Invitations, Moments Ago Shatner and his three crewmates arrived at the site from a remote stretch in west texas where the launches come from, originally scheduled on tuesday, postponed a day due to dangerous rough winds. The 90yearold shatner tells Anderson Cooper ahead of the launch, hes understandably anxious before hurdling into space at three times the speed of sound. Thats more than 2200 miles an hour. And hell go 62 miles above the earth. Have a listen. My fear is as you go up, that you cant draw a breath. That apparently is not going to happen. Thats what they say. Im quite apprehensive as you might have guessed. The power of g forces. Today will mark blue origin, the private space flight company, founded by amazon founder jeff bezos. The second launch of an all civilian crew. Bezos and his brother and two others took blue origins inaugural flight less than three months ago. We broadcast that live as well. Cnns space and defense correspondent Kristen Fisher is at the launch sit
On board the International Space station, a japanese billionaire preparing to fly to orbit. Were seeing this rush of this new era of space tourism. No question. Were watching the crew get ready. Its called a shelter room there. We are just passing 30 minutes to launch time all these steps are key. They had to take off the little booties over your shoes. You want to keep, i would imagine, the capsule clean from dirt or dust. Commander hadfield, can you explain how important these final little prep steps are because, again, space is hard, and you dont want to get anything in the way of a successful launch. I think one of the most important steps right now is bill shatner just sat down. Thats a 90yearold that just climbed multi stories. I really hope at 90 years old im as physically able as bill is right now. Im glad hes taking a moment to catch his breath. But before bernard and i flew, we go through a quarantine. Part of it is because we dont want to take disease up to a space station.
Twitter probably continues on and maybe elon musk, you know, i have no knowledge of this, but its possible that the business just continues to shrink so much that he decides to kind of cut his losses and declare bankruptcy. But, you know, i think hes still personally passionate about twitter or x, and, you know, he enjoys it many some way at least this is available to watch at cspan. Org. We go now to a discussion on civil rights and the military. From the Truman Library institute, this is live coverage on cspan2. We have had for those of you who have participated over last two days, weve had two days of just incredible participation and engagement of some of the most fascinating speakers and historians and authors that we could have aassembled. Im just so proud and pleased with the effort of our team, our taffe, our sol our staff, our volunteers and our sponsors for making it possible for us to put this week together. And weve got a great, a Great Program today. Some of the most beaut
all. in that area just be safe and try not to drive through flooded roadways and find a alternate route. temperatures right now you can still see the heat. ninety-three at the airport. cooler in south jersey 85 in atlantic city. eighty-five millville. eighty-four in trenton. that number rebounded after we dropped in the upper 70 s once those storms rolled through. dew points in the 60 s. it could be worse. dew points in the 07 s we will look at heat advisory and excessive heat warnings. dew points in the 60 s we are not feeling that extreme, those extreme heat indexes where it feels like hundred plus outside but today has been the hottest day of this current heat wave. we hit 91 saturday. ninety-three sunday. today s high was officially 94 y the heat wave is not over just yet. we are talking about one more day in the 90 s and that day is tomorrow. if you are out and about this evening, in some spots, that isolated shower or thunderstorm mainly in the north east right now, 89
conspired to behead a boston area police officer. police confronted one of those men tuesday night. they shot him dead. the other is in custody. we take up the rise of radical islamist terrorism with major general robert scales. also president obama once promised illegal immigrants wouldn t receive health care benefits under obama care but that is exactly what is about to happen in the most populous state in the country. we ll have the story. and the cost of obama care insurance for the rest of americans, skyrocketing. among our guests congressman diane black on the unaffordable disaster that is obama care. and hillary clinton may not be the very best retail politician we ve ever seen in this country. in fact she seems to be more than a little grumpy. her poll numbers may be getting to her. she s finding all about 2016. . in iraq right now we have the right strategy a combination of coalition air strikes, training equipping, assisting, and effective local partners. that is