hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i m rosemary church. just ahead here on cnn newsroom, air-raid sirens going off in kyiv this morning. civilians warned to seek shelter as russian drones target ukraine s capital. more never before seen video of the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. some candidates are already sowing doubt about the integritiy of the upcoming election. plus it s now been a month of tense often violent nationwide protests in iran, and now the iranian president is accusing the united states of inciting chaos. thanks for being with us. we are following developments out of ukraine where explosions continue to be heard in central kyiv. the first blast came just hours ago, and one official says russia is now attacking the capital with kamikaze drones. cnn s clarissa ward is in kyiv and updated us on the situation just a short time ago. reporter: this started about 6:45 this morning. the seco
A new technique for finding potentially hazardous asteroids before they find us has chalked up its first success. In this case, the asteroid isn’t expected to threaten Earth anytime in the foreseeable future. But the fact that the technique — which uses a new computer algorithm called HelioLinc3D — actually works comes as a confidence boost as astronomers get set to step up the asteroid hunt with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The University of Washington’s DiRAC Institute will play a l
beatles. reporter: lucy s the first mission to investigate the trojan asteroid swarms which are asteroid clusters along jupiter s orbital path. lucy will collect the first high-resolution images of these asteroids. the spacecraft gets her name from the lucy fossil, an ancient human ancestor whose remains transformed the study of hominid evolution. nasa hopes this lucy transforms the understanding of the solar system. both the fossil and spacecraft name are nods to the beatles heat lucy in the sky with diamonds. johnny will love that. anyway, if you meet anyone up there, lucy, give them peace and love from me. reporter: and lucy does indeed carry a diamond as part of a beam splitter assembly. after making a few fly bys of earth, lucy is expected to reach her first objective, an asteroid