as of right now, there s no official confirmation as to what led to the shooting but president biden has described it as outrageous and unacceptable . one of the four killed has been identified as philstavious dowdell by local media. he was a standout high school athlete and was planning to attend jacksonville state university on an american football scholarship. earlier, alabama police gave this update on the victims. some of those injuries are critical, they are in critical condition, and that s why it s so important we absolutely need everyone to continue to pray for those individuals to allow them to recover from what they re enduring, as well as their families. earlier, i spoke to our correspondentjessica parker, who is in dadeville, alabama. jessica, i understand you have just arrived there. can you give us a sense of how the community is reacting? yeah, well, we arrived just as a vigil had been taking place just up the road from here in a kind of parking area and do
elon musk and his spacex team are preparing to launch what is described as a mammoth rocket named starship into space on monday. the stainless steel machine is 394 feet tall more than twice the height of a nasa space shuttle. the rocket and spacecraft combination can hold more than 100 people. i spoke with former nasa astronaut and chemical engineer leroy chiao to get a sense of what to expect during tomorrow s launch. first of all, spacex have launched rockets before stopping what makes this one in particular so exciting? well, this is by far the biggest rocket that will ever attempt to fly. it actually generates much more thrust, more than twice the thrust of the satin moon rockets from the apollo programme long ago and it is going to carry as its payload the first starship prototype to fly and it s going to make it almost all the way around one orbit but then it is going to