continues now with wolf blitzer in the situation. so you tomorrow happening now, breaking news, we re awaiting historic and very risky space mission of privately owned spacecraft is expected to attempt to land on the moon soon. but we re now learning about a possible navigation issue. standby for our live team coverage of this milestone event. and we ll get reaction from two icons, former astronaut mae jemison and star trek actor in real life space traveler william shatner welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer urine in the situation room the skis, cnn, breaking news, the breaking news this hour, a very suspenseful attempt to try to return to the moon. we re standing by for a us spacecraft to try to land on the lunar surface. a challenge that hasn t been successfully accomplished by anyone in this country for half a century our space experts, kristin fisher, miles o brien, they are both here along with the trailblazing former
ahead on cnn newsroom, an intense heat wave is scorching the u.s. this weekend with some temperatures topping 110 degrees. parts of europe bake under their own heat wave. we take you live to rome for the latest. it s a demon that walks among us. a predator that ruined families. officials announce a breakthrough in a series of unsolved decade s old murder cases. how police found him. seeks to join one of the most exclusive clubs on the planet. the race to the moon. we begin with a dangerous weeks long heat wave that s getting worse this weekend as a heat dome intensifies and reaches peak strength over parts of the western united states. 85 million americans are under heat alerts after the heat dome expanded into california, which is now experiencing its first extreme heat wave of the year. it s already been dangerously hot for weeks in texas, florida, and arizona, where phoenix is in the middle of a record-breaking streak of consecutive 110-degree days. the intense hea
2023. tonight, we re coming to you from times square in the heart of new york city. for so many, this is the place where new year s begins and ends. i m tom yum. we fake you for joining us tonight. we re covering the top ten stories from this eventful year. plus, look at the people in trends which to find the last 12 months. as we look to close the chapter in 2023, we take a look back at the air that was. here s nbc s joe fryer. how do you define a year like 2023? was that the year of the strike? [crowd chanting] or year of the swift? didn t offer a glimpse of the future with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and the weight loss drug ozempic? or a blast from the past? hi barbie! i can! with the pink coated resurgence of a classic doll. was it the year a speaker was booted, or simply a prelude to 2024? the campaign trail lined with pit stops in the courtroom. 2024 you can be defined in so many ways. so much of the world, it was a year headlined by war in
meanwhile, g7 leaders injapan announce new sanctions against moscow we ll have the latest from both summits. the tesco boss quits after allegations of inappropriate behaviour. in the next hour, nasa will announce the company to build spacecrafts for their latest expedition to the moon. welcome to bbc news. it is a day of two important summits with the war in ukraine being the common theme. at the g7 gathering injapan, world leaders met to discuss a new round of sanctions against russia. while at the arab league meeting in saudi arabia, president zelensky made a surprise visit, urging those attending, to support ukraine. he told the gathering injeddah that, on this, the asoth day of the war, the world needed to fight the virus of aggression from moscow stressing kyiv would not give up any sovereign territory to achieve peace. also making the headlines at that summit is president assad of syria the first time he s been invited to the arab league since the devastating
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