there are the astroid samples, an astroid mission making a home delivery, dropped off today in the utah desert. >>> the government is the brink of a shutdown and congress remains at an impasse, what this means for your wallet and potentially your travel plans. >> thank you so much for joining us. i'm andrea nakano. >> i'm brian hackney. >>> when it comes to crime in oakland, almost every category is going up compared to last year. >> one number that caught our attention was the number of cars stolen in oakland. 10,000 cars in the first 8 1/2 months have been stolen police say. >> da lin talks to those impacted by the crimes, including a woman who is on the verge of homelessness. >> reporter: this car owner is in tears. she just filed a police report. someone stole her 2001 chevy suburban in front of her fruitvale district apartment sunday morning. >> that car, i buy it with collecting bottles from the street. >> reporter: jasmine cabrera said she collected bottles and cans a year to save up $3,000 to buy that suv. now she feels the world around her is collapsing. >> my kids go to fremont. so i

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they want to minimise contamination from the utah desert.at actually touched on bennu, that will be taken out and stored in nitrogen gas. then it will come down to houston tomorrow. the very first analysis, the quick look team, will start hopefully on wednesday morning. they will have about 72 hours or so to do the very first analysis. the council hopefully will have about 250 grams of asteroid bennu locked up in it. it is the largest asteroid sample return mission we have ever had. we can do years and years of work on 250 grams. we can look at it atom by atom. there will be an initial science team for the next two years he will be studying these rocks. they will become available to the wider science community. people will be able to use them to learn about our engines and how the solar system has evolved over the last li.5 billion years. dr has evolved over the last 4.5 billion years.— has evolved over the last 4.5 billion years. dr ashley king, a member of— billion years. dr ashley king, a member of the _ billion years. dr ashley king, a m

tt utah desert. it is an emotional moment. how did it go? it went absolutely _ moment.ctly. absolutely perfect landing. we docket and did not move. we landed in nice, soft soil. the caital landed in nice, soft soil. the capital looked _ landed in nice, soft soil. the capital looked flawless. i cried _ capital looked flawless. i cried like a baby in that helicopter when i heard it had landed — helicopter when i heard it had landed safely. an overwhelming moment— landed safely. an overwhelming moment for me.— moment for me. inside the ca sule moment for me. inside the capsule is _ moment for me. inside the capsule is the _ moment for me. inside the capsule is the most - moment for me. inside the l capsule is the most precious sample. fragments of a asteroid called bennu, which could rebuild the story of our solar system. the team secures the craft to prevent contamination and attaches it to a 30 metre line slung beneath their helicopter. this is the moment that nasa has been waiting for. after seven long years, travelling billions of miles to bennu and back, the capsule i

we were with bated breath making sure that we came down for a nice, soft landing in the utah desert. and it worked. and it worked spectacularly well. >> reporter: the capsule holding the precious cargo was moved to a temporary clean room at the utah test and training range. >> we're hoping that we'll see organics, we'll see amino acids, building blocks of life, as well as evidence for past water on bennu because all of these things are the sorts of materials that asteroids and comets delivered to the earth when it was forming and helped life to be able to flourish. >> reporter: meanwhile the mother ship, osiris-rex, set off after another asteroid. >> because they are pristine examples of planetary building blocks, we want to study them because they're going to tell us a lot about how the earth and all of the planets in our solar system was formed. >> reporter: it's likely the 4.5-year-old billion pieces were free of contamination, making them perfect specimens to study. skyler henry, cbs news, washington. >>> coming up, bus crash update. a school official now has some good news about

a nasa capsule is due to land back in the utah desert, carrying rock and dust from an asteroid called venue. site is hope it will offer a glimpse into our solar systems for release history. this asteroid may be tens of millions of kilometers from us, but now a little bit of band who is coming much, much closer. it's the end of a 7 year request. vanessa is a cyrus rex mission that blasted off in 2016 that cross spent 2 years traveling to the 500 meter wide space rock, and then another to scouting the best place to grab a sample. finally, in october 2020 adopted in with its prob, touching bad news for just a few seconds and blossoming it would compress nitrogen together. it's payload, a sample of rock and test it spent the last 3 years bring this precious call. go back home. the scientists hope the full point, 5000000000 year old rocks will offer a window into the origins of life on us. we'll be looking for organics, amino acids the building blocks of life, as well as evidence that there was hydration in the past. somebody's surface because all of these things are the sort of materials

spacecraft is sending home samples from the surface of bennu, which will land in a capsule in the utah desertturn to one of our top stories this hour — that's the osiris—rex space mission. the seven—year project is expected to reach its conclusion later today, when a spacecraft brings back to earth samples from the surface of the asteroid bennu. let's now speak to dr charley lineweaver from australian national university. very good to speak to you. how exciting is this for a space worship like you? fix, exciting is this for a space worship like ou? �* ., ., , exciting is this for a space worship like ou? �* ., ., ., like you? a lot of things can go wron: like you? a lot of things can go wrong so _ like you? a lot of things can go wrong so we — like you? a lot of things can go wrong so we are _ like you? a lot of things can go wrong so we are on _ like you? a lot of things can go wrong so we are on the - like you? a lot of things can go wrong so we are on the edge . like you? a lot of things can go| wrong so we are on the edge of like you? a lot of things can go - wrong so we are on the edge of

a textbook landing in the middle of the utah desert.on, it's an emotional moment. how did it go? it went absolutely perfectly. perfect landing, we didn't move, we landed on nice, soft soil. the capsule looks flawless. i cried like a baby in that helicopter when i heard the parachute was open. it was an overwhelming moment for me. inside the capsule is the most precious sample, fragments of an asteroid called bennu, that could reveal the story of our solar system. the team quickly secures the craft, to prevent any contamination, and attach it to a 30—metre line slung beneath a helicopter. this is the moment that nasa has been waiting for. after seven long years, travelling billions of miles to bennu and back, the capsule is finally here. the priority now is getting out of the dusty desert environment, and into the safe and sterile clean room as quickly as possible. a quick knock to say they have arrived, an the capsule is in. the painstaking and meticulous process begins. they need to remove the layers like a russian doll, to get to the

all eyes are now on this patch of utah desert, ready for the landing.found question — where did we come from? rebecca morrelle, bbc news, utah. well a pair of rare twin red pandas have been born at longleat safari park, an important part of the breeding programme for what is an endangered species. the male cubs arrived at the end ofjune but longleat has just released detail about them, after they were closely monitored in their early days. the bbc�*s wiltshire reporter will glennon has been to see them. peeping out from the safety of their nest box, the cute faces of the male red panda twins. born at the end ofjune, they had been kept hidden by their mother who is called emma. longleat took these pictures when they had to check up on the cubs and weigh them. everyone is really pleased with how they are doing. i am absolutely thrilled that we have baby red pandas at longleat, it is such an exciting thing. i love being a zookeeper but baby animals make it even better. the next thing is weaning, they are going to start learning all about bamboo and what to

travelling billions of miles through space, the capsule is going to land somewhere over here in the utah desertome rain or shine. hello. a warm welcome. the fate of ethnic armenians in disputed nagorno—karabakh is hanging in the balance, as their leaders say most will likely leave their historic homeland now controlled by azerbaijan. the region is internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan, but large parts of it have been controlled by ethnic armenians for three decades. tens of thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city, stepanakert, many of them gathering at the airport. some aid has reached the enclave, but food, medicine and fuel are all in short supply. in new york, azerbaijan's foreign minister told the un general assembly that baku was determined to reintegrate karabakh armenians as equal citizens. but his armenian counterpart demanded the un establish a mission in the region to prevent further killings of ethnic armenians. the bbc�*s olga ivshina is one of the first journalists to have reached the region since this week's hostilities began. she sent us this report.

(gentle music) >>> a nailbiter return for a cup fold of asteroid unfolded over the utah desert and thef san francisco this morning. the latest stop from a seven-year mission to find out where it all began. first, though, they had to land. >> reporter: what left earth seven years ago in a blazing liftoff, came home today, after 1 billion miles in space. a one half pound sample of an oddball asteroid, carried back to earth, released from the osiris rex spacecraft, limiting to earth at 7:42 a.m. this morning. >> at this point we have entered in over san francisco, and we will quickly be approaching the utah testing range moving east. >> reporter: with the probe dropping from space to desert floor, it was scorched by 5000 degree temperatures as it reached a speed of 27,000 miles per hour. >> wonderful to see that deployment. >> reporter: the sample canister slowed to 11 miles per hour. the probe, after being on the other side of the solar system, a few years ago, dropped right on target. >> touchdown. >> this is the team of love he decelerating that achievement. >> reporter: from there, th

all eyes are now on this patch of utah desert, ready for the landing.d answer that most profound question — where did we come from? rebecca morrelle, bbc news, utah. let's go live to salt lake city, our silent correspondence is there. it's fascinating, extraordinary what they're able do. they are trying not to contaminate it, they've got it all this way, got it off in our stride and got the dust back here. they've got to be so careful now that they don't mess it up in the last stage. that they don't mess it up in the last stage-— that they don't mess it up in the last staue. , , , , last stage. yes, everything is set for sunday- _ last stage. yes, everything is set for sunday. not _ last stage. yes, everything is set for sunday. not much _ last stage. yes, everything is set for sunday. not much can - last stage. yes, everything is set| for sunday. not much can change last stage. yes, everything is set - for sunday. not much can change the outcome now, the capture will be released, they'll make her go, no—go, decision in the early hours in utah. at aroun

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an asteroid sample taken from deep space lands in the utah desert.he sample could unlock the secrets of our solar system billions of years ago. >>> and news just in, the star headlining the super bowl halftime show and the bride's surprise at her wedding. >>> from abc news world headquarters in new york, this is "world news tonight." >>> good evening. thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm linsey davis. we begin with the massive storm hitting the east coast and severe weather slamming the center of the country. what was once tropical storm ophelia is bringing soaking rain across the northeast. the slow-moving storm drenching the i-95 corridor. more rain is expected from new york city to boston on monday, making for a rough, morning commute. coastal areas of new jersey are feeling the effects. ophelia first made landfall in north carolina early saturday bringing 70-mile-an-hour winds and coastal flooding. a separate storm triggering severe thunderstorms in parts of the plains. look at these images of hail in oklahoma. tonight that system is moving

all eyes are now on this patch of utah desert, ready for the landing.re did we come from? rebecca morelle, bbc news, utah. an eight—year—old girl has become the first child in the uk to receive a kidney transplant that means she does not have to take long term drugs to stop her rejecting the organ. aditi shankar received both stem cells and a kidney transplant from her mother which meant her body accepted the new organ. 0ur medical editor fergus walsh has her story. aditi's health has been transformed, thanks to her mum and a team at great 0rmond street hospital in london. she has an extremely rare genetic condition which had weakened her immune system and meant her kidneys were failing. doctors came up with a radical new approach, which involved not one but two transplants. the medical team began by removing stem cells from aditi's mum. these were used for a bone marrow transplant which rebuilt and re—programmed aditi's immune system. six months later, aditi had a kidney transplant, again donated by her mother, and her reprogrammed immune system accept

all eyes are now on this patch of utah desert, ready for the landing. utah. from asteroids to another kind of flying object. and just before we go, take a look at this. cctv cameras have captured the moment a pigeon crashed into a man's head as he popped to the shops. michael speirs, from nottingham, was heading into his local convenience store when the bird flew into him. he described it as like being "whacked full—pelt with a feathered pillow". stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. we've got a largely fine start to the day across many parts of the uk with some sunny spells, but showers have already been gathering towards northern and western areas and we've seen a few rainbows already from our weather watchers this morning as those showers pass through. if we look at the satellite image, we can see today's weather is linked in with a swirl of cloud here. sunny spells and showers. saturday's weather is this clearer spot, and then this is sunday's weather — a period of wet and windy weather on its way. but for the rest of today, showers continuing

all eyes are now on this patch of utah desert, ready for the landing.rrelle, bbc news, utah. some breaking news on a university student abductions in north—west nigeria coming up in a few moments. hello. we have a largely fine start to the day across many parts of the uk with sunny spells but showers have gathered towards northern and western areas and we've seen a few rainbows already from our weather watches this morning as the showers pass through. if we look at the satellite image we can see today's weather is linked with a swell of cloud here, sunny spells and showers and saturday is the clear a and this is sunday's weather, a period of wet and windy weather on its way. for the rest of the day, showers continuing towards northern and western areas and those will drift towards the south and east, so all of us at some point this afternoon catching a shower. strong winds in the north—east of scotland, gail sia, and maximum temperature is generally up to 14 or 18 degrees. it will feel quite fresh in the brisk north—westerly wind but through tonight we

travelling billions of miles through space, the capsule is going to land somewhere over here in the utah desertain or shine. hello, i'm rajini vaidyanathan. it's been described as the new high—speed railway that will form the backbone of britain's transport network. but there are now questions over the future of the h52 project which had planned to connect london, the midlands and the north of england. the uk government says it would be "crazy" not to review the project given soaring costs due to the war in ukraine and a rise in inflation. defence secretary, and former transport minister grant shapps told the bbc the government would need to make "serious decisions" on how affordable it is. the hs2 project was originally due to link london with manchester and leeds, via birmingham. there is speculation that the link between birmingham and manchester may be under threat as costs have increased significantly. the line to leeds has already been scrapped. with more, here's our political correspondent, jessica parker. hsz hs2 is this enormous rail project, and they actually already scrapped a bit of

and then it landed gently in the utah desert here. were expecting. we were expecting it to come down at 08.55 local time, and it came down three minutes earlier than that. now, that will be something that the engineers of the the capsule at lockheed martin will want to pore over. but i don't think the scientists care very much. they have their capsule back and they've got their sample back. and jonathan, we saw pictures earlier on of what they call the clean room, i believe, in which we saw sort of men and women in white suits carefully examining this capsule, because it's quite tricky work to recover what it is that they're after. we're seeing pictures of that room now on our screens. yeah, the watchword today has been cleanliness. these samples are precious. they tell us about the chemistry that existed four and a half billion years ago when the planets were forming around the nascent sun. and what we what we need is to see that chemistry uncontaminated. if we think, as the scientists suspect, there's chemistry in there that may giv

all eyes are now on this patch of utah desert, ready for the landing. did we come from? rebecca morrelle, bbc news, utah. king charles and queen camilla have arrived in bordeaux on the final day of their state visit to france. later today, the king will meet emergency workers and communities affected by the 2022 wildfires that ravaged the region. they will both then go on to meet with uk and french military personnel before visiting an organic vineyard. sheffield united have announced that their midfielder maddy cusack has died at the age of 27. maddy was named club vice—captain last month and had become the first player to reach 100 appearances for the club last season. sheffield united said it was heartbreaking news for everyone. the labour party is promising extra powers for the independent economic watchdog if it wins the next election. labour says it's a repeat of what it calls the "disastrous mistakes" made by the former prime minister, liz truss. live now to our political correspondent, peter saull. what is the political significance of the state

all eyes are now on this patch of utah desert, ready for the landing.on. rebecca morelle, bbc news, utah. the family of a teenager who died while challenging an nhs decision over her life preserving treatment say they were brutally silenced by the courts. the 19—year—old can now be named after legal restrictions were lifted. the patient had mitochondrial disease and died after a cardiac arrest before the eu court of protection could hear her case. she needed end—of—life care rather than on curbing treatment. her family say they were deeply disturbed by how they were treated by the hospital trust and the courts. ~ . , ., courts. we have been gagged, silenced and _ courts. we have been gagged, silenced and most _ courts. we have been gagged, silenced and most importantly| silenced and most importantly prevented from accessing specialist treatment abroad. had she been allowed to seek treatment six months ago, it might well be that she would still be with us and recovering. she said she wanted to died trying to live. detectives investigating the death of te

all eyes are now on this patch of utah desert, ready for the landing. rebecca morelle, bbc news, utah. watch this space for more on that one. as always, keep up with all the day's news on bbc dot com. thank you for watching. this is live from washington. coming up, i bbc you need is a special look at the war on ukraine. thanks for watching. take care. hello. it's the autumn equinox on saturday morning so the first day of autumn, officially. how about the weather? it's looking a little mixed this weekend and quite an interesting headline there. the tail end of a hurricane is expected to bring us some warm weather to some parts of the country, but also a dose of wind and rain. and here it is, hurricane nigel soon to become an ex hurricane, also being absorbed by the weather systems in the mid—latitudes and all of that is heading our way. and also a south south—westerly wind ahead of it will develop, ahead of this large area of low pressure and that means somewhat warmer weather streaming in from the south. so it's a tale of two halves, quite literally. so

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all eyes are now on this patch of utah desert, ready for the landing. morrelle, bbc news, utah. it's two weeks have passed since a powerful earthquake hit morocco — killing more than two thousand people, and causing widespread damage. officials say they are doing all they can to help — and have promised to rebuild fifty thousand homes. but many families are set to spend the winter in tents — and for the children, whose schools were destroyed, the situation is becoming increasingly traumatic. 0ur correspondent sally nabil visited one of the worst—affected areas in the high atlas mountains to see how people there are trying to cope... this is one of many sprawling makeshift camps in the high atlas mountains, where many families are left to struggle more than a week after morocco's deadly earthquake. this girl takes me to have a look at her wrecked school. she is still haunted by memories of the day the quake hit. translation: my father hugged me and i kept reciting prayers. _ the ground was severely shaking. today, i sometimes wake up in panic and say the

the landing site is a remote military testing range deep in the utah desert.has landed, it will quickly be retrieved via helicopter and taken to a specially built facility at nasa'a joson space centre in texas. now, live to lockheed martin space in littleton, colorado to speak to mark fisher, who's lockheed martin 0siris—rex spacecraft operations engineer. good to talk to you, this must be an exciting day so tell us about your involvement in this project? {staci exciting day so tell us about your involvement in this project? involvement in this pro'ect? glad to be here. i am h involvement in this pro'ect? glad to be here. i am the _ involvement in this project? glad to be here. i am the chief _ involvement in this project? glad to be here. i am the chief engineer- involvement in this project? glad to be here. i am the chief engineer forj be here. i am the chief engineerfor the space path, so ever since launch we have been flying it from our location in colorado. my involvement has been coordinating all the efforts of the scientists and the engineers to pull of

travelling billions of miles through space, the capsule is going to land somewhere over here in the utah desertme rain or shine. hello, i'm rajini vaidyanathan. we start here in the uk. defence secretary grant shapps said it would be "irresponsible" to carry on pumping money into the h52 high—speed rail line if costs had spiralled and there was a "perfectly legitimate question" about its sequencing. mr shapps, the uk's former transport secretary, told the bbc�*s victoria derbyshire that costs had increased significantly, citing inflation as having been part of that. he stressed that hs2 was not the "be all and end all" for northern transport projects. on hsz, we do have to respond to the budgets _ on hsz, we do have to respond to the budgets that have been hit not only by coronavirus but by the war in ukraine — by coronavirus but by the war in ukraine i— by coronavirus but by the war in ukraine. ithink by coronavirus but by the war in ukraine. i think any responsible government looks at that and says, does this_ government looks at that and says, does this still stuck up for what the country re

that they remove any of the utah desert that may be attached to the capsule.pictures, images of the capital itself before they start to open it. in of the capital itself before they start to open it.— of the capital itself before they start to open it. in terms of dust, how much — start to open it. in terms of dust, how much dust _ start to open it. in terms of dust, how much dust would _ start to open it. in terms of dust, how much dust would something | how much dust would something like this, the sort of meteorite carrie? i'm sorry, how much a sample would there be inside of the capsule? yes, this is actually samples from the asteroid bennu and the estimate is that there could be as much as 250 grams or so, perhaps even more of sample from the asteroid bennu inside of this capsule. inside of the canister.— inside of this capsule. inside of the canister. ., ., ,, ., the canister. that will take a while then to presumably _ the canister. that will take a while then to presumably navigate - the canister. that will take a while i then to presumably navigate thr

which descended towards the utah desert, a view of its parachute slowing the craft.the most precious sample, fragments of an asteroid called bennu that could reveal the secrets of our solar system. the scientists think there are about 250 grams of dust and rock and every grain is precious. some of our instruments literally look at the items that make up the look at the atoms that make up the crystals inside of these rocks. when you're working at that scale a single stone is the universe to explore. a first glimpse of the capsule that's traveled billions all of this effort is to solve the mystery of what asteroid bennu is made of. this is vital, because bennu tops the list of nasa's most hazardous space rocks, so studying its makeup could help us to stop it if we ever need to. but it could also reveal more about our origins — it's a perfectly preserved relic from the dawn of the solar system. this was the moment the sample was collected in a five—second smash and grab, before it was safely stowed in the capsule for its return to earth. the rock and dust will be divide

a capsule carrying it landed in the utah desert this weekend.pecially built lab in houston where the material will be examined. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: this moment seven years in the making. a nasa probe returning to earth with pieces of an asteroid, a time capsule from the birth of our solar system. >> it was charred, but it came in at 27,000 miles an hour, so we expected that. otherwise, it looked perfect. >> liftoff of osiris-rex. >> reporter: the osiris-rex mission, an engineering marvel launched in 2016. two years later, it caught up with benu, a near earth asteroid the size of the empire state building. the spacecraft spent a year and a half mapping benu, searching for a safe place to collect a sample. then finally dodging boulders, briefly plunged its arm into a small crater. >> and we have touchdown! [ applause ] >> reporter: like a vacuum cleaner, the spacecraft sucked up asteroid rocks and dust about a half pound's worth and locked it away for the 1.2 billion-mile journey back to earth. >> this is the largest sample of ext

mission nearly 20 years in the making, as a capsule containing asteroid samples touches down in the utah deserthutdown, as pressure mounts on lawmakers to strike a budget deal a three—hour stand—off at a monastery in kosovo leaves a police officer and three gunmen dead. its leaders are now trading accusations with neighbouring serbia. hello, i'm catriona perry. you're very welcome. it's sunday night here in washington, normally a quiet time in the halls of power, but not tonight.

so far above the it's currently plummeting down to the surface wherever will touch down in the utah desert. or releasing the capsule, 100000 kilometers away from the earth about a 3rd of the way to the moon. and it has to hit a cord or in the atmosphere that's just about 3 miles wide. so that's like kicking like a $120000.00 yard foot foot fuel go on the football field or something like that on the ground. scientists will be waiting to rush the sample to a special clean room lab like this one for further study. while the space rubble should provide insights into how life again, the mission could help ensure it continues as well. nasa ranks brand new as the seller systems most dangerous asteroid bridge potential to some day hit us in the coming centuries. just knowing more about what is made of could improve our chances, offending venue, and all the incoming space rocks off. for more let's welcome patrick michelle in nice. he's a planetary scientists and member of the o. cyrus rex team. patrick as part of the team. i imagine you've been living this mission almost every moment of the waking

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capsule set to enter the f earth's atmosphere traveling 27 miles per hour before landing in the utah desertdonte loretta, the principal investigator for nasa's osiris-rex mission. also author of the asteroid hunter. the right person to talk to about this. explain this. so this is going to be flung at earth at 27650 miles per hour. how is this going to happen? explain what's going to happen this morning. >> thanks for having me. it's a really exciting morning for osiris. we are seven minutes away from releasing the capsule off the spacecraft. i have been watching the telemetry all morning. everything is operating nominally. we are talking about a spacecraft that has been traveling through space for seven years. we spent over two years surveying a near-earth asteroid named bennu, about as wide across as the empire state building. it comes very close to the earth repeatedly and we worry about a potential future impact. most importantly, though, it's a treasure trove from the earliest stages of the olar system formation. think about genealogy going back 4.5 b 4.5 billion years. we are trying to

all eyes are now on this patch of utah desert ready for the landing.s mission could answer that most profound question. rebecca morelle, bbc news, utah. live now to utah, where we can speak to arn—jani polit, who's a senior systems engineer with the university of arizona's lunar and planetary laboratory — and serves as mission implementation systems engineerfor the 0siris—rex mission. and we can now talk to richard greenwood, a meteorite researcher at the open university, who's involved in the analysis of asteroid samples. so, anjani, it's an extraordinary process, so how did you manage it with mac that's correct, this was an incredibly complex and challenging mission. ~ �* ., ., , incredibly complex and challenging mission. �* ., ., , , mission. we've had so many people workin: to mission. we've had so many people working to make _ mission. we've had so many people working to make this _ mission. we've had so many people working to make this happen. - mission. we've had so many people working to make this happen. the l working to make this happen. the

nasa's seven-year mission to retrieve a rare sample of an asteroid ends in a utah desert.ou're doing the super bowl. >> halftime headliner. the singing superstar who will make his way to nfl's biggest stage. >>> and later, family matters. the efforts to keep loved ones together despite life's challenges. >> our goal is to keep people with their pet. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >>> tonight, what's left of tropical storm ophelia is slowly creeping up the east coast, bringing drenching rain and pounding winds. flood warnings are posted from the carolinas to as far north as maine. in north carolina much of the town of belhaven was left devastated as water crashed into front yards. and along the jersey shore roads were submerged, stranding some in their homes. cbs's astrid martinez starts us off tonight from new york. astrid, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. and although it weakened, the remnants of ophelia still impacting the east coast. nearly 9 million people are under coastal flooding alerts. tonight, tens of thousands of people along th

celebrating the end of a seven year mission to a special asteroid, a capsule that landed in the utah desert on sunday held samples of a space rock believed to be more than 4 billion years old. here's abc's ike ejiochi touchdown. touchdown >> osiris-rex making landfall at a testing ground in salt lake city. the first time experts say the us has brought an asteroid sample back from space and it could hold the answers to life's most existential questions. this has never happened before and we may be able to unlock some really, really important clues to where we came from. the microwave sized capsule landing safely after the seven year, 4.4 billion mile mission inside, around nine ounces of rubble from bennu, an asteroid as old as the solar system itself collected using a long stick vacuum. we're trying to learn what planets are made of, where did the water and the organic molecules on the earth and other planets come from? >> and here's here's some samples of that that are going to come back to the earth to be studied in laboratory studies all over the world for decades, which is critical beca

after traveling back home, it will come back to the utah desert. teams are opening the container, the operation has been held by the ames research center here in mountain view. >> this is an exciting time to be an asteroid fan, the origins of our solar system is locked into these asteroids. >> that is believed to be older than earth itself, nasa will stream the dissent on sunday starting at 7:00 am local time. >>> ththe low riders anand crui have always been a part of the culture, how one man is keeping the tradition alive on two wheels. >>> man, i feel proud of myself, i feel so good. >> why the oakland a's are getting a lot of heat for their retirement gift to the detroit >>> we are celebrating hispanic heritage month, and a big part of the culture has revolved around cars, cruising, low riders and of course music. i had a chance to meet one man who is keeping the tradition alive, but he is onon two wheel low and slow, a perfect day to roll through the streets. >> it feels pretty nice. >> a chance for antonio and his crew, his family, to ride wit

a spacecraft will dump a caniste containing a handful of a asteroid onto the utah desert tomorrow morning finish to a incredible mission if it all goes as planned. >> reporter: for the nasa cruis tracking to inbound journey of the osiris racks it is a exciting journey. >> we have been waiting long for this sample. >> reporter: it has been seven years since it blasted off, heading for a lump of pristine rock that took two years to reach to dig out a half a poun scoop of asteroid and bring it to earth. >> we are doing some tests. >> reporter: john swift heads up the observatory. why all of this fuss over a asteroid? >> understanding the compositio of asteroids and where they are in their orbits, gives us clue to the history of the solar system. >> reporter: what happened was surprise, on october 20, 2020, the sampler reached out from the craft and the surface was so weak, tons of rock exploded from the surface in a curtain of debris almost crippling the mission but the tire sized sampler survived after a journe of nearly 4 billion miles. tonight osiris racks is ready to take the plunge into

. >> eventually landing in the utah desert. >> seeing it just sitting perfectly on the desert floor,ssion >> reporter: inside the capsule, a half pound sample of rocks and dust collected from an asteroid called bennu, which scientists say could one day crash into earth. it also may hold important clues to the origins of our solar system >> so why this asteroid? what's so special about this one? >> we think of asteroids as pristine time capsules from the very, very early formation of our solar system we hope to learn more about the building block material that made our own planet billions of years ago. >> liftoff of osiris-rex >> reporter: the mission began in 2016. the spacecraft traveling years to reach the asteroid 200 million miles away from earth. >> it was a challenging feat to do the asteroid surface is kind of like a rubble pile, which we didn't expect. it's kind of like if you were to stand on a children's ball pit, you would fall right into that ball pit. >> despite challenges, success, finally back on earth, scientists retrieving the charred capsule, anxiously waiting to un

a capsule about the size of a car tire landed in the utah desert, ending a seven-year, four-billion milep to collect the biggest haul of samples from an asteroid ever collected in space. the material will be analyzed at the johnson space center in houston and, eventually, labs around the world. scientists hope what they find will help unlock the mysteries of the creation of the earth and our solar system. it's the most extraterrestrial material to be brought to earth since the end of the apollo lunar program. and two milestones today for women in sports. at the berlin marathon, ethiopian runner tigist assefa shattered the women's world record by a full two minutes. she covered the 26-mile course in two hours, 11 minutes, and 53 seconds. assefa only started running marathons last year. before that, she was a middle-distance runner. and tonight's u.s. women's national soccer team match against south africa will be megan rapinoe's final game with the team. in her two decades on the national squad, she helped win two world cups and an olympic gold medal. she still has three more games in the

after traversing the 7 billion kilometers, it will make landfall in the utah desert on sunday.ientists can begin studying just how our solar system came to be. you can find more on all of today's news on our website, bbc.com/news. thank you so much for watching world news america. take care. ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening. on the newshour tonight, the united auto workers expands its strike to dozens more facilities putting further pressure on the big three. congress is mired in gridlock. a government shutdown draws newer and -- draws nearer. and ukraine's national security advisor discusses the ongoing counteroffensive and the

a capsule carrying the sample is supposed to parachute down and land in the utah desert.s are hoping to collect half a pound of pebbles and dust to study. the spacecraft is not done yet. it will then head off to another asteroid. >>> coming up here on "cbs mornings," singer-songwriter stephen sanchez. this is the "cbs morning news." stephen sasanchez. this is s the "cbs m morning ne" the papandemic mayay be over, but t unfortunatately covid-9 isn't goining anywherere. in fact, i it's still l ag the totop five leaeading caususes of deatath in the u, right after hearart diseasee anand cancer.. and cocovid-19 relelated er visitits are threree times hihigher than thehe flu. so statay up-to-dadate withth the latesest covivid-19 vaccicines this f , just l like you dodo with the . becaususe you've g got no t time for 1919. stay up-p-to-date wiwith the latestst covidid-19 vaccinin. so i d didn't thk i needed s sw, until, i saw w how easilyly itit picked upup my hair evevery time i i dried it!! only takakes a minutute. look a at that! the heavy y duty clothths are extra a thick, f

nasa achieves the impossible as a capsule containing asteroid samples touches down in the utah desertf the rail link amid rising costs of the project. hello, i'm sally bundock. a very warm welcome to the programme. we start with some breaking news. hollywood studio bosses and the union representing writers have reached a tentative deal.