mr. costello, i want to ask you about those windows specifically. because, yesterday, you actually got a look inside the training capsule and you were describing these windows as something like what you've never seen before. >> reporter: you know, it's almost like having an i max screen next to you because they are huge. six big windows inside this spay -- space capsule. it's like being strapped down in a dentist chair, more comfortable because nobody is drilling on you. you look out to your right and a massive window and you will see the earth drop away and then you'll see, as you start to head into space, the curvature of the earth and the blackness and the rich blue of earth. all of that out your window. everybody gets their own window. six windows inside the capsule. this was part of the design. they wanted this to be very much about the experience for the individual who is going to is t anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing and that was a very important moment for jeff bezos and richard branson. they both said after that day it changed them

mr. costello, i know you've got to catch that bus and head over to that news conference, set to start roughly. we'll hear from jeff bezos and his brother and the two others who were part of history. from our vantage point, tom, it seemed to go off without a hitch, no? >> it was picture perfect. unmanned test flights before today they had a high degree of confidence this would go well and certainly did from the moment they lit the torch underneath the rocket and started akseling to mach 3.5 and the capsule peeling away from the rocket headed to the ultimate apogee, 60 miles high, considered by almost everybody into space and the perfect descent under three parachutes and coming back down, landing ever so gently because the parachutes slow that down, the spacecraft, so does a retrorocket that fires underneath to slow it down as it settles into the dust. craig and i were talking on nbc news special report, this is not just about although it seems like it, not just about a billionaire spending billions of dollars to put together this program as richard branson did with virgin galactic. it may be

tom costello talked to mr.g, tom is in new mexico a lot of folks on the edge of their seats, tom >> reporter: this has gotten an awful lot of buzz. two very well-known billionaires who spent billions on their space program, and as you know, whatever they do, this is going to opepen up the door for everyy people to fly to the edge of space, hopefully as soon as next year it's the last place you would expect to find two billionaires, jeff bezos in the desert of west texas, sir richard branson here. if you didn't know better, you would think you really are in the middle of nowhere. >> well, you are in the middle of nowhere the middle of new mexico, which is sort of the middle of nowhere. >> reporter: new mexico's brand-new space port america, branson is now just 48 hours away from fulfilling a dream to fly his own spaceship and cross the carmen line, the boundary between earth's atmosphere and space. the air force and nasa put that invisible boundary at 50 miles above the earth. >> wow look at that view. >> gorgeo

costello in washington. thank you, tom >>> 18 minutes past the hour mr. roker, what you got?unfortunately a lot of severe weather to talk about. >> i don't like that face. >> i know! >> crazy, look on the map. heavy rain, monsoonal moisture in the northeast heavy thunderstorms moving into east and heat as well. flagstaff, ars look at this incredible look at this car when we talk about flash flooding, monsoonal moisture coming in. ground can't hold it and, boom that car is gone everything is washed away in a matter of moments, and then talking about tornadoes in iowa. yesterday, 27 reports of tornadoes including this one in lake city, iowa. damage reported. we saw a lot of activity, a lot of farm activity where there was damage there being reported. so that's something that's going on, and, in fact, looking at more severe weather today from buffalo all the way to oklahoma city we've got a risk of severe weather for damaging winds, isolated hail, tornadoes are possible heavy rainfall localized amounts of up to six inches of rain stretching from tulsa, oklahoma to western new yo