sunny and butch are off on an adventure.it's important work that they're doing for the country and for the space program. and their families are they're supporting. they're both. they're both navy veterans. both sunny and butch are navy aviators. so their families are used to this sort of thing. when you live a life of service like this, especially, sunny and butch have their entire lives and service to their country that you make sacrifices in this case, you know, it's, i think, not a bad deal for sunny and butch necessarily extra time and space, but certainly their families miss them and are always concerned about them, and they'll be happy to get them home. so i think i think that's great you brought that up, brianna, because the families don't always get the credit they deserve in these in these types of things, the families of our veterans and our astronauts and all the people, the journalists who are out there making sacrifices. you need that support at home to do well. >> yeah, this what they're doing is definitely a

suni williams and butch wilmore. just how much longer will they be up there? good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with the breaking news. today's resignations from the department of justice. after being ordered to drop corruption charges against new york mayor eric adams. quitting today, danielle sassoon acting u.s. attorney for new york's southern district. also stepping down. john keller, acting head of the justice department's public integrity section and deputy assistant attorney general kevin driscoll, the department's top career prosecutor. then this evening, we learned from sources that as many as three additional public integrity prosecutors also quit. all of this follows what happened just three days ago, when the new acting deputy attorney general, emil bove, a former attorney for president trump, ordered danielle sassoon to dismiss the charges against adams. bova's memo to sassoon laying it out raised eyebrows in that he said the doj reached its determination, quote, without assessing the strength of the evidence. now, instead, bove said that the

i spoke to suni williams and butch wilmore earlier.ommander williams, captain wilmore, thanks so much for joining us. you've been up there since last june. how are you doing? >> we're doing pretty. >> darn good, actually. you know, we got food, we've got clothes, we're have great crew members up here. you know, of course, it was a little bit longer stay than we expected. but, you know, both of us have trained to live and work on the international space station. and we i think we've made the most of it. >> commander williams, what does it feel like to to be floating around all that time? i mean, uh, i was going to ask the captain, but his hair is pretty short. i mean, your hair is up all the time. is that. does it feel weird? >> you know, it's a lot of fun. i like my crazy hair up here. it sort of gets a little einstein look, so it's. it's pretty cool. both of us have lived here before, and it is just amazing how when you come across the hatch after you've been here, it's like, oh, my gosh, i remember what this is all like. i remember f

that allows crew nine, which includes butch and suni, to come back down to earth.h 12th. suni and butch back maybe a week or so later. >> it's about time. >> tom costello, thank you. >>> we have an update to share on a dilly original. you saw kate's story about shelters for victims an survivors of domestic violence where pets are allowed to go. >> that is unusual in the united states. we featured hope dawson who shared her personal story about needing a place to live but not being able to imagine losing her dog cocoa and what impact that would have on her kids. after our story aired hope posted on instagram thanking "nbc news daily" viewers for responding and reaching out. here's a clip. >> i just want to thank "nbc news daily," thank you kate snow. i am ecstatic. i don't even know. i want to thank my past because of it, attempt to take me out, i have been able to truly overcome and thank you. thank you for everything that's tried to take me out, right, because my thoughts at one point created things that were dark and negative and hard to face that brought negativ

family and my dogs and jumping in the ocean. >> reporter: last week, president trump said you and butchmate, had been virtually abandoned. do you feel abandoned up there, commander? >> no, i don't think those words are quite accurate. you know, we are part of something bigger than ourselves. we are part of the international space station. so, no, we don't feel abandoned. we feel like we are part of the team, and that is a huge honor. >> john: so, to think of you as being stuck up there or abandoned, does that basically misunderstand the role of an astronaut? >> i would say that is absolutely true. you know, i don't think i'm abandoned. i don't think we are stuck up here. we've got food. we've got clothes. we have a ride home in case anything really bad does happen to the international space station. >> john: during williams' spacewalk last week, we noticed a message on her space suit, the word "believe," the mantra of th tv series "ted lasso." >> one, two, three! >> john: what does it mean for you? >> well, there is a lot to that, right? you know, that show is just a lot of good anecdot

. ♪ ♪ >> maurice: late last spring, suni williams and butch wilmore began what was supposed to be anspace station. well, eight months later, they are still there with the visit extended until at least next month. >> john: that gave williams time to talk to me. mission control put us through just as the sun was rising over the earth. >> station, this is houston. are you ready for the event? >> ready for the event. >> john: wonderful. it's great to see you, commander williams. in terms of you extended stay, i think people who might have had a layover in philly or something, they find it hard to get their head around staying longer. where did you find the patience, suni? >> you know, those people have the ability to get a latte, so they shouldn't complain too much. >> john: are you missing the lattes? and if not a latte, what are you looking forward to when you get back? >> my husband makes a good latte, so i'm looking forward to his latte. i am also looking forward to seeing the rest of my family and my dogs and jumping in the ocean. >> reporter: last week, president trump said you and

butch and sunny joined crew nine. they had to stay on the station because crew nine had an.pace station, right? they've got science experiments and. >> whatnot, so. >> they've stayed with crew nine that whole time. they will come back with crew nine. but only after crew ten launches to the space. station to take over the rotation, because you cannot leave the station. without american astronauts. >> on board. >> crew ten has got to go up. then crew nine can come down. >> but guess what? >> crew ten has been delayed. >> because of some problems. >> with spacex. bottom line. crew ten now going up on march. >> 12th, which then once they. >> dock. >> that allows. >> crew nine. with butch and sunny to come back. >> so we're thinking probably a. >> week after that they'll be back on the ground. it will have been nine months. can you imagine? you go up for ten days, you're there for nine months. and i asked, you know, mike massimino. >> the former. >> astronaut who's been in touch, by the way, with sunny williams. i said, so are they going to. >> feel kind of a little bit wobbly wh

butch. temple hills, maryland. are you there? caller: yes. host: oh good. go ahead, butch. caller: i can't figure out that everybody see and know that trump is not honest about anything. he lies about everything. he didn't have the education to be president. yet these oligarchs are in place to destroy america. most republicans somehow for some reason do not understand anything. thank you. host: marty in van buren, arkansas. republican. caller: good morning. my thoughts on it are reminding us how we got here. we say that trump is easy on putin and he is sympathetic. i think we forget putin's biggest problem with this thing is pushing nato towards his border. i would think of that as if china and north korea and russia had a military pact to come to each other's aid and they call canada and say we want you in. we would have an issue with that just like putin. i don't think his -- some of his concerns are to be brushed off by the u.s. i think trump is wise to hear him out and consider. i don't think that the war is necessarily justified. i don't think -- since the 1990's, a ch

this morning, nasa says it may be able to bring home astronauts butch wilmore in suni williams after more than eight months in space. finally, cnn's anderson cooper spoke to them from the international space station. anderson wasn't there, but they were. >> commander williams, what does it feel like to to be floating around all that time? i mean, uh, i was going to ask the captain, but his hair is pretty short. i mean, your hair is up all the time. is that. does it feel weird? >> you know, it's a lot of fun. i like. >> my crazy hair up here. it sort of gets a little einstein look, so it's. it's pretty cool. both of us have lived here before, and it is just amazing how when you come across the hatch after you've been here, it's like, oh my gosh, i remember what this is all like. i remember feeling what it's like floating. and i think both of us adapted really quickly. um, and i think i'm hoping the same will be true when we come back home. >> yeah. how much time does it take to to adapt when you land again? >> yeah, that's going to be a little bit hard, as usual. um, i've been up twic

butch. temple hills, maryland. are you there? caller: yes. host: oh good. go ahead, butch.aller: i can't figure out that everybody see and know that trump is not honest about anything. he lies about everything. he didn't have the education to be president. yet these oligarchs are in place to destroy america. most republicans somehow for some reason do not understand anything. thank you. host: marty in van buren, arkansas. republican. caller: good morning. my thoughts on it are reminding us how we got here. we say that trump is easy on putin and he is sympathetic. i think we forget putin's biggest problem with this thing is pushing nato towards his border. i would think of that as if china and north korea and russia had a military pact to come to each other's aid and they call canada and say we want you in. we would have an issue with that just like putin. i don't think his -- some of his concerns are to be brushed off by the u.s. i think trump is wise to hear him out and consider. i don't think that the war is necessarily justified. i don't think -- since the 1990's, a chai

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it's like butch cassidy saying the stolen money in his pocket is not stolen, it was previously allocatedthe bank. again common sense does not care what program or grant or bucket fema got the money, it's federal money, federal money should not be used to support those who broke federal law, it's a federal violation. maybe that's why dhs secretary said we should quote, get rid of fema the way it is today. because today's fema appears to lack a sense of urgency. yet in braces a sense of the bias, remember,'s the same fema that told fox news at night after hurricane milton in florida fema avoided homes with trump signs. common sense has one small suggestion for fema, read the room. it's bad enough that you deliberately ignored homes with signs for trumpet now you are deliberately ignoring executive actions signed by trump. let's bring in former arizona sheriff, rate to have you on the show as always, elon musk is correct, the government should not be sending $59 million of federal money to take care of those who broke federal law. >> absolutely correct, about number is actually about 650 mi

it was supposed to be a weeklong flight, but butch and suni have been stranded at the international spacethan eight months. that could end sooner than planned now. they were supposed to rush last june, as you say, aboard boeing's starliner capsule is, but that craft had so much trouble getting to the space station that nasa decided to bring the cap a assume back empty and reassign the astronauts to spacex. even that plan didn't go anywhere because it's suffered delays. nasa now going to send a replacement crew aboard an older capsule to the space station and has targeted a march 12th launch, that is ahead of schedule. nasa says, basically, it is working expeditiously to bring them back as soon as possible. it was a ride that's gone a lot longer than expected, for sure. david: about a year with, almost a year of time that they weren't expecting in space. it's quite a situation. ashley, thank you very much. let's get back to the markets. of course, beaten down by that inflation report. we thought they were recovering a littleing, now they're back on the negative side deeply. the dow is down

space walks and 8 extra months at the international space station about one nasa says astronauts, butchilmore and suni williams could be back by mid-march instead of the end of march or early april, one pair launched on a boeing starliner last june left last month. president donald trump posted online. he asked elon musk and spacex to get williams and wilmore. >> who he says have been virtually abandoned in space by the biden administration. there return has seen several delays and schedule changes. williams and wilmore were originally supposed to come back on the boeing starliner after a week-long mission. >> they were supposed to come back in june of 2024. after issues with the starliner, nasa decided to bring them back on the spacex dragon capsule that was scheduled to land this month. that's a delay that to late march or early april of this year. now they've moved that up and decided on mid-march. now we have plenty of close. we are well fed. nasa says williams and wilmore replacements will get to the international space station about 2 weeks earlier. >> spacex chose to fly an older

you know, they're also, like butch said, very resilient and, you know, ready for, you know, to support us. and that is that's a huge task to ask them to do. but they're up for it. >> yeah. well, i mean, you know, all folks in the military make tremendous sacrifices serving overseas and away from their families and their kids. and you guys are just you're doing incredible things, and it's such a sacrifice. and i appreciate talking to you, and i appreciate all you're doing. thank you. it makes us all proud. >> anderson, it's been a pleasure talking to you today. and thank you so much for being interested in the international space station and our space program. we have a lot of things to do in the future, and we're looking forward to having a bunch more space explorers join us. >> yes. thank you anderson. >> all right. you take care. stay safe. more news ahead on cnn. >> this friday, february. >> 14th. >> i think. >> that's valentine's. >> day right now on cnn this morning. >> no american should have had to have gone through what i went through. >> the domino. effect back to back resigna

she was joined by fellow astronaut butch wilmore.d will more have been at the iss since june. you will remember they weren't able to come back on the boeing starliner after technical issues and they're now set to return with spacex in march. so quite the long saga for all of them, guys. >> whit: yeah. well, if you are going to have a delay -- >> janai: you might as well make use of it. >> whit: break some records. exactly. get your money's worth out of the trip. thanks, gio. still ahead on "gma," caught on camera. a terrifying blast means a close call for sanitation workers. >> janai: scary stuff. what football fans will be spending their money on ahead of next week's big game. stick around as we get you super bowl ready here on "gma". >> i will be getting some wings. type 2 diabetes? discover the ozempic® tri-zone. i got the power of 3. i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight. in studies, the majority of people reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. i'm under 7. ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such

after space walks and 8 extra months at the international space station tied at nasa says astronauts, butchould be back by mid-march instead of the end of march or early april, one pair launched on a boeing starliner last june left last month, president donald trump posted online. he asked elon musk and spacex to get williams and wilmore. >> who he says have been virtually abandoned in space by the biden administration. there return has seen several delays and schedule changes. williams and wilmore were originally supposed to come back on the boeing starliner after a week-long mission. >> they were supposed to come back in june of 2024. after issues with the starliner, nasa decided to bring them back on the spacex dragon capsule that was scheduled to land this month. that's a delay that to late march or early april of this year. now they've moved that up and decided on mid-march. now we have plenty of close. we are well fed. nasa says williams and wilmore replacements will get to the international space station about 2 weeks earlier. >> spacex chose to fly an older already certified capsule

and auditioned boys and girls, like they wanted one guy, one girl, to be a student news anchor on "butchr interesting news clips. [ laughter ] >> seth: were -- did it make you like a minor celebrity at school? or were none of your peers awake at the time that you were doing it? >> they were not awake. >> seth: yeah. >> they were not awake. but i felt a little bit like a celebrity. although, it was just not -- there wasn't something -- there wasn't anything really sexy about it, let's say that. >> seth: yeah. >> ias wearing my grandfather's susuit. [ laughter ] i had two of them. i would recycle them. but it got me the -- it gave me the buzz of being on tv, man. >> seth: it's pretty good. it's pretty good when the camera's red. it's a pretty nice feeling when the light on the camera. >> yeah, yeah. >> seth: you then, of course, did, to great acclaim -- you were in "anchorman 2." you got to play a fake news anchor. >> i did. i did. >> seth: and -- i mean, what a fantastic franchise to be a part of. >> no, it was amazing. i mean, yeah, those guys are just at another level. i've always loved

ward, this morning, the nasa astronauts butch wilmore and suni williams may come home sooner than expected, although that's all relative because they were initially supposed to come home last summer before there were issues with their boeing spacecraft. now, because there have been some switches and schedules, they couldn't come back in early march, a couple of weeks earlier than planned. more than 100 fishermen had to be rescued after a crack formed on a large chunk of ice that they were fishing on. the men began drifting out to sea in remote waters between russia and japan, before a helicopter was able to land and rescue them. not everyone wanted to be saved, though. crews said some of the more extreme fishermen refused to leave before making a catch. and this morning, a new chapter in one of the most shameful streaks in the history of competition for the 119th straight time, a golden retriever did not win best in show at the westminster dog show. a golden. a lab they've never won. this celebration of inbreeding. not ever. the champion this year was a nepo baby named monty. he was the fi

nasa astronauts butch wilmore and suni williams could be home sooner than expected. after being stuck on the international space station since june. even though nasa says they were never actually stuck. >> they were kind. >> of stuck. they were stuck. we're following these major deve s

nasa astronauts butch wilmore and suni williams could be coming home sooner than expected. mean, asterisks on that sooner than expected. nasa says it's able to adjust their schedule because they're switching space capsules. their march return could now be moved up a couple of weeks. wilmore and williams have been at the international space station since june after issues plagued their first leg of their trip on the on boeing's starliner spacecraft. remember, they were only supposed to be up there for eight days. so this is an early return, but not really. and also long overdue. one more. let's go. if you were watching the westminster dog show, you saw history happen for the first time. a giant schnauzer took home the best in show award. the dog's name? monty. the winner of the working group category the past three years at westminster, though that group has not secured the overall win since 2004. i also did read that monty entered the competition as the top ranked dog in the country, based on points amassed in previous shows, and was the odds on favorite to win. >> if you d

ward, this morning, the nasa astronauts butch wilmore and suni williams may come home sooner than expectedough that's all relative because they were initially supposed to come home last summer before there were issues with their boeing spacecraft. now, because there have been some switches and schedules, they couldn't come back in early march, a couple of weeks earlier than planned. more than 100 fishermen had to be re

and cnn's anderson cooper interviewed nasa astronaut suni williams and butch wilmore, who have been stuckon the international space station since june. as you may know, we here at cnn news central are so invested in this story, we couldn't resist playing their response to when anderson asked them what it's like to sleep in space. >> so each of us. >> have a sleep station. so it's. >> you know. >> from the old. >> days, like sort. >> of like a phone booth size, a little bit bigger than a phone booth. >> a little larger than a coffin. >> a little, yeah, a little larger than a coffin. and it's interesting, though. like, it doesn't really matter once you close your eyes. if you're upside down or sideways. and so we have one sleep station on the, on the ceiling, one on the floor and two on either side. >> it doesn't seem very comfortable. how do you know when it's nighttime? right. the sun isn't going down anyway. coming up, thousands of federal workers are now out of a job as the mass layoffs begin. we're going to tell you where the cuts are coming from right now. stay with us. >> have i got

you know, they are also, like butch said, very resilient and, you know, ready for, you know, to support us. and that is that's a huge task to ask them to do. but they're up for it. >> yeah. well, i mean, you know, all folks in the military make tremendous sacrifices serving overseas and away from their families and their kids. and you guys are just you're doing incredible things. and it's such a sacrifice. and i appreciate talking to you, and i appreciate all you're doing. thank you. it makes us all proud. >> anderson, it's been a pleasure talking to you today. and thank you so much for being interested in the international space station and our space program. we have a lot of things to do in the future, and we're looking forward to having a bunch more space explorers join us. >> yes. thank you anderson. >> all right. you take care. stay in ukraine, but says that he trusts that president putin wants peace. and mitch mcconnell voting against the new health secretary, rfk jr., issuing a scathing statement about his anti-vaccine history, resulting in trump doubting that mcconnell actually

you know, they are also, like butch said, very resilient and, you know, ready for, you know, to support us. and that is that's a huge task to ask them to do. but they're up for it. >> yeah. well i mean, you know, all folks in the military make tremendous sacrifices serving overseas and away from their families and and their kids. and you guys are just you're doing incredible things. and it's such a sacrifice. and i appreciate talking to you. and i appreciate all you're doing. thank you. it makes us all proud. >> anderson, it's been a pleasure talking to you today. and thank you so much for being interested in the international space station and our space program. we have a lot of things to do in the future, and we're looking forward to having a bunch more space explorers join us. >> yes. thank you anderson. >> all right. >> you take care. >> stay safe. more news ahead on cnn. >> outfront next, breaking news. >> the justice. >> department in turmoil tonight. now, six resignations of top prosecutors, including the top prosecutor in new york, resigning over the doj decision to drop the cas

. >> reporter: but butch and sonny launched on a ten-day mission back on june 5th. their return trip delayed because nasa didn't trouble -- trust the troubled starliner to bring them home. instead, they were reassigned to spacex crew nine, staying on station until february. then candidate trump called on elon musk to bring them home sooner. >> you know he will send a rocket very soon to pick up the two guys. how would you like to be stuck in space? >> reporter: they can return when spacex 10 crew arrives to take over the station. but then the february launch was also delayed. president trump posting on truth social, "i have just asked elon musk and spacex to go get the two brave astronauts." now, nasa and spacex say crew 10 will launch on march 12th. they should come back on crew 9. >> this is my happy place. i love being up here in space. >> reporter: in january, sonny williams showed that she's ready. >> i am trying to remember what it is like to walk. i haven't walked. i haven't sat down. i haven't laid down. you don't have to. you can close your eyes and float w

in my class was a kid named butch. and he was horribly twisted into a wheelchair. i don't think i'd ever seen a wheelchair when i was going into the third grade. he was there, and here it is -- i am neat even going to say -- i'm not even going to say how many years later, but i can close my eyes and see butch in that chair. polio was when he had. he was in pain daily. he could barely make himself understood. his arms were crossed. his legs were bent. grotesquely in the wheelchair. and three years later the salk vaccine began what turned out to be the elimination of polio. where would we be as a country if this man had been the head at that time it was hew and somehow put a stop to this vaccine, which i believe he has said even the polio vaccine should be rescinded, which has saved millions of lives around the world. where would we be? i can't escape the memory of that boy in that wheelchair. i can't expect the memory of my parents not letting me go to the public swaim -- swimming pool because of the fear of polio. not being able to go out in the summer and play bec