A private company, the biggest rocket in the world successfully with the most unusual cargo weve probably ever seen. He sent his car into space. It is headed to mars at this hour after sending back some spectacular pictures. Three, two, one. Reporter now the biggest rocket in the world, Spacexs Falcon heavy, three rockets strapped together launched a new era of American Space travel. Successful separation. Reporter but this was different. The boosters separated and then flew back to earth landing together reusable. And the falcon has landed. Wow. Reporter the center rocket coming back to earth ran out of fuel and slammed into the ocean. It was lost. A setback for the 90 million test flight which needed some cargo, and rather than concrete, spacexs ceo elon musk who also runs the electric Car Company Tesla decided the payload, the weight at the head of the rocket under the skin, would be his electric car, a red roadster. So there it was, a car with a dummy in a space suit exposed to spa
Life on mars and liftoff. The worlds most powerful rocket successfully launching into space sparking a new era of other worldly ambitions, a tesla car now orbiting earth on a mission toward mars, so whats next . Good morning, america. The first liftoff of the sundtrack right there. Brandnew era in space exploration. Theres another look. Uhhuh and seeing that tesla with starman, the mannequin, driving into orbit a car. Its a real car and some people dont believe that image but it is a real image. The New York Post has this, car trek. I love it. David kerley was there, lucky man, there to witness the incredible launch of that and he hes joining us from titusville, florida. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, michael. A new space race is on this morning and elon musk just took a half billion dollar leap ahead of the competition and launched a private company, the biggest rocket in the world successfully with the most unusual cargo weve probably ever seen. He sent his car into spac
Sunshine and this beautiful view from scotland. Here and in Northern Ireland so far that there is some sunshine to be had but for england and wales there is a lot of cloud around and for some it is raining. You can see this on the radar picture but it is gradually edging further south as we go through the rest of the afternoon. Living Northern Ireland and scotland with showers and sunny spells. Some of us in northern england, things to brighten up by the cloud and rain still with us for the midlands, east anglia even at the end of the afternoon. These are the average wind speeds, feeling colder in north wales and the north of england but mild in the far south east with more sunshine to be had. Going through this evening and tonight this area
of cloud and rain is sticking around across many of the same areas. For north wales, north england, Northern Ireland and scotland quite a sharp frost to come in the colder rural spots but tomorrow morning plenty of sunshine. Starting to cloud over
Some have watched from countries like denmark and italy. Skip little pony, skip, skip, skip. Dancing in your living room though can bring its own challenges 0h we just want to share a little bit of fun, share a little bit of enjoyment and hopefully break up their day and change what could be a really negative, stressful time in their isolation into a little bit of fun. Social distancing, it seems, doesnt have to mean children miss out on fun. Jo black, bbc news. Now its time for a look at the weather, with louise lear. Well, if you are thinking of spending a little time in your garden or going out for a quick walk through the weekend i can offer you Something Like this, a dryer, settled story for many others across the country. We have seen this nuisance where the front thats been
with us all week. Thats going to drift away and High Pressure will build as it moves off into the near continent. However, it comes with a price. It will keep things quite quiet but it will start to drag east
Is not possible when we can see that in other countries, where people are now beginning to experiment with releasing some of the measures a bit to see what happens. A glimmer of relief in china which records no new domestic cases of coronavirus for the First Time Since the pandemic began last year. Heads, shoulders and knees and toes and keeping the kids amused one playgroups efforts to keep going online. From tomorrow at around 3. 30pm, all schools in the uk will shut their doors indefinitely in an unprecedented nationwide shutdown. But there are continuing urgent questions about the closures, and exactly how they will affect pupils, and parents. A list of the key workers whose children can still go to school is due to be released later today. There are ongoing discussions about how to award older pupils grades after gcse and a level exams in england and wales were cancelled yesterday. Ministers are also coming under increasing pressure to announce a package of financial help for peop