Endeavour Off to New Home
KAYE: The Space Shuttle Endeavour has been on a lot of missions, in fact, 25, but none of them are like the one that it is on right now. The retired shuttle rolling through the streets of Los Angeles to its final destination. And CNN's John Zarrella has been tracking Endeavour's final trek for us and he joins us now from Los Angeles. John, good morning to you and I know that you are loving this. Tell us exactly where Endeavour is headed.</s>JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Randi. Yes, we are here right now at the Old Forum where the Los Angeles Lakers used to play, and you can see behind me there people have already started gathering and they expect perhaps 5,000 people to line Manchester here as the shuttle goes by and it is not too far from us right now. It is about halfway home, and it has gone about five of the 12 miles it needs to go. And I'm going to bring in Jeff Rudolph who is the CEO of the California Science center who got this huge prize, literally and the toughest part, you crossed the 405 last night which was the expressway which was a tough go.</s>JEFF RUDOLPH, CEO, CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER: Yes, we have gone through the toughest part of the move, and we are just a few minutes out from clearing the last of the high voltage lines that's a problem. We're feeling great today. We're ahead of schedule and all looking good.</s>ZARRELLA: Now, you still have some tight areas to go, right? I mean places where you preserved and saved as many trees as you could, right?</s>RUDOLPH: Absolutely and so we are coming into an area where there are more mature trees there and we really worked hard to save them. So we got about -- actually less than 20 percent of trees taken down and that means a lot of trees that we're going to make some very tight maneuvers, inches on either side of the</s>ZARRELLA: So you really have some -- you got to keep your fingers -- some tight maneuvering later today.</s>RUDOLPH: Yes, I say keep our fingers crossed but you know, at this point, it's our move crew that's doing this and we're feeling good because they're really good, totally in control of everything. The equipment is great. We're passed the stuff that relied of others.</s>ZARRELLA: A last quick question then -- this, so far, could not have gone more smoothly, right?</s>RUDOLPH: Yes, I think that's really true and the one thing we expect today as yesterday we had large excited crowds. Today, we expect huge crowds because its Saturday and more and more people are going to be out.</s>ZARRELLA: Jeff, thank so much for taking the time to be with us. You know, Randi, it was a spectacular day yesterday and then they had the big move last night where they used the pickup truck to pull it across the 405 and now coming down Manchester today, and here first the forum and then later they'll be at a local mall where there is going to be some more activities and then finally arriving this evening at the California Science Center for another big ceremony. You know, I have seen a lot over the years, Randi, with space shuttles. I have seen them fly, I have seen them land. I've sat inside them, but I never in my wildest dreams expected that I would see a space shuttle going down the streets of any city and certainly not Los Angeles. Randi.</s>KAYE: Well, that is so fitting that you get to accompany it on this journey. Certainly, John, because of all of the shuttles that you have witnessed for us. Thank you so much.</s>ZARRELLA: Sure.</s>BLACKWELL: On the heels of a damning report by the U.S. anti-doping agency, a former teammate of Lance Armstrong is speaking out about what he says happened behind closed doors.