with american katie hideki. she touched home in one minute and 53.5 zero seconds. katie ledecky. good evening, summer warmth and sunshine may be in short supply at the moment but one thing we haven t been short of today is rain. drinking downpours and thunderstorms have affected many places and in northern scotland the rain has been heavy and persistent and we still have this met office amber warning and we still have this met office amberwarning in and we still have this met office amber warning in force. with that wet weather continuing on through the evening and into the night and then sinking its way for the southwards as well getting in across northern ireland to the early hours of thursday. showers taking a while to fade in england and wales but most places should be dry by the end of the night compared with some we have had recently, it is going to be relatively cool and fresh. low pressure will still be close by during tomorrow. this low drifting
as of monday, 53.5% of the city s total population is now fully vaccinated according to the mayor. in new york, erica hill, cnn. cnn s leyla santeyla santiad a woman in the hospital who regrets not getting vaccinated. reporter: you can tell me what you re experiencing in terms of your symptoms and how you feel? well, before i came in, i felt like i was about to die. reporter: what would you tell someone who is not vaccinated right now? get vaccinated. as soon as possible. because as soon as i get out of here and get well, i m going to get vaccinated. reporter: what has been the worst part about this? the worst part? not being able to breathe. johns hopkins have an average
this morning the space race between billionaires has a winner. that is a full duration burn, folks, we re headed to space. blasting off 46,000 feet. sir richard branson and a crew of five others on the unity spaceship soaring to the edge of space. welcome to space, yuanty 22. the journey 17 years in the making and a lifelong dream for branson. i was once a child with a dream. they reached 53.5 miles high affording the crew roughly four minutes of weightlessness and an out of this world view before descending and going home. the experience of a lifetime and now i m looking down at our
so-called battle of the space billionaires. reporter: the space race between billionaires has a winner. that is a full duration burn, spokes. we are headed to space. reporter: blasting off above the new mexico desert on sunday, at speeds over 2,300 miles per hour. sir richard branson and a crew of five others aboard virgin galactic s unity spaceship. the journey 17 years in the making and a lifelong dream for branson. i was born as a child with a dream, looking up to the stars. now i m in a spaceship. reporter: their flight reaching 53.5 miles high. nearly four minutes of waitlessness and a truly out of this world view before descending and returning home. it s a complete experience
space tourism industry. branson is the first billionaire to travel to space aboard his own company spacecraft. cnn s kristen fisher was at space port america in new mexico and has more on the launch. reporter: this is a big deal, because it was the first time in human history that someone has funded and built a spacecraft and then flown that spacecraft into space. so richard branson celebrating a successful test flight of virgin galactic s spaceship two unity. it all started right here at space port america, in truth or consequences, new mexico on sunday morning, taking off, attached to mother ship eve. at the right altitude, it detached and the pilots ignited that rocket engine and those six astronauts, or soon-to-be astronauts blasted into space. they hit 53.5 mills above sea