breaking news hello everyone. thanks for joining me on. alison chemla, radha, and for fredricka whitfield, we have an exciting program for you today because within the next half an hour, we expect to witness the first ever boeing starliner spacecraft launched from cape canaveral, florida to the international space station. this is not a practice run this its launch has to american astronauts on board but officials and spectators are holding their breath a bit because this mission was already postponed a few times, veteran nasa astronauts, butch wilmore and suni williams are on board. and boeing is trying with this to compete with its rivals space x as nasa tries to collaborate with private industry partners. if successful, suni williams would become the first woman aboard any crewed test flight like this years of work has gone into this moment and it has not been without setbacks, as i ve mentioned. so let s bring in space and defense correspondent kristin fisher. she
light on this charles woody, things happen right regretfully. i can t i m mr. fat is kristinn? they gotta i think an eye i am not familiar with this vehicle, but it sounded like something i ll see filled or c fail indication at the three minus three-minute 52nd point. and that s an automatic hole where the system implements a hold on its own. so nobody had to do that. so i, but i do not know what but the issue is, i mean, what was interesting, charles, is that we kept hearing the check-in from nassau. we were hearing them say this system and the response would be stable and then this system and they re saucer to be stable. but yet the clock wasn t moving well, they they were checking once the whole was put in place, then what the launch director wanted to make sure was that the vehicle was in fact still in good shape that because there s constantly filling the fuel tank, so they re going through replenishment if you
there will be some minor things that they ll have to do on the way up at charles. we re gonna have you walk us through all of that in a few moments. kristinn charles, stay with us because we re going to go live. obviously to this launch. but i want to bring in meteorologists, elisa rafah right now. okay. so at least tell us what the weather looks like. it sure. looked gusty when kristinn was just reporting yeah. we ve had wins out ford s of 20 miles per hour in cape canaveral. you can see the one radar we ve got some sunshine, we ve got some clearer skies. they re there are some storms backoff in the panhandle, kind of the big bend area, panama city getting some heavy rain, but those storms kinda disappear before they can get to cape canaveral. so you ve got a couple of clouds out there at four degrees at that launch time hi east wins at 15 miles per hour. those easterly winds again have been kicking. this is a live update of some of those wind speeds they ve been sustained up arou
so there was an issue with the fan that essentially circulates air inside butch wilmore suit keep in mind, these are big heavy spacesuits. they ve gotten better than the big heavy clunky silver suits from the apollo holidays, but they re still hot this is florida in the summer time, right. so you have to have a fan, you have to have air circulating inside this suit or these astronauts can overheat so that seems to be the issue but i believe they have just gotten it resolved. the astronauts just put their advisers back down. so that s always a good sign, elson. okay. kristinn charles stick around with us. we will need did your help obviously, throughout this hour, everyone, we re going to take a very quick break and be right back for more coverage of this live and historic launch ignite the celebration. this memorial day with the outdoor fund and flavor that split on a blackstone and join them more than 11 million blackstone users know this is