Frontrunner status. Michael bloomberg promising a more aggressive response this time to attacks against him last time around, reportedly planning in particular to target sanders. Meanwhile, joe biden and the rest of the field are counting big time on South Carolina to give their campaigns a major boost before super tuesday. Lets begin this hour with cnn business and politics correspondent cristina alesci. She joins us in charleston and Daniel Strauss for the guardian is with us as well. Good to have you. It is sort of everything tonight for Michael Bloomberg. What are we going to see . Thats right. Were going to see heavy fire that Bernie Sanders is going to take from all of his opponents including Michael Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders is kind of giving them, handing them this opening by again repeating a partial defense of fidel castro. Last night at cnns town hall saying not everything that the dictator has done is bad, praising the Literacy Program in cuba. Listen, listen to the soun
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Africanamerican to be elected to that chamber ever. He has a busy and active agenda before he arrives. Whats going to happen before he gets there . We will be looking inside his file of facts. If its saturday here on up, that means its time for up against the clock. Get ready to test your knowledge against news and pop culture. Thats later. But, first the government had been closed 16 days. A default was a mere hours away wednesday night when the senate planned to avert and fund the government. President obama quickly signed it. He expressed his hope the Opposition Party had learned an important lesson. One of the things i said throughout this process is we got to get out of the habit of governing by crisis and my hope and expectation is everybody has learned that there is in reason why we cant work on the issues at hand, why we cant disagree between the parties while still being agreeable and make sure that were not inflicting harm on the American People when we do have disagreements.
Weightlessness of space and fly back to earth. Today during this test flight were told, and youre looking at file video, this is not today video, file video. During this test flight as the rocket was firing or the engine was firing from spaceship two something, it appears, went terribly wrong. And the vehicle came apart. On board this spaceship two, two test pilots. I was there in january when we had a test flight and we should underscore that nbc news has been a partner with Virgin Galactic documenting some of this. Anyway, back in january i met the chief pilot and pilot on board at the time and talked about how this whole thing works. The bottom line, you fly up to an altitude of 45,000 feet or so in the mother ship you see there, the whiteknight. When they get to that altitude, spate ship two drops. When it drops away from whiteknight, it fires a rocket. The goal was to accepted it up into a very low earth orbit. At that point, were talking 70,000, 75,000 feet, at this point you wou
Is surrounded by flames and everyone inside is sheltering in place. Christina coleman is live on the ground, this came up so quickly what can you tell us . Dana i am here in front of the Reagan Library or you can see this wind is blowing very strong and its this when that firefighters are so concerned about because it is fueling these numbers and spreading them. You can see some of the smoldering come of the smoke from the smoldering ashes that are out there right now. So much of this hillside is just burnt. The fire moved so quickly. I can hear helicopters flying to bali, theyve been doing the water drop since this fire started. They want to get this under control, they do not want it to damage this library. This library has been surrounded by these firefighters and these trucks, theyve been hosing down the area just trying to stop it from flaring up again. The fire has been called an easy fire, its burned 972 acres since it started about four hours ago on the hillside of the valley.