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capitol hill. and this is cnn. just in to cnn space, exclaiming it triggered its own explosion of that history making rockets. we re going to tell you why. and another act of senseless gun violence. the look on this six year old girl s face speaks volumes, doctors removing a bullet fragment from her cheek after a basketball rolled into her neighbor s yard, and he allegedly opened fire a manhunt now under away with the girl s mother is saying about the moments before he pulled the trigger. and his violence torment sudan, the u. s military is now deploying additional capabilities nearby. that means u. s service members to be in place to secure the u. s. embassy to prepare for potential evacuation civilians desperately trying to flee as fighting between rival factions is now overwhelming hospitals. we are following these major developing stories and many more. all coming in right here to cnn news, central. we begin with the rocket launch turned fireworks show space x s his ....
anyone else. and i believe that we had what you would think would be the best case scenario. it was the best case scenario, because nobody was injured. cnn s peteman team and nadia romero joins us now live, thank you both for joining me. pete, first to you, what more have we learned? there were quite a few details in that press conference. reporter: the tupelo mayor said something so interesting, that cory wayne patterson, the person piloting the plane, apparently changed his mind. he wanted to hurt people on the ground after he stole this beechcraft commuter plane. it seats six or eight people. he wanted to crash it into the local walmart. there are two there in tupelo. police negotiates were able to get in touch with him via phone. he initially called 911. nego negotiators were able to get in touch with him and were able to get a pilot to talk to patterson on the phone. at one point they tried to steer the plane back to the tupelo regional airport and get cory way ....
and we certainly want to hear from manu and our colleagues who walk these halls every day. my understanding is it s not going to happen right away. in fact, manu, let me go to you. i want to tell you this text that i m getting is that you re probably hearing it from members who are coming off the floor right now. that manu, you re probably hearing from members saying that the jordan folks are very much lobbying many in the republican conference to hold off and not vote right now to empower patrick mchenry. so what is likely going to happen, and you telegraphed this earlier, is that once this vote is gavelled closed, they re going to go back and talk again like they have done after every one of these, and that david joyce of ohio is going to try to make the case for why it s time to move on for move on from jim jordan, and talk about giving patrick mchenry the functions of the united states government done at least in the short term. what are you hearing? reporter: ....
all thanks for joining me today. i m alison camp maratha. i ll see you back here tomorrow. and newsroom with jessica dean starts right now. you re, in the. cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i m jessica lean in washington and we begin today with former president and now convicted felon donald trump boasting a surgeon campaign donations following the verdict in his historic hush money criminal trial the trump campaign says it is raised nearly 53 million since he was found guilty by a manhattan jury of falsifying business records in order to influence the 2016 election. the judge has set trump s sentencing date for july 11. that s just days before the republican national convention, where trump is expected to be time tapped as the party s nominee trump, of course, planning to appeal and yesterday he gave a glimpse of how we intends to forge ahead with his campaign falsely calling the trial rigged and claiming political persecution this is a case where if they can do this to me ....
of life on other planets. but it was only in 1995 that we found the first planet outside our solar system. these exoplanets are hard to find. of course they are, they re relatively tiny. and so far they ve mainly been detected indirectly, either by the incredibly slight dimming of a star s light as a planet moves in front of it, or by the wobble of the star caused by something orbiting it. in the last 20 years we ve detected about 2000 exoplanets, but we haven t actually seen many at all. this is why. well, the planets are very, very faint compared to a star and they re very close to a star. the kind of planets where we might find life, an earth like planet orbiting a star would be 10 billion times fainter than a star. but if you can see the planets, you can start to look for evidence of life on their surfaces. what you need is something to block out the light of a star. what you need is a star shade. due to go into space in the middle of the next decade, it is a crazy ....