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a thin veil of clouds out there, but nothing that i think is going to stop everything. 71 degrees, this doesn t have to take off at a certain time. it s not trying to catch up with the space station, it s going to go up and come down. we could delay it if we have to. haze, fog, smoke and sky in the northeast, heavy rainfall in the southeast, and still, that monsoonal moisture in the desert southwest. new day continues right now. that s where i do the robot. with that music, i m not going to do it. i ll spare you, welcome to our viewers in the united states, and around the world, it s tuesday, july 20th. and it s all systems go for jeff bezos as they prepare for their 11 minute journey to the edge of space and back. the new rocket was positioned on the launch pad overnight, and it s now two hours and counting until lift off from west texas. bezos will be joined by his brother and 18-year-old from the netherlands and 82-year-old female aviation pioneer, wally funk f ....
jeff bezos is about to lift off to the edge of space and back. the flight comes on the anniversary of another historic mission. it s one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. more than five decades after neil armstrong mesmerized man with his step into space, space tourism and beyond that, the privatization of space. this is a project 20 years in the making for bezos. the founder of blue origin and amazon will be the second billionaire to blast off from earth in his own spacecraft. richard branson and his virgin galactic soared to the skies from new mexico earlier this month. the youngest and oldest humans will be on the blue shepherd rocket along with jeff bezos and his brother mark. wally funk was trained to be an astronaut in the 1960s. part of the group known as of the mercury 13. they never made it to space because only men were sent at the time. women proved they could pass the rigorous physical requirements that nasa had set up. also aboard today, a ....
trump ally arrested: why was a former campaign advisor toer cao president trump charged with acting as a foreign agent? more than a million acres burned: wildfires explode out west as two blazes merge and become a megafire. how smoke prompted air quality warnings all the way to new york city. olympic games in jeopardy: what the head of tokyo 2020 is saying tonight. busting that back-to-school budget: why are prices for clothes and school supplies skyrocketing? sleepy tom: the super bowl winning quarterback visits the white house bringing president biden a jersey and some election-related jokes. and a dream deferred, but not denied: wally funk s long road into space and the history books. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this busy tuesday night. all eyes were on west texas today when billionaire jeff bezos blasted off with a crew ....
your can t. be is it a just a little competitive jousting back and forth? what did you think of that? you re going to hear what jeff bezos has to say about that. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. before he goes out of this world for a few minutes, he might want the reprieve of getting away from a market sell-off, the likes of which we have not seen this year, all because we have a serious case of pandemic blues and concern that maybe some awful stuff, restrictions and all the stuff associated with it could be happening again. the l.a. county indoor mask mandate. a half a dozen athletes have tested positive for covid-19. two more texas democrats that are testing right now positive for covid in case you re counting. the story about vice president harris that met with these guys going to walter reed on a routine check upjust yesterday to see if maybe there s any issue with her. apparently not. she tested nothingive. all of this at a time the world is gripped with fe ....
argentina is the 2021c copa champion. we will go to the stadium in rio. welcome, everyone. thanks for your company. the highly-contagious coronavirus delta variant is continuing to tear through the united states. and rising-case numbers are showing it. according to johns hopkins university, the u.s. surpassed 20,000 new coronavirus cases, for four-straight days, this week. that is the first time that s happened since may. dozens of state are now seeing an increase in new covid cases, as experts are warning the highly-contagious delta variant could cause mini surges in places with low-vaccination rates. there is, still, a struggle to get americans vaccinated. it doesn t help that there was a little confusion, this week, as well. polo sandoval with that. reporte certainly, they need to listen to the cdc and fda. reporter: the nation s top infectious disease expert is saying listen to the cdc, and not pfizer, when it comes to needing a vaccine booster. on friday, t ....