going to vote for it and that will be interesting to see because this is something that republicans have said they could support, they want to support, and yet because this has been engulfed in a long complicated process, and because i think some of the emotional, psychological and political impetus for there to be bipartisanship has dissipated, especially among house republicans, i am -- i am told that there will be fewer republican votes for it today than there would have been a few months ago, even though it is the exact same legislation that would have the exact same impact on the american people and our bridges and tunnels and roads. >> i thought when you were saying, jake, that your advice about people watching congress is don't, i thought that was going to be your advice, don't do it. here we are, this is what we have been doing this chutes and ladders kind of game we have been watching when it comes to these bills.
>> neil: well, it does seem like that 70s show all over again. i'm not talking these are chutes and bell-bottoms even though i didn't have a problem with them back then but the problem right now that is being lived out every day in the large swaths of great britain where long gas lines are forming because they can't get the petroleum as they like to call it to gas stations throughout the country and their region. it is spreading beyond those countries which is reminiscent of what we experience what seems like a generation ago, 50 years ago in the early '70s and later again in the late 1970s where you had opec embargoes and you had the compounded problem of inflation ravage procession. a produced record long gas lines that might not be entirely forgotten now if historian bert
the capsule is desending. the chutes will deploy like guide parachutes. they will be followed by the main parachutes that will fully inflate. there go the parachutes. here come the mains. whew! what a flight. >> [laughing]. >> you can hear the cheers here in west texas.
origin has said that it does have significant safety features onboard, should anything go wrong. and that includes the ability to actually jettison that capsule on top of the rocket, away from that tlurs, at any point during flight. whether that be on the launch pad, whether that be as it starts to take off, or as it starts to enter that edge of space there, crossing that carmen line. they said they've tested this repeatedly and that's why they're confident in some of the safe gaurds in place here, that should something go wrong with the tlurs, that capsule would be able to leave entirely and return to earth. and in doing so, you can still make a safe landing on the earth's surface with two out of its three chutes still working there and those seats we've seen are built so they can withstand g-forces on landing. they're planning for a very soft landing in the texas desert. but should that not be the case, those seats are especially
>> it was devastating, heartbreaking. everything had been incinerated. it was a field of the world's largest burned-up toothpicks. >> reporter: after decades of suppressing forest fire, other trees and brush have grown rampantly around the sequoias. >> the fires that used to burn every five to ten years in the sierra would just keep down the competition, and reduce the fuel naturally. >> reporter: on land owned by the save the redwoods league, we hiked out to see just how deadly the castle fire was here. >> for us to see 10 to 14% of the total of giant sequoias alive, killed in one year, in one fire, is -- there's nothing to compare that to. >> reporter: yet, fire, in and of itself, is not the enemy of the giant sequoia. >> their cones open up. their seeds start to germinate after a fire. >> reporter: so near those lost giants where the fire wasn't too intense, small chutes of hope take root.
this caliber, so how do you see the investigation moving forward? >> well, as we just heard in the briefing most importantly of course for the residents we'll let the investigators know if they find pieces of the aircraft, but the most important witnesses are fortunately, thank heavens, still alive and that's the pilots. they will be able to tell the investigators who went wrong. undoubtedly they were in communication and probably had plenty of time to get mayday calls off or whatever, and in using their eject seats, however, it's real important also what the briefing also said is that those seats do have explosive canisters on them. he called them unexploded ordnants and then a second canister goes off to get the chutes open and give the pilots some measure of controls and then there's that which the
>> handshakes and hugs all around. >> now, they will be doing standard procedure. going into the medical room on the recovery vessel. and doing some medical checks to make sure that the crew is safe and healthy. um, and then they will hop on a helicopter and head back to florida. >> yeah. well now that jared, hayley, sian, and chris are safely back home on earth, and getting checked out by our medical team, we are going to wrap up our live coverage of their historic return. we started this day about two hours ago. we had -- um -- successful trunk separation. we completed a de-orbit burn, closed the nose cone. we got through that blackout period of communications. both sets of chutes deployed --
>> i love these tracking shots. again, that is dragon in the center of your screen. we've got visuals and we expect chutes to deploy and the main chutes shortly after that in a couple of minutes. [ applause ] >> again, a lot of excitement for inspiration 4 crew's return. waiting on the chute to deploy. that happens at about 18,000 feet. >> we're bracing. >> on reentry, the team is experiencing about 3 to 5 gs.
parachutes out. >> we heard some words to have them brace for the deploy. they will feel the difference in speed when the chutes do deploy. that was what the core mentioned there. that's just a cool shot of dragon coming back down to earth, but very fast in this camera view here. >> jon: there's the chute. [cheers] >> there it is. [cheers] >> this is a great shot of
and doing some medical checks to make sure that the crew is safe and healthy. um, and then they will hop on a helicopter and head back to florida. >> yeah. well now that jared, hayley, sian, and chris are safely back home on earth, and getting checked out by our medical team, we are going to wrap up our live coverage of their historic return. we started this day about two hours ago. we had -- um -- successful trunk separation. we completed a de-orbit burn, closed the nose cone. we got through that blackout period of communications. both sets of chutes deployed -- um -- awesome. and the crew splashed down. we hoisted them up and they have just exited the vehicle. >> next up, they will catch a helicopter ride back to shore where they will be rejoined by their families. so, welcome back to the "inspiration4" crew. it has been an honor and a privilege to share their journey with all of you as we continue