cnn's ed lavandera is back in texas for us joining us now, ed, how's it looking there this morning? well the weather looks much better on monday, but elon musk tweeted just moments ago that everything is on track to launch. we're about 25 minutes or so away from the scheduled launch, but the weather continues to be a factor . we're told by a spacex official that the weather conditions are mostly favorable . we've had a lot of cloud cover here this morning. in fact, just within the last 20 to 30 minutes, we've really started being able to get a clear glimpse of the rocket there on the launch pad. so we are, as you mentioned that window opens up about 8 30 central time 9 30 eastern, and so far everything is on track. but remember, everything was on track on monday about this time it was about six minutes or so before the scheduled launch that the launch was scrubbed because of a pressurization valves. that had frozen somewhere in that rocket system. we haven't got much clearer indication of what exactly happened there over the last few days, but we were told spacex officials have been

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ed lavandera. thank you. boris?> today is the funeral for 18-year-old football player phildavios dale who was killed after going to the wrong home. and now after all of the attention of mass shooting, public polling shows that americans overwhelmingly support some reforms like universal background check, but no momentum on capitol hill, and so i am wondering if there is any one piece of legislation that you have hope that may pass. >> well, you are exactly right. it is not just mass shootings though we have had more mass shootings this year than we have had days in the year which is incredibly tragic, but we are seeing the shootings at pool parties and prom parties and last week many parties where children or teens made simple mistake and armed and paranoid and racist men opened fire and wounding or killing them. so this is the reality that the gun lobby has created in this country and a populous that is armed to the teeth with very little regulation. my question is when is the guns going to make us safer? there are

cnn's ed lavandera is there in cleveland, texas. he's joining us now on the phone. what has been said thus far? >> reporter: well, the last we heard from law enforcement investigators is that the trail for 32-year-old francisco oropeza had gone cold on saturday. however, investigators are -- just moments away at some point in the next few minutes scheduled to hold a briefing with reporters covering the story for an update. we don't know exactly what they plan on saying or exactly the nature of what this update will entail. but the search in the man hunt has continued well overnight and into this sunday afternoon as well. all of this stemming from the deadly shooting that took place friday night in just outside of the town of cleveland, texas, which is about an hour's drive northeast of the houston area. that's where investigators say oropeza was upset with his neighbors who had asked him to stop firing his firearms on friday night because one of their babies was trying to sleep in their home. and it was after that confrontation, if you want to call it that, that inv

so the feeling is a part of the learning. >> reporter: ed lavandera joins me now.oard plans to make? >> reporter: the college board hasn't said specifically what will be changed in the class. after the criticism from people like ron desantis in florida, there were some changes having to do with black lives matter, reparations among some several issues. presumably maybe those types of shiesh us get brought back into the class program. but the officials and the teachers that you heard from in tulsa and the principal at that school say this is a pilot program. they were expecting some sort of changes but the class has been very popular. they offered two classes this year. hoping to move it up to three classes next year. >> thanks. >>> programming tonight, kevin mccarthy races to get votes on his debt ceiling plan, michael smerconish speaks with one of the key holdouts, congressman matt gaetz. >>> we remember the singer, actor harry belafonte. dude, what're you doing? i'm protecting my car. that's too much work. weathertech is so much easier... laser-measured floorline

cnn's ed lavandera is in cleveland, texas. the sheriff and fbi just held a news briefing. what did you learn there? >> reporter: well, we learned that clearly investigators here, what they are saying publicly is they essentially have no idea where this 38-year-old murder suspect is, francisco orapeza, not seen since friday night. however, investigators did say that they have -- he has spoken with several friends. they believe that he has. but so far, those communications and those connections have not led investigators to his whereabouts. he is a mexican national, so there is some concern that the suspect is trying to get back to mexico. but investigators say that at this point, they have no idea where he is. >> right now, we just don't know because if we did, we would have him in custody right now. we do not know where he is. we don't have any tips right now to where he may be. that's why we've come up with this reward so that hopefully somebody out there can call us. i pretty much can guarantee you he's contacted some of his friends, right now we're just running into dea

. >> cnn's ed lavandera is in cleveland, texas, for us. i understand you're at a vigil right now for one of the victims. what can you tell us? >> reporter: jim, you can see the vigil behind me starting to break up this afternoon. it lasted about half an hour, and this is at the elementary school where the youngest victim attended class, was here on friday. and when the students return here tomorrow, one of their classmates will not be with them. that is 8-year-old daniel guzman. his father was actually here as a series of local pastors got up and tried to comfort him and his family as best they can. but this story really sending shock waves through the community here. but let me get you to the latest of what is going on with this investigation. the manhunt for 38-year-old francisco oropesa continues nearly 48 hours after authorities say he shot and killed five of his neighbors just outside of the small town of cleveland, texas, northeast of houston. that manhunt continues. the various law enforcement agencies and entities have come togethe

ed lavandera, cnn. ukrainian troops caught by surprise during grueling battles for the city of mahmoud. still ahead. you will see their quick reaction after russian forces came within 10 m of their trenches. the race is on for locals and foreign nationals to get out of sudan's capital after the failure of a second ceasefire in two days. there and how are you? wow bomb with good enough. and he'd love ghetto stand on making any change that is calling dutiful. let me be direct. some people are paying more an double for teeth straightening with invisalign, and then there's smile. direct club, you get a smile you love directed by one of their doctors with a liner sent directly to you, so the savings go directly to you 60% less than invisalign and smile. direct club guarantees your smile for life. your life smile , choose direct club. i love that song for the ones ensuring the job always gets done and the ones wearing many hats. granger offers professional grade industrial supplies and real time product avail

ed lavandera, cnn dallas.new video shows the moment and imam was stabbed, drawing morning prayers at a mosque in new jersey on sunday, and you can see the suspect among the other worshippers when they kneel down to pray. he quickly moves to the front of the room and appears to stab the imam in the back. the suspect has pleaded not guilty to an attempted murder charge. a cnn exclusive investigation now into how kim jong un has used high tech bank robberies to fund his illicit nuclear arms program . cnn's alex marquardt has the story from washington. north korea's nuclear and missile programs race ahead there. hackers have been busy on a newer front. cnn has exclusively learned about a counterpunch against north korea's aggressive efforts to steal cryptocurrency by the hundreds of millions to fund kim jong un's military programs right now, with north korea, china figure out ways to open up border trade again the only sustainable recurring source of revenue in any meaningful way is the crypto theft gangel last ye

cnn's ed lavandera has that story.hat's peyton washington, practicing her high flying acrobatics cheer routines three times a week. washington and three teammates of the woodlands elite cheer company carpool from austin to the houston area for team practices. that's what brought them to this grocery store parking lot in elgin, texas, just after midnight tuesday morning. one of the girls in the car, heather roth, emotionally recounted during a vigil at the cheer teams practice facility later tuesday how she opened the door to a car she thought was hers when she was shocked to see a man in the passenger seat. she got back in the car with her friends when the unthinkable happened. doing backing up. i see the guy get out of the passenger. door and i rolled my window down. um and i was trying to apologize. and then here i just halfway my window is down, just threw his hands up and then yeah. pulled out again. as soon as they saw the gun, they said, go and they drove and they went about two miles down the road, and that's wh

ed lavandera.thank you so much live there from south padre island forest, kate that in texas, but now there is new hope this morning for the kansas city teenager who was shot when he simply made the mistake of going to the wrong house to pick up his brothers. ralph charles attorney posted this new photo. we're showing you right here. this photo of ralph jarrell and lee merritt sitting just sitting on a bench in the sun together after carol returned home from the hospital, according to the family's attorney girl still has a very long road ahead, but he can walk. and communicate the 84 year old man charged with shooting him. andrew lester. he'll be arraigned on two felony charges in just a few hours. if convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in jail this morning, the mayor of kansas city voiced his frustration over leicester being released on bail. listen to this. it is shameful in some ways that he gets to live this very normal life. but i understand it's part of this system that we have, wh

cnn's ed lavandera is with us now. ed glossip is expected to be executed next month.what more can you tell us about the a g s sudden actions in this case? well yeah, you're right. fredricka several weeks away from richard glossip's next scheduled extra execution, but this is a case that has garnered bipartisan support in the state of oklahoma for it to be re examined and yesterday after the results, and the findings of an independent counsel appointed by the attorney general of oklahoma , the attorney general there in that state, says that he can no longer stand behind the murder conviction of richard blossom. in a statement, he says, this is not to say that i believe richard glossip is innocent. however it is critical that oklahomans have absolute faith that the death penalty is administered fairly and with certainty, considering everything i know about this case, i do not believe that justice is served by executing a man based on the testimony of a compromised witness and what the attorney general is referring to there. is the co defendant, other man who was convict

we're getting just new details coming in as we speak right now, let's get back over to cnn's ed lavandera, who's live near the launch pad in south padre island . i feel like ed, is it something i said? what happened? i think we messed it up. it's got to be our fault to just moments after we finished talking a little while ago, spacex officials started announcing that they had pressuring pressurization issues on the booster. and this is that massive booster that 230 ft. tall heavy booster at the bottom of this rocket ship with 33 engines, and because of that, they will have to scrap the launch for today. they do have windows where they can relaunch here in the next 24 to 48 hours. but we'll have to wait for official word from spacex on exactly how all of this will be handled, but clearly a great disappointment for the thousands of people have been turned out here this morning to be able to witness this rocket ship launch, but this comes and they will continue to go through the process of appearing as if they will launch. in fact, they will not stop this launch officially until t minus 10 s

ed lavandera. thank you for that report. boris now to a story that could have a major impact on your travel airlines are warning that a tsunami of retirements could complicate your ability to hit the airways, cnn aviation correspondent pete mountain is here to explain pete, a tsunami of retirements who is retiring. and why it sounds dramatic, right? you know this whole idea that the alarm bells are getting louder when it comes to the pilot shortage, and this is coming from regional airlines, which operate those flights between those major hubs and smaller cities. and they're saying the service could come down to smaller cities and in some cases, some places would lose service completely because of the pilot shortage. the tsunami of retirements there warning about really goes really deep. this is the impact 11. airports with no service 42 states with less service compared to before the pandemic 500 airplanes right now sitting idle. the issue here is that about 50% of all commercial pilots, according to the regional airline as

alright ed lavandera. thank you so much. boris yummy is braver than i. i will tell you that it takes a special kind of courage to watch that explosion and think that i want that. let's dig deeper now with cnn aerospace analyst miles o'brien , miles. ultimately the rocket cleared the launch pad. we saw it get into sort of space spacex tweeted out that success comes from what we learned so what did they learn? well i think failure is an option at space checks. they are space enterprise that is all about rapid testing. failing fast and moving forward . this is serial number 24 for starship. they've had four actually 4.5 fiery mishaps in the years leading up to this moment, and so it really doesn't come as too much of a surprise you're talking about getting 33 engines to work in perfect synchronicity with all the plumbing and pressurization and computers and electronic doing all that. well it takes a lot so you can walk away from that and say, wow, what a disaster or you can look at the half full side of it and say, hey, they cleared the tower. they got pret

cnn's ed lavandera is joining us from austin. these are pretty disturbing revelations. know some of this came out in court the thought about him killing people, protesters that were near his home, he said in one of his on line postings, but this is a lot more. quite a bit more. in fact, 76 pages worth of documents unsealed by the judge in this case last night, all this first reported by the houston chronicle in austin american statesman. we have also obtained these documents that really speak and show these disturbing details. as you mentioned. much of this was not shown in the trial. and in these this collection of social media post text messages. ah there are rather disturbing references several times to wanting to hunt and kill muslims in europe. daniel perry also referred to black lives matter. protesters as quote a zoo full of monkeys. in one post, he writes. it is official. i am a racist because i do not agree with people acting like animals at the zoo. i was on the side of protesters until they started with the looting and the violence. and then in may 29th of 20

we've told you richard glossip story before cnn's ed lavandera has all the latest. in almost 25 years on death row, richard glossip has stared down and execution date nine times he's been served his last meal three times before getting last minute reprieves. but oklahoma's attorney general now says he can no longer stand behind glossip's murder conviction and his asking the state's court of criminal appeals to give glossip a new trial. and how did richard glossip react? never forget that look, uh, you know of realization that hey, you know, finally somebody into the state has listening and you know now he has a chance was sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of his boss, barry van trees. they worked at a motel in oklahoma city. but it was another employee, justin sneed, who admitted to killing van trees. sneed who is serving a life sentence was spared the death penalty in exchange for testifying that glossip offered to pay him for the killing. the oklahoma attorney general says sneed is a compromised witness, though, and independent investigation found that prosec

cnn's ed lavandera has the details.s browser in the summer of protests following the murder of george floyd in 2020, garrett foster joined a black lives matter demonstration in austin, texas. what you got here tonight? don't let us march in the streets anymore, so i gotta practice some. some of our right . perry was an army sergeant working as a rideshare driver that summer and had just dropped off a passenger near a blm protest. prosecutors say perry ran a red light to turn into protesters on the street. read. instigating the confrontation. perry's lawyer says several people started beating on his car and foster motion for him to lower his window. foster was carrying an assault style rifle , which he was legally allowed to do. oh god. this police interrogation video at one point captured perry, saying he didn't want to give foster a chance to aim at him. perry grabbed his handgun, fired multiple times and killed foster, an air force veteran. perry claimed it was self defense, but he was charged with murder. prosecutors

cnn's ed lavandera is reporting for us. guilty of the offensive murders. austin jury convicted daniel perry on friday for the murder of garrett foster. the army sergeant broke down after hearing the verdict. perry shot and killed foster during a black lives matter protest in the summer of 2020. after the trial, foster's family expressed their relief. we're happy with the verdict. we are very sorry for his family as well. just there's no winners in this. and just glad it's over. but this case is far from over the very next day. texas governor greg abbott tweeted his vow to pardon perry as quickly as possible and argued texas has one of the strongest standard ground laws of self defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive district attorney. in the weeks after the murder of george floyd. black lives matter. protests erupted all over the country. garrett foster joined the protests in austin. you got it out tonight. don't let us march in the streets anymore, so i gotta practice some. some of our right. daniel perry was a rideshare driver and had

ed lavandera, cnn. completely independent of the constitutional arguments people have. there is just a sense of incredulity because in all of these cases of being in the wrong place, wrong time, the person who's done the shooting has said that they felt personally threatened and we're talking about a five ft eight teenage young black man we're talking about, you know, 20 year old slight woman to female cheerleaders. i mean, just there is no way in which that is commensurate to the threat that people say that they feel it's so bizarre, isn't it? we've had that string of very similar stories. people ended up in unfortunate circumstances and all relating to guns. it wasn't just a legislature voted wednesday to ban most sales of assault style weapons in the state. under the bill, the term assault weapon applies to dozens of firearms, including the r 15 in all forms prohibits them from being manufactured, imported, distributed or sold in the state , with some exceptions, such as the sales to the armed forces and law enforcement. the bill now goes to the governor's desk for h

cnn's ed lavandera covering this story for us, ed, why such a big change now? well the details in this report by an independent investigator that was brought on by the attorney general in oklahoma is raising serious questions about this murder conviction and this death sentence. the attorney general in oklahoma is now saying that he can no longer stand behind the murder conviction and in a statement yesterday, said that this is not to say that he believes that that this man is innocent, but that he believes that the state of oklahoma has serious reservation. nations about the way the case was handled. and he goes on to say that for the oklahomans to have , uh, faith in the justice system that this murder conviction should be vacated, he goes on to say that i do not believe that justice is served by executing a man based on the testimony of a compromised witness and what the attorney general there john is alluding to is this testimony from a co defendant, the man who confessed to murdering the boss that they worked with back in 1997 glisson was convicted in larg

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cnn's ed lavandera joins us now from dallas. ed. why is governor abbott moving to part in this guy.well it is a stunning announcement that the governor is making but in a statement that he released over the weekend, the governor says that he believes texas has some of the strongest standard ground laws in the country, and that that cannot be notified by a jury or a progressive democrat district attorney there in austin, texas, but what is also happening in this case is that the case of daniel perry has become a celebrity case in the right wing media. and there has been a great deal of pressure from the likes of fox news host tucker carlson, putting pressure on the governor to pardon daniel perry. in fact, tucker carlson talked about this case friday night during his show, and it was the next day on saturday that the texas governor made this vow, saying that he is quote working as swiftly as texas law will allow to ensure the pardon of daniel perry. he also, uh, this is you know, the process here in texas is rather complicated, though, john. this case has to go before the board of pa

cnn's ed lavandera has the story. when black lives matter. protests erupted around the country in the summer of 2020 newly released, court documents revealed daniel perry intensely watched the chaos quickly becoming angry and a social media post. he described the protesters as a zoo full of monkeys. the unsealed documents include 76 pages of social media postings and text messages. most of these details were not shown to the jury that convicted the army sergeant of murdering protester garrett foster and raises new questions about why texas governor greg abbott is rushing a push to pardon this convicted murderer. foster's family and longtime partner have called the governor's call for a pardon. disgusting this has been a complete nightmare, court documents show, perry talked about killing people and shared racist memes and comments on social media, including a 2019 message saying too bad we can't get paid for hunting muslims in europe and in a facebook message in may 2020 just months before the deadly shooting, perry wrote. he might have to ki

cnn's ed lavandera is back with us now from near the launch site, and if you heard gotten any new wordon when the next window for launch could be well, we're told by space checks, officials and it will take at least 48 hours to reschedule this launch, or at least the rocket won't be able to take off for at least another 48 hours, and that has to do because it has to go through the recycling process of essentially adding the propellant taking it out and then putting it back into that rocket ship. it takes about £10 million of liquid methane and liquid oxygen to propel. this massive heavy booster as it's called. it's 230 ft long and that will propel the spacecraft into orbit so they will have to try again. at least 48 hours from now. we don't have an exact time yet, but they continue to do that. and all of this came. this disappointment came just minutes before the scheduled launch of the starship rocket here. in south texas. there were thousands of people lining the waterfront here from our perch. we had what she was supposed to be a probably stunning view of this rocket taking off into

cnn's ed lavandera reports on these disturbing messages, most of which were not shown to the jury.when black lives matter. protests erupted around the country in the summer of 2020 newly released, court documents revealed daniel perry intensely watched the chaos quickly becoming angry in a social media post. he described the protesters as a zoo full of monkeys. the unsealed documents includes 76 pages of social media postings and text messages . most of these details were not shown to the jury that convicted the army sergeant of murdering protester garrett foster and raises new questions about why texas governor greg abbott is rushing a push to pardon this convicted murderer. foster's family and longtime partner have called the governor's call for a pardon. disgusting this has been a complete nightmare, court documents show, perry talked about killing people and shared racist memes and comments on social media, including a 2019 message saying too bad we can't get paid for hunting muslims in europe and in a facebook message in may 2020 just months before the deadly shooting, perry w

cnn's ed lavandera has the story. black lives matter.rotests erupted around the country in the summer of 2020 newly released court documents reveal daniel perry intensely watched the chaos quickly becoming angry in a social media post. he described the protesters as a zoo full of monkeys. the unsealed documents include 76 pages of social media postings and text messages. most of these details were not shown to the jury that convicted the army sergeant of murdering protester garrett foster and raises new questions about why texas governor greg abbott is rushing a push to pardon this convicted murderer. foster's family and longtime partner have called the governor's call for a pardon. disgusting this has been a complete nightmare, court documents show, perry talked about killing people and shared racist memes and comments on social media, including a 2019 message saying too bad we can't get paid for hunting muslims in europe and in a facebook message in may 2020 just months before the deadly shooting, perry wrote. he might have to kill a f

cnn's ed lavandera reports.e weekend edition of the curtain gazette news dropped an epic bombshell on its readers in southeast oklahoma. the headline was understated, yet chilling. county officials discussed killing burying gazette reporters and bruce and kris willingham, the father and son reporting team at the heart of this story, published the recordings that they say involved five curtain county officials to back up their story . i was expecting it, you know, chitter chatter stuff about county business. isn't staff and yeah, and that's how it started . and then it got down to the extremely serious stuff, the paper reported. sheriff kevin clarkie was joined in a march 6th meeting by two other sheriff's department officials as well as to county commissioners. they were talking about killing me and my son. three hitman quiet guys. but no person. louisiana because it's all mafia. random recordings captured the group talking about hiring hitmen to kill the reporters and where the bodies could be hidden. around it

cnn's ed lavandera is on south padre island in texas, where the launch took place. the good part took place the bad part ed miles above you explain what happened. well as you can see, the launch pad of smoke from the launch has finally been blown back inland, but that launched cleared the launch pad and this area erupted in cheers as the rocket ship cleared the launch pad and we saw it go straight up for several minutes. and so that was a spectacular sight, and it was about that three minute mark where we started anticipating that getting the sense that something wasn't going quite wrong, that this was not the best case scenario and from what we've been able to gather so far that booster unable to separate from the rocket, and that's what caused the disassembly. the explosion there and what is stunning, though, is that you could see the smoke trail going east out over the gulf of mexico. and at some point we just with our eyes, we kind of lost sight of it, but you could. then here a second round of intense rumbling and explosive sounds guessing. that is probably the

cnn's ed lavandera has details. thanks you just did it like crowds appeared afterwards spread this week that lando county commissioners were considering shutting down all of its public libraries. most people couldn't get into the meeting land texas want to be known as the town. close the public library that will begin the death nail for a vibrant community. i am for closing the library until we get this filled off the shelves. fights over book bands have erupted all over the country. but the threat of shutting down libraries over the issue catapulted this texas hill country community into an unchartered political firestorm , leaving some residents tearful , keep the library open at all costs. at all costs. the library dies. part of me dies. the landau library saga started when a group of residents pushed to get 17 books removed from the shelves. the titles included cast by pulitzer prize winning author isabel wilkerson. they called themselves the kkk, the birth of an american terrorist group being jazz my life as a

cnn's ed lavandera takes a closer look now into what was said, and why the sheriff's office.laims claims the recording was altered. the weekend edition of the curtain gazette news dropped an epic bombshell on its readers in southeast oklahoma. the headline was understated, yet chilling. county officials discussed killing burying gazette reporters and bruce and kris willingham, the father and son reporting team at the heart of this story, published the recordings that they say involved five curtain county officials to back up their story . i was expecting it, you know, chitter chatter stuff about county business. isn't staff and that's how it started. and then it got down to the extremely serious stuff, the paper reported. sheriff kevin clarkie was joined in the march 6th meeting by two other sheriff's department officials as well as to county commissioners. they were talking about killing me and my son. very quiet, guys. yeah but no person. in louisiana because it's all mafia around. yeah recordings captured the group talking about hiring hitmen to kill the reporters and wher

cnn's ed lavandera takes a closer look at the case.almost 25 years on death row, richard glossip has stared down and execution date nine times he's been served his last meal three times before getting last minute reprieves. but oklahoma's attorney general now says he can no longer stand behind glossip's murder conviction and his asking the state's court of criminal appeals to give glossip a new trial. and how did richard glossip react? i'll never forget that look, you know of realization that hey, you know, finally somebody into the state is listening. and you know now he has a chance. glossip was sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of his boss, barry van trees. they worked at a motel in oklahoma city, but it was another employee, justin sneed, who admitted to killing van trees. sneed who is serving a life sentence was spared the death penalty in exchange for testifying that glossip offered to pay him for the killing. the oklahoma attorney general says sneed is a compromised witness, though an independent investigation found that pr

cnn's senior national correspondent, mr ed lavandera, live for us in south padre island, texas, withhe very latest, this is exciting. we're not supposed to get too excited. so what. it's exciting because we don't really know what's going to happen here over the next few hours, but there are thousands of people here on the southern edge of south padre island. we're about five miles away from that launchpad the window for spacex to launch this rocket opens about seven am central time they have about three hours to get that done. spacex is saying that they're looking around eight a.m. central time for a launch here. but the way elon musk is talking about this, this could be a spectacular success or an epic fireworks show. the spacex starship is the most powerful rocket ever built its 400 ft tall, super heavy booster is packed with 33 engines, and it will attempt to push the crude starship spacecraft, which sits on top of the rocket booster into space if the rocket launches properly, the spacecraft will separate less than three minutes into the flight and travel east from south texas and

cnn's ed lavandera is in south padre island, texas, where he saw the explosion. with his own eyes.hat what what went wrong here? well this spaceship was able to take off across the launchpad for several minutes. but then us about three minutes into the flight, it started tumbling, spinning out of control and spacex officials now confirm in a statement this afternoon, saying that the vehicle experience multiple engines that were out during the flight. and lost altitude and began to tumble. the flight termination system was commanded on both the boosters and the ship. essentially what they're saying there is that they hit the self destruct button, so it was spacex officials that caused the explosion ending the flight of this and this is, you know, as the euphoria of all of this moment has worn off. it's a reminder of the very serious stakes that are at play here, the federal aviation administration says that it will oversee the mishap investigation and that future flights and this is the agency that essentially gives spacex the green light to travel say that those green lights will n

cnn's ed lavandera joins us live from dallas said. i mean, i know that we have heard from the victim's family after the conviction came down now, what are they saying after governor abbott put out this statement? well it's a stunning development in the aftermath of the configure that testimony phase and in this trial and the prosecutor in austin is saying that the governor's intervention in this case at this point is quote deeply troubled. guilty of the offensive murders. austin jury convicted daniel perry on friday for the murder of garrett foster. the army sergeant broke down after hearing the verdict. perry shot and killed foster during a black lives matter protest in the summer of 2020. after the trial, foster's family expressed their relief. we're happy with the verdict. we very sorry for his family as well. just there's no winners in this and i'm just glad it's over. but this case is far from over the very next day. texas governor greg abbott tweeted his vow to pardon perry as quickly as possible and argued texas has one of the

cnn's ed lavandera has details. black lives matter.rotests erupted around the country in the summer of 2020 newly released court documents reveal daniel perry intensely watched the chaos quickly becoming angry and a social media post. he described the protesters as a zoo full of monkeys. the unsealed documents include 76 pages of social media postings and text messages. most of these details were not shown to the jury that convicted the army sergeant of murdering protester garrett foster and raises new questions about why texas governor greg abbott is rushing to push to pardon this convicted murderer. foster's family and longtime partner have called the governor's call for a pardon. disgusting this has been a complete nightmare, court documents show, perry talked about killing people and shared racist memes and comments on social media, including a 2019 message saying too bad we can't get paid for hunting muslims in europe and in a facebook message in may 2020 just months before the deadly shooting, perry wrote. he might have to kill a

so now there's so much to learn from this spectacular show this morning, cnn's ed lavandera. he had a front row seat for it all. he's back with us this hour. and what more are you learning? what more details are coming in about what will happen this morning? well we're not expecting to hear on camera from spacex officials that hasn't happened yet, or may not happen. but elon musk has tweeted just a short while ago that they learned a lot from today's launch and that they will prepare for another test launch in the coming months. so that timeframe seems to be rather quick. but elon musk was several days before this launch was putting really like dampening expectations as to what might happen. even thinking there might be some catastrophic failure on the launch pad as it launched, but it was a stunning thunderous site here as the starship rocket cleared the launch pad and then started traveling east for several minutes. you can see this long giant smoke trail and then just about the three minute mark at the time that we thought that the booster was going to separate from the ro

what could be motivating governor greg abbott to take on this case, but let's begin with cnn's ed lavandera shooter's vile messages, which were not shown to the jury. black lives matter. protests erupted around the country in the summer of 2020 newly released court documents reveal daniel perry intensely watched the chaos quickly becoming angry in a social media post. he described the protesters as a zoo full of monkeys. the unsealed documents include 76 pages of social media postings and text messages. most of these details were not shown to the jury that convicted the army sergeant of murdering protester garrett foster and raises new questions about why texas governor greg abbott is rushing a push to pardon this convicted murderer. foster's family and longtime partner have called the governor's call for a pardon. disgusting this has been a complete nightmare, court documents show, perry talked about killing people and shared racist memes and comments on social media, including a 2019 message saying too bad we can't get paid for hunting muslims in europe and in a facebook message in may 20

instead it remains grounded on itself as south padre island launch pad, let's get over to cnn's ed lavanderae's back with us this hour from right near that launch site. and what more have you picked up since we last spoke about what went wrong. elon musk says this morning that it was a president, pressurization valves issue that appeared to have frozen up just moments before the launch of the star ship rocket. there were thousands of people gathered here on the southern edge of south padre island, as you can see the rocket on still on the pad behind us. we're about five miles away, so a little bit of let down here as this happens just moments before. the scheduled takeoff. spacex officials are saying that it will take at least 48 hours to schedule the next launch. so we don't have information yet on when exactly it will be rescheduled, but those spacex officials will have to figure out this pressure pressurization issue within the rocket system before they can launch. but you know, this is a vitally important rocket system for elon musk and for spacex. for those of you who haven't been follo

cnn's ed lavandera has details. black lives matter. protests erupted around the country in the summer of 2020 newly released court documents reveal daniel perry intensely watched the chaos quickly becoming angry in a social media post. he described the protesters as a zoo full of monkeys. the unsealed documents include 76 pages of social media postings and text messages. most of these details were not shown to the jury that convicted the army sergeant of murdering protester garrett foster and raises new questions about why texas governor greg abbott is rushing a push to pardon this convicted murderer. foster's family and longtime partner have called the governor's call for a pardon. disgusting this has been a complete nightmare, court documents show, perry talked about killing people and shared racist memes and comments on social media, including a 2019 message saying too bad we can't get paid for hunting muslims in europe and in a facebook message in may 2020 just months before the deadly shooting, perry wrote. he might have to kill a

cnn's ed lavandera, his live at spacex headquarters in texas, so i wonder. what do we know now?what caused this delay? and do we know how long the delay will be? well so far, elon musk and spacex has only said that it was a pressurized valve somewhere in that starship rocket system that appears to have frozen, causing the pressure pressurization problems that the system was having. and all of this was happening just minutes before the scheduled lunch. there were thousands of people here on the southern edge of south padre island, looking about five miles south towards the launch pad there. the anticipation was really building up for this moment. the rocket should have rocket ship had £10 million of liquid methane and liquid oxygen that would propel the booster up into the sky. so everything was ready. and then that scrub announcement was made, and that came as a real letdown to many of the people. in fact, jim taylor, who we met drove from georgia 19 hours just to be here this morning. he was rather emotional. it'll happen. cnn been watching him for 2.5 years every day. and so i

let's get straight to cnn's ed lavandera. he's live for us in texas near the launch site, and this is critical to the plans by nasa to get back to the moon. what are they saying today about will that be delayed and what went wrong? well the nasa administrator bill nelson says that this is a good first step in the process of trying to perfect this rocket system. but clearly a lot of work needs to happen. still but for several minutes the exhilaration of that rocket clearing the launchpad being in flight for several minutes, the thunderous roar of that rocket ship was absolutely stunning for the thousands of people who gathered here on the southern shore of south padre island. b. five miles away from the launch of this rocket system , and as you mentioned, it did not make it into orbit. it did not make almost a full orbit of the earth crashing in the pacific ocean around hawaii. that did not happen. remember several days ago, elon musk was saying and trying to prepare lowering expectations to the point where we thought we were

lavandera joins us now from texas. ed walk us through what happened there condition in who the suspect is . we're trying to make sense of this senseless act is very difficult, especially for those close to these four cheerleaders . so tuesday early tuesday morning, these four cheerleaders from the woodland elite cheer company was we're meeting at a grocery store in the town of elgin, texas, just outside of austin, when one of the cheerleaders got out of the car to get into her own car. but when she got in notice that there was another man in the passenger seat she had gotten into the wrong car. she got back into the car with her friends. that man then walked around and from what we are told, fired several shots into that car, wounding two of the cheerleaders . one of them is in critical condition. the woman that you heard they're talking in the intro. i was referencing peyton washington. she is in critical condition. she is in a leap cheer performer and the other victim, heather roth was treated at the scene in elgin. pol

lavandera knows all about this. he sat down with the crew. he joins us now, ed. good morning to you. how are they feeling? well just to be clear. i know nothing about space travel, but these four astronauts were a where the toast of the town yesterday they got a phone call from president biden. they were featured at center court to the final four game last night. here in houston. these are the four astronauts returning to the area around the moon in more than 50 years. ladies and gentlemen. you're artemus to cruz. nasa calls this moment the launch of the generation and the space agency has unveiled its first cosmic rock stars commander wiseman. pilot victor glover, mission specialist christina coke and canadian jeremy hansen . cnn sat down with the crew of the artemis to mission armstrong aldrin, collins, borman, lovell , anders. those are all iconic astronauts that touched the moon or grace the edges of them in your names go next to those guys. how did you find out about this? and how does it feel? quite frankly, the leader of our flight operations directorate said to us, and he said, how would you like