seven odd cnn this is cnn breaking news. hello everyone. thanks for joining me today. i m alison chemla, erotic and for frederick a. whitfield, we have breaking news out of florida. nasa scrubbing its plan to launch boeing s starliner spacecraft today you re seeing the aftermath live right now on your screens apparently, and automatic hold was triggered by the ground launch sequencer. that s the computer that launches the rocket. it stopped the countdown clock with three minutes and 50 seconds left. to go. nasa says it is not clear what caused that automatic hold. space and defense correspondent kristin fisher is live at the kennedy space center for us, also with thus we have a colonel chris hadfield, astronaut and retired commander of the international space station. okay. so kristen, what s the latest where do learning on the ground? so right now everybody is focused on the two astronauts onboard this spacecraft, the commander boots hello more, and the pilot, sunny will
seven odd cnn this is cnn breaking news. hello everyone. thanks for joining me today. i m alison chemla, erotic and for frederick a. whitfield, we have breaking news out of florida. nasa scrubbing its plan to launch boeing s starliner spacecraft today you re seeing the aftermath live right now on your screens apparently, and automatic hold was triggered by the ground launch sequencer. that s the computer that launches the rocket. it stopped the countdown clock with three minutes and 50 seconds left. to go. nasa says it is not clear what caused that automatic hold. space and defense correspondent kristin fisher is live at the kennedy space center for us, also with thus we have a colonel chris hadfield, astronaut and retired commander of the international space station. okay. so kristen, what s the latest where do learning on the ground?
0 today. current president zuma and several other officials visited him in the hospital. president zuam saying, quote, doctors are doing everything possible to get the condition to improve and assuring he is well looked after and is comfortable. the south african civil rights activist has been hospitalized with a lung infection since june 8th. again, nelson mandela, in critical condition in a south africa hospital. it was days ago that one of his grandchildren said he was improving and now this turn of events according to the current south african president zuma that nelson mandela in critical condition. we ll keep you posted on his situation. and other breaking news we are following, a very busy day. edward snowden is heading now for ecuador, according to wikileaks. they helped snowden get to moscow today. ecuador s foreign ministry said that he requested asylum today and there s reports he could make a stop in cuba on the way possibly to ecuador. the u.s. said today it is asking th