chuck yeager. >>> when we come back, the comforting words the pope had for a little boy who is missing his dog. >>> if you have ever loved a dog, then you know when the time comes for us to say farewell it is like losing a member of the family. but something the pope said recently to a little boy is giving new hope to believers that there's somehow a big backyard in the sky where all dogs go, a place we can only hope is full of rawhide and tennis balls and slippers and pantlegs. the story tonight from nbc's anne thompson. >> reporter: it's a long-held dogma that no one can resist these faces, even the man upstairs. >> not to worry, you'll go to heaven. all dogs go to heaven because unlike people dogs are naturally good. >> reporter: now, official confirmation from no less an authority than pope francis, comforting a boy whose dog died the pope reportedly said, paradise is open to all of god's creatures. >> i'm not so sure about humans, but dogs definitely go to heaven. >> reporter: it's not surprising when you consider francis took his name from the patron saint of animals, st. francis

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curtis lemay, who's the air force chief of staff, tells chuck yeager that bobby kennedy wanted an african-americans by the attorney general. so by 1962 a black candidate, ed dwight who was an air force officer, jet pilot, starts the full training to qualify for consideration into the astronaut corps. in the black press, he is front page. his picture is everywhere with, headlines everywhere. he is every bit the astronaut that any of the mercury seven were. white newspapers in the south wish him well and call him a credit to his race which is an unusual thing for a white paper in the south to say about any african-american. but he was a rock star. he was the guy. he was going to be the first african-american astronaut. and then he he wasn't. it's never quite sure what happened. he finished the training programs and was nominated to nasa, but so were 130 other people. they took, i think, less than 20 out of that 130. he wasn't one of them. that led to some controversy, magazines, some investigations, calls for investigations. no one's quite sure exactly how it ended up. there are lots of different st

constitution. 1953, chuck yeager reached the mach of 2.43 in the x 1. in america. >>> answer to the "fox & friends" trivia question of the day. the answer is myam bihalak. >> i loved her. >> she's 39 today. congratulations to our winner from adele, georgia. you're going to get a copy of brian's book "george washington's secret six." >> in paperbecome -- paperback. >>> kevin mccarthy joined us a couple weeks ago and we told but the christmas suit. he decided to wear it. esquire magazine says you have to throw it away. it is a tragedy. >> they're wrong. i threw in my real suit as we did in the tease earlier. today i changed it up. doing the chucks today. they're the most important part to the suit, in my opinion. >> they keep you grounded. >> they pulled it together. i'm happy with the way it looks. thank you for letting me wear it on national television. >> did you buy it off the rack? >> we bought it. >> by the way, i did my interviews last week in this suit and every actor loved it. i walked into the room and jamie fox took about 30 selfies on his cell