Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now , streaming on cbsn bay area were looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look north. Good morning. It is tuesday, may 26. I am michelle griego. I am len kiese. Lets check the forecast. Mary lee is standing by. Good morning, it is going to be a hot day across the bay area so if you thought yesterday was hard wait until this afternoon. Checkout our live look at the camera. We are in the 50s and 60s and it is a mild to warm start to our day and through the afternoon, the heat advisory kicks into effect. 11 am to 7 pm for most of the bay area except for the coast and the immediate shoreline under a heat advisory due to these hot temperatures, well above average for this time of year. Sais dave, stay hydred, and limit outdoor exposure. It is 88 in oakland, 97 in san jose, triple digit heat in concord, hitting 101. We have some recordbreaking temperatures. I will talk about what you can expect comin
Looks like they are all closed visually now. Three and houston, dragon arrival configuration is complete. Spacex copies all valve appeared closed and arrival configuration complete. Houston copies. Please come aboard. Pleasure, we will be there and a second. And station houston, it is a greatlooking photograph, so thanks for that. Standby. We will get one when we are ready for the event and the next few seconds. Happye bunch of very group of people making their way into mcc right now. Demo to crew now aboard the International Space station. Demo two crew now aboard the International Space station. The crew gathered in front of the cameras at node two just behind the hatchway to the crew dragon. We are standing by for a welcome ceremony. In houston, ready to greet the crew. Station, were just about ready. Stand by. Station, it is houston. Confirm that you are ready for the event. Houston, this is station. We are ready for the event. Copy that. Administrator bridenstine, welcome to the s
A few hours after the talking and welcoming, nasa officials led a briefing from the Johnson Space center in houston. Good afternoon and welcome to the Johnson Space center. Thank you for joining us for this post talking news briefing of the nasa spacex mission. Astronautss ago the arrived at the International Space station aboard the dragon. Today we will learn more about the mission. With us is nasa administrator jimeitel stein bridlestein. The Program Director of the commercial crew program. The International Space station Program Director, deputy Program Director. And the nasa astronaut. Thank you so much to all of you for joining us today. We will start with opening remarks, and then we will go to questions from reporters. First up is our nasa administrator. James i just want to say, congratulations to the nasa team and to the space x team, and congratulations to the United States of america. Days. S an amazing two we have a mission in front of us and we need to make sure we bring
It is my privilege to introduce jim bridenstine. Jim . Thank you, jim thank you bob, our highest priority is and has been bob and doug, and a couple of days ago we had too much electricity in the atmosphere, and the challenge there is not that we were in a lightning storm, the challenge is that a launchgood in fact trigger lightning could in fact trigger lightning and the rocket could become a lightning bolt. We had these parameters set ahead of time, both nasa and the spacex teams knew what the parameters were. There were limitations i should say. The limitations were exceeded and that put us in a position to delay the launch. Though,this is certain, we will launch american astronauts on american rockets, from american soil and we will priorityh the absolute being the safety of our astronauts. I am very proud of the nasa team, proud of the spacex team. A lot of the comments that i had in the interviews ahead of time where, are you going to feel undue pressure, because of all of the at
We have the nasa administrator. We have the nasa deputy administrator. We will hear more from them in a minute. First talk to bob cabana. And cabana good morning welcome to the Kennedy Space center. I dont have to tell you how intoing it is to launch dutch astronauts into space for the first time in nine years. Our Shuttle Missions launched from that pad, including my flight. With our partnership with spacex, the pad is being used again and is now for the commercial crew program and for other spacex projects. Truly in his start time from an historic pad. Time fromn historic an historic pad. Jim was a huge advocate and proponent for aviation and spaceflight as the Armed Services committee and the science and Technology Committee and he is no sharing that passion as he needs nasa into a new era of space expiration. Jim. It is great toe be here at the Kennedy Space centers. We are now launching american astronauts from an american rocket on american soil. It has been nine years since we h