taking up the habit. and after a two year pause due the pandemic, europe s largest street party kicks off its final day at the notting hill carnival in west london. nasa has cancelled today s launch of its most powerful rocket, artemis one, which had been due to take off for an uncrewed test flight to the moon. the us space agency said one of its engines had developed a bleed that couldn t be fixed in time; the next possible launch date is friday the second of september. the artemis programme aims to return humans to the moon. if successful, the plan is for astronauts to be on board the flight in two years time. our science correspondent, jonathan amos told us what went wrong frustrating day today, ben, it really was. we had a number of little issues that cropped up. when we got here, it was pouring with rain and that delayed them tanking, putting all the propellants that they needed to go in this monster rocket over my shoulder. then they thought they had a crack halfway up
salt. they re claiming that we are in this situation for last one month. a lot of people who actually said, we travelled approximately four hours by foot to reach here just to get some kind of relief. translation: we left behind the kids and came here. - i have been coming here for three days, and no one here has anything to eat. my toenails have broken, - and they re bleeding from climbing the mountains to get here. i spent 15 years in - the army before retiring. translation: i have around 13 children. i we don t have anyone looking out for us, and we don t know any of the officials to refer to. we only have god to watch over us. if you can see here, officials there, people are complaining to them, people are talking to them. they re actually asking them to write their names so that relief operation could reach to them. new figures show that change store closures of stock by 30% in the first six months of this year. compared to the previous 12 months but there are fears
bret: breaking tonight and all day today president biden has covid. the white house made this announcement this morning just days after the president returned from a middle east trip and the trip yesterday to massachusetts. is said to be experiencing mild symptoms. the president will isolate at the white house and execute his duties from there, according to the white house press secretary. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has the latest tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. the president is suffering only mild symptoms. a runny nose, a dry cough, and fatigue. but we did get conflicting information from white house officials and his doctor about when those symptoms started and why he only reported them after popping a positive on a routine test. but, most importantly, we re told the president is doing fine. but the team or the day rather that his team had long prepared for has finally come. hey, folks, yes you hea
miles beyond it, further than any spacecraft intended to carry humans. cameras inside and outside orion will document the trip because this crew is unmanned but not unmannequined. a suited mannequin that will collect data on what future human crews might experience as nasa prepares for a lunar landing in 2025. we re sending mannequins into space. i suppose maybe that s been done before. none of this happens if the weather doesn t cooperate. i m sure nasa is on pins and needles about all of this. how is it looking for tomorrow? reporter: that s right, jim. when it comes to rocket launches everyone s eyes are on mother nature and right now nasa is saying that the conditions are 80% favorable for a launch tomorrow morning. the launch window opens at 8:33 a.m. eastern time and the countdown clock has already started, jim, so people are pretty optimistic this will take flight, the weather will not be the deciding factor but, also, a lot of folks are concerned about the fact that
down to earth uncontrolled. and kansas voters are set to become the first to decide if abortion rights should change in the wake of the roe v. wade reversal. you re in the cnn newsroom. well, in eastern kentucky, it is more dreaded news after days of heartbreak and anguish. the threat of more rain now hanging over parts of kentucky decimated by this week s deadly flash floods. a flood watch is now in effect, and that is raising concerns about the massive search and rescue operation wrapping up its third day. 25 people are confirmed dead, and that includes four children all from the same family. they were siblings between two and eight years old. kentucky s governor says he does not know how many are still missing but says the death toll could rise for weeks as bodies are recovered. washed out roads and bridges and slowing those efforts. and with at least hundreds of homes destroyed, the misery seems to deepen by the hour. it s hard to put into words just the amount of