good shape. the coordination has to come back. they'll put the crew through a sequence of rehab exercises through a swimming pool at the rehab and crew quarters facility with a strength training coach and flight surgeons there. you work up from walking on the water to walking on land. arthel: the hatch is open. let's see them emerge. i heard your last point. thank you for that. >> the hatch is open. >> right now, they're going to put a piece of equipment in there that basically smooths out the edges and makes sure that it is a comfortable exit from the dragon capsule, just a little piece of structure there to ensure that the hatch will remain open and that any sharp edges around that side hatch are protected.

>> the blue suit there, that's one of nasa's flight surgeons for the crew, dr. steven hart. and that hatch open coming at 1 12:59 pacific time, 1959 universal time or gmt.

>> once again, the spacex recovery team is now assisting nasa astronauts bob behnken and doug hurley to exit the spacecraft. >> we got the hatch open just about two minutes ago. we paused for a little while as they were just detecting some trace amounts of some of the hyper gol fuels so we executed a series of purges and once those were down back in acceptable limits we were able to then start with the egress. >> there we see a stretcher on-deck. this is normal. this is part of the standard recovery procedure. and it is just simply to ensure bob and doug remain safe, like we said, readjusting to gravity can be a little challenging, dizziness can often courses

personally when you're on boat. the stretcher will just be used to as standard procedure to make sure that the astronauts make it over to the medical tent as easily and as comfortably as possible. >> yeah, as we discussed, the reintroduction t to gravity from micro gravity can be jarring. the stuff responsible for balance, and as they are on a ship underway, we want to make sure we're taking every possible precaution to ensure their arrival is safe and free from any injury now that they are home.

>> and they're working to get a few of the items from the seats out of the way first before they begin extracting our crew members. they'll be coming out one at a time. >> as we saw during the acent portion of this mission, there is enough room inside the capsule for them to do a back flip in micro gravity. however, considering there's a couple folks in there right now from the recovery team -- >> catch you loud and clear. >> com check there between

dragon and mission control. >> from the plc i want to thank you guys for bringing us home safe before i disembark from ship endeavor. i'm sure doug will have good words for you guys as well. thank you for doing the most difficult part and most important parts of space flight, bringing us inorbi into orbit ad bringing us home safely. thank you again for the good shepp endeavor. >> thank you, bob, for those awesome words. it's been an honor to work with you from the entire spacex team. it's been awesome. >> initial words from nasa astronaut bob behnken, he's in the pilot seat. you heard him refer to himself

as plt. we're standing by for crew members to begin making their way out of the crew dragon spacecraft. they're going to get some assistance, just a couple of feet to the medical quarters on-board the ship where they're going to be able to get out of their suits that they've been wearing for all the final dynamic phases of the separation against the orbit burn, reentry, splashing down. just a little over an hour ago at 11:48 p.m. -- or a.m. pacific time. >> again, the recovery team -- g-->> spacex dragon from the command. >> go for spacex. >> we have our first view of doug hurley. >> reiterate what bob said, and add my thanks to everybody over the last several years who have

either worked in hawthorne, mcgregor or kennedy space center. anybody who touched endeavor, you should thank a moment to cherish this day, especially given all the things that have happened this year. we certainly can't thank you enough, my family can't thank you enough and just proud to be a small part of this whole effort to get the company of people to and from the space station. a day to celebrate with each other and we'll talk to you soon. hopefully in person. >> thanks so much, doug, and you're welcome and thank you so much for those kind words and we all wish you a safe journey home and a happy reunion with your family soon and we look forward to seeing you in person as well. >> really nice words there from bob behnken. there on your screen, we sauna say astronaut doug hurley egressing or exiting from the capsule.

might have been hard to see on your screen there but we got a thumbs up, indicating that things are going well. so excuse me. i mixed up my positions there. those words were from doug and we had bob that just came out first. >> bob behnken the pilot, joint operations commander from this mission out of the capsule now. he's making his way over to the medical area and now they're going to work to get doug hurley out next. >> i think i saw a smile on bob's face. >> he was a thumbs up all theome regular status updates from inside the capsule. they've been feeling really good and so now we're just standing by for our spacecraft commander, doug hurley, to make his way out into the fresh air for the first time in 64 days.

>> all right. so they're getting set up and we should see spacecraft commander doug hurley making his way out of the capsule and looks like we've got him out. we've got him seated. >> and there we go, another thumbs up. we've got some applause here. [ applause ] >> and as you can see, mission control, a standing ovation for a job well done all around.

>> yeah, our crew members, bob and doug, are now safely back home on earth and they're going to get checked out now by the nasa medical team. they're going straight into the medical quarters on-board the ship, that will be their first stop on planet earth. eric: as you've been watching, thumbs up from bob behnken and doug hurley and a standing ovation of course at the mission control. and let me add a standing ovation from all of us here on planet earth and all americans watching after this tremendously successful space operation that enters a new era in manned space flight as well as a possible potential new industry for us back here at home. there was a delay because they had to vent some of the toxic fumes from the rocket propel lant. now that's all done. they'll have their medical checks, reunite with their family and be back in their bed in houston tonight. they chose splashdown in the gulf of mexico on the west side

of the state because over on the east side, heavy rain and tropical storm winds from tropical storm isaias, they successfully were able to navigate around that after this historic two-month mission in space and over on the other side of florida, in cape canaveral, is where phil keating is standing by with more. phil. >> reporter: hey, eric. absolutely historic and amazing, what an accomplishment for spacex and its partner ship with nasa to have the first private space company, not only launch astronauts in a capsule into space, but also to have that capsule perform pretty much flawlessly for the whole mission and then splashing down today in winds that were two and-a-half miles an hour and water described as glass in the gulf of mexico. so the tropical storm over here in the atlantic had absolutely no impact, so four big parachutes deployed at about

6,000 feet to help slow it down. it was coming down at about 350 miles an hour, when it was 18,000 feet up. but then when it splashed down it was going slowly, about 17 miles an hour. and bob behnken, the astronaut, and doug hurley, were inside the capsule the whole time for about 17 hours after undocking from the space station last night around 7:30 eastern. after they launched, hurley and behnken, they spent about two months, 64 days inside the space station, joining the cas cosmon, they did space walks, scientific research. it wasn't just a test flight mission just to see how the aircraft performed, this was a real mission on behalf of the american taxpayers as well as nasa. these guys did work when they got there. but technically, this was the second test flight of spacex's crew dragon capsule and it undocked last night. everything went well.

17 hours orbiting the earth and splashdown just about a mile and-a-half away from the recovery ship. the go fast boats went out there, put all the attachments around the capsule so that the recovery ship could just hoist it up as you saw earlier. if you were watching. and after about an hour after the purge, the toxic actuals that were around the craft, they brought out bob behnken first and then the mission commander, doug hurley. they are back home on earth and soon to be home in houston tonight. eric. eric: the inspiring and really awesome work of all the engineers, scientists and others who have been able to pull this off in such a successful manner, we have to applaud them. space travel, here in the u.s., back in business. phil, good to see you. arthel. arthel: it really is an awesome event. here to discuss more about this is apollo 7 astronaut, walter cunningham. oh, my goodness, mr. cunningham,

i'm almost in tears, i'm so in awe and excited. it's been almost 52 years, 52 years since you were on the first manned mission in space, apollo 7. how are you feeling right now witnessing yet another moment? >> well, it's kind of interesting. see this mission. because we haven't seen that much lately. now, they're covering this in an amazing way. i'm impressed with the mission and i'm also impressed with how much things have changed in the last 52 years. believe me. arthel: in what ways? >> well, the hardware, the integration of all this stuff, believe me, passengers -- well, first off passengers today, they don't have to be pilots.

and there's a variety of different ones. and at the same time, the conditions they have, the food they get to eat, the receptions and controls they have over the schedule, it's a very impressive change and upgrade in many ways. arthel: it really g is.ive me e examples, for instance, comparing the food you had versus what they had and the communication system that they have versus what you had. >> [ laughter ] well, the food that we had, our mission was -- it was to this day, that's still the longest, the most ambitious, the most successful first test flight of any new flying machine, ever. and we were on the last of the food of course when that ended after 11 days.

and it was the first time we had that much food on-board a spacecraft. we didn't have the kind of room that you see on this particular spacecraft these days. as a matter of fact, we were touching shoulder to shoulder and elbow to elbow at liftoff and reentry on it. but the food was a little bit surprising. we had -- well, we had bowel movements on-board too and that impressed some of them in those days also. but all in all, i think that apollo 7 was really one of the best first flights that the u.s. space program has ever conducted. arthel: and then when you do speak of the solid waste, we heard tom jones tell us, saying they're able to use such waste, if you will, and find out ways to develop that somehow into

processing clean water. so i mean, that in and of itself is incredible. >> well, we didn't have to do that. fortunately. arthel: right. right. i'm saying you raised that. talking about the difference between then and now, that they're able to use that solid waste to better scientific processing of water, if you will. but let me talk about this. because we're talking about how impressed we are about what happened today and the past two months and we are indeed impressed. let's not overlook the fact that being a trailblazer like yourself, you laid down some groundwork for today to happen. so that in mind, how do you feel about that? >> well, i would say that we had to develop the groundwork for that first test flight with the three of us on-board but i don't think that that's been what led them into today and what was going on in today's procedure. in fact, i found it unusual in

watching this 17 hours or so that the crew spent on-board, they also have -- i think a lot of stuff, a lot more things today are automated than were in our days. for example, it's like 100% air to ground communications and now it's video also. people don't realize that during apollo 7, which was the first time we really integrated to some degrees the population out there, but our coverage, our air to ground communications coverage, it was about four and-a-half percent, almost five percent. which people today would say boy, that's not very much. but i have to tell you this, most of the time we thought that was a real plus. arthel: what a difference 52 years makes, right? we want to thank you for having

-- absolutely, having been on apollo 7, the first manned mission there into space. mr. walter cunningham, we're in awe of you, your accomplishments, the groundwork you laid down for today to happen and we thank you and i can't even imagine how you feel but thank you for sharing your thoughts with us today. thank you so much, mr. cunningham. >> well, thank you very much too and i did enjoy -- i enjoyed following it today. arthel: wonderful. thank you, sir. eric. eric: wow, just terrific, arthel. walter cunningham, apollo 7, first manned apollo mission into space, great to see him. remember those names, wally shirah and others. meanwhile, tropical storm isaias is making its way up the eastern seaboard on the other side of florida. we're live in -- well, it's not the sunshine state today, to show you the storm, its effect and where it's going right up the east coast all the rest of

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eric: tropical storm isaias barreling up the florida shoreline, it's been bringing heavy wind and rain to the eastern part of the state after battering the bahamas and puerto rico. the storm expected to travel right up the east coast over the

next few days, so it's going to be a wet week. we have fox team coverage on the storm. meteorologist adam klotz has been tracking the path. steve harrigan is on the ground in yack shortness o jacksonvill. >> reporter: the sun is back out now. we've had some bands of rain. the beach is officially closed. people have begun to come back out as the sun reappeared. the storm was downgraded from a category 1 hurricane to a tropical storm with winds of about 65 miles per hour. but only after bashing the dominican republic and puerto rico, ripping up trees there, killing at least two people. it's going to scrape all along the eastern coast of florida before a possible happened physical i--landfall in the cary or tuesday. the danger for florida is a storm surge, it could reach 4 feet in some places. the governor has warned people to get seven days supply of food, water and medicine, he's declared a state of emergency in some counties. 10,000 utility workers are ready

to go. the coronavirus has complicated everything. shelters have been set up. there will be social distancings social distancing will be observed, and the covid testing centers along the east coast of florida have been shut down until the storm passes. eric, back to you. eric: , steve, a preview for what's going to happen later in the week. arthel: meteorologist add come klotz is here with a breakdown of the time line. hi, adam. >> hey, there, arthel. we're expecting the storm to stay on the move, currently headed to the north. it's been 10 to 15 miles an hour, most of the rain offshore, you see that activity, that's going to be the case through the rest of the day until eventually you get a little closer to shore, maybe making that landfall early monday or -- late monday night, into early tuesday morning, excuse me, across the carolinas, currently the track showing the myrtle beach area, still time for that to shift a little bit.

by and large, the storm is going to track up the east coast. you see from this move around florida, eventually making landfall in the carolinas, right near the myrtle beach area, maybe to the north. then running all the way up through the mid-atlantic, into new england, into maine by the time we get to wednesday morning. it only continues to speed up as it makes that move. there are still going to be issues and it's going to be more of a rain maker. you start to see areas in the darker red, that's as much as 8 to 12 inches of rain, even happenas itscoops up the rest o, widespread areas from 3 to 4 inches, getting to major metropolitan areas from d.c., fill delvphiladelphia, towards . we'll be talking about a rain maker even as this moves away from the florida coast in the next 24 hours or so. arthel: and rain makers can be troublemakers for a lot of people and their property. adam klotz, thank you very much. eric. eric: arthel, former vice president joe biden is set to

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rnc officials who said there is no final decision on what things may look like when it comes to press access in charlotte. we don't know what a lot of the president's travel schedule for august will look like, including how he will take care of his acceptance speech this month. the trump campaign is holding fun raidsers -- fundraisers and political events. starting tomorrow they will relaunch ads on tv. chris wallace asked if the campaign was willing to accept foreign interference in the 2020 race. >> chris, i said that's an absolutely silly question. we're going to go and win this race fair and square. >> i'm asking for an answer. it's a yes or no question, jason. >> chris, there is no foreign assistance that's happening in this campaign. >> reporter: campaign aside the president's top advisors are going to be on capitol hill tomorrow including the chief of staff and treasury secretary as they work out a deal with congressional democrats on the next phase of a potential economic stimulus package.

we've been talking about this all weekend. a lot of people eager to find out what this will mean for unemployment insurance and what this could mean for future assistance. right now deal in sight but officials insist they're working on it. eric: the staff will be meeting tomorrow, that $600 check that lots of people have been counting on, not coming. we'll see when and if there is a deal. mark, thank you. arthel. arthel: eric, with about two weeks until the democratic national convention, joe biden's search for a running mate is in the final stretch with the announcement of who will be his choice for a vice president possibly coming next week. jacqui heinrich is live in will minton, delaware -- wilmington, delaware, with the latest. >> reporter: joe biden is in the final stages of deliberations and now is the time when we're going to see allies go to bat for their favorite vp candidates, also opposition research rear its head. congresswoman karen bass out of california has surged to the top of the pack, enough so that the

trump campaign has her in their sights. she's been working against criticism against her explaining her past trips to cuba, saying she regrets her statement at the time of castro's death, calling him commander in chief which some saw as differential to a brutal dictator. it's reported the vp vetting committee is impressed with her and house democrats have been lobbying for her on her behalf. allies of the early frontrunners, senator kamala harris, they're trying to repair her chances after she's faced questions about loyalty stemming from her attacks on biden during the first debate. last week supporters tried to set the record straight in a phone call. today she gained the endorsement of george floyd's family attorney who wrote it's time for senator kamala harris to join joe biden's ticket and god willing help him actualize the next phase of the movement from the white house. despite the jockeying, former hillary clinton running mate

senator tim kaine says biden will make this choice on his own. >> this is an unusual pick in this way. nobody knows the job better than joe biden. this might be the most closely held pick. i think he'll l want to make a pick that will emphasize three key things, this will be an administration of character, compassion and confidence, a sharp contrast with the trump administration. >> reporter: biden said he would make his vp choice this week. arthel. arthel: thanks, jacqui. eric. eric: arthel, who is in and who is out. let's bring in anita kumar, white house correspondent and associate editor fo politico. is it a sense it's between karen bass and kamala harris? >> those are the names we've been hearing the last few days. i think it will depend on sort of what joe biden is feeling. he gets all the advice from everyone and he'll get advice from his wife, jill biden, who

has met most of these people, worked with them. but really it will come down to who he feels that he has the best relationship with. he's mentioned that before, that he wants that kind of relationship that he had with president obama. eric: he goes back with kamala harris a lot of times, she's been up, she's been down. lot of leaks about her. let's look at that debate encounter, maybe this is in the back of his mind. when she went after him. here's part of that. remember? >> do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose bussing in america then? do you agree? >> i did not oppose bussing in america. what i opposed is bussing ordered by the department of education. eric: do you think the campaign and joe biden will get beyond that? >> you know, joe biden did go out and talk about her and has spoken very favorably of her and how she's helped his campaign and been quite loyal but there are as you mentioned many people in the democratic party that are going to the biden team and

saying you know, you shouldn't pick her because exactly what you said, she is not going to be loyal to you, that she wasn't -- didn't show remorse for that attack that she went after joe biden and the debate and also that she would be running for president on her first day. that's one of the reasons that karen bass is coming -- getting up ahead here is because she hasn't really shown that ambition to run for president and that's something they worry about with senator harris. eric: now you've got stuff on karen bass, speaking -- praising scientology which she has kind of made amends for, saying she wanted to reach out to a different group. here's a headline you don't want in politico, it's on your publication, karen bass renounces her praise for fidel castro. she faced questions about several visits to cuba in the 1970s. in a statement she released after castro's death, saying the passing of the commandant is a

great loss to the people of cuba. senator marco rubio said this. quote, she will be the highest ranking castro sympathizer in the history of the united states government, something she will want to deflect from but i don't believe in the last six decades there's ever been anyone considered for the vice presidency with this level of sympathy towards a marxist regime, ouch. the trump campaign could have a field day with her praise of castro. >> you're exactly right. that's one of the things about some of the candidates including karen bass and some of the others for vice president, they haven't been in the national eye. she is well-known in california, she was a speaker of the house. she's not a national figure. there aren't people that will know her all over the place. she probably hasn't been vetted the way senator harris has been or senator elizabeth warren out there in the world. you're going to see all sorts of things. the trump campaign kind of having a field day the last 24, 48 hours with these couple clips

that have come up. you know, she's come out, the congwoman's come out and talked about both of those things but there's likely to be other things like this. so the question is, you know, when we're in this coronavirus situation where you can't go out and introduce yourself to the nation, you're stuck at home, they're not going to be many campaign events, will this do harm, will they just be pulling things out of her past and putting them out there and she's not going to be able to as much show who she is and discount some of those things. that's really a risk for the biden campaign. eric: yeah. and finally, quickly, i'm going to put you on the spot. do you guess, who do you pick or who do you predict? >> i do get any more sense before 2016 when we didn't know donald trump was going to be elected, i will say that one person we haven't mentioned that is really getting attention is susan rice, president obama's former national security advisor. the reason i bring her up, even though she has no election experience, vice president biden

keeps talking about how he wants someone he has that really great relationship with. and that is one person he's worked closely with and so i don't think he's can overlook her. eric: okay. we'll know within the next week or week and-a-half, we're told. so we'll see, anita, good to see you, aany you tak a lot more ne, folks. we'll be right back.

arthel: u.s. officials say russia is spreading disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, declassified intelligence accusing moscow of sharing false information on websites targeted at americans. this includes around 150 articles about the pandemic response. let's bring in jim walsh, an international security expert with mit security studies program. first off, how potent and pervasive is putin's disinformation campaign? >> i'd call it pervasive.

building on what they had done before, but this is now information 2.0. in 2016, they relied heavily on robots. now they're sort of mixing articles with conspiracy theories and false facts, blending it in with legitimate news which makes it harder to find. when you step back, it is pervasive. they're doing it to us around covid and race issues, they're doing it to allies like britain and nato and eastern europe, so they've got this tool that they like very much and that they've had some success with and our intelligence community and others and experts in industry agree they will continue to do this so we have to be on guard. arthel: any possibility that this disinformation on coronavirus will impact our medical system? in other words, could there be real life consequences? >> i do think there are life consequences at least at the margin. listen, our health professionals are in a real bind here. they've got this brand-new thing

that no one's ever seen before, trying to get americans to change their normal routines, to change their behavior. now, to do that, you have to send out a strong message and people have to have confidence in your message. if you have people like the russians selling confusion, spreading conspiracy theories, charlotteans selling positions and cures and all of the rest of it and you muddy the waters it makes it harder for the health community to communicate with the public, that means fewer people will follow the guidelines so that puts us at risk. yes, it has consequences. arthel: when a covid-19 vaccine is developed, will an intense disinformation campaign deem it dead on arrival. >> i don't think it will be dead on arrival. a majority of americans are open to the idea. but i think it will absolutely -- i think there's a very good chance the russians would seize on that as well. and that it will be a battle. obviously, the fewer people that are immunized, once we get a safe, healthy, effective

vaccine, the fewer people that are immunized, the greater it can come back and spread again. i think, again, what they're doing is unfortunate. and people will suffer as a consequence. arthel: i want to share right now some reporting from the associated press. it says in part, among the headlines that caught the attention of u.s. officials were russia's counter covid-19 aid to america advances case for detante which suggested russia had given urgent and substantial aid to the u.s. to fight the pandemic and beijing believes covid-19 is a biological weapon which amplifies statements by the chinese. also the disclosure comes as the spread of disinformation included by russia is an urgent concern heading into november's presidential election as u.s. officials look to avoid a repeat of the 2016 contest when a russian troll farm launched a

covert social media campaign to divide american public opinion and then favor then-candidate donald trump over democratic opponent hillary clinton. jim walsh, what is putin's end game this time and what should be done about it? >> some ways putin -- my guess is he doesn't care if it's this person or that person. the main thing he wants to do is divide americans. the chief foreign policy principle of the russian government is to have a weaker rather than stronger u.s., one that is internally divided, one that is divided with traditional allies. that gives russia greater freedom of movement and sees itself as therefore less threatened by the u.s. that's its goal. when it spreads disinformation in the us and we argue with each other over things that are completely made up and false and we weaken our belief in the american system and we're all at each other's throats, that's helping putin. arthel: united we stand, divided we fall. jim walsh, thank you as always. >> thank you, arthel.

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not immune or protected from this virus. eric: that's white house coronavirus task force coordinator dr. deborah birx, warning that our country entered a new phase of the coronavirus pandemic. this as health experts continue to urge all of us to wear a mask and practice social distancing. this as the centers for disease control predicts the death toll in our country could rise by about 20,000 more people just over the next three weeks. christina coleman is live with all of this from our los angeles bureau. christina. >> reporter: eric, california is now the first state to have more than 500,000 total cases of coronavirus and yesterday california logged its highest number of covid deaths in a single day with 219 fatalities, one of 35 states seeing a rise in covid deaths. the number went up slightly by 2.4% since thursday in california. the state has more than 9200 covid fatalities. now, the number of coronavirus tests coming back positive in some of the sunbelt states are

starting to level off and florida reported its fewest daily covid-19 deaths in nearly three weeks with 62 confirmed fatalities in the last 24 hours. we're clearly not out of the woods just yet. federal health officials are concerned about growing outbreaks in other parts of the country. like in the midwest and northeast. the trump administration's testing coordinator was on meet the press this morning, he touched on the difficulty of doing contact tracing with a level of community spread we're seeing in the country. >> in the very early parts of an outbreak or in the late waning parts or selective times, contact tracing can be very effective. when you have you a widespread, multi-he focal outbreak where are ofople are asymptomatic, limited utility. >> reporter: federal officials are expressing concern over

major metro areas with a growing number of covid-19 cases including chicago and philadelphia. eric. eric: all right, christina. thank you so much. that's it for us for now. arthel, pretty exciting hour with spacex return. arthel: i'm telling you, eric, i almost started crying. i was so excited and so proud to be an american, all our fantastic accomplishments that we continue. thank you so much for joining us. we always appreciate. we know you have a choice. don't go anywhere, because "sunday morning futures with maria bartiromo" is up next. eric, nice to see you. have a good evening. eric: you too, arthel, have a good evening, everybody. take care. can overwhelm you with thoughts, yet also leave you at a loss for words. take a deep breath. go here: findyourmbcvoice.com an army family who is always at the ready.

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