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are investigating how a space capsule launch went badly wrong. the mission taking crew members to the international space station came falling back to earth when the soyuz rocket malfunctioned. both of the men on board survived unharmed, but it has raised questions over whether the soviet era design is still safe for carrying people into orbit. from moscow, sarah rainsford reports. and there is liftoff of the soyuz ms. a burst of fire and noise, as a soyuz rocket lifted its crew into orbit. at first, this was a routine launch to the international space station. then came this. less than three minutes into the flight, the commander, alexey ovchinin, reported an emergency. the booster system had failed. the launch had to be aborted. moments later, the two men were plunging back to earth in their tiny capsule. the crew did train for this nightmare scenario, the gruelling g force their bodies would have to endure. a russian soyuz rocket hasn t failed on launch in over three ....
capsule launch went badly wrong. the mission taking crew members to the international space station came falling back to earth when the soyuz rocket malfunctioned. both of the men on board survived unharmed, but it has raised questions over whether the soviet era design is still safe for carrying people into orbit. from moscow, sarah rainsford reports. and there is liftoff of the soyuz ms 10. a burst of fire and noise, as a soyuz rocket lifted its crew into orbit. at first, this was a routine launch to the international space station. then came this. less than three minutes into the flight, the commander, alexey ovchinin, reported an emergency. the booster system had failed. the launch had to be aborted. moments later, the two men were plunging back to earth in their tiny capsule. the crew did train for this nightmare scenario, the gruelling g force their bodies would have to endure. but russia s soyuz rocket hasn t failed on launch in over three decades. for american n ....
compare himself to? apple is at the top of one important list but for what and there are others on that list, too. hello, everyone. it s 9:00 a.m. out west. welcome to weekends with alex witt. the very latest headlines from the philippines, we ve learn more than 1200 people are dead. they were killed when the biggest storm ever recorded typhoon high yen slammed into the nation. the death toll could have been higher but early warnings entmillions to shelters days before the storm hit. when they ll be able to go home remains to be seen. now evacuations are under way in vietnam where the storm is expected to hit sometime tomorrow. correspondent angus walker has the latest now from the philippines. they re beginning to survey the damage in the philippines after one of the strongest storms ever recorded swept across this island nation. the winds of typhoon hey yen came ashore clocked at 125 miles per hour with gusts over 230. equal to a category 5 hurricane. few buildi ....
alex witt. developing news out of syria right now, the syrian government reached an agreement with the united nations to allow inspectors to visit the site of an alleged chemical attack last week. word just a short time ago from a u.n. spokesman saying inspections will begin tomorrow. a senior white house official tells nbc news the decision by the syrian government is, quote, too late to be credible and says any evidence has likely been damaged or destroyed by continued bombings. meanwhile, the syrian government warned that any military intervention by the united states would set the middle east aflame and iran says u.s. action would have severe consequences. this morning, republican senator bob corker called for a surgical response. i hope the president, as soon as we get back to washington, will ask for authorization from congress to do something in a very surgical and proportional way. something that gets their attention, that causes them to understand that we ....
we ll get to those stories in a moment. we start with breaking news. a nightmare for any servicemen or family member of one this thanksgiving, the desperate search for three sailors whose aircraft crashed en route to their aircraft carrier in the philippine sea, southeast of okinawa. for the latest we start with courtney kube. first of all, the latest on the search as well as the investigation into the crash. what do we know? so, we know that a u.s. navy c-2 aircraft, which is a propeller, twin-engine plane is one used to carry people and mail and supplies on and off of u.s. aircraft carriers. it s commonly referred to as a cod. we know it crashed down when it was in the vicinity of the uss ronald reagan about 2:45 local time today, wednesday, off okinawa. it went into the water, into the ocean with 11 personnel on board. eight of them were able to get out, have been rescued and brought back to the uss ronald reagan for medical care. they re being described as b ....