tell if if a spacewalk is necessary. one of the cooling stations went out yesterday. they had to shut down noncritical systems. the spags station and the crew, nasa says, is not in danger. still, it s worrisome. john zarrella joins me now from miami. reporter: the mission management team is meeting this morning and will have to come up with some contingenciecontingen. they have a con contingency for a spacewalk. they did one back in may to fix a cooling loop. back in 2010 they had to replace one of the two pumps out there on the outside of the space station. in fact, the one that failed yesterday is the one that was used as a replacement back in 2010. now, of course, any time you have to go outside of the space station to do any kind of work, it can be a dangerous situation. but what happened yesterday, of course, was the pump failed. they managed to get it restarted
director for the daily beast, john. you were celebrating this deal just yesterday as a bipartisan ray of sunshine. today it s i guess the twist is the conservative republicans are fighting the budget. republicans are fighting among themselves. will this thing pass? john, oh, john? yes, it will most likely pass among those on the right. when you have john boehner slamming the conservative activist groups that are just a racket at this point, trying to raise money and inflame furry with no interest in governing when paul ryan is being called insufficiently conservative on the budget, you have republicans realizing they re creating a monster that is not interesting in governing the national interest. that s the fascinating fight amongst this vote. john boehner said this isn t anything about politics.
there s a problem with the international space station right now. parts of the station s cooling system automatically shut down. but right now it s not known what caused it or how they can fix it. cnn s john zarrella joining us from our miami bureau. first of all, john, are the astronauts in any immediate danger? who s up there right now? reporter: no, wolf, they re not. in fact the life support systems are working just fine on the international space station. astronauts are going about their daily business. the astronauts up there, there are three two u.s. astronauts, three cosmonauts and a japanese space agency astronaut up there. in fact, one of the u.s. astronauts, rk, hails from my parents hometown, water berry, connecticut, we wish them well. they re in good shape. the problem is they think within
best to the whole family. thank you very much. wolf. all right. some breaking news coming into the situation room. we re just learning about a serious situation on the international space station. joining us on the phone is cnn s john zarrella. what are we learning, john? reporter: what we know is one of the two pumps on the station that actually cools the international station has failed. most importantly, there is no danger to the crew, the life-support system is working fine. science experiments are working fine, but they ve had to transfer a lot of the load over to the second pump. so they ve had to shut down the noncritical systems on three of the modules on board the international space station. they re industrial troubleshooting the problem. it could mean they may have to do an emergency space walk. they have spare pumps, they could install a new one, but the pumps are located outside.
no immediate call for evacuation or anything like that, right? no, that is absolutely correct. no call for evacuation. the astronauts, the cosmo knots are not in any dangers. life-support system is fine. and they could fix it by doing the space walk? they ve been trained to do something like that? in fact they did a space walk months ago to replace the same pump, and now the replacement pump has failed on them. so they certainly know how to do it. john zarrella with the latest, let s hope for the best for all of those on the international space station. that s it for me. thanks for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. crossfire starts right no now. tonight on crossfire will the breakthrough budget deal make it through congress? we would have preferred something quite different. nobody is getting exactly