UPDATE NASA Scrubs Launch

from CNN

NASA will not launch the space shuttle Atlantis on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Ernesto threatens Florida. Atlantis will be rolled back from the launch pad and into its shelter Tuesday morning unless something really extraordinary happens with Ernesto's path and intensity.

Ernesto weakened to a tropical storm Sunday, but forecasters warned the storm could regain hurricane status as it moves over Cuba and north toward Florida.

If the shuttle leaves its launch pad Tuesday, liftoff would be pushed beyond a September 7 deadline imposed so that the Atlantis mission would not interfere with a Russian Soyuz flight to the international space station in mid-September. Atlantis' next launch window would not open up until October 20.