have rotated and should have had separation. this is not a nominal situation. i do want to remind everyone, everything after clearing the tower was icing on the cake. neil: all right. icing on the cake. mission control putting a positive spin on spacex s giant new star ship rocket blowing up shortly after lift off. luckily nobody was on board when the booster rocket failed to peel away, tumbled and exploded four minutes in. such are the risks if you think about it when planning manned missions to the moon and mars and beyond. we got you covered all over the place with jonathan serrie on what went wrong. ashley webster on more americans flogging to see the launches. tom jones on the rewards that outway the risks. and actor william shatner that took that risk and is here to tell us about it. it s straight ahead on a rocketing your world or out of your world. see what i did this? welcome, everybody. very glad to have you. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with jonathan serr
ground setting up shelters at local high schools. still no word on what started the flames. thankfully no one has been hurt. for the local on the 8sest on the new jersey fire head to the fox weather app. steve: particularly this time of year in april, the pine are very dry and very acceptable to wildfire. this is the height, the peak of wildfire season in new jersey. brian: going to need new pine trees. ainsley: looks a lot better than it did. we were seeing flames shooting high in the sky this morning. steve: indeed. starting to get a handle on it. brian: smoke is not going to make joe biden happy. speaking of joe biden he is in ireland this morning meaning with prime minister sunak. ainsley: his son hunter is tagging along on that trip just after fox news reveals his business associates visited the white house, hunter s business guys and women over 80 times while joe biden was our vice president. steve: well, peter doocy wakes up today. he s in belfast, northe
there are new questions tonight about the source of substantial loans the congressman george santos s campaign. the embattled republican, who s been caught in a web of lies as you know, previously claimed he made personal loans to his campaign, totaling more than $700,000. a new filings with the election commission, he is indicating that loans of $500,000 and $125,000 had come from personal funds, those were left on marked. i want to turn out right away to cnn political commentator, jonah goldberg, and ashley allison. national politics reporter, eva mckend. eva, let me begin with you here about the new questions around these loans. what are you learning about the loans he allegedly gave to his own campaign? laura, the blood broad outlines of the story that you mentioned, that is absolutely correct. he previously said that he personally loaned his campaign $700,000. that was in the filing. he also has reiterated, he went on that podcast with congressman matt gates not too lo
[national anthem] muck. [national anthem] muck. grab somebody successes city, tell em, hey, give me everything tonight [cheers and applause] he wins it! [cheers and applause] pete: i don t know about you, but when i was in my driveway the as a kid, that s the moment, that s the shot, the one shine ising moment shot you want to have. if you were watching last night, if you weren t, san diego state was down all game, down by 14 points. they got the ball with 8 seconds left, butler egos down the court, dribbles left, steps back. it s at the buzzer to win the game for san diego state over fau to head to the championship. will: really kind of two cinderellas in the final four. hard to the pick who s the bigger underdog story, probably finishing au. san diego state in the national championship game, and it went down in the most exciting of fashions in that san diego state s coach did not call a timeout pete: yep, yep. will: hay grab the rebound. he drives down th
frustrated after more airline chaos. the faa grounded all u.s. flights for about 90 minutes because of an outage of a system that sends critical safety messages to pilots. there are now more than 1,200 cancellations, 7900 flight delays. it s been less than two weeks since southwest s meltdown. flights have been gradually taking off. at this hour, it s not known what caused the system s failure according to transportation secretary pete buttigieg. he says there s no sign it was terror related. there was an issue with irre irregularities with the messages. we have to figure out why it happened. why it wasn t stopped from being disrupted and the original source of the errors. when there s an issue in the faa that needs looked at, we ll own it. same as we ask airlines to own their companies and operations. we re at the world s largest airport, atlanta s hartsfield-jackson. what s the situation at this hour? reporter: flight operations have resumed as normal for the most p