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together to support lahaina. it is hard to get over here and get coverage of lahaina. yesterday we had opportunity. friends of mine own gemini sailing charter. i later got a car and went into lahaina, we saw it from water and land. i want to show you images and the story of lahaina. >> will: unique view from the water, board the gemini catamaran. approaching lahaina, off in the distance. just come around the corner and you see it on the horizon, that is what you have seen a bustling town full of life and now it is hard to understand because there is nothing there. you see charred, black, nothingness. there is lahaina.
what they just experienced, we have been talking to a lot of people that experienced it, it is called the overview effect. it is something that we understand stays with you for the rest of your life. i was talking to one of the mission specialists and she said, she went up a couple of weeks ago, and just the other day she was cutting watermelon and she just started to cry because of the miracle of life here on earth and the miracle that here on this planet, there was this watermelon that grew after seeing the nothingness of space. so, it is one of these thing where science is incredible. in particular science that has allowed us to send other humans up into space going mock 3, three times the speed of sound. we have an 18-year-old an an 80-year-old in the same craft going up, standing on the shoulders of these aeronautic giants that have brought us this technology and now hopefully they're going to return back to earth. we cannot wait to hear what they
friends and family watching what's going on behind us and then we saw the separation way off in the distance and you saw what looked like a little red light going up into space and then it disappeared and i got to say, from down here on the ground, looking at that feed of them looking back down here on earth, we have been talking a lot about science, but there is a -- it is like a spiritual thing that they're trying to infuse here at space port america when it comes to the astronauts from the entry into the space port to their entry into the vehicle. science is so important but it is about an mind altering perspective, the ability to look down on earth and see what a miracle it is that exists that we have an atmosphere and how fragile this earth is in the vast nothingness of space. that's what they're experiencing right now. that's what we see them looking at as they're now coming back down to earth.
>> reporter: this is the moment -- >> woo-hoo! >> reporter: it all changed for these newly minted space voyagers. not test pilots or trained astronauts, but ordinary people. >> we're in the vertical, headed towards space. >> reporter: they rocketed at three times the speed of sound to an altitude of more than 50 miles, and then zero g. >> zero gravity felt like nothingness. it was the most peaceful, serene momentnt ever, whwhere eveverything j just stopped. >> reporter: natives of antigua, keisha schahaff and her daughter ana are not only the first mother and daughter duo to reach space, they're also the first female astronauts from the caribbean. what do you hope little girack on the island seeing this happen feel after seeing what you guys went through? >> i hope they feel invincible. like it's okay to dream. it's okay to have these crazy dreams. [ cheering ] >> reporter: and the hero's welcome for john goodwin from his wife of 52 years.
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stuck in there. that was me. and they were going to risk their own lives to get one american home. and one of them had a great friend who died in afghanistan. they served in afghanistan. they watched their friend ben die. many had daughters. i lost my last friend, ben, who had daughters and i'm not going to lose another one. whatever it takes. and i was taken to the hand of an incredible group of people and they saved my life then and there. >> let me go back a little bit. i want to talk a little bit more about your daughter. so, you -- everything goes black. there's nothingness in a sense. you had no idea what had happened. and you feel you see the presence of your daughter right there in front of you. >> yeah. >> sean: you mention in the book you believe in god? >> yeah. >> sean: do you believe that's god sending your daughter saying, daddy, wake up.
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stuck in there. that was me. and they were going to risk their own lives to get one american home. and one of them had a great friend who died in afghanistan. they served in afghanistan. they watched their friend ben die. many had daughters. i lost my last friend, ben, who had daughters and i'm not going to lose another one. whatever it takes. and i was taken to the hand of an incredible group of people and they saved my life then and there. >> let me go back a little bit. i want to talk a little bit more about your daughter. so, you -- everything goes black. there's nothingness in a sense. you had no idea what had happened. and you feel you see the presence of your daughter right there in front of you. >> yeah. >> sean: you mention in the book you believe in god? >> yeah. >> sean: do you believe that's god sending your daughter saying, daddy, wake up.
more about your daughter. so, you -- everything goes black. there's nothingness in a sense. you had no idea what had happened. and you feel -- you see the presence of your daughter right there in front of you. >> yeah. >> you mention in the book, you believed in god. >> yeah. >> do you believe that was god saying wake up. >> my family were angels. they were sent to me. i know i was saved that day as well. when i saw her, it was incredible peace as well. i was blacked out, but it was quiet. it was not rushed. it was peaceful. >> it was anna? >> i think it was all three of my daughters. anna, iris, they came to me that day. if i had been an inch in any direction, i would be dead.
>> ashley: ahead of this hearing congressman jim jordan and a dozen other republicans were given a tour of the yuma section. they got to see a section of the border wall that cuts off into nothingness. there were more than 310,000 illegal crossings last year. the highest number ever reported in the sector. almost triple that than 2021. looking at the arizona as the a whole, 571,000 migrant encounters in fiscal year 2022. to date this year, almost 186,000. yesterday, house republicans also met with the only local hospital in yuma, they say they're on the verge of financial collapse after having to spend more than $20 million in six months caring for migrants who can't pay. >> it is an unsustainable model to have a hospital like ours bear the entire burden of paying for migrant healthcare. migrant patients are receiving no care they have no ability to pay. we have no ability to bill anyone. we don't know their final destination. we don't know anything about them. >> they say it's a matter of resources as well. this month the hospital's