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We join this event in progress. Good news in one hour on the dot and counting, we are go for lunch. Go for lunch. We are less than one hour. Good read back. Again, we are less than one hour until liftoff. This day is the continuation of regular crew flights to the space station from u. S. Soil. Spacex crew five mission will be the sixth crude crewed spaceflight. Today aircrews flying onboard dragon endurance. It will be the second flight for this capsule and it has been a great countdown so far. The weather is still good for t0. Crew five is go for launch. Copy that, is go for launch. You heard it yourself, crew five is go for launch. We started our coverage earlier today with the crew heading to the launch pad and before that, the spacex team did help them put on their spacesuits and conduct initial checkouts before crew walkout. Crew walkout was where the crew members gave final goodbyes with friends and family gathered outside the operations and checkout building before they began t
Joe montalbano, manager International Space program in the johnson and sarah walker, director drag at Mission Management spacex. Tiroshi saski Technology Director and synergy dish and sergei. Thank you all for being here. We will start with some opening remarks from each of them and then we will take questions from reporters, go ahead. What a beautiful launch. Its nice to not be fighting the weather as we head into the count. We are all sitting there and things were looking really smooth and i dont think we had the weather on the floor. That was really enjoyable. I think it was wonderful to see just how excited nicole and josh and anna and fair season veteran were as they got into orbit stuff once again experiencing being in space and for us, its always great to see that launch go through and see the spacecraft operating safely. Finally, these are real human endeavors and there is a team here that had to recover from the hurricane last week and get the Kennedy Space center back open. T
Director drag at Mission Management spacex. Tiroshi saski Technology Director and synergy dish and sergei. Thank you all for being here. We will start with some opening remarks from each of them and then we will take questions from reporters, go ahead. What a beautiful launch. Its nice to not be fighting the weather as we head into the count. We are all sitting there and things were looking really smooth and i dont think we had the weather on the floor. That was really enjoyable. I think it was wonderful to see just how excited nicole and josh and anna and fair season veteran were as they got into orbit stuff once again experiencing being in space and for us, its always great to see that launch go through and see the spacecraft operating safely. Finally, these are real human endeavors and there is a team here that had to recover from the hurricane last week and get the Kennedy Space center back open. They got a cleaned up and ready to go. The fact that we are here today is testimony to
Nbc news wall street journal poll shows 44 of americans opposed to raising the debt ceiling. But only 22 in favor. That is both an upsetting and staggering finds since not raising the debt ceiling would mean a government default and all the cascading miseries after that. What this poll shows is that no one really understands what the debt ceiling means. The last time we did this in june 2011, a majority didnt want to raise the debt ceiling either, but a month later after more attention had been brought to the subject, not the least of which president obama explaining what it raem meant, those numbers flipped. Public supporting the debt ceiling. No one understands what is really going on with the budget in washington. This is the single biggest issue. The single biggest issue, the president and congress are fighting over now, poised to do battle over and no one understands. So lets just take a moment to look at why we are where we are. All right . There are two deadlines coming up. The