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The operation? what are the variables right now? >> well, chris, first, merry christmas to you and your family and the family at "new day." what they're doing right now is setting things up. they got out the air lock, both the astronauts are out there, making sure their tethers are good, getting in position to start their day's activities. the robot arm is being put in position and mike hopkins will get in there. they're start off the procedures. right now they're getting things set up at the very beginning. >> what makes it more difficult in space than if you were doing this in earth's atmosp...

Referred to he's working the robot arm. there's three russian crew mates up there as well and they are helping out. they help with getting the suits ready and so on and you have the control team on the ground in houston. everyone in the krol center, the instruct jobs flight controls, everyone. it's a gigantic team to help do this, the spacewalk the right way. >> yeah. and let's take about 15 seconds and listen in because you can hear what they are saying. stand by one second, mike. >> okay. >> okay. hopper two handed tier. pull forward and depress the button then. >> mike, walk us through a

The pump station's structural truss. they had to disconnect all the fluid lines. they got that pump out of its receptacle and out of the cooling system and parked it in a temporary parking spot. they'll go back monday and retrieve the spare cooling pump that will be removed, put on the robot arm and put into place and reconnected. if they get through all of that on monday, they won't have to go outside on christmas day. that's sort of a christmas gift if they have to do a third one. >> let's talk about the critical nature of this. if they do not repair this, what kind of hazards will this caus...

The next space walk, which is due in the next few days, is by no means going to be any easier. take a listen. >> they'll go back monday and retrieve the spare cooling pump that will be removed, put on the robot arm, transferred to the new site and then put into place and reconnected. if they get through all of that on monday, they won't have to go outside on christmas day. although that's sort of a secret christmas gift that they actually have to do a third one. >> well, they might not have to do a third one and it appears it's not going to be monday now. mission control at the johnson space c...

Welcome back. i'm fredricka whitfield. a look at our top stories for the hour. u.s. secretary of state john kerry heads to asia later this week. this comes as the north loaded missiles into launchers. north korea reportedly told diplomats to consider evacuating their embassies. and in south africa, nelson mandela is back home. he was discharged from the hospital earlier today. the 94-year-old was admitted to the hospital last month for recurring lung infection and pneumonia. and nasa plans to lasso an asteroid and park it near the moon. how cool is that? the idea is to snag the huge rock w...