kirt: thank you. as joel mentioned, it was less than two weeks ago that we were celebrating 20 years of continuous crewed presence on orbit. we were not celebrating an ending but really just the end of the beginning. the launch coming up, with additional crew members to the iss, is the start of a new era for research and discovery on board. the capabilities of the crewed dragon, bringing additional crew and samples back to the site here at ksc are an amazing capability. we hope to double the amount of crew time going into science and research. we will have easier access for those examples when they come back to earth. and we will have easier access to our crew members, both pre-and post flight, to conduct some of our human research. we do have several investigations going up on this flight. we have about 28 kilograms of payloads going up. some of those experiments will be going up for soichi, to include education and public outreach experiments for him. then we have a student experiment called genes i

kyle: thanks, kirt. now the topic everyone likes to talk about is the weather, so let's turn it over to arlena and have her give us the launch weather forecast. arlena: in florida, we have been plagued by tropical storm eta for most of the upcoming weekend. it was a little uncertain at first if this would clear out, but then fully, eta is well out to sea and moving further with time, and with its passage, going through a bit of a cold front in florida -- i know it is not really feel like that right now. but overall, it will give us a pretty good shot for weather for our primary launch day. a fleet take a look here at the forecast, we are looking right at a no go weather probability of 40% with the weak front that came through a couple days ago. backll kind of creeped towards us can -- creep back towards us. we are going to see a few showers in the area with some cumulus clouds. flyingth the concern for both the rocket and the dragon capsule through any precipitation, any of those showers that may be out