to to to denigrate the tech industry. and i'll just say that has provided more jobs and more opportunity and more american exceptionalism and is going to help us in our fight against china. i'm not sure. i think he was grasping at straws and he wanted his eisenhower moment. to your point, i'm not sure he he landed that. yeah. >> all right. well, thank you all for joining us today. thanks to all of you at home for joining us as well. i do want to give you a quick look here as we leave. this is a live shot from the international space station. what you're seeing there are astronauts getting ready to walk in space. this is going to come up in a few hours. suni williams, she's one of the astronauts that was stranded on the iss this summer. is going to take part in that spacewalk. i mean, look, i guess if you're stuck there, you might as well make the most of it, right? why not? all right, i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now

breaking this morning, hours after agreeing to a ceasefire deal, israel has now pushed off a critical vote on that deal. >> the prime minister's office accusing hamas of trying to extort last minute concessions. >> so what on earth is happening? with tiktok set to be banned in the u.s. on sunday? but now we hear the ceo is invited to donald trump's inauguration on monday. so are there secret plans to save it? 170 million users are asking. and in just minutes, an astronaut who has been trapped in space for months is going for a walk. sarah is out. i'm john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. >> breaking news overnight, a ceasefire deal between israel

and hamas is still in place. but there is, at the very least, a new delay this morning that everyone is trying to get a better handle on what it really means. here's what we know at this hour. israel's cabinet needs to vote to ratify the deal. that has not happened, as it was expected to. israel delayed it, citing last minute issues. again. what this now means exactly for the phased in cease fire and hostage deal. it's unclear. it's all supposed to begin on sunday. under the deal, hamas has agreed to release 33 hostages. in the first phase, israel agreed to release a thousand plus palestinian prisoners, all of that resulting in a 42 day cease fire with hopes it leads to a permanent one. let's get to cnn's bianna golodryga. she is live in tel aviv with much more on this. bianna, help us understand what is the status here? what is the latest? kate, good morning to you. >> so all of these things

remain rather fluid, but the latest does appear to be just a delay in the process of getting a security cabinet. >> and ultimately, a party cabinet vote in the government here. as you noted, prime minister netanyahu blaming hamas for what he says is reneging on parts of the deal. hamas, for their part, are denying those allegations. everyone i'm speaking with here still believes, though, that a cease fire deal will go into place as had been agreed upon beginning sunday night, where we would see the first hostages in phase one. of those 33 released here to israel. hospitals have been on standby and ready to receive those hostages. in terms of the politics of it all, prime minister netanyahu is facing a lot of headwinds. as we've been reporting now for months, from the far right elements, specifically of his government, of his coalition, who do not want to agree to a

deal under these terms. what the latest we have is that finance minister bezalel smotrich has said that his party would agree to stay with the coalition through phase one of the deal. that is the release of those 33 hostages and the pause in fighting only if the fighting would be allowed to proceed again after phase one. so there you just get a sense of how fluid and fragile this deal is right now. but kate, when it comes to the hostages coming home in phase one, as you noted, it would be the women, it would be children, it would be men over the age of 50. and those who are critically wounded. and among those women are five idf spotters. our soldiers reminder that everyone in israel is required to serve in the military. these five idf spotters, all young, the ages of 19 to 21. i spoke with the cousin of one of them, that adam berger's cousin. she is 20 years old. i spoke with her

cousin about what this moment may feel like for them when they are finally reunited, and why there's a bittersweet sense in the country right now. >> she's a beautiful young girl who's been 15 months in the hands of. >> people that we know committed the worst atrocities against women in one day. we know what they did on october 7th. >> we also know from released hostages who came home, what they did to hostages in captivity that's the biggest fear, the physical aspect of it. >> and i don't need to go into detail. >> i think everyone who's watching understands what that fear means, but more importantly, the mental and emotional aspect of what kind of trauma something like that can do to a young girl who's 20 years old, who has her whole life ahead of hers. all right.

bianna golodryga for us in tel aviv. bianna is going to be all over it. a lot of developments could be coming on this today and this morning in the coming hours, john. >> obviously, we'll watch that all morning long. also this morning, assessing the message and really the warning that president biden gave in his farewell address overnight, laying down a marker after 50 years of public service. cnn's arlette saenz is at the white house. the tech industrial complex. arlette yeah. >> john, what was really interesting about this speech is that president biden didn't simply use it to run through his accomplishments, or how he wants to be remembered as he leaves office, but he really issued a very blunt warning, speaking about the fears that he has for the country as a second trump term approaches. now, he never mentioned donald trump by name or any of those supporters around him, but it was very clear who he was targeting. this message towards president biden warned that there is a dangerous concentration of power among

the ultra wealthy in this country. here is one of those moments as president biden shared some of his fears today, an oligarchy is taking shape in america of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. >> people should be able to make as much as they can, but pay play by the same rules, pay their fair share of taxes. reporter now president biden also made a thinly veiled reference to those tech moguls who have been surrounding president-elect trump, comparing them to robber barons from the 19th century. >> he also warned of the tech industrial complex and said he has very serious concerns about disinformation in this country. the potential abuse of artificial intelligence going forward, and also the threat that climate change can pose across the world in the coming years. it's very interesting

when you think about the fact that president biden has staked so much of his political career talking about the possibilities of this country, but now he was really laying out what he sees as some of the warning signs saying that it is now time for americans to stand guard and stay involved in this process. now, president biden, in this speech, did try to argue that some of his accomplishments, they are going to take years for them to come to fruition and fully for americans to feel the impact. that is something that biden's advisers hope will really land with americans in the years to come, as history tries to remember what this biden presidency is like. there are some, though, who acknowledge that there were times where president biden lost the support of the american people. once biden advisers, saying that they lost the narrative in the second half of their term. but certainly for president biden, he is now exiting the political spotlight as he's now preparing to hand over power in just four days. >> it is always interesting,

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it's just decimated entire communities, which means a ton of debris is just left behind. in fact, there's so much concern about when people are getting back into these communities. but they the officials are saying that we have to figure out what we're going to do with all of this debris before we can let people in. in fact, take a listen to the chief of the los angeles fire department discussing this. >> we understand your desire to return to your community. >> however significant, significant safety and infrastructure issues remain, including downed power lines, broken gas lines, hazardous materials, and unsafe water. >> and all of that is something that you can see playing out here. they're working on fixing it. but look at this and they'll step out of the way so you can see all of that. think about it. the melted plastics, the metals. and then you've got all the electric vehicles that are out here as well. those batteries can be unstable. and so they've got to come in and get those two. so the los angeles county has made it so

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trump's inauguration on monday. add to that, cnn has learned that the president-elect trump is looking into possible stopgap measures to keep tiktok from shutting down. all right. cnn's clare duffy is here. so much uncertainty. >> yeah, i mean, i think that's really the bottom line here is we're three days away from this ban, and we still don't know what's going to happen here if it's really going away or not. we still don't know how the supreme court is going to rule. we're now hearing that donald trump is trying to take some action, potentially to delay the ban going into effect. although, as you said, it's set to go into effect the day before the inauguration. and what that means, really, for users of this platform is they are feeling a lot of this uncertainty. if you are a creator who makes a livelihood on this app, or even a user who spends hours a day, as many people do scrolling on this platform, those folks are already seeking out alternatives, and we're seeing some of those alternatives surge in popularity this week. the biggest one is a platform called rednote, which is actually a chinese app. it looks a lot like tiktok. and what's really interesting is

we're seeing a lot of american tiktok users flocking to this app and chinese users welcoming them, offering mandarin lessons, offering them information about how to use the platform. i should have pulled up a good example of this to show you. dear tiktok refugees, welcome to xiaohongshu. >> i know you probably don't understand chinese, but there are five tips to help you make the most of this app. >> first, it's all about lifestyle. >> you cannot find a better way to live, and most comprehensive guide to everything. >> it's kind of a hilarious cultural exchange that's happening, and many american users are there expressing frustration about the u.s. government and essentially saying, if you're going to take away our tiktok, we're going to go find another chinese platform that we can use. so that's been a really interesting dynamic that we're seeing. another app that's really gained popularity is lemon8, which is owned by tiktok parent company bytedance. the company started pushing it in the u.s. when talks of a ban really started, started bubbling up, and that's another platform that's really gaining. those two platforms could still face the same sort of ban that tiktok is facing under this law. and

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prime minister accusing hamas now of reneging on parts of the deal and, quote, attempting to extort last minute concessions. where is this now? let's find out. joining us right now from the white house is a principal deputy national security advisor to president biden. jon finer john, thanks for coming in. is this deal still a go? what's your understanding of what's behind the delay? >> so we fully expect the deal to be implemented as described by the president and by the mediators. egypt and qatar yesterday and on the timeline that was described, what we're doing now is working through details of implementation. that is always the case in deals that are complicated, that are going to play out over a period of weeks, as this deal will. and when there is literally zero trust between the two parties to the agreement. and so we expect that there will be complications throughout the period of implementing this deal. we are intensively engaging to work through them, and we'll continue to do so, as will, by the way, the incoming administration, which has been fully on board during

this process, up to speed on all the details and itself committed to implementing this deal as described on this. >> i'm just going to call it i'll call it this one detail. when you hear the prime minister saying that hamas is attempting to extort last minute concessions, what's the concession look, throughout this process, we have been committed to a number of principles, but one of them is not to respond to everything that is said in public, but to work through the details in private. >> that's going to be how we handle this situation and what i promise you are going to be a number of additional steps that are going to have to be taken to make sure the deal is implemented as it's written on, on paper. and so we are in very close coordination, very close touch with the other mediators that i described. we are in very close touch with the israeli government. the president himself has talked to prime minister netanyahu now twice in the last few days. we are all in touch with our israeli counterparts to work through how to implement this deal. and we have every expectation that it will be

implemented exactly as described by the president yesterday and on the schedule that was described beginning as soon as sunday. >> there are major issues still to be worked out, even if and after this first phase sets in on sunday. did reaching a permanent cease fire and getting all of the hostages back? did that get easier with this deal? how tough is the road still ahead? >> so it's going to be challenging to implement this deal, but we fully expect it to be implemented as you know, and as the president described in his remarks, the deal plays out across three phases. the second phase involves a permanent cease fire and the release of all the hostages. the third phase involves the release of of the remains of hostages who have been deceased during the course of this conflict, or on october 7th. it's all spelled out on paper, and so we are doing everything we can to set the incoming team up, as well as possible to actually implement this deal, since the bulk of this time period will now play out in a new administration. that's why the

president directed our team to brief the incoming team on everything we were working on. it's why we welcomed them to participate as as support for the talks as they were unfolding. and we think that's what gives us the best chance to actually get this deal implemented. as you described. we think that's a good thing, though, as you were just talking about, you brought in the incoming administration, the president elect's team. >> it's very clear that the president and the president elect both have had important roles in getting this over the finish line. it's also very clear that the dislike among those two men is well documented, despite all of that, and despite what we heard from the announcement from president biden yesterday, donald trump said this yesterday, even before biden made his announcement, which was this. he put it on his social media saying this epic cease fire agreement could have only happened as a result of our historic victory in november. and also we have achieved so

much without even being in the white house. john, what do you say to that? do you agree this could not have happened without trump winning the election. >> so look, i'm certainly not going to respond directly to the president elect. what i would say is the contours of this deal, the details of this deal, all of the elements were laid out by president biden back in may. you know, as recently as a few months ago, the israelis were fully on board and ready to implement this deal, and it was hamas that needed additional pressure, pressure imposed by israel in gaza, pressure that was brought about by the decimation of hezbollah in lebanon and the transition to a new government there. pressure that increased, including when president assad of syria fell and iran, which has been badly weakened during the course of this conflict through its attacks on israel that ultimately failed with the defense of the united states, could no longer provide as much support as it was providing before. so all of this mounted

over time on hamas until it ultimately took the agreement. i don't think political factors in the united states were anywhere near as significant as what i just described. and the reality is, to be honest, we've not been focused on on the political outcomes here and on who gets the credit. what we've been focused on is the outcome in the region trying to get this deal done and achieved. it's why we brought the new team, the incoming team, into our confidence, described everything that we were doing in the negotiations and included them in some of the talks. we wanted to get an outcome here that was good to bring the hostages home, good to improve the conditions in gaza, the humanitarian situation that would enable israel to be secure. we think that's what we've gotten done. and the bipartisan nature of this was was an important facet of it. >> you fully expect this to this to be implemented and for this to happen, that's very clear. i'm hearing you. if it doesn't, if it falls through after you guys leave, what's going to be the reason behind that? >> well, it's very hard to predict the future. i mean, in a deal like this, there are any

number of things that can go wrong. it's complicated. again, there's zero trust on on either side. so i'm not going to get ahead of of what could happen. it is certainly our expectation that this gets implemented. it is our hope also that this gets implemented. it is fundamentally a good thing and i think will provide a lot of relief to the families who will be reunited to the people in gaza who have suffered a tremendously to the people in israel who i think many of whom are ready for this war ultimately to be over. and so we're committed to implementation. we'll continue to help in any way we can, even after we're gone. but it will largely be up to the next team to try to bring this across the finish line. and they have been a part of this every step of the way up until now. >> john, you and your entire team have been working on this a very long time. thank you for coming on. really appreciate it. thank you john or happening now this morning, house speaker mike johnson is set to announce a new chair of the house intelligence committee one day after abruptly removing congressman mike turner from

that post, turner told cbs the decision to remove him stemmed from, quote, concerns from mar-a-lago speaker johnson denies the president elect had any involvement. >> let's get right to cnn's lauren fox for the latest on this. good morning. lauren. >> yeah. good morning john. instead, what speaker johnson is arguing is this is just an opportunity to refresh the cast of characters who are going to be leading his committees in this next congress. here's what mike johnson said to us last night. >> it's a new congress. >> we just need fresh horses. and in some of these places is not a president trump decision. this is a house decision. and this is no slight whatsoever to our our outgoing chairman. he did a great job. >> and obviously that is not how mike turner is seeing it, given the fact that you have a situation where this is a

highly regarded position on capitol hill, this is a really important position because republicans and democrats often work hand in glove together when it comes to national security issues that concern the country. this is not really a partisan position traditionally. and i also want to give you a sense of what democrats on the committee are saying. jim himes, who's the top democrat on intelligence, said, quote, his removal makes our nation less secure and is a terrible portent for what's to come. the constitution demands congress function as a check on the executive branch, not catered to its demands, he said later, quote, one of the reasons i was confident in mike's ability to do oversight was that he, you know, was not quick to bend the knee again, just emphasizing the fact that on this committee in the house and in the senate, traditionally these have been roles that have always tried to be above politics. john. >> all right. lauren fox for us. keep us posted. if mike johnson names who he wants the next chair to be with us now, alyssa farah griffin, cnn political

commentator and former trump white house communications director. and bakari sellers, cnn political commentator. and just to remind people where mike john hansen, mike turner, i should say, stands on some issues, very pro aid to ukraine. he did not try to block the election of joe biden in 2020 and 2021. so what does it tell you, alyssa? mike turner clearly believes that it's donald trump and mar-a-lago that's keeping him from remaining as chair. what does it tell you, if he's right that donald trump doesn't want mike turner there? >> well, listen, mike turner voted with donald trump about 90% of the time in the first administration. so this is someone who is a deeply conservative member, somebody who's always been respected with the rank and file and the house gop. but he's someone who's acknowledged russia's interference in our elections and attempted to he's somebody who's been very skeptical of tiktok. and to your point, supports aid to ukraine. so on some of these top line issues that would come before the intel committee or that they may touch, he's not aligned with donald trump. and as lauren said, yes, the intel committee has largely remained above the political fray. not more recently, though, devin nunes was known for really

politicizing the committee. adam schiff on the left, i think many would argue, politicized it at times. and i think donald trump wants someone who represents his perspective and his point of view in that position. and it shows that mike johnson is going to cater to what donald trump wants once he's sworn in. >> quickly. bakari, any concerns from the democratic side on this? >> i mean, no, this further goes to the infighting that we know is going to happen in the republican party. >> but i don't believe that that many people thought donald trump would have his thumb on the pulse of house republicans all the way down to committee chairmanships. i have a feeling this has more to do with tick tock than people are. actually, as alyssa alluded to, than people are actually giving credit for it. we know that mike was a is a is opposed to having a tick tock within the confines of the united states. and then we see now that we're going to have a chinese state owned media executive who owns tiktok, sitting in the box at the inauguration, along with three other billionaires. it should cause people's stomachs

to turn just slightly. >> all right, well, talk to me more about that, bakari, because president biden, in his farewell address, focused in on the tech industrial complex and warned of an oligarchy. now, there are policy and legacy reasons that he's doing that. dwight eisenhower talked about the military industrial complex. we're still talking about it. but also, i think some political maneuvering here. what do democrats see as an opportunity in shining a light on this new as they see it, oligarchy? >> so, berman, what i just did is what they call a segue or a transition in the business. so that's how these things conversations merge. but no, when you when you look at just the imagery, i mean, let's go to inauguration, for example, you're going to have elon musk, you're going to have jeff bezos, you're going to have mark zuckerberg. and now you actually have the ceo of tiktok sitting in the dais, a non-elected officials who have their finger on the pulse and can pull kind of the strings of

the president of the united states, it should send shivers up your spine. and the reason being is because the bill ackman's of the world, the marc andreessen, who now is apparently a new hr director for the trump white house, the jeff bezos who is stripping the washington post for parts, the elon musk, who would prefer the united states resemble south africa than anything else. and then you have people like mark zuckerberg who is just trying to preserve facebook from 230 lawsuits, uh, antitrust lawsuits. et cetera. these people are there for their own self-interest. and what happens to the individuals who are affected in middle america? what happens to black folk and poor rural america? what happens to these people, hispanic voters who don't, who have the uncertainty of immigration laws coming in? and what happened to grocery prices? and so when you begin to look at what's affecting everyday common people, i can guarantee you that ackman's the andreessen's, the zuckerberg's, the bezos, the tiktok ceos, the musk, they don't have your best

interest at heart. >> alyssa, how salient do you feel that can be as a political issue for voters going forward? >> well, i think the left needs something that's going to reinvigorate its base coming off of this massive loss to donald trump. and i think that they kind of have are having this identity crisis. i think going after corporate oligarchs and these billionaires who are running the country is a motivating message. the one thing i'd say i largely agree with bakari, but i think many on the right would also say that there's been a heavy hand that corporate america has had in the past of siding with the left. the washington post was hardly seen as right wing in the first trump term. i think you could say similarly that the criticisms of mark zuckerberg were that he often skewed algorithms and his corrections on facebook to the left. i think a lot of this is opportunism from some of these ceos seeing trump coming in. they want to get into his good graces. but on tiktok, it's a complete flip flopping of what trump stood for. and it's a company that wants to continue to stay in, stay in position while he's in power. >> bakari, one last question here. president biden gave his farewell address last night, and he thanked vice president kamala harris for the work that she has done. the washington

story the wall street journal this morning, though, has a little bit of a juicy article saying that vice president harris isn't too happy with president biden, and people look into how they behaved with each other at the carter funeral. they didn't seem to talk that much, the journal says. vice president kamala harris has told close allies and family members she's disappointed in president biden's recent contention that he would have won the 2024 election. what do you think about that? >> i think it's much ado about nothing. i mean, their relationship, which many people still don't value as much as they should or somewhat underestimate, it goes all the way back to to joe biden's son, hunter. yeah. i mean, if somebody if you lose a race and then somebody else comes out there and says they could have won and there's it's somewhat rooted in disillusionment. there's no way in hell joe biden was going to win that race. i don't think any any democrat was going to win that race with the headwinds the way they were. yeah, it is somewhat of a gut punch, but that doesn't mean that you're going to fall out with that individual. i mean, brothers and sisters have

arguments every day. fathers and daughters, et cetera.. and so i believe their relationship is just as strong. and you saw her last night along with, uh, dougie sitting next to joe biden in the, in the oval office while he gave that farewell address. i just think that the vice president of the united states is extremely tired and looking forward to a future that is uncertain right now, where she has many paths. i mean, she can go home to dougie or she can become a professor, or she can run for governor, or she can sit back and run for president of the united states. so i continue to be the best you possible. kamala harris. and i think she'll be just fine. >> i want to know if doug emhoff has a pet nickname for you. bakari bakari sellers, alyssa farah griffin, thank you both so much for being with us. kate. >> final red flag warnings for southern california are expiring today, and that is great news, giving firefighters some much needed time to gain ground and containing these fires. another round of dangerous santa ana winds could come next week, as thousands of residents are now just starting

to figure out how to rebuild some of them entire communities. cnn's micah yoshida is in one of the hardest hit areas. altadena he's got much more on this. micah, you've been talking to residents there about this idea of rebuilding. what are they telling you? >> hey, good morning kate. and when we look at altadena for the last week, we've been showing you the physical destruction. but there's a big fear here that the less tangible things that make this community so great will be lost as well. they're talking about the working class families that have made altadena so special for decades. a lot of social racial diversity. a place where generations of black families have called this home living and owning their own homes. and while we've seen those outpouring of support of donations for the first week of this recovery, there's a big fear that long term, these families may face those financial pressures and have to sell. and that's something that a lot of the churches here, other community

members are focusing on trying to connect these families with long term financial aid, lawyers, contractors, so that they can continue to call this community home. we spoke with one pastor yesterday about their efforts. here's what he had to say. >> there are already developers that have been talking to folks saying, hey, i can i can purchase this. we want you to be able to maintain that legacy, like keep the the blood of your parents and your grandparents is in the foundation of that land. the hope is that these trees provide them with direct financial relief, to be able to go back to their their land. >> and pastor dichiara tells me that just in his congregation, he has some 40 plus families that lost everything, came home to sites like this. and in talking with us, he says one of his other fears is that people will hear the term l.a. wildfires and think of celebrities and

hollywood. he told us respectfully, altadena, it's not hollywood. again, you have a lot of working class families here. he knows it's going to be a big challenge, but he hopes they'll get additional support to provide for these families. and he says, honestly, we're not going to know if we'll be successful for many years to come. >> michael, thank you very much for your reporting. really appreciate it. and there's also this. we want to show you this image coming up. we will show it to you. it's an extraordinary image out of malibu. you see it right there. you see that blue van? kind of like a blue dot in the midst of devastation. that 1970s volkswagen van somehow survived the palisades fire. while everything around it is reduced to rubble. to the owners of the van, it is a symbol of. well, they're shocked by it, of course. and also something more. preston martin bought the van his junior year of college, lived in it for a year. he then sold it to his friend megan last summer. they parked it just days before the fire started. right there. and here is what they told cnn's erin burnett last night about that van miraculously making it

through i just can't believe that this is actually like, my bus is the only thing that survived on the street that i walked by with my dog, like, every single day. >> um, it's i'm speechless to see all the houses burnt. and i can't believe that. azul. the bus, that's what we named it survived. >> we thought it was gone. um, we really didn't think we'd ever see this thing again. and we got to surf with it on sunday and parked it right where it's still sitting there. and tuesday the fires hit. and i'm looking at these images live that i've never seen. like, this is it's amazing. >> amazing, remarkable. completely unbelievable. but it's one of the scenes we see playing out. john, amidst all of the devastation, really incredible pictures there. >> all right. say goodbye to your favorite cherry red colored candies or cough drops. the fda has now banned red dye, a certain red dye in the united states, after finding it to be linked to cancer. and this morning, a southwest airlines pilot is in custody after being

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potentially. there you go. watching live as nasa astronauts. this is from the international space station. what we're what we care about here, friends, is nasa astronauts suni williams and nick hague getting prepared to step out of the international space station for some work to some complete upgrades on the station. nasa says the maintenance work will take about 6.5 hours. williams is. you will remember one of the two astronauts that has been literally stuck in space for a three hour tour. it was eight days. >> she probably needs a walk, but they stuck in space since june. >> they were supposed to be up there for eight days. i digress. also, overnight, jeff bezos blue origin launched its new glenn rocket into orbit. the rocket is powerful enough to launch satellites into space. joining us right now to talk about all of this, spacex and defense contributor kristin fisher, it's good to see you, kristin. you were there for the launch. tell us more.

>> well, kate, you know, it's not very often that you get to see the very first maiden flight of a brand new rocket, and there were i mean, i was out on the beach at 2 a.m., cocoa beach, right by cape canaveral last night. >> there were hundreds of people that camped out in the cold to watch this launch. that's kind of the excitement that you get when you come down here to florida's space coast. it was an incredible launch, lit up the whole night sky, and blue origin was able to do something so incredibly difficult. they were able to reach orbit with this rocket on their very first attempt. you know, up until this point, kate arit john jeff bezos company, blue origin has only had suborbital rocket orbiting the entire earth. first time they've ever been able to do that. the only thing they were not able to do is land the booster on a drone ship. kate and john, and they knew that that was going to be a long shot because they called that booster. so you're telling

me there's a chance. so they knew that was a long shot. they weren't able to, but they were able to successfully get that rocket to orbit. >> so i think that everyone on earth, except elon musk thinks it's important that there be a useful, successful alternative to spacex. not not for political reasons, but just for really space exploration reasons. >> yeah. >> i mean, you look at what nasa does, they like to have backup options. they like to have redundancy. look at what happened with butch wilmore and suni williams. right. like thank goodness they had a spacex dragon capsule to be able to come up and rescue them after their boeing starliner spacecraft wasn't deemed safe enough. so that's what this is all about. the u.s. government and private independent space companies, they like to have options in terms of rockets to send their payloads up into orbit. and so that's what this is. this is about diversifying

options for getting things up into space. but kate and john, i should also note that there's another huge launch tonight. you know, last night was blue origin or very early this morning. tonight or this afternoon, it's going to be spacex's seventh flight test of starship. and so, you know, that's where they try to catch that rocket booster using those two giant mechanical arms hugging the rocket as president-elect trump likes to say. so we can expect that tonight. but really just back to back launches of these two huge heavy lift rockets. >> don't they call them chopsticks? isn't that what elon musk calls those things? chopsticks. like come and grab them anyway. oh, also that that was going to be the next suggestion. okay, so the spacewalk that we're showing some live pictures from the international space station. kristen, talk to us. what is what's going on with this spacewalk and how is suni williams doing? i'm starting to be concerned about them. >> well, look, nasa would not

allow suni williams to venture out and dowere not in, you know, perfect health. um, this is going to be sunny williams eighth spacewalk. uh, her co spacewalk spacewalker, nick hague. this will be his fourth. these are incredibly experienced spacewalkers. but even if you're an experienced spacewalker, these spacewalks up at the space station have become quite routine. but they remain the most risky thing that any astronaut can do up in space. you are venturing out into the vacuum of space. and so right there you can see some of today's spacewalk goals. they're going to do a bunch of repairs and maintenance and refurbishments to various tools and instruments up at the international space station to kind of help with docking or with making sure the navigation of the space station is in the right spot. whole thing jo