Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning it is saturday, september 7. Im Victor Blackwell and essentially try to latte oh, we were there we moved from i. C. E. T. Thats it had chocolate is next so do my eyes my eyes coffee. I have to treat im amara walker. Good to see you, everyone. Heres what were working on for you. Touchdown starliner is back on earth shes excited. I promise breaking overnight, boeing starliners six is landing on the spacecrafts returned to earth why nasa is calling the mission a success despite a few bumps along the way, including leaving two astronauts at this Space Station for several more months, a tight knit Georgia Community came together to heal after a deadly School Shooting what one young student who came facetoface with the accused 14yearold Killer is telling cnn about that moment and new overnight Vice President Kamala Harris is this campaign is using former president Donald Trumps own words against him. The three new Campaign Ads Hitting Trump on reproductive rights and project 2025. And just in time for thanksgiving, travel, see, i told you we moved on from i. C. E. T. Fine. Behind drive down Gas Prices below 3 a gallon our breaking overnight after months of questions about safety, Boeings Starliner Capsule has successfully returned to the earth from the international Space Station without its crew on board mitch control, clapped and cheered as the capsule landed at white Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, Nasa Officials said it was a Bullseye Landing it was a great Day Today to Return Starliner was great to have a successful undock the Orbit And Landing of the vehicle. I am thrilled for our Boeing Team and all of our colleagues have worked this mission across the country on the Nasa Team and the Boeing Team are theyve put a lot of Heart And Soul into this mission over many years. And its a testament to those people that we got the vehicle back safely today. Now, the starliner launched carrying two astronauts back in june and it was supposed to return a week later, but Helium Leaks and other issues prompted nasa to delay their return. Astronauts, Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore were supposed to return with starliner, but they will stay on the international Space Station until February Of 2025 heres Cnns Kristin Fisher with more good morning, victor and amara, boeing definitely breathing a sigh of relief this morning after starliner successfully landed and white sands, New Mexico, just after midnight eastern time. And, you know starliner, despite all of its issues with those faulty thrusters and the Helium Leaks, nasa was so worried about that moment of the deorbit burn thats essentially when those thrusters have to fire in order to stop Starliner Hit The Brakes essentially and allow it to reenter the earths atmosphere. That was the critical moment that nasa was so worried about. Its why butch and sunny, the two Nasa Astronauts that were Starliners Crew stayed back at the international Space Station, but starliners thrusters and all of those issues did not prove to be a problem. During this Reentry And Landing back on earth, there was one minor hiccup, one thruster on the Crew Module where butch and sunny would have been, didnt fire during a test Thats Something boeing and nasa are certainly going to be looking at today but pretty close to a Picture Perfect Landing in white sands, New Mexico. And so now the Big Question is is boeing is nasa going to require boeing to do another crewed Flight Test before its certified the fully fly Nasa Astronauts to and from the international Space Station and then of course, which and sunny, there now up there at the international Space Station until February Of 2025. This is actually where butch and sunny trained for their time up at the Space Station. This is a fullsize mockup of it every astronaut thats up there trains in here but butch and sunny, they really only trained for what was supposed to be an Eightday Mission now, they will be up there for eight months, but victor and amara, after Last Nights landing, its pretty clear that if butch and sunny had been on board, they would have been just fine. But nasa saying you know at what point, how much risk are you willing to take when there are Human Lives involved . Nasa simply saying there was just too much risk, too much uncertainty in order to allow butch and sunny to fly back home. So theyre up there until February 2025 . Victor amara kristin fisher. Thanks so much joining us now is the Ceo And Founder of janets planet. Janet ivey wearing a Snazzy Blouse thats what we call snazzy with the planets all over jake. Good morning to you. Lets start where kristen left off this decision not to put williams and Wilmore Barr on this capsule return, you still think thats the right call considering the questions about, about safety i do because when we think about what is the greatest resource in human spaceflight, its humans and i think No One wants to repeat in Apollo One or the challenger disaster, columbia disaster. And you simply dont know. I mean you know, theyre amazing engineers on the ground im trying to figure out what was going on its possible that on the way to the international Space Station in june, there was a glitch between kind of like the software that was kind of like keeping those thrusters and kind of like a continuous firing mode, never letting them truly cool down. Thats why the teflon extruded. So they didnt know oh, with that Teflon Extrusion with it somehow hinder the flight bag. But i just will tell you, victor and amara, its like every astronaut that i know. They said that after they returned to earn their first thought was when can i get back to space . So these are Career Astronauts that if trained, theyve been there before for theyre going to have an incredible story to tell and theyll continue to do great science and thats the hallmark of kind of like the, the program, right . Adaptability, the ability to adjust and change doesnt just affect sunny and butch. It also affects Zina And Stephanie wilson because they are not going to be aboard their scheduled flight in February Of 2025. But zina said, you know, its like really we make a grander sacrifice for the good of everyone. I do believe its the right choice. There may be some moments up there right now donie and butch are looking at each other going. Maybe we should have tried it, but for the safety of hindsight, maybe we should have tried it yet, but i am a bit confused about these comments from Nasa Officials. They maintained again, youve after the successful return of the starliner without the crew is saying that it would have been and a safe and successful landing had the crew been on board i mean, do you take issue with that they keep saying that, yes. They could have been on board yet. They decided against it because of safety issues i think its just hard to say. I think again now that were, you know, were were seeing oh it landed safely the airbags did what they needed to do, the parachutes, the Service Module dropped away. But again, i just think were much more risk averse than we were, say 60 years ago. Parent to the Apollo 13 mission those three astronauts had a 10 chance of survival as they were shivering there in that little small thing, they watch the Service Module fall away, realized half of its missing, the moon is in the distance there, dream of ever walking there is fading away and they still splashdown. I just think that yes, its fantastic for the boeing and all their partners that it went well. And landed so well and white sands, one of the reasons the Polaris Dawn Mission has been pushed off now for nearly twoandahalf, three weeks is because of weather youre off the Florida Coast Landing in the desert with that soft landing, they could have they could land anytime so i think its probably everybody. I think nasa his comments are just hopeful that if they had made that decision, then who if they would have been okay. But i think lets lets lets lets rather be safe than sorry, because again, Human Life is very precious. And whether youre on the international Space Station or wherever so, as you mentioned, the Service Module was jettison. It was the capsule that landed in New Mexico and all that Service Module thats where the Helium Leaks and thruster problems problems were. Were they nasa and boeing able to harvest as much as they need to find out what potentially the problems were and how to prevent them before it was jettison and lost i think they had some good ideas that, you know, what may or may not have happened. They had a ton of different scenarios. Their biggest worry and this is straight from one of the people that worked on those thrusters, the biggest worry they had was if wear that teflon had blake extended outward, was that in some way going to really prevent those thrusters from behaving incorrectly. And luckily, they behave just fine and everything deployed fine, but they didnt know if that was going to be true. So that was the i think if theres any good cause for them to have called it and said, sunny and butch will stay aboard. That was it. They just didnt know how that would behave after they undocked and now they have some great data coming down. Boeing certainly has some work in Quality Control as they move forward, but definitely the good day that it came down well, because i know a lot of good people were working hard to get get that back. Janet ivey, were out of time. Its so great to see you this morning. Thanks for getting up so early ill students from apalachee High School will not return to school tuesday when other Barrow County students resumed classes, they are still dealing with at the pain and the fallout from wednesdays Mass Shooting that killed two of their classmates and two of their teachers Last Night many people in the community braved the rain to honor the victims. Earlier in the day, the alleged gunman, 14yearold Colt Gray and his father, Colin Gray, who was also charged appeared in court. The trauma of that Mass Shooting is still fresh, especially for two sisters who came facetoface with that terror. Cnns Isabel Rosales has their stories 14yearold Bree Jones was the first student to lay eyes on Colt Gray just moments before she says he began his deadly rampage, he knocked on the door. I when i saw Him Hone a bag and just pulling a gun out, im not sure what kind of bag wasnt, but i see him pulling out of a bag and the like the girl was so big, Like Gray was her classmate and their class. The first he tried to enter, she tells cnn, i always look out the door before opening. It is just like its a habit my mom taught me. But as her teacher instructed her to let him back in, she said, i know he has a gun. If i were to open the door, they like he would have got every single One Of Us in that class. And i dont want me, my teacher my friends in the class, and my other classmates. I dont want nOne Of Us to get hurt, so i just i just didnt go like i thank god that i didnt open the door. Joan said gray moved on to her Sisters Class down the hall, coat, shot my teacher multiple times Malaysia Mitchell says shell never be able to erase the image of her teacher, richard aspinwall, begging for help. We had drag our teacher. Or Teachers Body and fully into the classroom we heard him take his last breath. Mitchell says, she felt powerless. Ive been trained what to do like give cpr and other stuff, but i couldnt because i couldnt help him so i ended up having a seizure the 14yearold Suspect who allegedly caused all this pain in court with families of the victims, just feet behind him youre charged with four counts of felony murder. Just minutes after the suspected shooter left the courtroom, where he did not enter a plea, his father walked in for his own first appearance two counts of felony murder. In the seconddegree youre charged with four counts, felony, Involuntary Manslaughter, and hes charged with eight counts of Seconddegree Felony Cruelty to children. An Arrest Warrant for Colin Gray alleges he gave his Son A Firearm when he knew his son was a threat to himself and to others. Its only the second time a parent has been charged in connection with a Mass Shooting carried out by their child. Would gbi has arrested Colin Gray, guilty last april in an unprecedented case. The parents of Ethan Crumbley were each sentenced to ten to 15 years for Involuntary Manslaughter. The da in the case says Colt Gray may face additional charges yes. You can anticipate there will be new charges on Colt Gray because wed never addressed the other victims in the school at apalachee high. Some students left wondering how they can possibly move forward do you think well be able to come Back To School . Yes. Because im not going to walk in fear. Isabel rosales winder, georgia, cnn. Isabel. Thank you so much. Lets discuss now with kelly hyman. It was a trial attorney. Kelly, thank you for coming in studio. So lets start here four people killed in this shooting, but the father, Colin Gray, charged with just two counts of Seconddegree Murder, but four counts of Involuntary Manslaughter. Why just the two counts of Seconddegree Murder instead of for all four victims well, this is a horrible tragedy. And so when we look at it from a legal perspective now, these are the initial charges potentially, they could be additional charges are other charges as well. But when we look at the charges, we look at the Seconddegree Murder and that is the most severe one it is. And then also Involuntary Manslaughter Involuntary Manslaughter means that they didnt have the intent. He didnt have this specific intent to do the harm and all see cruelty to children. Now its important to remember this is the first time in giorgia that a parent has been charged in shootings like this . Yeah. The crumbleys as ysabella just mentioned, Thats President in oxford, michigan after the School Shooting, there is that the expect to your expectation that well see this, if not the norm, but more likely more common after that first case in michigan thats potentially possible. That case in michigan, when we look at that case from a legal perspective, theres two key things that we want to look at, right . When we look at first we want to look at the fact about the gun. Did the parents lock up that gun that was a huge issue in the case. Did the child a minor, have access to that gun . Was it easily for them . M to get the gun and second, the knowledge of the parents, what knowledge of the parents have. And that is going to play a role in this case. The father, right. What did he do about the gun . Did he make sure that it was locked up with the child . Didnt know how to access the gun, and also what knowledge that the kid have . And we have to remember a year ago there were some issues with the fbi and the police came to the house about allegedly some plans to shoot and the father said that the sun had unfettered, you know access to the gun and whether that is going to play a role as well. Lets walk through that stepbystep. But first, for Colin Gray, who was the father, Colin Gray, the father of Colt Gray sun before we get to what he knew about his sons potential intentions, its illegal in georgia to give a gun to a child, essentially, right. To just hand over, give them access to this weapon before we know what he knew about what his son one to do with it. Right. The unfettered in a correction of the father our said that he did not have the gun was protected and thats definitely going to be an important issue that the father gave him the gun as a gift. And so the parents are supposed to as a minor, make sure that the gun is safe, make sure that the gun is protected, and something like this doesnt happen again, fbi received tips about threats of a school well shooting in may 2023, they interviewed Colin And Colt and coat denied making the threats. There was no probable cause, there was nothing that Law Enforcement could do in collins defense. Will we expect to see and is it credible that he could say, i mean, they didnt arrest him . They didnt do anything. He denied doing it. How would i have known that this was possible if even after investigation, they didnt find anything worth pursuing. Thats potentially possible when we look at it from the legal perspective, we understand right now that they have been charged. And so the next step is for the Grand Jury and the Grand Jury will hear evidence about this and they will make a determination whether or not to indict him, right. And then once in fact, if he is indicted, then thats when the criminal trial starts and thats in front of a jury, and thats where he could potentially put on that defense of saying basically the fact of what you stayed all right. Kelly hyman. Thanks so much all right. Still to come be Ad War is on the Harris Campaign is releasing their first abortion focused ads according women voters, the potential impact of those commercials. Thats next also, Donald Trump is lashing out at the women who accused him of assault following an Appeals Court Hearing in the e. Jean Carroll Sex Abuse Case ahead. Why trumps lawyers say he should be granted a new trial and 32 Million people in Southern California and the northwest remain under Heat Alerts today, were going to have a Weather Update for you when we come back Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, the debate everyones been waiting for Follow Suit and then for complete coverage and exclusive pre and postdebate analysis. 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