the predecessor of virgin galactic spacecraft 2. you were a pioneer, you dreamt of this idea, you got the money together for a contest that spaceship 1 won, it became spaceship 2. this is your dna. how do you feel about what happened today? >> it is and my heart goes out of course to the families of everyone involved, from mojave space port to virgin to all. what i feel is conversations going on are very naive by most individuals. there were expectations, this is a test flight and the fact of the matter is, i landed at l.a.x. this second and we're able to travel and take aish plane travel for -- airplane travel for granned because over the years there's many who gave their lives to open up that frontier. to say spaceflight is so dangerous, is ridiculous, the fact is, all this is danger are, all this is dangerous. driving a car is dangerous. 50,000 people die per year. these are people who gave their lives for something they believe in and care about so deeply, we asked humidity -- humanity on the verge of opening the greatest fronti

. >> richard branson promises a full investigation after that deadly disaster for virgin galactic. >>> kurdish fighters from syria and iraq join forces to battle isis. >>> and ukraine is launch -- and ukraine's controversial election. >>> our top stories, america's national transportation safety board says friday's virgin galactic space disaster was heavily documented. there were six cameras aboard when it suddenly crashed, killing one pilot and seriously injuring the other. more now on the pilots and the investigation from cnn's stephanie elam. >> we've now learned more about the pilots. we can tell you that the pilot that lost his lost, his name was michael alsbury. he was 39 years old. the pilot who survived, his name is peter siebold and he is 43 years old. at this point we know that the entire virgin galactic community is trying to figure out what's from here on now. what happens going forward depends upon what the nst -- ntsb discovers. they are looking into this crash. this is the first space craft-related crash they were taking the lead on. although they were part of the colum

and virgin galactic's plans for space tourism are very much in question. nbc news has an agreement to document virgin galactic's inaugural flight with paying passengers. this is of course the second major blow to the commercial space industry this week. just three days ago an orbital sciences rocket exploded on liftoff on a re-supply mission to the space station. thankfully no one was killed, but it was a $200 million loss for that company, lester. >> tom, in these two accidents a reminder there's a change in balance. we're seeing more commercial space flight operations along with government-sponsored space flight. so what's the result of all this? >> reporter: i think it's fair to say that tonight the entire commercial space industry is reeling. i mean, questions about whether they're up to the job and the risks associated with space flight, and especially whether tourists should be headed to space, at least right now. >> all right. tom costello in washington tonight. thank you. >>> it took seven weeks, but a suspected cop-killer is finally in the hands o

people were pretty shaken up. >> reporter: stakes have never been higher for virgin galactic. agedy virgin is not pressing pause, intent on moving forward with the creation of their next passenger spaceship, spaceship 2 serial 2, which has been in works 2 1/2 years and is 90% structurally complete. how is virgin galactic going to convince people that these missions, these flights, will be safe? >> we're going to test fly this vehicle. we're going to test fly spaceship 2. we're going to do it a lot. we're going to make sure that we understand what happened. >> reporter: for virgin those results mean massive structural changes to the design of their craft won't be necessary. >> we're heartened by the findings around the condition of the motor. and i think that if it does become focused on human procedures, then there will be straightforward ways that we can deal with that, make sure that it doesn't happen again. >> reporter: while the investigation is ongoing, virgin is allowed to continue work on their craft. and they expect to enter the testing stage in the next six months. thi

virgin galactic's spaceship two exploded above the ground. one test pilot was killed. the other was seriously injured despite ejecting. virgin galactic planned to take passengers into the space by spring. 700 people had paid $250,000 for their ticket. >> it's the set back for a company vying to take tourists into space. they set the groundwork for space travel. >> hopefully to make space travel for the masses. >> virgin galactic to shuttle tourists to the engine of space, a dedicated spake craft manufacturing arm the spaceship company was formed. partnering with scaled composites, the spaceship company designed the mother ship to ferry the six-passenger, two-piloted spaceship two to launch into space. >> i'm going, and i hope you'll be joining me. >> originally slated to start commercial service in 2011 virgin galactic suffered numerous accidents. including an accident that claimed the lives working on the system. it is unclear whether friday's fatal crash will delay that dream yet again. patricia sagba, al jazeera. >> eastern ukraine separatist leaders say sunday's vo

what are your ambitions for virgin galactic? what would you like to see happen with it? >> i love to dream. we have plenty of ambitions for that in galactic. our initial ambitions are to create more astronauts in a year than nasa created astronauts in 60 years. so, you know, that's going to be tremendously exciting to do. that will start in about a year's time. >> reporter: that turned out to be overly ambitious. i interviewed him in 2011 as spaceship ii traveled to san francisco. it's the first time a spaceship landed at an airport. >> fasten your seatbelts. once in space, you are unbuckled. you look back at earth through these wonderful big windows we've got in the spaceship. you float around and you have the ride of a lifetime and become an astronaut. >> reporter: spaceship ii is designed to work like this, carried under a mother ship. then, once it reaches an altitude of 50,000 feet, it's released traveling 62 miles above the earth. on its website, they say safety is the north star and is engrained in the culture of our operation. >> i'm not going to take my son into

developing news on the virgin galactic spaceship disaster. the ntsb about to release an update about spaceship 2 coming down. this as we understand that virgin ceo richard branson could arrive at any moment at the crash site in california. the shasship 2 plane fell apart just two minutes after friday's launch over the mojave desert. one pilot was killed, the other hospitalized. cnn's stephanie elam is near the launch site. the second private space disaster this week. what are we learning about what happened? any commonalities here? >> reporter: yeah, it's very disturbing, obviously, it's a very rough week for space exploration and these private endeavors as well, fred. what you're seeing here are the challenges of actually trying to get up to space. the plan was to take people up 62 miles above earth so that they could feel maybe for five or six minutes what it's like to be weightless in the lower regions of space before coming back to earth. this whole endeavor now going through a setback. what we know is that spaceship 2, the one that crashe

will this delay the final result of virgin galactic? without doubt. i would -- it would be a very -- i cannot see him tonight turning the lights off. >> we'll continue to bring you any more developments on that tragedy there in california. >>> over 40 students missing in mexico yet to be found after a month, and as mexican officials search for clues, families are fed up and furious. that story ahead here. >>> also, locking down the virtual vault. how to keep your personal information away from hackers. >>> well, new video of a u.s. marine back on american soil after being freed from a mexican jail. that's him getting on the plane. 26-year-old andrew tahmooressi was arrested on gun charges in march after customers agents found weapons and ammunition in his truck at a tijuana checkpoint. tahmooressi insisted he simply made a wrong turn on the u.s. side of the border. >>> well, for more than a month now mexican authorities have not been able to find 43 students who seem to have vanished without a trace. it's a case that has shocked many mexicans already

i'll have a brief look at some of the investment that's gone into richard branson's virgin galactic. by branson's london-based virgin group. abu dhabi has invested around $400 million for a 37% stake. nearly 800 people, including the actor leonardo dicaprio, the physicist stephen hawking have signed up for the six-passenger flights, costing $250,000 per person. the company had planned on making its first test flight beyond the atmosphere before the end of this year, but boy, that seems very unlikely now. look, let's get more. david ashford is in our bristol studio. he's the founder of bristol space planes and joins us. great to have you on the program. as i was mentioning, two accidents in something like five days. i'm wondering for companies like yours, for other space companies around the world, working in this private industry, i mean, how much of a -- i guess how much of a setback could these accidents have? >> well, it obviously is a setback. tragically, it had a fatal design flaw. several of them crashed, killing quite a few people. the design was grounded for several years befo

what a unique look we have at the virgin galactic here.to say first of all, don't expect answers as to what brought down that space ship. the on going investigation we understand may take up to a year. ntsb investigators will be back on the ground this morning as they look for the clues and they don't just have to find and recover debris that spans some five miles across the mojave desert, but they're going to spend months analyzing this wreckage. investigators also have not been able yet to talk to the surviving pilot. he is still in the hospital for treatment. we do not have word of his condition. his co-pilot died in that incident. virgin group founder says the pilot's bravery cannot be overstated. the goal of commercial space flight is i will unchanged. rachael crane gained access to the secret manufacturing facility in california. she's joining us now. rachael, we really appreciate you being us with. first of all, the fact you were able to get into this facility, what struck you most about it? >> what struck me most is the stage in wh

virgin galactic calls it a serious anomaly.s it a good idea for people like you or me, to go into space, we have a couple of hundred thousand lying around. >> it's about informed consent. this is a lot harder than going into the air. you are going to go up and touch space, and it requires a lot more energy to get the vehicle up to that altitude. it's something that the f.a.a. is working with the industry to develop an informed consent so people understand they are taking risks, and you are not just buying a ticket and getting on it, but you buy training, to you understand equipment, what the flight entails. >> behind the informed consent. let's talk about the nuts and bolts. in this accident appeared to happen 2 minutes after the plane separated. what could have caused it early in the flight? do you think it something to do with the new fuel system? >> it's certainly something they'll look into, whether it had a factor in it. it could have been a coincidence that the accident happened trying the fuel mixture. there may be a lin

new information about the crashed virgin galactic spacecraft.estigators say a safety device deployed early during the fatal test flight. >>> victory for a pro-russian separatist in rebel elections in eastern ukraine. the european union and kiev condemn the result. >>> under threat because of ebola. football officials meet to decide whether to postpone the africa cup of nations. >>> and new research says obese people who have weight loss surgery dramatically reduce the risk of developing diabetes. >>> hello. investigators have new information about the crash of the virgin galactic spaceship. they say a safety device designed to slow the craft on re-entry activated early during the fatal test flight. but it's still too soon to determine exactly why the rocket broke apart. well, around 700 passengers have so far signed up for space flights in future with virgin galactic. the company says it's taken deposits which total more than $80 million. they include british scientist stephen hawking. also the canadian singer justin bieber and actor ashton kutc

rachel crane sat down wit the ceo of virgin galactic to discuss the challenges ahead. >> reporter: virginalactic's ceo george whitesides was watching from the flight line as a scaled composite test flight flying virgin galactic spaceship two broke apart above the mohave desert ending with a loss of life. >> when we saw the clean release, the start of the rocket motor then after a bit the radio calls made clear that there had been a problem, people were pretty shaken up. >> reporter: stakes have never been higher for virgin galactic and despite the tragedy, virgin is not pressing pause. they are intent on moving forward with the creation of their next passenger spaceship, spaceship two serial two which is 90% structurally complete. how is virgin galactic going to convince people that these missions, that these flights will be safe? >> we're going test fly this week. we're going to test fly spaceship two. we're going to do it a lot to make sure we understand what happened. >> reporter: for virgin, that means massive structural changes to the design of their craft won't be necessary. >> we'r

and up next, virgin galactic and the prize for innovation. how will this impact the future of space travel? we would discuss that with the president of x prize, next. ♪ >> i am emily chang, and this is "bloomberg west." based on the award concept of spaceship one, where a rocket is lifted on another aircraft before lifting independently. they got an x prize award years ago to the tune of $10 million. editor-at-large cory johnson has more. >> the public competitions to encourage different kinds of technological development, and it has drawn some big names, including larry page, elon musk, among others, and we are with the president in los angeles. bob, it is a fairly amazing thing what the xprize has wrought. was the notion to bring tourists to space, or was it more than that? >> is more than that. certainly, that is at the core of virgin galactic's business, that one has to keep in mind that we are trying to open a new frontier, and the costs and risks of going into space is part of that. at the xprize foundation, we believe that a lot of the

george whitesides is the chief executive of virgin galactic. >> space is hard. and today was a tough day. >> reporter: this was spaceship two in a test flight last year. >> release, release, release. >> reporter: today's accident came shortly after the space plane disconnected from its mother aircraft and fired up its rocket engine. the company had been testing a new fuel mixture that would give the craft the extra boost needed to get it into space. kevin mickey was in charge of today's flight. >> this was a new fuel formulation. again, it had been proven and tested on the ground many times. >> reporter: today's test flight was the 55th for the space plane, which was intended to be the first craft to offer tourists a sub-orbital trip. more than 700 people have already booked a seat at a price of more than $200,000 each for the two-hour experience. virgin galactic's owner, british billionaire and adventurer richard branson, bought the first seat and has been passionate about the project from day one. >> ordinary people-- and i know $200,000 is not an ordinary per

to learn from it, we are going to make the proper cost corrections that will benefit not just virgin galacticbut the industry at large. >> it has to change it on some level. it was a perception that this would be like a tourist spaceflight. think of a virgin america flight. on some level, there has to be a change in the perception of the consumer on the adjustable market here. >> i think it is not a complete analog to compare it to passenger flights. it is more like adventure tourism. ande are other forms of it, there are risks. people climb mountains, take rides and submarines, do other things that have more inherent risk to it. it's not like just going to work. risks -- whense you take them, they need to be done in an acceptable fashion. is completelyhat understood by the people who are taking those risks. >> i don't know a few have done this, but i took the zero g flights that are meant to simulate weightlessness. i took that flight about year ago. there have never been any crashers there. blast, butn to be a it was that kind of thing -- it turns out it brings up a great deal of fear. i ha

virgin galactic spaceship two lost in a deadly crash yesterday over california's mojave desert was no ordinary space vehicle. it was sent to be the first to carry paying passengers to the edge of space as soon as next year. tonight it's crash is also a first for the ntsb, the folks known for investigating plane, train and bus crashes now for the first time leading the investigation into the crash of a manned spaceship. tonight as experts secure debris scattered on the desert floor, we've learned the identity of a 39-year-old pilot who died in the crash as well as the other who was badly injured. nbc's jacob rascon joins us from mojave now with late details on the investigation. jacob, good evening. >> reporter: lester, good evening. tonight we're learning more about the pilots who were onboard, the surviving pilot was in surgery today. this is a first of its kind investigation with more than a dozen ntsb investigators on the ground. this as the commercial space community is reeling but remains optimistic. the pilot killed when virgin galactic space plane exploded over the mojave deser

. >>> investigators move in to find out what happened in the deadly explosion of virgin galactic's spaceship but getting answers won't be quick or easy. >>> rebel elections get underway with eastern ukraine. russia says it will recognize the results. kiev says it's illegal. we'll have a live report. >>> offering extremists a second chance, a two-part look at why denmark believe some jihadis deserve rehab, not jail. hello and welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. you're watching cnn. i'm natalie allen. u.s. officials say more than a dozen federal investigators will be in california's mojave desert for about a week examining the huge eight-kilometer site of virgin galactic's spaceship disaster. the national transportation safety board says friday's flight was heavily documented with six cameras aboard the experimental craft when it suddenly broke apart high above the desert and crashed killing one pilot, injuring the other. still, the agency says it could actually take one year before its investigation is complete. >>> virgin galactic founder richard branson says the dream l

virgin galactic founder says the dream of space tourism will live on. he met with reporters in southern california saturday. here's some of what branson said. >> we are determined to find out what went wrong and are working with the authorities to get that information. it is too early for me to add any details of the investigation at this stage. we've always known that commercial space travel is an incredibly hard project. we've been undertaking a comprehensive testing program for many years, and safety has always been our number one priority. this is the biggest test program evercaried out in commercial aviation history, precisely to ensure that this never happens to the public. in testing the human capabilities of technologies we are standing on the shoulders. yesterday we fell short. we'll now comprehensively assess the results of the crash and are determined to learn from this and move forward together as a group of friends and their company. we do understand the risks involved, and we're not going to push on blindly. to do so would be an insult to

>> virgin galactic, based in new mexico has aiming for commercial flights sometime next year. both the national transportation safety board and federal aviation administration are on their way to the crash site to look into what happened. debris scattered in the mojave desert tells the tragic story, one pilot dead and one injured after virgin galactic's spaceship 2 crashed during a test run. >> space is hard, and today was a tough day. >> shales. 2 is a commercial aircraft, designed to take passengers into suborder illustratal space. today's crash is a setback, leaving the companies involved searching for answers to what went wrong. >> this motor configuration had flown a few times in the past. this was our fourth power flight. >> 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 as well as the folks who have been working so hard on them to understand this, and to move forward. >> reporter: now both the ntsb and the faa say they'll investigate the crash. according to the company, virgin galactic founder

a virgin galactic rocket blew up scattering debris over the mojave desert.t was part of a test run for a commercial spacecraft. danielle nottingham has the latest. >> today was a tough day. the record of virgin galactic spaceship two is scattered across part of the mojave desert. it happened shortly after the space plane detached and fired up its rocket engine as it has successfully done in previous test flights. one pile will the was found dead inside the spacecraft. the other parachuted out and was seriously injured. >> the test community is very small and we are human and it hurts. >> reporter: marlene rulely often watches the test flights is it this community is built around this industry. this is tragic. >> reporter: spaceship two took off from here. the aircraft was using a new fuel formulation that executives say had been tested and proven on the ground. the company's billionaire founder sir richard branson was hoping to ride on the first commercial flight. he tweeted thoughts with all virgin galactic. thanks for all your messages of support. virgin g

he's now the head of operations for virgin galactic. they also have a former shuttle -- space shuttle commander as one of the pilots at virgin galactic. so they have great expertise there. they have the right people involved. but like i said earlier, you know, this stuff is not easy. >> space exploration certainly is not easy. i want to discuss that with cnn aviation analyst miles o'brien. he joins me now via skype from washington. miles, you heard richard branson earlier, you know, saying that we do understand the risks involved. and we will proceed. but we will not do so blindly. so, you know, this is a very courageous venture. and i guess everyone particularly, you know, captain kelly you heard there who are applauding the courage of this kind of exploration. but because it does come with great risks, how much of a setback is it an accident like this? >> well, fred, i think you have to ask yourself the question, is it courageous, or is it fo foolhardy? has it been an honest venture thus far? it's been highly touted. there's been a lo

still very tight lipped from r virgin galactic about what that condition is of that pilot.hink also it's important to remember here that it's very -- we're very remote. we're in the desert. so the people that live here pretty much all know each other. so it's a community that is mourning all of this together ands 400 years that work at injuvirga lat tickinjury virgin big hit. >> and so interesting these pilots are so brave. they know they're testing the limits. receive stephanie elam, thanks so much. we turn to hawaii. lava is inching toward homes, but first the voting for this year's cnn hero has begun. see if this rabbi gets your vote. >> i really hate when it hurts. it's a really sharp pain. i get all teary. the shots really scared me a lot and they still scare me now. >> when children get a diagnosis like cancer or any major disease, they lose any sense of feeling that they're controlling their lives. they're prodded and poked and touched and they're often so afraid. our daughter, sarah, was diagnosed with leukemia. she was such an incredible little soul who taught me a

you heard richard branson in earlier interviews saying he felt that virgin galactic was going to be thest part of the virgin holings. >> genth mepranum thank you so much for taking your time out, they both flew on a challenger shuttle mission together. >>> the new commercial space industry isn't just about space tourism. >> we believe a hunk of the moon you could hold in your hands could be worth a billion dollars. >> mining the moon is just two minutes away when the business of space continues. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back to the business of space. i'm ali velshi. this is an extraordinary time in history. the u.s. government is handing the reins to private companies to explore the moon. some say a trip to the moon isn't anymore complicated that planning an extended mission to antarctica. as jake ward reports two companies have a single focus, to get to the moon and make billions. ♪ >> reporter: moon express and astro bottic are competitors in a very small emerging market. >> we see the moon as the eighth continent of the world. >> we believe a hunk of the moon that you could hold in your hands

>> i love to dream and we've got plenty of ambitions for virgin galactic. our initial ambitions are to create more astronauts in a year than nasa has been 60 years. that's going to be extremely exciting to do and i think that will start in a year's time. >> that timeline turned out to be overly ambition. i interviewed richard branson in 2011. it was the first time a spacecraft landed at an sbeshl airport and branson was beaming. >> you're going to go 2,000 miles an hour in eighth seconds. once in space you unbuckle, you look back at earth through these wonderful big window, you float around and have the ride of a lifetime. >> spaceship two is designed to work like this. it's carried under a mother ship. then once it reaches an altitude of 50,000 feet, it's released with the spacecraft firing its built-in rocket traveling 62 miles above the earth. on its website virgin galactic says safety its north star, something branson stressed repeatedly in interviews. >> i'm not going to take my son into space until we've got everything right and the team won't let me

plus new details on the investigation of what caused the crash of a virgin galactic spaceship and then taylor swift in another break up. the 20 something says good-bye to spotify. guess they better shake it off. this is way too early. >>> that will wake you up in the morning. good morning, i'm thomas robinson. it's tuesday november 4th where there's no shaking us off today. welcome to this special election day edition of way too early. let's get right to it. the white house is bullish on the midterms predicting that the party will hold the senate even if others say otherwise. we have three major models giving republicans high odds of taking the senate. the washington post election lab 96%. mitt romney spent the final days before voting campaigning in alaska. sullivan is in a statistical tie. another race tightening as well all across the country and since it's last poll less than a week ago they're saying that colorado democrat is closing that gap with the challenger corey gardener and in iowa bruce bradley pulled into a dead heat with republican joni ernst. last night she was mumm ove

the feds tonight are searching for what caused the crash of that virgin galactic spacecraft on friday. the pilot somehow lived, tragically the co-pilot did not. and now the day when civilians can soar into space as paying customers may be even further out of reach. our own jacob rascon is at the mojave space port tonight. jacob, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. tonight the ntsb is much closer to understanding why the test flight failed while investigators are far from announcing an official cause, they're looking now at what one of the pilots did just before the space plane broke apart. tonight, the ntsb investigation has a new focus, the feathers or speed brakes on the tail of virgin galactic spaceship two. 20 minutes after takeoff at 45,000 feet, spaceship two separated from its carrier and its rocket ignited propelling the plane toward the edge of the atmosphere. nine seconds later the ntsb says cockpit video shows co-pilot michael alsbury unlocking the plane's feather. something usually done at a higher speed in altitude. the locks are in place to prevent aerodynami

. >> pelley: virgin galactic's richard branson vows to press on with his goal of taking tourists into space. john blackstone has the latest on what caused the test flight disaster. and steve hartman on the road with lauren hill, achieving the dream of a lifetime. >> today has been the best day i've ever had. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. reporting tonight from cbs news election headquarters in studio 57. >> pelley: good evening. melting glaciers, rising sea level, higher temperatures. if you think someone is trying to tell us something, someone just did. the scientists on a united nations climate panel are out with a new warning about climate change, and they're telling us what they think needs to be done before, as they see it, it's too late. for one thing, they're calling for major changes in the energy we use to heat and cool our homes and power our cars. here's chip reid. >> evidence that the earth is warming is unequivocal and emissions of greenhouse gasses from cars, power plants and factories are primarily to blame. that's accordi

you mentioned spacex, virgin galactic, and virgin, i think, was talking about the possibility of flightsn march 2015. am i correct about that? >> a lot of this new space thing, you're like, well, it's different than what was done before, but it's not, but we have a nicer logo. a lot of what they're doing here is you're seeing real commercialism come in here. a lot of people say nasa is behind this. nasa had nothing to do with this company. like any company trying something new, the investors and customers say when are we going to fly? you sit there and think, third quarter of next year. it becomes a mantra after a while. sir richard is ever the optimism. he wants to get on the thing and go. and the folks actually building it say we have a little more to do. they're inching or were inching, and this morning very much closer to starting to do the flights. so, you know, it's a mixture of marketing and technical reality and just keeping the buzz goin and you know, at the end of the day, people have to buy tickets to go on this thing. you have to sort of keep the interest going with a real pr

the virgin galactic broke apart during feathering.ail fins rotate and slow down when it comes back to earth. investigators say that process began too early. the plane's co-pilot was killed. richard branson is the founder of virgin galactic. he'll join us soon. >> that's right. first we want to touch base with clarissa ward because if you saw "60 minutes" last night, you saw her incredible reporting there. she told the story of a british teacher accused of recruiting hundreds of other muslims to fight for isis. she spoke to him and some of his followers in london. clarissa is in london with part of the interview you didn't see. good morning. >> good morning. one of the young men we spent time with is a convert. he's a big cheerleader for the so-called islamic state oracle car fate. he wants to see sheria law implemented throughout the west and the whole world. >> jihad or the policy is to expand the islamic state. very soon my brothers and sisters, we're going to see it expand into jordan and syria and on the shores of europe and one d

versus virgin galactic.s has been a great public relations campaign, which is sir richard's forte. i think he's a wildly optimistic person. i think he has made a lot of promises about flying. at the beginning, we were promised flights at the end of 2008, let's not forget. this has been a very difficult program. what i saw over the weekend i saw sir richard saying if we can overcome. this he never said that before. he talked about patience the theme for the long haul some richard has been chase income his public statements. he has been promising things they cannot deliver. >> how do you think this changes the time line is this. >> i think it sets them back. they have another spaceship in the works, certainly, this ongoing investigation is pressing pause on the ongoing creation of that spacecraft right now. >> thank you, rachel, myles, so good to talk to you. in our 8:00 hour, we are going to hear from virgin galactic founder richard branson, himself. >> all right. allison. we got to keep our eyes on the 24 ho

no, the pilot worked for -- not for virgin galactic.ever met him. >> what's the future of virgin galactic right now? >> we would love to finish what we started some years ago. i think pretty well all our astronauts would love us to finish it, would love to go to space. i think millions of people in the world would love one day to have the chance to go to space. and this is the start of a long program. you know, i've spoken before, one got this program off the ground, offering point to point travel. in the early days of aviation, incidents, and then aviation became very safe. in the early days of commercial space travel, there have been incidents. and then we hope that one day the test pilots will enable people to be able to go to space safely. and that is our wish and desire. >> ways your mehat's your messa who paid for seats who wanted to be on that journey? what's your message today over what they've seen in the past 24 hours? >> we've had numerous messages of support from the people -- the astronauts who signed up to go with us. we e

. >>> investigators continue to sit through all the debris of a virgin galactic spacecraft that went down in the dessert. how the failed test flight could affect the future of space tourism. >>> and we have a live report on how one local tech is heating up the election. >>> and several early morning traffic jams causing several early morning backups. a number of accidents. >>> and good morning everyone. it is monday, november 3rd. >>> and i'm michelle, time now is 6:30. >>> the area woman who moved out of state to end her life died over the weekend. >>> she moved to oregon where assisted suicide is legal. >> our reporter joins us live with more on brittany maynard. >> it is such a tough story too, 29 years old in the weeks before her death, brittany renewed the national debate on letting sick patient choose when they die. >> diagnosed with an incurable brain cancer, she wanted to leave this world on her own terms. in the end, she did. she took a lethal medication prescribed by a doctor. in her online article, she wrote while she longed for children of her own, she left this world wit

virgin galactic spaceship 2 lost in a deadly crash was no ordinary space vehicle.was said to be the first to be sending paying passengers to space next year. and the folks known for investigating plane, train and bus crashes for the first time leading the investigation into the crash of a manned spaceship. tonight as experts secure debris we learned the identity of a 39-year-old pilot who died in the crash as well as the other who was badly injured. we are joined with late details on the investigation. >> reporter: the surviving pilot was in surgery today. the first of the kind investigation. this is the commercial space community is reeling but remains optimistic. the pilot killed when virgin galactic space plane exploded was identified today as michael alsbury. the first person ever to die during a commercial space flight. >> in testing the boundaries of human capabilities and technologies we are standing on the shoulders. yesterday we fell short. >> reporter: just after 10:00 a.m. friday when first responders learned the flight had gone terribly wrong. at 45,000

investigators revealing what they believe caused the virgin galactic disaster. who they say is responsible for the crash. >>> and nik wallenda on a tightrope walking between two skyscrapers in chicago. we have the video next. >>> federal investigators are blaming an improper pilot command for a crash of the virgin galactic crash. the officials said the spacecraft's co- pilot prematurely deployed the feathering system that left the craft break into pieces. the feathering system is used to help the aircraft descent. >> today, the investigators did extensive work on scene. they found almost all of the important parts of the space vehicle that we need in order to complete our investigation. >> the accident killed 39-year-old co- pilot michael alsbury. the other parachuted to safety. he is alert and talking to doctors. >>> we are learning about how missouri police kept media away from covering protests following the michael brown shooting. according to the associated press. the faa an agreed to a request by police to restrict 37 square miles of air space over ferguso

those who have already signed up to fly on virgin galactic include leonardo dicaprio and justin bieber. they have paid $250,000 for a seat on a future flight. experts say the crash could setback the commercial space i have, the former nasa deputy administrator lori garver says investors will take their cue from paying customers. >> you really don't have large markets for these early flights anyway, so there is going to be, in my view, a lot of people certainly enough to fill years worth of flights who want to take the trip. >> bran some is determined to continue the mission. >> millions of people in the world would love one day to have the chance to go to space. and this is the start of a long program. >> perhaps a longer start for virgin galactic, john blackstone, cbs news, los angeles. >> glor: with attendance down in many of the parises the catholic archdiocese of new york today launched its ever largest reorganization, more than 100 parishes will be merged into 55 and some chosed out right. don dahler tells us it is part of a national trend that sees people of many religions leavin

and it was really that design that sparked the beginnings of virgin galactic. and when mike was asked if he wanted to, you know, be a test pilot for the virgin galactic program known as spaceship two, he didn't hesitate. he absolutely wanted to be a part of that. durni during spaceship one program, mike was an integral part of mission control where he was one of the engineers who had helped to design and build the spaceship one mother ship white knight one and also the spaceship also and was invaluable in terms of being eyes and ears on everything that was going on during flight operations and guiding those test pilots to successful flight. so he had a tremendous a experience. >> and so that's the next question. that is, clearly the way you describe him, he would have known what to do if something went wrong in that spacecraft as long as he was in position to bring it down is what i'm hearing you you say, correct, based on all his skill, all his knowledge. if it had been survivable, he key have probab could have probably landed that. >> two things i think you'r

i was in virgin galactic's facility. they were putting paint on the wall. was incredibly excited about these flights taking off in just a matter of months. >> rachel crane, thanks vep for bringing your exper toes and your experiences to the forefront. >> thank you. >> it's the social experiment that's generated a whole lot of buzz online this week. all right. so this is a bit of what this actress said she heard over and over again. will this change the way people view this kind of catcalling oriented or is this project backfiring altogether? that's next. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you tomorrow, sam. just another day at norfolk southern. >>> hey, girl, how you doing? >> hey, baby. >> my goodness, it's the video that so many people have been talking about. a woman being catcalle

>>> and new details of the virgin galactic spaceship.ll insists commercial space travel is worth with the risk. >>> americans will be going to the polls in the