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Coral Jesus at the CNN Center.

Thank you for spending a few minutes with us on this last day of September 2019.

Officially, we're only one week into fall in the Northern Hemisphere, but a winter storm has descended over the Rocky Mountains.

North America's longest mountain range stretches roughly 3000 miles from western Canada, all the way down to New Mexico.

It's in the northern United States that a storm system is bringing huge amounts of snow, and forecasters say if their predictions pan out, this could break records, and it already has in some parts of Montana in Great Falls, for example, 9.7 inches of snow fell on Saturday.

The previous record was only 3.6 inches, and that was set in 1954.

But that's only part of the story.

Other areas of the state have gotten as much as three feet of snow.

The governor has declared a state of emergency to speed up help to those who need it.

Dangerous road conditions, fallen trees and power lines, homes without electricity.

When people want it for heat, those air, some of the storms impacts on humans and record cold for this time of year also threatened cattle and crops.

A CNN meteorologist says it's not unusual for some parts of Montana to get snow in September.

What's shocking this time around is the amount of it.

The last time a winter storm struck with this much snow this early was in 1934.

That was the record, and this system could beat it.

It's not just bringing a whitened winter wonderland.

The gusts of wind that we're blasting Montana Sunday were expected to be between 35 to 45 miles per hour.

Add that to blowing snow and you have white out near blizzard conditions, according to the National Weather Service.

It expects that from Montana.

The storm is expected to move eastward over the northern Plains states and the U.

S Canada border, and the cold it leaves behind is expected to be 15 to 30 degrees below average in the U.

S Northwest, though above average temperatures are expected to stay in place from other parts of the Plains to the U.

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East coast with you second trivia.

When a planet is that its farthest point from the sun, it is said to be at what apogee, perigee Ophelia or a video?

A feeling in is the farthest orbital point from the sun, and perihelion is the closest.

Another term that some rocket scientists are discussing is Starship, and nothing's gonna stop us from explaining why Starship is the name of a prototype spacecraft.

It was unveiled over the weekend by Space X.

The private spaceflight company is also working on the rocket booster that would blast our ship off the ground, and in theory, as many as 100 passengers could be onboard headed to the moon or Mars or beyond.

But it could be a while before that happens, and there are signs NASA's getting a little impatient.

It's given Space X and Boeing billions of dollars with the expectation that the companies would be flying spacecraft with crews on them by 2017.

That didn't happen.

And though a Space X capsule successfully docked with the International space Station earlier this year, the spacecraft was destroyed a few weeks later when a failure occurred during a ground test.

Still, Space X and its CEO, Elon Musk, are pressing on, saying reusable spacecraft like Starship will be key to getting people in space and doing it more affordably.

Your goal has always been to make us a multi planetary species to establish a colony on Mars tonight.

Today, the unveiling of Starship is at a turning point in that mission.

Yeah, I think this is the first time we have riel hardware of something that is a cable, uh, with a little evolution of being something that could create a self sustaining city on Mars and a base on the moon.

You said tonight, but you might be flying people in a year in this thing.

If the development continues to improve exponentially, then I think we could We could be sending people to orbit before the end of next year.

You know, within a year, approximately.

But space six hasn't put a human in space yet.

How are you guys gonna do is in a year?

Well, we will be putting people into a bit soon.

We will be transporting nationals for NASA in probably three or four months to the space station.

On that point.

NASA Administrator Jim Bride Einstein tweeted yesterday saying that he was very excited about the event today, But he also said quote commercial crew is years behind schedule, and it's time to deliver.

Did you take emotional Cruella Celeste?

He's a commercial interchangeable.

No, but how do you respond to that?

And did you take that as a day?

Um, well, I mean, first of all, everything in aerospace is he appears behind.

Okay, It's really a question of relatively speaking.

Which one is more late?

So the bee hardware for the high altitude abort demonstration for crew dragon and we'll be there in October.

The harbor for the first crew flight will be there in November.

And so most of the work that is required from now through flight of NASA astronauts is, um, uh, long series of safety reviews.

So it's not really hardware related, and it's really going as fast as we can make it go.

If there's some way to make it go past, I would make it go faster.

Let's talk about funding.

You've said in the past that starship would cost between two and $10 billion.

You still looking at that price tag?

I think, Yeah, yeah, it's a big range.

Um, I mean, I think it's probably closer Thio two or three than it is to 10.

Is that because of the switch to steal the switch to steal is quite is fundamental, and I think that's literally that might be the best design decision I've ever made.

I can't think of a better one.

The steel is lighter than the carbon fiber solution, lighter than aluminum lithium solution and costs 2% as much.

I mean, I really view what we're doing here as making life multi planetary as opposed to escaping Earth.

I think like 99% of our resource is should be on making sure that the future on Earth is good.

But I think at least 1% of our resource is should be on making like multi planetary and extending consciousness out to other planets, both for the the defensive reason of preserving the light of consciousness into the future as well as the adventure, the excitement I find personally more motivating than the defensive arguments.

So you prefer to be an optimist?

Pessimists.

I mean, I think excitement and adventure and a sense of possibility about the future are incredibly important.

Otherwise, why live?

Last time we caught up with CNN hero Stan Hayes, it was in the months following Hurricane Harvey and Hayes's nonprofit organization was in Houston, Texas, bringing fresh barbecue meals to hungry people.

He's a grand champion pit master, a barbecue expert.

He has thousands of volunteers who helped him deliver food to survivors and first responders.

And in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, which hit the northern Bahamas on the first of this month, Operation B B Q relief was at it again, crossing a milestone in the number of meals it's delivered.

We're here today in Fort Lauderdale, where we're getting ready to ship over to the Bahamas.

10,000 meals.

This is our first international mission that we've taken our three million meals since we started the organization in 2011 is going over on this plane for us, that's a huge milestone.

Two million was almost a year ago, exactly what we were in Wilmington, North Carolina.

But we're gonna provide that one meal that matters, or three million times So right there that's got the orange wrapping on it as the three million meal.

We're gonna be shipping these meals on a 1944 World War two era C 47 this is a mid sized cargo plane from back in the day.

We hate to see disasters happen, but we're so blessed that we can provide them comfort through a good hot barbecue meal.

Folks there that just need a good hot meal.

They need lift up, and that's what these meals are.

You better thank you, sir.

If it takes their mind away from what's happening to him for a few minutes, it means a lot three million.

It's not just meals that we've done today with meals that we're gonna continue to do.

We're gonna be here for many more weeks, probably helping feed the Bahamas eyes.

One thing to move to a historic home.

It's another thing to move a historic home.

That's what's happening here.

After the buyer of a 255 year old mansion in Maryland relocated it 50 miles away, it was built to last and afloat.

We don't know how much the house was built four, but it was sold recently for $500,000 obviously plus moving expenses.

The new owner says he plans to restore it and give it to his parents, who shouldn't mind if their son barges in because the house has been barged on that could have been featured on beachfront.

Bargain Hunt gives new meaning to waterfront real estate, making you feel like you're on the river because you're on the river.

And while some historic homes are remarkable for still standing, this one's moving and sailing and it brings us home sweet home on CNN.