game wont launch

i recently opened up the launcher and pressed play. when i did i realized it was taking a very long time to load. i went in to the development console tab and saw it repeatedly saying "[15:45:21 WARN]: Couldn't download http://resources.download.minecraft.net/fb/fb995930fe5c41aa59f0e689e88fef0ea126cd4a for job 'Resources' " it did it for about 15 mins. just as i was typing this the front page finally came up. i have made no recent changes to my computer. i am running windows 8 and i have the newest java version. this is all of the info i really can give you. thank you.