back because there's something there that draws your back i have a very close friend that i knew by the name of edward russia, which had machinda very bad stomach wall and i could not even bandage it properly we said goodbye to me care that may ever each laying here on the cemetery in covid i think of the many men here that there paid the ultimate price for the freedom of view young people want to know need to know everybody i saw that i was glad the fight alongside find them. >> they were willing to stand up and not all came back and they all have a story to tell. >> it's our responsibility to tell those stories people will not be forgotten as long as we

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nearly calm monday june 5 5, 1944 the evil fairly third reich was devastated the world nazi germany had subjugated and wants three nations of europe through brute, force lives and twisted ideology of racial superiority millions of jews murdered in the holocaust millions of others killed by bombs molars bloody warfare. >> hitler and those with them thought democracies were week at the future, belonged to dictators here the coast of normandy. >> the battle between freedom and tyranny would be joined here on that june morning, the

testing was at hand president macron mrs. macron, secretary austin, secretary blinken, distinguished guest most of all our honored veterans who met that test, the ages a test of ages to that moment. 80 years ago 80 years ago today we have of the american people that's commander in chief it's the highest honore debatable, a salute. you. here in normandy once more all of you, god love you winston churchill called would happen here the greatest, most complicated operation ever. end of quote. >> after years of planning operation overlord who's ready,

to launch just as soon as the weather turned across, the chopping and chopping and english channel the supreme commander of the allies, dwight d. >> eisenhower, awaited the largest forced ever of its kind, built by 12 nations. men. guns, planes, naval craft of every description waited. >> the world captive and free, waited finally, eisenhower's forecasters said there is a window in the weather it would open briefly. >> on tuesday. 6, june the general wade the options and gave the order at dawn, the allies was strike the great crusade to free yourself from tyranny would begin that night.

generalize our drove to the english town of newberry to visit paratroopers. >> hundred and first airborne there were men from all over america was estimated that 80% of them would be killed within hours. that was the estimate. >> but there were brave they're resolute and they were ready one soldier told general eisenhower, quote, don't worry, sir, sir but hundred and first is on the job everything will be taken care of that's what he said and because of their courage and their resolve, here's the courage resolve, of their allies it was taking care of from the sea and sky nearly 160,000 allied troops to descended on normally many state the obvious never came

home many survive that longest day kept on friday for months until victory was finally one in a few notable band of brothers are heroes today blaine smith is here. >> on that day under heavy artillery fire. he operated a range finder and radar on the first american ship to arrive at normal these coast providing direct gunfire support for the rangers scaling the cliffs. a point doc on their dairy admission to take out the german batteries bob gibson, his here he landed and utah beach about ten hours after the invasion began. bullets flying everywhere tracers, lighting up the sky bob drove an m4 tractor with an aircraft kohn mountain on top providing critical protection for the infantry

against the german air force on that day. >> and for many days after, he continued ben miller is here a medic with the 82nd airborne at 3am on june 6. he and 13 other metrics flora or the channel in a rookie glider its wings were ripped off by giant polls that the germans very halfway in the ground to stop them from landing they crashed but they survive and they did their duty dragging injured soldiers or safety, treating wounds saving lives all the battle raged every soldier stormed the beach, who dropped by parachute or landed by glider every sailor who manned the thousands of ships and landing craft, every aviator who destroy german controlled airfields,

bridges, and railroads all, all we're back by other brave americans including hundreds of thousands of people have color and women who courageously served despite unjust limitation on what they could do for their nation louis brown is here part of the red ball express a truck convoy made up of mostly african-american drivers they landed in normandy in the wake of d-day they rush supplies the rapidly advancing front lines what he would house is here members of the legendary tuskegee airmen who flew over 15,000 sorties during the war marjorie stone is here she enlisted in the women's branch and they will reserve became an aircraft mechanic spent the war keeping american planes and pilots in the air there's has always been the

story of america just walk the rows of the cemetery as i have nearly 10,000 heras buried side-by-side. >> officers and enlisted immigrants and native born, different races different phase but all americans all served with honore when america and the world needed them most men, he's back home, did their part as well from coast to coast. americans found countless ways to pitch in they understood our democracy is only as strong as all of us make it together the man who fought here became heroes not because they are the strongest or toughest job or fiercest. although they were, but because they're given an dangerous mission knowing everyone knew the probability of dying was real but they did

it anyway they knew beyond any doubt there are things that are worth fighting and dying for freedom is worth it. >> democracy is worth it americans worth the world is worth then. >> now and always the war in europe to nan for another 11 months but here the tide turned in our favor here, reprove the forces of liberty are stronger than the forces of conquest here we proved that the ideals of our democracy are stronger than any army or combination of armies and the entire world we proved something else here as well. the unbreakable unity of the allies here with us are men who served alongside the

americans that day morning different flags in their arms but fighting with the same courage for the same purpose >> you gotta know over time we brought more nations into nato.

the nato alliance including the newest members finland and sweden today nato stands at 32 countries strong and, nato is more united than ever need even more prepared to keep the peace, deter aggression the fan freedom all around the world america has invested in our alliances and forge new ones not simply out of altruism, but out of our own self-interest as well. america's unique ability to bring countries together, is it not an undeniable source of our strengthen our power isolationism was not the answer 80 years ago and is not the answer today we know the dark

forces, but these arrows fought against 80 years ago they never fade aggression and greed to desire to dominate and control to change borders by force these are perennial the struggle between a dictatorship and freedom is on ending. >> here in europe we see one stark example ukraine has been invaded by a tyrant then on domination. >> ukrainians are fighting with extraordinary courage suffering great losses. but never backing down maybe inflicted on the russian aggressors. they've suffered tremendous losses. russia the numbers are staggering 350,000 russian

troops dead or wounded nearly 1 million people have left russia because they can no longer see a future in russia the united states and nato and a coalition of more than 50 countries standard strong. would ukraine we will not walk away because if we do ukraine will be subjugated and will not end there ukraine's neighbors will be threatened all of europe will be threatened and make no mistake. the autocrats of the world are watching closely to see what happens in ukraine to see if we let this illegal aggression going checked we can not let that happen. to surrender to bullies, to bow down to dictators, and simply on thinkable we're way to do

that. >> the maze, maybe forgetting what happened here are these hollowed beaches make no mistake will not bow down we will not forget let me end with this history tells us freedom is not free you want to know the price of freedom. >> come here to normandy, come to norman and look go to the other cemeteries in europe where our fallen heroes rest. go back home to arlington cemetery tomorrow. >> i will pay respects at pointe-du-hoc. go there as well and remember, the price of unchecked charities, the blood of the young and the brave in their generation. they're hour of trial. the allied forces of d-day did their duty. now the question for us is an our our trial will we do ours? we're

living at a time when democracy and more risk across the world than a point since the end of world war ii, since these beaches were stormed. in 1944 now i have to ask ourselves, when we stand against tyranny, against evil, against crushing brutality of the iron fist when we stand for freedom, we do bend democracy. we stand together my answer is yes and only can be yes we're not far off from the time the last living voices, those who fought and bled on d-day will no longer be with us so we have a special obligation we can all love what happened here, be lost to in the silence of the years to come. we must remember it, must honore and live it and we must remember the fact that they were heroes here that day does not absolve us from what we have to do today democracy

has never guaranteed every generation must preserve it, defended, and fight for it that's the test of the ages in memory of those who fought here died here literally save the world here let us be worthy of their sacrifice let us be the generation that when history is written about our time in 10203058 years from now, it'll be said when the moment came we met the moment. we stood strong. our alliances were made stronger we save democracy in our time as well thank you very much. and may god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you with us today.

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watch for all world war ii veterans. >> here today. both behind, us and all around us 80 years ago these sailors stood the watch while some of us were in our bunks at night these soldiers stood the watch while some of us were in school learning our trade marines airman, and coaston stood the watch yes even before some of us we're born into this world the men behind me, and their brothers and sisters who laid before me stood the watch and those years

when the storm clouds of war we're seeing brewing on the horizon of history they stood the watch many times they would cast and i assure and see family standing there needing guidance and help needing that hand to hold. >> and those hard times but still they stood the watch they stood the watch 80 years ago they stood the watch so that we are families and our fellow countrymen and women can sleep soundly and safety. each and every night knowing that these

veterans stood the watch today we are here to say world war ii veterans the watch stands relieved relieved by those you have trained guided and lead american world war ii veterans you stand relieved we have the watch istinguish guests.

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rama pageantry poignancy at the marking the 80th anniversary of the allied invasion of normandy. we just saw some remarkable sites. veterans of that day from 80 years ago, we saw remarkable images, jets flying overhead and the missing man formation we heard remarkable speeches as well,

perhaps none more poignant than the reading of the watch which is traditional enabled ceremonies as emmanuel macron running to go greet the bedroom he's not going to miss. it was not this moment. the 3d of the watch, which is a traditional naval were time pheromones enables ceremonies, but today, particularly meaningful saying to the veterans of d-day, your watch has ended now we have the watch and that was the theme of president biden's address who spoke in detail? >> of the effort undertaken 80 years ago, and what those men and women did. >> but then said that it relates to today and what is happening in ukraine. he said ukraine will never backed down and we will not walk away because if we do, ukraine will be subjugated and it will not end, there air to surrendered a bully. he said would be unthinkable that would be two forget what happened on these

beaches. >> in essence saying, again, we have the washer looking at tom hanks, jamie dimon, just some of the people gathered their former joint chiefs chairman mark milley there as well. >> we saw steven spielberg there earlier president also saying about speaking out very strongly as we were told that he was going to against isolationism, saying it was not the answer. 80 years ago it is not the answer today. as we continue to watch these pictures as the circular one is coming to a conclusion, it moves on to the next part of this, which will be pressed president biden, who will be walking through the cemetery himself. we will be watching that that is going to be that is going to be in jon meacham, who's very close with the vice president, with the width with joe biden and often an advisor on his speeches. let me bring in christiana amanpour as we're watching this christiane just reflecting on that entire ceremony of what we just saw well, it is so incredibly

relevant. >> i mean, you imagine that they are celebrating, commemorating, and thanking the veterans from 80 years ago today as both the secretary of defense and the president of the united states and the president of france turn to those veterans and said, thank you, you save the world and they have old though costs their speeches and caused the atmosphere of today's. and this year's commemoration and celebration in terms of what we face in europe and in the world right now, which is a soaring and a searing rise in authoritarianism, democracy is on the back foot. the far right is poised to win in the upcoming european elections, which are happening just this weekend while president biden remains in europe her up on this state visit and so the stakes are huge. president biden framed it in talking about how this alliance has simply grown. nato, the greatest military alliance in

history, as he called, it, has grown over these last 80 years and including the newest members, sweden and finland. he talked about vladimir putin as being a tyrant. he used that word, he said bent on domination. he talks about not forgetting and not letting ukraine fight its war alone. and remember these are all really important words, but actions must speak louder than words let's because ukraine is very, very much suffering from the delay in american aid that took some seven months. solve for the first time in these three. now, nearly three years of war, russia take advantage of that gap in weaponry and that gap in ability to fight them off. and started to come through the ukrainian frontier towards kharkiv and these, this has really concentrated the alliance minds and her made them realize that actually europe and the united states, the entire alliance, needs to

do so much more to step up to this moment that is testing this alliance and the entire world order that the united states put in place after world war ii. and so this is going to be the theme, presumably going forth from these days, the moment of such poignancy with president macron and president biden going up to at least 11 of the american veterans conferring on them from the french side, the leisure on donor, and from biden, you saw him press a presidential coin into each of their hands as well. and they are really the heroes. and as you said, john the watch is so pointing celebrating and thanking their forebears and passing the baton to this generation and to future generations whose job it will be. to save and to defend what these people died, saving and defending. and i think that

that is just so incredible to really contemplate and digest. and then the last thing i suppose is to remember that in horror and the chaos and the destruction of world war ii, it was america, again with the marshall plan that invested in building back their enemies building by germany into one of the greatest democracies in the world, building back and helping japan, the enemy from the pacific, into a solid asian democracy. and that makes these, this alliance so huge. he's right by them. that is the biggest military alliance in the world because it spans the entire length and breadth from the american continent to the pacific. and so this is all what they're remembering, what they're commemorating, and what we all have to be up to to actually preserve for the future because the challenges are not just not over, they are as dangerous as ever, right now. >> because as the president noted, dark, dark forces, he

said never fade democracy. he said is not guaranteed christiane. thank you so much. want to bring a retired general james spider marx has been watching all of this and i know james spider for you in particular, this has gotta be pretty emotional. this is how you've lived your life standing up like those men did some 80 years ago? >> yeah, it's quite phenomenal. i mean, just to acknowledge that i had the great honor of living in their shadow and try and every de not to disappoint what this really is about is continuity, kind of two things. one is continuity this, notion of this, this gripping of hands across generations to ensure that what those men and women were able to achieve we will be able to sustain and we see that laid out in front of us today. i mean, ceremonies like this or just quite phenomenal, very, very emotional and then the second thing, remember that

during this war, during world war ii, we had a war department and then afterwards it became a defense department. and i think lloyd austin said it best and that these men and women built this democracy. they save the world and built this, these democracies, democracy has been able to flourish we now are in a position to make sure that we defend it. and i think that's the very poignant place we are today. when you look at all the challenges that we're confronted with and kayla just focusing in on the president's speech specifically, you talked about kind of there are dual goals and missions going in and talk about what you heard then from the president coming out well i took note of his baton passing to the future generation acknowledging that the veterans who were here at years ago and are also here

today, that they're time is coming to an end, but that it rests on the future. future generation to carry that mission forward. he said, let us be the generation that history is written about our time, 102050 years from now, we met the moment our alliances were made stronger are we save democracy in our time as well. of course, he is issuing that challenge to a generation that has seen the political fabric in the united states and across western capitals be fraying in recent years as some populist forces have been on the rise, certainly biden is trying to pledge his unbreakable assistance and commitment to the nato alliance, which he notes was created in the wake of world war ii and is stronger than ever today. de in his words. but there is a cost associated with that commitment and it is a cost that european leaders are attempting to step up to the plate with. we know that more later there's are trying to meet that two percentage points of 2% of gdp

defense spending target by the nato summit next month, we also know that president biden has been seeking more money from european leaders to fund the war in ukraine. christiane mentioned the marshall plan, which in today's dollars would have cost 171 billion the us already has pledged $175 billion in military and financial aid to ukraine. so the numbers are staggering at this point and the present i didn't really needs to rally our western allies to essentially pledge their share of that fight as well in addition to passing this button onto the future generations, some very forceful words against a very somber backdrop on a very emotional and humbling day here in normandy it is so interesting. >> there's two things did notice just picking up on what you said. number one, as far as that investment goes, president biden said it's not just altruism it's self-interested, never has been just altruism fighting for freedom is in this self-interests. he made that point relating it back to 1944

and today and just the framing and looking toward the future, kayla. and thank you very much. president biden actually began and the speech on january 5th? yes. 1944, poised looking forward to the events on d-day in ended it. i think on the eve of this new fight for democracy around the world poise to how the united states in the world will make decisions looking forward, i want to bring in tim naftali, who has been watching this along with us right now. in these moments in history, tim are very important not just to mark what happened, but to mark where we are you're very important and especially now as you, as we looked at those faces of the few remaining veterans of d-day made the trek back to france. >> we are minded to the fact that in a few short years, there won't be anyone who was

there of that de to tell their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren about why they did it there was a deep divide in america in 1941 over what to do about dictators. and about half the country said, it's not our problem. and there was an organization called america first after the japanese attacked pearl harbor. america first on its own, disbanded and from december 1941 until recently america first was understood to mean american needed to take care of itself through its alliances to maintain stability around the world, to be there. when dictators challenged regional freedom that was a consensus view, that was an understanding americans disagreed over vietnam but on the larger point that in many ways we remain the indispensable nation to help other nation state three, that

was something americans understood, and it brought americans together but in 2015, the very last veterans role war ii left congress and in the years since are nine years since the understanding of america's need to be part of a web of alliances not just for our own security at home, but because we benefit from security around the world, that understanding has begun to dissolve. and so on. this 80th anniversary of the most critical moment on the western front, it's extraordinarily important to remake this argument not only to thank those remaining among us who did fight as hard as possible and whose members of who's band of brothers gave the ultimate sacrifice? but also to talk to ourselves and to remind people that there are important things in the world that are beyond politics that should be

beyond partisanship, that should be understood, not because a leader tells you one way or the other, but because you know, through your own family history, the consequences of taking democracy for granted. if you need a stark reminder of that, look at those crosses them, and those stars of david which will be there forever on the shores of a land. those young men didn't know at all those are reminder of a huge costs of taking democracy for granted. and so the president's words and not just his words, the very vigil that very testament of those old man standing there receiving their metals that should be for a lot of americans at learning moment, a teachable moment a reminder that something's really matter and will continue to matter and jim, as tim's talking about a need and an opportunity here on the world stage to remake that argument it also in the remarks

of president biden it seemed an attempt to refocus the nation's attention on the idea of shared sacrifice, which is so lacking and lost and gone. >> in so much today do you know what i think kate were the most important and telling leinz of biden's speech just then, among many powerful leinz, was this one. >> the fact that they were heroes speaking of the d-day veterans and those who lost their lives does not absolve us of what we must do today the us is very good at ceremony, we're very good at memorializing the great events of our history, both at official ceremonies like this one, but in the movies, i mean, there's a world more to movie or two or three every year that celebrates that victory and celebrates that test met biden is making the argument and he's not alone in this. >> that the us and its allies are being tested. again in ukraine and with threats from russia beyond ukraine and from

china to taiwan and beyond and he said, just before that line, isolationism was not the answer 80 years ago and it is not the answer today in effect, saying it is good to celebrate those great moments. great tests met from the past. but we're being tested again. and the challenge now just to meet that test and to tim naftali is point that was not a certain answer in 1939 or 41, or 1944, there were many in this country quite powerful people who argued much as we're hearing, argued today, that the sacrifice was too great, that the war in europe was not america's war, much as you hear today about ukraine pain are about taiwan they could have won the argument right? it was not certain that the us was going to join this war. fdr for years, it was pearl harbor that lead to that ultimate decision so biden's point in effect is, while you're celebrating that moment 80 years ago you have to in his view, make the same

decision today to stand up democracy is not guaranteed jim sciutto. thank you so much to everyone who has helped us observe this moment. this commemoration, some 80 years in the making 80 years since the allied invasion normally, thank you all for being with us to see it. >> it's wonderful to take just take the time. and here is where the focus then turns as these live events will continue to president biden will be walking through the cemetery to honore those who lost their lives in those days. got a lot of breaking news that we were also following in addition to following these live events, we are learning that breaking overnight the boeing starliner spacecraft is now leaking helium as it makes its way to the international space station questions now of what that means for astronauts on board and what you're looking at here. >> is this is the spacex starship about to lift off on

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athletes, and aidala. you are pushing the limit of worst-case all right. >> i'm ready to show the world how good i am. >> i've trained all over the globe and that's what you're going to see an aw, whole, whole different bst we wednesday night dynamite at eight on tbs all right. >> so any moment i'll take a look at that. any moment of the starship from spacex is set to lift off its fourth flight test from boca chica, texas, where space-like says weather conditions right now even though the shot, it looks actually poor, but weather conditions they say, i'm going to be whether there might be some kind of smoke.

>> it's coded created environment, weather conditions apparently are great again, live pictures, it's a 400 foot long rocket unmanned. let's get over to cnn's kristin fisher from one launch to the other. bring us up to speed i know guys, we are in terminal account right now. >> t minus 54321, engine ignition. you guys want to just watch this play out. let's listen. >> the most powerful rocket ever built, lifting off from boca chica, texas right now for flight attempt your goals, pitching downrange all. >> right 30 seconds into flight. the rumbles are still

building here in the rafters we're seeing. 32, 33 engines lit on the super heavy, right now coming up shortly is going to be maximum, that maximum aerodynamic pressure as we go uphill on the vehicle max q all right, we just pass through max q. so we're going to continue on up. we still have a backup, a supersonic, and 30 seconds until we get to stage separation starship now, flying faster than the speed of sound all right so you've got a couple of views. you got some ground trackers and your top camera there. you're looking down from the top of the booster and the bottom left and then a camera in the top flap of the ship looking back in the bottom right. so getting a couple of different looks that

starship had hill once we get the hot staging, a lot of things happen all at once. simultaneously. we're going to light the engines on the ship, starting with the our backs first and then the three centers level engines before were separated. all of that exhaust gets plumed out the side of the hot stage. and then the ship will separate itself all but the three center engines. mr. going to shut down the booster never stops its thrust while we go through this hot stage maneuver. >> after that, the booster is going to do it's flipped, start heading back and then the ship will be on its own power on its way to space. so that should be coming up in just about 30 seconds from now as according to go as of now, at least on plan kristin fisher just explain to us where we are in the starliner. >> now, they're gonna progression here. this is the fourth launch of this vehicle

and the other three had varying degrees of frankly, not success see those three center. well, two slight corrections there. if i may, john, this is actually called starship, sorry for the views of yesterday's loss details some slack right? starliner starship. >> i've been making that mistake yesterday's launch was a boeing's starliner. >> this is spacex's starship. this is the rocket that is designed to land american nasa astronauts on the surface of the moon for the first time since the end of the apollo program back in 1972, someday, it is also hopefully going to be used to allow humanity to colonize mars. or that is at least elon musk's dream so what you're watching right now is the fourth flight test of this vehicle. the first two ended in rather early explosions, but the last flight test, flight test three, which we saw just about

two-and-a-half months ago, was a resounding success yes. >> both the booster and the spaceship landing ended in an explosion, but you have to remember this is a flight test. >> the goal of that test was just to see if it could get into orbit and it did that and it gave us some incredible live images along the way for about an hour long this flight test, the goal is to go one step further. they want to get starship into orbit. but the key thing here is they want to see if it can survive those extremely high temperatures on re-entry. so what we're going to see, hopefully is first, if the booster can splash down safely somewhere in the gulf of mexico, the boosters, the thing that propels starship into space and then after about an hour, we're going to see if starship can actually do a controlled re-entry into the earth's back into the earth's atmosphere survived those high temperatures dual a little belly flip and then land a very

controlled landing in the water. both vehicles would be lost. but in the end, the idea is that these would someday be completely reusable rockets, something that would make spaceflight much easier, much faster, and much cheaper frankly. >> so that's what we're wanting touching here, i believe you have the booster on the left and starship on the right, jon and kate and kristen is we're talking this is not just a project that elon musk cares about. we've we've heard over over again from nasa administrator bill nelson, how important this is for nasa as well. >> this is the linchpin for nasa's artemis program they cannot land on the surface of the moon without this spacecraft and look at what china did just a few days ago china just became the first country to take a sample from the surface of the moon on the far side of the moon. and collect that sample and bring

it. they're trying now to bring it back to earth. that's something that no other country has done. the us has of course, done it on the other side of the moon, but not the far side. that's a much higher degree of difficulty. and china wants to build a base on the south pole of the moon in the exact same place at the united states does with nasa astronauts, both essentially perhaps some de competing for those valuable resources like water in the form of ice on the south pole of the moon. so that's what's at stake here. but yes, this is elon musk's baby. it is his pet project his favorite project because he hopes it will achieve his own personal goal of making humanity multi-planetary k1, john kristen, i did get my spaceships confused. i apologize for that and we are watching these spacex starship, but allow me if you will, to ask a question about any store link, the one that launched yesterday, the boeing craft where i understand there are minor starliner starlink, star

alliance you should be there, are some astronauts and living astronauts in space right now in a craft, this leaking helium. >> what's going on there yes. >> so it's the boeing starliner spacecraft and this is remember the first test flight of this boeing spacecraft. you have nasa astronauts, suni williams and butch wilmore on the board on route to the international space station. and we knew when they lifted off yesterday that they were dealing with a small helium leak. but boeing and nasa decided that was within the normal parameters and margin and that they could go ahead and fly with it and i am not sure what we're seeing right there on the screen, like a rand free of something that is the booster one second coming back down, making a controlled landing over the water or a what will be a controlled splashdown crazy? you can hear the cheering, listened to this. i mean, this is exactly what spacex was hoping to do. wow, look at

those flames in the water big tears in hawthorn, texas that spacex is headquarters a whole. >> the spacex employees jumping up and down, look splashdown of the super heavy booster loves seeing it just tip over into the water before losing that footage. now the next milestone is coming up in about one minute. >> he was ship is going to shut off its raptor engine ship it to cut off, which we see right there as we mentioned before, today's test flight is not an orbital flight, but rather one that demonstrates ship those starship's orbital capability so right now we are underpowered with just the three center rafter engines

expecting those just also successful mds is saved what an incredible orbit insertion there's great news there to call out. >> we were hoping to hear amazing views. >> once again from starship. we have our second starship in space. these live views being right, we'll continue to watch these lives pictures. >> anyone board the ship. i'm still just always florida every time you see that we can watch this stuff like crazy, crazy, crazy pants that we can kristin. thank you so much. we're going to continue watching this. and the same time, we have more breaking news coming in and do our scene a new central starts now cnn's breaking news or you're looking at live pictures from the normandy, france, president biden and the first lady langer week at the us cemetery.