that and the potential for the former president to influence the races. good morning, everyone. happy saturday and welcome to your new day. it is a good day. saturday, august 20th. good to be with you, boris. always a pleasure. good to be with you, amara. we begin with the concerns about a nuclear power plant on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. fighting around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has intensified, so much so that now there are concerns about a possible nuclear disaster. cnn first reported new satellite images contradict russia s claims about the facility. they say there is systemic shelling there, but the images just don t show that. vladimir putin accuses the ukrainian military of conducting repeated military strikes at the plant. a special adviser to ukraine s armed services chief says moscow can t be trusted. russia always tells two truths and a lie. you can t believe anything they say. ukraine is not firing at their own nuclear plant
homes in northeast jackson. the next human boots will be a woman and a person of color on the moon and that inspiration to provide diversity in this type of environment. hello and welcome, it is monday, august 29 at 9 am in london and 4 am in florida where we are hours away from the launch of artemis one. the first steps in nasa s return to the moon. these are life photos of the launchpad in florida and the launch window is scheduled to open four and half hours from now. right now the launch team is dealing with a leak they observed. nasa says they are troubleshooting the issue but no word on whether this will impact the launch. this is the first of several missions to the moon in the years ahead. eventually the mission is to send humans back to the moon for the first time since 72 and one day nasa hopes to land the first humans on mars. this is set up as a test flight. one risk is radiation exposure, one of the goals of this mission is to mitigate those risks in the futu
orbit the moon with astronauts board and artemis iii for 2025 will land people at the moon s south pole. joining me now is kristen fisher live at the kennedy space center in florida. i love the nod to the program, calling this artemis. what s the significance of this mission if we ve been to the moon before? reporter: you know, a lot of people say that. the reason nasa wants to go back to the moon with the artemis program is two reasons one they want to leave behind more than flags and footprints. they want to build a base on the moon. one that astronauts can live on permanently. and part of the reason they want to do this is because china also has plans to build a base on the south pole of the moon, so there s a political competition element to it. and the other reason is they want to go to mars. nasa officials stress the moon is a proving ground and stepping point to some day get to mars, christine? how are the weather conditions there? is it likely to lift off in the t
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
documents. we ll have the very latest on the redacted copy of the mar-a-lago affidavit and what could be coming from the january 6 committee. plus, is the gop already conceding senate races in two states? what we re learning about the major pact that s pulling millions of dollars in advertising. and we re almost ready for liftoff. we ll be joined by a nasa astronaut ahead of the artemis launch later this morning. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 29th, i m jonathan lemire. glad to be back. thanks for joining us this morning. there s new reaction after a heavily-redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago was unsealed friday afternoon of the 36-page affidavit revealed details of the federal government s efforts to recover classified documents, including top secret information that trump is alleged to have illegally taken from the white house at the end of his presidency. th