The Morning Report -- Sunday January 20, 2013

OBAMA TO BE SWORN IN -- BOEING FIGHTS BACK -- STAN THE MAN -- FULL BODY SCANS REPLACED -- OBAMA GUN POLICIES ASSAILED -- CURIOSITY HITS JACKPOT

IN TWO-DAY INAUGURATION OBAMA TO BE SWORN IN AT WHITE HOUSE

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama will take the official oath of office in a small, private ceremony at the White House on Sunday, setting a more subdued tone for his second inauguration than his historic swearing-in four years ago.

Obama will still be sworn in publicly outside the U.S. Capitol on Monday with all the traditional pomp, but that event will be mostly for show. For more visit Reuters.

BOEING PUSHES BACK ON 787 GROUNDING

Boeing’s leadership privately believes the government’s grounding of the company’s flagship 787 Dreamliner was an unnecessarily drastic step, but its defensive attitude isn’t sitting well with some customers and it risks alienating regulators.

“You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone at Boeing who believes the FAA should have grounded it,” said a former top executive, who asked for anonymity in speaking about his former colleagues. “They all believe the airplane is safe.” For more visit the Seattle Times. 

CARDS HALL OF FAMER DIES AT 92

No last name necessary.

A slew of batting titles. Corkscrew stance. Humble. A gentleman. All-around good guy.

Stan the Man.

Stanley Frank Musial, the St. Louis Cardinals star who was one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, died Saturday. He was 92.

For more visit ABC News. 

TSA WILL REPLACE X-RAY SCANNERS AT U.S. AIRPORTS

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration says it is removing full-body airport scanners that produced what appear to be naked images of a traveler's body.

The TSA said it will replace the scanners with new scanners that allow greater privacy.

The TSA has canceled its contract with Rapiscan, the company that makes the X-ray scanner that produced the revealing body images.  The TSA has 174 Rapiscan scanners at about 30 airports. For more visit Voice of America.

RALLIES ASSAIL OBAMA'S PROPOSED GUN LEGISLATION

(Reuters) - Pro-gun activists who say the right to own firearms is under attack from President Barack Obama's proposals to reduce gun violence held "high noon" rallies across the United States on Saturday in support of gun ownership rights.

The U.S. debate over gun control flared in mid-December when a man armed with an assault rifle killed 20 first-graders and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut - the deadliest of a string of U.S. shooting sprees last year. For more visit Reuters.

MARS CURIOSITY FINDS THE "VEINS OF MARS"

White veins of minerals coursing through rocks on the floor of Mars's Gale Crater are providing some of the strongest evidence yet that the rover Curiosity's landing site once was a wetter, warmer place.

The details are still fuzzy. But the composition of the minerals indicate that they precipitated out of water flowing through fissures in the rock, while large grains within the rocks themselves are rounded, suggesting that water might have dulled their sharp edges. For more visit ABC News.