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Astrium provides some possible scenarios about what's happening.
• One theory is that equipment and construction troops sent from the site to help repair widespread rain damage last year may still be at other posts. Another is that North Korea's leadership has decided that its more modern Sohae rocket launching site on the northwest coast, the one used to launch rockets in April and December 2012, will be sufficient to support large rocket development
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- Officials were hoping to have both runways at LaGuardia Airport up and fully functional after the collapse of a plane's front landing gear sent it skidding along the tarmac and caused a temporary suspension of operations.
• The front landing gear of arriving Southwest Airlines flight 345 collapsed Monday right after the plane touched down on the runway, officials said.
• Ten passengers were treated at the scene, with six being taken to a hospital with minor injuries, said Thomas Bosco, Acting Director of Aviation for the Port Authority

of New York and New Jersey, which oversees the area airports. The six crew members were taken to another hospital for observation.
• Bosco said the incident forced the temporary closing of the airport, with one runway coming back into service around 7 p.m. It was hoped both runways would be open Tuesday morning.
• Dallas-based Southwest said there were 150 people on the flight coming from Nashville, Tenn., while the Port Authority said the total was 149.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress is considering a new series of hard-hitting Iran sanctions on everything from mining and construction to the Islamic republic's already besieged oil industry, despite concern from the Obama administration that the measures could interfere with nuclear negotiations.
• House and Senate bills are both advancing at a time President Barack Obama's national security team is gauging whether Iranian President-elect Hasan Rouhani is serious about halting some elements of Tehran's uranium enrichment activity. Those

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