And we're going to the moon.
You're looking live right now at Nasa's Artemis one spacecraft
ready for launch from the Kennedy space center in florida.
Now if the countdown goes well and the weather holds,
Nasa will have two hours starting just after 8:30 a.m. This morning
to get the £5.75 million rocket off the ground
and on its way around the moon.
Now we are going to bring you that launch live when it happen.
The unpiloted Orion capsule going to orbit the moon for
several weeks before splashing down in the Pacific in October
NASA hoping to return people to the moon by 2025.
Now we are going to monitor this throughout the show this morning
and we're also gonna be speaking to a former astronaut in just a few minutes.
Very exciting. Oh I can't wait for a very exciting.
And that's so exciting is other news.
The director of national intelligence is conducting damage
assessments on the documents retrieved from Donald trump's
mar A Lago estate two weeks ago that in a letter to the House democrats,
Arvo Haynes said that the review he would review
then it would include an assessment of the potential risk to national
security that would result from the disclosure of the relevant documents.
Now the former president had kept in his possession and private possession
since leaving the White House in january of 2021
and for more of the latest on Donald trump
news and those documents taken from his estate.
We have our very own aerial hicks and live in Washington D. C.
With the very latest so area. What can you tell us?
Well Shannon, um Avril Haines,
the director of National Intelligence in this
letter to house democrats was responding to
request that they made two weeks ago to conduct this national security review.
Now,
Haines sent a similar letter to a bipartisan group of senators who had also
requested a national security review of the documents trump had at mar A Lago.
Now we don't know much about that.
But both lawmakers in both chambers and from both parties have indicated that they
want to know the risk of these trump documents falling into the wrong hands,
just like other parts of this investigation will have
to wait and see just what else comes out.
All right.
Meanwhile, Ariel,
the trump team has asked a federal judge to appoint a special master to help
oversee the review of these documents that the FBI took from MAr A Lago.
So what can you tell us about that?
Well,
the former president and his team want an outside third
neutral party to come in and oversee this process.
And a federal judge said this weekend that she's likely
going to grant that request for a little context here.
A special master is an outside third party
attorney who was brought in during the investigation or
other court proceedings to oversee the process and make
sure a judicial order is being properly followed.
It's a little unusual to see a special master brought in for a case like this one
but it appears that a federal judge is
ready to approve what judge Eileen cannon trump appointee
on saturday gave quote preliminary notice of her
intent to appoint a special master appointed Special masters
to oversee a review of evidence is unusual
and it can really drag out the investigation.
So we'll have to wait and see if she
ultimately follows through in a hearing on thursday.
Thank you so much for that update. All right.
Meanwhile in the south,
the sandbags are down in Jackson Mississippi as the Pearl river near Jackson is
expected to crest later today and at least 100 homes are now at risk
that its flood waters continue to rise. There
many who live here are evacuating on their own.
That is memories of the 2020 floods continue to linger.
The client scientists are warning that the latest droughts and floods in the U. S.
And other parts of the world are not going to be its last Shannon.
Well, the federal government is ending its offer to ship free at home.
Covid test this friday.
The body administration first launched a program through
the covid dot gov website in january.
Now the covid dot gov website now shows a measure that
says ordering tests will be suspended on friday september the second.
Now the reason.
Well congress hasn't provided the additional funding
necessary for this program to continue.
Well in other news, the ashes of Michelle Nichols,
the actress who played Lieutenant
Uhura in the original star trek,
will get sent into deep space on a rocket
memorializing her and several other Star trek veterans.
Nichols Ashes will head to space on a rocket, fittingly called the vote in center
offscreen. Nichols served as an advocate for Nasa
to encourage the recruitment of astronauts from underrepresented backgrounds.
She's credited with helping get the very first black man Colonel guy
in Blue Ford and the first woman sally ride all the space.