the status by queen victoria. good afternoon. nasa is to launch a new era of moon exploration. later today the most powerful rocket it s ever built will blast off from the kennedy space center in florida. the artemis test flight will orbit the moon and it s hoped will help pave the way for a crewed mission to the lunar surface in three years. our science editor, rebecca morelle reports. it s almost time. standing on launch pad 39b, the same one used by the apollo missions, the most powerful rocket nasa has ever built is ready for liftoff. the rocket is simply enormous. and it s only when you re standing here that you really get a sense of its size. and this is the last chance we ll see it up close. the launch pad is closing and fuelling is about to begin. because in just a few hours time, this will be blasting off. the first step in our return to the moon for 50 years. we talk about moonshots as things that humans can do when we put our differences aside and we focus on the
during the capitol riot s 187 minutes. the brutal heat wave, almost 100 million americans under heat alert, records being broken again, the impact on farms and what could it mean for those already high food prices. plus, we re on the front lines of the wildfire battle in europe. pop icon ricky martin speaking out about his newly dismissed case and the lurid accusations from his own nephew. and while some summer flights are getting back on track, we ll tell you where the newest pain points are for flyers. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, the 90 million covid cases recorded in this country through the pandemic tonight now include another american president. white house officials and president biden himself offering an upbeat assessment of his condition after a routine covid test this morning came up positive. within a few hours of the news breaking, the president tweeted, i m doing great. pictured at a desk in the white house r
Join the millions of people taking back their privacy by Downloading Duckduckgo On Mobile and desktop today. Im Anderson Cooper in tel aviv with my colleague, jim acosta, in washington, d. C. This evening we begin this hour with the latest escalation of israels war with hamas. Israels military is ramping up its bombardment of gaza. A short time ago, israels military reported its conducted dozens of strikes on hamas in gaza in recent hours. They say theyve destroyed two hezbollah cells in lebanon according to an idf post. Israel carried out rare air strike in the west bank. They say they were targeting a Tunnel System under a mosque. The idf says it thwarted what they called an imminent Terror Attack. The Palestinian Authority called it a dangerous escalation. Anderson, israels military now confirms that its troops clashed with hamas fighters inside gaza earlier today. Its just the second time Israeli Forces have confirmed Operating Inside Gaza since the hamas Terror Attack two weeks ag
Dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous figh oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air the. Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O, say does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the Home Of The Brave will well, good morning and welcome to fox friends on this Sunday Morning once again. Beautiful images across america along with your national anthem. Good morning, pete. Good morning, rachel. Pete good morning. Rachel good morning. Pete how you doing . Rachel you had an interesting day yesterday. Pete i did. I took the little guy to the National History museum. Teddy roosevelts still there rachel is he outside . Pete no, they got rid of that. Inside, hes okay. Outside, unacceptable. We went there and then we went to dave and busters. Both were pun. Rachel all great choices for a r
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Collusion, wikileaks collaboration, or any other impropriety related to the 2016 election, which i thought was the subject of this probe. I understand she appeared voluntarily. I am highly confident she will testify truthfully if called upon to do so. Davis once ran a highend Prostitution Ring and went to jail in the scandal surrounding then democratic governor eliot spitzer. The remorse i feel will always be with me. Reporter she has worked with stone over the years. And in late 2016, she joined his payroll to help him with clerical tasks. Muellers team has been looking into possible contact between stone and wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, as well as stones contact with russia during the 2016 campaign. Stone admitted to trading direct twitter messages with guccifer 2. 0, which is now known to be an online persona for russian intelligence officers. But stone says the messages were innocuous. I certainly acknowledg