Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Welcome to verified live three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. We start in hawaii, and terrifying and apocalyptic scenes as wildfires sweep across the islands. At least 36 people are known to have died others are still unaccounted for. Large parts of the Tourist Town Of Lahaina on the island of maui have been burned to the ground. This is what it looked like overnight, when flames spread rapidly, forcing some people to jump into the sea to escape. Multiple areas have been burnt to the ground, and the western side of the island is almost cut off. Officials say the Hospital System is overwhelmed, with many people suffering burns and smoke inhalation. Our correspondent, richard galpin, has this report. Is anybody still out here . Its time to go these are the desperate calls for people still in the historic City Of Lahaina on the island of maui, as the flames on the marina gets closer and closer. Many neighbourhoods were burn
time ago where they were significantly cheaper, but still a lot of money. but, with time, we do expect the price to fall. it is an amazing experience for an individual to have and virgin galactic are careful about where they prepare people for these trips, to maximise the impact of the voyage. they are really training people in how to share that experience with as many people as possible to make a difference back on earth. there is also another important component of this, which is that, at maximum capacity, they may have six seats occupies. the remaining seats can have payload racks, so we can do experimentation. it may not seem that this is not so important, but it is filling a gap for us. traditionally, we have been able to test things in a micro gravity environment, either in the international space station, or using drop towers, where we drop
if we are doing that and we have the pads and are filling them. the second line of defense would be the snorkels which are really interesting innovation. where they basically took some of the equipment that is found inside the space suit. modified it. basically try to get the other end of the snorkel, the end that is not in the astronaut s mouth down to an area that would not be filled with water. as we mentioned, this mission may need three spacewalks with the last one happening on christmas day. what is the most difficult aspect of working in space like this? there is a lot of difficult parts about working in space. you are in a micro gravity environment. you are floating. everything is floating. the tools are floating. it s easy to lose them. that is why everything we have is tethered. string and a hook on evening. movement is very laborious. you re inside a self-contained spaceship. you know, a space suit is a
of space shuttles. stay tuned. lit take as you little while. we are still working on it but keep watching. we will be launching again. we will stay in the business, as they said, the united states is not out space business. absolutely. we have proven for 30 years that we know how to get to lower orbit. we built this fantastic international space station. lit keep operating at least through 2020, conducting research in this incredible laboratory with the micro gravity environment of space we cannot replicate here on earth. we are going to still explore and research there but we have proven we know how to get to lower orr. it next step is we need to go on. absolutely. that s going to be the challenge for you and the rest of the folks at nasa. as we see atlantis sitting on the edge of the runway, it is, in fact, over for the space shuttle program. that s right. thank you for that. we want to get the take of what it is like in haas ton at mission control where i
enemies. everybody seems to get along better in space than on earth. there seems to be less politics, and you ve got to make it all work. that s true. i flew with a russian air force colonel, as you know, and he became a lifelong good friend of mine, and i made several friendships in russia. and that s the way we fliers think of each other. we don t think of each other as you re on this side and i m on that side. there is a common bond of being a flyer, especially a space flyer, and i felt the same bond when i met the chinese astronauts. it s a little star trekky, but it does lead to a lot of scientific discoveries. you said micro gravity environment. you mean an environment where you can do experiments that require an absence of gravity? that s correct. zero g is kind of a misnomer. because you never get a perfectly 0 g environment in a spacecraft in orbit.