bill shatner will have the window seat.n't that something? kelly o'grady is in texas. i thought bill shatner looked a little nervous. what is the atmosphere there. reporter: i saw that. he was not talking to anyone in the car. i'm sure he was reflecting on the historic moment about to happen. we had a bit of a holdup. final check. they were prepping the vehicle. we're back on. we're about 30 minutes from launch. interesting fact, none other than jeff bezos, founder of blue origin drove them over to the launchpad. everyone said good-bye, a wave to friends and family that joined them on site. exciting to come. it is palpable a couple facts to set the stage. this rocket is 60 feet tall. fully reusable. fits up to six people. no carbon emissions. the only by-product is water vapor. that is big focus for blue origin as they move nonpolluting industries into space. three times the speed of sound. fun for captain kirk. he won't need anymore power, scotty. that capsule will go up to 350,000 feet. the booster will come back to earth

. >> i think one of the most important steps right now is bill shatner just sat down. that's a 90-year-old that just climbed multi stories. i really hope at 90 years old i'm as physically able as bill is right now. i'm glad he's taking a moment to catch his breath. but before bernard and i flew, we go through a quarantine. part of it is because we don't want to take disease up to a space station. but also it's a time to gather yourself and get psychologically ready for the risk you're about to take and the import of what it will mean to separate away. just before we launched, we got into a little square painted white room like that as well. it's sort of the last goodbye step to earth before you climb into the ship and go. i think that's one more important phase before they're going to climb in, get on their backs and boldly go away from the atmosphere and out into the blackness of space. it's a good moment. >> you just heard each one of them ring that bell as they went to walk through this tunnel which says above it as they walked in "light this candle" as they make the

we have a message from bill shatner. i was lucky enough to get an autograph from bill shatner. when. this is still a pretty exclusive club, but as you noted, rich people were the first people to fly airplanes. these things tend to grow exponentially if it's an investment and a priority. when does a normal person get to do this? is that in our foreseeable future? >> you can run the math. when you have a reusable rocket, then you amortize out the remaining cost of such an enterprise. for instance, if you fly in a boeing 727, they don't just put it in a dumpster and roll out another one for you to fly back stateside. they reuse it as many times as they possibly can. it was the reuse factor that was pioneered by elon musk. all the rest of the billionaires know that's an important cog in the economics of making this accessible to everyone. even if the price doesn't quite come in reach of a middle class vacation budget, you could still hold up a seat in the lottery. i would pay $2, $5 for a lottery ticket for that chance. then you get to see what goes skup and follow them. you, the m

would bill shatner like to go over to elon musk's shop on spacex. i want to be that 90-year-old. just that he could climb the steps, he gets a vulcan salute. >> the only thing i questioned is he's actually 90 years old. >> maybe not. >> bezos has -- we now have these two -- i'll call them missions, these two missions with civilians on board. is it clear what was learned from the first to the second and what can be learned from this? >> i think they've got a robust system. they built this relatively safe -- there's a lot of forces at play and the plumbing has to work just right or you can have some real trouble. you have a system there that, number one, it is only going to the very edge of space, to get to orbit is about 15 or 16 times more energy has to be put into the rocket. we're at a different order of malg tude. having said that, it's got a robust system with a crew escape capability. the capsule can separate from the rocket itself when needed. >> miles, i'm going to jump in because i want to listen in. you see jeff bezos is there and you hear the cheers. let's listen in. >>

when bill shatner returned after the blue origin trip to space on companies went straight up, their stockces did at least. version galactic is down 16%. that is quite a drop. what is the story? >> reporter: version galactic has pushed back its private space trip the fourth quarter of next year. it is working to get better space vehicles, they are darting a couple things that might be concerning, potential defect in a component, and the company could be giving up a fifth of its value today. stuart: their way behind. it is a new poll that shows 52% of people believe the government is doing too much and should be smaller. peter morici joins us, that flies in the face of democrat plans for vast expansion of government. rba left of center country or right of center country? >> it depends what you're coming off. right now we are left of center country because there is some faith in the government's ability to deal with the pandemic. the vaccine rollout was largely successful in most of the country. right now people are looking for solutions. lives have been disrupted and so forth. people right

he can only imagine what bill shatner is feeling strapped into this new shepherd capsule. remember, there's no pilot is all automated about to be blasted up into the atmosphere while fully i'll get one of the best views. you can simply imagine the blue origin. the new shepherd rocket has some of the biggest windows of any spacecraft in the history of space flight. so we should get an amazing view of the planet. see the curvature of the earth variance that got that sense of being with no gravity and then come back down to earth all very safely. so lots of people watching. attracted by, of course we're doing all this. so for, for base also, i think a huge coo and something that everyone's going to watch. i can tell you that a lot of excitement in our news from now more excitement then baseball went into space himself. thank you very much on the for now. and to gallagher live for his day in miami, live pictures again from texas, where we are waiting for thought, trick actor william shatner to launch into space. there's been a slight delay, but we're expecting it to happen ver

the blue origin spaceflight with bill shatner aboard. description to equal this. stuart: bill shatner was just as overawed when he got out of the capsule and spoke with jeff bezos. it was a memorable performance which is 90 years old and the oldest person ever to go into space. he called it a profound experience which everybody should go through. i thought it was pretty powerful stuff. coin base hasn't even launched its market yet but there's a waitlist to use it. we got the report. look at the big board. that is a rally. dow is up 465 closing in again on 35,000. more varney after this. ♪♪ that building you're trying to sell, - you should ten-x it. - ten-x it? ten-x is the world's largest online commercial real estate exchange. you can close with more certainty. and twice as fast. if i could, i'd ten-x everything. like a coffee run... or fedora shopping. talk to your broker. ten-x does the same thing, - but with buildings. - so no more waiting. sfx: ding! see how easy...? don't just sell it. ten-x it. new projects means new project manag

bill origin rocket. an event watched all around the world. >> fresh that voyage, mr. shatnerhope we have time enough to get through all of the impressions. the first thing i want to say is the irony. i have an album out there called "bill. it's getting great reviews there's a song i wrote called so far from the moon, in which at that time the song relates to, 55 years ago, i lay in a pasture for a number of reasons looking up at the sky, seeing the astronauts walk on the moon and i was so far from the moon at 55 years later, here i am, a little closer to the moon than you guys, but the irony of it strikes me. >> you know what, i watched you right after the moment you walked off that capsule and i thought you seemed star struck you just seemed so totally overwhelmed by the experience. >> you know, prior to going up there, lying in that chair, trying to think of something clever to say when i came out. if everything worked i see the little blue orb and i was trying to think of something clever to say. and then we get up and when i was there everything i thought might be clever

quick update that you may have seen as well, and blue shepard announced their new space crew, and bill shatner will be go into space for real. >> how old is he now? >> got to be in the 70s. i'll look that up. >> i wonder if he will wear the outfit. >> he's got to be captain, right? >>> amazon is already rolling out early deals for the holidays starting today. amazon says new deals will be added every day. target also giving shoppers a jump-start on the holiday season. >>> happening tonight, one of the biggest lottery jackpot's in history is up for grabs. expected to reach $670 million. that's among the top 10 ever. >> that is hard to win it. >> if you win it, though. >> yeah, see ya. >>> this is not a trick but a treat. grammy award winner, billie eilish, is joining disney's "nightmare before christmas." >> she will perform sally's song in the show accompanied by a full orchestra. danny is reprising his role as king of the pumpkin patch. the show will run for two nights in l.a. at the end of the month. the release date for the film has not been announced just yet. how cool is that? he was in o

but we will bill shatner go up into space. this morning. so we'll see what that does for blue origin and all i just saw today. >> the union negotiating with hollywood producers. they basically said if there's no deal by monday, they are going on strike now shut down hollywood production film and tv. now we need right now. what kind of ripple effect that's going to have. but that's something we're going see. watch on the horizon come next week. talk to be a little bit about social security cost of living adjustment. i guess people who are receiving social security about to get a nice little boost. ha. the other 64 million americans on social it comes with age. >> it's right of your life. there's something called a cola towards it. call is a cost of living adjustment. you think it was like a coca-cola when you get retired. but the cost of living is not that this year it's seen a massive jump. that's good news and bad the average recipient going to see receive another 5.9% in the cost of living which brings their monthly check to. i don't have

there, but everyone should take a couple of minutes and listen to the outpouring of emotion from bill shatner when he saw the world the way he saw it. it's just a truly honest and profound human experience he was doing his best to express. so we're taking a moment listening to that today. so the human experience is the first answer to your question, chuck. but the second piece is this is really just a demonstration of the technology that we have just now perfected. it opened up access to space for business like we've never seen before. the cheaper you can make it and the simpler and safer, it opens up business like trains and airplanes. and faster than we might think we're going to have an earth-moon economic system built. it's great to see bill flying today and exciting, but to me that's what this signifies is the technological opening of a whole new capability. >> you sort of share a perspective jessica mir shared with me last week. let me play a clip about what she said these public. private partnerships. >> 4% of gdp was spent on these apollo missions. but now the nasa budget is about 4.3

you were also on "boston legal" with one of your costars, bill shatner - >> went to space >> seth: wentbeen your first choice to send >> i think he'd be one of the -- i think he might be one of - i think was the best suited. >> seth: yeah. >> really, i mean, he really was besides that great suit he was wearing. >> seth: yeah. he did let you -- right. it was, i think of for most men his age -- >> yes >> seth: -- if you put them in that suit, it would be jarring and yet with him, it looked like that's what he should always be wearing. >> yeah, no, i hope he kept it and if he did i'm sure it will show up on his website [ laughter ] >> seth: we'll be right back with more from james spader. [ cheers and applause ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ it may not be music to your ears, but as long as it's music to theirs. bring the volume back to the venue with exclusive ticket access to unmissable events. one of the many reasons you're with amex platinum. betty is saving big, holiday shopping at amazon. so now, she's free to become ... bear hug betty. settle in kids, you'll be there a while. ooo, where you going? instantly

they got a lot of stuff to watch and if they're looking at something, you know, bill shatner is 90 yearsld, he can wait a couple more hours or another day for a launch if he has to. >> if he has to. it is important what you point out, there have been 17 launches, but only one other crude launch we saw in july. i know as jim pointed out, you've known shatner for years. as i understand it, you know, you also have been in touch with him, texting with william shatner. he told me the other day he was comfortable but uncomfortable at the same time with more time to think about this with the delay. just give us a sense, in your texts with him, how is he feeling and what kind of advice have you given him? >> well, you know, he's taken center stage literally his whole life. but someone else has always written his lines for him and he's learned them, a terrific journeyman actor. today he's much more helpless if you think about it. he is completely at the whim of how things unfold. and he is powerless to do anything about it. he is just a passenger on board this rocket. it is a thrilling experience

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bill: 10 a.m. eastern time. >> dana: the flight to take william shatner to space.ear would make history as the oldest man to go to space. neil cavuto interviewed shatner earlier. space travel is for the young and fit. shatner is mentally and physically active at 90. this is fulfilling a vision that regular people can also go to space. >> i am delighted to hear you don't have to be very fit. [laughing]. he is 90 years young. it's like an end of where the space flight is to go. he is the guest on this flight. the other 2 reasons are paying customers but even they are paying less. it's a sign of the demand out there. the and the supply of people who want to participate and the costs are going down. >> bill: see how neil cavuto does that. supply and demand. we will talk about transitory deficit with you. mike, you were with us back in july with the first big liftoff. it was imbollic and cool. wally funk was on board and she was 82 and said she was disappointed. i would love to do this. what do you expect today? >> bill, i hope you get a chance. neal as well. it's openi

. >>> william shatner tonight and what she's nhe's now saying abo heading to the edge of space. >>> and tom brady and bill belichick, and what happened after the hug. >>> good evening and it's great to have us with us you with us a new week here. we're going to take you out on the ocean tonight. the virus and what dr. fauci said today about christmas this year. but we're going to begin tonight with that major worldwide outage for facebook. billions of users, instagram and whatsapp down for hours, too. all day, the company saying it was trying to get to the bottom of this, saying we are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible. facebook has had outages before, but of course nothing on this scale. and this massive outage comes just hours after a former employee, a whistleblower, revealed herself on "60 minutes." she claims documents are proof that facebook knows that anger and outrage draws users in and keeps them on the platform longer. she says amplifying the divide in this country and around the world. tonight, what she says facebook knowingly does involving its users. last night's rev

the flight is only 10 minutes, but william shatner thinks it's going to be long, long time. so good luck, billca? >> maybe just ask the question, hot stuff. >> greg: at 90 going to space -- that's going to be a lot of loose stools flying around. >> okay. that's a record. he's going to his pants. where is that going to go in space? it's going to float around. i'm thinking this through. put a court up there. >> nobody interrupt him. he's on a hot streak. i was happy that he was going to outer space. now i'm not going to watch. you haven't even gotten to his name yet. >> greg: it's the past tense. that's my time, ladies and gentlemen. >> greg: kat, i thought this was a brilliant marketing move of basis. he owns amazon. >> yes, he does. i have heard of him before. i guess -- i would go to space if someone invited me, but i also worry i would be disappointed. it's been so exclusive for years, do you ever go to an exclusive place you can finally get into and sometimes it sucks. how would we know? >> you'd probably be the first one there. >> you can't text people asking if they are mad at you. just g

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. >> reporter: shatner speaking with us on the launchpad just moments after landing. >> bill, what didthings that can't be simulated. there was 5gs. at 2gs, i thought i'll try to raise my arm. i couldn't get it up. 5gs, pulling you back. you think can i take much of this. it was approaching i don't know whether i can take more. >> reporter: sir richard branson, jeff bezos and elon musk have said they hope sending more to the final frontier will lead to innovation on earth. what shatner wants to protect most. what made you so emotional up there? >> the absolute startling, unexpected difference between the darkness of space and the blue of earth. and it's -- i would love to be able to describe it in three minutes. you can't. just know that out there lies coldness, yes, the mystery of space, but right here lies sustenance and life, nurturing. >> reporter: and such a powerful message right there and i said to the other crew members, you went to space. not only did you go to space but you actually went with captain kirk himself. they said, listen, i can't think of a better ambassador for th

bill. the question is how will democrats shrink the social spending plan? >>> and life imitates art, william shatnerexpected to launch into space later today. the question is, couldn't he just beam himself up? it's "way too early" for this. >>> good morning. welcome to "way too early." the show that's honored to boldly go into your living room each and every morning. i'm jonathan lemire on this wednesday, october 13th. we'll start with the news. amid the ongoing debate over the coronavirus booster shots drugmaker moderna is urging the fda to approve a half dose of its covid vaccine as a booster. the fda released a review yesterday, suggesting an additional half dose of the moderna vaccine increased antibody levels in people who received a two-dose regiment at least six months earlier. despite the finding, an fda reviewer declined to say whether the third shot was necessary. saying data shows the two doss protect. and children as young as 5 by early november. the move is in anticipation of the fda's clearing pfizer's covid vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 in the coming weeks. the biden administratio

bill passes because that would mean billions of dollars to replace lead pipes across the country. omar villafranca, cbs news, benton harbor, michigan. > ng up on we will hear more from actor william shatnerp to space and how the experience moved him. >>> plus, nate burleson sits down with his 11-year-old daughter mia for an honest discussion about the impacts of social media on young people. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. announcement morning. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green.

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shatner, actor, singer, director, the incredibly talented adrian zmed. thank you for being with us this morning. >> great to be here. thank you for letting me share in bill'sour friend? >> that's a really good question. i tried to call him a couple of a days ago, but they took his phone away and he can't answer to anybody. they said they would get the message to him. i was concerned, saying you're really going to do this? and, well, the word got back to me he is really going to do this. he's already said that he's terrified. he's scared to do this. and as i am for him at his age. but i know that he is absolutely thrilled to be doing this at this point. i mean, 13 hours a day in a police car for five years, we get to talk a lot. and he reflected many times on his wonderment of space, and how incredible it would be to actually go there. i joked with him saying certainly that's not possible. he said, i don't know about that. and i'll tell you, he was -- he was a visionary. because he saw it. i think that this has been his number one bucket list item and in about an hour, it is going to happen. i'm really happy for him. >> you say that he's larger than life, h

shatner. first, no green women in bikinis trying to have sex with him in space, then he gets iced, blown off by jeff bezos. they did finally get a moment together, and billas obviously very touched by what he saw up there. >> you have done something. whatever those other guys are doing, what is it? i don't know about that. but you have given me the most profound experience i can imagine. i'm so filled with emotion about what just happened. i just -- it's extraordinary. extraordinary. i hope i never recover from this. >> jimmy: did you guys see that lizard tongue, or was that just me? [ laughter ] the whole thing was very over the top. they had a livestream. they had announcers. the announcers for this thing were obviously employees of the company, because it felt less like a rocket launch and more like a north korean news broadcast. >> so this is a pinch me moment for all of us. >> you are living our own dreams through you guys. >> this is what rocket launches are about. it is really exciting. and i'm just happy to be sharing this moment with you, jackie. >> we are go for launch. i am so excited for this crew. i can just imagine, jackie, they're having t

. >> are you ready, bill >> i am so ready extra time trag i am thinking about jumping out of the capsule and -- >> reporter: 55 years after his debut on "star trek," shatner and the others now head to the edge of their final frontier in real life. so inside the spaceship itself, this is what it looks like and these are the seats is that they sit in look at the size of the windows, a magnificent view of the earth, the curvature of the earth it is quite a ride even if it only lasts 11 minutes. >> lucky you, you got to hang out with jeff bezos, william shatner. does william shatner have butterflies? how is he doing? >> reporter: he has admitted on the record and in conversations that, yeah, he's nervous about this and i said, wait a minute, you battled romulins and klingons, but this is real stuff so he's a little nervous >> what is going to be a side benefit is hoda will finally learn the difference between "star trek" and "star wars." >> i don't know if that will do it we'll have live coverage of that launch coming up after 10:00 >>> meanwhile, after five days of cancellations and delays, southwest airlines is inching back to normal operations. and the ceo

shatner, captain kirk who at 90 became the oldest person ever to travel to space. >> went to space with somebody who played captain kirk, which was really cool and important because we talked with billto go to space thanks to blue but, actually what we did is we flew with our friend bill. we actually developed some really nice bonds as a crew. and he's just a lovely person. and to get to see him experience this at age 90 was really a special moment >> now, i also asked what jeff bezos, who drove the crew to the launch pad yesterday, he was the first on the ground opening the hatch to greet them upon their parachute return in the west texas desert after the trip said to them through the process. >> he had his flight suit on we thought he was going to sneak in and take off with us. >> we thought that, too. >> yeah. that was a little of a surprise. no, he said to us, when we met him afterwards and said that he felt more moved by our flight than his own because he said that this was proof to him that the journeywas meeting blue origin's goal is to build up a highway in space a road for future activities for the human race and to see other people flying on this road i think was very deep

bill. >>> plus, the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection is warning of criminal contempt charges for anyone who ignores its subpoenas. >>> also ahead, in a matter of hours, hollywood actor william shatnerfamous for playing captain kirk on "star trek," is expected to launch into space. >> look at that guy. >> i love him. >> that guy, 90 years young, baby. >> come on! >> 90 years young. >> we'll go live to the launch site. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. derriere discomfort. we try to soothe it with this. cool it with this. and relieve it with this. but new preparation h soothing relief spray is the 21st century way to do all three. even touch free. preparation h. get comfortable with it. ♪ i like it, i love it, i want some more of it♪ ♪i try so hard, i can't rise above it♪ ♪don't know what it is 'bout that little gal's lovin'♪ ♪but i like it, i love it♪ applebee's. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. ♪♪ >>> 26 past the hour. it is all systems go for the blue origin launch that will take actor william shatner to space. the mission will carry the actor, two paying customers, and one staff member from blue origin to the edge of space. >> wait, they have one staf