Person arraignment in the maralago documents case. Well tell you what happened when his two codefendants showed up in court. Plus new reporting from propublica about Clarence Thomas and his wealthy network of friends who allegedly financed his luxurious gifts and travel. And we begin this morning with a devastating wildfires in hawaii. At least 36 people have died as the flames rip through the island with crews in the skies and on the ground urgently battling three active fires. The flames have destroyed homes, wreaked havoc on businesses and forced thousands to evacuate. Residents seeking safety are flocking to airports and shelters. My family is thinking of just leaving the island completely. We have nothing but the clothes on our backs right now. Everything is gone. Some had to jump into the ocean to escape dangerous flames, swallowed more 2,000 acres of land. Want you to see Satellite Image that captures what the town of lahaina looked like, a Historic Town before and after the bla
they re standing on the shoulders as the as you said of, you know, incredible science and engineering, much of it came from the american space program so that this is going to land, this is going to land safely. it is not easy to do this to get down from space. so you got to go through the atmosphere at high speed and the skin of the spacecraft is going to heat up, it has got to navigate there is no engines on this. this is coming down like a glider. it is a glider. essentially a glider. that technology was pioneered by the space shuttle. the space shuttle did this. we re seeing some really amazing technology. i can t thank you enough for being with us this morning. really appreciate your enthusiasm, your knowledge, all that you know. and i m very much looking forward to reading the little book of aliens. i am. i thank you. very good. thanks. thank you. next, a new propublica report reveals clarence thomas received a series of luxury gifts that were never revealed t
nonetheless does illustrate things a little bit. talk to us a little bit about safety. as much as this is exciting, there is so much risk involved in going into space always. the american space program has experienced some of these highs and some of the lows with the expl explosions. how confident are you that this is going to be a safe mission, especially for branson? the virgin galactic had a test pilot die in 2014. there is something hanging over this scenario here. yes. space is, by definition, a very hard place to go and it s a hard place to come back from safely. astronauts nasa astronauts were lost on the launch pad, obviously apollo 13 nearly came to disaster. russia or the old soviet union lost two crews on the way back to earth. people do die in space.
hello everyone, i m melissa francis. president donald trump and german chancellor angela merkel wrapping up their meeting ahead of the g20. we will get a report from our own john roberts on what went down there. plus, growing protests in germany outside the main venue, we are live on the ground with that. press secretary james mattis speaking up for the first time about the north korean missile launch and the possibility of war. his reaction and more on america s news headquarters . molly: vice president mike pence getting an up close look at the american space program. during the kennedy space center today and just now wrapping up with the thousands of staff just hour after the private company
issue we have to address just that because that is what is pressing immediately. if you quickly, robert, see the way the iran nuclear deal has been debated, again, what can we learn from that to apply perhaps to north korea who already have these nuclear weapons? you are right, your final point is spot on because north korea is a much more mature nuclear program. i think the decoupling piece is important. if you look at the structure of our debate on the hard cases of iran and north korea, it goes back to the post-9/11 period where there was a divide in our debate over how to address these hard cases, so-called rogue states, should arid objective be to change their behavior or should it be to change their regime? for those who focus on regime change, it s on understandable because they say the danger arises from the character of the regime and changed behavior lot take you there if that regime stays in power, the character of the regime is unchanged, and that is from where the