South Korean protesters burn anti-North Korea signs during a protest in Seoul on May 25, 2009 in response to the communist country's claim it conducted a nuclear test.
Here are the big stories on the agenda this Memorial Day:
- Breaking overnight… North Korea announces it has “successfully” carried out an underground nuclear test and reportedly test-fired a short-range, ground-to-air missile. The world-wide resources of CNN will bring you reaction from Beijing to Washington. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mike Mullen will join us live with his response to what the White House is calling a “threat to international peace and security.”
- Now it’s his turn. On this Memorial Day weekend, the man who is arguably America’s most popular living general fired back. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell insists he's still a republican, no matter what Dick Cheney says.
- Dad’s clock, tick-toc. When you hear the term "biological clock," you probably think of women, because women are often the ones who worry about the impact of age on pregnancy, but now there's a new study that says men might want to move things along a little faster.
- Same-sex marriage limbo. Tomorrow will be a landmark day in the battle for gay rights, as California’s Supreme Court rules on the legality of Proposition Eight, which banned same-sex marriage in California and made it illegal. Our Ted Rowlands is with one couple we first met on the courthouse steps, minutes after they got married. Now they're anxiously waiting to find out if that marriage means anything at all.
- His life is a movie script in the making. Helio Castroneves won his third Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, the ultimate triumph after facing deportation and prison time a little over a month ago. Now all charges are dropped, he’s on top of his sport again and will join us live.