capitol hill. and this is cnn. just in to cnn space, exclaiming it triggered its own explosion of that history making rockets. we re going to tell you why. and another act of senseless gun violence. the look on this six year old girl s face speaks volumes, doctors removing a bullet fragment from her cheek after a basketball rolled into her neighbor s yard, and he allegedly opened fire a manhunt now under away with the girl s mother is saying about the moments before he pulled the trigger. and his violence torment sudan, the u. s military is now deploying additional capabilities nearby. that means u. s service members to be in place to secure the u. s. embassy to prepare for potential evacuation civilians desperately trying to flee as fighting between rival factions is now overwhelming hospitals. we are following these major developing stories and many more. all coming in right here to cnn news, central. we begin with the rocket launch turned fireworks show space x s historic
is the u. s supreme court about to impose a limited ban on medication abortion. the lead starts right now. the u. s. supreme court kicking the can down the road for now, pausing restrictions until friday on access to the abortion pill restrictions put in place by a texas judge. but what might happen after this two day stay and for the third time in a week. young people shot after making innocent mistakes. this time two cheerleaders after one of them mistook someone else s car. for hers. i m going to speak with her cheer programs owner plus one day after one of the biggest media defamation settlements in the history of the universe, the ceo of dominion will be here and we ll talk about whether his company took that historic $787.5 million check from fox at the expense of truth and democracy. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start with breaking news in our health lead this afternoon, the u. s. supreme court handed down its decision in the blockbuster medication abor
Shaking, thunderous noise, booming would seem to be right in our backyard. It lasted for about two minutes. Youre going to Add Lava Deir is joining us now from macedonia ready at wolf if you can imagine this a debris field that is massive, four investigators to have to comb through one of the things that i find the most haunting about my memories of that day is that there were seven inspiring astronauts that were out there somewhere. I just find that so chilling to think about. It was probably the sato store i have are covered was so unexpected. But when residents found and astronauts helmet, and a crew members mission patch, that nightmare of what had happened became clear. You were sent out there for a beauty shop or a beauty shot of the shuttle going over that the last thing it was the beauty was shattered by tragedy. Add lavandera, cnn, dallas and be sure to tune and the brand new original series Space Shuttle columbia, the final flight premieres tonight at 9 00 p. M. Eastern in pa
padre island to witness this historic moment in person it was that morning, they will never forget. it was still excited for crying out loud. i got one word. holy smokes. it was crazy. it was beautiful and i know everybody was excited. i know you were everybody around was just tickled pink. and so, guys now that the euphoria of the moment is kind of over clearly a great deal of concern about where these test flights go from now on elon musk tweeted just after the launch that they learned a lot from this rocket launch and that they will work to sending up another test flight in the coming months. so a quick turnaround here for spacex and i would not be surprised for a second if some of that space hand wound up on ebay at lavandera from south padre island, texas. thank you
it is spaceship confetti covering a car. cnn s add lavandera joins us now live from the launch site in texas, and now spacex is saying that they deliberately triggered the explosion. right we ve thought that that has been a possibility all morning since we witnessed this rocket system explode over the gulf of mexico this morning , and you saw the video there in the last moments of this flight several about three minutes or so into the flight. the rocket ship was clearly tumbling. spacex says it was losing altitude, and now the company is confirming. that it initiated what is called the quote flight termination system on board the booster part of the rocket as well as the rocket itself, and obviously this had to be done because it was spiraling out of control. they had clearly lost the ability to control the rocket system, and that becomes a much more dangerous situation . also remember effort. these rocket launches are done with