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tech upgrades for your changing wifi needs. and advanced security at home and on the go to block millions of threats. only from us... xfinity. ♪ good morning, everyone. welcome to your new day, i'm amara walker. >> good morning, amara. i'm boris sanchez. we are counting down to liftoff again. hours from now, nasa is going to attempt to launch the historic artemis i rocket. we'll have the latest from kennedy space center and update on those issues that forced the first launch to be scrapped. and if you live out west, brace yourself. it is going to be a scorcher. more than 40 mil...

watching nasa's historic artemis i mission preparing for a second launch attempt to the moon. these are live pictures coming straight from kennedy space center in cape canaveral, florida, where crews are working on a liquid hydrogen leak that delayed fueling the massive rocket. the two-hour launch window still expected to open up this afternoon at 2:17 p.m. currently weather conditions are 60% favorable. >> the mission will mark the united states return to the moon for the first time in nearly 50 years. and aims to land the first woman and the first person of color on the moon withou...

>> at last check, they've tried a few different ways to troubleshoot it, to fix the problem. no word yet on whether they've been able to stop it at this point. this follows monday's scrubbed launch which was largely due to an engine cooling problem. it was a tricky sensor that was off. but engineers remain optimistic that today there will be a launch. for now, the weather has been cooperating so that helps. nasa meteorologists predict about 60% favorable conditions, which increases to 80% as the day goes on. of course this historic mission marks the next chapter of lunar exploration ...

story from washington. pete, can you give us the latest on what we know, how long this pilot has been in the air, and what the danger is to the public at this point? >> reporter: well, sara, we know that this plane took off from the tupelo regional airport around 5:00 a.m. central time, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. we're coming up on the plane being in the air for about five hours now. the plane is a king air c-90. you can see it there, that's a small twin-engine turboprop airplane. it seats between six and eight people. it can go about 250 miles an hour. the question now is how this...

gravestown, mississippi. around 10:00 a.m. local time. int not all that far from where it took off around 5:00 a.m. this morning. you could see a beechcraft, a twin engine commuter, seats about six or eight people and we know from authorities in tupelo that this plane was stolen by what appears to be an airport employee. police received a call around 5:00 a.m. central daylight time where the pilot of that plane, actually we don't know if it is way pilot. but the person flying that airplane called 911 and said they were going to steal the airplane and crash it into one of the local wa...