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We're barely on drag right now, delivered off at 10:52 a.m. eastern from cape canaveral, florida. cnn's kristin fisher, is there for us and cape canaveral. okay. are we go for launch? what's the latest you're hearing right now, kristen? >> kate, as of now, we are go for launch just three hours and 17 minutes away from liftoff. the weather is looking great. none of the wind that we were dealing with during the last launch attempt on saturday. they've also fixed the pesky ground computer that actually caused the scrub on saturday, just three minutes and 50 seconds before lifting off. and now tho...

>> nasa and in spaceflight, we're all about redundancy. so spacex has been flying for nearly three years. flying astronauts to the international space station. boeing was actually supposed to get there first, but they've through their their missteps and problems, they haven't didn't get there first and haven't been able to get there yet. hopefully today's the de where we will have two sources to american sources of getting astronauts to and from the iss. so the idea is redundancy. nasa definitely wanted more than one provider and hopefully boeing's going to i'm gonna get there today. >> yeah, ...

Frustration, what does that feel like? >> well that's right. because in the past every other launch scrub was due to a problem with the vehicle or with the rocket. and this time the rocket, the vehicle we're fine. and then at the last moment, of course, we had the problem with the ground computer. these things happen, it's happened several times similar things in the shuttle program over its 30 your life, you get down to the last moments, even there have been shuttle missions that were scrubbed in within the last minute where you had a failure of a handover because the ground launch sequencer ...

>> hello and welcome to the cnn newsroom. the news unfolds live this saturday, march 10th. a top world diplomat asks syria's president face-to-face to stop the carnage and killing in his country. former u.n. secretary-general kofi annan is in damascus meeting syrian president assad, opposition activists say 30 people were killed in fighting across syria. nick robertson joins me live in a few minutes to talk about any progress the two men may have made. israel launched air strikes against suspected militants in gaza again today. it is the second day in a row. at least 15 palestinian...