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Commander of the international space station. he joins me now from toronto. great to you on the show. i do want to get your take on this journey, this mission. what are your thoughts this hour? >> it was such a delightful relief to see them safely come back down through the atmosphere, to see four parachutes open and to have that beautiful close-up view of them splashing down into the atlantic. we haven't landed a spaceship in the atlantic since apollo 9 when rusty schweiker was flying. really nice to see, and the crew looking so healthy. it's a really lovely, perfect finish to a real demonstr...

Exploration is going? >> when i was born, no one had flown in space. this entire human capability is younger than i am. so it's happening quite quickly. in day-to-day life you maybe take it for granted. but we have gone from ships that could just barely do it, and several of which killed the astronauts on board, where it required the best test pilots in the world just to be able to make these machines work, to now to the point where the technology is so advanced, there's been so much money put into the development of it, that four people with very little training can have the incredible experi...

Possible conditions. crushing heat hand brutal cold on terrain that you can barely walk on. they do it because this is all about testing the limits of human capability. i think as the investigation moves forward here, jake, there will be a lot of focus on the weather forecast, what people knew and should have known hand whether or not there was a sufficient way for them to get out of the circumstance, because i can assure you in some of these raises you may even want to drop out at 30 to 35 miles and you're so far out in the wilderness there's nowhere to go. >> tom foreman, a tragic story. a...

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the livelihoods of many South Africans and as has happened time and time again in times of economic strain, the poor and unskilled suffer the most. The number of unemployed South Africans rose by 2.2 million to 6.5 million people altogether, between the second and third quarters of 2020. With the economy slipping deeper into recession, 2021 will be another difficult year. How must the world of work change to raise productivity and keep people economically active? For the unemployed, is there a future of work, without work? To adequately address this matter...

Shana: there was a "new york times" article there they have this culture that was going to be used for good, but it's used by individuals looking to exploit it. howie: that suggests it's beyond the human capability to control this. the company's overriding principle has been to make money. they say it's a platform for everybody and let's keep the cash registers ringing. carley: i want to say something about the money aspect of this. one of the reasons mark zuckerberg and facebook executives may not have been so willing to comply with conscious in giving the ads over to them is the last thing f...