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Weather, isn't that the big issue? how's it looking? >> reporter: it is all about the wind, and right now it's borderline had the launch window been right now with these wind speeds, they're in the 20 and upper 20s as far as knots go. a major issue here not only at the launch pad, but also at the landing strip in case of emergency and the shuttle had to circle back around and land. but at this point it's borderline. it all comes down, according to meteorologists, as if wind shift changes instead of coming from the north/northwest, if it comes from the northeast, that could put us at too high a...

That moment. there are so many variables here which is why we have that evacuation's on. hopefully it is large enough. we have been talking about the winds. these are surface winds, not upper level that carry things across the pacific. that is not happening and we are not talking about that. current that the surface, a regional situation with any radiation exposure and a wind shift. what we want is an offshore wind, they will be blowing from land to see in this direction here. that is what has been happening and that is what we have currently. these are out of the southwest and west. the probl...

That flood will be with us throughout the weekend, especially through the 19th. we'll watch that closely. now, as jim was talking about, we've been showing you pictures of the snow, cold, and ice while we have a significant pattern change that we had been anticipating. and that is going to be moving in through the weekend here. temperatures that you see here in the low to mid-single digits are going to be replaced by low to mid teens. that celsius, of course, in the 50s for the weekend. and again, you see that wind shift already. we had been northwest, right? and now we're seeing the winds com...

Florida. but will it be enough to help out this situation, rob? >> i think so. it's not going to bring in drastically stronger winds, but it'll bring a quick pulse of rain. this may be a helpful thing. i don't think there's a tremendous amount of lightning with this line, so i don't see it spawning more fires. and here it is. the tail end of all of the severe weather that rolled across the eastern corridor of the country yesterday afternoon with tornadoes and snow and ice and flooding, this is what's left of it. and it's moving through central florida right now. and with that will come a wind ...

Going to start any more fires. obviously we'll get a little rain from this, as well. and on the backside, winds will change more northwesterly. and that will be the biggest obstacle that firefighters have to contend with and that is wind shift. but they can anticipate that through the next couple of hours. out in texas, the winds will blow somewhat today, but not as bad as they were the past couple of days. it will be warm, dry, and we'll be dealing with the flooding situation across parts of the midwest. much drier air today. that's good news across the areas that got hammered with severe wea...