our first focus is the midterm elections. one week from today i'll be rurting results to you. the voters will have spoken. that's what it's about. the campaign is in a fevered pitch across the country. for the republicans we'll know whether attacking the president's policies, once a upon of time it was obamacare and the economy, more recently ebola and isis strategy will fuel a senate take over. for democrats can they capitalize on the public distaste or gridlock? and this house of representatives and turn that energy into getting out to vote. these are all the key questions. six critical days. my first guest is in the thick of. debby wasserman schultz. thank you so much, congresswoman, for being with me. >> great to be here with you in our hometown. >> given the tough political backdrop even though we know the economy is picking up, you have gas prices going down which is

good news. can your party hold on to the majority in the senate with voters not seeing these beneficial aspects of the economy in a personal sense? >> well, i think we're going hold the senate. we're going hold the senate for a lot of reasons. not the least of which we've had 55 straight months of job growth in the private sector. created more than 10 million jobs under president obama's leadership and congressional democrat efforts. unfortunately no thanks to the republicans. they've really focussed on obstruction. the reason we're going to hold the senate and i think we'll actually win -- defeat more democratic governors than we lose wednesday. that's a prediction. because the voters have one main choice. they're going to ask themselves who has my back. who is focussed on the things i care about? creating jobs, getting the economy intoen even more robust posture. investing in health care and education. no one talks to me on the campaign trail about, jose, how

many more times we're going investigate benghazi or accept a complaint about it, shutting the government down which the republicans did a year ago to deny people access to health care. that's the priorities they've focussed on. it's an extreme agenda that voters don't support. >> if you look at pots most americans think the sun going in the wrong direction by overwhelming numbers. 60% plus. it's not an easy year for democrats. >> no. it's always tough midterm. >> what are the issues you think are key in not losing, for example, the senate? >> like i said, you're right it's close. it's a ulsz close. the president's party loses on average in a second term midterm 29 seats in the house. we're not going to come close to that. i think it's going to be single digits either way. the issues most important to americans whether it's florida or any other american are jobs in the economy, investing in

education, and making sure everybody has access to health care and infrastructure. the republicans are focussed on obstruction. that is why this congress is at historic lows in unpopularity. they just want us to work together. democrats have and republicans have been obstructionists. >> one of the things it's not just the republicans really kind of giving the president a hard time. you see some democrats actually kind of turning their backs on the president. by the way, the president just last night was heckled at the campaign event in wisconsin by an immigration reform demonstrators. democrats have largely taken the lead on immigration reform, it seems as though a lot of democrats are turning their back on the president. >> on the contrary. >> come on. they're not -- he's not in the big ads. the republicans are trying the president to the democratic candidate. >> as someone on the ballot myself in six days from now. i can tell you that any

candidate wants to stand on their own. that's what our candidates are doing. they're focussed on issues that matter to share constituents. we have a common agenda that really units us all and that's jobs and the economy and making sure we can make the investments that will ensure we can move forward. that's contrasted with republicans across the board. that's running all over the country that embraced the tea party agenda saying let's sue the president for doing his job when the republicans won't do their job. let's vote to repeal the affordable care act 56 times and try to deny people health care >> one more question, and this one has to do with ebola. you know, so you chris christie beating the federal government competence drum over this. it's become a political issue. you see it, for example, in the scott brown race. he's been talking about the president's lack of leadership on ebola. the ebola czar. are you happy with how things are going? >> what we need to focus on is the top priority has been is

keeping the american people safe and making sure that we made policy decisions on how to deal with containing ebola in west africa and here. to make sure that we don't get historical. we use science to make decisions about quarantines and how we're going to make sure it doesn't spread. the republicans, unfortunately, they don't have anything else. it's no wonder christie is making rash irresponsible decisions that aren't based in science. they got nothing else. they're not focussed. christie had his state's credit rating downgraded several times. they're among the lowest in states and job creation. if i were christie i would be focussed on making sure he can get his own house's affairs in order rather than running all over the country creating opportunities for more obstruction. >> thank you. i appreciate your time, debby wasserman schultz. come back.

it's great to have you here. in a few hours president obama will be briefed by his public health and national security teams on ebola. the response of both the federal and state level have come under criticism over the patchwork of policies. after three days of a forced quarantine kaci hickox is back in home in maine under what is technically a voluntary quarantine there. a state trooper is parked outside her home and a trooper confirms hickox will be arrested if she tries to leave. hickox is threatening legal action to lift the quarantine. >> i truly believe that this policy is not scientifically nor constitutionally just and so i am not going to sit around and be bullied by politicians and forced to stay in my home when i'm not a risk to the american public. >> let's bring back dr. debby, substantiate professor at nyu school of medicine.

what a pleasure to see you back. i think what we're seeing play out with the hickox issue demonstrates some of the problems with the patchwork of rules when it comes to people returning from west africa. what is the right away of dealing with this? >> for myself in i'm support of the 21-day voluntary inhome qua ranty. i think it's the most reasonable solution. unless people are having symptoms, it's true they can't infect other people. that's true. but the fact of the matter is, the public is scared. unof the things we've seen in west africa is they haven't had a lot of public support for their measures. without the hearts and minds of the people, it's hard to actually accomplish anything. in this case, i think, you know, for health care workers returning here it's in a position but not as bad as a quarantine center. obviously in west africa itself they try impose the quarantine center there's violence. there's violence against the health care workers. people broke the people out because they felt like they were in prison. none of that seems it's going

work. for her to make the statement to make it more of an issue about her at this point. i think it's a little bit extreme where as she was wronged in the beginning. >> yeah. and maybe one of the things and you've been talking about this in your writings is the possibility of the government paying people for salary for the 21 days when they come back. what they're doing is extraordinary work helping in a difficult situation going on in west africa. maybe we should be paying their salary during this period. >> i think we should pay their salary and a couple of other things. if they work for relief organizations, the real harm is to the organization they might not be able to recruit enough people to go to west africa and help with the effort. so why not offer the organization something to bring them into support of the move. i know, we taking away one of the health care workers. why don't we give you more some more supplies, money, something else you need that would make this more acceptable to you. in that case, it might be more

palatable. >> and dr. craig spencer the only american being treated for ebola. nurse amber vinson went home yesterday after beating ebola. encouraging signs for dr. spencer. >> it is. our mortality rate here is a lot lower than west africa. we have more advanced care. the flip side because we can do more advanced procedures to save people. some of our health care workers are a little bit more risk of being exposed to bodily fluids. >> dr. debby, a pleasure to see you. thank you for being with us. now to a frightening scene in the sky. you saw it at the beginning of the program. an unmanned rocket set to bring supplies to the international space station explodes second after takeoff. it's a $200 million mission up in flames. take a look and listen from the specta spectator's perspective on the ground.

tom costello is live in virginia where the rocket exploded. tom, good morning. what are investigators looking at today? >> good morning. first light here and we have investigators who are are circling the area in helicopters. eventually they'll try to go in on the ground. they have a massive job. the rocket, as you saw, exploded at 6:22 eastern time. a nasa controllers hit the self-destruct button and detonated the rocket so there's no risk to any neighboring populati population. it was about 3/4 of a million pounds of fuel that exploded rippling through the air and tearing through the entire infrastructure there on the ground on the launch pad. today they have to go through the ground, the beach areas, they have to go to the marsh land, the water. any and all pieces of debris, try to catalog it, document it,

then they begin a long process of trying to put the pieces together in a forensic investigation. that's going take some time. a couple of points to underscore. it was an unmanned rocket. a cargo resupply mission. it carried about 5,000 pounds of cargo to the station. the folks at nasa are emphasizing that in they are no immediate need of a recent supply. they don't necessarily have to have the supplies. overnight a mission launched in kazakhstan lift aufd and there's another one in december. there's plenty of supplies headed that way. the question is going what happened to this rocket one of two commercial vehicles now resupplying the station after the space shuttle fleet was retired. >> tom costello, thank you so much. coming up more on the midterm sprint. we heard from representative debby wasserman schultz.

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the kentucky senate race is one of, if not the most closely watched senate races in the midterms. senator mitch mcconnell versus allison lundergan grimes. >> there is no limit to what you can achieve together. that's what this election is about.

let's put another crack in that glass ceiling and elect this incredible young woman to the united states senate! we are live in louisville. >> good morning, jose. a fast moving race in kentucky. how did y does mcconnell respond? >> it's an interesting position and the reason he's been hung on 30 years. it's extremely well funded. there's the natural fear of change that always helps an incumbent. but he's got a problem, which is that people in kentucky really don't like him. identify been all over the kin and that's what you hear again and again. the strongest things that grimes has in her favor is people are sick of him and with support from people like the clintons, she's looking like she has the strength and the stapmina and te support from the party to pull it through. what i'm hearing again and again i didn't think this could be

real but maybe it can. maybe she can pull it off. >> you interviewed grimes yesterday. here is part of it. >> this campaign has been focussed on holding mcconnell accountable while putting forth a plan to grow our economy and grow the middle class. that's the campaign that i've run. it's been kentucky through and through. it's been my privilege. >> and the polls seem to show that mcconnell is, if anything, inkraesing his lead against grimes in the last couple of days. how do you think things are for her chances on the ground? >> she just completed a tour of kentucky's county. we were in a county that had about 3,000 people. a town of 936. she's taking nothing for granted. there's some encouraging signs. there's been a record spurt in voter registration. and it's been concentrated about a quarter of the 40,000 new

voter registrations that happened since the primary have been in jefferson county which is probably good territory for grimes. nobody thinks it's going to be easy. it's going to be a close race. and i don't think they're taking anything for granted. but mcconnell, you know -- excuse me. he lent his campaign $1.8 million so that's not a sign of someone who is feeling very confident. >> msnbc irin car mown, thank you so much. i want to bring in sean spicer communications direct for the republican national committee. the race seems to be pretty tight. are you nervous about mcconnell's chances? >> well, i think it's going to be tight but i'm not nervous. senator mcconnell, as pointed out, is doing it for 30 years. one of the best. the last -- he leads in 18 of the last 21 polls.

the clear politics average has him up about 4 1/2 points. he's doing everything he has to and doing it right. he has a great campaign and ground game. i feel good about where it will end up on election night. >> you know let's look at nationally. experts say it's an election really taylor made for republicans. what does a republican party need to do if, for example, you still don't win the senate? >> two things. i feel confident we're going to win the senate. when you look at the national polls there's a lot of people in america that want change. they want to see things getting done. they want to see change happen in washington. i think frankly we've been making the case that bills are getting passed over from the republican house in a bipartisan way and just getting stalled in the senate. i think that message is resonating. one, i think that message is resonating in battleground states. i think the other thing is to your broader point when you look at where we are as a party from

the state legislative races all way up through gubernatorial and federal races you look at governor's races. we're in single digits in maryland. larry hogan is running a fantastic campaign in a very blue state in maryland. and got that thing in a single digit. you look at rhode island, single digits. so you you have massachusetts with baker leading coakley. county malloy down to foley. governor will page in maine ahead. you look around the country at governor's races. you look at state legislative races we'll flip into super majority houses like maine and minnesota and there's a lot of these really promising spots around the country where as a party we can say we've done very well. >> okay. let's look at some of the numbers. according to the nbc news wall street journal poll earlier this month. when asked about how they feel about the direction this country is going, 65% said we're on the wrong track.

25% said it's heading in the right direction. let's say republicans win the senate. what is a road map over the next two years? gridlock is something everybody despi despises. >> you're absolutely right. i think everyone no matter what side of the aisle you're on now looks at washington and sort of wonders what the heck is going on here and wants to see things getting done. i think that we will finally be able to pull the curtain back and show the house of representatives which is controlled by the -- things to get people back to work. help stabilize and grow businesses are done and passed over the senate. i think mcconnell is a leader over the senate. you'll see more of that action happening and sent to the president's desk. so there will be a real choice about which party is making things happen. i think speaker boehner laid out a five point road map that talks about tax reform, regulatory reform. i think the two biggest things republicans will do is attempt

to provide the oversight and restore the confidence in government. you talked about ebola with debby wasserman schultz. it's not just one issue. i think right now people question whether or not the government is working for them and working properly. i think we need restore some confidence in that. the second thing, have a laser like focus on the economy and jobs. >> let's talk about another issue that, you know, is important to a lot of people. immigration reform. immigration is broken. i think both sides agree on. that the house of representatives couldn't get their act together on putting something forward. do you think that immigration reform is something you republicans can clearly elaborate a plan on the importance of it and what you would be in favor of? >> i do think so. i think first and foremost it has to start with securing the border first. we saw that this summer thousands and thousands of children were coming over the border every week and every day and creating a massive problem

in the country. i think we cannot start to talk about how do we have immigration reform as a whole until we start to acknowledge the problem that we have and how we're going to deal with ensuring the people in this country are here legally. people who want to work here are citizens and are here legally. i think that's going to be first and foremost. i think the two houses, the house and the senate can start to work together to create a plan that ensures that the proper steps are taken to accomplish that. >> i appreciate your time. thank you for being with me. >> thank you. msnbc is asking why do you think it's important to vote? melissa harris-perry is answering your midterm questions now. she's in a live web chat. her twitter handle is @mharr is @mharrisperry. you can tweet your questions with the hashtag. >> the first casualty in the low moving disaster on the big island of hawaii. there you see.

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of concern and a response. meantime the department of homeland security announced increased security at various federal government buildings in major cities including washington, d.c. homeland security did not, however, mention a specific threat. this comes after a pair of terrorist attacks, one on police officers in new york city, the other on the parliament building in ottawa. pete williams joining me with more from washington. good morning, pete. >> good morning, to you. that's what they say this is about. it's everything that is in public. it's the build up of the isis threat, the overt attacks. partly they say, steady drum beat from isis that urges attacks on police and government officials. this comes from jihadist websites. it comes from isis propaganda videos. and partly, they say it's a reaction to the attacks in canada last week including the one in ottawa when a gunman shot up the inside of canada's parliament. given that the department of homeland security is ordering heightened vigilance in

protecting federal building and government personnel coast to coast. that means security will be tighter at federal facilities, but not all of the 9500 ones that the federal protection social security, which is under homeland is responsible for. it'll be selected buildings. the government won't say which ones. they won't say what security measures there are. in some case it is will be visible ones with more people with more aurmed officers outside. in other it is may be mean closer scrutiny to people that come through the building. looking through purses and briefcases. tweaking up the mettle detectors. it's going to be a range of things. >> pete williams, thank you so much. good to see you. i want to bring in mark ginsburg, former ambassador to more ra more rack koe. what are americans supposed to take from an unspes fighted

threat? >> we've seen the attack on the police officer in new york city. most of them have, shall we say criminal backgrounds or they're disenchanted and they're somehow or other linking up to isis websites. it's obviously the hardest thing we can do to is keep an eye. the vigilance as a result of the canada and new york make a lot of sense. >> i want to turn to the isis fight overseas. today there was another coalition air strike in kobani on the syria turkey border. what is your assessment to defeat isis? >> like anything else, the administration started out with a great deal of fanfare announcing the grand coalition and now we're seeing, shall we say, a decay of the commitment and support that was necessary. turkey obviously, has not stepped up to the plate. the battle coukobani is enterin

the 40th day. the kurds from iraq are finally able to transit into kobani from turkey. thank you, turkey, for letting that happen. inas far as marshalling the resources dealing with are broader isis attacks in iraq. we're not seeing a great deal of progress. >> is turkey really their key player in its really inaction and really kind of tepid support? >> in some respects, turkey is playing a double game with the united states. it has two adversaries. it has the assad regime, which it wants to see the united states far more engaged in attacking and has great deal of desire to prevent the kurds from militarizing themselves further and for an effect playing a bigger role. there's been the adversary relationship between the turks and the kurds. the turks have not provided the united states the right to use the air bases in order to attack

kobani. the kurds, as a nato ally, i shall say that's an oxy moron at this point. >> thank you for being with me. good to see you. >> sure. and to another part of the mideast. iran and disturbing develops there. the u.n. investigators said this weekend conditions for women have gotten worse. over the weekend, this 26-year-old was hanged after convicted of killing a man she accused of raping her. the international community including the u.s. condemned the execution and there have been months of acid attacks on women by people on motorbikes throw g throwings a sit on them. at least eight women have been attacked. joining me to talk about this national and international correspondent ann cur ray. >> hey, jose. >> is this a reality for women in iran under this regime? >> actually, acid attacks are

extremely rare. relatively unheard of until the recent attacks. as you been pointing out, there are great concerns about what appears to be a step up in human rights concerns in ooin. so i want to give you some context for this. there is a lot of thinking this is a result of a power struggle inside iran. power struggle between the more moderate president awho wants a more open government an a very hard line government throughout the government there are hard liners who very much want to discredit him especially now as iran is moving toward this nuclear deal, which may or may not happen. the deadline for that is on november 24th. as we move toward that deadline, it does seem that there is a

step up in this tension between these two sides. there is a very interesting to see this tension step up in this context. because it really is pretty clear to most who understand what is happening inside iran that there is a real effort to discredit. it's a moderate move that the president is trying to move his country. and one point to be made, these terrorist attacks -- these acid attacks which i would consider terrorist attacks have been linked to men on motorcycles who are trying to enforce sort of government rules about modesty. what happened since rohani has become president. i noticed this because i was recently in iran. women have felt a more free and relaxed about maybe showing a little more of their hair unde

the head scarf. there's a more relaxed feeling about what they can wear. and this, you know, in response to this, there was a rule proposed by hard liners in parliament and it was accepted and approved. a rule that essential lay law that allowed citizens to be encouraged to enforce some of these modesty rules on their own. that enforcement did not -- obviously, call for what we've seen with these attacks. but there is -- i think it has to be said that this is the context in which some of this is happening. >> and i'm so glad you bring that context, ann. i want to switch over to the situation with bock can ha ran that kidnapped more schoolgirls. it was a big story early krier year. why isn't there a big focus anymore? >> clearly it's not a story we

drop the ball on. these are -- this was nearly 300 girls who were kidnapped. more girls have been kidnapped. this recently boko haram has been enforcing a campaign of terror on nigeria for years now, and in this particular case, and in other recent cases, the targets have been largely girls and christian girls in particular. and it's not just about the fact they are getting an education but a western education. there is a clear effort by a very fundamentalist group inside nigeria to push back against that. and i'm glad you brought their story up. we really must be thinking bringing back our girls. it was a very good campaign initiated to try to do something about it. unless boko haram is stopped it will continue to do this.

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talked about for 2016 though he insists to joe scar bro this morning it's all about 2014. >> everything is about 2014 right now. >> right. >> all right. everything is about getting more senators elected for my party so we can have a house and a senate that could pass bills to go -- it's hard to predict. we'll pick up a lot of seats doing it. the majority? i don't know. if we do, we will actually end gridlock. we'll pass bills. then we'll go to the president's desk and he'll veto them or sign them. and things will hard with regard to energy, education, immigration. these things will finally be dealt with and long past and we'll end gridlock. joining me now is crystal and michael steel. thank you for being with me. michael, i want to start with you and romney. why do we keep talking about him when -- it's not just in the

media. it's some fellow republicans. >> i think that because a large measure the field that should be emerging should be beginning next wednesday who looking for stability, who is looking for leadership. he's demonstrated those attributes and given the nature of our politics he's someone who is almost like comfort food for a a lot of republicans. >> one thing with mitt romney in some ways the fact that the establishment is still graff stating toward him. speaks to some of the weaknesses of jeb bush and his potential campaign. i mean, he would be sort of the

logical next in line establishment choice, but he has had some stumbling on the trail and the book release. he had trouble with the base. thing a way a little mitt romney -- issues on that side. >> if i could -- i disagree with her on that point. i think it's all the signals up to the last few weeks from jeb bush and the bush family has been that he's not interested. there's no incla nation to do it has allowed the donors and the establishment folks to move toward romney. that's a safer harbor. if jeb bush makes up his mind to do this, there's no contest here between going back to mitt romney or going forward with jeb bush. >> and, by the way, you know, his son said on sunday there's a better than 50/50 shot he's going to run. that's still remains to be seen. let's talk about the other side. hillary clinton it seems like she's pretty much everywhere. she's heading to kentucky this weekend to help allison

lundergan grimes. how much time does she have before she should make an announcement? >> i think she still has some time. frankly everybody feels like she's going to run. i don't think everyone is waiting with baited breath. in a sense she has a opposite problem. this is a woman we have known for many years. i think her challenge is the same in 2008 not giving off the air of inevitability. not peaking too early. i think it's more of an issue for her. >> michael, do you agree? >> i do. >> the fact the matter is right now liz bern warren, even though she said she's not interested. there's little out there in the democrats that would be a forbiddable opposition. >> elizabeth warren is hillary clinton's mitt romney. that kind of situation where -- >> comfort food, you mean?

>> well, in this sense, in this sense that, you know, there's a lot of energy on the progressive side of the democratic party for someone like elizabeth warren. they're not necessarily gravitating toward hillary clinton. if hillary clinton doesn't get in. that's a natural fallback. i suspect that there actually may be this opportunity for elizabeth warren to think a little bit more about jufring into the thing than she is now. given the reactions to her around the country. i was recently on set with her during bill mayher. there's a real looking over the shoulder for someone like hillary clinton when it comes to elizabeth warren. just for a lot of republicans there's a little bit of looking over the shoulder about a mitt romney with respect to their decision to get ahead. >> and quick, do you think hillary will run? >> yeah. i think hillary is going to run. i think it's interesting in her positioning. she does seem to be realizing

that elizabeth warren is an ideological threat. she's trying to be the progressive champion. i think that warren is having an impact -- will have an impact on the race whether or not she decides to get in. >> interesting. thank you so much. by the way you can watch krystal on msnbc.com and 3:00 p.m. eastern, noon pacific, with the rest of the cycle right here on msnbc. hawaii's slow moving disaster. ferguson police fall out, and former baseball star's shooting incident. we've been watching the lava flow from the kilauea flow from hawaii in days. it's burned the first building. about 40 to 50 more homes are in its path. the lava is. -- 370 yards from the major highway. traveling about 30 to 45 feet

per hour. ferguson, missouri could be getting ready for a major shakeup in the police department. sources tell msnbc chief thomas jackson could resign as early as next week. plan being worked out behind closed doors could include the resignation of darren wilson, the police officer who shot brown. jackson and the ferguson police department deny these reports. what happened in las vegas? a former baseball star jose con sec koe. he accidentally shot himself in the hand. he underwent surgery in an effort to save one of his fingers. he was a six-time all-star and two time world series champion. he became the face of steroid use after writing a tell all called "juice." we showed you the rocket expl e

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it was definitely an historic night for fifa and for us. because we will be the home of the fifa world cups and we'll bring it live in our own special fashion to the hispanic community in the u.s. thank you! my colleague from telemundo reporting on a huge moment in sports. fifa making it official in moscow last night with the unveiling of the 2018 world cup lo logo. for the first time telemundo part of the nbc family will be

carrying all the world cup coverage. starting in 2018. we begin the coverage next year. we'll be following it right up to the first game. from moscow to space. an unmanned rocket exploded seconds after takeoff last night. a set back for space exploration. hardly the first. here are five things. number one an original throw back to 1957 the vanguard the united states first try at putting a satellite in spacex loading two second after leaving here in florida. number two, 1968, the apollo 6. a final test before a rocket would carry man around the moon reaching space but never making it into the orbit. thanks to what are called oscillations and a host of other issues minutes after the launch. number three, the 1986 challenger tragedy. we remember the terrible images

of the shuttle exploding just 73 seconds into flight killing all seven astronauts on board. >> number four, another tragedy in 2003 with the image of debris from the space shuttle in columbia. also killing all seven astronauts. number five, ending on a much lighter note and different planet. mars one of two nasa mars rovers called spirit stopped phoning home back in 2011. a break up literally out of is world. >> i'm telling you i think the mar martians have something to do with this. anyway, that's for another day. that wraps up this hour on msnbc. thank you for the privilege of your time. "newsnation" with tamron hall is up next. i'll see you here tomorrow. time for the "your business"

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good morning to you. i'm francis in for tamron hall. this is "newsnation." we begin with the investigation into a massive rocket explosion along the virginia coast. right now a team of nasa and faa investigators are on the ground in virginia. they are trying to figure out why an unmanned rocket exploded moments after lift off last night. search teams are collecti i debris at the launch pad, surrounding beach and water. it could be seen and heard for miles around. take a look at the video taken from an observation area near the launch site. the mission was run by a commercial company hired by nasa. it was carrying 5,000 pounds of cargo all of which was lost. along with a rocket and the capsule. the total loss? $200 million. luckily no one was