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Why ISIS offered to kill this 4-year-old girl

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Her face is etched with small wounds, gauze wrapped around her throat and leg over burns that have yet to heal. She can't open her eyes; there is shrapnel in one of them, the other painfully closed. Doctors don't know if she will be able to see properly again.

Her grandmother is lost for words. Tears start to fall.

"I am thinking it's better to be dead. I am thinking to die, rather than a life like this. (Hawra') was like a little flower. She would play and run. Now, she how has no mother, no eyes," Aliya says.

Hawra's mother was killed, we are told, in an airstrike on March 17. There were multiple US coalition-led strikes that day in their west Mosul neighborhood, where allegations of civilian casualties have since emerged.

The series of airstrikes are now under investigation by both the US and Iraqi governments. But a US defense official has said that, so far, there has been no indication of a breakdown in US military procedures governing airstrikes.

So far, 141 bodies have been recovered at the site of the airstrike on March 17, Col. Mohammad Shumari, head of Iraqi civil forces, told CNN on Thursday. He added: "There are still bodies under the rubble."

In reality, the number is probably much higher.

"It was a mass killing," Aliya says through her tears.

Ala'a Al-Tai, Hawra's father, describes that day and the street their home was on. He says there was a row of houses that led to an intersection where ISIS fighters had gathered. The houses are interconnected by rat lines -- holes carved out of the walls that are 40 centimeters wide and 100 centimeters high (about 15 inches wide by 39 inches high) -- and allow ISIS fighters to move undetected.

"ISIS did that?" I ask.

"No, they (ISIS) made us do it," Ala'a responds.

The tunnels offered the families a shelter. Around 30 people, including women and children, sought refuge in a single home at one end of the street.

Before the fighting broke out, little Hawra' along with her mother and two relatives used the rat lines to move through three buildings and return to their house to bake bread, wash and grab more clothes.

About a dozen ISIS fighters were at the intersection that day, Ala'a believes. Soon the shooting intensified and then the strikes started.

"There was dust everywhere," Ala'a tells us. "My mother started to scream ... Rocks and debris were falling down on the house we were in. She said go see what happened."

Three homes on the block were leveled including the one with his family still inside.

All he could hear was his daughter's feeble cry.

"I could just hear her voice," he recalls. "There was a block that had fallen on her. There was also a metal frame -- that's what lodged the shrapnel in her face and her eyes. I screamed for her mother, my aunt and uncle but no response."

Pulling her from the rubble, she was barely recognizable; she was black and looked charred.

They begged the ISIS fighters to allow them to leave. Instead, an Iraqi ISIS member offered to kill his little girl, Hawra'.

"He (an Iraqi ISIS member) said 'I could just shoot her,'" Ala'a remembers. "He said 'why do you want to save her, she's going to die anyways.'"

They even pleaded to go further into ISIS territory in pursuit of medical assistance, but Ala'a says an Egyptian ISIS member, who he thinks was the head of that unit, told them they couldn't leave because ISIS were using the remaining civilians as human shields.

Ala'a tried to clean Hawra' up; she was moaning as he tried to give her some water.

He adds: "I saw my wife the next day, I saw her leg and her intestines so I covered her in a blanket and left."

It took three days for the Iraqi security forces to liberate the neighborhood. Three days to get his little girl medical help.

Others helped by burying the bodies of his wife, aunt and uncle.

That was not the deadliest of the strikes that day. Around the corner, a multi-story building was also brought down, where more than 100 people are believed to have sheltered.

And these are hardly the only allegations of civilian casualties.

Every day in Mosul, a civilian population held hostage by ISIS is caught between their captors and their liberators. Airstrikes, bombs, bullets and explosions leading to deaths don't make headlines.

Ala'a whispers when he mentions his wife's death in the presence of Hawra' but she hears us talking about her eyes.

"Look, I can open them," she murmurs, using her tiny fingers to lift her eyelids ever so slightly.

Then she asks for her mother again.

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A man in Houston found himself duct-taped to a yield sign after losing a bet.

KHOU-TV reports police were called to the scene after several motorists drove by the strange sight on Wednesday.

When a guy with a knife tried to approach the duct-taped man, an officer shouted 'Drop the knife or I'll tase you!"

He explained to the officer that he was actually trying to cut his friend down, Miguel Chavez, who had lost a bet.
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Chavez told FOX 4 he bet with his friend on a Warriors/ Rockets game. When he lost, his friend gave him two choices: get taped to a pole or a car. Chavez decided to flip a coin to decide his fate.

"Heads was for the pole. Tails was for the car," Chavez explained. "It landed on heads, and everything went from there."

The officers eventually helped get Chavez down and gave him a ride home.
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A man in Houston found himself duct-taped to a yield sign after losing a bet. KHOU-TV reports police were called to the scene after several motorists drove by the strange sight on Wednesday. When a guy with a knife tried to approach the duct-taped man, an officer shouted 'Drop the knife or I'll tase you!"

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Just before 6:30 pm ET, SpaceX 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.

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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.
- SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 30, 2017

"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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In a new study,if you play Tetris within hours of experiencing trauma can reduce the risk of PTSD.

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But a new study has shown that playing the computer game Tetris within hours of experiencing trauma can prevent those feelings from taking over your mind.

PTSD occurs when intrusive memories linked to fear from a traumatic event become consolidated in a person's mind by them visualizing the event in aloop until it becomes locked in their brain.

Competing with the visualization, such as with a game like Tetris, can block that consolidation form happening.

"An intrusive memory is a visual memory of a traumatic event," said Emily Holmes, Professor of Psychology at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, whose team led the study. "Tetris also requires imagination and vision. Your brain can't do two things at once, so this interrupts."

Tetris is a simple, visual and addictive computer game in which the goal is to line up falling shapes to form rows that then disappear when aligned. As rows disappear, more shapes fall and the longer the game lasts, the higher the score.

Holmes hopes that use of these simple and early strategies with patients could help prevent the onset of PTSD. The current standard treatment doesn't begin until after people develop the condition.

PTSD is estimated to effect 3.5% of adults in the US, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. The percentage is similar globally, at 4.6%, according to the World Health Organization.

Effective soon after an accident

Researchers tested the game on 71 patients in a UK emergency room who were seeking care after a motor accident. Half of them received standard care for their injuries, while the other half received a psychological intervention within six hours of their accident in which they were asked to recall their trauma, practice playing Tetris and then given the game to play on their own.

The patients were then monitored for one week, during which time they tracked how often they had memories, or flashbacks, relating to their accident. The people who has played Tetris reported 62% less memories on average over the week.

"After two days they had gone down to pretty much zero," Holmes told CNN.

Researchers have long believed that intervening early -- within hours or days of the event -- could stop the fearful memories from developing in the brain. This is the first study using something as simple as a computer game.

Holmes has been researching the use of Tetris in this way for more than a decade in the lab and this proof-of-concept study is the first time she has experimented with patients.

The research remains in it's early stages, she stresses. What we need to do is a larger study," said Holmes who also hopes to monitor the effectiveness of her approach over a longer period of time, up to six months.

The need for more insight using a larger cohort of people was raised by consultant Mark Salter from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, as well as the need to test options other than Tetris. "The study is small ... and not everyone plays Tetris or is computer literate," he told CNN. He added that there is also the challenge of "getting someone to participate when they've just seen something terrifying."

But he was intrigued by the findings and the ability of this prevention measure to be given soon after someone experiences a trauma. "What's exciting about this is that it happens quickly," he said. "It allows an immediacy to the intervention."

Salter said the approach needs to include other options that are more universally acceptable since "it's n ot just Tetris that does this."

Holmes said that anything visual and engaging could have a similar effect. But, he added, other engrossing activities using other parts of the brain, such as number or word activities, may not work, or make things worse.

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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.
- SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 30, 2017

"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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Contractors are already submitting bids for the first step of President Donald Trump's signature promise -- a border wall with Mexico.

This first round of bids is only to design and build wall prototypes in the San Diego border area. The deadline to get them to the Department of Homeland Security is April 4.

While construction of the prototypes could start within weeks, it will be months, if not years, before construction of the actual wall begins.

The prototypes will be smaller than the eventual wall will be -- only 10 feet tall and 10 feet long, enough to demonstrate what a full-size version would look like.

The department will decide how many prototypes to build once it sees the various submissions, said Jenny Burke, a spokeswoman for Homeland Security.

Related: Hispanic builder bidding to build Mexico wall - "Work is work"

There are some basic parameters for the wall -- while it should be 30 feet high, the department says it will accept bids for an 18-foot structure. It must run at least six feet underground to make tunneling more difficult. It must also be able to endure at least 30 minutes of attempts to bore through it with a "sledgehammer, car jack, pick axe, chisel, battery operated impact tools, battery operated cutting tools, Oxy/acetylene torch or other similar hand-held tools."

But beyond that, the bidders have a fair amount of latitude in how they design it. In fact DHS is actually not even committed to a wall. It also accepting bids for a border fence. The difference: A wall is completely solid, while a fence is a barrier that you can see through.

Trump himself has continually corrected people who referred to his plans as a fence.

"It's not a fence. It's a wall," Trump said at a January press conference before he took office. "We're going to build a wall."

Related: Trump wants a wall. Border experts want a fence.

But sources have told CNN that career officials at the agencies most involved in the process are likely to recommend a fence rather than a wall. They believe it is important that border patrol agents be able to see through whatever structure is built.

Despite the president's strong views about the wall, Homeland Security seems to be open to ideas about what other kinds of structures could protect the border. In addition to prototype bids, DHS has opened up a separate process to collect more general suggestions from outsiders, including contractors, think tanks, universities and even members of the public.

"DHS recognizes that industry, other agencies, and other private entities may have interesting and useful ideas about how we could proceed," said a request for proposals, which are due March 31. "We would like to invite submissions of any such ideas so we can consider them as we develop a complete and comprehensive long-term strategy."

CNNMoney (New York) First published March 30, 2017: 12:35 PM ET

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This first round of bids is only to design and build wall prototypes in the San Diego border area. The deadline to get them to the Department of Homeland Security is April 4. While construction of the prototypes could start within weeks, it will be months, if not years, before construction of the actual wall begins.