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Care of families and loved ones making sure they're ready for the storm. >> that big piece of equipment, the launcher, that's huge. describe some of the challenges of moving something like that, and how vulnerable is that in a hurricane? >> well, our engineers tell us the moberly launcher can take winds up to 110-mile-per-hour. but when dorian started getting over that we decided, you know, it's best if we have is it inside. he don't want to test it. it's 400 feet tall. when you talk about the challenges to do this it takes about a 50 person operation by our ground team. they had to come in ea...

People in florida. does that change anything in terms of your preparations for the storm? >> no, ana, it does not. we met with our forecaster here at the kennedy space center early this morning. and it's been determined we are going to have potentially still hurricane force winds here at the kennedy space center as this storm comes by. so we want to make sure we're all buttoned up. bethe operation yesterday to move a very valuable piece of equipment, that mobile launcher that you mentioned, which is the further for the artemis program, the send the first woman and the next man to the moon. and...

There along the east coast will still feel the winds and the rains and the storm surge, no. >> no question about it. 20 inches of rain easy. because it sits over water and uses the water to make its energy and make it rain and rain and rain on shore. then wind even at 6 oh-mile-per-hour. imagine 30 hours of win on shore in west palm or port st. lucy. that would push water into the back bays and into the inner coastal. water could go up eight feet even without landfall. >> so important for everybody to continue preparations for the storm. chad myers thank you. people living on the coast in nort...

That everything is stable and steady as she goes. it only goes 1-mile-per-hour. for good reason you wouldn't want it to sway back and forth in movement like that. >> no doubt. fascinating. you sent us a picture of door yaen yan taken from the space station. it's an amazing picture. tell us about it. >> yeah, that's awesome. that's from our cameras at the international space station. and you know we go around the earth every 90 minutes. and so when we got over the top of dorian's location we fired up our cameras, trained it on that angle there. and there you see it it is impressive and awesome ...

They are serious about, the balms for sure. does it make landfall in the u.s.? we don't think it will. but it's too close to call really. you can't let your guard down. it's too big. >> and we've seen it change course a few times in the last 24 hours or at least past couple of days. so could get again. thank you very much chad. >> you bet. >> dorian is already drawing comparisons to mushing matthew, the 2016 hurricane that took a long slow ride up the florida, georgia and south carolina coastlines. matthew did more than $10 billion in damage and killed 49 people. cnn meteorologist derek van da...