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
get out as soon as possible. cnn s nadia romero is live for us in jackson, mississippi. nadia, give us the latest on the situation there this morning. reporter: good morning, brianna. we are waiting for that pearl river to crest at about 35 feet or higher and we know that s going to have an impact all around jackson, especially here in the northeast side. you can see behind me we are already experiencing plenty of flooding. when we were out here yesterday this water hadn t made its way that far up the driveway so we can see it slowly but steadily moving and creeping in towards people s homes and that s why some of the school districts, the jackson public school districts, closing some of their schools today, moving those students back to virtual learning. as we drove around jackson this morning we could see plenty of roads that are impassable. if you want to get through here you can still with a truck, but the neighbors tell me that when they had severe flooding back in 2020 they h
sank, water hadn t started coming inside in sufficient quantity to trigger these transmitters to come on. and perhaps by the time the water came in, the aircraft was sinking, therefore the frequencies they were transmitting on the signals weren t strong enough to reach the satellite. i mean, these are the types of conclusions and the analysis that investigators will be placing on this information now. but the source i talked to said it was odd. those were his words. it was odd that none of these four transmitters had come on, erin. nick, thank you very much. with 107 very important reporting coming out of kuala lumpur. richard quest is with me along with aviation analyst arthur rosenberg. let s just start with the emergency locators because that s what nick finished his reporting on. they didn t activate. so obviously that could mean a controlled landing, as he said. it could also mean they were manually turned off. that even possible that you could manually disable those or not? t