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being on. let s reset at the top of the hour now. i m anderson cooper. thank you for joining us. we re following two major breaking stories that the hour. the downing of malaysian airlines flight 17 that killed 298 people in ukraine. and i m wolf blitzer reporting from jerusalem. the other major story, the breaking story we were following, the crisis in gaza, where israel launched a major ground offensive and it continues. a lot to get you up to date on in this hour. president obama today laying out the priorities and the aftermath of the airline crash in the ukraine. the priorities, learning the truth first, he say then acting. there has to be a credible international investigation into what happened. the u.n. security council has endorsed this investigation and we will hold all its members, including russia, to their word. in order to facilitate that investigation. russia, pro-russian separatists and ukraine must adhere to an immediate cease-fire. evidence must not be ....
there in the final last few seconds. in kelly, kentucky, something else emerges in the sky. we can see venus here at this point in kelly, kentucky. i love the fact that you can see venus. even the president stepping out of the white house to watch. finally, the last major stop for the great american eclipse charleston, south carolina. the clouds cooperating. you know, it really puts us in our place as far as our role in the cosmos, doesn t it, the fact that we here on earth are part of something much bigger. and then sky gazers starting to make the long journey home. in remote rigby, idaho, bumper to bumper traffic for miles. the traffic coming out of idaho goes as far as the eye can see. reporter: this traffic jam started precisely as the eclipse ended. people already had packed, gotten into their cars. one family heading back to california. how long do you expect that to take you with this traffic? about 20 hours. reporter: 20 hours. was it worth it? 20 hours. way. ....
hostage situation unfolding at this hour inside a bank. several reportedly trapped inside. good evening. it s great to have you with us on a friday night. we begin with the urgent headline from puerto rico at this hour. a dam at imminent risk of failure, a life-threatening situation. a mass evacuation under way. some 70,000 people across the island. catastrophic flooding and mudslides already. the governor saying it s time to get people out. we begin with abc s rob marciano on the scene to get tens of thousands to higher ground. rob. reporter: a disastrous development happening in puerto rico. a large dam is beginning to fail. two towns and tens of thousands of people in danger downstream. a flash flood emergency in effect right now. officials urging people to get to high ground. this is a life-threatening situation happening now. tonight the new emergency in this unfolding disaster. the battering of hurricane maria and her 40 inches of rain causing this major dam s failur ....
that warned ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii. this is not a drill. parents hiding their children in manholes. families huddled in closets. and what we ve now learned tonight. and olympic gymnast simone biles. her brave words. what she has just revealed. good evening. and it s great to have you with us here on this martin luther king jr. holiday. and we have a lot of news to get to. we begin tonight with that new winter storm moving across the country at this hour. the alberta clipper bringing snow and ice and freezing rain, and there is real concern tonight about the commute tomorrow morning. already tonight, dangerous driving from the plains to the midwest. a driver losing control, slamming into a police cruiser, right there in park hills, kentucky. as we come on the air tonight, two dozen states now under winter storm warnings and watches right now. that system pushing all the way from texas to minnesota and moving east. d.c., philly, new york, boston all get h ....
it for two years i think for this mission what was the training involved. the training focuses in those two years really on what they have to do for the mission so we re teaching them about the spacecraft functioning about the repair jobs that they have to do the maintenance job it s a giant machine it needs oil laying it. shining on on the edges there s a lot of work involved that has to be done by the to keep it going and then of course there s a lot of work going into preparation for the soyuz flight being able to fly and potentially pilot vehicle is a task that takes nine months out of these two years already and then we have the science bitch where we teach them how to be the experimenter that does what the scientists on the ground want them to do because ultimately the experiments for scientists on earth. stay with us if you would mind we re going to have a look at what alex asked alexander guest will be doing up there and then we ll we ll come back. t.v. because part of ....