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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Monday, August 29th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. A fuel leak interrupted NASA's launch countdown for its new moon rocket early Monday,

reappearing in the same place that saw Seabidge during a dress rehearsal back in the spring.

You sent the link this morning to watch. Yeah, I'm wrong. I was excited. Well, not necessary. So launch

controllers halted the tank operation, which already was running an hour late because of thunderstorms offshore.

They slowly resumed the process to confirm that it was indeed a hydrogen fuel leak and not faulty sensors,

but alarms forced another temporary pause as precious minutes in the countdown ticked away.

So the window to launch the rocket opens at 833 a.m. Eastern time.

NASA has two hours to launch before the window closes. The 322-foot

rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA outmuscling even the Saturn V that carried

astronauts to the moon a half a century ago. This test flight, if successful, would put a crew

capsule into lunar orbit for the first time in 50 years. No astronauts were inside the Orion capsule atop the rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Instead, three test dummies were strapped in for the lunar orbiting mission,

expected to last six weeks.

Even with no one on board, thousands of people jammed the coast to see the space launch system

or SLS rocket soar.

Vice President Kamala Harris flew into Orlando with her husband,

but had yet to make the hour-long drive to Cape Canaveral for the planned liftoff. The next launch

attempt wouldn't be until Friday at the earliest tonight. I'm excited. It's Saturn 5, by the way,

that's a Roman numerals. Oh, sorry. It's all right. You know me. I didn't know my Roman numerals.

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