. >> just ahead on "real money," virgin galactic richard branson tells him about the people that will make a difference. >> i think it's the crazy people that will change the world and create the jobs of the future. >> al jazeera america presents a breakthrough television event. borderland. six strangers. >> let's just send them back to mexico. >> experience illegal immigration up close and personal. >> it's overwhelming to see this many people that have perished. >> lost lives are relived. >> all of these people shouldn't be dead. >> will there differences bring them together or tear them apart? >> the only way to find out is to see it yourselves. >> which side of the fence are you on? borderland, tonight at 9 eastern, only on al jazeera america. >> hundreds of days in detention. >> al jazeera rejects all the charges and demands immediate release. >> thousands calling for their freedom. >> it's a clear violation of their human rights. >> we have strongly urged the government to release those journalists. >> journalism is not a crime. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> in october the commercial space industry

. >> just ahead on "real money," virgin galactic richard branson tells him about the people that will make a difference. >> i think it's the crazy people that will change the world and create the jobs of the future. >> all of these people shouldn't be dead. >> will there differences bring them together or tear them apart? >> the only way to find out is to see it yourselves. >> which side of the fence are you on? borderland, tomorrow at 9 eastern, only on al jazeera america. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> in october the commercial space industry took a major hit when virgin galactic's spaceship 2 crashed in the desert. richard branson arrived on the scene visibly shaken. for a man who spent most of his life smiling for the cameras this time was different. he wondered if it was worth pursuing his dream of commercial space tourism but virgin galactic is pushing on with big hopes for 2015. ali velshi sat down with branson at the world economic forum in davos. >> every time we've spoken you give off such positive energy, you seem well, except for that one day when you got to mojave. in your interview it was pal

we look at the inter-galactic missions for this year. >>> a new report detailed a political cost of the turmoil medium. according to the strad eegeic studies, 7,000 were killed a threefold increase. the houthi movement controls 70%. the report - political transition failed. omar sala is in the yemeni capital. the leader has come out. and officially the objection of the group to the idea of dividing yemen into six regions - the houthi leader saying that this is organised and orchestrated by the countries to have a week with yemen. the moves was represented in the meeting, which led to the agreement providing yemen into last year's. over the capital, in december i think they are importing the political will in a separate development, a leading n.g.o. in the capital put a picture for the company. about 7,000 during 2014. 70% of the army's capabilities are in the hands of the houthis. >> palestinian leaders are accusing israel of starving their people of with holding a million dollars. israel is inspecting the payment. joining the international criminal court. the palestinian officially see

. >> let's talk about the companies you are working with spacex google, virgin galactic.y competing with this as well as funding it? >> google is not a competitor they are the sponsor of the prize. they are making a possible. virgin galactic is an outgrowth, if you will, of our first x prize, which was the x for suborbital spaceflight. when we have in a prize, our role is that it's the beginning of an effort, not the end. >> virgin galactic was a one-off, no pun intended, and now it's a business. >> we look to lead industries that start -- nascent industries or industries that have evolved as one of the results of x prices. that is what will make the innovation sustainable. without doing that, all you have is a stunt, if you will. we are looking for more than just a stunt demonstrations. >> so imaging, mobility, and landing systems. talk to me about what the prizes are today and what the innovations are. >> these are three important phases of the lunar mission. you have to get there, so you have to be able to land softly. landing is hard, getting there is harder. >> the g

. >> virgin galactic - the space offshoot of british aerospace giant virgin -plans to take customers a ride into low-earth orbit to experience zero gravity. flights are expected to begin this year. leonardo di caprio and justin bieber are signed-up as paying customers. the price for a ticket - $250,000. george whitesides virgin galactic's ceo. >> we've got a carrier aircraft that brings the spaceship up to 50,000 feet where it releases the spaceship. and the spaceship fires its rocket motor, makes a turn vertical, and you start heading up at mach 3. >> the construction began more than 6 years ago and the costs were more than 200-million dollars. no small fee, even for a billionaire. for sir richard branson, the founder of the company, the inauguration of the spaceport was an occasion for champagne, but that could be because he's not paying for it. >> he did not contribute a dime to the construction of this project. >> how much has he given to the local community? >> to my knowledge absolutely nothing. >> the spaceport was built here in dona ana county - one of the poorest counties in

. >>> now from the crash of virgin galactic's test craft to the first landing of a spacecraft on a comet2014 was a huge year and 2015 promises to be the same. tarek bazeley has the story. >> within 10,000 kilometers of its surface giving us an unparalleled view of the world we know little about. >> pluto whether or not we call i.t. a planet, will be visited by a spacecraft. mind boggling, furthest solar body from ours. that's mind boggling. >> lying between orbits of mars and jupiter let's hope both will learned evidence to the creation of the solar system. larger than the coffee cup are currently in orbit around the earth. the european space agencies is expected to try new technologies. >> when the net reaches the body of debris the net impacts on the debris and the masses continue their courses so they wrap around and they internal the debris that is impossible to internal. >> they plan to drag the debris towards earth where it will be burned up. a lander on a comet for the first time. the orbiter. >> so for many scientists that's big diego deal. >> in jan nasa plans to launch a satell

we're only 10 weeks after the fatal virgin galactic crash.d going ahead with that and focused on getting tourists up into space? >> yes, we are. first of all, the network i just told you about will be part of virgin galactic's program. we'll be launching satellites into space from a mother ship through a rocket we built called launcher 1 and launcher 2 and put g putting people aboard the spaceship. >> anonned listening to at davos, take a listen to this. >> ♪ >> it's bongo flava. i haven't heard it a version of hip-hop and r&b. he artists weren't taken seriously but all that has changed. >> reporter: award winning artist is laying down his tracks originally seen as western culture trying to find its way into a very conservative society. >> they are always fighting us like, you know, don't do music you know because it's something from the streets, you know. there's not any future in it. ay started his career 14 months ago and one of the few artists who persevered believing one day his career would be big. his tenacity paid off. he's now making

now, richard, we're only 10 weeks off to thefrom the fatal virgin galactic crash.till determined going ahead with that and focused on getting tourists up into space? >> yes we are. first of all, the network i just told you about will be part of virgin galactic's program. we'll be launching satellites into space from a mother ship through a rocket we built called launcher 1 and launcher 2. we also are building the second spaceship, which will take people to space. so that program obviously has been delayed, but we hope will be back on track by the end of the year. >> so richard, you've obviously just become a grandfather. congratulations. thinking about the future. >> thank you very much. >> thinking about the future of the world's children is something very much no doubt on your mind and also tackling global inequality is something on the top of the agenda at davos. the kind of themes the kind of people that will be attracted by this space project, for example, they're not going to be the lowest income members of the community. how do you bridge the gap between ric

or more or less, more than my virgin galactic flight. but he did some real experiments. he started something called sensors unlimited. made a ton of money. but this guy's a real science geek as well as a businessman. i do want to say he is a ham radio operator. he has contacted earth from the space station himself. we are going to do the opposite of in about 40 minutes in the trophy room. i just want to say, greg is a nice guy. his capsule that came back from space, the tiny soyuz capsule is in the intrepid museum on the west side. if you want to see how small it was. greg olsen. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. i realize i stand between you and lunch. so i'm going to try to blow through the presentation and do any questions. people ask me where i get the idea to go into space. then we will get to eat. people ask me where i get the idea to go into space. i am not a professional astronaut. had a lot of training in that area. about 11 years ago, i was sitting in a starbucks in princeton, new jersey. i read his story about how the russian space agency would take private

it has the backing of virgin galactic and qualcomm, but this is one ambitious undertaking.g weiler is here in a first on fox business interview. and it could be the worst snowstorm this new york history. will people be sleeping at their desks, curling up on couches at work? what's in store for the rest of of the nation? how you can play the storm as an investor. we've got the answers. take a look at our corner here in manhattan. ♪ ♪ welcome back to showdown! jerry rice here with 8 year old andrew hunter debating who will win the big race between the tortoise and the hare. what do you think andrew? rabbits are faster. it's not a rabbit, it's a hare. what's the difference? maybe figure that out before debating the best wide reciever of all time. wait, are you odell beckham jr.? vote on twitter for your chance to win a mercedes-benz big race viewing party. ♪ 800,000 hours of supercomputing time, 3 million lines of code, 40,000 sets of eyes, or a million sleepless nights. whether it's building the world's most advanced satellite, the space station, or the next leap in unmanned

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three days later, one test pilot was killed, another oh injured when virgin galactic's spaceship explodedmidair. >> an unmanned piece of hardware guided itself on to a rock moving 135,000 kilometers or 84,000 miles per hour is pretty amazing. no less amazing was the first unhand test flight for orion. in set, it performed an orbit of earth and splashed down. nasa plans to carry a human crew zoo deep space perhaps following our robotic missions to the surface of mars. the view of space has always had a lot to teach us. the first apollo mission and the holiday greetings from the astronauts was an extraordinary reminder of how unique and fragile our world is. this year, we got that reminder again. a german born member of the international space station team took this photo of gas being pounded by rockets. he could see the explosions. perhaps that sort of view, the view of ourselves and of how small we are is what space exploration is truly for. jacob ward, al jazeera planet earth. >> a former astronaut and international space station commander joins us from houston this morning. commander, g

and what's richard branson's doing with virgin galactic is really hard. he's taking a financial risk and other people's lives at risk. >> he reached down to you. >> it's a extremely large responsible to shoulder. i spoke to him just after the accident just because of the background i've had and what i was about to face with the accusation he and the grieving of the families and how to recognize that this is not -- this is not completely unknown in the lives of test pilots, you know. it's something that happens when you're pushing the edge of the envelope. someone had to figure out where the edge was and if you want it to be further away you have to take a risk. >> do you think the u.s. is investing enough in nasa, in the space program? >> enough is, you know, i would love the budget of anything that i'm working on, whether it's my household or any organization that i support, i'd love it to be increased. it's easy to say nasa's budget should be doubled or why are we, you know, fighting a war why are we doing this when we could be doing that? i have huge r

the andromeda is our closest galactic neighbor. it was taken by the hubble space telescope.past 100 million stars. each of the tiny white dots is a sun much like our own. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," we'll speak with vice president joe biden on president obama's state of the union awe dress. >>> plus an update on the unrest in yemen. we'll hear from michael morell, former deputy director of the cia. >>> and charlie will talk with julianne moore about her movie "still alice." that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good morning, everyone. you're taking a live look at the golden gate bridge right now. a few car lights out there. but not too many. it's still early. it is just about 4:30. >> it's wicked early. >> it's wicked early. [ laughter ] >> 4:30 on the nose right now. good to have you with us. it's wednesday, january 21. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. happy wednesday, everybody. out the door, a little we

virgin galactic is an out growth of our first x prize which was the x prize for suborbital spaceflights the beginning of an effort, not the end and we look -- >> it looked like it was a one-off. it landed and now it will be a business. >> we look to leave industries that start, nascent industries or industries that have evolved as one of the results of xprize. without doing that all you have is a stunt. we are looking for more than stunt demonstrations. >> imaging, mobility, and landing systems. what are these prizes today and what are the innovations? >> these are three important phases of the lunar mission. you have to get there so you have to be able to land softly. >> landing is hard. getting there is probably harder. >> the getting there is mostly about capital and not so much about technical innovation. we have the rockets but it is part of the darwinian exercise to capitalize your adventure. once you are in the area you have to safely get to the surface. that is the landing. you have to be able to get from place to place. and finally -- >> i thought that was the landing. then yo

the they gave it 50/50 odds but on the heels of the virgin galactic crash there is big pressure on space x to deliver. taking supplies to the international space station. we will bring you the launch live at 6:20 this morning eastern time on "fox & friends." >> another cool story the daring dissent they are attempting the toughest climb on the planet. they are halfway through the free climb of the dog wall. it is a 3,000 foot slab of granite. they will use only their hands and feet. this is the third try since 20010. >> it is 20 minutes to the top of the hour. higher education how colorado is telling people to handle pot. >> and flying for less. the how much cheaper your plane tickets could be for 2015. >> she is played the villain before. why nicole kidman's neighbor says that's a real life role. i have moderate to severe crohn's disease. it's tough, but i've managed. but managing my symptoms was all i was doing. so when i finally told my doctor he said humira is for adults like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease.

he reportedly paid $20 million or more or less, more than my virgin galactic flight. he did some real experiments. he started something called sensors unlimited. made a ton of money. but this guy's a real science geek as well as a businessman. i do want to say he is a ham radio operator. he has contacted earth from the space station himself. we are going to do the opposite of in about 40 minutes in the trophy room. i just want to say, greg is a nice guy. his capsule that came back from space, the tiny soyuz capsule is in the intrepid museum on the west side. if you want to see how small it was. greg olsen. [applause] >> thank you.

from the tragic crash of virgin galactic's test crash to the first land on a comet. 2014 was a big year. al jazeera's technology editor tarek balz has the bazley has the story. >> large body will be visitby a spacecraft we launched a decade ago. to me that's mind-bogboggling. >> in april another spacecraft, dawn is set to land on ceries. the problem of space debris will also get attention in 2015. 17,000 trackable objects larger than a coffee cup is are currently in orbit around the earth. the european space agency is set to test new capture technology based on fishing nets. >> you don't have any problem with air or drag, and when the net reaches the body of the debris the net impacts on the debris and the masses continue their courses so they wrap around and they entangle the debris in a way that is impossible to disentangle. >> once caught they plan to trag the debris down to earth where it will bush up on reentry. lathe last year, the european space agency placed a lander on a comet for the first time. sampling and analyzing it as it approaches the sun. >> you're going to see water f

are you going to buy a ticket on verging galactic? you must make a lot of money is a photographer, right? >> that punchline was pretty good. no, i would love to go up. i think it would be great. i am always thinking about what i would do it there that might be different. a lot has been done. tom has done a lot of the shots that i had on my list. i think the only thing left is a series of nudes. >> not nudes of you? >> i once interviewed bill anders, who took the the very famous photo. i was like to ask people what they were thinking at the time they did a great thing. for bill, it was earthrise. he said you wanted know what i'm thinking. i'm thinking i am off mission. i'm supposed to be taking photos of the dark side of the moon as we go around because apollo was the first time anybody had gone around the moon and instead of taking photos of the potential lunar landing sites for apollo 11. here i am taking pitchers of the earth. i'm wasting film. what i really thought was that i was going to get a lot of trouble for taking these pictu

. >>> exploring close and beyond - inter-galactic missions for the year. >>> let's start - forces are battling to retake more villages from i.s.i.l. the islamic state of iraq and levant. we go to sal tan abdullah a village which peshmerga forces managed to retake. there has been a lot of fighting. how was it for the peshmerga to drive i.s.i.l. out of sultan abdullah. >> not quite easy we are on the edge of sultan abdullah. it's a few hundred kilometres down here. we are in peshmerga. the village is within site of i.s.i.l. they are firing on peshmerga inside, but on the outside, where we have seen mart areas that have not ex -- mortars that have not exploded. they have told us the peshmerga have told us that the fire is coming in mortars killing some of the peshmerga fighters inside. this village, sultan abdullah is where we saw the extent of fighters two days ago, facing off with the fighters. we are seeing some of the fighting going on between the i.s.i.l. peshmerga, and they cannot - it shows you how the peshmerga are when it comes to fighting. >> it highlights the peshmerga demand

. >> battle star galactic caw. >> the real housewives of orange county. >> we have all of that. we know that we need to be careful and we need to keep them in check. so that isry for this week which next week will be completely different and i will be terrified of the robots. >> the main thing i am concerned about is i love human error, and i love when humans do awful things. if i now have a robot cooking my food i know it is not going to spit in my food. but i like the thrill of not being sure. it makes the dining -- >> they are going to take that into consideration and every now and then spit if your food. spit in your food. >> so many miss fires here. >> here is the thing. what happens when the robots punches you back? >> that's when i have to learn how to take a punch from a robot. maybe we can cut that part? riding a sled fills them with dread. they are saying hell no to sun and the snow. they are planning to ban sledding in all but two of the city's 50 parks. it is the subject of tonight's -- it is a dangerous activity. last year alone 40,000 children in america died from

next lecture we will be on december 9 and it is about earth's orbit along with the sans around the galacticnter, part of the conference will be holding. we invite you. i'm sure that you have further questions. please hold those questions until we get to the rainbow lobby. thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> book tv is on facebook. like us to get publishing news scheduling updates behind-the-scenes pictures and videos author information. facebook .com/book tv. >> saturday january 24 is national redefined day. .. >> next on booktv, conservative commentator and writer nick adams. he argues that the united states will bounce back from its current troubles and dominate the 21st century. this is a little under an hour. >> you

plus mission to mars - engineers will be hard at work making galactic travel plans. >>> our picture of the day next. >>> today the c.e.o. of spacex elon musk talked about plans to colonize mars. he talked about how it would happen. jacob ward is in san francisco with the details. >> elon musk has been clear about his ambitions for mars, and speaks about pushing out from our own planet and setting up new life and talks about being buried on mars. that's in the future. spacex will expand its seattle operation to specialise in high-cost satellites. it will eventually hold hundreds, maybe a thousand people as the company moves to putting up communication and science satellites for public and private clients. musk is planning to use the business to create expertise and technology to master all the things that it takes to make the long journey to mars. it's a long journey, that's the problem. chief among the long list of obstacles between ourselves and a new life on mars is the sheer distance to travel taking 150 to 300 days to fly to mars depending on its orbit and ours. certain humans have

. >> reporter: the prospector for their galactic enterprise a space telescope.o send robotic probes to collect and bring samples back to earth, but it may be decades before real pay back happens for investors. and there are setbacks like this one. [ explosion ] >> reporter: one of planetary resources telescopes headed for testing in space was destroyed in the rocket explosion. many other commercial space companies lost equipment being sent to the space station for testing. >> putting things into orbit is not a travelal task. >> reporter: it was the same for planet labs. it last 26 nano satellites in the explosion. >> reporter: your company took a hit? >> yes, but not on the scale you can imagine. >> reporter: planet labs had already launched 71 of their nano satellites into space in the last 18 months with an estimated resolution of 10 to 16 feet. this is one of the nan know satellites. it is 12 inches long and 4 inches wide. not exactly what you think of when you think of satellites. they call these doves and send them up in flocks 20 or 30 at a time into orbit

. >> still ahead - a close call by galactic standard. how close a giant asteroid came to earth, and what n.a.s.a. scientists can learn from a fly by. by. education... gun control... the gap between rich and poor... job creation... climate change... tax policy... the economy... iran... healthcare... ad guests on all sides of the debate. >> this is a right we should all have... >> it's just the way it is... >> there's something seriously wrong... >> there's been acrimony... >> the conservative ideal... >> it's an urgent need... and a host willing to ask the tough questions >> how do you explain it to yourself? and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5 eastern only on al jazeera america >> beyond the verdict and on the streets >> there's been another teenager shot and killed by the police >> a fault lines special investigation >> there's a general distrust of this prosecutor >> courageous and in depth... >> it's a target you can't get rid of... >> the untold story... >> who do you protect? >> ...of what'

it's galactically awesome to be us. >> is there any sign -- it's amazing in six years of recovery that this group of people who a lot think barack obama is a socialist, they hate redistribution. it has been an incredible time to be super rich in this country. you've got impressive amounts of gains flowing to those folks. >> we have structured the economy to benefit very small minority of people. that process is a feedback loop, which is accelerating. and, you know, there's not a better example of the way in which we're currently manipulating the economy to benefit people like me, than the $700 billion a year, you know, american corporations currently spend on stock buybacks. which do nothing but inflate the, essentially the paper value of assets. for the benefit of the very, very rich. >> this is a point that's important to realize is, one of the things that precipitated the crisis, there's a theory about the global pool of money, which is like there's so much money, in so few hands, chasing investment, looking around, and it just was sloshing around. eventually it was like, we've got

october 27, 2014, brought an one-two punk to the space industry when a rocket exploded and virgin galactic suffered the ultimate fail, a death of a pilot and crash and destruction of spaceship two. >> tell us what you heard yesterday. >> space is dangerous but it's not deterring entrepreneurs. >> i believe the first trillionaires will be created in space. the impetus is money. >> but it's also exploration. most entrepreneurs in the space industry have an united vision that was once relegated to space age cartoons to one day colony ize other planets like mars. >> i'm 100% certain that everyone will have a chance to go to space. it seems far off. it seems expensive but it all started with aviation. >> just as aviation was expensive and unreliable in its infancy, so, too is space industry. the biggest hurdle of all reducing the cost of launch. the cheapest option is the falcon 9 rockets which costs $60 million per launch, half the cost of its competitors. >> we still launch into space using the same technology that sputnik was launched into space on. >> but they're working on a reusable rocke

. ♪ >>> in october any commercial space industry took a major hit when virgin galactic's spaceship twonto the desert. hours later, richard branson arrived on the scene visibly shaken for a man who spent so much of his life smiling for the cameras, it was clear this time was different. he admitted he wondered if it was worth pursuing his dream of commercial space tourism. but they are pushing on with a new version of the spaceship and big hopes for 2015. ali velshi sat down with richard branson to talk about space and much more. >> every time we have spoken you give off such positive energy. you always say you are well. you always seem very well except for that one day when you got to the desert after the crash, and it was palpable. now, i understand that some of that is because there was human life lost, and while we all know in space in the early days that will happen there was a soedness in you. is it still there, and what it is about? >> well look obviously for the family involved it's heart breaking they will never completely get over it. and for the greater family 400 engineers an

space tourism received a set back when virgin galactic crashed, killing the pilot. we look at some of the space missions planned for the year ahead. >> reporter: after app 9-year -- a 9-year journey through space, n.a.s.a.'s new arrival craft will make an approach to pluto, coming within 10,000km of its surface, giving us an unparalleled planet we know little about. >> pluto, whether or not we call it a planet will be visited by a spacecraft. that will be mind boggling. the furthest body will be visited by a spacecraft we launched a decade ago. that's mind boggling. downis set to arrive lying between the orbit of mars and jupiter, it's hoped both will shed light on the origin of the solar system. the problem is 17,000 trackable objects, larger than a coffee cup are in orbit around the earth. there are threats to satellites and the european space agency is set to test capture technology faced on the fishing net. >> the net opens up. being in space, you don't have programme or drag. when you reach the body of the debris it impacts on the debris and the masses continue

if this was the united states and the ntsb if you look at virgin galactic asiana the ntsb would be outemp, almost indecent haste sometimes to give out the information. indonesia, we may find them playing much harder towards the rules of their team, which is very restrictive. but the u.s. has changed the procedures, hugely in the way people do these things. >> richard, we talk about the data from this. what does it actually look like? is it just computerized? obviously the flight voice recorder is digitized. i assume. >> it is. you then put it into a graph. and you can see the various movements that have been made by the different control surfaces. and you'll be told which pilot made them. if you then put on top of that the voice recorder, second by second, millisecond by millisecond, you get this total picture. >> the voice recorder, david, picks up anything that was said in the cockpit. an intercom doesn't have to be flipped on, it automatically records what was said? >> there's actually three microphones, anderson. one is on the co-pilot, one is on the pilot, and one for an ambience

. >>> happening today more than 23,000 runners will embark on a inter galactic adventure for the "started to participate. the new "star wars" theme event will include kids race 5k 10-k and half marathon. the 10-k gets under way today. the half marathon is set for tomorrow morning. disney is the parent company of abc 7 news. lisa should be a good time down there. >> they will be sweating. right now we're looking at 40s and 50s with areas of dense fog. hazy afternoon sunshine. slight chance of showers in the north bay. 62 in richmond. 63 san mateo. seven day forecast, still a chance of showers mainly north. holiday looks nice under partly cloudy skies. after that we're sunny and we're warmer right up to next weekend. >> sounds good. thanks to you for joining us on tabs 7 saturday morning news. i appreciate you dealing with my sore throat voice. the news continues online twitter and facebook and on your mobile deswris our abc female announcer: during sleep train's huge year end clearance sale, get beautyrest, posturepedic even tempur-pedic mattress sets at low clearance prices. plus, free

look at recent incidents where the black box data recorder -- let's take for example the virgin galacticof it information showed that the veins at the back deployed early. that was made obvious. and it was released. asiana released a lot of information. here peter you and i might differ in a sense that in the u.s. there is a greater tendency to make information from black boxes and from the investigation more freely available than in other parts of the world. would you agree, pet center >> i would agree. what i meant is you can -- the investigators can have access to the data. whether they release it or not is something entirely different. and the key point is if they see something in the data which indicates a problem that needs be addressed, they will address it immediately. >> and i imagine they would try to reach out maybe to other expert eyes to see what else is in there. peter, i have another question that i don't think we've talked about even though we've been talking a lot about these black box. so much has been said about the information they contain. do these recorders record j

we look at the new inter galactic missions for this year.ts a wickett keeper with a test against the west indians. after the break, more on that. stay with us. ♪ welcome back now. new york's natural history museum is saying goodbye to one of its special exhibits a carefully preserved giant tortis known as lonesom george at the ender age of 100. kristen saloomey reports. >> the last known pin. a island tort. or. oise on earth. he was discovered in 1971 at a time when scientists believed his sub species was extinct. >> these. or. oises hadn't been exploited, we might have had them here. it's a message about being good stewards of our planet. >> brought to new york after his death in 2012, it took a taxdermist a year to preserve his skin and shell, replacing his internal organs with foam. a life like monument to animal first discovered by charles darlin. >> lonesom george will be back home in ecuador gone but not forgotten. he has become a symbol of what the world has lost from extinction. sadly, his fate isn't unique. dozens of species go exti

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