the most powerful rocket ever built a major setback, but not a total failure in the goal of sending humans to mars. one day basketball rules into a man s yard and he opens fire on the neighbors just trying to retrieve it. now a six year old and her father recovering from gunshot wounds. and a manhunt is underway for the suspect. this guy is not a stranger to local police. this is just for the country also latest example of an innocent mistake leading to a shooting and right now, more than 50 million people are under a severe storm threat after a tornado outbreak already tears apart parts of three states. at least three people are dead as search and rescue efforts continue. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. we begin with liftoff and spacex s historic starship rocket, but it s planned journey around the earth didn t last long. just take a look. part into the power was icing on the cake. alright so despite
time in three years. and, coming up at 8.30pm we meet the members of one of ukraine s top rock bands, who ve become army medics in kharkiv, helping the military to fight invading russian forces. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the devastation caused in pakistan by extensive flooding has been called a crisis of unimaginable proportions by its climate change minister. she says that a third of the country is now underwater. the disaster has killed over 1,100 people and affected 33 million. international help has begun to arrive but water is still surging down the indus river and will flood low lying sindh even more over the next few days. the province has received eight times its average rainfall for august. the bbc has been filming across the country, including our correspondent pumza filhani who has sent this report from sukkur, a city in sindh. a moment of quiet in the middle of chaos. inside a crowded hall, families that have been displaced by the floods in northern
the lead with jake tapper starts right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in washington, d.c. in for jake tapper. and i m wolf blitzer. after the attacks and the israeli military now surrounding an inside significant areas gaza city and the bombardments continues to take a devastating stake on those inside. they cannot keep up with the amount of injured and sick cases. at least 9,000 people killed in israeli attacks on gaza according to the hamas-controlled health ministry. right now u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is headed to israel. here where i am in tel aviv, making his second wartime visit saying he will discuss concrete steps to minimize civilian casualties. israel has not only the right but the obligation to defend itself, and also to take steps to try to make sure this never happens again. we ve also said clearly and repeatedly how israel does this matters. right now i go to breaking news. look at
step in this process of trying to perfect the starship rocket system, but it was a spectacular scene here. as this rocket launched, clearing the launch pad, and for several minutes it was a thunderous and exhilarating experience as we saw that rocket fly for some time, but then about three minutes or so in the rockets started kind of spinning out of control. that was about the time that this massive booster with the 33 engines. was supposed to separate from the starship rocket. that did not happen. the rocket ship did not make it into orbit either exploded, coming apart, falling into the gulf of mexico. and what is interesting , brianna is that today here is a little known fact. but the first crew that will eventually ride in this starship rocket. six of those eight members have already been picked. and six of those eight we re here today. witnessing them. one of them is a man by the name of yemi mandela. here is a check
of space exploration. see this rocket fly. it was the moment they d been waiting for. and here we go. four stage engine start. three, two, one. and liftoff of artemis 1! after months of setbacks, nasa s most powerful rocket was finally on its way. the start of humanity s return to the lunar surface. we rise together, back to the moon, and beyond. took a long time coming to get here. last time we were on the moon, apollo 17. and we still have a long ways to go. and this is just the test flight. but the run up to launch wasn t without drama. during fueling a hydrogen leak was spotted, so a team was sent to the launch pad to repair it. then, something unexpected. they reported that they had an issue that was actually a bad ethernet switch. a radar station essential for tracking the rocket and destroying it if it veered off