to residents in desperate need. plus, president biden sharpening his attacks, ripping into donald trump as his midterm message takes shape. why he says maga republicans are threatening, quote, the foundations of our republic, end quote. and despite getting knocked out of the u.s. open, all eyes are on tennis star serena williams. was last night s match the last one of her career? we re going to have a look back at her lasting and incredible impact on the court. welcome to your labor day weekend. we re grateful that you re sharing it with us. it s saturday, september 3rd. great to be with you, amara. great to be with you. i m not mad that i m not on a plane off to vacation or anything. i m just really happy to be with you, boris. nowhere you would rather be than right here with us watching the skies, right? in a matter of hours nasa will try to launch its uncrewed artemis i rocket on a journey around the moon. we ll look at live pictures right now, preparations und
A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. And we now understand its burned 83,000 acres. Something at play for firefighters, you can almost not get your head around what its like to battle a blaze like this burning so hot here. You can see that firefighters, some of them working 24hour shifts have been grabbing sleep any way they can. Thats what they are up against. Not only are they fighting it in terms of fatigue, but in these conditions, there is a problem with equipment as well. We are used to hot but, you know, 116, 117 degrees on the fire line, humidity is hovering around 10 or less during the day, which is critical Fuel Moisture for us, which means that we have 100 probability of ignition. So we are just battling those two things right there, just the fatigue on the firefighters putting out fires is horrendous, let alone the Equipment Fatigue because the fire is causing the
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Compared to the super bowl for the japanese . And the Prime Minister said it is about 100 times bigger. I said ill be there. We begin with the breaking news overnight, two people are dead after a tornado tore through el reno, oklahoma destroying a hotel and a Mobile Home Park. Take a look at some of the latest video that were getting in here. That area as you see there has been leveled and you see the lights flashing from all the emergency crews that are there. This is a storm that blew through very quickly. People inside the trailers say they felt it before the warning sirens even went off and the citys mayor is calling the scene, quote, horrific. This is roughly six years to the day since el reno was hit by another tornado that killed eight people including three storm chasers. Omar jimenez is live from mt. Pleasant, too pleasant, texas with us. What are you hearing about the moment that the storm hit . Reporter yeah, i mean you said it correctly, weve been really trying to hone in o
the last time we put humans on the moon. that would be really fantastic to see. so i m hopeful this mission goes off well and the rocket and the spacecraft perform. and also, you know, this is an exciting time, too, because we have these commercial companies doing some pretty astounding things as well. and so i think we re going to enter a few exciting years ahead. there s enormous geopolitical implications to this launch and nasa s immediate future. bill nelson was on cnn yesterday and asked about a space race with china. here is what he shared with us. yeah. there s a space race. who is winning? well, let s see. this is the first step. and this is the largest, most powerful rocket ever. leroy, why is it so important for the united states to lead in space? i think this is something
to solve this problem. so is that 30-minute pause enough time to ensure that the leak has been fixed? well, they re thinking, okay, let s let it warm up a little bit, let the sealing material expand and then we ll go ahead and start tanking again and see how it goes. you know, because there s very little they can do now with the vehicle partially fueled, you know, this is they re figuring out the best plan possible, and i think this is it. leroy, the scrub the other day also had to do with a faulty fuel sensor and apparently nasa s plan is partly to just ignore the sensor and move forward. did that surprise you at all? well, no, because at the moment in realtime they didn t have enough information or analysis to figure out what exactly was going on. was it a bad sensor? was there no liquid hydrogen flowing through that core