but he says we should be good to go and what is super neat about this is we will just kind of be gliding over the water. we'll be able to -- the skimmer boats will see us in the air and head towards us whenever we spot some oil. another thing about this, a first for cnn, we're trying to go live from the air. we're crossing our fingers heaping that will work out okay. we have an antenna attached to the blimp and hopefully we can get some aerial shots for you. in addition to that, we should be out here until about 2:00 this afternoon, hoping as everything goes well. and i have the pilot right here. kyra, can you hear him? can you say hello? >> yeah. have him describe what he's going to do. >> reporter: okay. can you tell us a little bit about our flight plan for today? >> we're going to establish contact with the cnn boat. >> and that's the boat that rob marciano is going to be riding