in spaceshiptwo, we'll see how it plays out. but it's got a pretty big cabin so you can unbuckle your seatbelt and then you can wrestle with the other -- >> while they're puking? >> well, i don't think puking's going to be a problem. as long as you can reference an outside window an there's plenty of them, you'll do just fine. >> i'll remember that. >> and that's just getting up there. there's still the ride back down which is an entirely different experience in itself. >> what's that like? >> i liken it to, if you're driving a car and it's starting to rain and you get a little splatters of rain drops on the wind shield and if you're driving into the thunderstorm, then the intensity of that rain just, you know, continues to grow. re-entry is very similar. where the rain is actually the noise of the atmosphere against the -- in spaceshiptwo's characters the belly of the vehicle. and you can actually sort of hear it go from a pinging sound to one that just grows and grows in intensity, as the noise level grows, so does the g level

those are words in response to yesterday's spaceshiptwo disaster over the mojave disaster. pilot is dead. another seriously injured after parachuting to the ground. it is still unclear exactly what happened but eye witnesses say the space plane started to break apart moments after it detached from the mother ship. branson is still due to visit the crash site today as he joins his colleagues ow out there. >> joining us to talk more about the disaster, leroy chow a the former nasa astronaut logged more than 229 days in space. i want to ask you specifically about what might have happened here. we're not getting any specifics from the mojave air and space port. but they're saying it is what did not happen. when the someplace plane separated from the white knight, what information from what you know is possible that went wrong here? >> of course it is early to speculate on what's going on in the accident investigation team will be looking at everything. but for as you mention the eye witness photographer reported that not long after separation the spaceshiptwo started its rocket

where spaceshiptwo was under development. he praised the courage of the test pilots. >> reporter: richard branson, billionaire and investor struck a conciliatory tone. >> we understand the risks involved. we are not going to push on blindly. to do so would be an insult to those affected by the tragedy. >> spaceshiptwo crashed after an inflight anomaly during a test flight on friday. >> we are determined to honour the bravery of the pilots and the teams by learning from the tragedy. only then can we move forward, united behind a collective desire to push the boundaries of human endeavour. the co-pilot was killed, and the pilot seriously injured, despite ejecting by parachute in a crash that left debris over the mojave desert north-east of los angeles. the co-pilot co-piloted the aircraft when it broke the sound barrier. he worked for scale composites, and logged seven flights in the last four years. the spaceshiptwo took off on a test flight called a halloween treat. after the rocket engine fired, the white night two aircraft,

that's where virgin galactic spaceshiptwo crashed. two pilots were on board one died, one was wounded. tom ackerman reports. >> this was the second time it flew but only the first time it was supposed to reach the atmosphere, at that point the plane was supposed to separate, ignite its own rocket motor and climb to an altitude of 21,000 meters. instead the plane crashed into the mojave desert floor north of los angeles. one pilot was killed, another injured. >> i knew when other things weren't happening it wasn't because of something did happen, it was because of what i wasn't hearing and wasn't seeing. if there was a huge explosion didn't occur i didn't see it. >> more than 700 people have paid deposits for a seat board the enterprise which would give them just a few minutes ride in space. the initial cost, $250,000. >> we're going to get through it. future rests in many ways on hard, hard days like this. but we believe we owe it to the folks who were flying these vehicles. >> the mission to the iss. >> the crash came the same week t

. >>> there is new information about the moments of leading up to the spaceshiptwo on friday. the initial reports shows that a system that used to slow the craft down was activated before it was supposed to be. the co-pilot michael alsbury unlocked the first step of the braking system. the second step happened on its own. alsbury died from the crash. peter seibold survived. both men loved their jobs and knew the risks. >> they knew the importance of what they were doing. we have to go through the stage of creating a space line to make it safe for travelers that want to travel on the space line in years ahead. >> the tragedy will not stop his plans for space tourism. he adds that many more test flights will happen before customers actually fly. >>> travelers to the u.s. that are in the waver program allows foreigns to enter the u.s. without a visa including 38 countries without a visa. now they have to have passport data and al aliases before they travel to the states. >>> brittany maynard ended her life yesterday surrounded by loved ones. she learned that she had terminal brai

after the failure of spaceshiptwo, what will those hollywood stars and hundreds of others this morning think about riding that rocket? >> customers weren't necessarily paying attention. i think this might have been a wake-up call to them. >> david, for decades the space race has been littered with mishaps and even deaths and yet we have persisted time and again. do you think the private space exploration business can survive these twin disasters. >> reporter: experts say that's the way we're headed dan. we will probably see more mis p mishaps like this in the future because rocket science isn't easy but this will probably not be stopped. >> david, thank you. >>> we'll move now to a breaking weather story overnight. a major storm on the west coast creating dangerous mudslides, one person had to be rescued and our meteorologist rob marciano is on the story. rob, good morning. >> good morning, da dramatic stuff. that person had to be cut out his house because the mud was banked up against his front door. 11 others evacuated. in some cases it was waist deep. the first major storm of the ra

debris from virgin galactic spaceshiptwo is scattered across the desert floor.fter being released from a carrier aircraft at a high altitude. one of the pilots was killed and the other was injured parachuting out of that spaceship. >>> and marine reservist andrew tahmooressi is back in florida this morning after spending seven months in a mexican prison. a mexican judge freed tahmooressi because of his mental state. the retired marine has posttraumatic stress syndrome. tahmooressi says he made a wrong turn and crossed over into mexico with guns in his car. >>> and an attorney for jesse matthew jr. who is charged with the aduction of murdered student hannah graham has asked a judge for his client to undergo a psychological evaluation. matthew was arraigned on attempted murder charges friday in a separate case dating back to 2005. >>> and finally, rob, i hope you're not a new england patriots fan because new england patriots coach bill belichick is blasting local meteorologists for their weather prediction. >> what? >> where is his hoodie? >> belichick says -- yea

virgin galactic spaceshiptwo broke above the desert. photos showed the engine ignighting after it was released. a test pilot was killed killed. the other, peter see bold was injured. he is alert and talking with friends, family and his doctors. kameron kielly has the latest on the crash. >> richard branson, billionaire and investor struck a summer tone. >> we understand the risks involved. we are not going to push on mindly. to do so would be an insult to those affected. >> the spaceship grasped after an in-flight anomaly. >> we are determined to honour the brave ci of the teams, only then can we move forward united by boundaries of working toot. >> the co-pilot was killed. the pilot ejected. an experienced pilot copiloted the same sound graft. he worked for scale deposits. he had reportedly logged seven flights in the last four years. the spaceshiptwo took off in what was called a halloween tweet. the white night two aircraft at 45 thous feet. it was clear that something had gone wrong. photos from the yound showed the engine ignited.

. >> virgin galactic ceo richard branson is expected to arrive at the spaceshiptwo accident. the space plane fell apart two minutes after it released over the mojave desert. it is the second private space disaster this week. earlier a rocket exploded on the launch pad. stephanie elam is live near the launch site. there are questions about the fuel mixture apparently used. what more are you learning? >> reporter: there are a lot of questions about what went wrong. and from what we can gather about the fuel mixture, it is something had been ground tested but perhaps not necessarily in flight. we also know that according to people here on the ground that it did not look out of the ordinary, what happened when spaceshiptwo took off as part of the whiteknighttwo. which is the aircraft that lifts it up to 50,000 feet and then allows spaceshiptwo to disconnect and head into that low area of space. well from what we can gather everything looked normal. it is what didn't happen about 2:00 into the flight that seemed to be a problem there. you are talking about a vehicle that is suppos

we'll continue to give you more information on the destruction of spaceshiptwo over the mojave desert. i'm jeffre ali velshi, thank yor joining us. >>> rival military leaders claim burkina faso after protests fought out the president of the west african country. >>> i am david foster irrelevant watching al jazerra. welcome to the program. also coming uppin. it'up.fighters joining in the ft against isil in kobane. a ceasefire with the nigh jean government. very judge galactic's

. >>> virgin galactic vow to wish on after a crash of spaceshiptwo in california >>> a top story - iraqi peshawar forces entered the syrian town of kobane, joining hundred of syrian kurdish fighters to take on the islamic state of iraq and levant. the peshawar have been waiting on the border on wednesday. reconnaissance teams are ready to begin the fight. the latest in the moment. first a report from inside kobane. by al jazeera's correspondent. >> reporter: we are standing in the western neighbourhoods. they represent a springboard from which kurdish forces are fending off the i.s.i.l. attacks. they have a firm grip on areas to the east. to the right are the northern neighbourhoods, where the higher regions can be seen. on the rinls, turkish army and forces positioned. monitoring and taking place inside the city. the armed groups joined the kurdish forces are deployed to the front lines, fighting i.s.i.l. awaiting orders from the joint command, in turn awaiting for the arrival of peshawar forces, with superior equipment. this will shift the balance of power on the ground. sources say th

we'll continue to give you more information on the destruction of spaceshiptwo over the mojave desert. i'm jeffre ali velshi, thank yor joining us.

two minutes after spaceshiptwo detached from the high altitude mothership it appears to the store its booster engineers and the explosion occurred scattering debris across the mojave desert. was using any junes and new type of newal made from plastic that had passed tests against friday morning just before the launch. also arriving at the spaceport virgin's founder richard balanceom, who branson. >> yesterday we fell short. we'll now comprehensive assess the results of the crash and determined to learn from this and move forward together as a group of friends and company. >> branson compared setback to the early days of aviation and oint pointed out that air travel eventually gain very safe. he admitted hi company would lose a couple of clients for future seats on spaceshiptwo which could have started to take its first commercial astronauts into space as early as this coming february. dominik can di-natale knox fox fox news. >> other pilot is 43 sealed siebold to parachuted out the space plane injuring his shoulder. >>> a retired us marine who spent the past eight month in a mexican j

a key system on the plane, here in a test flight in 2007 deployed early, before spaceshiptwo came apart. that system is designed to slow the plane's descent. it is called feathering. >> extending the feather. >> the tail sections move into a vertical position to slow the vehicle. investigators say unlike in this test the copilot moved the lefer to unlock the feathering system too early, and to some unknown reason the feathers moved upright without either commanding it to happen. >> the feathers moved into deployment and two seconds later we saw disintegration. that's the fact. we'll look at the analysis. nothing is being ruled in or out from pilot area, training. mike alsbry. the pilot peter siebold is hospitalized. investigators have not had a chance to interview him. this morning on "today" show, virgin galactic founder richard branson said they'll learn from the investigation and continue on. >> absolutely it's worth the rick. our programme is -- worth the risk. our programme is about many different things. it's about giving millions of people who would like to go to space, a chance

just one week after losing spaceshiptwo in a deadly crash.'s announcing plans to resume test flights as early as next year. if it can finish construction of the new craft in time. the company also confirming 20 customers who paid $250,000 each to reserve their spot on the future flight to space, 20 customers have now asked for a refund. >>> 46 minutes after the hour. the legal battle not over, but supporters of same-sex marriage celebrating after a missouri judge overruling the ban on the unconstitutional issue. >>> berkeley, california, the first city in the nation to approve a soda tax. it was approved and imposes 1 penny an ounce on sugary drinks. the large infusion of cash from michael bloomberg helped. bloomberg tried unsuccessfully to ban the beverages when he was mayor of new york. >> the total figure for what he spent is staggering. i wish i had it. i think it is $40 million of his own money. >> he has his own money to go after these. the sugary tax ban. >> he has a lot of his own money. >>> just the first sighting in north dakota. th

investigators combed through the wreckage of spaceshiptwo. the aircraft launched on friday attached to a mothership. it was released at 45,000 feet. after the motor broke party and fell to the ground in pieces. co-pilot michael alsbury was killed and peter siebold ejected to safety. richard branson arrived at the scene saturday morning and says while he is committed to space tourism, he will not push on blindly. >> we are determined to honour the bravery of the pilot and the teems by learning from the tragedy. then can we move forward, united behind a desire to push the boundaries of human endeavour. >> it's unclear how far the dream will be pushed back. he hoped to take the first trip next spring the the investigation could take a year. at 8 o'clock we'll hear from investiga investigators on some of the evidence they have to work with on what went wrong >>> this week "faultlines" looks at "space for sale", only big businesses an afford space tourism. what happens when companies try to profit off the final frontier? >>> combat operations by t

. >> a deadly crash today in the mojave desert, virgin galactic spaceshiptwo may have dispload d air. the national transportation safety board is investigating. lisa stark has the story. lisa what do we know? >> we know that what happened on the spacecraft happened just after it was firing up its rocket engine, two minutes after it was cut apart from the mother ship. the spaceship and the mother shim go up from the ground, 45,000 feet in the air spaceshiptwo is released, and that's when disaster struck. parts of the plane are scattered over a large part of the mojave dessert, the pilot was able to eject, the co-pilot did not survive. >> when we have a mishap from the test community we find the test community is very small. and it hurts. and our hearts, thoughts, prayers, absolutely with the families of the victims. >> now, the national transportation safety board will be investigating, the team will arrive late tomorrow morning california time to begin its investigation. virgin galactic ceo spoke out today, saying, once investigators figure out what went wrong the company owes it to t

going to do spaceshiptwo. >> i think they're great people there. and i'm sure you'll have good memories of coming out of it. >> all right, guys. let's hear a big applause for brian binnie. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> at this year's washington ideas forum, the cook political reports charlie cook offered analysis on the midterm elections. including the house and senate races and the current state of the g.o.p. and the democratic party. >> notice she kissed my microphone. >> i did. >> anyway, last year i spoke at this ideas festival and i looked around the room and the audience was just as impressive as the green room before. anyway, it is a real honor, a real privilege to be here. listening to tom fanning, he was outlining what a tax deal might look like and i was talking to some people with a very large company the other day and asked them would you go along with raising t

investigators are combing what remains of spaceshiptwo, the craft offering the first ride into space. careful to strike the right tone, entrepreneur richard branson says friday's tragedy is a setback, but as long as lessons can be heard, commercial travel will go ahead. >> pushing the bounds of responsibility comes with a risk. testing the boundaries and capabilities and technologies, we are standing on the shoulders of giants. yesterday we fell short. we'll now comprehensively the reasons for the crash and are determined to learn from it. >> reporter: the spacecraft's last flight was nine months ago. this promotional visit by virgin galactic shows what was meant to happen. guided to around 50,000 feet by an aircraft the passenger shuttle disengages and powers upwards. the only known difference during friday's flight was the use of a different fuel. the cause, say experts . >> it sets back the project. it will not stop it. i think that space tourism ensures that it will happen, we will see normal sit self-defence paying a little bit of money, but going into space and inspiring new gen

the spaceshiptwo was carried to 45,000 feet and then separate from the mother ship.opel the ship to the edge of space before it glides back to earth. the explosion happened after separation and the rocket went off. one pilot was able to parachute out and was air lifted to the hospital. the other pilot did not make it out. the spaceshiptwo was supposed to carry passengers. several hundred tickets have been bought. this is a bad week for the commercial space industry. the second accident in a week. on wednesday in virginia, an unmanned $200 million rocket meant to carry supplies to the international space station exploded seconds after takeoff. nobody was hurt there. nbc news has an agreement with virgin galactic to document the inaugural flight with paying passengers. as for the future of the space program, we said this earlier, the ceo says we believe we owe it to the folks to move forward. lester. >> jacob, thank you. >>> we have been talking about the cold weather hitting the country. dylan, there is heavy snow. i know we are following in the deep south. it feels e

it was meant to test a new engine and full mixture, what was supposed to happen was spaceshiptwo would be carried up to about 45,000 feet and then would separate from the mothership, a rocket would then propel it even higher and it would be in suborbit before gliding back to earth. it appears what happened yesterday is that at the moment of separation, only minutes after there was some sort of explosion. one of the pilots, we're told, was able to parachute out in time but was badly injured. his injuries are described as moderate to major. the other pilot was not able to make it out alive. there are several debris fields within a two to three-mile area. they're working on securing that debris field yesterday. as promised, the ntsb is here today. richard branson, as i said, will also be here looking into what went wrong. as for the program itself, the ceo of virgin galactic said yesterday that they owe it to the pilots who were flying to keep moving forward. and that is what they will do. and, again, any minute -- when they come up here, the ntsb, we'll bring it to you. >> jacob, how lon

he operated the craft known as spaceshiptwo.ilot siebold was somehow able to parachute to the ground. he's still in a hospital. >>> the new york city marathon gets under way in just a few hours. more than 50,000 runners will race 26 miles through the city's five burroughs. and the fan favorite is the winner of the boston marathon. >>> france is now treating an ebola patient. the person who has not been identified to the media contracted ebola working for the u.n. in sierra leone. it isn't known if the person is french. officials evacuated the patient to an army teaching hospital near paris which has a high-security isolation unit. >>> jerusalem police tell cnn they have completely re-opened one of the city's revered holy sites. clashes broke out between police and palestinian protesters after police closed access to the temple mount known as the noble sanctuary. we are joined live from jerusalem with more. and hopefully now that it's re-opened tensions will begin to simmer. >> reporter: while israeli police are saying that the s

. >>> virgin galactic forging ahead a week after losing spaceshiptwo in a deadly crash in the mojavet. the company is announcing plans to resume test flights as early as next summer. it has to finish construction of a new spacecraft in time. the spacecraft it lost was $500 million piece of science and machinery. the company confirming 20 customers who paid $250,000 each to reserve a spot on the future flight to space, they have now asked for refunds. >>> snow in north dakota. just the beginning. there will be a lot more coming in the months ahead. about 2 inches fell in the first snowstorm there. like i said, you can bet more is on the way. >> jennifer gray has an early start of your forecast. hello, jennifer. >> good morning. that snow has pushed east. we are looking at it in portions of michigan, wisconsin. only 1 or 2 inches expected. the big story on the picture today, all the rain. you can see stretching from new york city all the way down to houston. some very much-needed rain across drought stricken texas. san antonio got in on the action. houston pushing into southern louisia

whiteknighttwo takes off which is the mother ship and releases spaceshiptwo at 45,000 feet in the air that's when the spaceship free falls and then presumably as opposed to launch itself into space and that's when the passengers, you know, have the six minutes where they will be floating around taking their space selfies, what have you. >> the space selfies, you mentioned something interesting and that's the sort of psychologist behind it. you say people have it or ast astronauts describe the life altering kind of feeling. what is it? >> the overview effect and the ceo of virgin galactic george whitesides really think is the humanitarian benefit of these flights of virgin galactic that people that will go on them will come back with a changed perception of what the world is and how they want to live here by seeing the curvature of the earth from that distance. presumably it's really supposed to change you that's what astronauts describe. >> miles, when you think about that and how that sort of feeling, that euphoria of weightlessness of changing your perspective of being up there, do

spaceshiptwo released from the mothership and breaking up midair over the mojave desert. it was the first use of a new fuel on the tested on the ground. before the crash, he had sold his dream of space travel to hollywood's elite. pitt, jolie, dicaprio, among those who'd committed to pay the $250,000 for the seat to space. branson insists the program will go on. and believes test flights could resume in four to six week s. >> we're going to learn from what went wrong. discover how we can improve safety and performance. and then move forwards together. >> reporter: but branson admits the crash cast doubts on his space tourism project. investigators are hoping to find several cameras attached to the spacecraft. it could be up to a year until ntsb releases the final report as to what went wrong here. dan. >> a lot of questions. thank you. >>> the feverish final hours before your voice, your vote. when americans go to the poll tuesday to elect a new congress. this has been a wild, and in some cases down right weird year on the campaign trail. lots of close races and colorful

the investigation continues into the spaceshiptwo accident.into orbit. the co-pilot died. the ntsb is lacking at whether feathering caused the plane to break apart. investigators are looking into whether the pilot started that too early. >>> the bahamas celebration was supposed to sail from the bahamas to florida later night, later returned to port after hitting something at sea. >> this is what's happening right now. everybody's scared. everybody's scared. >> on board video shows many of the nearly 1,000 passengers wearing lifejackets. the ship was tipping to one sd to grand bahamas island. the passengers returned to miami saturday night. they had to ride on buses west palm beach where the cruise was supposed to end. >>> a milestone for the new york city marathon. after 44 years the 1 millionth runner crossed the finish line. she finished the racy 4 hours and 43 minutes. she was cheered. as the millionth entrant she won free races for the ref of her life. the mother of two said she's not so sure. that's good. good for her. just to finish is a

bits and pieces of virgin galactic's spaceshiptwo are strewn about the mojave desert. they were conducting a test flight of its tourism rocket when something went wrong. >> space is hard and today was tough. >> reporter: he said an inflight anomaly occurred and the vehicle was lost. one pilot killed, the other seriously injured. >> we found one person who had obviously was deceased, um, um, immediately. the other was transported to the hospital. >> reporter: spaceshiptwo took off from the mojave air and spaceport. the aircraft was using a new fuel formulation that executives say had been tested and proven on the ground. >> it wasn't because of something did happen. it was a -- what i was not hearing and not seeing. >> reporter: virgin galactic is a brainchild of british billionaire sir richard branson who will take a ride himself. >> here we are about to launch the world's first commercial flight. >> reporter: tens of thousands of miles above the earth. more than 700 customers have already signed up paying nearly a quarter million dollars each. virgin galactic is worki

investigators are combing what remained of spaceshiptwo, the graft offering the first ride into space. careful to strike the right tone, the man behind the plan, richard branson says claire friday's tragedy was a set back, but as long as lessons could be learnt, space travel would go ahead. >> pushing the knowledge of stays travel comes with unavoidable risk. testing the boundaries of human capabilities and technologies, we are standing on the shoulders of giant. yesterday we fell short. we'll comprehensively assess the results of the crash, and are determined to learn from this, and move forward together. >> the spacecraft's last flight was nine months ago. this promotional video by virgin galactic shows what was supposed to happen. the passenger shutting disengages and powers upward. the only known difference drag the flight on friday was the use of a different fuel. experts say the cause of the crash is likely to impact when the first passenger boards, but not much else. >> it sets back the project until the investigation is carried ahead. but it will not stop it. i think space tou

learning more tonight thet friday's class at mojave desert of the virgin --actic spaceship to spaceshiptwo. billionaire richard branson is promising answer. that isve always known an incredibly hard project. pilots are trying to find out exactly what went wrong. the national transportation safety board will lead the investigation. the investigators -- witnesses said that the spaceship blew up after separating from its mother ship and firing its engine. the test flight was the first using a new fuel combination. some chilling words tonight from the leader of the terrorist group boko haram. in a video message, the leader to nap schoolgirls were converted to islam and married off months ago. the leader dismissed nigeria's claim of a cease-fire and the pending release. the new york city doctor who is being treated for ebola is in improving.is doctors upgraded dr. craig spencer's condition t from serious to stable. and

and says the spaceshiptwo crash won't deter him. and if you are wondering if any of those with reserved seats to space have second thoughts, virgin galactic is offerings refunds. it could be a year before that ntsb investigation is complete. alex perez, abc news, los angeles. >>> tom menino, the longest serving mayor in the history of boston, is being laid to rest today. the former mayor was lying in state yesterday. among them, secretary of state john kerry and hillary clinton. and vice president biden will attend today's private funeral. menino was mayor for more than 20 years. he stepped down in january, shortly before being diagnosed with cancer. he died thursday at the age of 71. >>> we turn to your voice, your vote. just 24 hours away from election day with control of congress at stake. republicans needing a net gain of six seats to take over the second. voters are choosing from a widely diverse group of candidates. abc's david wright tells us about some of the more interesting ones. >> reporter: there some are interesting new

just days after the fiery launched failure of an unmanned commercial rocket, virgin galactic, spaceshiptwoight today, killing one and injuring another pilot. >> reporter: ground control lost contact with the craft. the billion dollar craft could seat six passengers, but during this test flight, only two were on board. that launch vehicle returned to ground safely, but not the spacecraft. what went wrong is anyone's guess. the ship is 60 feet long and designed to fly 62 miles above the earth. and the wreckage in the mojave desert attests to the voracity of the explosion. a crippled parachute was on the ground. one pilot was killed and the other seriously injured. it's a far cry from the ambitious hopes virgin galactic founder richard branson expressed this year. >> 200 of the best english noers building them. now -- engineers building them. now beginning the test stages of test flights in flight. by the end of this year, we will have actually gone into space. >> reporter: instead, it is another blow to the idea of privatized space travel and comes only days after a spectacular launch pad ex

the ntsb now says wreckage from spaceshiptwo landed as far as 35 miles away from the original debris field. in a statement released today the company's founder richard branson praised the company's 400 engineers and technicians and says, while this is a tragic setback, we are moving forward and will do so deliberately and with determination. one industry watcher says this accident, while tragic, will not cripple the drive to space tourism. >> i think the industry can recover. there will be much more attention now on both how these vehicles are built from an engineering standpoint and a regulation standpoint. >> reporter: when investigators finally do interview siebold, they hope to find out why alsbury pulled that lever. meantime the company that employed both pilots has set up a memorial fund for alsbury and already in two days has met its goal of $100,000. brian? >> jacob rascon in the mojave desert tonight, thanks. >>> a break here, still ahead tonight for us, the striking video showing a woman kidnapped off the street. and the clue that has investigators on the suspect's trail th

spaceshiptwo was a prototype for virgin galactic, a space touring company. branson had hoped to start space flights next year, plans that are now in doubt. >> this is the biggest test program ever carried out in commercial aviation history precisely to ensure that this never happens to the public. >> reporter: more than 700 people including angelina jolie and leonardo dicaprio have already paid as much as $250,000 for a seat. >> if anybody wants a refund, will be able to get a refund. we haven't used the money. we never -- we always decided it's best not to use the money. it was more, you know, just gave us the confidence to do the program, knowing that these people were so committed. >> reporter: because this was a closely monitored test flight, investigators have a wealth of data available to them that they don't have after a usual plane crash. there were cameras watching the flight here on the ground. cameras on the spacecraft itself. and there were also cameras on chase planes following this whole flight closely. >> john, thank you. in our next half hour

now, yesterday when this accident happened it happened just after launch of spaceshiptwo.very wrong and the space ship broke apart. it was debris found in two parts of the moma i have desert. one was killed and one deployed his parachute and is in the hospital with serious injuries. this was the 55th flight of the spacecraft which was scheduled to start giving rides to the public as early as last year. this delay will delay for several more years. we don't what caused the spaceship -- this accident to happen but b u the company was testing a new fuel mixture that would be used to get the craft into space. there will be an investigation led by the national transportation safety board. and vinita and anthony, they're expecting to arrive in mohave later today. >> thank you, ben. >>> u.s. marine sergeant andrew tam ricci is back in the u.s. after more than 200 days in a mexican jail. tahmooressi laenldnded. a diplomatic effort led by former new mexico governor bill richardson convinced them to lease him on humanitarian grounds. >> we have to stand behind our veterans when they

rotating tail section of spaceshiptwo deployed too early. that may have coughed caused it to break up. unable to determine if it was mechanical failure investigators say pilot error has not been ruled out as a potential cause. they added the investigation could take up to a year. >>> and we end in new york city. one world trade center is open for business. nearly 200 employees of publishing joint conde nast have moved in occupying floors 20 through 44. 60% of the building has already been leased. >>> patrick foy, executive director of the port authority which owns the site said in a statement the new york city skyline is whole again. and that's some of what's happening around the world. coming up as candidates try to win votes across the u.s. we'll look at a big reason many of them can't connect with voters. the bizarre dynamics of political-speak, next. >> hi everyone i'm john siegenthaler in new york. coming up right after "consider this" voters will soon decide the balance of power in congress. democrats remain optimistic but numbers tell

this is only the fourth time the spaceshiptwo ignited.ual rocket flights are just -- were just starting up. so, we'll have to see, i think, what happened. >> we know that this industry inherently has huge risks but we just heard from a friend of the pilots including the pilot who died who said that this company's technology didn't match their enthusiasm. what's your take on that? do you think virgin galactic maybe jumped the gun and was too eager? >> i wouldn't go quite as strong as she did, but i do think there has been a lot of concerns in the industry that they are a bit too optimistic. i think the idea that they were going to do passenger travel next year was really unrealistic and maybe responsible. you need -- before you fly passengers you need to have a lot of flights, and you know, they were -- they had not flown near space yet. even this flight i think was only going to go up to about 20 kilometers rather than the 100 they need to get up to to be in space. so, you know, they would first need to do test flights to get up to that h

spaceshiptwo deployed too early. spaceshiptwo deployed too early. that may have coughed that may have coughed caused it to break caused it to break up. up. unable to determine if it was unable to determine if it was mechanical failure mechanical failure investigators say pilot error investigators say pilot error has not been ruled out as a has not been ruled out as a potential cause. potential cause. they added the investigation they added the investigation could take up to a year. could take up to a year. >>> and we end in new york city. >>> and we end in new york city. one world trade center is open one world trade center is open for for business. business. nearly 200 employees of nearly 200 employees of publishing joint publishing joint conde nast have conde nast have moved in occupying floors 20 moved in occupying floors 20 through 44. through 44. 60% of the building has already 60% of the building has already been been leased. leased. >>> patrick foy, executive >>> patrick foy, executive director of the port aut

there were six cameras aboard spaceshiptwo when it broke apart and crashed over a test flight. but investigators say it could take a year before their work is complete. >>> pro-russia separatists in eastern ukraine are holding electionness their self-declared republics of donetsk and luhansk. kiev and the west say they're illegitimate. >>> in a new video the leader of boko haram is denying his militant group ever agreed to a cease-fire with the nigerian government or to release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted in april. he says the girls have converted to islam and have been married off. >>> jerusalem police are expected to address the tensions over access to one of the city's revered holy sites. the closure of the temple mount known as the noble sanctuary sparked clashes between police and palestinian protesters. israel shut down the site after a controversial jewish rabbi was shot. it was partially re-opened on friday. >>> cnn 's erin mclaughlin join us. we heard the police will address the situation. what else is happening there? >> reporter: hi, natalie. police spokespers

spaceshiptwo came apart above california while it was descending. the co-pilot, michael alsbury was killed. >>> the british banker is to return to court next week. he is accused of killing two women, stuffing one in a suitcase on his balcony. an office e-mail said that he would be away from work indefinitely and that colleagues should, quote, contact someone who is not a psychopath. >>> kia and hyundai are facing penalties. they will forfeit $200 million in gas emission credits and spend about $50 million to prevent future violations. >>> well, with the midterm elections, democrats aren't faring so well. an unpopular president and lack of enthusiasm could be to blame. in a poll conducted in october 24 to 26, president obama's approval rating was 45%. it's hovered in the 40s for much of the year. his disapproval rating stands at 53%. voters aren't happy with congress's performance either. just 13% of people say they approved of the job congress was doing. 85% disaprofed. overall, it shows likely voters are split down the middle. 47% said they plan to

. >> these photographs capture the final catastrophic moments of virgin galactic's spaceshiptwo.craft meant to fly tourists into space exploded in mid-air friday on a test flight over the mojave desert. >> there was a puff that shouldn't have been there, and at that point i knew something was very, very wrong. >> dreams of flight in pieces in the sand. one pilot was killed, a second severely injured was airlifted to a hospital. the disaster brought sir richard branson, the billionaire founder of virgin galactic, to the crash scene. >> we feel sorry. we will now comprehend the effects of the crash. >> we intend to find out what caused the crash and prevent it from happening again. >> the prototype was the first to use a few fuel that has never before been tested in flight. this is how the spacecraft is supposed to work. the mothership carries it to 50,000 feet, releases it, and it fires it's own rocket carrying paying passengers to the edge of space. 700 have put down deposits, including big hollywood names. branson said they can get refunds, but they will continue to aim sky high

. >> these images captured the final moments friday after as spaceshiptwo was released from the motherid-air over the mojave desert. they were using a new fueled that previously only been tested on the ground. before the crash branson had already sold his dream of space travel to some of pole wood's elite. pitt, decaprio, and others who paid. >> we are going to learn from what went wrong, discover how we can improve safety and performance, and then move forward together. >> but branson admits the crash casts doubts on the project. several cameras were attached to the spacecraft and it could be at least a year before the ntsb releases their final report into what went wrong. abc news, los angeles. >> a bay area discovery involved with discovering hiv and aids was honored last night for his life-saving contributions to the world. the science humanity discovery event at the youngblood museum celebrated dr. arthur arman during his 40 years in medicine. he identified the first cases of aids and the transition of hiv from mother to baby, which meant it could be transmitted through blood. he

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. >> these photographs capture the final catastrophic moments of virgin galactic's spaceshiptwo.ver the mojave desert. >> there was a puff that shouldn't have been there and at that point i knew something was very, very wrong. >> dreams of flight in piece necessary the sand. one pilot was killed, a second severely injured was airlifted to a hospital. the disaster brought sir richard branson, the billionaire founder of virgin galactic, to the crash scene. >> we will now try to find out the cause of the crash. >> the prototype was the first to use a few fuel that was never before been tested in flight. this is how the spacecraft is supposed to work. the mother cast carries it to 50,000 feet, releases it, and it fires it's own rocket carrying paying passengers to the edge of space. 700 put down deposits, including big hollywood names. branson said they can get refunds, but they will continue to aim sky high. >> we now have to pick ourselves up. >> abc news, new york. >> a bay area doctor credited with major discoveries involving hiv and a.i.d.s. was honored for his life saving contr