♪ good morning, everyone, and welcome to your new day. i'm amara walker. >> good morning, amara. i'm boris sanchez. and this morning, we are once again counting down to liftoff just hours from now nasa is going to attempt to launch the historic artemis i rocket. we're going to have the latest from kennedy space center, and more on those engine issues that scraped the first launch. and extreme heat grips the west coast. more than 40 million people now under extreme heat alerts. we'll tell you how hot it's going to get and what it means for your holiday weekend.

residents in jackson, mississippi, are fed up and frustrated with the on going water crisis. we have more on the latest efforts to get relief to those residents in desperate need. and it could be the end of an era for serena williams after the tennis legend gets knocked out of the u.s. open. we're going to have the highlights from last night's exhilarating game and a look back at her incredible career. ♪ we're to grateful to be with you. welcome to your weekend, your labor day, holiday weekend. it's saturday, september 3rd. great to be with you, amara. how is it going? >> great to be with you. it will be a lovely five hours together or so. i'm getting comfortable. i have my cookies to keep me going. and my coffee.

so i'm ready. >> all the things that matter, right? >> for sure. as boris was mentioning, in a matter of hours, nasa will try again to launch its uncrewed artemis i rocket on a journey around the moon. preparations are under way right now at the kennedy space center in florida. liftoff set between 2:17 p.m. and 4:17 this evening. and for now, the weather appears to be cooperating. >> so remember the artemis program aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the moon within the next few years. eventually it's also set to send the first astronauts to mars. this is part of that process. today's launch comes after the first attempt had to be scrubbed on monday because of problems with an engine sensor and some hydrogen leaks. both issues we are told have been resolved. but if something requires nasa to stand down again, there's still an opportunity for the mission to launch on monday or

tuesday. >> nasa administrative bill nelson says all inspections are done, but the weather remains, of course, the biggest concern right now. >> the launch team is very confident they have to use a southern term looked at it from izzard to gizzard and are very confident and the only thing that is going to get in the way, if it does, is summertime in florida the rainstorms, the lightning storms. >> cnn's space and defense correspondent kristen fisher is at kennedy space center with more. >> it has called a scrub. >> reporter: nasa says it's confident fixed the issues that led to monday's scrub test flight and is a go for saturday. the first rocket designed to take humans to the moon in more than 50 years. it is one thing to see this rocket on tv or about four miles

away from the viewing stands. it is another to see it right here almost directly at the launch pad. this rocket is absolutely massive, 322 feet tall. it's taller than the statue of liberty. and you really get a sense when you're out here that this truly is the most powerful rocket ever built. but more power means it's also more complex. nasa says it has repaired the hydrogen leak that delayed launch on monday. the engine number 3, the cooldown system was working and blames it on a bad sensor. >> we have convinced ourselves without a shadow of a doubt that we have good quality liquid hydrogen going through the engines and there's no fuzz on that. >> reporter: for a mission as complicated as a this, nasa's fix for a bad sensor is surprisingly simple. is part of the plan is part of the risk posture for this second launch attempt to simply ignore

it? >> yes, we will. >> reporter: turns out if nasa had been able to push through the technical problems on monday, the weather would have cooperated. >> we would have had 29 minutes at the end of the window all clear for weather. >> reporter: twe're all sitting here and as soon as we heard scrub, oh. so it is what it is. >> reporter: cnn was granted rare access inside the control room at cape canaveral space force station where the weather go, no go calls are made on launch days. >> for example, here, we would be no go right now for lightning rule. right now we're in violation of the lightning rule. >> reporter: look, we have two no-goes now. >> no no-go for cumulus. >> clouds alone are enough to sometimes stop a launch. >> one thing folks don't understand is rockets when they go through the atmosphere can actually trigger their own lightning strike. we might not have a thunderstorm in the vicinity, the atmosphere can be electrified enough to have a lightning bolt trigger

from the rocket launching through the atmosphere. >> reporter: if saturday's launch attempt is a success, it will be a major milestone for nasa and as nasa administrate ef acknowledged on cnn, could give the u.s. a leg up on china. >> yeah. there's a space race. >> who is winning? >> well, let's see. this is the first step and this is the largest, most powerful rocket ever. >> reporter: kristen fisher, cnn, at the kennedy space center. >> thanks to kristin for that report. let's bring in janet ivy. it appears she's in outer space, i think she's in cocoa beach florida where she has been awaiting this launch for a few days now. good morning, good to be with you as always. the scrub because of a faulty engine sensor and hydrogen leaks, what do you make of their plan to ignore the sensor and the mitigation that they have taken, the steps they have taken to fix those leaks? >> you know what, i listened to

that press briefing. and it's not like you can take this thing to jiffy lube. so there's been a check engine light on my car for a while. i think when it comes down to this, we got up at 1:00 a.m. on monday, headed out. we're standing there watching, you know, waiting for the proceedings to happen and crossing fingers and toes that watch this rocket roar into space. when the scrub call happened, you could feel the disappointment, but ultimately it's going to be safety first. as you heard the administrators and the other engineers say, they are truly ready. again, it wasn't a problem with the engine. it was this faultsy sensor. but again, they're not going to take any chances and i think now that they know and spent time, they decided to make all the fixes out there on pad 39b rather than roll it back to the vehicle assembly building. i think all things are a go.

the great news is that everything that i'm hearing is that at launch time, at 2:17 p.m. the weather is about 60% awesome. in that two-hour launch period, it grandly improves to almost 80%. so i feel confident if those very smart engineers are going to ignore that faulty sensor, then i'm going to trust them that they know exactly what they're doing and we are a go for launch. that's my hope. >> yeah. and does that earlier scrubbing set back the timeline for the artemis mission in any way? or is it simply an insignificant blip? >> well, it's about a five-day blip. if it had launched on monday, you know, artemis i and orion spent 42 days orion would have spent 42 days going out past the moon, almost 40,000 miles further than any human space rated spacecraft has ever gone before and coming back.

this time it's going to be about 37 days. see my little orion capsule module here, one of the biggest things that's going to be tested is upon re-entry, it's going to be hurtling along, heat shield first, 25,000 miles per hour. our atmosphere is going to give it the brakes to create friction and all of a sudden it's going to be experiencing heat of almost 5,000 dregrees. so that will be another real test. it's something you cannot test here on earth. you have to test for that in a test flight such as this. so the heat shield will be tested. by the time it slows down and the parachutes deploy and it splashes down it's only going 20 miles per hour. imagine that. all of a sudden you're going 25,000 miles an hour, re-entering earth's atmosphere and slowing down to 20 miles right before splash down. with this mission is designed to test every system. it's a series of more and more

complex missions. but, again, we have to remember that artemis is the twin sister of apollo and we should consider this mission as the first of many of artemis' arrows ushering in this next chapter of date space exploration. one of the things i want to say to everyone, it's like china just this week announced it is -- has its sights set on the crater where in 2009 we found out there is tons of water ice. so water can -- water ice can be used for purification, water for humans, oxygen, fuel source. but today i'm hoping and crossing all fingers and toes that we're going to bear witness to what happens when international partners, like canadian space agency, the japan space agency, nasa, all of its commercial partners and its traditional partners come together. i think that's worth celebrating because when humans bear mighty

things, amazing things are accomplished. the artemis generation is ready. i am ready with my launch pad badge to head to watch this amazing thing. but, again, i'll keep you posted. you'll probably hear me going woo-hoo all the way from the east coast when it ignites. although i don't know if you'll hear me over the big sonic boom. they're saying now the sound may travel from this launch up to 45 miles if wind conditions and the skies are just right. so, i don't know. it's like atlanta is a little further from the space coast, be u you might not hear me screaming over that sonic boom. i'm hoping for great and mighty things today. >> we can appreciate and sense your enthusiasm, janet. thoughly say you should probably get your car checked. i want to make sure you make it home safe after the launch later today from cocoa beach. janet ivy, thank you as always so much. >> take care. >> of course. don't forget to head to

cnn.com for an interactive look at this historic launch. you can see it by the numbers from the miles the capsule is set to travel to the temperatures it is going to endure that janet was just referring to. and of course, we'll have continuing coverage throughout the day as we count down to liftoff. just to mention that check engine light, i have rid in my car until the check engine light just disappears. not that i'm recommending you do that. more than 40 million americans out west will remain under extreme heat alerts throughout the holiday weekend. even states as far north as montana will see high temperatures near the triple digits, which is about 20 to 30 degrees above average for this time of year. and officials in california continue to urge residents there to cut back on using electricity to avoid widespread power outages in the area.

cnn's chris nguyen has more on just how hot it is in california. >> reporter: across the west, the scorching heat is showing no signs of cooling off this holiday weekend. >> our ac at home can only do so much when we're in these triple digit. >> reporter: in glendale, california, the residents are taking advantage of the free air-conditioning. >> getting out to the mall and just getting out of the house to get some sort of cool relief is nice. >> reporter: california is in the midst of its longest heat wave of the year, a major concern especially in large cities like los angeles where dark pavement and buildings can easily absorb heat, bringing little relief overnight. skid row is an urban heat island, which is why water is crucial, especially when temperatures hit triple digits. >> free water! free water! >> reporter: that's why volunteers with water drop l.a. are checking up on the unhoused and the elderly. handing out cold water to those

who need it. >> at the core, we're all people. and we should care about each other. we should love each other and look out for each other. >> reporter: the extreme heat wave testing california's power grid. in southern california, edson crews are busy moving transformers and extra equipment throughout the region. >> we have all hands on deck ready to respond if there are outages to get the power restored as quickly and safely as possible. >> reporter: many californians bracing for more hmisery ahead. >> it's insane, unbear to believe be at home. meantime, jackson, mississippi, residents are continuing to deal with the dire situation as the city enters its sixth day since major water plant failed. that has left thousands of people without access to clean tap water. >> and amid the crisis, fema administrator traveled to jackson yesterday to meet with state and local officials.

just as another effort to restore water pressure failed. and now, residents are starting to lose hope as you would imagine. this week, i spoke with a long-time jackson resident who says the crisis is risking her health. >> i have crohn's disease. and there was a boil water notice sent out by the health department that the city released two days after they got the notice. i consumed two days of contaminated water. this is not helping me. it's caused my condition to worsen. this needs to stop. >> cnn's nadia romero has more from jackson. >> reporter: boris and amara, another day in jackson, mississippi. another day of a water crisis for residents here. that means even if thech water coming out of their faucet, it's still unsafe to watch that boil water advisory still in eskt.

the governor of mississippi says since the state opened up distribution sites, seven of them across the area, they handed out some 2.8 million bottles to residents with more trucks full of water on the way throughout the weekend. now, that water treatment plant is still dealing with plenty of problems. and the administrator for fema flew in from d.c. on friday to walk that facility and talk to state and local leaders about the problems here. i want you to listen to administrator explain why those federal dollars will stay here in the city of jackson and how they're allocated. take a listen. >> the emergency declaration that we have in place right now is specific to jackson, mississippi. the dollars can only be used for this specific instance. the funding is available to support the temporary measures to reestablish the pressure but also to sustain that pressure while they're looking at the more permanent repairs. >> reporter: none of the officials we spoke to were able to give us an updated timeline on just how long these water

issues will remain. so, for the meantime, they're asking people to continue to boil their water, pick up water at the distribution site and to drop off water to those who are unable to pick them up themselves. boris, amara? >> nadia romero, thank you so much. still ahead, thousands of documents, dozens of empty folders. we're going to tell you what a new court filing is revealing about the documents seized by the fbi at trump's mar-a-lago residence. and the labor market finally begins to show signs of cooling off. we're going to break down what's in the new jobs report and what it means for the u.s. economy. ♪ and tennis star serena williams gets eliminated in the third round of the u.s. open. we'll have a recap of last night's game and a look back at the incredible impact she's made on the sport. ♪ purcrchases on your discover card.

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such recklessness that it's almost worse than taking the documents. >> the federal judge who released the inventory is weighing trump's request for a, quote unquote, special master to review those documents. she has indicated she is inclined to grant that request when it will come down is unknown at this time. joining us now to help perspective on all this is former prosecutor michael zeldin. good to see you, michael. good morning. and also in that interview bill barr saying that the actions of the fbi look more understandable as more information comes out, he also had more pointed words in a new york times interview where he said that trump's motion to get independent arbiter is a crock of you know what. in your opinion, is it a bunch of b.s.? >> well, it's certainly a delaying tactic. if it had been filed on day one, as soon as the search occurred and they said, look, there are

toerp client privilege and executive privilege materials in there, please appoint a special master before the justice department gets started, then it may have made sense. but two weeks filing -- two weeks afterwards the filing looks like an effort to delay and of course the scope they're asking for which is to include attorney/client privilege to use barr's words a crock. >> if this is a strategy to delay the investigation, i understand it would be by several weeks. and it's a motion that's been filed much later than it usually is. does it make sense to you that the judge is saying that she's inclined to appoint a special master? >> it doesn't make sense to me. i think at this point she should let the process be as it's been, which is they had a filter team who looked at all of the records. they filtered out the stuff which is attorney/client

privilege or potentially attorney/client privilege. that stuff then will be sent to the judge for review to determine final determination and let the case proceed both as a matter of the criminal investigation and more importantly the national security damage assessment. we don't want to delay on that back end of this thing another day. >> so those empty folders, 48 folders with classified markings on them, what do you make of that? i mean, where are the contents supposed to be inside? could they be traced? is there a tracking number that it could be matched to? >> that's a great question. i don't know whether those cover folders were marked with a number, like a bates stamp number which reflects a number that kcorresponds to something which was in it. usually it doesn't. usually it's a file folder that you take out of your cabinet

that says top secret, classified sort of stuff and the information is put in there. so whether they can marry it up is really unclear to me. and, of course, you asked the million dollar question is have they received everything that they went there to receive? or are there still documents at mar-a-lago that we don't know about? >> so when we talk about the timeline, may there was a grand jury subpoena. and then june you had trump's lawyers at mar-a-lago meeting with federal officials and they turned over several documents and then they also attested to in a letter that all documents had been turned over. well, clearly that wasn't the case especially with the search in august. so in this latest inventory list we're seeing more than 11,000 nonclassified documents were found and more than 100 documents either marked top secret, secret or confidential were also retrieved. so, i mean, how relevant are

these additional findings legally? >> well, everything depends on the content. the statutes in question here ask one, was the person who is under investigation grossly negligent in their handling of these documents? that's the espionage act. second, did they unseal these with the attempt to keep them hidden? third, did they conceal them with the intent to obstruct the investigation? so when you look at these documents, you have to look at them in relationship to those three questions, those three statutes. until you know what's in those documents really have a harder time figuring out does this make the case more perilous if whoever is under investigation or not? on its face, it looks like someone or someones and there are conspiracy statutes that cover all of this stuff, should

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correspondent christine romans to help us unpack the report. >> reporter: the labor market remains strong as we head into the labor day holiday, but hiring slowed. employers added 315,000 jobs, well below july's red hot 526,000 pace. some 3.5 million jobs added this year, and the hiring in august was broad based, led by professional and business services, health care, retail and manufacturing. the jobless rate rose to 3.7%. why? well, thanks to more people looking for work. that pushed something called the labor force participation rate up .3%. all in all, a welcome normalization in what has been an anything but normal jobs market. remember, fed chief jerome powell said last week the labor market is, quote, clearly out of balance with demand for workers

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>> reporter: amara, it was a difficult expedition for these inspectors to get there on thursday. they had to go through the front line, which was more tense really than we had seen even these last few weeks since it's been getting more violent with more shelling around the plant since the month of august, yet they made it with six inspectors still inside. now, as boris was saying, we're going to get that report early next week, and that is crucial. but what we have been hearing from is iaea headquarters in vienna he said his real concern at this stage is now the power supply to the plant and, of course, the plant's workers. because, of course, the way the reactors are built, the infrastructure is so solid, that it is isn't much shelling against the reactors that worries him, he explained, but the crucial power supplies. that would be what would be the most problematic and it happened only last week that for a couple hours the power was stopped. and that is the real fear that could lead to the kind of nuclear meltdown that we haven't

seen in ukraine in 40 years. so, his concern was that the important thing is that these inspectors are inside the plant and more than that, amara and boris, the iaea will have a permanent presence at this plant. two will stay there. that's crucial because this is a plant, remember, that both ukraine and american intelligence have been saying has been used by russian armed forces as a military base. their presence with any luck should put an end to that. boris and amara? >> melissa bell reporting live from kyiv. thank you so much, melissa. and another russian oligarch has died under suspicious circumstances. the chairman of luke oil died this week after reportedly falling out of a moscow hospital window. >> cnn senior international security editor nick paton walsh has more on the story. >> reporter: it should sound extraordinary, but in putin's wartime russia, it's become

staggeringly common. a wealthy energy executive declared dead from suicide. this time oil executive seen here earlier with the kremlin had died on thursday at 7:00 in the morning after falling from the sixth floor window of a central moscow hospital where he was being treated after a heart attack said a law enforcement source. they added, he was taking anti-depressants and committed suicide. the oil giant he chaired, luke oil, behind 2% of the world's crude were tight lipped on the circumstances saying he died, quote, following a severe illness. they have been less cay ji about russia's invasion of ukraine, expressing in march their deepest concerns about the war, calling for its soonest termination and urging a lasting cease fire. rare, public dissent which elsewhere in russia the kremlin has quashed quickly.

his untimely death made him at least the sixth high profile businessman to die from apparent suicide since january. four of them from state gas giant currently at the forefront of russia's energy battle with the west. and the first two died in the same village in that country cottages. transport head, four weeks before the war he left a suicide note said russian media. just a day after the war began, another top top executive was found dead in his garage. then, there were two murder suicides in april, both former executives from gas prom or a subsidiary both said to have killed their wife and daughter and then themselves in their moscow homes. finally, in july, the director of another subsidiary was found dead in his cottage's swimming pool local media reported.

a gunshot wound to the head and a pistol nearby. this is not luke oil's first loss this year a former top manager found dead in a basement from an apparent heart attack. some experts doubt, however, these deaths bear the kremlin's fingerprints. >> people do commit suicide and particularly for these people they're in industries where they got used to a very elevated quality of life and they know that hard times are coming. at the same time, though, there's been something of a resurgence of a very 1990s phenomenon, which is business disputes being resolved by violence and by murder. >> reporter: perhaps a subtler hand here than in the anarchy of the '90s yet in a world where the kremlin rules and ruins at will. nick paton walsh, cnn, london. >> nick paton walsh, thank you. serena williams may have just played her very last professional tennis match. hear what the legendary athlete had to say about her future on the court.

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♪ one of the greatest tennis players of all time may have just walked off the court for the very last time. serena williams' magical run at the u.s. open coming to an end last night. >> boy was it emotional. cnn's carolyn manno was at the match and she joins us now for this morning's bleacher report. what was it like? >> reporter: good morning. oh, it was so surreal. there's little bit of recency bias here, but it was one of the greatest moments in sports i think i've ever seen and it ended in defeat. that's the thing. what's going to be remembered about that match is this grittiness, this toughness, this resilience, this never say die mentality that serena williams had that's only reserved for the all-time greats. that's what she is. to go out there and dig so deep to come back in that second set

and win on a tiebreak and end on this epic game where she just wouldn't quit, staving off five match points. that's what she does. she's been a fighter her entire life. you think about this crowd, amara and boris, that was there last night. they were so loud. the loudest that i have seen all week. serena lost that first set. you have to give her opponent so much credit, but she fought back, won in a tiebreak and had the momentum heading into the third. ultimately her opponent just dominated the third and was finally able to finish her off on the fifth match point. 3:05. i mean, you talk about emotional and taking everything you've got. listen to what she said to the crowd afterwards. >> i started with my parents. they deserve everything. so i'm really grateful for them. oh my god.

these are happy tears, i guess. i don't know. and i wouldn't be serena if there wasn't venus, so thank you, venus. she's the only reason that serena williams ever existed. >> reporter: if she does walks away, an all-time legend. her legacy is firmly cemented before this u.s. open, 23 singles titles. i'm not sure she is going to retire, guys. i have to be honest. after listening to that, i was so sure all week but the honesty and the vulnerability, thanking her family. it was so, so touching. we're going to be talking about it all day and the many days to come. i know that's for sure. i do want to turn our attention to this week's difference makers also here from the u.s. open. very special moment that happen before the tournament began and driven by charity. focussed on providing ukraine

relief. this was a couple days ago. i just want to bring you into this really special event that was held, organized to support humanitarian relief efforts for war-torn ukraine. tennis plays for peace. it took place in a front of a packed crowd at louis armstrong stadium. superstars, just delighting the crowd. coco gauff teamed up with john mcenroe. they went for this incredible tweener that went viral. featured counterukrainian player who was forced to flee ukraine along with her sister at the start of the russian invasion six months ago. gauff, more than happy to support such an important cause. take a listen. ♪ >> for me to speak out is something that i always cherish, always said you can change the world with your racket, so being here today on armstrong and playing for such an amazing cause is something that i won't take for granted. i'm grateful to do it amongst legends of the sport. >> for me, especially because ukraine is right next to my

country and because we are united in helping. i want to use every opportunity to show people that we all can be united. >> i just want to say a huge thanks to make this event. it's a pleasure to play here. and everybody who is here, you are showing your support to ukraine. i wish that one day finally the war is going to be done and every single person is going to live in peace with love and just everything is going to be okay. >> reporter: amara and boris, that event raised more than $1.2 million. it was a really touching moment there heading into the tournament as well. but it's been a remarkable week, i'll say that. >> yeah. i bet. i'm jealous you got to witness all of that, but so many heartfelt moments just really nice to see. thank you. we'll be right back. ♪ research shows that people remember ads with young peoplee

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