mayor a second term. when i spoke to the residents, mayor, they told me they feel more prepared, the city officials told them more about the flooding than in 2020. what have you done differently to prepare your residents this time around? unfortunately, we ve had this experience within a short period of time and so we ve learned a lot. so we ve communicated early and often. we ve been able to better instruct the things that residents need to prepare around taking pictures of their items, making sure that they take their critical documents. we ve had a strong coalition of not only city departments but the county and state so it s been an all hands on deck process and hopefully that allows us to save life and property that would not be spared otherwise. reporter: we know that we re not expecting the river to crest at as high of a level as we saw in 2020 but this isn t a moment to underestimate the floodwaters. absolutely not. we want residents to heed these warnings. this
miles beyond it, further than any spacecraft intended to carry humans. cameras inside and outside orion will document the trip because this crew is unmanned but not unmannequined. a suited mannequin that will collect data on what future human crews might experience as nasa prepares for a lunar landing in 2025. we re sending mannequins into space. i suppose maybe that s been done before. none of this happens if the weather doesn t cooperate. i m sure nasa is on pins and needles about all of this. how is it looking for tomorrow? reporter: that s right, jim. when it comes to rocket launches everyone s eyes are on mother nature and right now nasa is saying that the conditions are 80% favorable for a launch tomorrow morning. the launch window opens at 8:33 a.m. eastern time and the countdown clock has already started, jim, so people are pretty optimistic this will take flight, the weather will not be the deciding factor but, also, a lot of folks are concerned about the fact that
alligator. some even picked up wally to pet him. if you re wondering wally has quite the social media following. he visits kids and people with special needs. i say no thanks. not trying to see that alligator. i m fredricka whitfield. thank you so much. cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. see you later alligator. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. to the moon and beyond. in less than 24 hours we will witness the start of nasa s historic artemis space program which aims to eventually put a human on mars but first the moon and this orion spacecraft. it s the first small step in this new age of space exploration. orion will enter a distant orbit of the moon and travel 40,000
thought my observation about phillip baum gagartner, one gia leap for red bull. so mars is a nasa priority. we also know it s a priority for you. so why is it such a priority? why should we buy into having a human on mars? humans on mars permanently is the objective of making humanity on earth a two-planet race. a sustaining of catastrophe here on earth and inspiration to our young people. after apollo the united states was right up there in science, technology, engineering and matt. we need that kind of inspiration and that kind of commitment can be made again when on the 50th
landings in history. but for now, all eyes on this. the very first video of the curiosity landing, released today. the grainy video was shot onboard moments before touching down. john zarrella and chad myers join me now for more. so, john, let s start with you. you have been following the story very closely and are live at nasa s jetropulsion laboratory in california. tell us about this new veo and what exactly are we seeing? reporter: well, in fact, zoraida, what we re seeing in this video are images taking from the descent camera, made by space industries down in san diego. and the video shows the curiosity rover as it is descending down through the atmosphere to the touchdown on mars. it was 297 images all put together into one continuous short video. and then there was the haz cam image. they finally did get a higher resolution picture which shows mt. sharp in the distance. and that mt. sharp is, of course, critical what they are hoping to do is get over to mt. sharp ev