the artemis program aims to land humans on the unexplored lunar south pole of the moon in the next few years and ultimately serve as a way to get to mars. nasa administrator bill nelson says we re returning to the moon to live, work and survive. let s get right to the kennedy space center, cnn s space and defense correspondent kristin fisher is there. kristen, how are we looking so far? reporter: it is too soon to say, john. nasa has already successfully troubleshooted two big issues this morning, that s the good news. the first issue was they made it through some pretty severe potential lightning storms that were a little too close to the launch pad for comfort for fueling, and then the other big issue was they encountered a hydrogen link leak during the fueling of that big main core stage, that s that burnt orange main part of the rocket that you can see on the launch pad. they encountered some similar issues during previous tests, but this time they were successfully a
the damage of documents recovered from former president trump the property, sharing new details what its filter teams found in the materials. begin this hour with a major new development in russia s war on ukraine. senior u.s. officials tell cnn that ukrainian forces are now launching a significant counteroffensive. go right to cnn jim sciutto who broke the story. what s the latest from the plan from ukraine and how do we expect it to play out? reporter: the latest, the much anticipated counteroffensive, ukrainian officials hinted at some time. saying they have confidence they can carry it out, has now begun. u.s. officials began to see signs of shaping, as you mentioned, shaping means basically preparing the battlefield for a wider offensive. in this case, it means artillery, rocket, air strikes on things like weapons depots, air defense systems, ammunition dumps, et cetera. to then allow a combination of ground and air forces to move in and attempt, at least, to regain
artemis mission was postponed. basically there was an engine malfunction. artemis one is the first in a series of missions that would return humans to the moon for the first time since 1972. the launch team discovered a bleed in one of the rocket s four engines. cnn s space correspondent joins us. explain more of what happened and then what happens next. reporter: yeah, so, victor, essentially we all thought that this was an engine issue. what we learned during the press conference, the first post-scrub press conference that just wrapped up, is that nasa officials believe it s not so much an engine issue. the primary culprit was an issue with the cooling system that cools that particular engine, engine number three. they ve got to get that engine to the right temperature before liftoff because sthey don t wan the liquid hydrogen and oxygen to shock the system. it seems to be that is where the biggest problem was. they are troubleshooting now. another problem we learned ab
artist and drinker. welcome to our viewers on pbs in the united states and around the world. we begin in the us, where the reasons behind monday s fbi s search on the florida home of former president, donald trump, and a list of items seized during the raid, could be released to the public. that s after the us department ofjustice broke with custom to ask a court in florida to unseal the documents. the former president has until friday afternoon to object to the release which was requested by the us attorney general, merrick garland. i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. second, the department does not take such decision lightly. where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken. a search warrant was authorised by a federal court upon the required finding of operable cause. the property receipt is a document that federal law requires law e