Hospital balcony. And later, they re cute little devils, a special species makes a return. They re beautiful, what is not to love about tasmanian devils? they re beautiful this is the cbs weekend news with jericka duncan, reporting from the new york. Ork, her barnett: good evening, to our viewers in the west jericka duncan is off tonight. I m errol barnett. British billionaire richard branson first took tourists to the sky in 1984 flying aboard a used jumbo jet. Today branson soared into space on board a repainted virgin galactic rocket plane with a crew of five others. He called this the dawn of a new space age aimed at sending tourist there, too. Cbs mark strassmann watched it all in truth or consequences, new mexico. Good evening. Reporter: i tell you, errol, that really was something, a milestone for richard branson personally, but also one for commercial space. The emerging market of space tourism has a genuine success story. Sir richard branson, astronaut. Reporter: with his new
Man, oh, man he makes it look so easy. Branson and his crew now back on of planet earth after a near picture perfect landing. He is expected to speak any moment now. We will of course bring you his remarks when he steps up to the microphones in new mexico. Virgin galactic plans to offer private flights to space beginning of next year. Jeff paul live at the site just miles from the launch pad and where they landed. Man, jeff, what an exciting, historic day this has been. What was it like? eric, you can probably hear a celebratory mood here in truth or consequences, new mexico, a very hot day but also a very exciting one. Years and years of work finally paying off for require ingalactic owner, richard branson, getting to that milestone, getting to space after working at it for so long. To of day started a little rocky with a 90 minute delay due to weather what happened overnight but that was really the only hiccup in the operation. Everything else went at planned. You see the plane takin
the series n the edge. joe root came out dancing. these were conditions ideal for batting. root and david malan seemed capable of doing lots of it. 50 four david malan. no wickets in the first session, englishmen in adelaide out of hiding. butjust as those woke up and checked their phones. gone! ..joe root left the conversation. that touch moved the match. australia had dismissed officially the best batter in the world. the rest wouldn t be a problem. that was dawid malan, gone to starc for 80. and this was ollie pope, prodding at nathan lyon on 5. that time! whenjos buttler met his own starc end, england had lost four wickets for 19 runs, and we were watching another repeat. when it ended, england were still 237 runs behind. australia s attack was supposed to be weakened. the aussies didn t have to bat again, but chose to, sensing it probably wasn t as difficult as it had just been made to look. they finished 45 1, a long way ahead. pretty frustrating and disappointing. it
we ask whether this will be enough for the uk to go electric ? also in the next hour, an inquiry finds that child abuse allegations against the late labour peer lord janner were not properly investigated because of multiple failures by police and prosecutors. nhs england announces children aged 12 15 will be able to get vaccinated at national hubs, not just at school, as concern grows over a rise in cases. music. and a0 years after the first episode of bergerac, we ll be looking at some previously unseen photographs which were taken during the show s ten year run on the island ofjersey. the government has set out a road map for cutting carbon emissions to zero by 2050, which ministers claim will support nearly half a million jobs over the next few decades. it includes the aim that by 2035, the uk will be powered entirely by clean electricity. there is also £650 million to subsidise the cost of electric vehicles, and people in england and wales will be offered £5000 grants
family to at this point, based upon the conditions we are now moving from a recovery mode to a salvage operation. because of the superstructure surrounding the vehicle, what we believe were the vehicles and the amount of concrete and debris divers are no longer able to safely navigate and operate around that we have exhausted all search efforts and the areas around this this wreckage and based on sonar scans, we firmly believe but the vehicles are encased in the superstructure and concrete that we tragically saw up come down at this point as this moves to a salvage recovery effort the maryland state police will continue to support the unified command as the salvage assessment phase takes place and the us coast guard will brief additional additional information regarding what to expect and possibly how long this could take but i ll tell you now there s no definitive timeline on this please be patient please keep the family members in mind in coordinating with our fbi partners.