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The Artemis 1 rocket launch countdown continues as crews show a 70% chance of favorable weather for Monday morning's launch window.

Here we are looking at live images from kennedy space center where the planned launch of the artemis i mission originally scheduled to lift off between 8:33 a.m. and 10:33 a.m. is hitting some snags. let's go to cnn's kristin fisher for the very latest on this. all right. what are the issues that may be jeopardizing this launch today? >> reporter: yeah, brianna, it's not over yet but it's not looking good. i'm going to walk you through some of the issues that nasa is encountering right now and i will do it by using a model of the space shuttle rocket. so much of the artemis rocket, the sls roc...

Portion of that launch window at 8:30 a.m. eastern so now it pushes it to the back half up until 10:30 eastern and of course that is when the weather, the florida weather in august starts to kick in and be a problem. too soon to say what's going to happen here but the folks that i've talked to say it's not looking good, brianna. >> we all want this to happen and happen soon, but the important thing is to get it right, which is what this whole mission is about. it's to use this equipment for the first time, kristen. >> reporter: yeah, and nasa officials have been stressing this repeatedly. this...

Had this massive great big cloud moving from the left ear and that cloud would have been a no—go constraint as well, so all round big frustration, but we are hoping then that we will be back on friday, that we will have another go, so keep your fingers crossed. fik we will have another go, so keep your fingers crossed.— your fingers crossed. 0k and jonathan. — your fingers crossed. 0k and jonathan, just _ your fingers crossed. 0k and jonathan, just explain - your fingers crossed. 0k and jonathan, just explain widerl jonathan, just explain wider significance of this mission because some ...

Engineers are troubleshooting right now is they've seen a line of frost in what's called the inter tank. there is not an inter tank on this exact model but it would be found right about here in the middle section of the core stage of the rocket. it is where the super cold liquid propellant is separated between the liquid hydrogen and the liquid oxygen. they don't know if it's a crack, all they can see is a line of frost. that is why we are kind of in a hold right now and we don't know if this launch is going to go today. we've also had two other issues, we've had lightning delays, we've had a ...