jim lovell.i urge you, really, if you go back in time against all odds and we always see it in the face of disaster and in the face of very, very long odds, we overcome them, but this return to earth, apollo 13, a mission that began with great hope and fanfare 50 years ago today only to look like it was all over, as well as our lunar mission. they went on. jim lovell and those other crew members did not get to share that, but what they did was much, much bigger than that because this was not -- well, much bigger than them, much bigger. >> all right. governor cuomo is talking to the press right now on some improving numbers in the empire state. let's listen. >> the hospitalization rate is down and that's important. we have more people getting infected still. we have more people going to the hospitals, but we have a lower number. that's all this is saying is fewer people are going into the hospitals, still net positive. the three-day average, which is what we look at, because day-to-day can be some

though too is here you have this whole coronavirus that happening you had tom hanks who played jim lovell and who was sick who was just who just run a virus exactly very very strange all interconnected twilight zone music 13 weird all right we'll be right there fair thank you for that story. the head of the world health organization president trying to not politicize the virus how is america handling this and having our political panel is going to weigh in and then later and we're going to hammer brings us some darling comments rather regarding the postponing tokyo 2026 so we'll be right back. join me every thursday on the elec so i will be sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you the. good news. for those who heard it's a preview of the. new movie. well you know. when it's. all chileans to look beautiful the militants can look. more muslim also there's also a good view film school good girls. go to show also look look your simu to local small historic move to the issue go. to starts to. get to me to tell you the littlest bit s

. >> jim lovell, commander in years after the check swagger, command module pilot. three days ago, he was on the backup crew now he replaced ken mattingly. mattingly had been dropped from the mission because he was exposed to german measles. he would watch the launch from mission control. >> auto sequence initiated. >> roger. complete. >> roger. type booster? we are on internal power and will go. >> the mcc recorder is at flight speeds. >> ignition. >> set to go, all engines. >> ok, we are going one. >> roger. >> booster, how do you look? >> okay, we go at one. >> booster, how do you look? >> it looks good here. okay, looks good. it looks fine. >> confirm and aboard. staying in flight. >> right, it confirms staging. >> roger. >> okay. >> light conformed. >> you don't see any problem with that, all the other engines are go. >> >> the next step was to pull free of the first stage and dock with the lunar module aquarius, at the controls, jack swaggart. >> they pulled aquarius away from the saturn third stage. >> i can see it now at the hatch window. >> odyssey and aqua

one of the great parts of the jim lovell story is once they got home, he's with the other astronautsto walk on the moon? would you go back in space? he starts to clear his throat to say yes. he looks out in the audience and his wife is out there with the thumbs down. but what a story in terms of these guys are in the fix to end all fixes. there's nothing logically that says they can get back around the moon, which is its own very difficult maneuver, let alone a 5,000 degree reentry through the earth's atmosphere, and make it home in one piece. that shows some real -- >> such a lesson right now. >> totally. >> it's like we were talking at the beginning of the hour that looking back, especially in a moment of hardship like right now, to look at something like "apollo 13" where you could argue, well, that's a situation where everything went wrong. it was at that precise moment that this true genius came forward. i think that's so inspiring for right now, harry. >> absolutely. it's the collaboration, being able to keep your composure. that's absolutely for sure. what an example, though,

apollo 13 commander jim lovell. >> under statement if we ever said it. >> ingenuity, grit and determination from the folks on the ground and in space fixed problems and found solutions. the nation held its breath praying the crew would make it. >> odyssey houston standing by, over. >> and when they safely splashed down in retrospect, belief in the possible is what got them home. a belief we're sure still works. harry smith, nbc news, new york. >> home safe 50 years ago today american ingenuity making it happen that's "nightly news" for this friday and this week i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other >> steve: you're up and out early. this talk you wanna have must be pretty important. >> steve: yeah. i wanted to condolences. [monitor beeping] can't believe my baby sister's gone. and i'm sorry i wasn't here to pay my respects and--and grieve with everyone who loved her. >> justin: thanks, steve. and i know how much you loved adrienne, and i know how hard this is for you to come to terms with her death after everything that you've been hit with in the last 24 hours. but a

apollo 13 commander jim lovell. >> under statement if we ever said it. >> ingenuity, grit and determination from the folks on the ground and in space fixed problems and found solutions. the nation held its breath praying the crew would make it. >> odyssey houston >> and when they safely splashed down in retrospect, belief in the possible is what got them home. a belief we're sure still works. harry smith, nbc news, new york. >> home safe 50 years ago today american ingenuity making it happen that's "nightly news" for this friday and this week i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other we're all doing our part by staying at home. that could mean an increase in energy bills. you can save by setting your heat to 68 or lower... unplugging and turning off devices when not in use... or just letting the sun light your home. stay well and keep it golden. step by step, we're going to figure this out. we're gonna find a way through this. we're working really, really hard in hospitals, our nurses, our techs, all the docs. it's about staggering when people get sick so that the hospita

apollo 13 commander jim lovell. >> under statement if we ever said it. >> ingenuity, grit and determination from the folks on the ground and in space fixed problems and found solutions. the nation held its breath praying the crew would make it. >> odyssey houston standing by, over. >> and when they safely splashed down in retrospect, belief in the possible is what got them home. a belief we're sure still works. harry smith, nbc news, new york. >> home safe 50 years ago today american ingenuity making it happen that's "nightly news" for this friday and this week >>> right now at 6:00, new rules and new confusion. all by two bay area counties now requiring face masks but the rules vary. we have answers. the news at 6:00 starts now. good evening. thanks for being with us. we made it to friday. i'm raj math may. >> i'm jessica aguirre. janelle wang is working from home tonight. >> face coverings now mandatory for most people but they have been mandatory since the beginning for hospital workers. they required to wear pittsburgh pe and as you know, there is a shortage of them. we are going to tak

but no, jim lovell and fred haise are not superstitious, they even use 13 in their email addresses. >it work for you. >> 50 years later and i still have chills, or the air conditioning is too high. conditio won't be a new thing. and it won't be their first experience with social distancing. overcoming challenges is what defines the military community. usaa has been standing with them, for nearly a hundred years. and we'll be here to serve for a hundred more. space this morning. that's what's making news in america and space this morning. >> breaking news in america this morning, state of emergency. catastrophic damage across the south as an easter sunday tornado outbreak tears across four states. >> look at these people, look at these houses. >> hundreds of homes damaged, hundreds of thousands of power outages. this morning the rising death toll. the sheriff's deputy now among those who lost their lives. >>> breaking overnight, fauci under fire. president trump retweets a message that called for dr. anthony fauci to be fired. what fauci said about the u.s. response to the coronavirus

take a listen to command module pilot jim lovell. >> the stars align all too briefly for soul mates rickhelly lokietz. at the age of 57, rick learns he has stage 4 cancer and may only have months to get his affairs in order. in his life before shelly, rick amassed a huge collection of space memorabilia, now destined to become shelly's strange inheritance. it includes hundreds of items you'd expect to find in a nasa warehouse or a museum, like, for instance, the udvar-hazy center in virginia, part of the smithsonian's air and space museum. i asked curator jennifer levasseur how all those artifacts could end up in the garage of a guy like rick cigel. and nasa just let astronauts take home stuff from their missions? >> that tended to happen quite a bit more up and through the end of the apollo period. astronauts often took home memorabilia. afterwards, shuttle astronauts had to give everything back. >> for example, those cameras from the mercury missions. >> the first astronaut to take one to space was wally schirra on his mercury mission. he was an amateur photographer, and they got some m

. >> they approached jim lovell, and they said, "will you take bibles, but this time we're going to givethem." >> once again, things do not go as planned. >> houston, we've had a problem. >> an explosion damages the spacecraft, but it miraculously returns safely to earth amid the prayers of people around the world. >> apollo 13 was a good example of why the apollo prayer league was formed. people were able to contribute their prayer to assist people in getting back. >> the microfiche bibles also make it home. three hundred are repackaged for astronaut edgar mitchell on apollo 14... ...which touches down on the moon february 5, 1971. what was your dad's reaction when he saw the astronauts walk out on the moon with his bibles? >> well, he was ecstatic because the fact that he got to have one of his dreams come true -- it just thrilled him to no end. >> mitchell returns all the lunar bibles to stout, who in turn gives some to apollo prayer league members and vips like then congressman george h.w. bush, vice president spiro agnew and bob hope. >> i do know that the family of the apollo 1 ast

talking to jim lovell, i realized he had so wanted to go to the moon. he was supposed to be the command module for apollo 11 but he passed up on that for a chance to get to the moon with apollo 13 and there's that sad moment when they're swinging around the moon to shoot back to earth and use that as a means of getting back, and he realized i'm not going to do it, i'm not going to get there. that's got to be tough. >> that's a personal thing that i'm sure he wanted to do. later in life, he was able to reflect if he hadn't had that accident which prevented him from going into the moon, he would not have had 1% of the impact spoken to so many people and inspired so many people, the hero story of nasa. so had he not lost that opportunity to land on the moon originally, he would not have had any near the impact he's had, so there's kind of an irony on both sides. >> neil: all seriousness asid aside, no one sadly remembers the fights that came afterwards, but they certainly remembered apollo 13. i could've lived without standing out there, would've loved to

and i did not let jim lovell hug me. no way. yeah. i was a marine and you're not going to let a navy guy hug you. [ applause ] so, but i got shots for two weeks after i got home and that cured it. so i never had it again so i'm lucky. >> i've got a question. i've got a question here. can you hear me all right. >> i could hear you. >> i just wanted to ask you if you would tell us about your military career before you went into nasa. >> okay. it is not that illustrious. i was a naval cadet. when i finished training and i was commissioned in the marine corp and assigned to bmf 533 at cherry point, north carolina. a flighter squad flying banshees and then another tour in vmf 114 which is -- had cougars, f 9f cougars. and from there my military experience was when i got out i went back to school on the gi bill to get an engineering degree. while there i served in the oklahoma air guard and we had initially the unit had the very first jet fighter operational in this country. we had the old p-80 shooting star and then we upgraded to the f-87

this weekend because we go back and talk to the original astronauts involved in that including jim lovelle commander who was robbed attitudes to walk on the moon himself, it's an amazing story of resilience and getting through something tough. does it ring a bell what's going on right now. let's talk to tom jones on that. we all know when you guys go into space, the great risks you take and you face them head-on as well, that was an unusual event in an unusual time where he was telling me i thought the odds of getting back home safe and sound were few if not to know. what do you think of how they handle then how we as a nation handle that. >> i marveled at the teamwork between mission control and apollo 13 crew on board. they were out there in deep space 180,000 miles from earth, some places we have not gone in about 50 years. and we cannot believe that those people return those astronauts alive. we learn from some of the same astronauts when i was an astronaut in the shuttle and some of the people who worked at mission control during apollo 13, they were the flight director when i flew o

jim began to pitch around to try to photograph it. fred, you might tell them. mr. haise: he got the first look. mr. lovell: the ground told us the best view from the command module was through the number five window. when jack jettisoned the command module he went to the number five window. we got rid of all this and now we have a command module and lunar module together, unusual combination, never flown before, forced the lunar module to pitch down rather than go straight. instead of pitching up, i couldn't see it and jack couldn't see it. then it finally started pitching up and through this overhead window, this docking window, i finally caught sight of the service module as it tumbled around in view. it was to me an amazing sight. i didn't realize this whole panel by the high gain antenna was blown off, right along the area where the panel normally swings open, i could see the interior, i couldn't see what was damaged, i could see material hanging up from the interior. and about that time, because my description wouldn't be half as good as it photograph, we had three cameras and they started taking pic

jim wallis is overcast, the founder of sojourners. his articles at sojo.net. one of his articles, you wrote this. two scriptures come to mind for me in the last week. sayss if fusee ends which lovell redeem the time for the days are evil realizing there are people dying, dying alone makes her very evil days but i also think the days that preceded the unexpected onslaught of the killer virus were also people. they have become days of untruthfulness, the acceleration of racial bigotry, the promotion of fear, hate and violence, the political targeting of those jesus tells to protect, those on the margin. biblical perhaps implication of the coronavirus? guest: it is interesting. i wrote that before the coronavirus but the pandemic has shown these things, it has revealed these things. that thingsws now like poverty and racism are preconditions because of people's lack of access to health care, to safe housing, anywhere to physically distance, reliable incomes. all of that makes them more prone to get sick and die. i think on this easter, more than ever, we want to proclaim jesus, thellowers of least of these are the most important. , wee come out of easter want to learn those things th

jim wallis is overcast, the founder of sojourners. his articles at sojo.net. one of his articles, you wrote this. two scriptures come to mind for me in the last week. sayss if fusee ends which lovelleem the time for the days are evil realizing there are people dying, dying alone makes her very evil days but i also think the days that preceded the unexpected onslaught of the killer virus were also people. they have become days of untruthfulness, the acceleration of racial bigotry, the promotion of fear, hate and violence, the political targeting of those jesus tells to protect, those on the margin. biblical perhaps implication of the coronavirus? guest: it is interesting. i wrote that before the coronavirus but the pandemic has shown these things, it has revealed these things. that thingsws now like poverty and racism are preconditions because of people's lack of access to health care, to safe housing, anywhere to physically distance, reliable incomes. all of that makes them more prone to get sick and die. i think on this easter, more than ever, we want to proclaim jesus, thellowers of least of these are the most important. , wee come out of easter want to learn those things that t