after graduating i served for a long time in the north caucasus, submitted documents to the air force academyfter graduating from the academy i learned that they were recruiting for the cosmonaut corps, during my work at the cosmonaut training center i completed three flights into outer space, completed as an astronaut. my dream was to become a military pilot, but i always liked to look at the dark starry sky; when the opportunity arose, i immediately took advantage of it. who helped you to become what you are now, who influenced it the most? the school had a very strong influence, because our education system, the soviet one, i think it was the best , my father, who put some of his traits into me, very much influenced me, gave a lot to the instructors who studied during flight training. not only fly, but behave accordingly, that’s what concerns astronautics, yes, you can just think about yuri alekseevich gagarin, who flew into the unknown altogether, he was not afraid, he i knew that i might not return from there , there was no concept of how to live in space, how to fly there, how the body

tonight on abc back now with water drops being made on a wildfire burning on the grounds of the air force academy in colorado springs, crews battled high winds and temperatures were in the 60s. >> no homes were in danger, but some residents were told to prepare to evacuate as a precaution. the fire has burned about 170 acres. what if the price of your food was determined by when you bought it? >> one major fast food chain is about to bring surge pricing to the menu. this morning, the high cost of food is taking a toll on consumers and businesses. and now a big change could be coming in the fast food industry. >> two day of singles. >> how much would it cost? >> wendy's will soon test a plan to fluctuate its menu prices based on the time of day. the location and demand. it would be similar to the surge pricing used by ridesharing companies like uber, raising fares during bad weather or rush hour. >> wendy's baconator in this case that baconator sandwich could cost a dollar more during your lunch hour. >> dynamic pricing or pricing algorithms allow companies to change prices throughout the day, or

air force academy near colorado springs. crews responded to the fire which started yesterday afternoon. the academy says the colorado springs fire department is assisting. officials say no homes are threatened, but some pre-evacuation instructions were handed out. >>> and "the new york times" says people in the city are mourning the death of a beloved owl named flaco. the owl became famous when it escaped from its central park enclosure last year after it was vandalized. the 13-year-old owl was often seen flying around the city. it was found dead on friday on a sidewalk after apparently flying into a building. a makeshift memorial with poems, notes, and flowers was set up in central park. >>> still ahead this morning, cellphone credit. at&t says it will offer refunds for last week's outage. how much eligible customers can receive. can receive. the right age for neutrogena® retinol? that's whenever you want it to be. it has derm-proven retinol that targets vital cell turnover, evens skin tone, and smooths fine lines. with vis

another burning near the air force academy in colorado springs. alerts have been issued in 11 states because of windy, dry conditions. >> i came by yesterday and i actually didn't come up this far and i saw like smoke from two exits away. >> allergy sufferers are also being warned about an earlier than usual pollen season. trees and shrubs are being tricked into thinking spring has sprung the ends of the tips. >> the buds start to swell and then as they mature, they'll start to leaf out. but get ready for weather whiplash. >> a powerful storm will bring millions back to winter reality. >> we time it right into new york city. by wednesday evening, it's going to be thunderstorms. it will really change things and drop temperatures. look at some of those numbers drop like chicago from the 70s into the 30s. experts say the unusual weather is thanks in part to a shift in the jet stream. >> el nino and climate change president biden could face a major challenge today as voters head to the polls in the michigan primary. >> the state is home to a large ara

across the plains, from texas to nebraska, and colorado, where a fire monday threatened the air force academy near colorado springs. tonight, the governor of texas declaring a disaster, calling these wildfires devastating. now, forecasters are saying that conditions should improve overnight, but they could get worse once again by the end of the week. david? >> david: let's hope they get a reprieve from these conditions. mireya, thank you for that. >>> we turn to the other news tonight. now to the race for the white house. this evening, the primary in the battleground state of michigan, and the test for president biden. the potential protest vote from people angry over his response to israel's continuing military operation in gaza. the voters say they want to send a message. the question tonight, how big will that protest vote be? and what michigan's popular governor, democrat gretchen whitmer, says about voters who want someone other than joe biden to run for the democrats. mary bruce in michigan tonight. >> reporter: tonight, a major test for president biden in the critical state of michigan

record heat igniting wildfires in several states, including this fire near the air force academy near colorado springs. and the northeast with this system bringing heavy rain to the east by wednesday. let's get to chief meteorologist ginger zee starting off the week with us. ginger? >> david, this is so powerful. take a place like the twin cities from the 60s down into the single digits just in 24 to 36 hours. let's go ahead and time it out for you. we've got a lot of alerts on the map. gusts up to 70 miles per hour for some of those high wind warnings. the wind alerts go all the way into the mid tennessee, kentucky, where they'll see gusts up to 45. that's widespread. it's dry. it's hot. that's why you see a lot of those red flag warnings. by tomorrow, the storm that is moving through the cascades and the rockies will erupt into severe storms. and that's going to be with damaging wind and tornado possible in southwest michigan, northwest indiana, over to fort wayne, even detroit, back to grand rapids, and down to st. louis. that division or that temperature gradient so strong and mov

and then you go to the cadet level at the air force academy, west point, and then you expand globally. we are here to stay and we're growing. we've actually been growing like at a 3% rate every year. women are coming into the military at larger numbers, and i'm just really excited to be able to support them in their journeys. >> i can so tell you've made this pitch and you know your facts and you've got it down. look how was your shark tank experience? >> well, you guys will have to see, but it was definitely one of the most nerve wracking experiences. again i've been to basic training, but walking into the room with all the sharks i really had to dig deep and just say, haley, be yourself. this is your opportunity to shine for your community. and i just found the strength from them. >> so you were not nervous at all. you do not look it well, you know, that's, um, my cheerleading training. >> i would say just smile and wave and then everyone thinks you're okay. yeah that. >> and also, you know, the fact that you're a cadet, were you always a fan of the show? >> you know, i really just

he helped pass the bill allowing women cadets into the air force academy after his retirement from the military. in 1970, the pentagon called asking for us help to create safer skies. his suggestion commercial airport security, which would lead to the creation of what we now know as the tsa davis also initiating the sky marshal program train 4,000 officers to go undercover to keep commercial flights safe. >> it works so well under nixon. carter brought him on it and how can we do the same thing for traffic? and he created the 55 mile an hour speed limit, which was the maximum speed limit to optimize gas usage as well as cheap people safe. 25 years ago, president bill clinton nominated davis for appointment as a 4 star general where he garnered support across party lines. he was elevated to fort star under lbj. do the race so then elevated him in 1998. with 10 years of lobbying from senator john mccain, melville's family legacy impacting his own career path. i want to make sure that i tell this story to the world and also i change my profession to become a diversity officer companies al

i always wanted to go to the air force academy or west point. well i came home, my mother cried. my father yelled. i was an only child. okay? i didn't go. we ended up going to nyu uptown, campus when there was an uptown campus and. it's it was a great school and my friend jonathan farkas was from alexander's department stores, went to school together up there and we i remember his mother donated like $7 million to and you at that time and to build new buildings and everything great until years later and while you ended up going broken and they had to sell uptown campus i don't know where to begin and i get i'm so involved so many charities, so involved with a lot of businesses. i started in the supermarket business and all my vendors like me, all my vendors like me, all my i ended up. how did we grow? i had a firm stein rosen, einstein, all greeks, all greeks, somebody me. you have to have a jewish lawyer and and sam stein, who and his brother. it was louis stein who was chairman of food fair. and that goes on and on and on. sam stein owned, a wholesale grocery company in new jer

joey: this was tom cruise rehearsing for top gun three colorado springs, the air force academy, that'syear-old driving i might don't look at the video, it looks awesome to some people but it is not awesome. tom: i don't like the videos of people jumping off of the roof into this is terrifying. everybody relax. that doesn't for us. but guess what. we are back here at 10:00 p.m. eastern tonight. for a very special edition of the big we can show. please come backwards "life, liberty & levin" starts right now ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. mark: hell

. >> scenes like this at the air force academy last union had some questioning the president's physicals biden started using the shorter stairs to board air force one. calls for the president to take cognitive test. >> the president does not need a cognitive test. that ♪ my assessment. >> that ♪ the my assessment. he pass as cognitive test every day. colorado's governor later told shannon bream on "fox news sunday" biden took three questions. steve? >> steve: you are quoting peter doocy? come on, lucas. what's that about? >> good reporting. >> steve: you as well. thank you very much. today president biden and former president trump are heading for the border duling visits but hundreds of miles apart. even as former dhs secretary obama years jeh johnson admits the border crisis only getting worse. >> 250,000 apprehensions in one month my second year in office we had 315,000 apprehensions in all of the year 2015. just for some perspective here. i understand the numbers have dropped a bit of late. but, longer term, big picture, this is a hemispheric shift northward. it's a crisis on multip

he helped pass the bill allowing women cadets into the air force academy after his retirement from theitary. in 1970, the pentagon called asking for us help to create safer skies. his suggestion commercial airport security, which would lead to the creation of what we now know as the tsa davis also initiating the sky marshal program trained 4,000 officers to go undercover to keep commercial flights safe. >> it works so well under nixon. carter brought him on its and how can we do the same thing for traffic? and he created the 55 mile an hour speed limit, which was the maximum speed limit to optimize gas usage as well as cheap people safe. 25 years ago, president bill clinton nominated davis for appointment has a 4 star general where he garnered support across party lines. he was elevated to a 4th star under lbj. do the race. >> then elevated him in 1998. with 10 years of lobbying from senator john mccain. melville's family legacy impacting his own career path. i want to make sure that i tell this story to the world and also i change my profession and become a diversity officer companies

he helped pass the bill allowing women cadets into the air force academy after his retirement from the military. in 1970, the pentagon called asking for us help to create safer skies. his suggestion commercial airport security, which would lead to the creation of what we now know as the tsa davis also initiating the sky marshal program trained 4,000 officers to go undercover to keep commercial flights safe. >> it works so well under nixon. carter brought him on its and how can we do the same thing for traffic? and he created the 55 mile an hour speed limit, which was the maximum speed limit to optimize gas usage as well as keep people safe. 25 years ago, president bill clinton nominated davis for appointment has a 4 star general where he garnered support across party lines. he was elevated to a 4th star under lbj. do the race. then elevated him in 1998. with 10 years of lobbying from senator john mccain. melville's family legacy impacting his own career path. i want to make sure that i tell this story to the world and also i change my profession and become a diversity officer companies

my committee, there were interferences we also were playing games with who gets intt point, air force academy those people like all congressmen do every year. the testimony was they're putting a thumb on the scale as to who gets into these. it's just offensive. they pay people $190,000 a year to be diversity experts this pes this, this person is registered as that. i believe when they do it, they do it like they do in the private sector and has been doing it for 50 years, you self-identify so we keep this fiction going that if you're 1/4 peruvian, you bring a different view to the world. i don't know if you have a grandmother that grew up in silver spring, maryland, you have a unique view in the world and it's important to give you preferences in the military but that's apparently how we're operating right now. at any event, all the american public should be aware of that. if our military is not number one in the world, we're going to be in big trouble, baby. one of the only reasons why we are number one in the world is because we do have the strongest military in the world. and to begin to s

dolly's journey from an injured leg at 11 to become an all-american runner at the united states air force academy in the class of 1996 truly embodies the essence of the american dream as an or thor speedic surgeon, wife and mother of three, she radiated, from running cross country to deploying to afghanistan, she illuminated the lives of those around us. she challenges us to uplift others and relentlessly and pursue our dreams. may her story inspire generations to come. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 9, 2023, the gentlewoman from michigan, ms. stevens is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. ms. stevens: it is a privilege to be on the house floor this evening this valentine's day collecting my thoughts and remembering a bit of history. we have quite the whirl wind year last year in michigan and in this country, as i think about the fall. we were preparing to appropriate fiscal year 2024's authorizations. and of course we were stale mated and still in a continuing resolution of funding the government and at the sam

the academy trains command post officers for the aerospace defense forces and the air force, officers to operate the latest radio systems, officers, test officers to operate the most modern anti-aircraft missile systems. this a training command post of an automation complex that is really similar to those located in army command posts. development of algorithms, programming, artificial intelligence technology, combat use of means of destruction of enemy aerospace forces, these are the main areas that academy cadets learn over the years of study. on the third channel they were destroyed. you and i are in the training room, where the training complex is located, simulating armored vehicles s. here is six sets, that is, simulated. completely division, it is intended for obtaining primary skills, this system simulates all types of airborne objects, many graduates of the zhukov east kazakhstan academy are now serving in the north military district zone, among them there is a hero of russia. this modular training complex is designed to teach cadets the initial skills of driving kamaz family

the academy is getting ready. officers of the command posts of the aerospace defense and air force troops operation of the latest radio-technical complexes, officers, test officers for the operation of the most modern... the office where the training complex is located, simulating armored combat vehicles c, there are six sets here, that is , the entire division is simulated, it is intended for acquiring primary skills, this system simulates all types of air objects. many graduates of the academy of east kazakhstan region named after zhukov are now serving in the north military district zone, among them there is a hero of russia. this modular training complex is designed to teach cadets initial skills. driving cars, kamaz families on these simulators, cadets practice various situations, well, everything is quite, quite real, well, then after that simulator, training ground. camas family vehicles are the base vehicles of many anti-aircraft missile systems. academy graduates are required to know the basic skills of driving these cars. female cadets also get behind the wheel. the girls are me

aviation faculty, faculties of air defense forces, missile forces and artillery, as well as command specialties at the combined arms faculty, were popular at the military academyitary faculties and departments are increasingly opening in belarusian universities. why do you think the military profession is so in demand today? well, the profession of military personnel. boys, as well as girls, choose the profession of an officer because it is, first of all, an investment in future high social status, career prospects , material well-being, confidence in the future. today , graduating from a military educational institution guarantees a stable and decent salary and preferential loans for housing construction, medical care, annual leave of 30 to 45 days, what’s not an argument? what can we say about the scores scored by the girls ? in 2023, girls entered the military academy with scores of 395-396, which would definitely be enough for admission to any specialty at a prestigious educational institution in the country, but this year we plan to recruit more than seventy girls to the military educational institution, well, the main recruitment will take place at the m

aviation faculty, the faculties of air defense forces, missile forces and artillery, as well as command specialties at the combined arms faculty, were popular at the military academyrecently , military faculties and departments are increasingly opening in belarusian universities. why do you think the military profession is so in demand today? well, the profession of military personnel has always been and remains the same one of the most honorable respected. belarus, why is this happening, well, i think that in light of the latest events in the world, our region in the current difficult time, the profession of an officer is chosen by boys, as well as girls, because it is, first of all, an investment, a future, a high social status, prospects for career growth, material well-being, confidence in the future. today, graduating from a military educational institution guarantees a stable and decent salary. suitable lending at housing construction, medical care, annual leave from 30 to 45 days, why not arguments in favor of receiving a military education, not only the stronger sex receives military training, what specialties do girls choose today? yes, the results of the