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Im fredricka whitfield. And we begin this hour with Tropical Storm ophelia. Just hours after making land fall in north carolina, heavy rain, coastal flooding, and high winds, are hitting much of the Eastern Seaboard today. North carolina, maryland, and var are all under a State Of Emergency right now. And the storm is already knocked out power to more than 50,000 homes. And businesses. With those outages expected to grow. Allison chinchar is Tracking Ophelia from the cnn Weather Center and Polo Sandoval is in pelican island, new jersey, watching the impact and feeling it there. Lets begin with you, allison. The National Hurricane center issued a new advisory moments ago. The biggest change that we noted is the sustained winds have calmed down ever so slightly, dropping down now to 50 miles an hour. Still gusting up to 65. Look at the scope of this storm. You have so many of these Outer Rain Bands far away from that center point. And the center is still over north carolina, and you have
griff: the starliner launch delayed at least 24 hours but yet they never set back in a crucial moment. fox news live. alicia i am alicia acuna acuna you. under four minutes to the launch suddenly delayed over a technical issue. let s go live to the kennedy space center with what we are learning at this hour. . it turns out this was an automated hold. generated by a computer analyzing the very dynamic conditions on the atlas five rocket in the minutes before launch. looking at supercold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen used as the oxidizer in the propellant in the launch. they have to be absolutely perfect conditions. if anything goes wrong even a software glitch the computer shuts it down. the launch is on hold. engineers are now trying to get to the bottom of exactly what spooked the computer and what went wrong to cause the automated trigger. astronauts are safe. cruise help them to exit the spacecraft. basically doing in reverse what they did several hours earlier
take you to cape canaveral spaceport station, were going this set of its first cruise point to the international space station this of the company said several setbacks but it is all systems go and it appears now, looking to fox news life, i am griff jenkins and high alicia acuna. alicia: just moments ago president biden was seen biking with his son hunter in delaware, is that provided reactive different president, trust felony conviction and publicly endorse israel cease-fire in hostage exchange plan on friday. lucas thompson is live outside the white house with the latest hype lucas. reporter: was media blasting off many people are wondering if this is against the former president, donald trump will help him in november is the same question around peter ducey as president biden himself here yesterday. you think this conviction helps trump in the election. are you worried that this could happen to you someday somebody comes up with charges and tries to bring in the court
hello i am alicia acuna along with tammy bruce, joe concha and charlie hurt, welcome to the big weekend show , the big story tonight. former president trump is riding a wave of momentum as the cnn presidential debate approaches, last nitro rallied supporters in philadelphia as he built support in traditional blue strongholds, he said his base is enthusiasm and the only fuel that he needs before the san presidential debe against biden. tell me how you re prepared for the debate, we see president biden s at camp david and yet the campaign trial, what is your strategy. this is the best strategy, we have all these people screaming questions and i look forward to the debate. i think if were prepared he ll be fine and then i ll forget it within an hour after preparing them. we ll see what happens. a new fox news poll of all voters reveals that a majority thinks that trump will be biden and thursday cnn presidential debate, fox news correspondent alexis mcadams is live with