Its Highstakes Journey Back To Earth. Final goahead. So if all goes well, well see it land back on solid ground in New Mexico within the very hour. Ill be your pilot for live coverage here. Cnn has it all happens before us. Now remember, the capsule is coming back empty, uncrewed and nasa speak. And yes, remembering it correctly, this is the same capsule that wasnt supposed to be uncrewed. It was supposed to have two astronauts coming back home in it, Sonny Williams and butch wilmore. And they are staying put on the international Space Station, as you know, in fact, therell be there until february. Nasa made the decision to keep him there for their safety after lingering issues popped up with the capsule, nasa simply couldnt risk a disaster remember, the astronauts got to space on Starliner Back in june and was supposed to be quick, eight days or so. But now its going to be more like eight months in space. Return, though, is still a high Pressure Moment for both nasa and boeing with fr
Thank you so much for joining me this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, and we begin this hour after three months in space the overdue return to earth for boeing starliner capsule, the capsule left the international Space Station last night, but without its two Test Pilots on board, the Treacherous Process Of Reorder Orienting the vehicle in earths atmosphere could have heated its exterior to more than 3,000 degrees fahrenheit. But the landing was tactically successful just after midnight eastern time, making it the first u. S. Made capsule to land on the ground rather than splashing down in the ocean Cnns Kristin Fisher has more on what comes next for nasa and the Starliner Crew boeing breathing a sigh of relief. This morning after starliner successfully landed in white sands, new mexico, shortly after midnight, and all of the issues that starliner suffered while in space the thruster failures, the helium leaks, did not prove to be a problem when it did the deorbit burn pump, the brak
80087 to 4901 happening now, donald trump is back at a florida courtroom as his attorneys fight to have the charges in this classified documents case dismissed were live in florida. Meantime, in georgia, the Fulton County judge who just dropped three charges against trump could decide whether to remove District Attorney fani hey, willis from the election subversion case. And just moments ago on the us senate floor, the Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, called for new elections and israel sharply criticizing the Prime Minister, benjamin ateneo. Hello, im wolf blitzer in washington, and youre in the cnn newsroom just two days after he clinched his partys president ial nomination, donald trump is back at another familiar role today as a court defendant. The former president of the United States is attending a critical hearing in his classified documents case trump has pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges related to his alleged mishandling of highly classified documents and for obstructin
With the gun, but tried to hide it and ethan was the one that was responsible for this yeah. We will see what happens. We saw what happened with his wife and the conviction there. Now the jury has this case in their hands. Jean casarez, always good to see you. Thank you for that a new hour of Cnn News Central starts now happening right now, a double dose of Donald Trumps legal drama. Hes heading to Federal Court in florida as as his team tries to get the entire classified documents case dismissed, and hes waiting to hear from a judge in georgia any minute now about whether or not the prosecutor who brought the case against so well stay on the case. Plus a Terrifying Scare in the sky. There are new details this morning about a Student Pilot trying multiple times to break into a cockpit and an ally plaskett Airlines Flight the most powerful rocket ever built is scheduled to launch just minutes from now, well bring that to you if it happens, im Jade Ball Hold On with john berman and sara
The legal tapper starts right now donald trump might get yet another delay in yet another one of his many criminal trials, the lead starts right now moments ago, the prosecutor in the new york Hush Money Case said hed be okay with it. 30 day delay. This as the former president spent the day in the florida courtroom, his lawyers arguing broad leeway under the president ial records act as a reason to throw out the case. The judge in that case expressing skepticism will explain all of it to you coming up in rodgers response, nfl quarterback Aaron Rodgers with a new post on twitter today. Kind of alluding to the Exclusive Reporting we broke here on the lead yesterday, that he had privately shared with the least two people we know of deranged Conspiracy Theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting not being real plus space success with a major mishap, the massive Spacex Starship rocket. Thats part of nasas plans to get back to the moon. While that goes farther and faster than ever bef