get in the way of the brake pedal.

All of the vehicles with the error were made between March 8 and June 7 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Owners of the vehicles are being asked to call Ford at 866-436-7332.

No injuries or accidents were reported due to the problem, Ford is making the recall after "internal evaluations" discovered it.

Floods in India Kill Over 100

Over one hundred people have been killed in India due to flooding along the Brahmaputra River.

Four hundred thousand people have been left homeless in Assam.

A lot of the flooding was caused by levee's over flowing, causing anger among the populace.

Many people accuse government officials of pocketing money that was meant to improve the levees.

Officials counter that people are just living in the wrong places, saying the areas are at high risk of flooding.

The national government is now investigating the situation.

Fiat Now With Espresso Maker

Fiat's new 500L model will come with a espresso maker option.

The hand held espresso maker plugs into its own power source in the center console.

Lavazza's expresso maker takes less than a minute to make you drink.

It is available for an extra three hundred dollars.

Plans are for it to be available all throughout western Europe by the end of the year.

However, fears of being sued are for coffee burns, are keeping the company from making it available to the US.

Remembering: Apollo 11

At 09:32 EDT, on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 takes off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

On board were Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.

Over the next seventy-six hours they would travel 240,000 miles, and enter an orbit around the moon.

Armstrong and Aldrin would become the first men to walk on the moon.

As he stepped on the lunar surface, Armstrong said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

When they left the moon they left behind a plaque that reads, "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind."

Five more Apollo missions would land on the moon, but since 1972 no one has been back.

Remembering: Washington DC

July 16, 1790 the Congress of the United States declares a location for a brand new capital.

They choose a mosquito infested area of swamp, due to it's proximity to navigable rivers.

President George Washington a French architect and city planner named Pierre L Enfant to design the future city.

In 1793 the President's Mansion was one of the first buildings began, it would be finished in 1800.

Though originally named the District of Columbia, it would later be named after Washington.

UAE Begins Using Oil Pipeline

On Sunday the United Arab Emirates began using the new cross country oil pipeline.

The nearly two hundred and fifty mile long pipeline will carry at least 1.5 million barrels a day.

UAE officials have been filling the pipeline since June 30, but it wasn't allowed to begin flowing til today.

Til now, all of the country's oil was transported by tanker through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has repeatedly threatened to shut down.

With the new pipeline, oil now flows directly to the city of Fujairah, which lies on the Indian Ocean.

Oman, the only other Middle East country that borders the Indian Ocean, is also planning a pipeline that will avoid the Persian Gulf.