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Nasa tweeted a picture of the shuttle on the launch pad in the middle of a lightning storm. in fact we have that for you. we re pulling that up. there s the lightning that s coming down. we ve seen it before where lightning has actually hit the launch pad and that in and of itself has caused problems but in this case it s just a really incredible picture by nasa. but looking behind you in the live picture, jay, it looks like you again have clouds rolling in. was there some contsternation over the weather and whether the launch would take place because of that? reporter: that s true, contessa, because it has to do with the winds. right now the winds are right on the edge. they are very fast, around 26 knots. if they change directions as all, they couldn t lift off or even come back in case of emergency and land here on the shuttle landing strip. also, all three landing sites across the atlantic and france and spain, they re out at this time. they need at least one over ....
Coming out loading into a van, making their way to the shuttle. they were supposed to board the shuttle and now the launch itself has been scrubbed. we re told there will be at least a 48-hour turn around. let s go right to jay barbaree. what s the problem? reporter: they had two of their five auxiliary power units inside endeavour that was overheating. they could not figure out why. the engineers took a look at it and instead of loading the astronauts on board endeavour today they decided to scrub the mission and probably for at least 48 hours so they can get in tune with what s happening with these power units. these power units are used to move their flight machine, their rudders and everything while they re in the atmosphere. of course they re not used in orbit, there s no atmosphere up there, but they are very critical, they have to have them. also, the weather was suddenly ....
There. so all of a sudden here in the last hour, the weather went balooey. then these two auxiliary power units overheating, so it s a scrub. jay, i know you ll keep tabs on that and bring us any updates that you get from nasa. thank you. let s talk about what s hot on the web today. you know, all the trending topics on twitter are about the royal wedding. topic, sarah burton. she s the designer at alexander mcqueen who designed kate middleton s wedding dress. after months of denials that she was involved, today sarah burton said it s been the experience of a lifetime to work with catherine middleton and create her dress. that is far understated than most alexander mcqueen designs. topic, grace kelly. the comparisons were crystal clear. it was strikingly similar to the one that grace kelly wore when she married prince rainier of monaco. she was another commoner, an ....