i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. we begin with a short flight to space but a big leap for tycoons who want to turn the great beyond into a tourist destination. in less than four hours, billionaire richard branson is set to take off in a space plane built by his company virgin galactic. well, if he succeeds, he will be the first businessman to do so in a spacecraft, whose development he funded. a short time ago, he tweeted this mission statement for his upcoming flight. my mission statement is to turn the dream of space travel into a reality. for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren, for everyone. so, how does branson feel before potentially making history? well, he opened up to cnn s rachel crane. reporter: the countdown is on, and in just hours, entrepreneur richard branson hopes to become the first person to ride a self-funded rocket into suborbital space. astronaut 001, richard branson. reporter: a launch nearly-two decades in the making. tell me,
it doesn t guess more patriotic than this. spontaneous rendition of the star-spangled banner breaking out in them being low for march. fox and friends first starts right now. good morning good morning imagine being in that walmart. all of our local walmart singing the national anthem. you should start today, not a good singer, not a good singer. you are watching fox and friends first on tuesday morning. carley: let s get straight to it, band of tropical storm elsa reaching the florida keys after the storm dumped heavy rain over cuba. jillian: how are conditions there? reporter: we are in the southeast portion not far from the do fall street corridor, this storm is generating winds of 60 miles an hour, we are feeling strong winds, as far as the rain goes not torrential, we haven t seen any flooding yet but there s consistent rain. the storm is moving north northwest across the keys, it will hit the peninsula of florida, it is expected to make rainfall
to. we re not going so you can. a sitting president will not only attend the dinner, he will tell jokes and allow himself to be roasted in front of the country by daily show host trevor noah. primary season heating up before the midterms. we ll bring you the event as soon as it begins. first, we do begin with some breaking news out of ukraine where civilian evacuations have begun at the steel plant in ma mariupol. 20 women and children have made it out. the hope is that they will get out safely. hundreds more remain trapped a t this hour. many of them injured during intense russian bombardments in recent days and weeks. food, medicine and time running out. there s not much left of what used to be sprawling industrial complex. these are images that show much of the plant flattened beyond recognition by repeated russian attacks. the same can be said for much of the city. the black sea city of odesa reports of multiple explosions in the last 24 hours in and around the airp
hello and welcome to bbc news. two british volunteers working to provide humanitarian aid in ukraine are understood to have been captured by the russian military. it s believed the men were working as part of a joint humanitarian operations centre project in the country to help provide food, medical supplies and evacuation support. it comes after the foreign office confirmed a british national was killed while fighting in ukraine. it s thought the man, who s not been formally named but is believed to be scott sibley, was fighting for ukrainian forces when he was killed. a second man is understood to be missing. meanwhile, several russian strikes hit kyiv on thursday and killed at last one person, as the secretary general of the united nations, antonio guterres, met ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky in the capital and visited nearby towns. mr guterres said he was shocked by the attacks, and admitted that the un s security council had failed in its role to prevent or end t