Julian. Astronaut to marcus k. Is climbing a volcano in lands the rotty in the Canary Islands. He returned from his long Space Mission just a few weeks ago the space agency sent their astronauts here for training the terrain is what is called a planetary analog very similar to the landscape on mars. The french astronaut sees a mars mission as the apex of his career the 6 and a half months he spent on the International Space station i s s were a 1st step towards potentially being part of a crew lifting off of the red planet one day. Humans have to adapt to space travel with closed recycling loops total autonomy drive technologies and the use of robots or novel materials the ideas is paves the way for future missions and puts a journey to mars into the realm of the imaginable. Way or. The op the told. Back in november 26th seen at the baikonur spaceport temperatures have fallen to minus 28 degrees celsius. The rocket is being driven to the launch pad a pretty routine occurrence in the Sp
Report well look at the controversy and backlash over tom bradys cliff jump with his daughter a naked man casually strolls into a vermont coffee shop this morning for his cup of joe how is that for a wake up call early today starts right now good Tuesday Morning im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. The heat wave may have moved on, but more Severe Weather has followed a series of thunderstorms swept through new york city with one to 2 inches of rain coming down per hour at some points. Drivers faced dangerous flash flooding many roads across new york and new jersey were transformed into rivers, bringing traffic to a stand still. There was a similar scene in the midwest. Downtown eureka, missouri, was under water after getting 5 1 2 inches of rain over just a few hours. And in chicago, powerful winds of up to 25 miles an hour sent dangerous waves crashing into bikers and joggers along the shoreline. After 15 hours of lge protes rico, chaos breaks out police fired tear gas into crowds o
Vote the presiding officer have all senators voted . Any senator wish to change their vote . On this vote the yeas are 95. The nays are 2. Twothirds of the senators voting having voted in the affirmative the resolution of the ratification is agreed to. The majority leader of the senate. Mr. Mcconnell the senate is not in order. The presiding officer the majority leader of the senate. Mr. Mcconnell the democratic leader and i want to take a few minutes here to point out to everyone that our colleague, the senior senator from vermont, just cast a truly historic vote. Of course the tax treaties are significant, but im talking about the fact that senator leahy just cast his 16,000th vote of his senate career. We know of no single statistic that can begin to capture such tenure, but this figure comes close. 16,000 votes cast for his constituents. With numbers like that, senator leahy has already left towering figures like our late colleagues ted stevens and ted kennedy in the dust. Now hes
Congressman Elijah Cummings writing that cummings city ofs baltimore i a, quote, disgusting rat and rodentid mess. Well get into it with chuck todd and discuss this weeks next round of democratic president ial debates. Plus, another sharkttack in florida. This one caught on camera. Well check in to see how the victim, a professional surfer, is doing this morning. And later a sunday sitdown with one of t stars in hollywood, Jake Gyllenhaal, on his latest stop on broadway. His current role in the billion dollar spiderman movie, and reflections onou the breaking r. Weid like Brokeback Mountain i was like, whats going on . This is a level of focus and attention that hits a certain nerve that you are like this is bigger than me. A sunday sitdown withake gyllenhaal. Plus, hair long isla smith and life lived later in the show. Rants against the city of baltimore and the drac congressman who represents it. The president back at it this morning. Mike is at the white house for us with the latest
Imagine that hundreds of thousands of miles away, to brave americans were sitting on the surface of the moon. Their comrades remained in lunar orbit. Above. I didnt quite understand what this development would mean for the future. I just remember thinking at that moment how proud i was to be an american. I looked up to these three men, and i still do, and i marvel add their courage, their intelligence, and their patriotism as well as that of tens of thousands of americans involved in getting them to the moon in the first place. We now know that this lunar trio had quite a sense of humor. Michael collins was once asked in an interview what he was thinking about in the moments leading up to the liftoff, and he joked, i was thinking of per deiem. We learned from buzz aldrin stepped off the ladder, he told them that he was being careful, not to lock the door behind him. When talked about the fact that most of the foes tows were of aldrin, Neal Armstrong joked, ive always said that buzz ald