Families in san francisco came out to the embarcadero today far foggy bike ride with firefighters and highway patrol officers. the annual sf bike rodeo put on by scouting america. and kids learned how to navigate traffic and use bike paths and how to use the proper safety equipment. and how to navigate orange cones in the road. that s always important. cbs weekend news is next. that s it for us at 5:00. see you back here at 6:00. good night. tonight, a rare day of joy in israel. four israeli hostages rescued alive, a nation and families celebrate eight months after hamas surprise attack amid new bloodshed. i m chris livesay in tel aviv where four hostages are finally back home. 120 remain in hamas captivity. also tonight president biden on a state visit to france hails israel s risky rescue. we won t stop working until all the hostages come home and a cease-fire is reached. i m ed o keefe in paris where the president has been honoring veterans and toasting america s
peace will come. it will be you and i apollo 7 starts the final american push to the moon. today on this flight all but finished the chance of reaching the moon by the end of next year. five, four we have ignition. on the basis of this spectacular success of apollo 7, it will be possible now for the next mission, that s apollo 8, three americans in orbit around the moon on christmas. i think we have some late word just arriving. i interrupt to bring this to you. this is the latest disclosure in
as it will be for many people, i think, this year. a time like this causes people to really reflect on the deeper meaning of, say, christmas. as the country moved into december, what a year it s been. one of the most dramatic and consequential years in history. but out there, up there, is the great dreep of putting a man on the moon of the. six and a half years ago, john f. kennedy set this nation on the course to the moon. this morning, three americans are on the verge of the greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. the engines are on. 4, 3, 2, 1, zero. we have liftoff.
peace will come. apollo sullivan starts the first american push to the moon. today on this flight all but finished the chans of reaching the moon by the end of next year. five, four we have ignition. on the basis of this spectacular success in apollo seven, it will be possible now for the next mission, that s apollo eight, three americans in orbit around the moon on christmas. i think we have some late words on and interrupt to bring this to you. this is the latest disclosure in the report from national defensive headquarters in washington. it has been established that
creation. good night, good luck, a merry christmas and god bless all of you. all of you on the good earth. god bless them. unbelievable. man, that made the last week of 1968 perhaps as hopeful a moment as we could have expected. for those of us who lived through that time, we were landing in darkness that does not last. apollo 8. human kind s first orbit of the moon. sure to be written on the books of history. a year of trouble and turbulence, anger and assassination, is now coming to an ends. apollo 8 achieved every one of its major mission ames and something else.