describing how she found the gun and drugs hunter biden s core will take you live outside the courthouse and 17 nations, including the us, urge israel and hamas to come to a ceasefire deal, and idf the strike hits a un run school in gaza that israel says was a hamas compound and it killed dozens of people and today amid global conflict and uncertainty, we remember de day the turning point in the second world war when allied forces landed in normandy, france, 80 years ago, we are following these major developing stories and many more all come coming in right here to cnn news central today are crucial witness for the prosecution in hunter biden s federal gun trial, takes the stand. hallie biden, the widow for beau biden. who day did hunter after beau s death, has been testifying about finding and disposing of the gun that s at the center of this case. she s also described how hunter introduced her to crack cocaine and how she was embarrassed and ashamed about that chapter of
tough to. hear but we re waiting with bated breath for confirmation that they ve dog it was it was slow and it was tedious, but it appears to have been successful. so leroy put this docking into context for us, what it means for the bigger picture of space travel well, what it means is that if they ve successfully docked and it seems like they have awaiting that confirmation, as you said, but that means that we now have a second path to launching nasa astronauts to and from the iss course spacex has been doing it for nearly three years. we one nasa likes redundancy. astronauts like redundancy all engineers do and so this would mean we have a second path without having to go back to relying on the russians. and their soyuz vehicle so this is a historic moment. butch and sunny, i m sure they re going through their procedures, but they re also thrilled to but to be
not? are you asking jose? jon: no, i was hoping to get in touch with clayton. clayton anderson, is clayton still with us? yes, sir, i am. jon: clayton, did you fly on one of the soyuz spacecraft? i didn t launch didn t return home in one, but i flew in one when we undocked our capsule from one port on the space station and then flew around to redock on another port, which was allowing for a new soyuz vehicle to come to the station, so i can claim that i flew in one, but i didn t go up or down in one. jon: okay, so but just kind of compare. i mean, i m looking at the very futuristic interior of the space x capsule, versus i m guessing the soyuz is a little bit maybe utilitarian, if i might use that word? yes, and for me, i was what they call the right seater, so you had a right seater, a center seater, and a left seater. the right seater, me, i didn t even have a screen to look at,
0 these are people with families, and the goal here really has been heartwarming. i think you ve probably seen the footage of the interactions that this crew has had with children in the hospital. i mean, it s been a fund-raising campaign for st. jude s, 200 million dollars has been the goal. and there s been all kinds of interaction from them there. it just has been an amazing experience to see regular americans, like you and i, in space. only less than 600 people jon: hang on a second, alexandria. we re getting our first images. let s listen to mission control. as part of the inspiration for mission, the crowd here is very excited to see them after the first time as well. so yeah, couple of minutes left of the blackout period, and we should be getting comms re-established with the crew here shortly. jon: the blackout period, clayton, perhaps you re the best to explain that to us. the capsule is coming back, and the friction of it ebb countering the earth s encountering the