good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, september 24th. thanks for spending part of your morning with us. here s what we are watching for you. it s time for them to do job america elected them to do. lawmakers up against a clock and working on a deal to fund the government ahead of a looming shutdown. the real world impacts a shutdown would have on everything from air travel to members of the military. ophelia has moved inland after bringing heavy rain and flooding to parts of the east coast. the areas we are watching for more flooding and the threat of severe storms today. it s a cosmic delivery hyeas in the making. a space capsule full of asteroid pieces set to land on earth this morning. what scientists are hoping to learn from it. the fires that you don t hear about in the news is the greatest success. it could be a game changer when it comes to firefighting. how they are using a.i. to snuff out wildfires before they explode. plus, a 10
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour with mounting political and policy challenges for president biden. there is the threat of a looming government shutdown in a week, the widening strike by the united auto workers union and a growing immigration crisis at the u.s. slmexico burr der. the nation s capital is buzzing over a new abc news/ washington post poll showing biden ten points behind former president donald trump in a head-to-head match-up among registered voters. even the washington post says it might be an outlier as a new poll shows them tied at 46%. joining us is democratic dock woman debbie dingell of michigan. congresswoman, thank you for sharing part of your sunday with us. we appreciate it. you re in a key battleground state. there was a lot of fuss over michigan the last time around. are you worried about these polls? first of all, jim, you were talking to the woman everybody said was crazy when i told people t
the impossible became possible. that s how the head of nasa described an extraordinary mission to retrieve a capsule containing fragments of an asteroid on sunday. the capsule had travelled a billion miles to land on the asteroid, named bennu, before returning safely back to earth earlier after seven years in space. scientists are now examining the sample, which they hope is 250 grams of rock and dust from the surface. they say it could explain how life on earth began. the retrieval of the capsule happened in the us state of utah, from where rebecca morelle reports. it has entered the earth s atmosphere. a first glimpse of the capsule after its epicjourney through space. high up in the atmosphere, a parachute opens, slowing its descent. touchdown! it has touched down. a textbook landing in the middle of the utah desert. for the team who have spent decades working on the osiris rex mission, it s an emotional moment. it went absolutely perfectly. perfect landing, we didn t move
of the black sea grain deal on ukraine. he further criticised kyiv s peace plan as not feasible or realistic . here s mr lavrov addressing the un general assembly on saturday. translation: the collective west has a calling card and iti has long been to reject the principle of equality and their total inability to reach an agreement. being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments inter alia, written ones and legally binding ones, and then, theyjust don t fulfil them. as president putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. russia, like many countries, knows about this firsthand. the bbc spoke to phillips o brien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. he said a lot was missing from mr lavrov s address. it was a speech that you would say really comes from a point of view of weakness on ukraine that he couldn t even mention the ukraine war, that ther
was charged with the murder of 24 year old chris kaba who was shot and killed in south london last year. earlier, the home secretary, suella braverman, ordered a review of armed policing. joe inwood reports. chris kaba was unarmed when he was shot and killed in streatham. he was driving a borrowed car. according to police, the vehicle had previously been linked to an incident involving a gun. chris kaba was hit by a single bullet fired by a police officer. there was widespread outrage at his death, especially amongst london s black community. last week, his family were in court to see a police officer who is only being referred to as nx 121 charged with murder. they welcomed the prosecution, but it s been met with concern by many of the officer s colleagues. there are more than 6,000 police officers in the uk who are authorised to carry a firearm and many of them work in london in some of the most sensitive parts of the capital. now it s thought around 100 of them have