plan to land, among other issues. reporter: but blumenthal s office pushed back, saying that they had submitted information for the passengers that, quote, goes above and beyond what was required for travel out of hamid karzai international airport just one day earlier. today blinken acknowledged the complexity of the situation but said every effort is going into getting the flights off the ground. while there are limits to what we can do without personnel on the ground, without an airport with normal security and procedures in place, we are working to do everything in our power to support those flights and to get them off the ground. reporter: still, there remain members of congress and private individuals who think the department is not doing enough. in recent days congressman mullin helped get a texas mother and her three children out of the country using an overland route. he accused the state department of trying to take credit for the effort. for them to say the
matters. plus as covid cases soar, johnson & johnson sends a booster vaccine. just like other vaccines, the question is how long will the protection last. and serena williams and roger with draw from the u.s. tennis open. it s way, way, way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that s wondering who s left to play in the ugs open. i m sam stein on this thursday, august 26th, and we ll start with the news. with just days left before the united states is scheduled to with draw troops from afghanistan, the state department is trying to track down any remaining american citizens. despite the deadline, secretary antony blinken says the u.s. will stay for as long as it takes to finish the evacuations. let me be crystal clear about this. there is no deadline on our work to help any remaining american citizens who want to leave who decide do so along with the many afghans who stood by us for many years and want to leave and have been unabl
and touchdown. welcome back new shepard s first human crew. welcome to earth. congratulations to all of you. you ve watched all of it unfold live here. billionaire jeff bezos and his crew, check it out, popping open the hatch of the rocket and popping some champagne, too, first unpiloted suborbital flight all civilian crew landing successfully on the 52nd anniversary of the lunar landing. we re gearing up to hear from the crew members during a news conference and that includes 82-year-old wally funk, involved in the mercury program who became the oldest person to go into space. look at her popping out of the capsule there, about seven hours away from the launch site in south lake, texas. a wally watch party her family and friends cheering her on as she made this historic flight, tears, emotion, joy, all of it. we are here with you for the next couple of hours for a special coverage. i bring in nbc s morgan chesky and van horn in texas and all astronaut panel of experts wi
jeff bezos said his blue origin rocket crew blasting off to the edge of space in an historic flight that could lead to a new age of tourists. he is having the time of his life floating around. oh, yeah. wahoo! jesse: before the capsule landed safely on the ground. the billionaire describing what it was like. on how it felt, oh, my god! my expectations were high and they were dramatically exceeded. what we are doing is not only adventure. it is adventure and it is fun. but it s also important. because what we are doing is the first step of something big. jesse: but right on cue, liberals are attacking him for spending an estimated $42,000 per second. i don t think i ve heard of a bigger oxymoron than talking about billionaires going up into space and then using the word democratizing. these tech leaders view the social good as equated to technological progress and market value. why did bezo and a few of his friends get to make these decisions and why are they using m
shooti shooting. this shot by a neighbor. brian todd is in elizabeth city, north carolina. brian, what does this other video shows if anything? well, jim and poppy, we are familiar with this video. we have spoken to that neighbor and several other neighbors:. some of whom who witnessed what happened a week ago tomorrow. it shows the aftermath, the immediate aftermath of the shooting of andrew brown. you can see andrew brown s car, a distance away. it s across a grassy area and then across the street, roanoke avenue. he drove across that grassy area. you see his car crashed against a tree. we spoke to the gentleman who owns that white house next to that tree. that gentleman told us that a bullet from the shooting ripped through his house and thankfully no one was there. witnesses told us that at about that time you are looking at this video, sheriff s deputies pulled andrew brown out of the vehicle and attempted life saving measures on him. obviously, the measures did not wo