masses biggest rocket yet headed to mars and this thing blasted off from the kennedy space center today and not expected to touchdown on mars until february of next year. if the landing is successful the perseverance rover will study climate and geology and search for evidence of life. >> the key challenges that if you have water in so many places, which site is the best site for looking for life. >> it is a proud moment and i am glad our program could provide what they needed to get this on its way. >> amazing. new at 7:00 parents are furious tonight claiming the school district destroyed softball fields and fields at hemlock elementary and jepson middle school look to be in decent shape and they maintained the fields were not destroyed and they are trying to keep people off the field for maintenance and liability reasons but parents are confused. >> we seen it on tuesday for workouts and training and we had them out on the field basically coming out and they stated they were going to destroy the field. >> i understand what the goal is and what we could prevent and it could've been equ

the rover called perseverance blasted off from kennedy space center and the car sized robotic spacecraft hitched a ride above hard the atlas five rocket. if the landing is successful, it will drill into mars surface to search for signs of microscopic organisms and researchers say they finished all of the mission preparation before the pandemic began. >> as most of you know, if you miss this window you have to wait a few years. so it was critically important for us to hit this. >> the rover will also study the climate and geology of mars and capture aerial views of the planet surface. on cbsn bay area we talked to a researcher at nasa about this new mission. >> the found evidence is liquid mark, water has been on mars in the past and so forth and that is been reported many times over the last few years the key challenges if you have water in so many places, which site is the best site for evidence of life? >> okay, spacecraft is expected a touchdown on mars in february of next year. >>> a pair olympian who lost his prosthetic leg now has it back and time to get ready for next year's tokyo

a lift off at the kennedy space center.billion international effort to fasteoned et kris n c morning. the rocket is headed to mars on a historic mission. it's carrying a small helicopter that would be the first vehicle to hover in the atmosphere of another planet. i'd transporting the latest generation of the mars rover, this one named perseverance. its goal is to collect rock samples that will eventually be brought back to earth if all goes according to plan. technical delays pushed back the mission several weeks but the launch window was very small. if the rocket didn't lift off in another two weeks, nasa would have to wait another two years to put it up again. >> destination, mars. perseverance is nasa's biggest and most cities indicated rover ever built. on board, 19 cameras. >> you're getting an extraordinary opportunity to see the helicopter. >> before the covid pandemic, mimi young showed us ingentleman noity. the helicopter will photograph the martian landscape. it would make history, flying in an atmosphere 100 tim

brown at peter monday and later on with fear us army and the nasa had been the director of the kennedy space center and he was an old rocket man. the deepest great cover up to date b.s. where's the tie kaiser carries the model of the rocket mr davies with lots of experience from the moon landing program for months on the program and was to kaiser to give the presentation isn't your course set up as a right of company took in more than $160000000.00 mox within a year kinds his rocket became an investment object for the wealthy ending at the nickname dentists rocket. sized bins you see schmidt this meant that if you invest 1000000 you could write off 2600000 of losses for tax purposes it's for loose stood up striving. good with the same single components the same tank modules the same engine modules we can build small medium and very large rockets and fulfill all specifications to neutralize that time we had fully developed the technology and eventually tested everything the next the next stage was flight testing which we couldn't do in germany for insurance reasons as the population density is too h

the rover will be sent on a more than six-month mission this morning from the kennedy space center inhe rover will search for signs of life on mars. it also has a helicopter which will test for the possibility of flight on the martian surface. perseverance will collect samples that will ultimately be brought back to earth. interesting. >> okay. so there's a two-hour launch window which begins at 7:50 a.m. eastern. likely launch, forecasters say there's an 80% chance of favorable weather conditions for this launch. >> should be interesting. >> i love a good launch. >> right, brings back some interesting stuff. >>> coming up, tracking the latest trouble in the tropics. >>> plus, the miracle rescue of a 3-year-old girl found unconscious floating in her grandparents' swimming pool. what we're hearing this morning from the two police officers who revived her. >>> later in "the skinny," how netflix is about to put a smile on so many faces, including mona kosar abdi. apparently they're going to bring back a collection of classic black sitcoms. work together on a project. kiera suggests they

florida policeman decided, better safe than sorry, while walking along the beach south of the kennedy space center spotted a shark approaching a small boy in the water. he rushed in and pulled the boy out of the surf. >> i saw the shark make a beeline toward the child. and i knew, it's now or never, it's time to grab the child. >> the hero cop admits he doesn't know for certain what the shark intended. he didn't want to wait to find out. some quick action by that officer. i wouldn't want to wait to find out either. >> he said, not today. >> leave us wondering. >> not today at all. >> so fast. >> we know a lot of shark bites and things happen down there, could have really nipped at him, no telling what could have happened. better safe than sorry, definitely. well done by that officer for stepping in fast. >>> coming up next half hour, the harrowing moment when a black bear got way, way too close for comfort to these hikers. so close that the bear apparently was sniffing one hiker's hair. >>> first, the exciting new development in the race for a vaccine for the coronavirus. our medical expert weighs

a live look at the kennedy space center in florida which is preparing for 2020's final historic missions getting ready to send a recover named "perseverance" and a helicopter called "ingenuity" and will take seven months to travel 300 million miles. robin. >>> we're going to continue now with the nba gearing up for the highly anticipated restart to the season tonight in orlando, the orlando bubble, and promising pregame news because no new coronavirus cases reported among players and staff. that's great news. t.j. holmes is going to join us now with more. t.j., the wait for the tip-off finally over but will the bubble hold? you know that competition will heat up, t.j. >> it is but fingers crossed on the bubble. robin, what would your coach have told you back in the day if you said, you know what, coach, i'm going to stay six feet away from my opponent? that's terrible defense. you cannot do that in basketball. these guys are going to be touching, breathing on each other, sweating on each other this entire game, but they're going to do so knowing that not a single one of them has tested

go out to phil keating live at the kennedy space center with the mission to the red planet get there a perfect weather day no. issues with that at all. everything is looking for a go in just about 30 seconds from now. mars 2020. it is the fifth latest and greatest mars rover ever sent to the red planet. $2.5 billion admission. big picture it, lays the groundwork for getting astronauts onto the red soil and planting that u.s. flag. looking live at the powerful atlas rocket. the rover is on top and packing all kinds of never before tricks sent to mars from earth. the rover itself is a little bigger than a go-cart but packing serious scientific heat. it's going to have two really cool cameras and a microphone. and here goes blastoff any moment now. supposed to go right now but it has not. so let me continue here. there it goes. take a look at that it's going to be taking up a microphone. so for the first time ever you will be actually able to hear what it's like to be on the red planet. it's going to land on the [inaudible] took four previous flights. ainsley: it's so loud we can barely

florida is blessed to be home to both nasa's kennedy space center and a thriving space industry. space is a part of florida's economy and our way of life. this is a tough year because of all the competing priorities, but we came through. it is critical that congress continue to support nasa's mission and push the boundaries of space exploration and scientific achievement. i support the bill and urge my colleagues to do the same. i yield back. chair lowey: ms. wasserman schultz is recognized. wantwasserman schultz: i to add my congratulations and let him know how much he will be saidd to those that have goodbye to our dear colleagues, congressman serrano. as a native new yorker and lifelong yankees fan, now of course new orleans fan, i appreciated his passion for the bronx bombers and for the bronx. little-known fact, perhaps. a lot of his loves have been noted, but in spite of being lightly considered old-school, he was really the earliest a doctor that i can think of of doctor --- earliest a earliest adopter i can think of of the ipad. that.ill miss jokes, because no one can hol