how are they feeling and what was your takeaway? she seem pumped and psyched. whether you are in that rocket or looking at that rocket you re pumped. something that jeff bezos has been doing going back 21 years elon musk and richard branson. no rush to be first but a rush to be right. he has taken some slings and arrows on this being the second man in space but his blue origin company is pointing out he will go higher than branson did. 66 miles versus 53. a back and forth on what s really space. i think when you re up there and see the black contrasted with the blue of earth you re in space. once you are there for 2 or 3 minutes it is a big achievement. a huge achievement. sandra: susan lee is with us as well. i love that he chose his brother, mark, to accompany him. his little brother. he is a firefighters here in westchester county outside of new york city and runs a financial firm as well but brothers going to space and an 18-year-old oliver damon, a dutch teenager and
than 9900 points. now it s down more than 900 points again. it s been bouncing around but it s looked bad all day. the delta variant is spooking investor who threaten it could worry u.s. recovery. one calls it the most serious virus most unvaccinated people will face in their lives. right now every state in the u.s. is seeing a rise in coronavirus cases. for the first time since mid-may, the u.s. is averaging more than 30,000 cases a day. that s a 66% jump from last week. 145% increase from two weeks ago. hospitalizations are up 50% from two weeks ago. deaths are on the rise too. averaging about 260 per day. up 13% from last week. only 48.6% of the u.s. population is fully vaccinated. they are calling on all stientss over the age of two years old to wear masks this coming school year even if they are vaccinated. that s different than what the cdc recommends. let s turn to jason carol. explain why pediatricians are urging now that masks stay in place at school? i think t
landmark national investments, investments that only the government has the capacity to make. only the government working together could make. today happens to mark coincidental, but today is the 60th anniversary of one of those significant investments that changed the nation. 65 years ago today president dwight eisenhower signed a bill that created the interstate highway system, 65 years ago today. that was the last infrastructure investment of the size and scope of the agreement i m about to talk about today. it is time for us to write a new chapter in that story. after months of careful negotiation, of listening, compromising together in a good faith moving together with ups and downs and some blips, a bipartisan group of senators got together and they ve forged an agreement to move forward on the key priorities of my american jobs plan. one of them is sitting in front of me. as a result, this is a generational investment, a generational investment to modernize our infra
america has always been propelled into the future by landmark national investments, investments that only the government has the capacity to make, only the government working together could make. today happens to mark it s coincidental, but today is the 60th anniversary of one of those significant investments that changed the nation. 65 years ago today president dwight eisenhower signed a bill to create the interstate highway system, 65 years ago today. that was the last infrastructure investment of the size and scope of what i m about to talk about today. it s time for us to write a new chapter in that story. after months of careful negotiations, of listening, compromising together and in good faith, moving together, with ups and downs and some blips, a bipartisan group of senators got together and they forged an agreement to move forward on the key priorities of my american jobs plan, the one sitting in front of me. as a result, this is a generational investment, a genera
the associated press, jonathan lemire. what time did you land last night? air force one got back right around 11:00, snagged a couple of hours of sleep, happy to be here this morning, staying away from anything that looked like it could be tea or coffee or anything else the russians may seriously, how are you feeling? everything good? i am fine. a little tired, but fine. you re alive. that s right. a giger counter. so you need a giger counter. willie, you saw the picture yesterday, five russians on one red sox fan and, you know, it s kind of like when i saw the picture, do we have that picture? i hope so. it s coming. when i saw the picture, five russians named igor, coincidentally. all of them named igor. off me, igor. anyway, it was kind of like the opening scene of batman with christian bale where they have to separate him from all the prisoners, because he s beating them all up. you know what, you needed to be removed, jonathan. and they removed yo