medication will remain available through midnight on friday after the supreme court pushed their self imposed deadline. due to conflicting rulings from federal judges in two states. we are tracking a major threat more than 50 million people from texas to wisconsin, bracing for severe weather after deadly tornado slammed parts of oklahoma overnight, officials fear the death toll could rise these stories and more coming here to cnn news, central. if all goes well, we are just minutes away from the historic launch of the spacex starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. this is a critical test fight with test flight with a longer term goal of one day, taking people back to the moon, and maybe even mars . the launch window opens this hour 9 28. am eastern. to be
moon for the for the first time they view all of this kind of in those historic space travel terms. so and we re on unbelievable day to be able to witness this here this morning. i love to see your joy at at this. you know that feeling of being a little kid? we were just looking at some video in john berman was also pointing out. if you look at it, you can see that it looks like some of the engines may not have been firing. there are 33 engines, and there were some dark holes in the bottom where you can sort of see the rocket going up. it is the largest heaviest. rocket that has ever been launched, and the reason why people were cheering is because it worked partially, but definitely add. you have the situation where this was supposed to be reused, and that s a whole lot of money crashing down there in south padre island in it. well, yeah, exactly. so you know, this is unscrewed from a safety standpoint, obviously not ready to put humans on board this rocket, and it was at that three m
booster, which is the bottom part of the rocket. and then the spacecraft rocket itself was all was almost was already done as well. and they were also going through the process of cooling the entire system down and all of that started happening about three minutes t minus three minutes to this launch, so they ve been saying that everything was on track. but here just about 40 seconds away from the launch is when they put it on hold and john, we continue to kind of wait and see if there s any other indication. i m not hearing anything right now. so i would imagine they re in the process of what we ve gathering that and seeing if we can hear any other, let s listen in ed. they re talking with this morning s rocket launch pressurization was just a little bit long. that s not unusual. we ve held a t minus 40 seconds before to pressurize that appears to have been resolved the same time on the second stage. they re working some final purging. we should know very shortly. if that is cleared n
that that was not. that would be , uh, off nominal, as nasa might say, but i say that brief time. yes and for a brief time, seven of the engines were out so and they you know that these rapture engines are they can relight them. i believe they re lit them a little bit, but clearly that that affects the stability of the rocket. and maybe they couldn t. you know they had enough loss of rocket motors that they had a stability problem. you know when you when you re trying to get 33 rocket engines to all work in perfect synchronicity, that s that s a lot of things that have to go right? not just electronic lee, but also just sheer plumbing and pressurization, as we re talking about is very important. and so this is, you know, this is exactly why they do these tests. uh to get the data they need to make it better the next time, presumably so, you know, this is you know, elon musk is
dispensary and some pink floyd and look up in the sky tonight. there s one option, making it and you ll sleep very we? well right there you go on this for 20. cnn news. central starts right now. ready to launch space checks will soon attempt to send the largest and most powerful rocket ever built to space. cnn is live at the launchpad ahead of this historic flight and second try delayed decision. aqui abortion