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ON TO BREAKING NEWS.
IT'S FROM THE SPACE COAST.
THE SPACE COAST ROCKET EXPLODED
AND NO ONE WAS HURT.
A LOT OF PEOPLE FELT A SERIES
OF EXPLOSIONS AND WE WERE LIVE
JUST AFTER 9:00 AM AS THE STORM
DEVELOPED VIEWERS SEND IN
PICTURESTHE CLEANUP AND THE
COST OCARRYING THE PAYLOAD OF
195 MILLION.
ALL OF THAT IS LOST NOW.
HERE IS MORE OF WHAT WE KNOW
FROM SPACE X. IT HAPPENED AS
THE COMPANY WAS PREPARING FOR A
TEST ON THE LAUNCHPAD.
THE ROCKET WAS SAID TO LAUNCH
EARLY ON SATURDAY BUT THE
ROCKET AND SATELLITE WERE GOING
TO CARRY ALL OF THAT AND IT WAS
GONE NOW.
NO REPORTS OF INJURIES.
SASHA SAUNDERS JOINS US NOW
FROM JENNY PARK.
IT'S A FEW MILES FROM WHERE IT
HAPPENED.
>> Reporter: IT'S NOT FAR AT
ALL.
NOT FROM WHERE WE WATCHED THE
ROCKET LAUNCHERS.
THE TESTING ON THE FALCON 9 IS
SIMPLY NOT GOING AS
PLANNED.
SKY 6 FLEW OVER THE SCENE THERE
WHERE YOU CAN STILL SEE SMOKE
IT'S COMING FROM THE LAUNCHPAD
AT THIS HOUR.
IT'S THREE HOURS AFTER THE
FALCON 9 FIRST EXPLODED.
IT'S A COMPLETELY MASSIVE
FIREBALL!
DARK SMART COULD BE SEEN FOR
MILES AWAY.
IT WAS AFTER 9:00 AM.
SPACEK SAYS THERE WAS AN
UNEXPECTED CATASTROPHIC EVENT.
DETAILS BUT WE CAN SEE THE
OUTCOME COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF
THE FALCON 9 ROCKET.
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO LAUNCH THE
$195 MILLIONCOMMUNICATION
SATELLITE FOR ISRAEL PROVIDING
COMMUNICATION FROM THE US COAST
TO EUROPE , AFRICA AND THE
MIDDLE EAST.
NOW IT IS GONE.
THICK BLACK SMOKE AND FIRE IS
ALL YOU COULD SEE.
THE GOOD NEWS IS NO ONE
WAS ON
THE LAUNCHING PAD.
NO ONE WAS HURT .
THEY ARE STILL CLEANING UP
RIGHT NOW AND THERE IS NO
TIMEFRAME ON HOW LONG IT WILL
TAKE OR HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE
FOR THEM TO REBUILD .
THIS IS DEFINITELY A BIG LOSS
IN THE SPACE WORLD.
BACK TO YOU GUYS.
>> HERE IS A STATEMENT FROM
SPACE X. IT'S READING
, SPACE X
CAN CONFIRM THAT IN PREPARATION
THERE WAS AN ANOMALY RESULTING
IN THE LOSS OF THE VEHICLE AND
THE PAYLOAD.
THE FIRST PROCEDURE WAS CLEAR
AND THERE WERE NO INJURIES
THIS EXPLOSION WAS FELT ALL
ALONG THE SPACE COAST.
TEAM COVERAGE CONTINUES NOW IN
TITUSVILLE.
>> KIRSTEN O'CONNOR, YOU WERE
TALKING TO FOLKS WHO ARE CLOSE
BY WHEN IT EXPLODED.
>> WE JUST SPOKE WITH TWO WOMEN
WHO LIVE NOT TOO FAR FROM
VETERANS MEMORIAL.
THEY TOOK SOME PHOTOS OF WHAT
THEY SAW
.
IT'S JUST RIGHT OVER MY
SHOULDER WHERE THE PHOTOS ARE
FROM BUT THEY SAY THE SOUNDS
FROM THE EXPLOSION REMINDED
THEM OF THE CHALLENGER YEARS
AGO.
IN THE PHOTOS YOU SEE THE BLACK
PLUME OF SMOKE IN THE AI
MANY OF THE WITNESSES ARE
DESCRIBING IT.
THEY SAID STRETCHED ALL THE WAY
ACROSS THE SKY FROM THIS
PARK
AND THEY LIVE 1 MILE AWAY FROM
HERE AND THEY SAY THEY SAW
SEVERAL BOOMS WITH A RUMBLING
SOUND AFTERWARD .
IT SOUNDED PRETTY CHAOTIC
THERE.
WINDOWS RATTLING
AND DOGS
BARKING.
WE ASKED IF THEY HAVE EVER
HEARD ANYTHING QUITE LIKE IT
OUT HERE.
>> NO .
NOW THERE.
WE HAVE SEEN THE EXPLOSION
YEARS AGO BUT NOTHING LIKE
THAT.
>> Reporter: COULD YOU TELL
SOMETHING HAD BEEN WRONG BY THE
SOUND OF IT?
>> NO.
NOT BY THE SOUND OF IT.
IT WAS SEVERAL EXPLOSIONS.
IT DISINTEGRATED LIKE A REGULAR
LAUNCH.
>>BOTH OF THOSE WOMEN TELL US
THEY NEEDED TO COME OUT AND SEE
IT FOR THEMSELVES.
THAT'S WHERE THE PHOTOS COME
FROM.
THEY SAY IT'S A RELIEF TO HEAR
THE STATEMENT FROM SPACE X THAT
THERE WERE NO INJURIES
REPORTING LIVE IN TITUSVILLE ,
KIERSTEN O'CONNELL, AND IS SIX.
>> IT EXPLODED AT CAPE
CANAVERAL AIR STATION.
THE VIEWERS BEGAN
SENDING IN
PHOTOS OF THE EXPLOSION AND THE
SMOKE .
LEWIS BOLDEN IS LIVE IN THE
NEWSROOM WITH MORE ON SOME OF
THOSE IMAGES THAT WE SAW.
WE REALLY WANT TO GIVE YOU SOME
PERSPECTIVE ON WHERE ALL OF
THIS HAPPENED.
MOST PEOPLE KNOW WHERE THE
VISITOR COMPLEX IS.
IT'S RIGHT HERE.
A LOT OF THE PICTURES THAT WE
SAW WERE TAKEN FROM HERE AND
READ UP HERE IS KSC.
IT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE AT
LAUNCHPAD 40.
WE WILL TELL YOU HOW FAR AWAY
IT IS.
WAY OVER HERE AND WE HAD
SEVERAL PICTURES AND IT'S A
REALLY GOOD PICTURE.
MOST OF IT IS FROM AUSTIN IN
TITUSVILLE
HERE IS ANOTHER GOOD PICTURE.
THIS IS FROM CHUCK.
THIS SHOWS YOU THE SIZE OF THE
EXPLOSION.
YOU CAN SEE HOW BIG IT IS.
MORE OF THE THICK BLACK SMOKE .
THE THICK BLACK SPOKE SHOULD
SHOW THE TUNNEL THERE THAT
REACHED MILES AND MILES.
WE ALSO GOT A TWEET FROM THE
BREVARD EEOC SAYING THERE IS NO
THREAT TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
FOR THE CATASTROPHIC ABORT
HERE.
THE GOOD NEWS IS THERE ARE NO
INJURIES
THERE IS STILL MANY QUESTIONS.
THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING
ABOUT ALL MORNING SINCE THE
EXPLOSION AFTER THE LAUNCH WAS
PLANNE
SOME OF THE ANSWERS.
ERIC, OBVIOUSLY IT WILL NOT
HAPPEN.
>> DEFINITELY NOT.
WHAT COULD THIS MEAN FOR THE
SPACE INJURY?
>> IS A GOOD QUESTIONS.
PLAIN AND SIMPLE, SPACE X NOT
LAUNCH ANYTHING FROM KSC FOR A
LONG TIME.
AT LEAST NOT FOR A LONG TIME
UNTIL THEY REALIZED WHAT
HAPPENED AND IT COULD MEAN WE
DON'T LAUNCH AMERICAN
ASTRONAUTS FOR A LONG TIME.
THE PLAN WAS TO SEND THE
ASTRONAUTS ON BOARD OF FALCON 9
IS EARLY AS NEXT YEAR BUT IT'S
NOW THE
SECOND MAJOR SETBACK .
THE FIRST WAS LAST JUNE WHEN
THE FALCON 9 EXPLOSION WAS HIGH
ABOVE THE CAPE TWO MINUTES INTO
FLIGHT AFTER LIFTING OFF.
IT TOOK ABOUT HALF A YEARTO
FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED THERE.
IT WAS AN OXYGEN TANK THAT GOT
LOOSE IN THE ROCKET.
IT BOUNCED AROUND AND CAUSED
THE EXPLOSION ACCORDING TO THE
CEO.
THIS TIME I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT
A ROUTINE TEST AND WHAT SHOULD
HAVE BEEN SIMPLE AND
STRAIGHTFORWARD COULD GO SO
WRONG.
THEY HAVE TO REBUILD THE
LAUNCHPAD.
>> IT'S A GOOD POINT.
HOW MUCH OF A SETBACK IS THIS?
>> MAJOR!
MAJOR!
LAUNCHPAD IS HUGE.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT.
THE LAST TIME THIS HAPPENED WAS
WALLACE ISLAND VIRGINIA IN
OCTOBER 2014 AND I WAS THERE
AFTER I SAW THE LAUNCHPAD.
IT WAS NOT GOOD.
THIS IS WHERE YOU WERE TRYING
TO SET UP THE ROCKET FILLED
WITH SUPPLIES TO THE ISS.
IT EXPLODED AS IT LIFTED OFF IN
THE FIREBAL
, AS YOU REMEMBER,
WAS UNBELIEVABLE.
THE DAMAGE SO MUCH OF THE
INFRASTRUCTURE THAT TOOK A YEAR
TO REBUILD.
ORBITAL STILL NOT HAS GOT BACK
TO FLYING THAT ROCKET.
THEY ARE GETTING NEW ENGINES
CONFIGURED.
THEY THINK IT WAS FROM A FUEL
PROBLEM.
IF THE ORBITAL CATASTROPHE IS
ANY INDICATION OF THE SETBACK,
IT IS MAJO
QUICK CERTAINLY A LOT STILL
LEFT TO BE PROCESSED.
WE'LL FIND OUT IN THE COMING
DAYS.
>> WE REALLY DON'T KNOW
ANYTHING AT THIS POINT THANK
YOU SO MUCH.
>>