In a brief story entitled "NASA to announce major Mars discovery,"
CNN reports:

  "Two red planet scientists who found
   evidence of recent water flows on Mars will
   soon present "their most significant discovery
   yet," NASA said Friday.
  ...
   NASA offered only scant details about Thursday's
   meeting, but top agency scientists and managers will be
   in attendance, including Ken Nealson, director of the
   Center for Life Detection at NASA's Jet Propulsion
   Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

The full article is at:
   http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/12/01/mars.surprise/

NASA has a brief piece at:
   ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-058.txt

--Glenn