NEWS OF THE DAY

_1 Rocket launch: President Trump plans to be in Florida on Wednesday to watch American astronauts blast into orbit from the Kennedy Space Center. It will be the first time since the space shuttle program ended in 2011 that U.S. astronauts will launch into space aboard an American rocket from American soil. The test launch will carry NASA pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. They’re scheduled to blast off at 4:33 p.m. EDT from launchpad 39A, the same one the Apollo astronauts used to get to the moon. Vice President Mike Pence also plans to attend. _2 Zoom killing: A New York man suspected of fatally stabbing his father on a live Zoom call confessed to the caughtoncamera killing after police found him trying to wash blood off his body, prosecutors said. Thomas ScullyPowers,

32, was jailed without bail after pleading not guilty to murder in the attack Thursday that killed Dwight Powers, 72, as horrified call participants scrambled to dial 911. Prosecutors say ScullyPowers attacked his father at their Amityville apartment as the older man sat down for a Zoom video meeting with about 20 other people.

_3 Michigan flooding: Residents and businesses in central Michigan communities that were submerged when two dams failed last week have sued the operator of the dams and state agencies charged with overseeing the structures. The lawsuits came as yet more residents were forced to evacuate their homes near Midland after being overwhelmed by flooding along the Tittabawassee River and conjoining waterways. The river flooded late Tuesday when the aging Edenville and Sanford dams failed after heavy rain. The river crested Wednesday and forced about 11,000 people to evacuate their homes. President Trump declared an emergency Thursday. _4 Homeless ruling: A judge has ordered the city and county of Los Angeles to move thousands of homeless people living near freeways. U.S. District Court Judge David Carter issued a preliminary injunction Friday requiring the relocation by Sept. 1, of as many as 7,000 people camping near freeway ramps and overpasses, saying they face a dangerous health risk. “I’m very optimistic, and I think all parties can come together,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said. The order was issued in a lawsuit filed by the LA Alliance for Human Rights, which accused officials in greater Los Angeles of failing to comprehensively address the homelessness crisis. The order requires the city and county to provide shelter or alternative housing options. _5 Freezer body: A woman who kept her late husband’s body in a freezer in her bedroom at their Joplin, Mo., home is suing the county coroner and police for the return of his remains. Barbara Watters, 67, was charged with abandoning a corpse after police found Paul Barton’s body in the freezer. But a judge dismissed the charge, ruling Watters’ actions did not meet the legal definition of abandonment of a corpse. Watters told the Associated Press in November when she was charged that she feared doctors wanted to take her husband’s brain for research.