Plane back here on the earths surface any moment. Joining us now to discuss from New Mexico is cnn Innovation And Space correspondent rachel crane. Rachel, the astronauts have just touched down after the historic Virgin Galactic flight. Sum It Up for us. Reporter thats right, jake. Im just a few hundreds yards away from unity right now. Hopefully well see Richard Branson and hear his emotion and what this experience was like, after he took his historic Space Flight for him and his team. Everyone has been pegging this as the Billionaire Space Race. Today Richard Branson they got to where they wanted to go. It was a sub orbital flight. Richard branson passed the 50mile Mark and will receive his Astronaut Wings. Thats a ceremony well see in a few moments, him and two additional Mission Specialists on board. Theyll be receiving their Astronaut Wings today. Blue origin, their direct competitor in the subOrbital Space, theyre set to make their first cruewed flight on July 20th. I wanted to p
good morning. good to be with you. i m anne-marie green. overnight, tens of thousands of people in california were placed under new lockdown orders. across the u.s. yesterday, there were 175,000 coronavirus cases according to johns hopkins university. since the start of december, there have been more than a million cases in this country. there are currently a record 100,000 patients 100,000 patients hospitalized. a new round of lockdowns in most populated states. debra, we are talking about california. what are some of the new restrictions that are going into effect there? it is a stay-at-home order, anne-marie green. that means people need to stay at home as much as possible. if you do leave, they are asking you to wear a mask 100% of the time. there are restrictions on businesses and all until after christmas. much of california is under a stay-at-home order for the next three weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus. these patients are not going to just stop com
savages the world health organization and to china over their handling of the outbreak the mayor of cell paolo warns that his city s hospitals are nearing collapse. and after 10 weeks of lockdown the shops restaurants and hairdressers open their doors once again initially. the best hole in the united states has passed 90000 with nearly 1500000 people infected according to johns hopkins university the u.s. has no record of 90312 coronavirus related deaths just after the country passed that mark president donald trump the clear that he was taking the controversial and unproven treatment how drugs the chloral quinn to prevent coronavirus infection he said many frontline workers were also taking it the drug which has been used to prevent kaleri and has been repeatedly touted by trump as a potential game changer. by kava joins us live now from the white house so it s quite a revelation there by president trump that he s taking this drug that he s obviously been plugging for weeks
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