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florida. nasa is once again going to try to launch the massive artemis i rocket, to send unmanned orion spacecraft on historic journey around the moon. this is a live ak the artemis i rocket as the sun is rising at kennedy space center. liftoff is scheduled for a two-hour window, starting at about 2:17 p.m. moments ago, nasa gave the go ahead to start fueling for launch, so it looks like this is going to happen, especially because the weather appears to be cooperating. right now there's a 60% chance of favorable weather during that launch window. >> but all eyes are on the artemis rocket's third engine this morning, which along with a fuel leak forced the initial launch to be scrubbed on monday. engineers say the problem was a bad sensor. and while today's launch is a little more risky, nasa is ready to give it a try. cnn's space and defense correspondent kristin fisher

with the latest. >> launch director blackwell thompson called a scrub. >> reporter: nasa says it's confident it fixed the issues that led to monday's scrubbed test flight and is go for a second law unch attempt. 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 4 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. 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 fueling on monday. as for that pesky engine number 3, nasa now believes its 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 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. >> okay. >> reporter: turns out if nasa had been able to push through the tect kal hnical weatproblem monday, the weather would have cooperated. >> we're also sitting here and as soon as we heard scrub, we're like, 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 for lightning rule. so right now we're in violation

of the lightning rule. >> reporter: look, we have two no-go's no. 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 light ning bolt trigger through the rocket launching through the atmosphere. >> reporter: it will be a major milestone for nasa and nasa's administrative explicitly 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: kristin fisher, cnn, at the kennedy space center. >> thank, kristin. let's look at the weather around the launch with meteorologist britly ritz. what is in the forecast for

later today? >> reporter: well, within that two-hour window, we have two primary concerns that we have to keep our eyes out on. one being that surface electric field that you heard about in the package previously the rocket shoots up and could create its own lightning within the second concern, which would be clouds. and cumulus clouds at that. so we have a better chance of liftoff or an all clear later in the launch, about 20% shot later on. 40% shot of a weather hazard as we get into the first period. we need to watch out for the lightning again and the clouds. so within lightning ten miles within cumulus clouds as well looking at your mission. there it is. scattered showers and thunderstorms a bit of easterly wind could push a few of those showers and storms on to shore. the further the storms go out inland, the better. so we'll watch that wind over the upcoming hours as it begins to push more to the east. that's a better chance for us

for an all clear when it comes down to potentially getting a few thunderstorms. so watching the thunderstorms hour by hour here throughout the morning and into the afternoon we have to keep a close eye. >> thank you so much. joining me now to discuss is retired air force colonel terry. former astronaut for nasa. thank you for joining us this morning. so, i was just reading up on these -- scrub the launch. looked like it was some kind of engine cooling issue then turned out to be a faultsy sensor and the team will ignore that bad sensor. any more concerns before liftoff this afternoon? >> probably several million parts on that massive rocket. i think they have those valves and fuel lines figured out. but there's another one, there's liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen issue they're looking at right now. a lot of things have to work and they're not going to launch until they're ready to launch. >> a lot of things have to work on that very complicated rocket.

but also the weather has to cooperate. so how confident do you feel about a launch between that two-hour window beginning at 2:17 eastern and 4:17? >> yeah, my first shuttle flight we scrubbed for a thin cloud deck over the shuttle for the last 50 years we have been launching rockets and scrubbing for florida thunderstorms. so it sounds pretty good. it's not -- there's not a big storm system moving through. but, you know, how confident do you feel that the market is going to go up or down on monday or tuesday? so, i think it will be good but we'll see. >> depends on the minute of the day how confident i feel about those markets, right? >> exactly. >> so this is going to be a test -- if all goes well, this will be kind of a test run. and then around 2024, nasa plans to launch four astronauts, not to land on the moon, but to kind of do this long loop. so, what can we expect with

artemis ii? >> apollo had a similar thing. the first flight was a test -- some unmanned flights and test of the vehicle and it was five or six flights before they landed on the moon. nasa will try to do that in three flights. this is the first nobody is on board. it will spend about a month in orbit around the moon. the second flight will be similar only astronauts on board. they'll just do a some orbits around the moon. then flight three they hope to actually land on the moon but they have to get the lander going, which space x won that contract. so that's a big pole in the tent if you will for that artemis iii mission. >> 2025 isn't that far away to do our first landing with artemis iii on the moon and nasa wants to land the first woman and first person of color. and they want to land near the south pole of the moon. that is where there were craters of ice that were found.

can you talk to us about how feasible first of all it is to actually land on the lunar south pole and why ice is such an important resource? >> sure. to put in context, three years, three years ago it was 2019 when covid started. so it's not a long time. but ice, ice is a big deal because with water, you can drink it. you can have water. you can break it into hydrogen and oxygen and breathe the oxygen. or you can break it into hydrogen and oxygen and have rocket fuel. it uses hydrogen as rocket fuel. water is really, really valuable. landing at the south pole is tricky because of rocket science. it's a little bit harder to do. plus, they're going to go into what they call permanently shattered craters because of the way the moon's orbit is, they never see sunlight, so they're hundreds of degrees below zero, very, very cold and the solar panels won't work if there's no

sunlight. a lot of challenges with that and the ice is rock hard solid maybe buried you should many meters of moon dust. >> wow. fascinating. so, how coveted is it to be one of those astronauts to first of all make that first loop around the moon and then also to actually land on the moon because the point is to set up shop there, right? >> there's probably going to be a lot of folks knocking on the boss's door saying, hey, i'm available for that flight. you know, there's no doubt it would be really cool to go to the moon for sure, especially the landing but even orbiting around the moon would be fun. there will be a lot of astronauts with their hands raised high for their that flight. >> you sure you want to stay retired? >> we'll see. there's a lot of good stuff on earth here. i'm a big fan of earth personally but that would be a fun mission. >> i like having my feet on the ground. thank you so much. appreciate you. >> thanks for having me on.

and make sure to stay with us throughout the morning as we count down to liftoff. so more than 40 million people are under heat alerts this labor day weekend as a massive heat wave grips parts of the western united states. for the third day in a row, several states asked their residents to conserve electricity to avoid power outages. scorching temperatures have broken dozens of records this week from utah to california, and the national weather service is warning the intensity and the duration of the heat wave is what makes it especially dangerous. fear is growing that extreme heat could make wild fires worse, too. there's new video showing raging fire in california that's now burned more than 2,500 acres. so far none of this fire has been contained. it started around noon yesterday and spread rapidly causing civilian injuries and power

outages, destroying homes and prompting thousands of county wide evacuations. governor gavin newsom declared a state of emergency and is now receiving help from fema. it's still unclear exactly how the fire started, but county officials say that one of the first buildings to ignite was a lumber mill. the cause of the fire is now under investigation. still ahead, thousands of documents and dozens of empty folders. we'll tell you what a new court filing is revealing about the documents seized by the fbi at trump's mar-a-lago residence. plus the cdc signing off on updated covid boosters. so who should get them and how soon could they be available? more on that and more when "new day" continues.

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54 marked secret. 31 documents marked confidential. investigators also collected dozens of empty folders with a classified banner or labeled return to staff secretary slash military aide. >> none of this is going to help donald trump. >> reporter: a federal judge in florida unsealing the inventory and pondering whether to appoint a special master to independently review the seized material. >> the whole idea of a special master is a bit of a red hering at this stage since they have gone through the documents, i think it's a waste of time. >> reporter: the investigators haul included more than 11,000 government documents without classified markings revealed just how much trump was holding on to even after more than a year of negotiating the return of documents. and 18 months after leaving office. >> so, what you do is you accumulate a lot of stuff over a term and then all of a sudden you're leaving. and stuff gets packed up and sent. >> right. >> all sorts of stuff. >> reporter: but in trump's office alone, investigators retrieved a number of boxes including 27 documents marked classified in some way. >> people say this was

unprecedented. it's also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club? okay? >> reporter: investigators found them after trump's team assured the government any classified materials had been kept in a more secure storage room. after a represent i have for trump signed a document said everything with classified markings had been turn oefrd a month before the search. meantime, in a separate criminal investigation into the january 6th attack of the u.s. capitol and the events leading up to it, former trump white house lawyers pat cipollone and patrick philbin appearing before a grand jury today. both men pushed back on efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and are key witnesses to the final days of trump's presidency. cnn reporting they appeared after weeks of discussion with the justice department over executive privilege. back to that trove of documents that came from mar-a-lago, we're only learning all of these about this because the former

president special master to go over this haul of documents. the judge still has not issued a ruling on whether she will grant that request from the trump team. but she did suggest she was leaning toward it, asking in a hearing earlier this week, what's the harm of putting forward a special master? back to you. >> sara, thank you. now legal experts are questioning the timing of donald trump's request for a special master to review those mar-a-lago documents. former attorney general bill barr tells "the new york times" a request is a bunch of crock. as you mentioned, a federal judge is weighing that decision, and she says she is inclined to grant that request. last hour i asked former federal prosecutor michael zeldin for his take and here is what he said. >> it is certainly a delaying ta tactic. if it had been filed on day one, as soon as the search occurred and they said, look, there are attorney/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 afterwards the filing looks like an effort to delay and of course the scope that they're asking for, which is to include attorney/client privilege and executive privilege is really to use barr's words a crock. >> yeah. so 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 have 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 will be sent to the judge for review to determine final determination and let the case

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♪ the large influx of migrants seeking political asylum in the united states is not just affecting communities along the texas border, it's also straining public resources in large cities, like new york, chicago and here in washington, d.c. and that is by design. texas put more than 9,000 asylum seekers on buses under governor greg abbott's plan to offer migrants free rides out of state. a program that's mostly paid for by texas taxpayers. and the millions of dollars. the impact on new york city is especially pronounced. right now there are about 6,700 migrants in the city's shelter

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migrants to democratic-led cities. in fact, here is some criticism from chicago's mayor lori lightfoot. i believe we have that sound bite. >> governor abbott's racist and xenophobic practices of expulsion have only amplified the challenges many of these migrants have experienced on their journey to find a safe place. the governor's actions are not just inhumane, they're unpatriotic. >> racist and unpatriotic, the case that governor abbott makes is that if large cities like new york and d.c. and chicago can't handle an influx of migrants, then how could small border towns be able to cope with that? what is the solution in your mind to this problem? >> you know, the federal government should be assisting new york city in managing the needs of people who are coming

across the border for sure. new york city should not have to pick up all the costs here. but, it's just cruel to put people on buses without assessing whether or not that's medically appropriate for them. we had somebody get off a bus the other day, three-day bus ride with a 6 day old child. who thought that was a good idea? we had people get off the bus and have to go directly to inpatient medical care. it's just cruel to put people on a three-day bus ride under those conditions after what they've been through without stopping to assess, you know, is this somebody who actually wants to go travel to this destination. >> and i also wanted to ask you about the situation for the unhoused and the shelter system in new york city. you had mentioned that already that system was facing strain. are there more resources available for you at the federal level? what's your message to lawmakers on that situation? >> this is a national issue.

we have a lot of people who have arrived again after going through just unimaginable hardship to get here. but they're here now. and so, it's in everyone's interest to care for these folks. there are a lot of children. there are people who have suffered quite a bit of trauma along the way. and they need an appropriate level of care. it doesn't do anybody any good for people now that they are here lawfully within the united states just to leave them to suffer. >> and yet it seems nearly impossible that congress will pass comprehensive immigration reform any time soon. a difficult situation. josh, we appreciate your time. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. it is a piece of plastic smaller than your thumb, but it can turn a regular handgun into something much more deadly. that's up next. but first, a quick programming note. monday night, don't miss this new cnn film "no ordinary life."

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earlier this week president biden unveiled his safe america plan to reduce gun violence and support police. and he emphasized yet again his hope to ban assault weapons in the united states. >> but while washington debates an assault weapons ban, authorities say tiny devices are making it easier to convert handguns into automatic weapons. essentially do it yourself machine guns as you just saw there. in a cnn exclusive, cnn senior investigative correspondent drew griffin looks into just how dangerous they can be. >> reporter: they are the size of a lego, come in colors of the rainbow and in seconds can turn america's most popular handgun from firing like this -- [ gunfires ] >> to this --

[ gunfires ] >> whoa. >> reporter: this is the gun range of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and explosives where an undercover agent shows how a tiny device called auto seer can turn almost any gun into a machine gun. [ gunfires ] >> holy moly. >> reporter: this is houston, where a team of police officers tried to serve a warrant, body cameras on. >> please step out, please. >> reporter: 30 years experience conducting 2,500 previous major offender arrests couldn't help a cop named bill jeffrey. >> houston police. let's do this -- >> whoa. [ gunfires ] >> reporter: your father didn't stand a chance. >> no. he was completely blind sided. and there is nothing that any of them could have done to change the outcome. everything was done the way it was supposed to.

but this guy ambushed them. >> reporter: what the officers couldn't see was the multiconvicted felon hiding in a dark apartment, holding a pistol that was turned into a weapon of war. in seconds, he fired 30 rounds. officer jeffrey died, a police sergeant also hit crawled for safety and survived. >> you good? you good? >> no, i'm hit. >> somebody get bill. >> what was your reaction when you found out what this criminal had in his hands? >> disgust, disbelief, anger. we do not live in a war zone. there is no need for us to have these automatic weapons on the streets of houston, anywhere in the united states. >> reporter: but there is demand. cheap, illegal pieces first imported from china were being sold easily over the internet when atf and customs cracked down, smuggling began across the southern border.

now thanks to cheap 3d printers like this and how-to demonstrations on youtube, making machine guns is a simple do it yourself project says earl griffith of atf. >> it's easy. watch this youtube. watched youtube and in matter of 15 minutes i was able to do it myself the first time. >> reporter: he's not kidding. we search ed youtube and found this. how-to demonstration. >> once you get it 3d printed. >> reporter: still up on youtube's platform. >> that's how you install and remove a glock auto seer. >> reporter: and getting hundreds of thousands of views even though the guy was arrested by atf months earlier, charges with possessing, making and transferring machine guns. he pleaded not guilty. youtube took the videos down right after we asked about them. call them auto sears, switches, whatever, they are everywhere and spreading. the atf sees 1,500 machine gun

conversion devices last year, that is five times as many as the year before. griffith says police departments across the country have confiscated modified machine guns but many don't even know it. >> a lot of them have never seen some of these devices, like laying here. when we tell them, they go back into their evidence vault and look and check and find this stuff. >> reporter: more and more, this stuff is being found in the slaughter it leaves in its wake. this january, three more houston officers were fired upon, all three wounded when a career criminal opened fire with a machine gun-style pistol. when they arrested him, they found more machine gun parts and 3d printers. in sacramento this april, a massacre on the city's downtown streets. six dead, a dozen injured, one of the guns in the shootout, according to police, had an auto sear, or switch to make it fully

automatic. >> all within the last 24 hours. >> nine rounds, ten rounds, 18 rounds, 27 rounds. >> tom, that's like tuesday, tuesday in america we're having this? >> you should come here on the weekend. >> reporter: this is shot spotter, it locates gunfire for police by listening to a network of microphones across american cities. and more and more those microphones are picking up automatic fire. >> the rate of fire, the number of rounds being fired in only a few seconds is very serious. innocent bystanders are being hit by rounds that weren't intended for them. >> reporter: since 2019, the incidents of automatic gunfire picked up by shot spotter have increased from roughly 400 to 5,600 just last year. just spend a few moments at kaylan parker's monitoring station and you can hear the havoc. >> so all of these ones i'm showing you here are full, automatic incidents starting from the least of three rounds going up to 30 rounds.

>> 30 rounds? >> 30 rounds here in baltimore, maryland. >> in baltimore. this was sometime on tuesday or wednesday? >> yes, sir. this was 4:00 p.m. yesterday. when you sit here and listen to this and realize what's going on the streets, what are you thinking? >> you don't believe it until you hear it. it's just sad. unfortunately with a lot of these shootings there was a victim behind these. >> reporter: in fact, those sounds you heard from baltimore were bullets hitting two people, including a 14-year-old boy. back in texas, lacy jeffrey is trying to do something in her father's memory. >> so we are just trying to get lawmakers to look into this and just change ten words to make it to where these switches fall under a felony offense. >> reporter: she wants texas to treat possession of these modified weapons like the federal government does, as a felony. >> what's the reception been? >> nothing. >> reporter: she hasn't heard

back from a single lawmaker. why do you think that is? >> i think that especially in texas with the second amendment people are scared to touch upon it. i don't understand why this isn't important enough. we have lost so many officers, so many civilians are even being caught in the cross fire. how many people have to be affected by these before you realize that a change needs to happen? >> reporter: drew griffin, cnn, smithville, texas. >> thanks to drew griffin for that report. did serena williams just play her final, professional tennis match? if so, she leaves behind an incredible legacy both on and off the court. we're taking a closer look at her accomplishments in just a few minutes. ♪

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it is likely an end of an era in the sports world. last night serena williams, the 23-time grand slam singles champ and widely considered the greatest tennis player of all time was defeated in the third round of the u.s. open. nearly 30,000 people packed the stands to see her play one last time. >> cnn's don riddell has more from flushing, new york. >> reporter: extraordinary career came to an extraordinary end here at arthur ashe stadium, or at least we think it came to an end. serena williams kept us on our toes throughout an incredible third-round match against her opponent, eventually giving out after saving numerous match points and more than three hours of tennis. when it was finally all over, an

emotional serena thanked the crowd for her support and her family for always standing by her. >> all started with my parents. and 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 -- i wouldn't be serena if there wasn't venus, so thank you, venus. she's the only reason serena williams ever existed. >> reporter: serena will turn 41 in a few weeks time and she had said she wanted to evolve away from tennis to pursue her other personal and professional interests. but, after a 25-year career in which she had dominated and transcended her sport, she was in no hurry to give it up. she went down like a champion, fighting for every last ball.

and it was fitting that the last person to speak to her as she left the court was the great billie jean king, two icons who have fought so hard for the advancement of women both on and off the court. the tournament will now continue without one of its greatest-ever champions but nobody will ever forget serena williams, the greatest of all time. don riddell, cnn, new york. >> thanks to so much to don for that. the next hour of "new day" starts right now. ♪ good morning, everyone. welcome to your new day. i'm amara walker. >> good morning, amara. i'm boris sanchez. we're counting down yet again nasa preparing for a possible launch of the artemis i rocket into space. we're going to take you live to kennedy space center for the latest on today's launch and there may be a minor setback. and residents in jackson, mississippi, are fed up and frustrated with the on going water crisis. the latest efforts t