Newsroom starts right now. It is 4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. It is good to be back with you this day. We begin in the u. S. State of hawaii. Teams there on the ground set to resume the search for one person still missing after a tourist helicopter crash. The remains of six others on board have been recovered. Our Josh Campbell has the latest for you. The crash site in a remote area inside a state park in the northwest section of the island of kauai. This tour helicopter was one of many that you typically see here in hawaii, a popular attraction that allows tourists the ability to look inside volcanos, of water falls, to get an idea of this states wildlife. This all began on thursday afternoon. The coast guard, the u. S. Navy as well as kauai fire and rescue were alerted after the tours and helicopter failed to return to base in its allotted time. That launched a massive search and rescue effort involving multiple agencies throughout the night working some 16 hours by sea, air and land. As far as the cause of this incident, that remains under investigation. Were told officials from the National Transportation safety board as well as the american e Aviation Federation are on the way here. Were told early reports point to possibly bad weather. There were two families aboard, including four adults, two children. Officials announcing that remains from six of those people have been recovered. A search for the seventh continues. Josh campbell, cnn, honolulu. Josh, thank you. In kazakhstan, a Major Development following a crash there. Investigators found the black boxes belonging to a passenger jet that crashed on friday. Those boxes will be sent to moscow for dekrepgz. In the meantime, kazakhstan is observing a day of mourning for the 12 people that were kidnapped. Investigators say the aircraft specifically a focker 100 plane plunged to the ground seconds into the flight, broke through a concareer barrier and hit a twostory building. As a precaution, all focker 100 planes in the country have been temporarily grounded. Pivoting to the impeachment of the u. S. President donald trump and his demand for a speedy trial in the senate, that demand seems to be going nowhere fast. The president showing sign thats its apparently ruining his vacation as our Phil Mattingly reports. As President Trump continued his holiday twitter barrage against democrats on impeachment, Speaker Pelosi is continuing to press her partys case in her own tweet. Yet for all the 280character thoughts, the battle over what the looming senate trial will look like remained where its been for days, at an impasse. Sources telling cnn no conversations between the top two Senate Leaders have occurred or are likely to before january. And with tangible action tabled for the moment, a clear democratic strategy has to some degree emerged, to get under the president s skin. Something sources tell cnn is exactly whats happened. Theyre playing games. They dont want to put in their articles, their ridiculous, phony, fraudulent articles. But even more importantly, democratic sources say to ex either pressure on Mitch Mcconnell. Mitch mcconnell already said hes working hand in hand with the white house on this. Hes not impartial juror. Mcconnell has rejected democratic calls to subpoena witnesses and documents in the initial trials resolution and has scoffed at the democratic pressure play. Im not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we do not want. And the reality is the expectation, at least according to people im talking to on both sides of the aisle should come fairley soon after lawmakers return to capitol hill in january. But the other reality is nobody here is totally sure. Here is why. Speaker pelosi has kept her plans, what she wants to do going forward, when she wants to send those articles to the United States senate closely held. Nobody has a Firm Understanding of what her next steps would be. As one democratic lawmaker texted me earlier today, well, just stay tuned, i guess. Phil mattingly, cnn, washington. And there are questions about what is next for u. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo. He said hes not interested in running for the u. S. Senate. There are signs that suggest what pompeo says and what he does may be two separate things, like this, his brand new personal social media profile. It reads husband, father, kansasan and proud american. A much softer look than the button downed formality of the official state department account. Some question whether it is a sign that he is, indeed, interested in a source for u. S. Senate. And the white house is working on a list for possible replacements for pompeo. Steven mnuchin is said to be interested, but the deputy secretary would be a natural choice. Hes number two at the agency and could fill in as acting secretary for many months. Another possibility is robert obrien. Hes now the National Security adviser. A lot to put into focus this day and to do so, lets bring in natasha linstadt live from birmingham, england. Thanks for being with us. Thanks for having me. Lets talk about this impasse between the u. S. House of representatives and the u. S. Senate. The House Speaker keeping close her plans about how and whether to move forward. The Senate Majority leader, essentially, calling her bluff. Do you agree that this is, indeed, putting pressure on Mitch Mcconnell . I dont think it is putting much pressure on Mitch Mcconnell. I think it is making Donald Trumps holiday absolutely terrible. And we can see the results of that because hes been on a tweet storm and calling nancy pelosi crazy nancy pelosi, so hes going for very personal attacks. So it has got under his skin. But Mitch Mcconnell, really, has the power here because the way the sneetd is made up, theres a majority of republicans in the senate. They would need twothirds to pass. Eventually even if nancy pelosi and the democrats were to get their ways and were to get a couple concessions from republicans, it wont make a difference. This is going to be a sham trial. Im not going to uphold this oath that i took. I am going to be working with donald trump. Were going to get this over with as quickly as possible. It might even happen in a week and this is going to be no big deal. I think that really annoyed her and she felt, well, not so fast. Were going to delay this process a little bit. Try to get some concessions out of you and see if we can at least make this trial appear to be a little bit more fair and impartial. Mcconnell indicated that he would be working hand in hand with the white house in this. The president accusing the white house of Holding Articles of impeachment. Democrats point to the fact that though the president claims that he is innocent, claims that he wants to present witnesses, they say hes the one who is blocking those witnesses. How significant is that in all of this . Well, that has been part of the democrats main arguments. They didnt go all the way to the obstruction of justice because that would have brought them back to the Mueller Probe been but overall, trump has played the cards very, very differently than any other president , even more so than nixon. And i know there was some obstruction going on in the nixon case. He hasnt complied with anything. He ignores rules, processes, all the Democratic Institutions that are in place are becoming more and more fragile because he simply wont agree, wont abide by any of these rules. And this has been very difficult for the democrats to deal with because the mechanisms in place to try to rectify this take a really long time to come to fruition because you have to go through the courts. So its really a new era for politics because its become so polarized and because also you have donald trump not abiding by any of these. Also, there are questions. We just mentioned this here, the report, the questions about the u. S. Secretary of state and what 2020 may mean for mike pompeo. The reports that suggest he may want to run for senate and the Senate Majority leader allegedly or reportedly, rather, pushing him to do so. It is leaving a great deal of uncertainty about what is next in that vital role, given that mr. Trump and pompeo do seem to get along when you consider whats been a revolving door in that white house. Right. And there were some reports there might be some tension and i think this has been a difficult period for pompeo because hes been roped into this whole impeachment probe and he appeared to be a very important player in the impeachment probe having not defend Marie Yovanovitch and reviewing to cooperate with all these other people. So for mike pompeo, its been very clear that hes been very, very loyal to trump. And i think what he is doing is he is eyeing a senate seat in kansas. He may say thats not what he wants to do. Thats what politicians always say. They deny that theyre going to run or make some different maneuver. But hes been very, very loyal to trump because he knows that that is how you win in republican areas. So in kansas, which is a fairley republican state, if he remains loyal to trump, tries to stay out of this whole impeachment thing, he can quietly go and try to run for the senate seat and that would be an easier position than being secretary of state where theres just all kinds of things and challenges that he has to face that make it very, very difficult and particularly because of the impeachment probe seem to involve him so heavily. So then whats next, if he decides to go, then trump is going to have to appoint somebody else or they may have someone thats just acting, but the key thing trump needs is someone that is very, very loyal. Weve seen this with the attorney general when he was able to appoint bill barr that completely you shifted things in his favor. Because rex tillerson, the previous secretary of state, wasnt quite as loyal, that didnt go over very well with trump. So whatever happens in the future, were going to see someone that will come in that will basically be another trump lackey. Natasha, we appreciate your time. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Breaking news into cnn, we are following this story out of somalia. A government Spokesman Says a suicide car bomb attack in the capital city of mogadishu has left at least 30 people dead there. 60 people have been wounded according to reports. The attack happened at about 8 00 a. M. Local time at a key checkpoint. Both civilian and soldiers are among the dead. Somalias al qaeda affiliate al shabab has claimed responsibility for that attack. Well continue to gather information and bring you developments as we learn more. Still ahead on cnn newsroom live, deadly fires raging in australia and theyre putting these beloved animals at risk. Ahead, how one hospital is helping to sayre the koalas. Plus, nasa has unveiled a new rover that will collect samples on mars. A mission out to the red planet. Stay with us. So i can sleep great and wake up human. Dont eat me i taste terrible. Fight your worst symptoms so you can sleep great and wake up human. New mucinex nightshift cold and flu. A tractortrailer jack knifing there on a highway on friday. You can see Police Officers scrambling to get out of the way as the truck barrels ahead. Officers were responding to multiple accidents that day. A local tv news crew was on the scene. They captured the video. Two people were injured, we understand. Dense fog created hazardous driving conditions at the time there. In australia, as bush fires rage on, we now know that theyre having a devastating impact on koalas. Koalas are being particularly hard hit in New South Wales as their habitats are being destroyed. Natalie allen explains there is hope as experts fight to save one koala at a time. A koala hospital in australia overwhelmed with patients. He seems to be quite dehydrated and probably quite hungry. Not all were lucky like this little one. Animal experts establishme animal experts estimate hundreds of koalas have died since september. Australias he Prime Minister saying on friday up to 30 in the countrys New South Wales region may have been killed in the ongoing fires. The regions koala hospital has admitted more than 300 of these adorable animals so far this year. But the hospitals director says the support from the public has been equally overwhelming. The hospital has received over 2 million in donations on a go fund me page site. The amount of visitors that are here at the koala hospital over the last five or six weeks has been phenomenal. Everyone is so afraid that were going to lose koalas, that they want to come and see them. Thats the power of the koala worldwide. The government says its working with koala experts and 6 million has been set aside to help save and rehab them. A new heat wave is expected to hit parts of the country over the weekend and into next week. Raising fears that high temperatures and dry winds could further intensify the raging infernos. Thats all bad news for the already vulnerable koala community. Very little would actually survive in there unscathed. Walabees, change radio, deer would get out because they can run, but koalas really cant. The species is at risk of extinction is the population continues to shrink. Rising temperatures which dry out their habitats, deforestation and these are taking a toll. The staff here hope his fate will be different. In a time when the death of even one koala could be one too many. Natalie allen, cnn, atlanta. And derek van dam, our meteorologist here, you see one example after the next after the next, after the next that indicate things are changing and not for the good. What you just saw there, particularly in australia, now what about a warming ocean and the impacts that that has on a maritime life, any kind of Aquatic Ecosystems. It has been brought to our attention, a maritime heat wave. Youre looking at a map of the world, a sea surface temperature anomaly. It highlights the areas showing warmer than average temperatures. And we focus in just off the coast of eastern new zealand. And scientists have picked up on this deep, dark shade of red here. This is an indication that this area has been seen temperatures soar 9 degrees fahrenheit or 5 degrees celsius, warmer than the average for this time of year at that particulate attitude. What has astounded scientists is how large this particular blob of warm sea surface temperature is. It covers 4,000 square miles, roughly the size of texas. For our International Viewers with that is about 1 million square kilometers. This thing is massive and it has major impacts, the potential for coral bleaching, the potential to impact the Aquatic Ecosystems there. Were seeing ramifications of a warm spell of several weeks across the Southern Hemisphere and its being picked up from space and covering a large area. We think about not only what is happening in land, but under the water, as well. The heat wave conditions continue across australia. Its moving from west to east and we expect the worst conditions to settle into New South Wales where the coastal areas have been hit hardest. Melbourne to sydney, temperatures in the upper 30s and into the low 40s, believe it rnt. We have 70 active fires. I have to get in this story because our domestic viewers wants to know what kind of weather they can expect as they approach the new years eve celebrations. We have a major storm system brewing across the central portions of the country. This is the northern planes and the upper midwest. If youre located omaha, chicago, st. Louis to atlanta, this will be an allrain event. Even as it spreads eastward into the east coast cities, new york and d. C. , a rain event. But on the back side of this system, it will dump 18 inches of snow or more across the dakotas and into northern minnesota. Look at the delays possible today and how these shift closer to the weekend. Looks like the ball drop in new york city will stay dry. Thats good. Cold but dry. Cold but dry. China now has its eyes to the stars after a successful rocket launch. Take a look. The applause you hear there, that is the reaction at Mission Control after the two previous attempts that had failed. But on friday, china announced that its long march 5 carried a satellite into orbit. A former nasa astronaut explains what that means. Chinas Space Program, fist and foremost as in any National Space program is about National Pride and prestige. The other countries are definitely paying attention to the chinese Space Program. China has made it clear theyre in it for the long haul, theyre in it for the Long Investment and theyve marked up several successes, both in inmaned probes and in human space flight, as well. You hear it there, china in it for the long haul. Now the countrys Space Program is focussing on ambitious goals, including land ago person on the moon as early as next year. Scientists at nasa and the United States are looking ahead to mars now, hoping a brand new mars rover will help to determine whether life ever existed on the red planet. The unnamed space vehicle made its debut on friday. Nasa plans to launch it next summer. Cnns paul rekaman has more on the multibillion dollar mission. Im here inside the clean room at jpl and behind me arguably the most tricked out vehicle in the solar system, the mars 2020 rover. Among the new features on this rover, the terrain relative navigation. If you see that sort of red triangle, our camera in there is going to be taking images of mars as it parachutes down into a crater. And why this is important is this c