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Autopsy results confirmed the victims as Liberty "Libby" German, 14, and Abigail "Abby" Williams, 13.

The bodies were discovered by search volunteers Tuesday along a railroad bridge near Dear Creek in Delphi, about 70 miles northwest of Indianapolis, the Carroll County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

Missing since Monday

On Monday, the teens were dropped off to go hiking, but when they did not show up to be picked up by family members, police were notified. Soon after, a search party was formed of community volunteers and several law enforcement agencies, police said.

This is believed to be the first double-homicide investigation in Carroll County's recent history, State Trooper Sgt. Kim Riley said at a news conference.

Police are not releasing the cause and manner of death of the teens at this time.

The investigation

Police provided a photograph of a man who was on the Delphi Historic Trails about the timeAbigail and Liberty were walking. They are asking help from the public to identify him so he can be contacted regarding what he might have seen.

Investigators are proceeding with caution and not calling the individual in the photograph a suspect. There is no suspect(s) in custody at this time, police said.

"There is someone out there that did this crime and we're going to track them down," Sheriff Tobe Leazenby told CNN affiliate WXIN. "Folks should continue with business as usual but be more mindful and watch your surroundings a little closer."

Police are asking anyone who has any information on the case to call the Carroll County Sheriff's Office at 765-564-2413, the Delphi Police Department at 765-564-2345 or Indiana State Police at 765-567-2125.

Callers can remain anonymous, police said.

CNN's Chris Boyette and Jennifer Moore contributed to this report.

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Autopsy results confirmed the victims as Liberty "Libby" German, 14, and Abigail "Abby" Williams, 13. The bodies were discovered by search volunteers Tuesday along a railroad bridge near Dear Creek in Delphi, about 70 miles northwest of Indianapolis, the Carroll County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

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Witnesses: Frantic mom brings baby to KC hospital wrapped in bloody blanket after possible drive-by

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A little girl is recovering in the hospital after she was shot Sunday night. She is the third child to be shot in the metro within the last two weeks.

A heavy police presence surrounded an SUV outside Research Hospital where witnesses said a woman ran into the facility screaming that her baby had been shot around 7:45 p.m., Sunday. The little girl is approximately one-year-old. Witnesses said the mother was holding a baby wrapped in a bloody blanket.

Police searched Sunday night near Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard and The Paseo. They also used crime scene tape to block off the area around the white SUV the family drove to the hospital while they searched it for clues.

Police said the child's father arrived at the hospital, also shot. He is said to be in stable condition, while his daughter is in critical condition.

Police are in contact with the parents and are investigating the incident.

As of Monday morning, investigators said they still aren't sure who fired the shots that hit the little girl, but initially they were investigating it as a possible drive-by shooting.

"Another child shot," Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker tweeted late Sunday. "Infuriating! Some problems are complex. But not this one-kids can be safe w/ simple & inexpensive gun safety measures."

Another child shot. Infuriating! Some problems are complex. But not this one-kids can be safe w/ simple & inexpensive gun safety measures.

- Jean Peters Baker (@jeanpetersbaker) November 7, 2016

Friday night deadly shooting of one-year-old boy shot in Kansas City, Kan.
On Friday night, one-year-old Antonio Rucker Jr. was accidentally shot and killed while picking up a pizza at Little Caesars in Kansas City, Kan.,with his mom and father. Antonio was pronounced dead at Children's Mercy Hospital. There reportedly was a gun inside the car, as well as the child's mother and one other person, while the child's father was inside getting a pizza. Police are still working to determine how the gun was fired.
Jermone Green, 3, killed when his brother mistakes gun for a toy
At the end of October a 3-year-old Jermone Green was accidentally shot by his older brother near 19th and Topping Avenue. A grieving grandfather told FOX 4 his grandson picked up the gun, thought it was a toy and then shot his baby brother. The shot killed Jermone instantly.

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Witnesses: Frantic mom brings baby to KC hospital wrapped in bloody blanket

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A little girl is recovering in the hospital after she was shot Sunday night. She is the third child to be shot in the metro within the last two weeks. A heavy police presence surrounded an SUV outside Research Hospital where witnesses said a woman ran into the facility screaming that her baby had been shot around 7:45 p.m., Sunday.

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A 4-year-old girl who went missing from her Lakeland, Florida, home Saturday morning has been found safe in Memphis, Tennessee, according to Tennessee and Florida authorities.

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Chicago teachers and officials hope to avert a strike that would affect 400,000 students. It would be the second major strike since 2012. The issues on the table are pension contributions, pay raises, staffing levels and classroom funding.

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Chicago teachers and officials in the nation's third-largest school district still were holding contract negotiations Monday in hopes of averting a strike that would affect 400,000 students.

The Chicago Teachers Union has said its members are prepared to walk off the job as early as Tuesday morning for its second major strike since 2012, when teachers were out for seven school days. At issue during the negotiations, which have stretched into a second year, are pension contributions, pay raises, staffing levels and classroom funding.

Union leaders say teachers do not want to strike, but are concerned about threats to reduce their pay and benefits, as well as "the overall impact of school-based cuts on their students." Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool has said teachers deserve a raise but that the district is facing massive financial challenges.

Here's a look at the situation:

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THE ISSUES

The cash-strapped school district wants to phase out the decades-old practice of paying most of teachers' pension contributions, replacing it with a total base wage increase in a four-year contract. The union wants the district to keep up the pension payments and seeks raises at the end of a three-year contract.

The district, which has offered other "quality of life" changes, such as less paperwork, also wants teachers to pay more for rising health care costs.

CTU President Karen Lewis said it amounts to an overall pay cut at a time when teachers are struggling to make ends meet and to do their jobs, given that schools have lost some special education resources and librarians due to budget cuts. Plus, the district ended automatic pay raises for experience and education last year.

The bargaining unit of the union -- representing about 28,000 members -- rejected the district's last offer in February.

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THE BACKDROP

The threat of a strike is set against perilous financial problems for Chicago's public schools as well as the state of Illinois.

The district announced layoffs last week for about 250 teachers and staff due to a larger-than-anticipated drop in enrollment. And credit rating agencies have placed the district at "junk" status, or below investment grade, while its $5.4 billion budget relies on increased property taxes, borrowing and $215 million in state funding.

But the state funding is contingent on a wider pension overhaul that must be approved by state lawmakers, who are deadlocked over the budget with Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. The governor also has pushed to curb union power, suggested the district file for bankruptcy and unsuccessfully attempted a state takeover of the district's finances.

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WHERE DO THE KIDS GO DURING A STRIKE?

All schools will be open during normal hours and staffed by non-union employees to provide online learning, physical education and arts and crafts.

Classes and extracurricular activities will be canceled, but free breakfast and lunch will be provided to students who need them. Safe Passage routes, which are staffed by adults to help kids get to and from school safely, will operate as usual.

The district also has partnered with libraries, the park district and "Safe Haven" locations, such as churches, that will provide child care.

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OTHER FACTORS

The 2012 strike was the first teacher walkout in 25 years and was tied to evaluations, classroom conditions and job security. Parents and community leaders were largely supportive then, but it's unclear whether the sentiment will stick this year. Plus, the threat of a strike comes as Chicago residents have seen major increases in property taxes and other fees, and an uptick in street violence.

"It will be a difficult strike," University of Illinois at Chicago professor and former alderman Dick Simpson said. "I'm not sure that anyone wants to play it all the way out."

One thing is clear: Negotiations have a different tone. In 2012, the outspoken Lewis and Mayor Rahm Emanuel were often at odds. Emanuel had canceled a pay raise, and Lewis dubbed him "the murder mayor" because of city violence and briefly considered challenging him in the 2015 mayor's race.

More recently, Lewis has said Emanuel's job is "impossible" and their relationship is "respectful."

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Chicago teachers and officials in the nation's third-largest school district still were holding contract negotiations Monday in hopes of averting a strike that would affect 400,000 students. The Chicago Teachers Union has said its members are prepared to walk off the job as early as Tuesday morning for its second major strike since 2012, when teachers were out for seven school days.

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Wireless carrier Verizon will start selling such plans, the Wall Street Journal. Thursday. The plans reportedly will begin at 1 GB of data for $25 a month.

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People buy data plans for their smartphones so they can send email, check Facebook, and more, but what about a data plan for your drone?

Wireless carrier Verizon will start selling such plans, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The plans reportedly will begin at 1 GB of data for $25 a month.

Also on Thursday Verizon announced that it has been working since 2014 on the technology behind flying drones over its wireless network.

This year Verizon successfully flew a 17-foot unmanned aircraft over its 4G LTE network, the company said, a technology that could be used to do things like inspect pipelines or electrical transmission lines.

"This latest trial demonstrated how emerging technology combined with wireless networks can improve safety and security," Mike Haberman, vice president, network operations at Verizon, said in a statement. "A nationwide reliable 4G LTE network is the foundation for the future of mobile [Internet of Things] in the air."

Usually a drone is flown directly by remote control, and one thing possibly holding back changes to the technology is that federal drone regulations stipulate that a drone must be within visual line-of-sight of its controler.

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Verizon said to be launching data plans for drones

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People buy data plans for their smartphones so they can send email, check Facebook, and more, but what about a data plan for your drone? Wireless carrier Verizon will start selling such plans, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The plans reportedly will begin at 1 GB of data for $25 a month.

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'The Girl on the Train' makes bumpy leap from book to screen

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Comparisons to "Gone Girl" are inevitable, strictly in the tone and literary underpinnings. Yet the movie's strong streak of voyeurism -- a woman who peers longingly at the lives of others as filtered through her window seat -- owes a significant debt to Alfred Hitchcock in general, and "Rear Window" in particular.

Not that "The Girl on the Train," adapted from Paula Hawkins's book by Erin Cressida Wilson, and directed by Tate Taylor ("The Help"), measures up to that standard. The movie does boast a strong central performance from Emily Blunt as Rachel, the booze-swilling passenger, and makes a passable attempt at preserving its literary feel through her narration, while tinkering with the story to complete the tricky journey from page to screen.

Rachel rides the train past a house that, to her, is occupied by a couple with the perfect relationship. As a bonus, they happen to reside just a few doors from Rachel's old house, which her ex-husband ("The Leftovers'" Justin Theroux) shares with the woman for whom he left her, Anna (Rebecca Ferguson), magnifying Rachel's pain and longing.

"She's everything I want to be," Rachel says in voiceover.

Ah, but her through-the-tempered-glass view of events doesn't provide the whole picture, and when she sees the unknown woman, Megan (Haley Bennett), seemingly canoodling with another man, she's enraged, so much so that she drunkenly ventures into the neighborhood, experiencing a subsequent blackout regarding her actions.

When Megan goes missing, there's the question of what Rachel might have done -- or seen -- a situation exacerbated by her decision to communicate with Megan's husband (Luke Evans), raising the suspicions of the detective (Allison Janney) assigned the case.

Rachel's ex describes her as "a sad person," and she's certainly that. But the movie undergoes a series of contortions -- including a few close-to-silly ones -- especially during its later stages as it teases out the mystery and putties in details regarding Megan's life.

The casting is topnotch (including Lisa Kudrow in what amounts to a fleeting cameo), and the tension-building assets include Danny Elfman's score. Despite the bigger names, the real breakthrough here could be Bennett, who is also currently featured in "The Magnificent Seven."

Still, the flashback structure isn't wholly satisfying, and the climax leaves an abundance of questions, so much so that the movie might have benefited either from taking the time to further flesh those revelations out or stripping them down and running 20 minutes shorter.

On the bright side, trying to make sense of and bridge the gaps in "The Girl on the Train" should at least give moviegoers something to discuss on the ride home. And based on the way the movie unfolds, that's probably safer, or at least healthier, than idly gazing out the window.

"The Girl on the Train" opens October 7. It's rated R.

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more than 500 people dead in Haiti after hurricane Matthew

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Dwyane Wade Comments on LeBron James' Pursuit of Michael Jordan

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danaya vann  - intense fight with armed intruder caught on camera 

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Terrifying moments were caught on camera after a man armed with a knife walked inside a store in Cushing, Oklahoma, and began taking swings at the employees

http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2016/10/06/tech-store-employees-fight-off-armed-intruder-pkg.koco

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Nearly 927,000 people without power in Florida

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President Obama is now taking credit for creating 15 million jobs.

That's how many new jobs have been created since the dark days of the Great Recession. Another solid month of hiring in September has brought the tally to over 15 million non-farm jobs.

"Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction," President Obama said in his State of the Union address earlier this year. His critics counter that this is the slowest recovery since WW II.

This week Obama fought back at his detractors. He said his team has created a "more durable, growing economy" with "15 million new private-sector jobs since early 2010" in an essay in The Economist. Democrat Tim Kaine also used the 15 million jobs talking point in the vice presidential debate.

But Obama is using the most generous accounting possible to get that figure.

He doesn't start the count from his first day in office in 2009. Instead, he begins calculating job gains from February 2010, which was the lowest point for employment in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Under 130 million people were working then, according to U.S. Department of Labor. Now there are almost 145 million employed Americans.

CNNMoney used the Obama methodology (lowest employment point to highest) to see how he stacks up against recent presidents.

The result: Obama is still behind Presidents Clinton (22.9 million) and Reagan (18.1 million), but he's left President George W. Bush (8.2 million) in the dust.

Related: Is anyone worried about America's $19 trillion debt?

So what happens when you start the clock on Obama's first day of office?

If you do that, Obama can only take credit for 10.8 million new jobs. He also looks a bit worse compared to Reagan and Clinton.

Some make the case that the Obama jobs clock should start in February 2009 since the president only takes office on January 20 and that was a terrible month for job losses. Starting in February yields11.5 million new jobs created under Obama.

"It's obviously a political question, because it's a judgment about whether he was responsible for any or all of those 4.3 million jobs lost during his first 13 months in office, or just for the 15 million jobs added thereafter," says Lakshman Achuthan, co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute.

Achuthan doesn't take a stance on which method is better.

The Obama administration says the job gains clock shouldn't start until 2010 because it took time for the president's policies to take effect to get the country out of the worst recession since the Great Depression.

Related: Yes, this is the slowest U.S. recovery since WWII

Obama has played up job growth in interviews and speeches about his legacy because it's been particularly strong in recent years. In many ways, hiring has been the highlight of the recovery. Economic growth overall has been mediocre, and wages haven't picked up much (at least for the middle class).

"President Obama has tried to walk something of a narrow line along the lines of: We've made progress, but we still have work to do," says Mark Hamrick, senior economist analyst at Bankrate.com.

CNNMoney (New York) First published October 7, 2016: 9:17 AM ET

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That's how many new jobs have been created since the dark days of the Great Recession. Another solid month of hiring in September has brought the tally to over 15 million non-farm jobs. "Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction," President Obama said in his State of the Union address earlier this year.

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A nine, ten, and eleven year olds lured a ten year old boy with mental disabilities into a field and they covered him in gasoline and lit him on fire. He's in a coma.

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Kim Kardashian’s insurance claim reveals value of stolen jewelry. Insurance documents state that the 13 items taken from the reality TV star – when she was tied up and robbed at gunpoint in Paris – are worth roughly $5.6 million, not $10 million as previously speculated, TMZ reported. Her new 20-karat Lorraine Schwartz emerald cut diamond engagement ring, is valued at $4 million in the claim.

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Hurricane matthew has killed one person in the u.s and there are over 500 dead in haiti eyewall is less than 100 miles from jacksonville.

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Celebrate the cringeworthiness of the town hall debate
Sunday night's debate between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton holds the promise of the town hall format's greatest (at times worst) hits: aimless meandering, awkward bar stools that participants mostly have to lean on and, of course, face-to-face interaction with voters. Nothing makes presidential candidates seem more like actual humans than taking difficult questions from real people.

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Sunday night's debate between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton holds the promise of the town hall format's greatest (at times worst) hits: aimless meandering, awkward bar stools that participants mostly have to lean on and, of course, face-to-face interaction with voters. Nothing makes presidential candidates seem more like actual humans than taking difficult questions from real people.

The 2008 town hall between then-Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain played host to two of the most awkward debate moments in recent memory. First came the moment when McCain referred to Obama as "that one," which was viewed as disrespectful. That moment was only eclipsed at the end, when both nominees wandered between moderator Tom Brokaw and his teleprompter.

That wasn't the only time the open floor plan of the town hall caused issues. In 2000, then-Vice President Al Gore seemed to tryto intimidate George W. Bush by standing up and walking over to Bush while the governor was mid-sentence. Bush raised his eyebrows and nodded at Gore, prompting the audience to burst into laughter.

Bush's town hall moment was better for him than the moment people remember from his father's 1992 debate. Then-President George Bush was caught looking at his watch. During town hall debates, there is nowhere to hide for 90 minutes.

And who could forget the moment in 2012, when moderator Candy Crowley stepped in to tell Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that he was mistaken. Romney claimed that Obama hadn't referred to the attack on a US Consulate in Benghazi as "an act of terror" until weeks after the fact. He had. It would have been awkward if they were sitting behind a table, but Romney was in open water, all thanks to the town hall debate format.

Watch the 2016 town hall presidential debate Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on CNN and catch up on the greatest hits (so far) in the video above.

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Anyone who thinks all presidential debates are boring has clearly never experienced the often cringeworthy format that is the town hall. The Greeks gave us democracy and theatre-in-the-round. The town hall debate combines the best of both and adds in a little rhetorical MMA for texture.

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Bee's are now on the endangered list in the U.S.

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Bees make US endangered-species list for first time

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Here's something to buzz about. For the first time, the US Fish and Wildlife Service protects bees.

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Donald Trump appeared to accept an idea Friday, that the U.S. government speeds up the processing of immigrants who are on a waiting list to become citizens so that they can vote.

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intense fight with armed intruder caught on camera a man armed with a knife walked inside a store in crushing, Oklahoma and began taking swings at the employees but the employees did take out the robber.

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More than 500 reported dead as Haiti starts long cleanup after Hurricane Matthew

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The number of people killed by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti surged on Friday to 842, local officials told Reuters, as help slowly trickled into marooned areas of the country's southwestern peninsula pummeled by the powerful storm.

Saint-Victor Jeune, an official with the Civil Protection agency working in Beaumont, in the mountains on the outskirts of hard-hit Jeremie, said his team found 82 bodies that had not been recorded by authorities in the capital because of spotty communications. Most appeared to have died from falling debris from the winds that tore through the area at 145 mph on Tuesday.

"We don't have any contact with Port-au-Prince yet and there are places we still haven't reached," Jeune said, as he and a team of Civil Protection agents in orange vests combed through the area.

As Haitians mourned their losses, they tried to recover what they could of their meager possessions. Homes throughout the area were piles of rubble, the roofs mangled or stripped away.

Telemaque Dieuseal, 54-year-old farmer, fled his small house to stay with a cousin but returned to find that his TV, motorcycle and radio were nowhere to be found among the wreckage.

"The thieves were out all day after the storm stealing everything they could get," Dieuseal said. "It's going to take a long time to get back on my feet."

Workers from the International Organization of Migration and other groups were going through the area to assess the damage and provide assistance, though their efforts were hampered by damaged roads, rough terrain and other factors.

"Devastation is everywhere," said Pilus Enor, mayor of Camp Perrin, a town near the port city of Les Cayes on the peninsula's south shore. "Every house has lost its roof."

Officials were especially concerned about the department of Grand-Anse on the northern tip of the peninsula, where they believe the death toll and damage is highest. The 283 deaths reported by Pierre did not include Grand-Anse or its surrounding areas.

When Category 4 Hurricane Flora hit Haiti in 1963, it killed as many as 8,000 people.

More bodies began to appear Thursday as waters receded in some places two days after Matthew's 145 mph winds smashed concrete walls, flattened palm trees and tore roofs off homes, forcing thousands of Haitians to flee.

Those killed in Haiti included a woman and her 6-year-old daughter who frantically abandoned their flimsy home and headed to a nearby church to seek shelter as Matthew surged in early Tuesday, said Ernst Ais, mayor of the town of Cavaillon.

"On the way to the church, the wind took them," Ais said.

Officials said that food and water were urgently needed, noting that crops had been leveled, wells inundated by seawater and some water treatment facilities destroyed.

In Les Cayes, many people searched for clean water as they lugged mattresses and other belongings they were able to salvage.

"Nothing is going well," said Jardine Laguerre, a teacher. "The water took what little money we had. We are hungry."

Officials with the Pan American Health Organization warned about a possible surge in cholera cases because of the widespread flooding caused by Matthew. Haiti's cholera outbreak has killed roughly 10,000 people and sickened more than 800,000 since 2010, when it was introduced into the country's biggest river from a U.N. base where Nepalese peacekeepers were deployed.

Haiti's government has estimated at least 350,000 people need some kind of assistance in what is likely to be the country's worst humanitarian crisis since the devastating earthquake of January 2010.

International aid groups are already appealing for donations for a lengthy recovery effort in Haiti, the hemisphere's least-developed and most aid-dependent nation.

In the coming days, the U.S. military expects to help deliver food and water to hard-hit areas via helicopter.

After passing over Haiti, Matthew hit Cuba's lightly populated eastern tip Tuesday night, damaging hundreds of homes in the easternmost city of Baracoa but there were no reports of deaths. Nearly 380,000 people were evacuated and measures were taken to protect infrastructure.

Matthew advanced up the length of the Bahamas on Wednesday and Thursday, tearing roofs away, toppling trees and causing flooding that trapped some people in their homes. There had been no reports of casualties by late Thursday as the storm headed toward Florida's coast.

Before hitting Haiti, the storm was blamed for four deaths in the Dominican Republic, one in Colombia and one in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
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The CEO of Backpage, a website that has been accused of allowing ads for child sex trafficking, was arrested Thursday in Texas.

Carl Ferrer, 55, was arrested in Houston after landing on a flight from Amsterdam, the attorney general of Texas announced. Ferrer was arrested on a warrant from California, which charged him with pimping children and other counts.

In a joint investigation, California and Texas authorities said they found that adults and children had been forced into prostitution through escort ads on Backpage.

"Raking in millions of dollars from the trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable victims is outrageous, despicable and illegal," California Attorney General Kamala Harris said in a statement. "Backpage and its executives purposefully and unlawfully designed Backpage to be the world's top online brothel."

Backpage is similar to Craigslist in that it allows users to post ads to sell items and services. The California warrant claimed that Ferrer has known for at least five years that his site is a "hub for the illegal sex trade."

Related: Supreme Court refuses to block Backpage subpoenas in sex trafficking investigation

The company called the raid of its Dallas office and Ferrer's arrest "an election year stunt" and said prostitution ads violate its policies, claiming Backpage.com blocked ads that didn't comply.

"The actions of the California and Texas Attorneys General are flatly illegal, Liz McDougall, general counsel for Backpage, said in a statement to CNNMoney Friday evening. "They ignore the holdings of numerous federal courts that the First Amendment protects the ads on Backpage.com."

According to a criminal complaint filed in California, Backpage accepted at least $2 million a month between October 2014 and May 2015 in payments from people posting adult ads in California, including payments for postings that featured minors.

Texas charged Ferrer with money laundering.

"Making money off the backs of innocent human beings by allowing them to be exploited for modern-day slavery is not acceptable in Texas," Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement.

Backpage's business practices have been under scrutiny. The Senate held the company in contempt of Congress in March after it refused to comply with a subpoena in a sex trafficking investigation.

CNNMoney (New York) First published October 6, 2016: 8:34 PM ET

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The CEO of Backpage, a website that has been accused of allowing ads for child sex trafficking, was arrested Thursday in Texas.

Carl Ferrer, 55, was arrested in Houston after landing on a flight from Amsterdam, the attorney general of Texas announced. Ferrer was arrested on a warrant from California, which charged him with pimping children and other counts.

In a joint investigation, California and Texas authorities said they found that adults and children had been forced into prostitution through escort ads on Backpage.

"Raking in millions of dollars from the trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable victims is outrageous, despicable and illegal," California Attorney General Kamala Harris said in a statement. "Backpage and its executives purposefully and unlawfully designed Backpage to be the world's top online brothel."

Backpage is similar to Craigslist in that it allows users to post ads to sell items and services. The California warrant claimed that Ferrer has known for at least five years that his site is a "hub for the illegal sex trade."

Related: Supreme Court refuses to block Backpage subpoenas in sex trafficking investigation

The company called the raid of its Dallas office and Ferrer's arrest "an election year stunt" and said prostitution ads violate its policies, claiming Backpage.com blocked ads that didn't comply.

"The actions of the California and Texas Attorneys General are flatly illegal, Liz McDougall, general counsel for Backpage, said in a statement to CNNMoney Friday evening. "They ignore the holdings of numerous federal courts that the First Amendment protects the ads on Backpage.com."

According to a criminal complaint filed in California, Backpage accepted at least $2 million a month between October 2014 and May 2015 in payments from people posting adult ads in California, including payments for postings that featured minors.

Texas charged Ferrer with money laundering.

"Making money off the backs of innocent human beings by allowing them to be exploited for modern-day slavery is not acceptable in Texas," Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement.

Backpage's business practices have been under scrutiny. The Senate held the company in contempt of Congress in March after it refused to comply with a subpoena in a sex trafficking investigation.

CNNMoney (New York) First published October 6, 2016: 8:34 PM ET

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Backpage CEO arrested on pimping charges

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more than 500 dead in Haiti

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Hurricane Matthew has battered the Florida coast, where four people have been left dead and more than a million without power.

The system, which has not yet made landfall in the US, has been downgraded to a Category Two, with winds of up to 105mph (165 km/h).

The storm is now moving northward and is just off the coast of Georgia.

In Haiti, Matthew left a death toll of more than 840 in its wake. Some areas there remain cut off.

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At 23:00 local time on Friday (03:00 GMT Saturday) the eye of the storm was moving northward just off the coast of Georgia, about 70 miles south-east of the city of Savannah, the National Hurricane Center said.

Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina earlier all declared states of emergencies.

The Sheriff's Office in Putnam County, Florida, said a woman died when a tree fell on a camper van she was sheltering in. Another male occupant survived with minor injuries.

An earlier death was reported after a woman in her 60s was killed by another falling tree in Volusia County.

Two other people died from carbon monoxide fumes while running a generator in their garage.

On Friday morning, President Barack Obama addressed fears that the storm's winds could fuel a wave of seawater that might wash over coastal communities along a 500-mile stretch from South Florida to Charleston, South Carolina.

"The big concern at this point is storm surge," Mr Obama told reporters from the White House.

"Many of you will remember (2012 storm) Hurricane Sandy, where initially people thought this doesn't look as bad as we thought, and then suddenly you get a massive storm surge and a lot of people are severely affected.

"I just wanted to emphasise to everybody that this is still a really dangerous storm."

Forecasters have said Matthew could dump up to 15in of rain and cause a storm surge of 9ft or more.

Some two million people have been advised to evacuate across coastal areas of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

Watch and wait - Laura Bicker, BBC News, New Smyrna Beach

There's nothing to do here but watch and wait. For 12 hours our shelter has been battered by wind and rain. It feels relentless.

Occasionally you hear the crack of a tree as a gust rips down branches or you see debris whipping past the window.

The sound of the wind is the most eerie. At its worst it rivals the noise of a diesel train.

It whips up the water making it difficult to tell whether you're being hit by driving rain or sea spray.

Most people here seem to have taken the warnings seriously. Windows and doors have been boarded up as prime beach front property is abandoned in favour of safer ground.

No one is out on the streets and a curfew remains in place until tomorrow morning. The real fear here is of a storm surge and coastal flooding.

Matthew is also proving to be unpredictable and the storm is taking its time to move up the coast.

That means no one is really sure if the worst is over. As I said... nothing to do now but watch and wait and hope that Florida will be out of danger soon.

But those who refused to leave central Florida's Atlantic coast called emergency services for help as the storm's western eye wall brushed Cape Canaveral.

Brevard County Emergency Operations spokesman David Waters said they had heard from one family on Merritt Island whose home just had its roof ripped off.

Some callers have said: "We're scared. We wish we hadn't stayed."

The World Meteorological Organisation, which is the UN's weather agency, warned that the hurricane would remain dangerous regardless of whether it makes landfall.

Spokeswoman Clare Nullis told the BBC: "Matthew is a very big and very bad beast. And it's not going to go away in the next couple of days."

At the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, NASA's shuttle fleet is now retired, but the space company SpaceX is anxious that the storm could damage its seaside launch pad.

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Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and SeaWorld - the famed theme parks in Orlando, Florida - are all closed.

Fort Lauderdale and Orlando airports have shut, and airlines have cancelled more than 4,500 flights.

Amtrak suspended train services between Miami and New York, while cruise lines have rerouted ships to avoid the storm, meaning days longer at sea for some passengers.

Florida's history of hurricanes

October 2005: Hurricane Wilma Deaths were reported in Haiti, Mexico, Cuba. Struck Florida as a Category Three, killing five people. South Florida suffered widespread damage

August 2004: Hurricane Charley Struck Florida as a Category Four, killing nine and causing billions of dollars in property damage

August 1992: Hurricane Andrew Category Five storm struck South Florida, killing 44 and damaging more than 125,000 houses

Thousands of people have hunkered down in schools converted to shelters.

About 22,000 people were moved to shelters, Florida Governor Rick Scott said at a news conference on Friday morning.

Patients have been transferred to safer locations from two waterfront hospitals and a nursing home near Daytona Beach, Florida.

After Florida, Matthew is hugging the coast of Georgia and is then expected to move near or over South Carolina's coast before spinning out to sea, forecasters say.

In many areas earlier in the week, cars queued for fuel and residents stocked up on food and hardware supplies to board up their houses, local reports said.

In South Carolina, lanes on some highways were reversed so vehicles could head west away from the storm.
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Hurricane Matthew has battered the Florida coast, where four people have been left dead and more than a million without power. The system, which has not yet made landfall in the US, has been downgraded to a Category Two, with winds of up to 105mph (165 km/h).

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2 people killed in Minnesota helicopter crash

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Two people died when a helicopter erupted in "a large fireball" as it plummeted into a field outside of St. Paul, a sheriff's official said Friday.

According to the Anoka County Sheriff's Office, officers were called to a report of a crash in a field in Lino Lakes at around 5:30 p.m. Thursday, about 17 miles north of St. Paul.

"What the officers discovered, a helicopter crashed in the field," Anoka County Sheriff's Office Cmdr. Paul Sommer said. "There is basically wreckage. There's not a lot I can tell you about the crash scene. There's a large fireball, wreckage."

Sommer tweeted Friday that two people died in the crash. No one on the ground was hurt in the crash.

Witnesses said they saw the helicopter and then heard a large "pop" or a "bang," Sommer said. They said that the helicopter's rotor appeared to stop suddenly and the aircraft was seen falling out of the sky, he added.

Others told authorities that the helicopter began to break up before hitting the ground and bursting into flames.

Sommer said it didn't appear that the crash was caused by an entanglement with power lines, saying the helicopter was flying at a much higher altitude when it started to go down.

The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate, according to FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory. Authorities asked Lino Lakes residents to contact the police if they find any objects that could be debris from the aircraft.

"We don't know what kind of aircraft this was. We can't identify much based on what remains in the field. It's basically charred up debris," Sommer said.

Authorities ask if anyone finds debris from the crash to turn it into investigators.

"This is a horrible tragedy," Sommer said. "I can't begin to describe what that scene looks like."
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Two people died when a helicopter erupted in "a large fireball" as it plummeted into a field outside of St. Paul, a sheriff's official said Friday. According to the Anoka County Sheriff's Office, officers were called to a report of a crash in a field in Lino Lakes at around 5:30 p.m.

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More than 500 reported dead as Haiti starts long cleanup after Hurricane Matthew

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The number of people killed by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti surged on Friday to 842, local officials told Reuters, as help slowly trickled into marooned areas of the country's southwestern peninsula pummeled by the powerful storm.

Saint-Victor Jeune, an official with the Civil Protection agency working in Beaumont, in the mountains on the outskirts of hard-hit Jeremie, said his team found 82 bodies that had not been recorded by authorities in the capital because of spotty communications. Most appeared to have died from falling debris from the winds that tore through the area at 145 mph on Tuesday.

"We don't have any contact with Port-au-Prince yet and there are places we still haven't reached," Jeune said, as he and a team of Civil Protection agents in orange vests combed through the area.

As Haitians mourned their losses, they tried to recover what they could of their meager possessions. Homes throughout the area were piles of rubble, the roofs mangled or stripped away.

Telemaque Dieuseal, 54-year-old farmer, fled his small house to stay with a cousin but returned to find that his TV, motorcycle and radio were nowhere to be found among the wreckage.

"The thieves were out all day after the storm stealing everything they could get," Dieuseal said. "It's going to take a long time to get back on my feet."

Workers from the International Organization of Migration and other groups were going through the area to assess the damage and provide assistance, though their efforts were hampered by damaged roads, rough terrain and other factors.

"Devastation is everywhere," said Pilus Enor, mayor of Camp Perrin, a town near the port city of Les Cayes on the peninsula's south shore. "Every house has lost its roof."

Officials were especially concerned about the department of Grand-Anse on the northern tip of the peninsula, where they believe the death toll and damage is highest. The 283 deaths reported by Pierre did not include Grand-Anse or its surrounding areas.

When Category 4 Hurricane Flora hit Haiti in 1963, it killed as many as 8,000 people.

More bodies began to appear Thursday as waters receded in some places two days after Matthew's 145 mph winds smashed concrete walls, flattened palm trees and tore roofs off homes, forcing thousands of Haitians to flee.

Those killed in Haiti included a woman and her 6-year-old daughter who frantically abandoned their flimsy home and headed to a nearby church to seek shelter as Matthew surged in early Tuesday, said Ernst Ais, mayor of the town of Cavaillon.

"On the way to the church, the wind took them," Ais said.

Officials said that food and water were urgently needed, noting that crops had been leveled, wells inundated by seawater and some water treatment facilities destroyed.

In Les Cayes, many people searched for clean water as they lugged mattresses and other belongings they were able to salvage.

"Nothing is going well," said Jardine Laguerre, a teacher. "The water took what little money we had. We are hungry."

Officials with the Pan American Health Organization warned about a possible surge in cholera cases because of the widespread flooding caused by Matthew. Haiti's cholera outbreak has killed roughly 10,000 people and sickened more than 800,000 since 2010, when it was introduced into the country's biggest river from a U.N. base where Nepalese peacekeepers were deployed.

Haiti's government has estimated at least 350,000 people need some kind of assistance in what is likely to be the country's worst humanitarian crisis since the devastating earthquake of January 2010.

International aid groups are already appealing for donations for a lengthy recovery effort in Haiti, the hemisphere's least-developed and most aid-dependent nation.

In the coming days, the U.S. military expects to help deliver food and water to hard-hit areas via helicopter.

After passing over Haiti, Matthew hit Cuba's lightly populated eastern tip Tuesday night, damaging hundreds of homes in the easternmost city of Baracoa but there were no reports of deaths. Nearly 380,000 people were evacuated and measures were taken to protect infrastructure.

Matthew advanced up the length of the Bahamas on Wednesday and Thursday, tearing roofs away, toppling trees and causing flooding that trapped some people in their homes. There had been no reports of casualties by late Thursday as the storm headed toward Florida's coast.

Before hitting Haiti, the storm was blamed for four deaths in the Dominican Republic, one in Colombia and one in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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More than 800 reported dead as Haiti starts long cleanup after Hurricane Matthew

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The number of people killed by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti surged on Friday to 842, local officials told Reuters, as help slowly trickled into marooned areas of the country's southwestern peninsula pummeled by the powerful storm.