The culmination of a challenge by president john f. Kennedy. Next, on american history tv, whats commonly referred to as his moon speech, President Kennedy on september 12th, 1962 at Rice University in houston. President , mr. Vice president , governor, congressman thomas, senator wiley, congressman vanilla, mr. Webb, tell, distinguished guests and ladies and gentlemen. I appreciate your president having made me an honorary visiting professor and i will assure you that my first electorate will be a very brief one. Im delighted to be here and im particular delighted to be here on this occasion. We meet at a college noted for knowledge in a city noted for progress, in a state noted for strength. And we stand in need of all three. But we need in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear. And any age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. Despite the striking fact that most of this societies of the world
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
end of july. he said now was the time to go big on an economic relief bill. he wants k-8 schools open by the end of his first hundred days in office, not just one day a week, but five days. he wants teachers prioritized for vaccination. a lot of specific news line items. but the biggest takeaway was a literal and total call for a return to normalcy. not just in coronavirus, but in life. the president said the last four years has been spent talking about trump. he wants to spend the next four years talking about the american people. okay, meanwhile, more than two dozen people have died from a massive winter storm crippling much of the south. millions are still without power this morning in texas in the middle of record-breaking cold temperatures. much of america s fourth largest city, houston, is city in the dark. there are growing questions this morning about why the texas electrical grid failed so badly. the weather is also impacting vaccine distribution, appointments bein
attempting to get on top without inspiring bitterness or divisiveness. get on top of this covid pandemic. do it with a covid relief bill which he s been pushing which appears to be on track to passage, which is polling very well. obviously, the test is not simply going to be whether he can pass this bill, but whether it works. that s the ultimate issue. but at the beginning of the administration, this is an optimum time. he didn t have to do battle with any political opponent. he tried to shunt aside talk of trump. it wasn t a debate where you had to attack anyone. although those are the kind of things that tend to be polarizing. he was trying to present a unifying face to the country in that swing state. and generate some momentum as the house takes up that package which is going to do next week. rachel, before the town hall, we were wondering if you d be in sales mode. he still has to win over even some democrats. a couple of democrats, sinema and manchin, for some of the
in fact, one black president a world away wants to know why president biden is singling out african nations when it is affecting people hopping on planes and going everywhere? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus . the president meeting now we re told with his covid response team getting set to speak later this hour to the nation on the new variant. and the world health organization says it poses a very high global risk. south africa s first reports of it were last wednesday. the truth, there is still a lot we don t know. dr. anthony fauci says it should take about two weeks to get a clear picture of how severe and transmissible the variant is. you have a virus that has already gone to multiple countries. inevitably it will be here. we re on the lookout for this. cdc has a good surveillance system. if and when shall did-it will be when it comes here hopefully we ll be ready for it. harris: dr. marty makary says it could take 12 hours. let s get the facts