infection rates have fallen by two thirds in england since the latest lockdown. and in our weekly video for bbc online, we ll look at what it ll take to reopen schools during the pandemic. we start on mars, because in just under two hours time, nasa s perseverance rover will attempt to land on its surface. only 50% of missions to the red planet are successful. it s a nail biting moment for everyone involved. and for quite a few people watching as well. mars is a70 million km away and it s taken the rover seven months to get there. its mission is to search directly for signs of life the first nasa mission to do so since the 1970s. rebecca morelle has a simulation of what the scientists are hoping is about to happen. nasa calls it the seven minutes of terror. an approach to mars at 12,000mph, then, just at the right moment. ..a parachute opens, dramatically slowing it down before a complex landing system brings the perseverance rover down to the ground. that s the plan, but
i believe that the energy and commerce committee will be taking up some form of when i say investigation, i mean a look into it to see how things could have turned out better and will turn out better in the future. elsewhere on capitol hill congressional democrats have launched a new effort to reform the nation s immigration system which includes a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. we will have an exclusive interview with new jersey senator bob menendez a lead sponsor of that bill. this as the government reported that 861,000 americans filed for first time unemployment claims last week. more evidence the economic recovery may be stalling. at this hour we begin with the emergency under way in texas. hundreds of thousands still without power, now being told to boil their water. plus as one public health crisis unfolds another ongoing one is being affected, too, with the houston health department closing coronavirus vaccination sites today beca
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