t-minus five minutes and counting. otc. perform the a.t. start. talking about discovery being the oldest of the launch vehicles, you know. most used. reporter: and what a tremendous vehicle, you know, flew both the return to flight missions, flew john glenn into space. guys, let me jump in for just a second. z, let me,ump in now we re seeing the clock is officially ticking down, so it is a go. can you ask your astronaut friend there, what would be going on inside of discovery as the crew of six is sitting there wondering their fate? what would he be thinking right now? the question is what are you guys thinking right now, particularly with this delay? mostly they re thinking about their job. the biggest fear we have is making a mistakes, so we really concentrate on our job and make sure we do everything the best
You calling if. we thought it was an important story to tell down there in st. pete. appreciate it. thank you. i want to take you back to libya where every indication is that a noose is beginning to tighten around the capital city of tripoli and around the country s long time leader, moammar gadhafi. joining me now from new york is fareed zakh kakhar arzakhar . this is from benghazi. thousands of libyans, this is the kind of picture you stop and marvel at because they re rising up against gadhafi. as you look at this, fareed, what are your thoughts? just curious. this is absolutely historic moment for libya. it s a historic moment for the middle east. but for the libyans, this is really an extraordinary deliverance. gadhafi is seen as a kind of mad comical character in the west but has run one of the truly
And you know, what you pick up every, the profound hatred for everything he ever represented. every single building that was used by the police, by the army, by his supporters has been burned down, and essentially ransacked. we were in the compound that contained the palaces where moammar gadhafi and hi sons used to say. they have not become sort of museums for people to freely walk in and look around, and everywhere you go, people making it clear that they never want to see him again. in fact, one man in front of our camera took out a big knife and pulled it across his neck is showing what he wants to do is slaw are moammar gadhafi like a sheep. brooke? so support, to use your words, evab waited. he s still in country somewhere. we heard from him today on state
Getting ready, settling down, making sure everything is ready to go, and getting to the big ride. reporter: you get to this big point, you re thinking, okay, i think we have a pretty good shot of getting off the ground. until you come out nine-minute hole you think you re not going. now you get to this point and there s a really good chance you re going. reporter: the heart guess it looks like they are going. the computers on board take over. when that happens. take a look at the clock. that s pretty much like a 99% chance ire going at that point. that s what we alls wait for. all right, we re going. reporter: brooke, i ve been here for a lot of launches. i ve seen them stop this countdown with literally a couple seconds before they light the solids. that s true. but the last about ten years it s changed and they ve gotten much better about it. so it s not a good until it s a go. guys, let s just listen.