also, this our martians wanted nasa administrator bill nelson are new red planet recruits and elon musk, exploding rockets and finally, the smash hit west end play that meditates on being young and black in britain. >> there are still resided at me, to be told for people it looked like me welcome to the program, everyone i'm christiana, 1 pool in london, in >> russia this weekend and election. that's more of a rubber stamp on putins eternal presidency. he'll get another six years after being in power since 2000. he's already second only to stalin's 30 year dictatorship. but listen to the pigeon, the world first met. >> freedom of speech freedom of conscience, freedom of the mass media, rights of the owners will again, these fundamental components of any civilized society will be reliably protected by the state >> none of those freedoms exist in putin's russia today. and any real opposition to him or his war in ukraine have been brutally crushed, both inside and outside the country. just this week, the late russian opposition leader, alexei navalny's chief of staff was attacked in exile

bill nelson: good morning.ore we get started, we were supposed to have the federal highway administrator with us this morning. you have probably seen the emergency that is happening in baltimore. our thoughts are certainly with them, our prayers are with the people and the families involved. i have often said that at nasa our mission is for all humanity and that is because space brings us together. there is no better proof than in moments like this, a total solar eclipse.it is a moment when milf people across north america wiln passes in front and between the sun and the earth, and it is a rare sight that we have not seen in seven years.■y and unusual things start to happen as the normal rhythms of earth are disrupted. ■6 when youre seeing this eclipse, you ought to observe this.#ó as the day appears to turn to dusk and then dark, people have heard birds stop singing. they have seen giraffe begin to gallop, roosters start crowing, and crickets chirp. so, watch for these unusual behaviors. and we encourage you t

today's participants include nasa administrator bill nelson, the deputy administrator pam melroy. sociate administrator, jim. the director of office of space weather operations and the program manager kelly. after remarks from each participant we will glly tak■eno administrator nelson to kick us off. bill: good morning. before we get started, we were supposed to have the federal highway administratoryou have pe emergency that is happening in our thoughts are certainly with them, our prayers are with the people in the family's in-famil. i have often said that nasa our mission is for allumanity and that is because space brings us together. there is no better proof they had it is millions of people across north america will look to the heavens as the moon passes in front and between the sun and the earth and it is a rare that we have not seen in seven years. and, unusual things start to happen as the normal rhythms of earth are disrupted. when you are seeing this eclipse, you ought to observeaso , people have heard birds stop singing. they have seen giraffes suddenly begin to gallop,

but these are the of ctures that william rock bill nelson brought back for the nelson gallery, which was a two rooms on the second floor of the public library. and this, i believe, was harry first exposure to art was pictures like this. they're very realistic, right? i mean, you can really i mean, you can almost feel the breath when you're up close to them. and this is ginormous. it's like 12 feet across. so the nelson gallery was the first for ray that kansas city had into art and, really. i think the first experience harry truman with art. you know, harry hated modern art. he it. but i think of the reason was he just never really had any exposure to it because this was the prevailing the prevailing art at the time. it really was this way everywhere in the united states at the time. museums displayed old masters that was realistic that adhere to the long principles of perspective everything was exactly lifelike almost a photographic reproduction of a of what life is like now america in the early 20th century was finally awakening to some of the trends that were occurring in europe.

that it plans to send its tyconauts to the moon by the end of the decade and nasa administrator bill nelsond concern. >> naturally, i don't want china to get to the south pole first, with humans, and then say, this is ours, stay out. >> to ensure that the u.s. will plant its flag first, nasa signed a new $3 billion contract last year with blue origin, the space company owned by billionaire jeff bezos, to build another the lunar lander, and jim free is crystal clear that he sees it as an option if spacex starships keep blowing up. >> if we have a problem with one, we'll have another one to rely on. if we have a dependency on a particular aspect in spacex or blue origin and it doesn't work out, then we have another lander that can take our crews. >> in this battle of the star-gazing billionaires, bezos' blue origin has far fewer launches than musk's spacex and has been far quieter about its ambitions, until now. >> so what we're looking to do is not only get to the moon and back, but make it reliable and repeatable and low-cost. >> john coloris title at blue origin is senior vice president of

and so has bill nelson, the nasa administrator nasa. so it's not really up to the media, i think to determine things as success or failure. but when you have spacex's >> saying that this is success, i think that's a good measure. >> actually, we'd like to anoint ourselves. the judges know is it, is it partially that we just have in unrealistic expectation based on the experience of watching a lot of launches through nasa, where obviously the, you know, the shuttle program had been in place for so long and almost i'm so often in obviously they had struggles and to deadly effect. right. but they were so often successful. it's just, it was rare in that day of space exploration that we saw failures. >> but think of how slow nasa, right? >> okay, bureaucratic wow. no fine. >> the reason spacex is able to do things like this is because they're not afraid to fail and they say, you're doing rapid iterative development, which is a point, is to push the vehicle to failure so that they learned from it. it's the kind of things that governments can'

nelson peltz. >>> and congress passes a stopgap funding bill to kick the can down the road a bit longer. >>> and later on, a closer look at one sector that is sis gaini lot of ground in 2024. it's friday, march 1st, 2024. you're watching "worldwide exchange" right here on cnbc. ♪ >>> good morning and welcome to "worldwide exchange." i'm frank holland. let's get you road ready for the first trading day of the month. the check of the stock futures. the s&p and nasdaq sitting at all-time record highs leaping to them on leap day. you can see a bit of a mixed picture. dow down 35 points. you see the nasdaq firmly in the green. s&p is fractionally higher and almost flat right here. the dow, s&p and nasdaq off the fourth straight winning month in h a row. the nasdaq is the leader. with the nasdaq coming off the first record close in more than two years, we get a check of the stocks to help us get here. nvidia is up 61%. constellation energy may be a pr surprise. the best stock in the s&p and followed by meta up 39%. the bond market check after the pce report. the benchmark ticked down a few basis appo

bills. and finally, the daily star. the full nelson, which was about the storm.'s show. thanks to cressida and to a lesser extent, louis. headliners is back tomorrow p.m. louis. headliners is back tomorrow pm. just tomorrow at 11 pm. just kidding. at kidding. if you're watching at 5 am, stay tuned for a.m, then stay tuned for breakfast. but for now, it's good god good night. good morning and god bless. mike. bless. i'm mike. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello. very good evening to you. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. there will some showers will still be some showers around weekend, around this weekend, but generally through the easter penod generally through the easter period it is going to be a bit dner period it is going to be a bit drier and a bit warmer than it has been of late. low pressure still in control it has still in control like it has been week, been through much of this week, but the flow around the

bill to pass. and why do i say that point in e and whether it's senator manchin or senator sprevious congress tt that pivotal point back in the day it was senator ben nelsonhat a conference report that would have satisfied the bulk ofatic e and the senate could have done in nelson's vote.ator unfortunay died, there were only 59 democrats and the senate looked at the house and said to the speaker of the house, if you want this bill to pass you have to pass the senate bill. there was a reconciliation later but at the end of don't want to say that was covered but not much you can do in reconciliation to actually authorize all of the law that is a.c.a., it had to be in regular order and thus it passed because the house was forced pass the senate bill -- i should say the senate bill with all its flaws. and so we had a.c.a. so finally, let me look at some of the things that went awry. there was some discussion about the medicaid expansion and in a sense the fall of the medicaid expansion is to me full of so much irony. the irony is that everyone thought that the individual mandate was the ultimate pivotal and the supreme courtod by it and at the end of the day

nelson's vote. when the senator unfortunately died, there were on democrats and the senate looked at the house and said to the want this billbill. there was a reconciliation later but at the end of the day i don't want to say that was covered t much you can do in reconciliation to actually authorize all of the law t a.c.a., it had to be in regular order and thus it passed because the house was forced to pass the senate bill -- i should say the senate bill with all its flaws. so finally, let me look at some of the things that went awry. there was some discussion about the medicaid expansion and in a sense the fall tion is to me fo much irony. the irony is that everyone thought that the individual mandate was the ultimate pivotal and the supreme court stood by it and at the end of the day itn states that fell by the way side. i don't think the individual mandate arguably was that much of a material loss because if you remember krrmt b.o. predicted 92% to 94 insured rate and we are at 92.3%. so we are not too far from that. the 92.3 is a little disappointing because we made a deal based on 94%spitals would f our payments if we

nelson's vote. when the senator unfortunately died, there were only 59 democrats and the senate looked at the house and said to the speaker of the house, if you want this bill to pass you have to pass the senate bill. there was a reconciliation later but at the end of the day i don't want to say that was covered but not much you can do in reconciliation to actually authorize all of the law that is a.c.a., it had to be in regular order and thus it passed because the house was forced to pass the senate bill -- i should say the senate bill with all its flaws. and so we had a.c.a. so finally, let me look at some of the things that went awry. there was some discussion about the medicaid expansion and in a sense the fall of the medicaid expansion is to me full of so much irony. the irony is that everyone thought that the individual mandate was the ultimate pivotal and the supreme court stood by it and at the end of the day it was the mandate on medicaid on states that fell by the way side. i don't think the individual mandate arguably was that much of a material loss because if you remember krrmt b.o. predicted 92% to 94 insured rate and we are at 92.3%. so we ar

they got the will bill, but have they got the will to it, or are they to enforce it, or are they just going to standing off? going to keep standing off? well, i'm joined now by nigel nelsonem it seems nigel, that all the direction of travel, the information we're hearing. a major hearing. this will be a major announcement about political toxicity . what's toxicity and security. what's your take? >> well, i rather depends on what the prime minister is going to announce that it's obviously taken us all by surprise. um, i mean, the danger obviously , is mean, the danger obviously, is if the idea is to ban protests that that that can actually drive it underground, and then you get violence taking over. now, what we don't know , though, now, what we don't know, though, is what kind of intelligence the prime minister has received. he may give us some indication of that when he appears outside downing street, but if he has received intelligence that there's something more serious going on, then of course , as going on, then of course, as prime minister, it's his duty to act and in terms of the greater backdrop, nigel, the, the kind of breakdown for respect for law and order, pa