Why won't LR read my memory card properly and import the photographs which are clearly there on it?

I'm attempting to transfer my photographs from a large wedding shoot off of my Canon Mark 2 5D and onto Lightroom, the way I always do.  Today, after transfering one memory cards images without a glitch, there seems to be a problem reading images for my 2nd memory card's contents to be transfered to LightRoom.  Although the images come up as thumbnails initially, when I am starting the Import process, when I proceed, LR tells me "No Photos or videos were found to import."
I have restarted both camera and LR multiple times but it does this same thing every time.  Also, it says "Preparing to Import" at this stage of the game, but nothing ever happens.  How can I fix this issue?  Super important work, this needs to happen soon,
Thank you.
-Airyka

This sounds to me like a hardware problem.
It could be a bad card reader or USB cable, bad USB port, bad camera card, or maybe a bad hard disk on your computer.
If you have a different hardware way to hook up your camera card to your computer, I would give that a try.

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