space center where the uncrewed artemis i mission is scheduled to lift off between 8:33 and 10:33 a.m. here s the thing, there are technical issues right now. a hydrogen leak and potentially an engine problem threatening this morning s launch. the plan is for artemis one to eventually fly around the moon with three mannequins, including one named commander moonequin. nearly 50 years ago apollo went to the moon. the artemis plans to land humans on the lunar south pole of the moon in the next few years and ultimately serve as a way to get to mars. lets get the very latest on where things stand right now at the kennedy space center. cnn s kristin fisher is there. what can you tell us? reporter: well, guys, i think it s important to remember that this is only a test flight. it is the very first time this artemis rocket, the sls rocket and the orion crew capsule on top, has ever flown. we knew there was a very good chance that they were going to run into issues today. knew the
possible the river there, set to crest within hours. plus, four possible storm systems developing in the tropics. catastrophic flooding in pakistan has killed more than a thousand people. entire apartment buildings washed away, 500,000 homes destroyed. the urgent plea for international help the nfl rookie cut from the buffalo bills amid accusations of rape his accuser and her father now speaking out. it s a step in the right direction towards justice. and one last championship run serena williams begins what is likely her final quest for tennis glory. this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening. the question for u.s. intelligence, do the classified documents taken from former president trump s mar-a-lago home, pose any potential risk to national security if they were disclosed? the director of national intelligence confirming her office will do an assessment while a parallel department of justice criminal investigation continues. members of congress
documents. we ll have the very latest on the redacted copy of the mar-a-lago affidavit and what could be coming from the january 6 committee. plus, is the gop already conceding senate races in two states? what we re learning about the major pact that s pulling millions of dollars in advertising. and we re almost ready for liftoff. we ll be joined by a nasa astronaut ahead of the artemis launch later this morning. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 29th, i m jonathan lemire. glad to be back. thanks for joining us this morning. there s new reaction after a heavily-redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago was unsealed friday afternoon of the 36-page affidavit revealed details of the federal government s efforts to recover classified documents, including top secret information that trump is alleged to have illegally taken from the white house at the end of his presidency. th
blastoff. nasa will try to launch the rocket again on friday for the six-week test flight if it can the fix that engine. if it is successful, artemis is poised to carry astronauts back to the moon nearly 50 years since astronauts last walked on the moon. new fallout from the fbi search of president trump s florida home. the director of national intelligence is launching an assessment of the potential risk to national security, including to human intelligence sources. a florida judge appointed by trump is prepared to grant his request for an independent official to review everything seized by the fbi. the judge is set to get a detailed list of the material from the doj tomorrow to make her decision. a u.n. watchdog agency team is set to arrive in ukraine to assess potential damage to the nuclear power plant. first to those classified documents seized from former president trump s home. joining me is ken delanian, jonathan lemire, former u.s. attorney and law professor joyc
classified material in the first 15 boxes that were returned to the national archives. and a member of the january 6th committee has revealed a new thread of the panel s investigation, the money behind the january 6th riot. all this while the former legal team struggles to define a defense argument. if there s a prosecution of donald trump for mishandling classified afternoon after the clinton debacle, there will be riots in the streets. let s dig into this with ryan riley and ali vitali, along with glen kushner, a former prosecutor, and robert gibbs, press secretary from the obama white house. the washington post is reporting that the filter team has already gone through these documents and taken out what was lawyer/client privilege. that s all they should have to go through. @ job should be done for them. the doj did go through this very quickly over the course of essentially two or three weeks. that s according to the latest filing this morning from doj. it said th