breaking news hello everyone. >> thanks for joining me on. alison chemla, radha, and for fredricka whitfield, we have an exciting program for you today because within the next half an hour, we expect to witness the first ever boeing starliner spacecraft launched from cape canaveral, florida to the international space station. >> this is not a practice run this its launch has to american astronauts on board but officials and spectators are holding their breath a bit because this mission was already postponed a few times, veteran nasa astronauts, butch wilmore and suni williams are on board. and boeing is trying with this to compete with its rivals space x as nasa tries to collaborate with private industry partners. >> if successful, suni williams would become the first woman aboard any crewed test flight like this years of work has gone into this moment and it has not been without setbacks, as i've mentioned. >> so let's bring in space and defense correspondent kristin fisher. she is live it kennedy space center for us as well as former nasa administrator, charles bolden. okay. so kristen, is this going to happen today? >> allison, with about 24 minutes left on the countdown clock, we are go for launch. we've been watching two things this morning too. potential problem spots for nasa, boeing in the united launch alliance. and that is first the wind. it's been very gusty here, but so far, so good on the weather front, the weather team saying we are go for launch as of now, and then the other issue we've been watching has been an issue with the center rocket let me just show you this is an older model here, so it's not perfectly accurate, but it'll give you an idea of what we're talking about. >> so this is the bow, the boeing starliner capsule and spacecraft on top. >> this is where the two nasa astronauts are. what's below it is the atlas rocket. and this is what's going to propel the starliner spacecraft into orbit. this right here is called the rocket's upper stage. it's the center and there was an issue here during that first scrub back on may six. now, an issue again, but different. it's an issue with a sensor for a topping valve, essentially a valve that tops up the fuel inside this upper stage of the rocket they went about through about an hour of checks trying to figure it out. they ended up switching to a backup system. they think they've got it fixed. so we are now go for launch and i should just point out, allison, the capsule is made by boeing. this whole rocket is made by the united launch alliance. so different company that's what the issue was with, as i mentioned back in may but now we're go for launch. so what can we expect in about 22 minutes? hopefully, this spacecraft is going to launch from the cape canaveral cape canaveral cape, canaveral space force station up into orbit they're going to spend about eight days up at the international space station. and the reason this is so important, allison, is because of the fact that nasa wants redundancy. they are pretty have the spacex crew dragon capsule, which can take nasa astronauts to the iss. >> they want a backup alternative that's what boeing's starliner is. >> an allison same. you should ask charlie bolden about this because he was the nasa administrator when sonny williams was initially named to the starliner crew back in 25th 15. that's how long she has been waiting to fly today. >> oh, that's that's great context. okay. charles, so tell us how sunny williams and her fellow astronaut are preparing in these final moments. >> i will tell you, kristen, it's great to see you. i don't know whether you can see me or not, but kristen is a long, long, long time friend. i was in the astronaut office with her father and mother and so it's great to be working with you but sunny in butcher are resting in the spacecraft and my my guess is they're, they're having trivial chit chat right now. they have been prepared for this mission four months, if not years and they're just ready to go. they they do not want to crawl out of the spacecraft again until they come back. after a successful flight and landing charles, it's so funny to hear you say that they're having trivial chitchat because i know that by nature, you astronaut types are cool customers. >> but i mean this mission has been scrubbed a couple of times. how can they be so cool right now, when you hear things like the fuel the fuel gauge isn't working on. last week, the heel, there was a helium leak there both glitch and sunny have been test pilots before and they have been through things like this. >> so it's not that they're cool it's just that they have confidence in the ground crew they have competence in their training team that got them ready for this and trust me, they have seen every every potential failure that can go with their spacecraft and they're ready to work up any malfunction that happens to come their way. so when i say trivial chitchat it, i'm probably overestimating it there, but they're not they're not talking about problems with the vehicle. they're just talking about the things that they're going to have to do once lift off occurs, because that's when that's when their work starts there. hopefully they're relaxing right now and going in their heads over the procedures that they're going to have to do. once once they get lift off because you've got 12 minutes until they get to until they get to orbit. and there will be some minor things that they'll have to do on the way up at charles. we're gonna have you walk us through all of that in a few moments. >> kristinn charles, stay with us because we're going to go live. obviously to this launch. but i want to bring in meteorologists, elisa rafah right now. okay. so at least tell us what the weather looks like. it sure. looked gusty when kristinn was just reporting yeah. >> we've had wins out ford's of 20 miles per hour in cape canaveral. you can see the one radar we've got some sunshine, we've got some clearer skies. they're there are some storms backoff in the panhandle, kind of the big bend area, panama city getting some heavy rain, but those storms kinda disappear before they can get to cape canaveral. so you've got a couple of clouds out there at four degrees at that launch time hi east wins at 15 miles per hour. those easterly winds again have been kicking. this is a live update of some of those wind speeds they've been sustained up around 17 miles per hour, gusts up to 24 miles per hour for launches as well. we also need to worry about the wind speeds, not just at the surface, but upstairs in the atmosphere as well. so something to watch again, gusts up to 24 miles per hour, right now out of the east, there's a look at some of those storms, the easterly winds will keep the storms out in the gulf of mexico. so not really expected to hit the florida peninsula, which is good news, keeps the lightning and have you written out of the way, you can see the line of storms kinda dip into the gulf of mexico and then continued to dissipate. so again, staying dry in cape canaveral, just have to watch the easterly wind that continues to gus there. allison. >> okay. i'll lisa will check back. excuse me. we'll check back with you all right. everybody stick around because this launches a go right now, we are standing by for this historic moment. it is less than 15 minutes away, so we're going take a very quick break and we'll be right back. >> this is a story about the one, the one who keeps it all moving. he is measured precise. >> you thinks ahead stocks the right parts and knows just where to find them because. >> for the one this facility is about more than business the industrial greg products you need delivered fast. call, click ranger com, or stopped by. a great job for the ones who get it done. >> right now, pet dander skin cells in dirt are settling deep into your carpet fibers. stanley steamer removes the dirt uc and the dirt you don't your corporate its 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morning but also tell us about these astronauts that we're looking at well you know allison, there are space lights and then there are test flights. and for every nasa astronaut a test flight is kind of the thing that you always aspire to because it is so rare. there have only been six in us history, mercury gemini apollo, the space shuttle spacex crew, dragon bagging, and now boeing starliner. so to be one of the two astronauts selected for this mission is a huge honore. nasa only selects it's top astronauts for this hi is it is so risky, it is so dangerous, no humans have ever been inside of this spacecraft as it goes all the way up into outer space for this mission, they selected the commander, butch wilmore he's a navy test pilot, been a nasa astronauts since 2000, logged 178 days space force spacewalks from tennessee, just an all-around really nice guy. he's also a pastor at his local church. and then the pilot but is sunny williams. she's also a navy test pilot selected as an astronaut and 98 she was she is she is about to become in just a few minutes now the first one woman on a crude crewed test flight, that's never happened before she's done seven spacewalks. that's the second most log that the second most amount of cumulative spacewalk time of any female astronaut. and the first to finish a triathlon in space. >> the two of them have really bonded over. >> their many years in training. and i should just note alison, that they have been waiting for years to fly this thing. i mean, nasa first selected boeing and spacex to fly these commercial crew missions to the iss back in 2014, sonny was assigned in 2015, so that's how long she has been waiting for this mission. >> that's an incredible context. there, kristen. so charles, just help just so i understand the difference between a test flight and a spaceflight is that no one has ever gone into space on this rocket before. so they need to make sure that this particular rocket gets them to the international space station. is that right that's not exactly right. >> yeah. alison correct. >> briefly, every flight that we fly on a new vehicle until its determined that its operational is a test flight, for example the space shuttle, which was flown well while i was there, the first five missions were all orbital flight tests. so we had a number of different things we had to go through to certify that the vehicle was ready for flight so this flight plus the next few will still be test flights, but this is the, this is the initial crewed test flight. >> if you remember, we already had two flights on this vehicle the first flight in 2019 was the one where we had some software problems and we overuse the propellant allocation and we were not able to dock with the international space station. >> and then we came back and flew several months ago the reply of the non crewed test flight. so this is, this is actually test flight number three of a series of test flights we use the term operational flight but for us who are pilots, every flight to test flight until, till we feel the vehicle has certified? >> yes. thank you. i'm so glad that you're here with me. prepare yourself for many moments of confusion from me while i ask you these questions here's the next one we've just is not you're not unusual at all. >> we always want to make the public feel really good. so we stopped using the term tests. but for those of us who are flying, we actually realize that we're testing well into a program. and every time we change the config configuration of a vehicle, which will happen to starliner. just as it's already happened to the crew dragon. that's another test flight to verify that new who configuration. >> but i hear you, charles, i understand why test the word test is more anxiety provoking, than calling it something different. i guess. i understand why you're saying that about trying to make sure the public has confidence in this. here's here's something else that might be nerve wracking for our viewers to hear so there's not a delay. this is the latest thing we're hearing, but they are dealing with an issue in the fan that apparently controls the temperature of the space suits. tell us how serious that is as i understand it, i went i went to silent. i was trying to follow along with mission control, but they have a problem in the suit. they got up, butch got up pressure it looked like a pressure of caution light for his suits, so they had the crew to open their advisors to let them get just some fresh air. they have a backup system in my my understanding was the ground is troubleshooting and trying to find out whether they need to switch to the backup system to allow them to go ahead and launch. but it's not anything with the vehicle. this is actually in the suit itself. >> kristinn or anything you're hearing on the ground, there yes. >> so there was an issue with the fan that essentially circulates air inside butch wilmore suit keep in mind, these are big heavy spacesuits. they've gotten better than the big heavy clunky silver suits from the apollo holidays, but they're still hot this is florida in the summer time, right. so you have to have a fan, you have to have air circulating inside this suit or these astronauts can overheat so that seems to be the issue but i believe they have just gotten it resolved. the astronauts just put their advisers back down. so that's always a good sign, elson. >> okay. kristinn charles stick around with us. we will need did your help obviously, throughout this hour, everyone, we're going to take a very quick break and be right back for more coverage of this live and historic launch ignite the celebration. >> this memorial day with the outdoor fund and flavor that split on a blackstone and join them more than 11 million blackstone users know this is the way america cooks outdoors with an enormous variety for your whole neighborhoods. three has never tasted better with a black stone, you're free to cook 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