40 million unemployment claims. Nearly half of all states now seeing a spike in new cases, while the reopening of america moves on. Scrubbed. Were not going to launch today. Astronauts were strapped in, crowds were ready, the weather not cooperating. Inside the drama at the Kennedy Space center as that Ground Breaking space launch was called off during the final countdown. Those stories, plus ready for rides, universal, disney world and other theme parks reveal plans to reopen in just a matter of weeks. The major changes theyre making to help keep families safe. Today, thursday, may 28th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, everybody, good morning, welcome to today. Were so happy that youre joining us on this thursday morning. Good morning, savannah. Good morning, hoda. Weve got a lot to get to this morning, including a really tough night in minneapolis. It certainly was. Overnight there was ne
All of the chaos coming just hours after the minneapolis officer who put his knee on the neck of george floyd was arrested and charged with murder and manslaughter. Were live across the country as america begins to fracture. Mixed messages. President trump trying to calm nerves nationwide saying he spoke to the floyd family. I understand the hurt, i understand the pain. That after a rose garden event where he didnt say a word about america in chaos and which controversy raging over his tweet saying when the looting starts, the shooting starts. What hes now saying about that tweet. Big news for the big apple. New york citys mayor making a major announcement. The epicenter of the coronavirus will begin the process of getting back to normal in less than two weeks. What life will look like now in the nations biggest city. Those stories, plus take two. Nasa and spacex hoping the weather cooperates for a historic manned launch at Kennedy Space center after the previous attempt was scrubbed a
That is not a good thing. So right now, we are waiting for tminus seven minutes. That will start the engine chill. Shortly after that, we will also get the fuel shut down. Listening to the spacex launch director in the background. As i mentioned, tminus seven minutes, as we start to chill, we will get into the final topping off of stage one fuel, and then the fuel load will complete. Stage one and stage two, engine chill has started. We have heard the callout. Stage one engine chill has started. Soy have got up to the crew, they have situational awareness. We mentioned the prevalves are open, now we are topping off, getting ready to finish the fuel load. Liquid load will continue until the last three minutes to two minutes of the countdown. We should hear about callout, complete coming up in about six minutes. Rp1 is that densify kerosene or rocket fuel at falcon 9 that will be used to power bob and doug today. Stage i fuel is closed up. Right on time. That callout indicates that the f
Have live coverage. Heres a portion of todays coverage courtesy of nasa tv. The astronauts. [cheering] they each made this journey twice before, for the Space Shuttle missions. But they have never done this in the spacex space suit, theyve never done it together theyve never done it on their way to head to ay commercially dealt rocket in space. Putting astra down in one time its a new era in space travel. They are writing an tesla model exes. They have been equipped with cooling units. Once they sit inside that umbilical i was referring to earlier will connect to the spacesuit to provide cooling where they are inside the vehicle. You can see them talking and waving with their families now. We sell them to a virtual hug with their sons. Megan and karen and their sons here. They are the dads. The dads yet. So awesome. Bob split his family kiss, doug got to take his n wife and son up to the pad on the tower yesterday they tweeted out a photo that was so cool. I saw that picture it had a p
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