. >> david kerley has the details. >> reporter: i'm david kerley.'re in spacex's factory in hawthorne, california. one of the old dragon cap suls here. a big announcement from spacex about the first private citizen who has purchased a ride around the moon. his name is yasuka >> ever since i was a kid, i have loved the moon. just staring at the moon fueled my imagination. it's always there. and it has continued to inspire. >> reporter: not only does he want to go, he wants to take six to eight artists with him on this trip around the moon and have them create art. he's an art cure not just you. you want to take artists? >> yes. >> why? >> i love art. i want the artists to see the moon where up close. and to see the earth in full view. after that, i hope they can create something very new. >> reporter: they're not saying how much he's paying for this trip. it's supposed to happen in 2023 on what is called the bfr, the big falcon rocket. it's not even built yesterday. elon musk says he's not sure he can get it off the ground. he says it will cost $5 bi

david kerley, our thanks to you. >>> we're going to turn next tonight here to the story our team broke late today involving the president's former fixer and personal attorney, michael cohen. we have now learned that cohen has sat down for hours of interviews with special counsel robert mueller's team. tonight, right here, what cohen was asked about. george stephanopoulos and our team breaking this story today, and here's our senior justice correspondent pierre thomas tonight. >> reporter: he's the president's former attorney and fixer, at his side for ten years, in his business, in his campaign. once saying he would take a bullet for donald trump. >> i will do anything to protect mr. trump. >> reporter: but tonight, sources tell abc news cohen is now cooperating with special counsel robert mueller, sitting down for hours of interviews over the past month. the focus of the meetings, which have taken place in new york and washington, all aspects of trump's dealings with russia, including business deals and also about allegations of collusion during the 2016 campaign. given cohen's long-t

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abc's david kerley covers aviation. >> reporter: boats racing to the striking scene. a boeing 737 submerged after coming down short of a runway. >> we came in down very low. i looked over and saw a hole in the side of the plane and water was coming in. >> reporter: jaynes, a journalist, says flight attendants on the trip to a micronesian island near guam, panicked. among those coming to ferry passengers to shore, a u.s. navy underwater construction team on this boat. >> the water was only up to about here on me, inside the plane, and we went out the emergency exit doors. >> reporter: seven of the 35 passengers reportedly taken to the hospital. 12 crew members also evacuated. the airline says the weather was poor, but that doesn't explain why the jetliner came up a quarter-mile short of the runway. there were a total of two americans on board that jetliner. boeing says it's willing to offer technical support to determine why that jetliner ended up short of the runway. david? >> abc's david kerley tonight, thanks. >>> when we come back -- the other crash, first crash in

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david kerley is there. a lot of people, especially after hurricane maria are laser focused on the work those people are doing behind you and on the ground. this really is a test for fema. >> every big, major disaster is. this is the national response coordination center. as you can see, it's been manned all night. they are different elements of the government and state governments are represented here as well. the idea is to share information. as you have been talking with sam and others, this is changed. it's now a category 1. the worry, not so much the wind damage, but this is going to be a water event and flooding event. fema had to prepare for both and to assist them. fema is the coordinator here. they are not the first responders. that's up to the people on the ground. they are at place, meal, water, supplies in the states affected by the storm. like many others now, they are watching. really, it is a matter of once the storm passes, what can fema do to help those areas rebuild. they are watching as al

david kerley was at the spacex headquarters for the announcement. , david. >> reporter: morning, michael. that's the current rocket for spacex. elon musk wants to build a bigger one to go to the moon and beyond. he's announced he has his first paying customer. a japanese entrepreneur. a billionaire. yasuka maezawa says he wants to go to the moon. >> ever since i was a kid, i have loved the moon. just staring at the moon filled my imagination. it's always there and has continued to inspire humility. >> reporter: they won't say how much he's paying to fly around the moon. he wants to take six to eight artists. musicians. maybe a novelist to go with him on this flight. no word on how much he's paying. he'll essentially become an investor in spacex. he says it will cost $5 billion to develop the rocket. if the flight happens, it's scheduled for 2023. if he can get the rocket built and tested to take the others on the trip around the moon. >> would you like to go up and see the moon? >> reporter: absolutely. you want to come with me? >> if you're paying,

i think we have to kerley s a separate -- i think we have to ip.fully separate david: president trump others, european and today is tell us that china has gone the advantage by requiring companies that come to channing best to china to license intellectual property that they can copy. is that true or false? false.ur space, that is in other spaces, i'm not so familiar. david: will they remain to sever pillars? if china is ahead or will become ahead on high-tech, including ai that, for those companies come back and can be in the rest of the world and beat u.s. companies? >> i think that is unlikely. u.s. will remain very strong inning was-speaking countries, europe and possibly japan. china is starting to make inroads into southeast asia, the middle east, and africa. by just early. playing out -- but just early. time, the world will be dominated by two superpowers. there are's assume two superpowers a do not compete with each other. what will that mean for the ?rdinary person what are the ramifications of artificial intelligence we are told will revolutionize our lives on work, on unemp