emotion. gio benitez was there for the launch, later speaking with the planet s newest space travelers. reporter: tonight, history made. star trek s captain kirk, william shatner, boldly going to the final frontier and back. william shatner. reporter: at 90 years old, becoming the oldest person ever to blast off into space. more than five decades after star trek began. welcome aboard, captain. reporter: today, traveling aboard amazon founder jeff bezos blue origin spacecraft, along with two paying customers, and blue origin s vp, audrey powers. the rocket traveling 66.5 miles over the west texas desert. shatner saying simply, wow. the crew experiencing three minutes of weightlessness before parachuting back down to earth. the whole mission just over ten minutes. afterwards, bezos opening the hatch. hello, astronauts. welcome to earth. reporter: shatner and the crew emerging.
you what they sent me. the idea first of all, we are not sure who it is for certain, and when i do that the direction of the response kayleigh: emily, he had to pull out notecards on an action he was just briefed on, no wonder 66.5% of americans don t believe he is the one calling the shots. absolutely not. the saddest part is, what could we expect? the commander-in-chief on friday refused to take negative questions about afghanistan because it concerned him. these questions were taking place on the friday before a holiday weekend that was about barbecuing. and no one pushed back and instead, it will write articles
when joe biden took the oath of office and was sworn in. since that day, starting in day one, it has been clear to everyone, joe biden had one key primary job, to suppress the coronavirus. he ramped up mass vaccinations, 160 million adults fully vaccinated. we are close to the goals. over 148 million adults are fully vaccinated. 66.5% of adults have received at least one shot. we are now at a perilous moment. the delta variant is spreading. there s still an expectation the buck stops with the president. it s the biden administration s job to protect people. but also governance is collaborative. particularly in a system like ours with 50 individual states. the response to this pandemic should about an all hands on deck situation, especially now
months since inauguration day, january 20th, 2021. when joe biden took the oath of office and was sworn in as our 46 president. since that day, starting on day one, it s been clear to everyone that joe biden had one key job, to suppress the coronavirus. he ramped up mass vaccination. 160 million adults fully vaccinated. we are close to those goals. over 140 million adults are now fully vaccinated. 66.5% of adults have received at least one shot. but we are now in a perilous moment. the daily rate of vaccinations slowed. the highly infectious delta variant is spreading. there is still an expectation, understandably, that the buck stops with the president. it s the biden administration job to protect people from coast to coast. but also, governance is a collaborative and price. particularly in a system like ours with 50 individual states. the responses pandemic should be an all hands on deck
welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. this is the good news. we had been down 200 points than where we finished. now here s the bad news. we still finish down 766.5 points. markets roiled by a trade war that won t end. every single component within the dow jones industrials down. most cases down a lot. people trying to find some protection in gold, even bitcoin. but not stocks. how is the administration responding? blake burman at the white house. hi, blake. the downturn started this morning where china devaluing their currency. the people s bank of china said the next potential batch of