BERMAN: Welcome back, everyone. Senator Joe Lieberman kicking off his farewell tour with a farewell address on the Senate floor this afternoon. Lieberman is retiring from the Senate next month after 24 years of service. After this, he plans to visit diners across Connecticut in the coming weeks to thank voters. NASA says a new meteor shower could make an appearance this week at the same time that the Gemenid meteor shower seeing here is lighting up the sky. The new meteors come from a debris field that has never crossed paths with our planet before. Also in space, the Air Force sending a super secret mini shuttle back to space with a spectacular launch from Cape Canaveral. The military is keeping quiet about where it's headed. What it's doing and what it's carrying. In fact, you know, this launch they cut off the launch commentary 17 minutes into flight. So you couldn't hear what they were talking about anymore.</s>O'BRIEN: Still ahead this morning on STARTING POINT, North Korea defying the world launching a long range rocket despite the threat of sanctions. We'll tell you why the U.S. was apparently caught off guard. And what would you do if you're a black lady with short hair and someone writes this on your Facebook page at the station where you work, "the black lady that does the news is nice, but is she a cancer patient? She needs a wig or to grow more hair." She writes back a lovely response that says "Have a great weekend, thanks for watching" and gets fired. We'll have Rhonda Lee's story straight ahead. We're back in just a moment.
Lieberman's Farewell; Super Secret Mini Shuttle Launches