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Engineering but sometimes comes down to the delicacy of the human eye guiding it in. right now they are establishing the fluid lines, electric lines to the test this backup pump later today. jenna: it is so remarkable they're doing this on christmas eve when so many of us are doing a lot less i guess. phil, what about christmas day though? i know there was a scheduled walk but then it wasn't entirely on. where are we now having to do additional spacewalks? >> reporter: these two astronauts accomplished more than was planned on saturday which shortens what needed to be done today and if all goe...

>> mr. gunder son a lot of americans are watching tonight saying could this happen here? you know the yankee plant in vermont, you know the design of other facilities. do you have any concerns? obviously the systems are designed, you have the normal pumping, then you have the backup pump, then you have the battery pumps, in this case, all these are built to have redundancies, in this case all the backups have failed. do we need to triple check all these systems? >> i think before what was impossible has now become possible. we need to examine the credible threat. the 23 reactors that are ident...

Fix a cooling pump that failed last month. phil keating is live in miami and they had a lot to get done this morning. what did they have to do to get the pump in place? >> well, they did it all so far, so good. and they actually remarked it's like butta! as they slid the 780-pound backup pump into place. doug whellock and tracy dyson removed the pump which apparently broke because of an electrical shortage july 31st. since that time for the past two weeks the international space station with three russians and three americans on board has been basically running with half of its coolant capacit...

Of van buren county after a man -- after a main water pump and a backup pump both failed. the aing a national guard is trucking in thousands of gallons of water for thirsty residents there. rob marciano tracking all the extreme temperatures for us. rob what is on tap today? >> similar to what we saw yesterday, don. check out these high temperatures, they are record highs and they are striking. again, i say this all the time but it bears repeating. all these numbers are measured in the shade and they don't take into account humidity. so you go out in the sun, you add that humidity, these numb...

Their pump and the backup pump are both flooded. so people are waiting in these long lines for a ration of bottled water. it will force the city's hospital to evacuate many of its patients. they're having a hard time placing them. let's begin our coverage with cnn's miguel marquez live in beaumont. what's the situation there? >> the situation is they have too much problems on their hand. still too much water coming down the natchez river. it's rapids in the middle of beaumont this morning. they don't have any water coming out of the faucets. that's why the hospital has had to shut down. they s...