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Short ride, and they'll head out to the launch pad and start boarding the shuttle. let's talk about the weather. that huge system that brought all of those deadly tornadoes to alabama, to georgia, to mississippi, well, the tail end of it finally swept through the space coast last night at about 7 p.m. the day before there were fires out here burning, and then last night the whole sky turned black, lightning and wind and rain. but nasa cleared the shuttle, no damage, and everything went on as scheduled. as far as the scientific and technical checkoffs for this mission, everything is looking gol...

Expected to make a statement in the next five or ten minutes. clearly they have a lot of troubleshooting to do here. they put on a 48-hour delay. it most likely is going to be longer than 48 hours. 48 hours was just the initial delay they put in there. they have to get to the bottom of this. this launch was certainly going well today, wind is always an issue, it is still an issue. it was borderline as to whether it was going to blast off at 3:47 eastern. the soonest it would blast off is after 3:00pm sunday afternoon. we are getting indications it may be a longer delay than that. the crew of e...

Endeavor a very tight-lipped secret. they are not discussing her whereabouts or even her activities today and yesterday. her staffers are going to have a news conference about an hour, hour and a half after the launch if it is, in fact, today. so we'll learn a little bit more about that. but having heard from commander mark kelly, he has said that she really wanted to come here, he was so proud that she actually did. remember, she was gingerly walking up the steps of that plane in houston. she's nasa family, and here at the kennedy space center everybody is rooting for her with so much love. j...

United states? we'll take a closer look at that. a royal fashion spectacular, the dresses, the shoes and jon's most interested parts. jon: the hats. jenna: all making a big scene in london coming up. we'll take a look at some of the crazist or beautiful, depends on how you look at it, headpiecess worn by distinguished guests. that's coming up. >> you can leave your hat on. woe, woe. ♪

Without asking our russian partners to supply rides on russian rockets. on space-x we are trying to come up with a quick alternative. jon: how far away are you? >> we think that -- the short answer is three years. we currently have a program called ccw2 with a partnership with nasa to upgrade our dragon capsule and falcon 9 to car row people. we think two more years after that and we'll be ready for the test flights. jon: i'm all for it if it's cheaper, better, smarter. can contractors do that as well as the government. >> what's really happening here with commercial crew is a bit of a differe...