Wednesday, June 19, 2013

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Matt Jackson, right, of the Meals On Wheels program in Charleston, W.Va., delivers a meal to Bill Taylor Wednesday, June 25, 2008 in Charleston, W.Va. Budgets cuts and rising gas and food prices are crippling programs that many older Americans rely on for food, transportation and contact with the outside world. - (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner)

The Impact Of Sequestration

10 a.m. (ET)

Diane and her guests discuss the broad reach of sequestration. They assess how across-the-board spending cuts are affecting Meals on Wheels, medical research, national parks and other programs.

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Flight over Switzerland, 2011 - © Solar Impulse

The Mission To Fly A Solar-Powered Plane Around The World

11 a.m. (ET)

In 1999, the Swiss explorer Bertrand Piccard became the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon. The journey took three weeks but he almost didn’t make it, nearly running out of fuel. That close call inspired Piccard to...

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