okay. i have just a really quick question. i promise it will be quick. the statue that everyone is talking about that they think is her on the yacht s that her? so, it is not her. although a striking resemblance. it s actually the norse goddess freya. beautiful looking mermaid on the front of the ship slash megayacht. it s not a boat. it s much bigger than the boat. you don t have that on your yacht? i don t have the yacht. thank you, chloe. thank you, chloe. congratulations to them and cnn this morning continues right now. a u-haul truck rammed into security barriers near the white house. and the driver is around arrest for threatening to kill, kidnap harm the president, vp or family members. looming debt limit deadline. experts warn of a global recession that could take years to recover from. this would be a generational, economic self-inflicted wound. the fact that they are still committed to getting a deal is a positive sign. i felt we had a prod
i m so happy to have sara sidner by my side today. kaitlan is off. five things to know for this tuesday, may 23rd. happening overnight, a u haul crashing into a security barrier near the white house. the driver arrested, facing charges of threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president, vice president or family member. secret service says that crash may have been intentional. just nine days to go and still no deal in sight. president biden and speaker mccarthy saying they had a productive meeting, but still don t have a deal on the debt ceiling as janet yellen issues a sobering economic look. also new this morning, a stark warning for all parents, for all of us really, the u.s. surgeon general is now labeling social media a profound risk of harm for children. and the denver nuggets make franchise history, sweeping the los angeles lakers and advancing to the nba finals for the first time ever. lebron james is now reportedly considering retirement. and out of
back on blue origin s new shepherd rocket. sanchez, also a helicopter pilot, said she s ready to head to space one day. she wants to go. i m ready. together? no. he s already been. we ll see. i think she has some ideas about who she wants to go with. we ll see. it will be a great group of females. a source familiar with the making of bezos megayacht says the billionaire had a figure head at the bow of the shape made in the likeness of the no, sir goddess with a striking resemblance to sanchez, a grand gesture may hint at a grand wedding to come. well, listen, this is all everyone has been talking about. no idea when this these n nuptials will take place. she has been instrumental in helping him with his philanthropy, like i said. she will be headed to space. they have the bezos academy. so they have been working together and obviously, you know, truly in love for the past several years. they re making it official.
it is time now for the good stuff. the daughter of the first american astronaut alan shepard will follow her father s footsteps when on december 9th, she and five other passengers arrived aboard the new shepherd rocket and capsule named after her father that is laura shepard churchly, she will be heading to space on the new blue shepherd mission, her father alan shepard the first man in space, the american man in space, the fifth to walk on the moon. he hit a golf ball into space and laura churchly is only going to be in space or near space for ten minutes and very curious if she ll try to do something athletic while she s up there in the ten minutes to honor what her father did. she s going to take her father s naval academy ring with her to space, which has already been up three times. i guess alan shepard took it up the first time when he went to space for a few minutes.
little bit busier since then. and it s no longer just monkeys heading into a galaxy far, far away. now almost anyone can snag a seat on the spacecraft, and the richer you are, the better. billionaires and celebrities from around the world are claiming their chance to make it to space. so far this year there have been more than 20 civilians who ve taken the journey on six spaceflight missions. richard branson s virgin galactic made two flights to the edge of space in a matter of months, in may with two pilots and in july which had three passengers and two pilots. if we can do this, just imagine what you can do. reporter: less than two weeks after that, amazon founder jeff bezos reached the edge of space along with three others on blue origin s new shepherd rocket. and last week 90-year-old star trek actor william shatner took an 11-minute trip into space on a blue origin flight. elon musk s spacex made history