orbit the moon with astronauts board and artemis iii for 2025 will land people at the moon s south pole. joining me now is kristen fisher live at the kennedy space center in florida. i love the nod to the program, calling this artemis. what s the significance of this mission if we ve been to the moon before? reporter: you know, a lot of people say that. the reason nasa wants to go back to the moon with the artemis program is two reasons one they want to leave behind more than flags and footprints. they want to build a base on the moon. one that astronauts can live on permanently. and part of the reason they want to do this is because china also has plans to build a base on the south pole of the moon, so there s a political competition element to it. and the other reason is they want to go to mars. nasa officials stress the moon is a proving ground and stepping point to some day get to mars, christine? how are the weather conditions there? is it likely to lift off in the t
possible the river there, set to crest within hours. plus, four possible storm systems developing in the tropics. catastrophic flooding in pakistan has killed more than a thousand people. entire apartment buildings washed away, 500,000 homes destroyed. the urgent plea for international help the nfl rookie cut from the buffalo bills amid accusations of rape his accuser and her father now speaking out. it s a step in the right direction towards justice. and one last championship run serena williams begins what is likely her final quest for tennis glory. this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening. the question for u.s. intelligence, do the classified documents taken from former president trump s mar-a-lago home, pose any potential risk to national security if they were disclosed? the director of national intelligence confirming her office will do an assessment while a parallel department of justice criminal investigation continues. members of congress
explaining what went wrong and what s next. ukraine says a counteroffensive is underway in its southern region as concerns continue over europe s largest nuclear power plant in the country. we re live in ukraine. intelligence officials will look into potential risks to national security from documents found at former president trump s mar-a-lago home. we ll have the latest ahead. it s the first day of school for many communities in kentucky after deadly floods ravaged the state. what students are facing when they go back to the classroom in a live report. and in mexico, 100,000 people have disappeared in the last couple of years. a growing number of those missing are women and girls. we ll speak with a journalist investigating what is going on. happening right now, nasa engineers are working to gather data on the technical issue that forced the scheduled artemis mission launch to be scrubbed. nasa said the delay was caused by a leak in the rocket s third engine and
powerful rocket has been scrubbed. technical issues delaying the historic liftoff until at least friday. we will get an update from the launch site and i ll get an update on nasa protocols for missions like this one. and nuclear fears out of ukraine. after weeks of delays, united nations inspectors are headed to europe s largest nuclear power plant now under russian control. ukrainian authorities are so worried after several days of shelling around the plant, they started giving out iodine tablets. the latest from the region. and new fallout over the former president s handling of classified documents at mar-a-lago. what we know about the intelligence community s review of the materials and how they will assess potential risks to our national security. that s precisely where we start this morning. the director of national intelligence, avril haines, says her office will launch a damage assessment into the potential risk to national security posed by those documents. that
election interference, what he s saying and when he might go under oath. developing news overseas, putting europe on edge. international inspectors on their way to that nuclear power plant coming under fire in ukraine. the fears growing over a possible radiation disaster. our team there on the ground with a live report for you. meantime, good afternoon to all of you. i m alex witt, in for hallie jackson here in new york. i m joined by ken dilanian, as well as msnbc legal analyst kelly, you re with us, as well. ken, with the doj with at least some of those seized documents contained some attorney/client privileged material. how will that affect the investigation going forward? probably not at all, alex. it s pretty routine when the fbi searches somebody s office and they grab all their files, they may pick up stuff that s privileged. that s why they use what s known as a privilege or filter team, a group of independent prosecutors to go through the documents before they