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by the thousands with hundreds more massing on the rio grande river, preparing to enter the u.s. illegally, and the biden administration in damage control mode after the defense department admits that the drone strike last month killed ten civilians, not isis-k terrorists. arthel: bill melugin on the border in del rio, texas. but first, the gabby petito case. lauren green on the search for the missing 22-year-old with, and now to charles watson live in northport, florida, with the deepingenning mystery deepening mystery. reporter: there s no shortage of twists and turns when it comes to this story. you ve got a search for gabby petito out west, and now investigators in northport, florida, searching for her boyfriend, brian laundrie, as investigators fear he could be in danger after going missing for days. we just heard from the northport police department a short time ago who tell us about 50 officers including fbi agents are on the ground conducting a search of a 2 ....
sir richard branson. they went to the very lowest part of what is considered space where they were briefly weightless for a few minutes and then they returned which, you know, that s cool. this is not that though. this is actually a genuine honest to god actual space mission. spacex rocket is going to launch four amateur astronauts although one does include a billionaire. don t you worry, we re getting another billionaire into space. they re going to go into orbit 360 miles above earth. the crew is composed entirely of civilians. there is a billionaire who funded the trip, a physician s assistant from saint jude research center, data engineer and geo science professor. got a very cool second chance. those don t usually happen. what we re going to witness basically is the closest thing that we ve ever seen here in the u.s. at least to the kind of dream that we were sold as children, right? the futuristic dream of space travel available to normal people, nontrained astron ....
they are going to go into orbit almost 360 miles above earth. higher than the orbit of the international space station. the crew, is composed entirely civilians. there is as i said a billionaire who founded the trip. also physicians assistant from sainthood research center, a data engineer, and a geoscience professor, who is nearly selected for the astronaut program 12 years ago, getting a very cool second chance. those don t usually happen. so we re going to witness, basically is the closest thing that we have ever seen here in the u.s. it least to cut the kind of dream that we were sold as children. the futuristic dream of space travel available to normal people. non trained astronauts, people being able to just get on a rocketship, and gauge in space travel, for the first time. cal perry call joins me now, he is standing by the launch. what are we going to see here? hey chris so this rocket could take them over 17,000 miles an hour, when they were detached, return ....
a new era in space travel. the question is, are we witnessing a new start of an era in space travel? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that some days would like to buy a one-way ticket to mars. i m jonathan lemire on this thursday, september 16th. we ll start with the news. the u.s. has reached another grim milestone in its fight against coronavirus. new data shows that more than one in 500 americans has died from covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, one in 500 americans. according to an nbc news tally, there have been more than 41,689,000 cases. so far 55% are vaccinated. 63% have received one dose. the fda will meet to discuss whether booster shots will be necessary for the majority of adults who are vaccinated. nbc news correspondent miguel almaguer explained. reporter: the battle over boosters as vaccine boosters make their case ahead of friday s fda review of pfizer s booster shot for the general publ ....
reporters in the room about joint chiefs of staff about general milley. i have great confidence in general milley. thank you, thank you, clear the room, clear the room. thank you. momentarily in the meantime, let s bring in nbc s monica alba in the control room, and are we playing back the video, and monica, it is good to see you, friend. help us to understand why there is so much attention today on the president s perspective and his views on the joint chiefs of staff? well, that is a very, very brief spray, geoff, and those are the only words that the president uttered on the situation, and he did not say anything else, and he wanted to say i have great confidence in general milley were his only words, and jen psaki offered more comments, and she was pressed on whether the president has confidence, and then she called the man who the president respects very much, and working closely with, and when asked whether the white house would like to see more inform ....