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
, let s bring in miles o brien. we did see the launch of the starship rocket all was going well, that it ended with an explosion there. miles. explain what happened. uh well, you, um there will be a lot of discussion about this. this the one thing i did notice, john. as it went up, there was a shot where you could see the bottom of the rocket. as i told you earlier, there are 33 separate rapture engines on this vehicle . six of them had not lit. so whether that is related to what we just saw. i don t know. i mean, without six engines that would potentially affect the ability of the rocket to remain stable. and that could, uh, ultimately have led to what we ve seen here now is that an actual explosion of the rocket or was a button pushed on the ground? the self destruct button , which is designed to keep the rocket from flying into harm s way, we ll find out more about that as well. ah having said all
that that was not. that would be , uh, off nominal, as nasa might say, but i say that brief time. yes and for a brief time, seven of the engines were out so and they you know that these rapture engines are they can relight them. i believe they re lit them a little bit, but clearly that that affects the stability of the rocket. and maybe they couldn t. you know they had enough loss of rocket motors that they had a stability problem. you know when you when you re trying to get 33 rocket engines to all work in perfect synchronicity, that s that s a lot of things that have to go right? not just electronic lee, but also just sheer plumbing and pressurization, as we re talking about is very important. and so this is, you know, this is exactly why they do these tests. uh to get the data they need to make it better the next time, presumably so, you know, this is you know, elon musk is