Moon mission. The u. S. Space agency had to postpone lift off of its giant rocket earlier on saturday after a fuel leak. It was the 2nd time in a week that a technical issue has to railed the mission. Alan fischer has been on standby at Cape Canaveral. This is sort of its Launch Control at a t minus for hours and 45 minutes and counting. The rocket was primed, the count dont underway. But his feeling of the giant rockets began. It became clear that in that famous phrase, we have a problem. The last team has a recommendation to of no go for launch too. The nasa test rector and launched rector a leak on the link pumping liquid hydrogen into the tanks was found. Charlie engineers run through the plans to fix it while director charlie back while thompson just called, ah, a scrub. But in the end, i to admit defeat the launch scrub for saturday. We do not launch until we think its right. And these teams have labored over that and that is the conclusion that they came to. So i look at this as
A raja packs. It was blamed for pushing for length to financial disaster, as protest is across the country rallied against his rule. When l fernandez is in colombo for us, now this seems like an incredibly risky move, potentially for the former president. It does so, but at the end of the day, it just seems that to go to be roger boxer, ran out of options. He did flee on that military plane to the mold lives, went on to singapore from there, and then ended up in thailand all the while looking at his options of where he could go, in terms of governments had to be willing and able to facilitate that city of his but he did find a lot of close doors and thats why we saw a few weeks ago as a p p. Members that his party, sitting down with president are vicar missing his successor to try and walk out and get a security guaranteed that he would be allowed to return. And that the government would ensure his security. So i did speak to the minister of public security, confirmed his return. He sa
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what a bad picture that shows the country. zipty doo dah, zipty eh. my oh my what a wonderful day we could hear more details about the deal when president obama hosts a town hall meeting later this morning at the university of montana. that too will get pretty hot. better singing than crying. the pentagon is announcing today the time has come to end don t ask, don t tell. that s the policy that bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. it will be abolished in 60 days. the announcement will take place in an event at the pentagon this afternoon shortly after new defense secretary leon panetta is formally sworn in. two suspects are in custody in connection with the brutal beating of a san francisco giants fan at l.a. dodgers stadium in march. brine stow is listed in serious condition from that attack. he spent months in a coma and the new arrests could mean another suspect who s already being held for the beating will be exonerated. a new nfl labor
live from london, meredith vieira gets a special tour of westminster abbey from the man who will officiate at the royal wedding as the countdown to the big event hits 42 days today, friday, march 18, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television on a friday morning. good morning. welcome to a special edition of today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer in new york. meredith is in london. buckingham palace. good morning to you. hey, matt. good morning to you as well. we ll get the latest on the royal wedding and my tour of westminster abbey in a bit. there are new developments on the crisis in japan, matt. there certainly are. japanese officials who have been criticized for downplaying the severity of the nuclear crisis raised their rating of the situation to a 5 on the scale of 1 to 7. that means they expected wider consequences beyond the local area surrounding that troubled plant. for the first time they are admitting they may have been slow to react to the