It was just a year and a half ago that the president of the United States put in his state of the Union Address that we are going to launch american astronauts on american rockets from american soil. He looked at me and said you are going to make that happen. Here we are a year and a half later. And the help of elon musk the spacex team, we have delivered. But of course, the president s agenda is just beginning, there is so much more. He turned around and recreated a moon program. He said we are going to go to the moon for a purpose, because we as a nation are going to get to mars. Agency we call nasa is excited about it. I want to tell you a quick story. Im here to introduce the president , but i have to take a moment. It was about nine years ago. The Space Shuttle atlantis landed right here for the last Space Shuttle mission in the history of the u. S. The next day, 2000 pink slips went out. Over the course of the next two years, this area went from 15,000 jobs down to 7500 jobs. Dev
knows the route to laguardia and he s on the news line now. captain mark welcome, good to have you with us. in retrospect should the airport have been closed before this event could take place? caller: the airport was closed before the event. i m not certain if i understand the question. should this plane have been allowed to land at laguardia. caller: oh, i see. i misunderstood you. maybe i didn t phrase it well. it s up to the coordination between the captain and airline itself. although the weather was certainly coming down at laguardia one thing that seems problematic to me is the runway they were using. they were landing to the southeast there at laguardia and the wind was almost off their tail which is not a good thing. you don t want to be doing that. you want to land into the wind but you certainly want to be landing into the wind when the runway has something on it like snow or ice or water. and we may find that that becomes a contributing cause to the acci
bolden discusses his career at life at thehis military, and decisions to attend united states naval academy. charles olden, if you had your choice, would you rather be shuttle, or in the run the national administration? i am running since the nasa right now, i would rather be doing what i m doing. i am a person, i live in the moment. know, i tellow me them, i do not regret anything, no matter how bad. what is done is done. i would not change anything because i have three beautiful granddaughters who are 6, 10, and 13. i am fearful if i went back and changed any minor thing, that might not happen. 135 missions with the space shuttle. $200 billion. 30 years. was it worth it? every dime. think start with what i the shuttle did for the nation over its incredible 30 years that most people will never think about unless somebody tells them. which inical world in live is very non-diverse. there are not a lot of people who look like me. in fact, in the history of this space shuttl
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you captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald. good morning, everyone. it s a rainy wednesday, good to have you on board november 20th. i m frank mallicoat. i m michelle griego. time now is 6:01. let s get straight to meteorologist lawrence karnow with more on this rain. yeah, guys. a nice rainfall moving through the bay area. it looks like it continues now although the steady rain has moved to these, scattered showers. you can see that on our hi-def doppler radar over the last few hours turning more towards scattered showers. heavier rainfall showing up in some parts of the central valley. still the showers are going to be popping up throughout the day today. you re going to see that from time to time so keep that umbrella handy. you ll likely need that. see some showers now making their way in towards putsburg in the central val pittsburg in the central valley, more on the way. sfo delays of about