To the traditional prelaunch News Conference ahead of the falcon and crew 1 dragon launch to the iss. Here to provide all the details are folks that were part of the review today and also have been part of the preparations that led up to this moment as an exciting day for everybody in nasa and spacex. An everyone tuning in today. Let me introduce the panel, and i will let each one of them give you some words before we take questions. Steve stich. He is the nasa manager for the commercial crew program here at kennedy. Also joel montalbano, the nasa manager of the International Space Station Program at Johnson Space center in houston. Norm knight, the deputy manager of Flight Operations director at johnson. Also joining us is benji reed, the senior director of human spaceflight programs at spacex. We are glad to have him with us. Also, kirt costello, the nasa iss program chief scientist at Johnson Space center. And arlena moses, the launch weather officer for the u. S. Air force 45th wea
Even considering changing building heights downtown. Reporter carla brown is one of five city councilmembers and the vice mayor. She says a lot of residents are concerned about the downtown specific plan which would allow for three and four story buildings downtown and open the door for high density housing on main street. The community would change forever, so theres a lot of concerns and as i said we had 250 letters thing they are not supporting dramatic changes like that downtown. We are new to pleasanton and the reasons we moved was because of the downtown area. Reporter carol moved to pleasanton three years ago with her family and says she understands the need for more housing but questions whether downtown is the right area to develop. I think theres a lot of areas that it can be done in and i dont think it should disrupt the quaint area that should be preserved. Reporter a sentiment echoed by many people who were out and about on main street today. It changes the atmosphere, its