just moments from now. washington s critical debt fight headstone wall street. in minutes. house speaker kevin mccarthy makes his pitch before investors as a high stakes deal with democrats stalls question at the center of all of this. can congress avoid economic disaster? we might all have to pay for the most important defamation trial in generations . just got delayed. word is fox news may now want to settle with dominion in this stunning 11th hour twist. the judge just spoke in the courtroom. we will tell you what he said. plus outcry. outcry for justice in kansas city, missouri, after a black teenage boy is shot in the head. he mistakenly simply went to the wrong home to pick up his little brother s. he s recovering in the hospital now these stories and more coming in right here on cnn news, central. any moment now. house speaker kevin mccarthy will speak at the new york stock exchange is expected to outline a new republican proposal as the us debt crisis looms in a tweet
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 exact. then it gives spacex a 62 minute window to get that massive rocket off the launch pad. this test was originally planned for monday. you ll remember, but that launch was called off almost as soon as
the launch pad. so we are, as you mentioned that window opens up about 8 30 central time 9 30 eastern, and so far everything is on track. but remember, everything was on track on monday about this time it was about six minutes or so before the scheduled launch that the launch was scrubbed because of a pressurization valves. that had frozen somewhere in that rocket system. we haven t got much clearer indication of what exactly happened there over the last few days, but we were told spacex officials have been working on cleaning that up, but they ve already put in the fuel . the propellant is inside the rocket system. they did that within the last hour, and that is about £10 million of liquid methane and liquid oxygen inside that rocket system and remember you know, as we ve said over and over again, this is one of the most powerful the most powerful rocket ever built 33 engines in that heavy booster that lower part of that rocket system, which is about 230 ft. long the entire rockets a
was supposed to take off last hour, but it for its first fully assembled test flight. but instead it remains grounded on itself as south padre island launch pad, let s get over to cnn s ed lavandera. he s back with us this hour from right near that launch site. and what more have you picked up since we last spoke about what went wrong. elon musk says this morning that it was a president, pressurization valves issue that appeared to have frozen up just moments before the launch of the star ship rocket. there were thousands of people gathered here on the southern edge of south padre island, as you can see the rocket on still on the pad behind us. we re about five miles away, so a little bit of let down here as this happens just moments before. the scheduled takeoff. spacex officials are saying that it will take at least 48 hours to schedule the next launch. so we don t have information yet on when exactly it will be rescheduled, but those spacex