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greatest show in hollywood. from get out to i, tonya grab oscar gold? the nominees are calling in. their emotional reactions right here on gma. no one does oscar like gma and if they say they do, they re lying. good morning, america. we want to get right to that breaking news, a massive earthquake off the coast of alaska, 7.9. it has sparked tsunami alerts up and down the west coast this morning. and listen to this again. [ sirens blaring ] that is the alert that s waking people up in alaska this morning. people are told to get to higher ground immediately and to take shelter. and in san francisco, this alert going out to so many saying, prepare to evacuate and check on your neighbors. as you can imagine, the alerts cause a lot of concern this morning. thankfully, everybody s safe at this hour. so let s get right to kayna whitworth is in santa monica, california. reporter: and good morning. so all the warnings, watches have been cancelled. imagine bein ....
i made you a champion. and will wonder woman soar? the nominations live right here on gma. no one does oscar like gma and if they say they do, they re lying. good morning, america. we want to get right to that breaking news, a massive earthquake off the coast of alaska. 7.9. it has sparked tsunami alerts up and down the west coast this morning. and listen to this again. sirens ] that is the alert waking people up in alaska this morning. people are told to get to higher ground immediately and to take shelter. in san francisco, this alert going out to so many saying, prepare to evacuate and check on your neighbors. and in washington state, people told to get ready to take action, so let s get right to kayna whitworth who is on the pier in santa monica, california. kayna. reporter: hey, robin. good morning, so the first warning signs came in from the national weather service here and sent to cell phones in alaska. they were telling people to get to hig ....
pelley: america s long pause from launching humans into space may change with a bold mission to send two private citizens, paying customers, around the moon and back. the announcement came from elon musk, the entrepreneur who created tesla electric cars and spacex, a rocket maker that already sends unmanned cargo capsules to the space station for nasa. musk plans to launch late next year, about six years after the space shuttle s last flight and nearly half a century after the last apollo astronauts left their foot prints in the lunar dust. here s don dahler. two, one, zero, liftoff. lawsuit spacex will attempt to lawn two unnamed individual, said to be very serious about traveling ash the moon. they ve already put down what s described as a serious deposit. cbs news space expert bill harwood. talk is cheap. launching a mission like this safely is a tall order. reporter: the company has not released what the week-long journey will cost, but it says it will take ....
nightly news begins right now. good evening. we begin with an nbc news exclusive. a new and much different account of last month s u.s. military mission in yemen emerging that challenges the trump administration s claim that it was a success. multiple officials tell us the raid has not produced the valuable intelligence that has been cited by the white house. this and other new details emerging as the grieving father of senior chief petty officer ryan owens is sharing his own questions about that mission. details now from senior investigative correspondent cynthia mcfadden. reporter: tonight, the father of the highly decorated navy s.e.a.l. killed in the secret raid in yemen is revealing why he declined to meet the president at dover air force base as his son s body arrived there. bill owens telling the miami herald he has questions for the president about his youngest son ryan s death. why at this time did there have to be this stupid mission when it wasn t eve ....
with scott pelley. harwood. talk is cheap. launching a mission like this safely is a tall order. reporter: the company has not released what the week-long journey will cost, but it says it will take the amateur space travelers near the moon s surface and further out to space before looping back to earth, a distance of 200 to 300,000 miles. they ll be aboard a fully automated spacecraft with no human pilot. three years ago spacex founder elon musk told scott pelley for 60 minutes his friends were dubious. i had so many people try to talk me out of starting the company, it was crazy. pelley: what did they tell you? one good friend of mine collected a whole series of videos of rockets blowing up and made we watch those. he just didn t want me to lose all my money. reporter: in fact, spacex added to the collection of explosion videos with two spectacular failures, but recently the company has had a string of successful launches and landings. still, musk is kno ....