company is aborted as spacex dragon rocket suffer as problem. international baby adoptions, as a heart wrenching story sheds lights on the struggles of overseas adoption we put the baby business in focus. how many people liked facebook s initial public offering, we break down the social network s newest circle of friends. we start with that glitch in the space plan. 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. and that is the dragon spacecraft on the launch pad at cape canaveral, i didn t get off the ground. john zarella joins me this morning from miami. good morning, john. you know what happened here, tell us. reporter: yeah, randi, george stiller goes and lift off, the question in his voice, it doesn t go anywhere. history on hold right now. dragon, the falcon 9 rocket with the dragon capsule on board, the spacex commercial vehicle attempting to be the first commercial company to actually r rendezvous with the space station. a chamber pressure is what they are saying in one of the nine eng
it is 8:00. thanks for waking up with us. let s get you caught up on some of the news. we start with a glitch in the space plan. three, two, one, zero. and lift off. we ve had a cut off. that is the dragon spacecraft on the launch pad at cape canaveral but it did not get off the ground. john, take us through what happened here. what went wrong? well, the future is on hold, isn t it, randi? who said space flight was easy and rocket science was easy? not you, not me of course. i think the people at space x are certainly finding that out first hand. what happened was the falcon 9 rocket with the dragon spacecraft on top, the falcon 9 has nine main engines. one of those nine, engine five, right before lift off, had what they call a chamber pressure issue where the pressure was going up too fast, too high. and the computer system immediately shut the whole thing down. so at 0.5 seconds before what would have been lift off the entire system was automatically shut down. now wh
from cnn center this is cnn saturday morning. saturday, may 19th. good morning, everyone. i m randi k yi kaye. the clind activist that broke free from china is on a flight to the u.s. president obama hosting world leaders at his retreat in maryland at this hour. the first commercial mission to the international space station is a dud. debt, defense, and diplomacy the theme at the high-stakes g8 summit. president obama welcomed world leaders a short time ago, laying out the ground work they hope to cover. this morning we ll be spending a lot of time on economic issues, obviously the eurozone will be one topic. and all of us are absolutely committed to making sure that both growth and stability and fiscal consolidation are part of a overall package that all of us have to pursue. cnn white house correspondent brianna keilar following the developments near camp david. brianna, good morning to you. tell us the latest from there? they have gotten under way with the w
each piece of the puzzle can be seen in a number of ways. we ve been going through the evidence all last night and all today. some of it, though, speaks for itself. surveillance video from the convenience store where trayvon martin bought candy and iced tea, compelling only if not for the fact it shows the teenager in his last moments alive. and the back of zimmerman s head shows he was injured. a recording between the assistant state attorney in florida and trayvon martin s girlfriend. they were talking on the phone that evening just before the shooting. she told investigators that trayvon martin told him a man was watching him from a car and following him, so trayvon martin started to run. here s part of that interview. let me make sure i understand this. so trayvon tells you that the guy s getting closer to him. yeah. and then you hear trayvon saying something? yeah. what do you hear trayvon saying? why are you following me for. why are you following me for.
happened that night. each piece of the puzzle can be seen in a number of ways. we ve been going through the evidence all last night and all today. some of it, though, speaks for itself. surveillance video from the convenience store where trayvon martin bought candy and iced tea, compelling only if not for the fact it shows the teenager in his last moments alive. a recording between the assistant state attorney in florida and trayvon martin s girlfriend. they were talking on the phone that evening just before the shooting. she told investigators that trayvon martin told him a man was watching him from a car and following him, so trayvon martin started to run. here s part of that interview. let me make sure i understand this. so trayvon tells you that the guy s getting closer to him. yeah. and then you hear trayvon saying something? yeah. what do you hear trayvon saying? why are you following me for. why are you following me for. yeah. then what happened? i