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station this is houston are you ready

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at houston station we're ready for the

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weather channel this is mission control

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houston please call a station for a

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voice check with the snow 41 in boston

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your temperatures actually come up this

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morning take you over here into illinois

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indiana kentucky missouri the quad

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cities up and down wisconsin look at

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these temperatures in the teens but

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chicago we're at 33 that cold air has

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yet to get here in chicago but it's very

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this is weather channel do you hear me

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the snow are coinciding and so when it

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comes in it's going to snow and addition

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this is the weather channel

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we've got you loud and clear snow in

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chicago is our forecast we've upped it

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just a little bit this morning six to

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ten for the channel international space

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station and we have you loud and clear

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saturday morning we'll get some lake

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do you ha weather channel station g this

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is weather channel do you hear me

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chicago your morning rush completely

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different than your evening rush weather

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channel this is international space

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station we hear you we copy loud and

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clear

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so heads up on what top of that stand by

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you'll be speaking

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st stand by you'll be talking with

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stephanie abrams for the weather channel

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standby temperatures that are well below

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24 in chicago on saturday and much of

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the great lakes seeing temperatures at

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or below seasonal averages that's your

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winter weather update heads up let's

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head back to the studio mike we're going

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somewhere that's very cold right now

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into outer space we've seen some amazing

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video this year from the international

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space station including this video of

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hurricane irene that you can see behind

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me just a beautiful sight there today

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with the opportunity to talk to the crew

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of expedition 30. joining us live is

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commander dan burbank and flight

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engineers andre

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kapers and don pettit thanks for being

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with us commander you've been on the

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space station since november how's it

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been so far and what's your current

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it's been great actually it's been very

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busy and we've been busy doing some

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science we've also been very busy

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upgrading the avionics onboard the

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all right andre kuipers how about you

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what is it like to see can you even

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describe in words what it's like to see

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earth from the international space

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yeah well it's of course very special

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and has different aspects if you look

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straight down it's a very colorful

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planet with beautiful deserts and

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beautiful turquoise waters

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if you look beside it you see the

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blackness of space and all of a sudden

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it's a it's a fragile and small planet

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so it has a lot of different aspects

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don pettit how long will you stay on the

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space station for this mission and how

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long would you want to stay if you could

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choice uh we'll be here until the middle

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i would like to do if the technology

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were there would be to immigrate to

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space i'd load my family up on the next

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spaceship and move into space and never

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come back to planet earth

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well it has been an absolute thrill

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speaking to all three of you and enjoy

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your time up there at the international

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space station hopefully one day we'll

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all be able to join you as well we

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certainly appreciate it how cool is that

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we just talked to that we just talked to

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three people on the international space

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station this is houston acr thank you

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that concludes the event

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thank you weather

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channel station please stand by while we