billionaire d b' k fl 's a cridrive for st jude's children research hospital in memphis. >> st. saved my life. >> the physician assistant at st. jude. when she was 10, the hospital treated her for bone cancer. >> we're going to call the st. jude patients from space and it'll show them what they're capable of. >> wow. >> the secure members secure their spots by winning a contest. >> they train all four civilian crew members for almost six months. >> that would be quite the experience. >> can you imagine. >>> the next best thing to that is the forecast by mary lee. >> of course. >> oh, i love you guys. i'm tracking the atmosphere and the weather here on earth. or cooling trend continues today and our daytime highs 10 to 20 degrees cooler compared to the day before and we'll cool it down today with a weak little weather system moving through and our temperatures will be much cooler compared to yesterday and in fact today one of the coolest of the week and as we look ahead look ahead and it'll bring rain to the pacific northwest and a few showers for us going through the weekend. i'

st. jude's hospital in memphis. 19 years later, her backstory fueled inspiration, raised $200 million for st. jude. watching her launch on wednesday, six-year-old matthew, a leukemia patient at st. jude today. from orbit, inspiration4 crew took questions from nine child patients now at st. jude, including matthew. >> are there cows on the moon? >> you know, i hope there will be one day. >> reporter: matthew's mother, lesley, told us it's hayley arceneaux's life journey that matters. >> what you set your mind to do, you can do it. and she is proving it every single day. >> reporter: she represents hope at a moment in your family's life when you need it? >> yes, very much hope, very much hope. >> reporter: next month a souse capsule will take russians to the space station. they're shooting a movie up there on location so there's no need to build a set. errol. >> barnett: all right, mark strassmann, thank you. now to the nation's capitol, where a rally supporting the january 6 rioters led to a su

st. jude's children research hospital. one of the seeds to be part of this mission raised is 13 million in auction. >> jared held the fundraiser for st. jude's children hospital. >> and that there, i imagine that was reentry. >> it sounded like reentry. it might have been breaking down as they came in through here. i'm not a nasa scientist, but pretty cool. that took place all around here. looked up to see and fine seeing it and parachutes in sight. >> talk us through what we are watching at this moment. >> exactly right, yes. coming down. and parachutes comfortable, the vehicle down so that whatever it hits the water is not a terrible g force. doesn't impact to damage the crew or the vehicle. >> how about perhaps a silly question which is can the people inside hear that cheering that's coming from the ground? at what point do they know how excited everyone else is for them? >> probably can't hear the cheering. >> all four are out. and have a relatively soft landing in the ocean and ready nearby to pick them up. great news

st. jude's. he was under two years of investigation and got nothing out of it. nothing. two years of investigation. he raised 20 million got the most beautiful letter from the head of st. jude's that this young man, i won't even say which one of my kids. >> greg: it would be don jr. or eric started selling sketches and giving the money to drug addiction programs. some really primitive sketches before hunter ever sells a painting. >> mr. trump: if you go, during the presidency to do this. i think the paintings of the least of it. you know that. that's the least of it. >> greg: the gun violations. >> mr. trump: we had a much softer justice department. let's say they didn't like doing that. i understand that but i don't want to see a family in trouble. he has got some difficulties which are very serious difficulties in terms of what happened to him with the views, cetera, et cetera. i tell you what, you can't do it republicans. some of the republicans, especially the rhinos. we have some very stupid republicans. don't you sometimes have to fight fire with fire. >> greg: wha

st. jude's, 200 million dollars has been the goal. and there's been all kinds of interaction from them there. it just has been an amazing experience to see regular americans, like you and i, in space. only less than 600 people -- >> jon: hang on a second, alexandria. we're getting our first images. let's listen to mission control. >> as part of the inspiration for mission, the crowd here is very excited to see them after the first time as well. so yeah, couple of minutes left of the blackout period, and we should be getting comms re-established with the crew here shortly. >> jon: the blackout period, clayton, perhaps you're the best to explain that to us. the capsule is coming back, and the friction of it ebb countering the earth's -- encountering the earth's atmosphere heats up the heat shield, and the exterior of the capsule to greater than 3,000 degrees fahrenheit, and that creates this sort of wall of gas around the capsule, does it not, that prevents the radios from actually being able to transmit? >> right. when you come back in

i think we have a lot of future astronauts at st. judeer: and david, with millions around the world watching, the crew hopes to raise $200 million for st. jude. david? >> gio benitez, thank you. and of course, we'll be watching announcer: building a better bay area. moving forward. finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. >> months on the campaign trail, is, we got to disabuse ourselves, i set it last night, of all of this false separateness. darren: a call for unity one day after governor newsom beats back and attempted recall. thank you for joining us, i am larry beil. kristen: and i am kristen sze. larry: about 65% of californians voted to reject the recall and keep newsom in office. kristen: liz kreutz is live with reaction to the vote from governor newsom himself. liz: hi. governor newsom made his first visit after defeating their recall here at melrose leadership academy in oakland where he met with students at also talked about the state's handling of the pandemic. he reflected and said if there's anything he has learned from going t

st. jude's hospital. $13 million in auction.what does this mean for private space travel moving forward and then toying ken because i want to know what he saw that was so cool. >> that's great. part of what this mission did, jared isaacson held a fundraiser for st. jude, so that's wonderful. and i'm glad they actually had some science goals on this mission. you know, so this is the first milestone. it was all amateurs on board, no professional astronauts, no manual flying capability. and so far it looks like it's going wonderfully. >> kendis, that yelp there, i imagine that was re-entry? >> reporter: it sounded like reentry. it might have been them breaking the speed of sound. i'm not a nasa scientist, but i'll tell you it was pretty cool. you just heard this huge thud that took place all around here. everybody looked up to see if they could see. you can see right now from that shot that we're finally seeing it, and the parachutes of dragon are in sight. >> talk us through what we're watching at this moment. >> well, i can't see

st. jude's, when she was a child she was a cancer patient at st. jude's hospital. now, she is working there, and she is the first cancer survivor to go into space. she is only 29. >> we have a data engineer, a community college educator, those are the four civilians making history. the first time in the 60 years of human space travel, they have had civilians going into space. we have made history, now let's come back down to earth. how to live look outside using our dublin camera? >>> wildfire smoke is drifting back into the bay area, wildfire advisory extended through tomorrow. chief meteorologist paul heggen tracking hazy conditions. >> not sure how i can follow that up, people literally being launched into space. >> we all got goosebumps watching that but you can't help it but there is something about that moment. >> that countdown, three, two, one took >> everyone held their breath. >> quite a ride. feels like there's people are being sat on by wrestlers. let's talk about the air quality currently, we are in the moderate category pretty much across the board fo

st. jude's. want to tell all these kids that if i can do this, they can do this. >> the highlight for the flight commander was news he learned when he reached the ground, that they had surpassed their $200 million fund-raising goal. >> knowing that the bigger mission of reaching out and inspiring a lot of people to contribute to a real cause here on earth that was important to us with st. jude and then exceeding it was a powerful moment for a lot of us. >> mission accomplished we have a lot of problems down here but, haley, how do we look from up there as a planet >> beautiful and just so united that's one thing that i really took away from seeing the earth, is it was just one. >> fair to say they're all walking on air still tonight. that's "nightly news" for this monday thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other good night can you see my wall of smiles? when i first started using genesys technology i was kind of embarrased at all the love and at

they have completed more than 15 orbits around earth since liftoff all part of a fund-raiser for st. jude. the patients got to ask the crew some questions including are there cows on the moon. i'm going to venture to say i might know the answer to that. >> i think you might. >>> we turn to the search for gabby petito. the fbi has joined the effort as gaby's parents beg for information from her boyfriend and we hear from his sister for the first time. trevor ault has the story, good morning, trevor. >> reporter: good morning, george. police have said that deafening silence from gabby's boyfriend brian laundrie is hindering their investigation and search efforts. this morning we are finally hearing from someone in his family. his sister speaking to abc news but even she seems confused and worried about how this is playing out. this morning, brian laundrie is still not talking in the

. >> top on our list right now is conquering childhood cancer that's why we're supporting st. jude. >> the $50 million in donations so far could help provide things like almost 3,000 life-saving surgical procedures, 180,000 blood transfusions, and more than a million days of meals for families of patients an out-of-this-world effort to raise awareness for cancer research. >> boy, they look like they're having a lot of fun up there. that's "nightly news" for this friday. thank you for t. please take care of yourself and each other. good night >> and looking through the window, we can see the entire parameter of the earth which is so beautiful so i hope you're getting to see what we see. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ now you say you're lonely ♪ ♪ you cry ♪ ♪ the whole night through ♪ ♪ well, you can cry me a river ♪ ♪ cry me a river ♪ ♪ i cried a river over you ♪ ♪ you drove me ♪ ♪ nearly drove me ♪ ♪ out of my head ♪ ♪ while you never shed a tear ♪ ♪ remember ♪ ♪ i remember all that you said ♪ ♪ told me love ♪ ♪ was too plebeian ♪ ♪ told me you were through ♪ ♪ with me ♪ ♪ and now you say you love me ♪ ♪

st. jude's children's research hospital. 19 years ago hayley was a patient at st. jude.assistant. >> i work with the bravest kids in the world and they inspire me daily. >> reporter: with today's mission, she can return the favor. >> they all want to be astronauts now and i tell them they can be. >> reporter: hayley proving to the patients she works with and to the rest of us, not even the sky is the limit. what is your advice to the rest of us, to find that zest for life every day the way you have found it. >> you know, i think it comes from hope because going through treatment and having that hope, that's what made me love my life. and just absolutely just loving the day that you're in. you're here. >> reporter: whether she's walking the halls of st. jude or orbiting the earth for three days at an altitude higher than the international space station or anywhere in between, hayley arceneaux is america strong. >> i'm just a regular person going to space and, you know, not everyone has had childhood cancer but everyone has had to overcome something. >> reporter: i spoke w

children's research hospital in memphis. >> st. jude saved my life. >> reporter: crew member hayley arceneaux, a physician assistant at st. jude. when she was 10, the hospital treated her for bone cancer. >> so we're going to call the patients from space and i think it's really going to show them what they're capable of. >> reporter: spacex has spent almost the last six months training the civilian crew, and they all say they understand that space moments like this involve risk. norah. >> o'donnell: we'll be watching. sasn, tnks ucwell, toning nation's top military officer after bombshell revelations that he reached out to china, fearing a war in the final days of the trump administration. cbs' nancy cordes reports from the white house. >> reporter: president biden expressed complete support today for the nation's highest ranking military officer. >> i have great confidence in general milley. >> reporter: general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, is facing calls from some republicans to resign, after two veteran re

st. jude's children's hospital. that's something that -- we might think about doing that at nasa, but that's beyond their purview, beyond their charter. now that you have these private citizens, companies, going into space, they can dream big. they couldn't do these things just a few years ago, because there was no access for them. and that applies to people who want to do things to raise awareness for causes like st. jude's children's hospital, in this case, or those who want to do some research or some commercial activity in space. make movies in space. sports in space. once you get creative people the access to space, it's not just scientists and military personnel like we've had before. really creative people, journalists, people who could think beyond what we would normally think about in our traditions as astronauts, and i think it gets really exciting. i don't even think we can imagine what people are going to come up with now that this is possible. >> and i've talked to other astronauts and i believe you sai

st. jude's. >> i know you do. >> what else can we expect? super bowl. >> 2011 with the giants. >> i knew you would remember that. also, carissa bodnar of thrive cause-metics. it's cosmetics with a purpose. she has a friend with cancer and come up with cosmetics and given up millions of dollar. >> super generous. >> super generous and her products are great. >>> coming up, one-on-one with brooke shields. we got time, yay. ♪ i see trees of green ♪ ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for me and you ♪ (music) ♪ so i think to myself ♪ ♪ oh what a wonderful world ♪ >>> we are back with brooke shields. she's opening up about moving forward after a devastating accident. deborah roberts spoke with brooke about her new beginning and how she's encouraging others to find their inner strength. >> every stage of your life is a new beginning. how am i going to respond to this? who am i going to be? what do i want and make it on your own terms. >> reporter: this morning, in the midst of a recovery from a frightening accident, brooke shields discovering wha

one of the crew members, 29-year-old hayley arceneaux, is a physician's assistant at st. jude.e as a child. she'll be the youngest american ever to go to space and the first pediatric cancer survivor. >> all the fun is going to go to these kids, these kids that i get to work with who inspire me every day. >> reporter: and now david, with millions having watched this launch, the crew hopes to raise $200 million for st. jude. david? >> all right, gio. incredible images, an incredible feat tonight. i'm david muir. i' >> thanks for joining us. >> you are watching abc 7 news at 6:00 live on abc seven and wherever you stream. both rain and increased risk of fire danger are forecast for the bay area. today there is an air quality advisory.

children's research hospital in memphis. >> st. jude saved my life. >> reporter: crew member hayley arceneaux, a physician assistant at st. jude. when she was 10, the hospital treated her for bone cancer. >> so we're going to call the patients from space and i think it's really going to show them what they're capable of. >> reporter: spacex has spent almost the last six months training the civilian crew, and they all say they understand that space moments like this involve risk. norah. >> o'donnell: we'll be watching. mark strassmann, thanks so much. and we want to turn now to the covid pandemic, which has now claimed the lives of one in every 500 americans. and get this-- for those 85 years or over, it's one in every 35. cbs' omar villafranca has new details tonight on the intensifying battle over booster shots. >> reporter: tonight, pfizer and now moderna are making a major push for booster shots, but the food and drug administration is staying neutral. today, the f.d.a. released new documents from pfizer ahead of an advisory panel's

and former member of the air force that had entered and opened lottery by donating to st. jude last week, the crew spoke about the opportunity set it right from the start right from the day . want of inspiration for, you know, that we aim to inspire people as to what's possible in space. i think there's a lot of points to our mission. and a big one is to inspire people to push boundaries. and we're pushing boundaries and a lot of different ways. we want to make sure that whatever we're doing, our mission helps answer some of those questions out. well, if you don't have to be physically perfect, well, what can we do to support more people? all kinds of backgrounds and all kinds of different characteristics to be able to enjoy space, be able to go up and joining us out. it's got the think never because of this moment. it's aaron pagan, adjunct professor a business strategy with a focus on space commercialization or pleasure to have you on aaron space x is doing this without the direct involvement of nasa. how big of a moment is this for private space industry? it's certainly a milestone. t

. >> top on our list right now is conquering childhood cancer that's why we're supporting st. judemillion in donations so far could help provide things like almost 3,000 life-saving surgical procedures, 180,000 blood transfusions, and more than a million days of meals for families of patients an out-of-this-world effort to raise awareness for cancer research. >> boy, they look like they're having a lot of fun up there. that's "nightly news" for this friday. thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night >> and looking through the window, we can see the entire parameter of the earth which is so beautiful so i hope you're getting to see what we see. . >>> right now at 6:00, she's not backing down. mayor london breed responds to being maskless at a san francisco nightclub. >> my drink was sitting at the table. i got up and started dancing because i was feeling the spirit. >> reason why the mayor said she was actually following her own covid rules. >> plus, a surveillance camera captured it. thieves broke in and took a half mil

st. jude's children's hospital.e's how that's been going. >> what kind of sleeping bag do you have? >> hey, miss ava. thank you for that question. if you've ever been camping, we pretty much have those same kind of sleeping bags. >> can you fall asleep because there's no gravity? >> we're going so fast it's traveling around the world. >> what's your favorite space food? >> pizza. >> are there cows on the moon? >> i hope there will be one day. >> we've always wondered that. are there cows on the moon. we will get there some day. the question is how many cows are on mars. that's the other question they didn't ask. while they're all smiles, lindsey, space travel is a dangerous thing. they're not the first civilian to attempt to go to space. christa mcauliffe tried in 1986. coming up we'll speak with two of christa mcauliffe's former students and what they thought as they watched this rocket rise from cape canaveral wednesday. >> what do the local billionaires say about this? >> it is different in the sense that they're

st. jude's hospital and talk with some of the cancer patients there.ry to inspire them you can beat cancer and eventually you two can go to space. really uplifting stories must be so unbelievably excited right now. kennedy: that is so exciting thank you for your porting tonight it's awesome. >> sure, thanks kennedy. >> right there at cape canaveral but i haven't a personal story, kellyanne i were surfing at cocoa beach, florida when john glenn reenter the atmosphere on the space shuttle for their pictures of us on our surfboard, selfies before they were selfies on phones. we went, me and kelly slater and john glenn that's one of the neatest things that ever done in my life. fails in comparison to being a civilian in space for three days. i cannot wait to hear about that journey and see all of the pictures and video. we'll be right back. much more to go on the show, stay with me. i wonder how the firm's doing without its fearless leader. you sure you want to leave that all behind? yeah. stay restless with the rx. crafted by lexus. experience amazing at

she now works there as a physician assistants, but st. jude leg, and her life and now she's floating up above us in space, looking down. back to you. lauren: what a story she has to tell and what i love about the space race because that's what we're in right now is you have billionaires and in this case it's for charity, but at what point does the price tag come down so maybe you just need to be a millionaire to go to space and not a billionaire? >> well i think you could be tens of millionaire and afford it, $70 million is what we were paying the russians to fly each astronaut up and i believe there was a private accident that through on the rocket who paid something like 20-$25 million. this one was paid for for an undisclosed amount by jarod izaacman, the tech billionaire and he invited the other three strangers and now they are all friends riding and flying for free. lauren: he's only 38 phil what did we do wrong? phil keating. >> i know, so sad. lauren: thank you very much. well, forget the password, forget the user id, hoping to do away

but st. jude has covered everything.ything we can. and when they say everything, they mean everything. st. jude is the gold at the end of a rainbow for a family like ours. they've really given our family hope. and we are so grateful and thankful for everything. (jackie) i've made progress with my mental health. so when i started having unintentional body movements called tardive dyskinesia... i ignored them. but when the twitching and jerking in my face and hands affected my day to day... i finally had to say, 'it's not ok.' it was time to talk to my doctor about austedo. she said that austedo helps reduce td movements in adults... while i continue with most of my mental health medications. (vo) austedo can cause depression, suicidal thoughts, or actions in patients with huntington's disease. pay close attention to and call your doctor if you become depressed, have sudden changes in mood, behaviors, feelings, or have suicidal thoughts. common side effects include inflammation of the nose and throat, insomnia and sleepine

, just as st. jude physician assistant and now astronaut hayley arceneaux was when she was ten. >> going through it, we needed some hope to cling on to. seeing hayley shoot into space like that, my god, if that's not a symbol of hope. >> reporter: in mankind's history, only about 600 people have gone to space, but never an all-civilian crew. >> i think those guys last night kicked the door open to orbital commercial space flights. >> reporter: there may be a commercial space race with virgin galactic and blue origin, who both recently went suborbital, but the great achievement here celebrated by all. tonight the crew in weightlessness has already started to gather scientific data that is hoped will aid future space travelers. unlike the extraordinary human specimens that are nasa astronauts, the inspiration are for our average americans. how does space travel affect their hearts? how is their blood impacted by radiation? are their cognitive abilities impaired their laundry list of work will occupy a sig

the crew spoke with children at st. jude where arceneaux works. >> can you take pictures in space? >> great question. we can take pictures in space. we've been taking a lot of the pictures. >> reporter: the mission raised $200 million for st. jude. the spacex ceo elon musk donating $50 million of that total. musk drew attention, mocking president biden after a twitter user asked why the president had not congratulated the crew. musk tweeted, he's still sleeping. and spacex plans to send more private citizens to space in the months ahead. some are paying $55 million. the company will reuse the capsule we just saw yesterday in january. >>> in sports, another nail-biter on "sunday night football. "patrick mahomes' passes helped kansas city lead in baltimore. the ravens came back. lamar jackson flipped into the end zone. final score, 36-35. >>> and tom brady can't stop throwing touchdowns. he threw five t.d.s as the bucs crushed the falcons. >>> coming up, no more a.c. the scientists with the low-cast replacement for air conditi

the main goal of the "inspiration4" mission was to raise $200 million for st. jude children's hospital. when the crew splashed down, it had raised $160 million. that's good money but it's short. the mission's twitter account posted this tweet encouraging people to donate. and hours later, look at this. spacex' ceo elon musk replied, count me in for 50 million. 50 million bucks. sending the total over the top. the crew's commander, billionaire jared isaacman, purchased his seat on the flight and donated $100 million, personally, to st. jude children's hospital. great, great story there. >>> one of the most famous cathedrals in the world is ready for rebuilding. might remember, this devastating fire pretty much destroyed france's notre dame cathedral back in 2019. the agency overseeing its reconstruction says the site is finally stable enough for workers to start rebuilding the. this is twye the work was painstaking to reach this point. and there's more pain to come. france says the reconstruction will likely include some-100 different companies and professionals and

the flight is also raising money for st. judef $200 million. and patients got to speak with the crew live yesterday afternoon. in a tweet, st. jude's hospital said that they asked questions that we all want to know like are there cows on the moon? the crew will return to earth tomorrow. >>> sony is answering some questions about the future of the game show "jeopardy!". the production company announced mayim bialik and ken jennings will split hosting duties for the remainder of the season which runs through the end of the year. bialik's episodes start monday through november 5th. after that they will share duties based on their schedules. right now episodes of michael richards are airing because he taped a week's worth of programs before he stepped down as host and executive producer due to disparaging comments made in the past. >>> and football fans either love him or hate him, but tom brady thinks he can continue to play in the nfl for another six years. >> can tom brady play until 50? like, 50 years old? >> 50. >> 50. >> you're

st. jude's >> 19 years later, hayley was hired at st. jude hospital as a physician assistant.ley held on to another dream traveling to space. that came true when she was selected as one of four crew members on the inspiration 4 team >> she's a survivor of childhood cancer >> she was revealed as one of the astronauts exclusively on "today." hayley telling us it was her mother, colleen, who gave her strength for the mission >> she's so proud. she's my biggest supporter and my biggest cheerleader, and we're getting to go through this together >> having seen her daughter already fight bone cancer and survive, colleen was super nervous about hayley going to space, but wanted to give her daughter every chance to live out her dreams their close relationship highlighted in a new netflix documentary. >> if i let my mom anxiety influence her life, she wouldn't do nearly the things she's doing. >> the space mission raising more than $225 million for st. jude >> i had my hair all big and crazy, and i took a picture of me holding a bald photo from when i was in treatment. it felt very indi

, just as st. judeant and now astronaut hayley arceneaux was when she was 10 >> we needed some hope to cling onto and seeing hayley shoot into space like that, my god, if that's not a symbol of hope? >> reporter: only about 600 people have gone to space but never in all civilian crew >> i think those guys last night kicked the door open to orbital commercial space flight. >> reporter: there may be a commercial space race, but the achievement here celebrated by all. the crew in weightlessness has already started to guide things from space how does space travel affect their hearts how is their blood impacted by radiation? are their cognitive abilities impaired their laundry list of work will occupy a significant portion of their mission. elon musk tweeted that he's spoken to the crew and they're all okay sp. >>> right now at 4:30, do you need one or not? a crucial meeting on covid booster shots is minutes away. what infectious disease experts will happen in hours. >> a former theranos employee heads back

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children's research hospital in memphis. >> st. jude saved my life. >> reporter: crew member hayley arceneaux's a physician asstan st. j treated her for bone cancer. >> so we're going to call to thank patients from space. it's going to show what they're capable of. >> reporter: spacex trained the four civilian crew members for almost six months. mark strassmann, cbs news, at the kennedy space center. >>> meantime, the u.s. passed another grim milestone in the fight against the coronavirus. new figures show roughly one in 500 americans have died from covid. as of this morning, the virus has killed more than 666,000 people in the u.s. meantime, the fda will hold a key meeting tomorrow on booster shots. but there's no guarantee that a third shot will be made widely available yet. bradley blackburn is in new york with the latest developments on this. good morning. >> reporter: anne-marie, good morning. pfizer is making its case for booster shots, but of course there are still many people who refuse to get any covid vaccine at all. that is d

one of those seats is occupied by 29-year-old hayley ceneaux, a physs assistant at st. jude, a previous p to go into space. they'll be navigating with no professional astronaut. a computer does all the flying, and that crew is scheduled to return to earth saturday splashing down into the atlantic ocean. >>> now to washington and the heart-wrenching testimony from u.s. olympic gymnasts who were abused by their team doctor demanding charges be filed against the fbi agents that they say mishandled the case and alex presha is here with more. >> reporter: good morning to you. these gymnasts say they were betrayed by the fbi and now they want the agents who investigated the case to be criminally charged. this morning, the world's top gymnasts are accusing the fbi of turning a blind eye to their reports of sexual abuse. >> all we needed was one adult to do the right thing. e veeed deserve r: thees ng as senators investigate the fbi's handling of the larry. the former usa disasters team doctor now in prison for abusing athletes. simone biles describing the abuse she suffered. >> i d

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haley arsenault was a childhood cancer survivor, who now works for st. jude. and now she has gone into space. so it's kind of taking an inspirational message as well as just sort of reaching out to people about the planet and seeing the planet from space is sort of changing. so it's helping inspire people to be better stewards of the earth fella heads on al jazeera, prepared for trouble. heavy police presence in washington dc as hundreds of full trump protests, gather the capital building and libya begins the building. after a decade of conflict, he says that the militarized films for look at how they're being transformed for the residents of tripoli. ah! it's another beautiful sunny day at 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways booted world's best airline of 2021. hello, good to see you. here's your update on the monsoons across the subcontinent. 3 problem spots. we're going to focus on sri lanka toward the east and also the northwest. so 1st sri lanka, and northern parts of the country picking up a $126.00 millimeters of rain around the bank. al

the view from space, the inspiration four crew called st. jude patients from orbit. and cbs' steve hartman's "on the road."d." can a hail mary pass save the worst football field in america? this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this busy friday. we are going to begin with breaking news. president biden's plan to give covid booster shots to most americans just hit a snag three days before the planned rollout. an f.d.a. advisory panelisory pl recommended against a third dose of the pfizer shot for younger americans, and adding to the americans, and adding to the confusion, that confusion, that same panel says those 65 and older and high-risk americans should get another shot. so, to be clear, these recommendations are just for the pfizer vaccine. boosters for the moderna and johnson & johnson vaccines will be discussed later. well, tonight, some are questioning if the president got ahead of the science in pushing for boosters. it comes as many hospitals conti

and tonight here, the questions from children back home at st. judelcome to our dragon capsule here in space. >> reporter: one of the crew members, hayley arceneaux is a physician assistant at st. jude. she was treated there as a child, and it was little ava asking about sleep. >> what kind of sleeping bag do you have? >> if you've ever been camping we pretty much have those same kind of sleeping bags. >> reporter: alana asking about zero gravity. >> can you fall in space since there is no gravity? >> well, the reason that we don't have gravity is because our spacecraft is going so fast that it's basically falling all around the earth. but i have to say that floating is -- i don't know if you guys saw that peanut m and m. >> reporter: and gabriel, what about the aliens? >> is there aliens in space? i did not think there were, until this came flying by. >> reporter: and then, the view. >> you guys are going to get a view that is unbelievable. >> reporter: the crew revealing their view. >> looking through the window, we can see the entire parameter of t

st. jude's children's hospital in the process. here's gio benitez. >> reporter: it's the splashdown seen around the world. >> inspiration 4 on behalf of spacex, welcome home to planet earth. >> reporter: four civilians on the mission known as inspiration 4, orbiting the earth about 47 times at 17,500 miles per hour. their spacex crew dragon experiencing 3,500 degrees of heat as it re-entered the atmosphere. those parachutes deploying. splashing down in the atlantic, near florida, rescue boats at the ready. >> thanks so much, spacex. it was a heck of a ride for us. we're just getting started. >> reporter: geoscience professor and newly-minted astronaut dr. sian proctor dancing back on earth. the crew making history, traveling 367 miles above the earth for thee days -- farther than any other civilian on the planet. >> we're seeing the world every 90 minutes. that's how fast we're traveling around it. it's pretty incredible. >> reporter: one of goals of the mission -- to raise money for st. jude children's research hospital. and toni

the kids at st. jude have an amazing future. >> he wants to give back. i have love it. >> so great. >> yes. i totally agree. that is part of the reason why they did this whole thing. to be inspirational to the kids at st. jude and the whole thing blows my mind. i want wait for the interview when they get back to earth. >>> let's see what is going on weather wise across the country. we have the extreme heat and dry conditions out west. look at where our red flag warnings are located. gusts up to 50 miles an hour. erratic. they could come from all directions. that makes it difficult for the firefighters. we also have very dry conditions. low humidity and 94% of the west is under drought conditions. we have what tends to happen in the fall is the series of cold fronts that come onshore. this one is bringing rain to seattle and portland. we will see the heavy rain stretches into areas of montana and idaho where it is so needed. we are looking for it to continue through the entire weekend. the heaviest rain should fall today and especially along the coast and

. >> dragon, you are now live with st. judeal. >> we're going to get right to some questions from our patients. ava, take it away. >> hi. what kind of sleeping bag do you have? >> so if you've ever been camping, we pretty much have those same kind of sleeping bags. and last night was the first time we had our first sleep here in space. and it was really cool because we were in our sleeping bags on top of our chairs, but we were floating on top of the chair. we had a seat belt around our sleeping bag so we didn't fly away when we were sleeping. >> what was the main reason you decided to go to space? >> that's a really awesome question. i think the idea is that there's an awful lot that still needs to be accomplished in space. there's an awful lot of it, and we know so little about it. there may be some really interesting answers to questions we've all been asking for a long time out there. we have to do that. >> my question is, can you fall in space since there is no gravity? >> the reason we don't have gravity is because our sp

st. jude's and what space tourism might look like.of buffalo, distinguished professor of aerospace engineering, thank you for speaking with us, john. i want your expertise. what makes this flight historic? >> well, thanks for having me on. it's historic because it is an all civilian crew, the first time ever. think where we were 50 years ago and to go from that to an all civilian crew, it's an amazing result today. i'm looking forward to the splashdown. jacqui: we've had a few weeks, really, or months, i think, of some ground breaking launches. what is most interesting to you about what we've seen develop with our space travel capabilities over the course of this summer and what that says about the future for space travel? >> sure, well, first of all, astronauts train for years to go to space and this current crew trained for about seven months, it sounds like a long time, but it's not. they had to go through rigorous training and learn high level math and trainings i teach to my seniors in aerospace program and to be able to go up in

science and educator scion procter, chris dombrowski and childhood bone cancer survivor and st. juderee-day mission, orbitting the globe at 22 times the speed of sound before splashing down off the florida coast. >> we're going to be doing lots of blood draws and swabs of the capsule and different parts of our body. >> we had some st. jude patients make art that were made into jackets. >> reporter: the mission will lift off from a historic site, 39a, the same launch pad now leased to spacex where astronauts from apollo began their your anies decades ago. >> i'm looking forward to that mission of inspiration, so when we get back, being able to share our stories, our experiences, our videos, our photos, all the things that we were able to do over this past six months and share that with the world. >> reporter: when the crew arrived on the launch pad just a few hours ago, they were clearly anticipatory and excited, hugging each other, signing their names on the walls of the spacex's white room. they are on board the dragon capsule that is on this launch pad behind me, and fueling of the