the rachel maddow show start right now. thanks, my friend. greatly appreciated. happy to have you here. we landed a car on mars today. just a stunning example of what is possible when americans put their heads to the to do something truly grand, just an american feat of breo and it made your heart sing to see those first pictures beamed back from the surface of mars where we have our rover now. it s just amazing. we ll have more on that later in the show tonight. but meanwhile, here on earth, today, same day, same country, we still have not figured out how to keep lights on. hundreds of thousands of people in the great state of texas still without power. a disaster caused by a storm in texas is a catastrophe, not only because of the weather but because of the mix of the weather and texas inability to prepare for it and inability to handle it. against the cold temperatures, demand for electricity is way up so people can heat their homes, but the energy supply in texas is
but meanwhile, here on earth today, same day, same country, we still have not figured out how to keep lights on. hundreds of thousands of people still in the dark tonight in the great state of texas suffering what has been a days long, slow-rolling disaster caused by a big and very cold winter storm that still pounded most of the country, and it is bad in a bunch of places and a bunch of states. but the situation in texas is just a catastrophe, not only because of the weather, but because of the mix of the weather and texas inability to prepare for it and inability to handle it. against the cold temperatures, demand for electricity is way up so people can heat their homes, but the energy supply in texas is simultaneously also way down with texas s nonwinterized, noninsulated, very fragile energy infrastructure, proving itself once again to be incapable of operating in the cold, incapable of generating anywhere near enough power to light up the state when demand is high. tha
we find out more about her world record. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start with breaking news from colorado a united airlines passengerjet has scattered debris over a residential area near denver after one of its engines failed on take off. the boeing 777 was able to return safely and land at denver airport. no injuries have been reported. our reporter mark lobel is following developments. mark, bring us up to date, please. clearly a terrifying few moments for the 231 passengers and ten crew on board the plane to return to denver international airport. unverified audio on the internet showing the pilot was screaming in the clock it mayday, mayday, engine failure, and unverified video from a car travelling underneath on a highway shows the plane was ascending as this was happening. if we look at some video, there is what happened, the right engine, you can see it and unverified video from inside the plane from a passenger showed it exploded and it is still spinning aro
the social networking giant blocks access to news media on its site in a row over paying for content. millions of texans are without power for a fourth day straight, after gas pipelines and wind turbines freeze over in a winter storm. and as texas froze, ted cruz flew to mexico. has the republican senator left his reputation out in the cold? hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. i m kasia madera. and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. but we start on another planet mars, where the nasa perseverance rover has safely touched down. it has already started sending back messages from its new home and will now set about the business of trying to find signs that mars was once and could even still be a planet where life took hold. here s our science correspondent rebecca morelle. and a warning, her report contains some flashing images. perseverance is going about one km per second. a nerve racking wait at
to detect scientific discovery is there? than to detect life beyond earth? there isn t to detect life beyond earth? there isn t you to detect life beyond earth? there isn t. you know, even if it doesn t, that s isn t. you know, even if it doesn t, that s really isn t. you know, even if it doesn t, that s really interesting as well. you know. that s really interesting as well. you know, if we don t detect life on mars, you know, if we don t detect life on mars, we you know, if we don t detect life on mars, we then have to ask ourselves, while, mars, we then have to ask ourselves, white, why mars, we then have to ask ourselves, while, why didn t you? we know that it was while, why didn t you? we know that it was habitable three and half bitiioh it was habitable three and half billion years ago, why wasn t their life on billion years ago, why wasn t their life on mars? like there was on earth life on mars? like there was on earth you life on mars? like th