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taken them, so they re now four years behind spacex. i think now that they have gotten this flight off, i agree with derrick, this was a critical mission not just for nasa, but for boeing to demonstrate, to give them confidence to demonstrate they have the capability to do this. we re far from complete. we have got to get off the centar, do some tests on the cst 100 over the next day and tomorrow hopefully we ll have a perfect docking, spend eight days on the international space station and then undock and come home. the ultimate test is how does the spacecraft handle the intense heat and pressure of re-entry, and then as the landing out in the desert, does it go the way we want it to go. only once they have touched down out in the desert ten days from now or eight days from now will we be able to take our breath and say we had a successful flight. such a good point as we watch these live images and they continue their mission, their journey into space at this very mo ....
U. S. Virgin islands and puerto rico later tonight. The effects will be larger than any of us really anticipated. Look at the size and scope of this storm system, 420 miles in diameter. The Tropical Force Winds extend out in diameter 300 miles. Now along the florida peninsula, its only 140 miles across. It will have more storm surge than andrew and sure looks like it will barrel down. A mandatory evacuation is under way for tourists and residents in the keys this morning. This is not getting smaller. Its getting bigger. Prepare now. Stock up on emergency supplies. How worried are you about the storm . Extremely worried. On a scale of 1 to 10. Probably 13. One family narrowly missed harvey in houston and came here for vacation and now stranded. With fema set to run out of Disaster Relief money by the end of the week, the house of representatives is scheduled to vote on ....
Continue their mission, their journey into space at this very moment. general charles boldon and derrick pitts, thank you, gentlemen, for being our eyes and ears and helping us understand what we re witnessing right now. history being made for nasa, for boeing, and for the entire space community. we ll continue to watch these images. jose diaz-balart will pick up our breaking news coverage right now. jose, can t help but be in awe. yeah, unbelievable. good morning. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i m jose diaz-balart. we begin the hour with breaking news and just wonderful to hear exactly as expected. right now, two astronauts are racing towards space and the international space center on board nasa s starliner capsule. this is a crucial test of the first ever crude flight of this new spacecraft by boeing. it is nasa s third attempt to launch a capsule after two previous delays including an ....
Important role in that. we want them to take over the earth s orbit so nasa can push out to do the deep space ex-p exploration. the decade of the 20s, working with the international partners, i cannot overemphasize the critical importance of our international collaboration and that will be a challenge for representative bridenstein. that person is the voice and face of nasa around the world and it will be critical for them to be an internationalist and not think that nasa can do everything or the u.s. can do everything. major general, thank you so much for joining us this morning. major general charles boldon. i can see a monument in his likeness. he s an impressive, impressive man. a great american. good to see you. thank you very much. breaking news, watching hurricane irma passing near puerto rico right now as a category 5. this hour, we re going to have more indications around irma. this could hit the east coast of florida, including millions of people in miami. ....
It is the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the atlantic basin outside of the caribbean sea and gulf of mexico. for decades nasa has been instrumental to provide disasters. joining us now is major general charles boldon, the nation s most recent nasa administrator, resigned on january 20th. thank you for being here. great to see you. no particular importance of the date, january 20th. first of all, you were just in houston. you lived in houston for 20 years. what were your thoughts on harvey and what it has done to the city? ali, first of all, thank you for allowing me to be here and the tribute to catherine johnson. i would say we really need for people to keep the focus of houston and to go through my neighborhood, the resilience of the people is what is most important. everybody is saying it could ....