seen private citizens go to space a government investigation into ufos and now the launch of the new james webb space telescope in a minute we're going to speak with nasa astronaut garrett riceman about what is to come next year. but first, nbc's gabby schwartz with a look at the year's biggest and most powerful space telescope as it hurdles through space. >> announcer: and liftoff. james webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the universe >> reporter: the most powerful space observatory ever built is heading deeper into the galaxy following a successful launch on christmas morning, the james webb space telescope is now in its early stages of its mission to peer further into the universe and its origins than we ever imagined before. >> webb is on a scale that's kind of a cultural undertaking and not just something for astronomers. >> reporter: one of its aims to provide new insights into the existence of life on other planets. >> help us understand, um, the possibilities and maybe even the probability of potential life form although we are not looking for the life form itself, we're loo

james web can tell us how galaxy forms. ixpe can tell us about the supermassive black holes at the center by taking two parts of the puzzle and putting they will together we understand the whole galaxy. >> well, it sounds like fun. i hope it's everything you are dreaming of and we'll come back to you for results when we get them thanks so much. appreciate it to you and everyone at nasa. >>> last night, the camel beauty pageant scandal in saudi arabia. hope you saw that. tonight a wayward camel in kansas city. police are trying to figure out how to catch it for an entire day over the weekend it seems it escaped from a live drive-through nativity scene. >> look at that camel go. >> look at it go camel broke free from the nativity because the harness was messed up they tell us likely went searching for frankincense and myrrhp it popped by the walgreens. down past the waffle house the camel is free. wind whipping over its havrps, gal vanting down the highway at full speed but like all good things, the camel free ride came end c

how big an impact will this james webb telescope make on space exploration? it seems incredibly exciting. >> it really is, brian i mean, if it works, it's going to be incredible you heard 100 times more powerful than hubble it can look back 13 and a half billion years and see the beginning of the formation of stars and galaxies the amount that we are going to be able to learn is incredible but it's got to work and here is the thing that's really stressful about all this is there are 344 single points of failure on that thing it's unfolding like the world's biggest origami, except instead of being made out of paper, it is made out of beryllium and it's all got to work perfectly. so normally, after the launch, you kind of relax and like the -- the -- the hardest part is over. with this guy, we got six months of biting our nails until we know if it's going to really be successful. >> i feel like maybe i need a cocktail now, garrett, because you are blowing my mind. based -- i understand space and time just enough to be dangerous. you said we can look back 13-wha

james and jennifer crumbley sat at the table with their r attor. at one point james crumbley appeared to mouth "i love you" to his wife. th attorneys at one point when the lawyers got up to speak to the judge, james crumbley appeared to mouth "i love you" to his wife the couple accused of contributing to their son's actions, ignoring what prosecutors say were glaring warning signs of dangerous behavior while allowing him to access a gun one, he allegedly used to kill four students at oxford high school james and jennifer crumbley each face four counts of involuntary manslaughter if found guilty, they could spend up to 60 years in prison they have pleaded not guilty here's nbc's mara barrett. >> this is the first time they have seen each other since they were arrested. they ever been in the same jail jail but they have been isolated from one another and today was supposed to be a probable cause hearing to set the tone and the timeline for an upcoming trial but actually the preliminary examination was postponed until the new year the prosecution argu

and the combined brain power of thousands from 14 countries, but it's still just the beginning. >> james webb now has its array out. >> over the next few weeks, it will continue deploying its antennas, sun shields and mirrors. complicated steps to fully assemble the seven ton telescope. a process space fans will be able to follow in realtime >> now taking its first steps. >> much larger and 100 times more powerful than the hubbell telescope which launched in 1990, webb has the capability to see the infrared spectrum, allowing it to capture light raies from billions of years ago. >> it's a time machine it's going to take us back to the very beginnings of the universe >> nasa says the telescope will be able to zoom in on distant galaxies, examine their alien atmospheres and beam back the images to scientists here on earth. >> i think after webb's images and discoveries start to come in, i think when we look at the sky, it will be different than the way we look at it today. >> a new era of space exploration that will change how we see our place in the cosmos >> garrett is joining us now, a

is pumped for that two together, what do you hope the future of space exploration could be >> well, james rwebb is a giant telescope. they can look at different galaxies and see different things about them. so by taking two parts of the puzzle and putting them together, we'll really understand the whole galaxy. >> well, it sounds like fun. i hope it's everything you're dreaming of. and we'll come back to you for results when we get them thanks so much i appreciate it, you and everyone at nasa >>> last night the camel beauty pageant scandal in saudi arabia -- i hope you saw that. tonight a wayward camel in kansas city. police are trying to figure out how to catch it for an entire day over the weekend it escaped from a live drive-thru nativity scene. >> look at that camel go >> look at it go the camel broke free from the nativity because its harness was messed up. it likely went searching for frankincense and mer gallop galloped past the waffle house gallivanting down the highway full speed but like all good things, the camel's free ride came to an endch cops went after it in a golf cart, l

james and jennifer crumbley sat at a table with their attorneys. at one point james crumbley appeared to mouth "i love you" to his wife. the couple accused of contributing to their son's actions, ignoring what prosecutors say were glaring warning signs of dangerous behavior while allowing him to access a gun, one he allegedly used to kill four students at oxford high school james and jennifer crumbley each face four counts of involuntary manslaughter if found guilty they could spend up to 60 years in prison they pleaded not guilty. >> reporter: with james and jennifer crumbley in court in person today this is the first time they have seen each other since they have been arrested. they have been in the same jail but isolated from one another. today was supposed to be a probable cause hearing to set the tone and timeline for an upcoming trial but it was actually -- the preliminary examination was postponed until the new year, the prosecution arguing that both them and the defense for that matter have a lot of discovery evidence to go through. they ha

if you give people a backup outside their control, you have an offline wallet, what james had is he had it on the hard drive. people don't do that any more because of fear of hacking a lot of people keep it in an offline wallet the problem is if you lose the key or recovery seed words, nobody else has the ability to get in there if they did it wouldn't be secure that's james's point in the article one thing he says is like he wouldn't want any other system in place because then he wouldn't have wanted the bitcoin in the first place. >> absolutely. gets right to the heart of both the appeal and its frustration n d.t. thank you for chronicle for us ton d.t., thank you for chronicling it for us tonight. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >>> tv host and former nfl player michael strahan set to blast off to space tomorrow. one of six people slated for a blue origin launch from texa in the morning it was supposed to take off thursday but it was pushed back because of high winds. flights like this typically last 11 minutess going as horn rathet so doesn't hav he is going as honorary guest so d

overseeing it all, then deputy attorney general, james comey. some critics say the task force created as the bush administration was facing political fall out over the president's ties became a self-fulfilling prophesy unfair to many of those convicted. the one that put accounting firm arthur anderson out of business was over turned on appeal. what about this place. houston, which lost a lot of its swagger 20 years ago today it's more than recovered there's been a few mentions of this anniversary on local news there's now a whole generation that knows next to nothing first hand about what happened in the building behind me and the massive impact it had worldwide. >> live in houston >>> fears of war between slrussa and ukraine. secretary of state blinken meeting with his russian counter part russia's foreign minister came with threats of his own. no shutdowns, no lock outs that's from the president today as more cases of omicron are detected in america. the international reaction more veer the restrictions being rolled out and how they could impa

police found ethan crumbley's parents jennifer and james hiding, they say, in this individual's art studio. his name, andre chukora. tonight they are searching his house. >> ellison barber, thank you. >>> like something out of loony-tune adventures. that's what jesse smollett said this afternoon what he says about his trip to the bath house and how he handled the homophobic and racist attack. >>> another jeffrey epstein accuser takes the stand. what she claims ghislaine maxwell told her to wear before she was abused. >>> the department of justice taking aim on texas again. why it claims the new redistricting plan discriminates against authorities and how the state has responded. different ty managers. (other money manager) different how? don't you just ride the wave? (judith) no - we actively manage client portfolios based on our forward-looking views of the market. (other money manager) but you still sell investments that generate high commissions, right? (judith) no, we don't sell commission products. we're a fiduciary, obligated to act in our client's best interest. (other money manager

today the james webb space telescope arrived at its launch pad in french giana. it's the most powerful, complex space conservatory it's going to launch aboard another rocket on christmas day. scott willoughby joins me. he's on site where the telescope will lift off. i know this has taken decades, thousands of scientists 40 million hours spent building it. what has to happen for the final hurdle of liftoff? >> this is a big day for us. thank you for having me on the show we are that close. you mentioned a multi-decade journey but it's really the end of a two decade long chapter but the start of a decade long once we get on orbit millions of miles away from earth and looking back into time with a cosmic time machine that will capture light in baby pictures of the universe just after the big bang. >> what can it do that hubble can't? >> so the engineering marvel that webb is was able to create a mirror b bigger than hubble. it will collect more photons, more light we can resolve things we couldn't it also has an eye that's trained to look in a different part of what

. >> the prosecutor said the shooter's father, james crumbley, seen here bought the gun his son used just four days before the shooting. the father and son were together when he bought it, according to somebody who worked at the gun store. that was black friday. on the same day or soon after the prosecutor says the suspect posted this photo of the gun bea with a caption reading "just got my new beauty today. also soon after that purchase, the suspect's mother, jennifer crumbley, posted on social media, "mom and son day, testing out his new christmas present. on monday, the day before the shooting, the prosecutor says a teacher saw the student at his desk looking at ammo on his phone. so the teenager reported him to school officials -- the teacher. the teacher reported the student to school officials. they say they called his mom and left a voice mail. they followed up with an email they say they followed up with an e-mail but got no response. but she allegedly texted her son after saying, "lol i'm not mad at you you have to learn not to get caught." the next day, tuesday, morning of

police found ethan crumbley's parents jennifer and james hiding, they say, in this individual's art studio. his name, andrzej sikora tonight they are searching his house. though no charges have been filed. shep >> ellison barber, thank you. >>> like something out of loony-tune adventures. that's what the actor jussie smollett told the court this afternoon as he testified under oath in his own defense. what he says about his trip to a bathhouse, and how he handled questions about the homophobic and racist attack that he's accused of faking. >>> another jeffrey epstein accuser takes the stand. what she claims ghislaine maxwell told her to wear just before she says she was sexually abused >>> the department of justice taking aim on texas again. why it claims the new redistricting plan discriminates against minorities and how the state is now responding. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ this is called momentum. and there's no off-season. just work that builds on itself over and over and over again... becuase the only way is through. ♪♪ ♪and have yourself♪ ♪a merry litt

ramand kelly, bill bratton, james o'neil, outdoing commissioner dermot shea that streak now ends with keechant sewell. she's become the city's first woman to hold the city's job and only third black person to be new york's top cop today she was introduced by the incoming new york city mayor eric adams, who picked her for the role >> coakeechant sewell's appointn today is a powerful message to girls and young women across the city there is no ceiling to your ambition. >> incoming commissioner sewell faces tough challenges as she takes this very big job. challenges for which she says she's ready. local coverage now from nbc station news 4 new york, and their reporter jonathan dienst >> reporter: she was seen wiping away tears as she walked in for the historic announcement and then keechant sewell put on her game face. >> my shoes are laced up i'm ready to get to work. >> reporter: sewell made clear as the city's first female place commissioner she's going to be laser focused on cutting the big recent spike in crime in gun crime. >> we'll arrest violent criminals, take guns off the stree

it's frust railing in that regard >> new york attorney general letitia james issued a warning to lab q diagnostics saying it promises results in 48 hours when it's been taking twice as long she called it, quote, absurd anyone should have to wait that long for a test result labs should help, but walgreens limiting customers to four tests at a time, if they can find it >> tests are sold out everywhere >> while monthly supply is increasing from about 140 million last month to 300 million by march, customers are still finding them sold out. >> the last part of the equation is to be able to have the appropriate distribution and get tests where they're needed and that part is no different from toilet paper and christmas gifts. >> so abbott, the maker of one of the most used rapid tests said today it will increase supply to 70 million tests per month starting in january, up from 50 million, and can ramp up more in the months ahead shep >> i have used though. meg, thank you let's turn to dr. ashish jha, doctor, as always, thank you back to the original question. can we, should we even, cut i

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