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Teachers husband kill her and another kid and injured another.

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Two skulls found near Belton; now two moms wait to learn if they are their missing daughters

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Utah rescuers 'accidentally' found a family that was stranded for 2 days

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Utah rescuers located a family of four that had been stranded along a river for two days, inadvertently finding them while searching for a missing kayaker, authorities said.

While on a search-and-rescue call for the kayaker along the Escalante River on Sunday, a helicopter crew from the Utah Department of Public Safety and a Garfield County sheriff's deputy came across the family members, who appeared to be in "obvious distress," the DPS said in a press release.

Utah DPS chief pilot Luke Bowman told ABC's Salt Lake City affiliate, KTVX, that he and the helicopter's flight commander spotted the father first.

"We saw a guy step out on a sandbar and started waving at us - signaling and waving his hat in the air," Bowman said.

After the helicopter landed, the crew learned that the family members - a mother, a father and their two teenage daughters, as well as their dog - had been paddling on the river and crashed into boulders during high water after a big storm, losing their boats and paddles and leaving them stranded, according to the DPS. The family spent two nights in a steep canyon, KTVX reported.

"The mom [Julie Vonesh] especially was very excited that we were there," Bowman said. "She kind of made a comment like, 'I don't care what happens. Just get me out of the canyon.' They were pretty excited. They were ready to get out."

The father, Jay Vonesh, told ABC's Denver affiliate, KMGH, that the Escalante River became dangerous when rough weather moved into the area.

"Our boats got stuck on boulders. We got swept under the boulders. It was terrifying," he said.

Julie Vonesh said the family had enough food to get them through a day or two. "We just kind of didn't know what we were going to do," she said.

Jay Vonesh, a pastor in Bailey, Colorado, said their faith helped them through the ordeal.

He said, "We sat on a sandbar and basically said, 'God, can you give us a hand here? We're out of options,'" and within "two minutes," the DPS helicopter showed up.

"As soon as I saw the helicopter, I started, like, crying," one of the daughters, Janae Vonesh, said. "I was just so happy, and I was just thinking about all of my friends at home."

The Voneshes were airlifted to the Escalante Municipal Airport, the DPS said, adding that the kayaker who was the intended subject of the search returned safely on his own later.

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Mom Films Toddler Trying To Count To 30, But She Gets Stuck And Starts Making Up Numbers

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It can be easy to take for granted those abilities that we as adults have mastered - like reading, writing, speaking, even counting to, oh, I don't know, the number 30. But lest we forget, we all had to start somewhere, whether as babies or toddlers.

While on the road with his family, multitalented artist La Guardia Cross documented his 2-year-old daughter Amalah as she starts her education journey. It's a tough road for many maybe, even if they have to make up some new rules (or, in the case of little Amalah, numbers) as they go along.

The video below begins with the toddler in the back seat of their car.

She had made it in her counting all the way to the number 26.

But that's when things got a little difficult.

To get to 30, there were still four more numbers in her way - numbers that she didn't quite know. But that didn't mean that she was going to give up!

Instead, the savvy little girl decided to get her point across by inventing some new numbers... like "twennyny-seven" and "elevendydy-nine," just to name a few.

She even threw a 78 in there for good measure - who cares about 30!

For more, take a look at La Guardia Cross on Facebook and Instagram!

Check out this adorable video below, and please SHARE it on Facebook!

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It can be easy to take for granted those abilities that we as adults have mastered - like reading, writing, speaking, even counting to, oh, I don't know, the number 30. But lest we forget, we all had to start somewhere, whether as babies or toddlers.

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KC Voters approve lower penalty for pot possession: $25 and no jail time.

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Kansas City voters on Tuesday decided to lower penalties in city court for people caught with small amounts of marijuana.

With 97 percent of precincts reporting, a measure to reduce fines and eliminate jail time for marijuana possession was winning 71 percent of the vote. The measure lowers the maximum fine for marijuana possession in city court to $25 from $500 and eliminates jail time as a penalty. Under the old ordinance, a sentence of 180 days was possible.

The change applies only to cases in Kansas City Municipal Court in which defendants possessed 35 grams or less of marijuana - about 11/4ounces.

The issue landed on the ballot through a petition drive led by the Kansas City chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Jamie Kacz, executive director of NORML KC, said residents who signed the petitions sent a message that they don't want people jailed or fined heavily for marijuana offenses.

On election night, Kacz and other proponents gathered for a watch party to see the results come in.

"It's a very positive result because we know Kansas City is ready for this change," Kacz said.

Kacz said she thought the city would find a way to solve a problem pointed out by opponents: that without jail on the table, defendants won't get a defense attorney through Legal Aid of Western Missouri.

In the run-up to the election, some city officials warned that the city's contract with Legal Aid says that only defendants facing possible jail time are entitled to an attorney, free of charge, if they can't afford their own. In city court, defendants need an attorney to obtain a diversion agreement or to plea bargain a pot charge down to littering.

Kacz said her group is working on organizing a network of attorneys to help in those cases. She also suggested that the city could arrange for Legal Aid to represent the defendants anyway.

"It's within the power of the city to do that," Kacz said. "They should go ahead."

Legal Aid represented defendants in about 59 percent of city court marijuana possession cases in the last fiscal year, according to a Star analysis of court data. Nearly 70 percent of the defendants were black, in a city that is about 30 percent black, even though studies show both white people and black people use the drug at about the same rate.

City Prosecutor Lowell Gard said defendants in city court were rarely actually jailed for marijuana possession. Most resolved their cases through a diversion program or a plea bargain.

Those fines and diversion programs typically cost about $300, plus as much as $150 for drug testing and drug education classes.

So for those who can't afford a private attorney, pleading guilty to the possession charge and paying a $25 fine - plus nearly $50 in court costs - may be an attractive option.

But, Gard and City Council members warned, pleading guilty would still leave a mark on the defendant's record, even if the ordinance violation isn't technically a criminal matter.

City Councilwoman Alissia Canady, one of several local officials to express skepticism about the measure, said Kansas City residents should remember that marijuana is still illegal at the local, state and federal level.

Canady said the unintended consequences of the measure actually hurt those who were supposed to be helped: black men who make up a disproportionate number of the defendants, many of whom now may have to pay for their own attorney to avoid a drug conviction on their record.

"This does not solve anything," Canady said. "It just creates more problems for people who don't have any money and are already overburdened by the criminal justice system."

Twenty-nine states plus Washington, D.C., have legalized marijuana either for recreational or medical use. Missouri made a small change this year when it eliminated jail time for first-time offenders convicted of possessing less than 10 grams of marijuana. Many cities, including St. Louis and Columbia, have taken steps toward reduced fines and penalties.

The ballot measure also eliminates city charges for possession of marijuana-related paraphernalia, which carried penalties of 15 days to six months in jail and fines from $100 to $500.

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Kansas City voters on Tuesday decided on a ballot question that would lower penalties for marijuana possession in Municipal Court. While proponents said residents sent a clear message they didn't want people jailed for pot, city officials warned of unintended consequences.

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6 year old dancer loses leg after strep throat spirals into spreading infection.

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Two new drugs were cleared to hit the market last week: an eczema drug that will cost $37,000 per year and one for multiple sclerosis that will cost $65,000.

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Chen Zhitong Won 15,000 Stuffed Animals From Claw Machines Last Year

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Chen Zhitong Won 15,000 Stuffed Animals From Claw Machines Last Year

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Chen Zhitong has a unique talent: he's a claw machine master. Yeah, those stuffed-animal-stuffed glass boxes at kid-friendly restaurants and amusement parks, THOSE rage-inducing claw machines. Last year alone, Chen won *15,000* toys from claw machines. He told us how-and why-he's made claw machine mastery his vocation.

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The death toll from a chemical weapons attack on a Syrian town Tuesday has risen to at least 72 civilians, including 20 children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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Weather conditions Wednesday have delayed investigators' search of a Cass County field where human remains were found this week

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Weather conditions Wednesday have delayed investigators' search of a Cass County field where human remains were found this week.

Police said they will resume searching near 233rd Street and Route Y Highway on Thursday morning.

Authorities said the area will continue to be under law enforcement control and access to surrounding area is limited.

A mushroom hunter found human remains Monday afternoon.

A second human skull was located in the same search area on Tuesday.

"No identification has been made at this time. Based on the remains recovered the age, sex, race have not been determined. Further examination is currently in progress," the Sheriff's Office said in a news release.

Belton police called the families of Kara Kopetsky and Jessica Runions to inform them a second skull was found.

Kopetsky, 17, was last seen leaving Belton High School in May 2007. Runions, 21, was last seen in September 2016.

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Weather conditions Wednesday have delayed investigators' search of a Cass County field where human remains were found this week. Police said they will resume searching near 233rd Street and Route Y Highway on Thursday morning. Authorities said the area will continue to be under law enforcement control and access to surrounding area is limited.

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A 13-year-old girl was killed while trying to retrieve her cell phone from subway tracks in Queens, New York.

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7-year-old Syrian girl's heartbreaking plea: 'Why can't you stop the war?'

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Seven-year-old Syrian refugee Bana Alabed made this heartbreaking appeal to the world Wednesday morning: Stop the carnage that's dragged on for six years in Syria and killed hundreds of thousands of her countrymen, including children.

"I want (them) to stop the war, and I want the children of Syria to play and go to school and live in peace," Bana told CNN's "New Day." "Together we can help them. Together we can save them."

The child's appeal comes as the international community expressed shock and outrage at reports of a suspected chemical attack Tuesday that killed scores of civilians in northwestern Syria.

Bana became the face of the human toll of Syria's conflict last year when she shared her experiences from the besieged city of Aleppo via Twitter. She and her family have been living in Turkey since fleeing Aleppo in December.

"I am very sad," Bana told "New Day" anchor Alisyn Camerota as she spoke from Ankara via Skype. "A lot died and no one helped them. The world is watching. The world doesn't do anything."

Bana and her mother, Fatemah Alabed, who also appeared on the program, left little doubt about whom they blame for the violence that's cost so many lives.

"Yes," Bana replied simply when asked if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the death and destruction.

Activists said the Syrian regime was responsible for Tuesday's suspected chemical attack, which killed at least 70 people, including children.

Assad's military denied using chemical weapons and blamed rebels for the carnage. Russia, Syria's strong ally, said it had no warplanes in the vicinity.

In another poignant moment of the interview, Bana asked Camerota why the world had so far done so little to intervene.

"I don't know Bana," the CNN anchor said. "I don't know why the world can't stop the war in Syria."

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Seven-year-old Syrian refugee Bana Alabed made this heartbreaking appeal to the world Wednesday morning: Stop the carnage that's dragged on for six years in Syria and killed hundreds of thousands of her countrymen, including children. "I want (them) to stop the war, and I want the children of Syria to play and go to school and live in peace," Bana told CNN's "New Day."

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was attacked from all sides over Europe as presidential candidates went head to head in the second live TV debate.

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was attacked from all sides over Europe as presidential candidates went head to head in the second live TV debate.

The centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron said Ms Le Pen's nationalist proposals amounted to "economic warfare".

But she was also accused from the right of not being tough enough on France's membership of the EU.

Francois Fillon, meanwhile, said that France needed Europe when up against the US and China.

Ms Le Pen, leader of the National Front (FN) party, promised to restore control of France's borders and scrap the euro, or else hold a referendum on EU membership.

Speaking alongside 10 other candidates as things got a little heated in the second of three televised French presidential election debates, she said that her presidency would improve the lives of French citizens.

France holds its first round of voting on 23 April. Unless one candidate wins more than 50% of the vote, the two leading contenders will go to a second round on 7 May.

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Mr Macron, the frontrunner, accused Ms Le Pen of lying, and said that "nationalism is war".

"You are saying the same lies that we've heard from your father for 40 years," he said.

Ms Le Pen, who also came under attack from conservative candidate Mr Fillon, retorted: "You shouldn't pretend to be something new when you are speaking like fossils that are at least 50 years old."

Meanwhile, nationalist right-wing outsider Francois Asselineau said that he was "the only true candidate of Frexit", and promised to trigger Article 50 - the process to start the country's divorce from the EU - immediately if he were to win power.

Watching the debate: BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris

The debate was extended to include the six minor candidates, so inevitably it is on the six minor candidates that water-cooler conversation is going to focus.

On Jean Lasalle - "son of a shepherd, brother of a shepherd" - with his impenetrable Pyrenean accent; on Francois Asselineau with his "Frexit" obsession; on the rival Trotskyites Philippe Poutou and Nathalie Arthaud with their rousing calls to punish the bosses.

Some of it was diverting, some of it was deadly serious. But after a while you realised that there were really only two people out there who were in any sense defending - more or less - the way things are. Those two are Francois Fillon and Emmanuel Macron.

Everyone else - from Marine Le Pen to the uber-Gaullist Nicolas Dupont Aignan to the firebrand of the left Jean-Luc Melenchon (as brilliant as ever on stage) - wants the rules of Europe and the economy totally rewritten.

Small wonder this first round boils down to a fight between Mr Fillon and Mr Macron. It is a fight for the chance - in round two - to stand up for the existing order against the anti-system.
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Turning the topic to security, Ms Le Pen said that France had become a "university for jihadists", prompting angry interruptions from the left-wing candidates.

Most polls suggest that Ms Le Pen and Mr Macron will face each other in the second round run-off.

However, Tuesday's debate gave Mr Fillon, 63, an opportunity to close the gap on the leaders.

Mr Fillon was the frontrunner in the campaign until he was hit by the "fake jobs" scandal and placed under formal investigation. He is accused of paying hundreds of thousands of euros to his family for work they did not do.

He was trailing third in the first round, according to polls, a position which would eliminate him from the race.

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If you went to bed early like I did, you missed out on some Kansas City Chiefs news. NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reports that the Chiefs had Alabama LB Reuben Foster in for a visit earlier this week.

Foster is an inside linebacker out of Alabama, probably the best inside 'backer in this draft. He's an intriguing candidate for a team looking at 34-year old Derrick Johnson coming off an Achilles injury. I would take him in a heartbeat - if he fell to No. 27, which I'm not sure that he will. I've seen him mocked in the first half of the first round. Not often do I see NFL draft analysts dropping him to the 27th pick. Who knows, though? The media's gotten it wrong before.

You may recognize Foster's name because he was sent home from the NFL Combine after a "heated argument" with a hospital worker. Definitely an odd story the Chiefs could be asking him about. Speaking of the hospital, there are also medical questions the Chiefs could be asking about as well.

SB Nation's Alabama blog, Roll Bama Roll, has a great profile on Foster if you want to learn more about him. On his NFL prospects, they write:

Because he is an elite, versatile talent who played four years within Saban's linebacker factory, pro teams are salivating at the prospect of adding him to their respective rosters. Needless to say, it would be a shock if Foster falls to the late first round, let alone the second round. Because of his skill set and record of performance, he is more than likely a top-15 pick. Consult Draft pundits and one will see Foster placing anywhere from fifth to 25th, but the reality is that he likely will go somewhere in the top half of the first round to a team that needs to solidify the spine of its defense against the run (the 49'ers would be a potential landing spot in that mold).

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If you went to bed early like I did, you missed out on some Kansas City Chiefs news. NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reports that the Chiefs had Alabama LB Reuben Foster in for a visit earlier this week. Foster is an inside linebacker out of Alabama, probably the best inside 'backer in this draft.

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Russian claims that a regime airstrike on a "terrorist" ammunition depot caused the deaths of at least 70 people in northern Syria have been rejected, as victims described the aftermath of chemical bombs dropped from planes.

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The White House and the UK blamed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime for the attack that struck the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun while many were still asleep.

The strike, one of the deadliest of its kind since the Syrian war began six years ago, killed at least 70 people, including children.

Syria denied it used chemical weapons. Russia asserted the deaths resulted from a gas released when a regime airstrike hit a "terrorist" chemical weapons factory on the ground. But survivors being treated in a hospital on the Turkish side of the border told a CNN team they saw chemical bombs dropped from the air.

The World Health Organization said victims bore the signs of exposure to nerve agents, and Amnesty International said evidence pointed to an "air-launched chemical attack." International agencies are investigating the origin of the agents used in the strike.

Key developments

Chemical weapons expert: Russia's explanation of events is "highly implausible."

US President Donald Trump said the attack changed his views on Syria and Assad.

Medical experts said the attack was likely the result of a nerve agent, such as sarin gas.

The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting but didn't vote on a resolution.

War of words

Trump called the attack on innocent civilians an "affront to humanity," saying it had changed his views on Syria and Assad. "These heinous actions by the Assad regime cannot be tolerated," Trump said.

"It crossed a lot of lines for me. When you kill innocent children, innocent babies ... with a chemical gas that is so lethal that people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines -- beyond a red line."

The Russian Defense Ministry said on its Facebook page that a Syrian airstrike hit "workshops, which produced chemical warfare munitions" on the eastern outskirts of Khan Sheikhoun. It said "terrorists" had been transporting the chemical munitions from their largest arsenal to Iraq.

"Nerve agents are the result of a very expensive, exotic, industrial chemical process -- these are not something you just whip up," saidKaszeta, managing director of Strongpoint Security, a security consulting firm based in London.

"It's much more plausible that Assad, who's used nerve agents in the past, is using them again."

Hours after the attack, several people were injured when an airstrike hit near a hospital in the same town. Survivors of the earlier attack were being treated there, the Aleppo Media Center activist group reported.

The hospital was knocked out of service, said the Syrian Civil Defense rescue group, known as the White Helmets.

Victim: 'I don't know if my family is dead or alive'

Mazin Yusif, a 13-year-old-boy, broke down in tears at the Reyhanli Hospital in southern Turkey near the Syrian border. About 25 survivors of Tuesday's attack are being treated there, and several said they saw a plane drop chemical bombs.

"At 6:30 in the morning, the plane struck. I ran up on our roof and saw that the strike was in front of my grandfather's house," Mazin told CNN.

He said he ran toward his house and found his grandfather slumped over. He ran outside to call for help. "I got dizzy and then fainted in front of my grandfather's garage. I next found myself here in this hospital, naked in a bed."

The boy's grandmother, Aisha al-Tilawi, 55, said she saw blue and yellow after the plane dropped a chemical-laden bomb.

"We started choking, felt dizzy, then fainted. Mazin was trying to wake up his grandfather. Three of my family died," she said, lying in bed with an oxygen mask on her face.

Another survivor, Ahmed Abdel Rahim, 31, stared vacantly from his hospital bed while explaining he was hit with a poisonous substance carried by three rockets.

"I was in my house. I had difficulty breathing, but I feel better now. But I did throw up after getting to the hospital. I don't know if my family is dead or alive. I don't know anything," he said.

Worldwide condemnation

WHO said some victims showed symptoms consistent with exposure to a category of chemicals that includes nerve agents. That conclusion was supported by Amnesty International, which said victims were "very likely" to have been exposed to a compound such as sarin.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said it was gathering evidence about the attack.

Speaking at a high-level meeting in Belgium on the future of Syria, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson blamed the Syrian regime.

"All the evidence I have seen suggests that it was the Assad regime who did it, in full knowledge they were using illegal weapons in a barbaric attack on their own people," Johnson said.

Assad's military has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons and consistently blames "terrorist" groups when chemical attacks are reported.

But many of these are delivered through airstrikes,and no rebel or terrorist group in Syria is believed to have the capacity to carry out aerial bombardments.

A UN investigation in August found that chemical weapons had been used in Syria, both by the national air force and ISIS militants. It found two instances where regime forces had used chlorine as a chemical weapon, and one where ISIS had used mustard gas between 2014 and 2015.

The Syrian Coalition, an umbrella opposition group, compared this week's chemical attack to one in 2013 in eastern Ghouta "that the international community allowed to pass without accountability or punishment."

A UN report found that sarin had been used on civilians in the earlier attack that activists said killed about 1,400 people.

UN emergency meeting takes no action

At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, Nikki Haley, the US ambassador, held up photographs of children foaming at the mouth as evidence of the attack.

"If Russia has the influence in Syria that it claims to have, we need to see them use it," said Haley, who is the council president. "We need to see them put an end to these horrific acts. How many more children have to die before Russia cares?"

Haley hinted that the United States was open to using military action in response. "When the UN consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action," she said.

Russia, Syria's most powerful ally, made clear it would not support a resolution put forward by the United States, the UK and France condemning the use of chemical weapons within Syria and requiring the regime to provide flight logs from the day of the attack.

Russia has used its veto power as a permanent member of the Security Council at least seven times on Syrian resolutions.

On Wednesday afternoon, Security Council members left closed consultations without taking a vote on the draft resolution. No member spoke as they left the chambers.

Syria's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Mounzer Mounzer, flatly denied accusations his government is responsible, blaming "terrorist groups" for the dozens of deaths.

"Syria also reaffirms that the Syrian Arab Army does not have any form or type of chemical weapons," he said. "We have never used them, and we will never use them."

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It worked!

Just before 6:30 pm ET, SpaceX -- run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk -- launched a used rocket. It marked the first time in the history of spaceflight that the same rocket has been used on two separate missions to orbit.

After successfully launching a satellite toward geosynchronous orbit -- 22,000 miles into space -- the rocket then returned to Earth and landed on a remotely piloted platform, known as a droneship, in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the company's sixth successful landing on a seaborne platform.

The SpaceX video showed the empty droneship, named Of Course I Still Love You, awaiting the return of the rocket, set against a deep blue ocean background. The video feed cut out momentarily and then came back on to show the rocket standing upright on the platform. The landing took place about eight minutes after launch.

Falcon 9 first stage has landed on Of Course I Still Love You - world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
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"It shows you can fly and refly an orbit-class booster, which is the most expensive part of the rocket," Musk said on a SpaceX webcast. "This is ultimately a huge revolution in spaceflight."

And shortly after the landmark success, Musk took to Twitter to announce his next goal for SpaceX: To launch a rocket twice in 24 hours.

Incredibly proud of the SpaceX team for achieving this milestone in space! Next goal is reflight within 24 hours.
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2017

The launch was a huge step for SpaceX. Reusing rockets is essential for companies like SpaceX that want to drive down the cost of space travel.

Related: SpaceX to fly two space tourists around the moon in 2018

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket costs about $62 million. Using it more than once can drastically bring down the price of a single launch.

The company confirmed to CNNMoney in August that its client for this trip received a discount on the Falcon 9 sticker price, but it declined to say by how much.

COO Gwynne Shotwell said in an interview that aired on SpaceX's webcast of the flight that reusable rockets are also a huge leap forward for SpaceX's plans to travel to Mars.

"Given the goals of SpaceX are to provide space transportation to other planets, we want to make sure whoever we take can come back," she said.

Obviously, she said, that requires developing rockets that can launch more than once.

SpaceX has been working toward its goal of using recycled rockets for more than a year. It's made 14 attempts to recover the first stage of its Falcon 9 rockets, and so far nine have been successful.

The rocket that SpaceX used during Thursday's mission was previously used in an April 2016 mission to the International Space Station. After launch, it was guided to a landing on the same droneship.

Related: SpaceX successfully tests Raptor engine it plans to send to Mars

That same droneship, named Of Course I Still Love You, also recaptured the first-stage rocket on Thursday.

But recapturing the rocket was a secondary concern for SpaceX. The primary goal was to deliver a communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit for the company that commissioned this launch, SES.

The satellite -- called SES-10 -- is intended to provide improved TV, radio, telephone and internet coverage for South America. SES says SES-10 will also have "the ability to support off-shore oil and gas exploration."

SpaceX announced about 32 minutes after takeoff that the satellite had been successfully deployed.

CNNMoney (New York) First published March 30, 2017: 2:17 PM ET

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Woman serving life in collar bomb robbery dies in prison

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Possible tornado causes damage in Goodman, Missouri

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A school and a fire station were damaged Tuesday in Goodman, Missouri, by a possible tornado.

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Six people died and another two were missing after an explosion on Tuesday evening destroyed a fireworks factory near the Portuguese town of Lamego.

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Six people died and another two were missing after an explosion on Tuesday evening destroyed a fireworks factory near the Portuguese town of Lamego.

The victims all worked at the plant 100km (62 miles) east of Porto.

The factory's owner was among the dead and several members of his family were either dead or missing, said local mayor Francisco Lopes.

Some of the victims were found outside the factory, apparently propelled from the building by the force of the blast.

An initial explosion happened shortly after 17:30 (16:30 GMT) on Tuesday, followed by two more blasts, reports said.

Five bodies were found late on Tuesday and emergency workers found a sixth victim some 200m (650ft) from the site, minister Jorge Gomes told Portuguese media. The search was being extended to a radius of 800m, he added, because of the scale of the explosion.

The factory was described as a family business.

As investigators tried to identify the victims, the mayor said that almost all of the eight caught up in the blast were members of Egas Sequeira's family. Mr Sequeira was among those feared dead along with one of his daughters and a son-in-law, Portuguese media said.

The owner's wife had left the building just before the explosion and survived but two other family members were among the missing.

Officials were initially unable to enter the site because of the potential risk to their safety. Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was due to visit the scene on Wednesday.

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Six people died and another two were missing after an explosion on Tuesday evening destroyed a fireworks factory near the Portuguese town of Lamego. The victims all worked at the plant 100km (62 miles) east of Porto. The factory's owner was among the dead and several members of his family were either dead or missing, said local mayor Francisco Lopes.

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Mr. Kohl- Amazon announced that the company struck a $50 million deal with the NFL to livestream football games this year. This comes as people continue to cut that TV cord in favor of options like Netflix and Hulu.  Amazon Prime members can get in on the game action too.

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Mr. Kohl- Amazon announced that the company struck a $50 million deal with the NFL to livestream football games this year. This comes as people continue to cut that TV cord in favor of options like Netflix and Hulu.  Amazon Prime members can get in on the game action too.

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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is ready for some football.

The National Football League has reached a deal to stream 10 Thursday night games with Amazon.com Inc., the online retailer that is aggressively trying to position itself as a premier source of entertainment content.

The one-year agreement is valued at around $50 million, according to people familiar with the matter. That is price tag represents a fivefold increase over the NFL's agreement with Twitter Inc. for the same number of games last season.

While Twitter streamed the games on its free social network site, Amazon's games will be available only to its Amazon Prime members, who pay $99 a year for free, two-day shipping and access to music, movies and TV shows. Amazon has more than 60 million Prime members world-wide, according to analyst estimates.

The games will continue to be available on television as well. The Thursday night package is split between CBS and NBC. The NFL Network also carries Thursday night football.

Other bidders for the Thursday night streaming package included Google, Twitter and Facebook, according to a person familiar with the matter. A Twitter representative didn't return a request for comment, while spokesmen for Google and Facebook declined to comment.

For Amazon, the push into sports distinguishes its programming ambitions from Netflix Inc. and Hulu, the online streaming service co-owned by Walt Disney Co., 21st Century Fox, Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Inc. Both Netflix and Hulu have steered clear of sports and other live content.

"We're focused on bringing our customers what they want to watch, Prime members want the NFL," said Amazon Senior Vice President Jeff Blackburn. The large audience that the NFL attracts will also give Amazon a promotional platform for its other content, he added.

Amazon has also sought live game rights from various other right holders, from the NBA to soccer and surfing leagues. With some, it has even raised the idea of creating a premium sports package that would be offered as an add-on for Prime members, The Wall Street Journal reported in November.

Amazon's interest hasn't been limited to the U.S.: In India, it threw its hat in the ring last year to bid on rights for the popular Indian Premier League cricket games.

Amazon executives believe the e-commerce giant can uniquely target fans with sports gear, a way that the company could potentially justify forking over high fees for big-ticket sports. Mr. Blackburn declined to talk specifically about how Amazon might use the NFL to sell merchandise.

For the NFL, the Amazon deal continues its eagerness to experiment with new distribution platforms as viewing patterns continue to shift away from traditional media. Brian Rolapp, the NFL's executive vice president of media said Amazon's "deep and rich streaming experience really caught our eye."

The NFL already had a relationship with Amazon through the program "All or Nothing" a documentary series that follows one team through an entire season. Mr. Blackburn said it was one of Amazon's most popular shows.

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NFL and Amazon Reach One-Year Streaming Deal for About $50M

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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is ready for some football. The National Football League has reached a deal to stream 10 Thursday night games with Amazon.com Inc., the online retailer that is aggressively trying to position itself as a premier source of entertainment content. The one-year agreement is valued at around $50 million, according to people familiar with the matter.