KANNAPOLIS — Eli Lilly and the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers announced Wednesday that Lilly will be the presenting sponsor of the Cannon Baller Foundation, and as part of that significant contribution
morning saturday, june 8th, 2013. captioning funded by cbs and good morning. welcome to the weekend. welcome, vinita nair. yes. a busy news day on this saturday. it is indeed. we begin with breaking news on former south african president nelson mandela. today he was readmitted to the hospital suffering from a recurrent lung condition. he s 94 years old and said to be in serious but stable condition. we get the latest. deborah, good morning to you. reporter: and to you, vinita. nelson mandela has been suffering an infection for a couple of days now but in the early morning his condition deteriorated significantly, enough that doctors said he was to be rushed to this hospital in pretoria. his condition is described as serious but stable. bear in mind this is the first time the word serious has been used with regard to nelson mandela s condition. normally they downplay the icon s ill health. hospitalization has become the normal pattern for nelson mandela. he contra