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and concern from the speaker of the house and general mark milley that president trump was acting irrat particularly. some republican lawmakers are already demanding answers now. others say general milley should be brought in front of a military tribunal. the pentagon is pushing back tonight essentially saying there is nothing to see here general joins us with from the pentagon with the latest. good evening, bret. the two calls made to chinese counterpart were not secret. they were done with 15 people in the room including notetakers in coordination with the civilian leaders of the military at the time and the interagency i m told by current and former u.s. defense officials. unnamed sources in theoodward and acosta book contend general milley told general li that he would give him a heads up if the u.s. planned to strike. colonel dave butler the colonel staff spokesman issued the following statement, quote: his calls with the chinese and other in october and january ....
reporter: i don t think anybody is happy about the price tag, particularly given there s going to be another gubernatorial election just a year from now. people will be voting on whether or not gavin newsom should be the governor again in 2022. if you would have asked me about the surprise a month ago, the answer potentially would have been yes. but the fact that gavin newsom is going back to work in the building behind me this morning after the last couple of weeks that we ve had here in california, i don t think it s a surprise. certainly not to his campaign. they felt very confident about how this was going to play out, especially with the late campaign turn, larry elders, and he wasn t going to accept the results of the election. and the reality is people support gavin newsom s policies, they support him on covid vaccine mandates and mask mandates, support his effort to help the unhoused population, to close the inequality gap and fight the wildfires fueled by cli ....
jeff bezos is about to lift off to the edge of space and back. the flight comes on the anniversary of another historic mission. it s one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. more than five decades after neil armstrong mesmerized man with his step into space, space tourism and beyond that, the privatization of space. this is a project 20 years in the making for bezos. the founder of blue origin and amazon will be the second billionaire to blast off from earth in his own spacecraft. richard branson and his virgin galactic soared to the skies from new mexico earlier this month. the youngest and oldest humans will be on the blue shepherd rocket along with jeff bezos and his brother mark. wally funk was trained to be an astronaut in the 1960s. part of the group known as of the mercury 13. they never made it to space because only men were sent at the time. women proved they could pass the rigorous physical requirements that nasa had set up. also aboard today, a ....
international space station. the latest joint venture between nasa and spacex. our rachel crane is there. cabrera-b we know the mission was delayed for a day because of the weather. conditions look good today. tell us what you are seeing and what the mood is there. reporter: that s right, christine. all systems are a go, it has been a smooth countdown and we are track noog issues for the scheduled launch today at 5:49 even time this morning. let me tell you about where we are in the countdown of today s launch. the astronauts are currently suited up, strapped into their seats, the hatch of endeavor is closed. there has been a series of systems checks, coms checks, leak checks that have been conducted. the next major milestone is 45 minutes before launch, so we re just minutes away from that, when spacex launch director will do the go for propellant call. 35 minutes before countdown is when they will start loading up over a million pounds of propellant, liquid oxygen w ....
local family-owned manufacturer of candles. but, boris, as you re saying, we re still waiting to hear. now, we are seeing daylight out. we know that rescue teams are on the ground right now. they re not only assessing the damage, but they re trying to see if there s anyone inside who may need help. and right now, amara, we want to get to someone on the scene. michael gordon, he is a storm chaser who is in mayfield right now. he s at that candle factory where search and rescue operations are under way. and as we look behind you, michael, it looks like an enormous debris field that is several feet high and maybe a couple hundred yards wide. what are you seeing there right now. yeah, i believe i think there s upwards of 12 probably 12 feast debris, and, yes, it spans the full length of that factory, which i don t know exactly how long it is, but, yeah, it s just a pile of rubble. everything i mean, every corner of the yard even, surrounding this factory, has debr ....