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Yust admitted to strangling, hiding bodies of Kara Kopetsky and Jessica Runions per investigators.

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CASS COUNTY, Mo. -- The man long-believed to be a killer is now suspected of murder. On Thursday Cass County prosecutors formally charged Kylr Yust with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of abandoning a corpse related to the disappearances and killings of Kara Kopetsky in 2007 and Jessica Runions in 2016.

Runions disappeared after she left a party with him in September 2016. Kopetsky vanished more than 10 years ago after she was last seen walking out of Belton High School.

A decade separated the disappearances, but their remains were found near each other, just a few days apart in April 2017 when a mushroom hunter stumbled upon bones in rural Cass County. Yust has been in jail and charged with burning Runions' car in Jackson County, where he is still in custody.

Court papers show that the prosecutor's case started back on April 28th of 2007 -- days before Kopetsky disappeared. She told police that Yust kidnapped her after they broke up.

A judge granted her request for a restraining order on April 30th, four days before it's believed that she was killed. Kopetsky was just 17 years old when she disappeared, and was last seen leaving Belton High School in May of 2007.

Court records show that over the years investigators tried to crack Yust multiple times.

Between April of 2010 and June of 2012, multiple people who knew him called police saying Yust admitted to choking Kopetsky to death.

(Editor's note: see bottom of page for a summary of Yust's admissions to the killings)

Yust was sentenced to federal prison for drug distribution in November of 2013, and put on supervised release on September 2, 2016. That court order reads:
"You shall serve one weekend confined at a facility designated by the Bureau of Prisons. You shall report to the designated facility, as instructed by the probation officer, on Friday at 7:00 p.m. and will be released the following Sunday at 7:00 p.m. You are to pay subsistence as directed."
On September 9, 2016, Runions was reported missing a day after leaving a party with Yust where he was behaving possessive of Runions and acting aggressively towards others according to witnesses. They said Yust was drinking heavily at the party and arguing with Runions.

Police found her burned-out car on September 10. A man who was with Yust that same day told police that he drove Yust to his home in Edwards, Mo., and he was recovering from burns he received setting Runions' SUV on fire. The SUV was found in the area of 95th Street and Blue River Road. That man told police that Yust said he strangled Runions and "she was gone." Yust added that he had dragged her body into the woods.

After he left Yust, that man contacted police and told them everything Yust had said and where he was. Yust was arrested on September 11, investigators noted he had burns to his face, hands and arms, in addition to scratches on his face.

Months later on April 4th, a mushroom hunter contacted police to report that he found the remains of two people in heavy woods near Y Highway and 233rd Street. Investigators used DNA and dental records to identify the remains of Runions and Kopetsky.

Yust is awaiting trial on October 23 in Jackson County for a charge of knowingly burning or exploding related to the torching of Runions' SUV. As court proceedings take place for the murder charges, Yust will be held on a $1 million bond.

Summary of the admissions that Yust made to others about the killings:

* 4/26/10: A bandmate who was also a roommate of Yust's in 2007 told Belton investigators that Yust said something bad had happened to Kara and he snapped. Yust said he was angry with Kopetsky because she wouldn't love him, and he didn't want her to love someone else.

* 1/22/11: Someone contacted Belton police and said that Yust told her he choked Kara to death, picked up her body and hid it in the woods.

* 2/4/11: The same person reconnects with police and tells a more complete story. She said that Yust described choking Kara, watching her take her last breath. He said he stared at her body before moving it to the woods.

* 8/19/11: A previous girlfriend of Yust tells Kansas City investigators that he choked her and told her that he had killed his girlfriends before and would not hesitate to kill her too.

* 6/5/12: Someone told police that in early 2012 Yust told them that he had choked Kara out, looked at her body before taking her to the woods. Yust further described they were having relationship problems and had a physical struggle before he killed her.

* 9/2015: An investigator confronts Yust at a correctional facility in Oklahoma about lying regarding Kopetsky's disappearance. Yust refuses to talk. He had been serving a federal sentence for distributing a controlled substance, he was sentenced to 45 months in November of 2013, and put on supervised release on September 2, 2016.

* 3/28/16: Cell inmate of Yust in Oklahoma says that Yust asked him for an alibi after the police interview in September of 2015. The inmate said Yust admitted that he had killed Kopetsky by choking her and then disposed of her body.

* 9/10/2016: Man contacts Belton police and said he was with Yust admitted that he strangled and killed Runions. Yust also told that witness he had dragged her body into and undisclosed wooded area, but couldn't drag her very far.

* 10/5/2016: Belton police interview a former roommate, who said about 3-and-a-half years earlier Yust told him that he killed Kopetsky and no one would ever find the body unless he told them where it was.

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CASS COUNTY, Mo. -- The man long-believed to be a killer is now suspected of murder. On Thursday Cass County prosecutors formally charged Kylr Yust with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of abandoning a corpse related to the disappearances and killings of Kara Kopetsky in 2007 and Jessica Runions in 2016.

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3 U.S. army commandos were killed after a terrorist ambush in Nigeria.

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Three U.S. Army special operations commandos and one "partner nation" member were killed in an attack in Niger's southwest while the U.S. was providing assistance to security force counter-terror operations, U.S. Africa Command said Thursday.

U.S. officials did not specify the nationality of the fourth soldier killed but said that two other U.S. service members were wounded in Wednesday's attack about 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Niger's capital, Niamey, near its border with Mali.

Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou said several Niger soldiers died in the attack which he said was carried out by Mali-based Islamic extremists near Niger's village of Tongo-Tongo in the Tillaberi region.

"Our country is once again the target of a terrorist attack, with a large number of victims," he said, though he didn't specify the number of victims.

Islamic extremist groups, including al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, operate in the region and sporadically launch cross-border raids. Despite the intervention of French troops in 2013 that pushed the extremists from their strongholds in northern Mali, they continue attacks.

Boko Haram, based south in Nigeria, has also staged several attacks in Niger.

U.S. Africa Command said the forces were with a joint U.S. and Nigerien patrol near the Mali border, when they came under hostile fire Wednesday. The U.S. forces are in Niger to provide training and security assistance to the Nigerien Armed Forces in their efforts against violent extremists, said the statement.

The two wounded U.S. service members were evacuated in stable condition to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, U.S. Africa Command said in its statement.

The commandos, who were Green Berets, were likely attacked by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb militants, said U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the incident publicly.

The White House said President Donald Trump was notified about the attack Wednesday night as he flew aboard Air Force One from Las Vegas to Washington.

Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad are putting together a 5,000-strong G5 Sahel force to fight the growing threat from extremists in the vast Sahel region. The first units are expected to deploy in October and all battalions should be on the ground by March 2018.

The Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution in June welcoming the deployment, but at U.S. insistence it did not include any possibility of U.N. financing for the force.

The countries have been pressing the international community to help funding and in equipping troops and ensuring their mobility and help with logistics, communications and protection in the field.

That force will operate in the region along with a 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, which has become the deadliest in the world for U.N. peacekeepers, and France's 5,000-strong Barkhane military operation, its largest overseas mission.

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Baldor contributed to this story from Washington, D.C. AP journalist Carley Petesch in Dakar, Senegal contributed to this report.

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For months, White House chief of staff John Kelly has been compromised by digital attackers, according to a new report from Politico. The breach was discovered after Kelly reported functional glitches to White House tech support over the summer. It's still unclear when the initial infection...

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The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department released bodycam footage from the night of the mass shooting that left at least 58 people

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The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department released bodycam footage from the night of the mass shooting that left at least 58 people dead and hundreds injured.

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The Iran nuclear deal  is not in National best interest

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President Trump plans to announce next week that he will "decertify" the international nuclear deal with Iran, saying it is not in the national interest of the United States and kicking the issue to a reluctant Congress, people briefed on an emerging White House strategy for Iran said Thursday.

The move would mark the first step in a process that could eventually result in the resumption of U.S. sanctions against Iran, which would blow up a deal limiting Iran's nuclear activities that the country reached in 2015 with the U.S. and five other nations.

Trump is expected to deliver a speech, tentatively scheduled for Oct. 12, laying out a larger strategy for confronting the nation it blames for terrorism and instability throughout the Middle East.

Under what is described as a tougher and more comprehensive approach, Trump would open the door to modifying the landmark 2015 agreement he has repeatedly bashed as a raw deal for the United States. But for now he would hold off on recommending that Congress reimpose sanctions on Iran that would abrogate the agreement, said four people familiar with aspects of the president's thinking.

All cautioned that plans are not fully set and could change. The White House would not confirm plans for a speech or its contents. Trump faces an Oct. 15 deadline to report to Congress on whether Iran is complying with the agreement and whether he judges the deal to be in the U.S. national interest.

"The administration looks forward to sharing details of our Iran strategy at the appropriate time," said Michael A. Anton, spokesman for the White House national security council.

Other people familiar with the nine-month review of U.S. military, diplomatic, economic and intelligence approaches toward Iran spoke on condition of anonymity because aspects of the policy are not yet set and Trump has not announced his decision.

Trump's senior national security advisers agreed within the past several weeks to recommend that Trump "decertify" the agreement at the Oct. 15 deadline, two of those people said.

That would start a 60-day congressional review period to consider the next steps for the United States. On its own, the step would not break the agreement among Iran, the United States and other world powers, but would start a clock on resuming sanctions that the United States had lifted as its part of the deal.

The administration has begun discussing possible legislation to "strengthen" the agreement, congressional aides and others said. That is the "fix it or nix it" approach suggested by both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a leading Republican hawk on Iran.

It is an uncertain prospect, and many supporters of the deal consider it a dodge.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said last month that he will not reopen the deal for negotiation.

Separately, representatives of Iran, China and Russia told Secretary of State Rex Tillerson the same thing during a meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly session, two senior diplomats familiar with that meeting said.

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19 killed in Russia after a train collided with a bus

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Uzbekistan's Foreign Ministry says that 19 citizens of the ex-Soviet nation were killed when a train slammed into a bus carrying them near Moscow.

Russia's state Investigative Committee said that another five passengers of the bus were injured in Friday's collision, which occurred in the town of Pokrov, about 85 kilometers (53 miles) east of Moscow.

The Uzbek Foreign Ministry said that 56 people on the bus were Uzbek citizens and two others, drivers, from Kazakhstan. The local administration said that the bus was carrying migrant workers from Uzbekistan heading to their native country.

According to preliminary information, the bus got stuck in a railway crossing because of a technical malfunction. The train's driver hit the brakes, but was unable to prevent the collision.

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Netflix is raising its prices. For the regular service (1 device) the price will remain the same. However the other two will be taking leaps. The price increase has already taken place for new members who are now purchasing the streaming service. October 19th is when current customers will be notified of these changes.
For the standard service (2 devices) the prices is increasing an extra dollar a month. The premium service (4 devices) is increasing an extra two dollars a month.

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Netflix is squeezing a bit more out of its customers.

The company is raising the prices on its standard and premium streaming subscription services.

The standard service, which allows customers to stream shows and movies in HD on up to two screens at once, is now priced at $10.99 monthly, up from $9.99. The premium service, which provides viewing on up to four screens (plus ultra HD content access), is $13.99, up from $11.99.

The basic service, which enables Netflix streaming on one screen and doesn't allow for HD or ultra HD viewing, will remain at $7.99.

Related: Why we started companies here

But the price change, first reported by Mashable, won't impact existing members yet.

According to a Netflix spokesperson, users will be notified of the new prices based on their billing cycle and will get 30 days notice before the changes takes effect. Netflix will begin notifying members of the change on October 19.

The price increase for new customers in the U.S. became effective on Thursday.

Related: Netflix wants to make it easier to binge-watch on planes

"From time to time, Netflix plans and pricing are adjusted as we add more exclusive TV shows and movies, introduce new product features and improve the overall Netflix experience to help members find something great to watch even faster," the company said in a statement.

The increases come as the company pours more money into developing original programming. The company has committed $15.7 billion to streaming content deals -- with $6 billion earmarked for 2017 alone.

Last year, Netflix raised its standard HD plan to $9.99 per month, up from $8.99.

Netflix has treaded lightly with price increases since 2011, when it suddenly hiked prices 60% for streaming and DVD-by-mail subscribers.

CNNMoney (New York) First published October 5, 2017: 11:58 AM ET

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Southwest said she was removed from the plane over dog allergies. She has a very different story.

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A viral video that ricocheted worldwide last month may not be what it seemed, according to the woman shown being dragged off a Southwest Airlines flight in Baltimore.

Southwest Airlines says the woman had complained about two dogs aboard the Los Angeles-bound aircraft on Sept. 26, stating that she had a life-threatening pet allergy. But the woman could not provide a medical certificate, without which the airline can deny a passenger boarding, it said.

What ensued was a scene that has become all too familiar in air travel.

The passenger refused requests to deplane, and law enforcement officers were called in to remove her from the flight.
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The video shows the officers pulling her out of her seat. She screams at them, telling them, "Don't touch me." She is dragged down the aisle. She was later arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, failure to obey a reasonable and lawful order, disturbing the peace, obstructing and hindering a police officer, and resisting arrest.

That is one version of the events aboard the Southwest flight.

The woman, Anila Daulatzai, 46, has a very different account.

Daulatzai said she was traveling to see her elderly father, who was undergoing surgery. She told "Good Morning America " on Thursday that when she boarded the plane, "the first thing I asked the flight attendant was, 'How many dogs are going to be on this plane?'"

But, she said, she never told airline personnel that her allergy was a life-threatening condition.

"I said, 'It's not life-threatening at all,'" she said.

Still, Daulatzai said, crew members continued to press her about her allergy and were uncomfortable with her on the plane.

"They just didn't trust me," she told the ABC News show, breaking her silence a week after video of the incident went viral. "I was a brown woman with a hoodie."

Daulatzai added that she's two months pregnant.

WATCH: @ABC News Exclusive: Woman dragged off flight speaks out; pregnant passenger claims she was targeted: https://t.co/cWJShLm5CW pic.twitter.com/3SxDcHShXi

- Good Morning America (@GMA) October 5, 2017

Daulatzai, a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, alleges that she never asked for the dogs to be removed from the plane, never claimed to have life-threatening allergies and was never asked for medical certification.

She was forced off the plane, she alleges, because of who she is: a woman of color and of the Islamic faith.

In a statement released Wednesday, Daulatzai's attorneys charged that she was "profiled, abused, interrogated, detained, and subjected to false reporting and the trauma of racist, vitriolic public shaming precisely because she is a woman, a person of color, and a Muslim."

"She survived sexism, racial profiling, and police brutality that fateful day," reads the statement from Hall & Sethi, a law firm based in Reston, Va., that specializes in cases of personal injury. "Her mistreatment was particularly distressing because she is presently pregnant with her first child."

Daulatzai had discussed her non-life-threatening dog allergies with Southwest crew members soon after boarding the aircraft, her attorneys say. But shortly after she had taken a seat at a safe distance from the dogs toward the back of the plane, a Southwest representative approached her, asking her to leave the plane. Despite assuring flight crew that she would be completely fine on the plane, her attorneys allege, Daulatzai was "pulled from her seat by her belt loop" and "dragged . . . through the aisle exposed with torn pants."

Daulatzai's attorneys say the charges filed against her "have no merit."

Bill Dumas, the passenger who recorded the incident and uploaded it to YouTube, told NBC News that although the police were being "overly aggressive," Daulatzai was combative and "wasn't giving [the officers] much of a choice."

In a statement to The Washington Post, the Maryland Transportation Authority Police said that "despite her clear attempt to resist a law enforcement officer, Ms. Daulatzai was professionally removed from the aircraft within the guidelines of the MDTA Police. This remains an open case that will be handled in the appropriate venue, not through various media channels."

Since the incident, Daulatzai has received hate mail and violent threats and has had to leave her home out of fear for her safety, her attorneys said. They did not respond to emailed questions about next steps in the proceedings.

Reached for comment on the attorneys' statement, Southwest repeated its response from last week that it is "disheartened by the way this situation unfolded and the customer's removal by local law enforcement officers."

The airline noted that it has "publicly apologized to this customer for her experience and made several attempts to contact her directly to address her concerns."

This latest episode is just another in the seemingly endless stream of airline-passenger meltdowns. Other nightmarish incidents in recent months include the man who was violently dragged off a United Airlines plane in April, leaving him battered and limp, and the infant-carrying easyJet passenger who was punched in the face by an airport employee in July.
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Can Elon Musk fix Puerto Rico's broken power grid?

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Elon Musk is offering to solve Puerto Rico's energy crisis -- for the long haul.

Millions of Puerto Ricans are living in the dark at home after Hurricane Maria pummeled the island, knocking out its already fragile electric grid. Two weeks later, only 9% of residents have electricity, according to Puerto Rican government figures.

Musk, the CEO of electric-car maker Tesla , suggested his company's solar power unit could be a long-term solution.

"The Tesla team has done this for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico," Musk tweeted Thursday morning, adding that the decision is up to Puerto Rican government officials.

Related: Puerto Rico's pension system is still in crisis

They didn't take long to respond.

"@elonMusk Let's talk. Do you want to show the world the power and scalability of your #TeslaTechnologies? PR could be that flagship project," Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló tweeted Thursday night.

A Tesla-powered system would be a complete reversal for Puerto Rico's energy grid. Right now, the island imports and burns oil to generate electricity.

Under that antiquated system, ordinary Puerto Ricans have been paying exorbitantly high electric bills for years. Several told CNNMoney this week that a monthly electric bill can easily go for $250.

Related: Elon Musk promises world's biggest lithium ion battery to Australia

Tesla has built solar energy grids for islands before, such as Kauai in Hawaii. However, that island's population is about 70,000 people. Puerto Rico has 3.4 million residents.

Musk has previously stepped into other energy crises around the world. In July, he promised to deliver the world's largest lithium ion battery to help communities in South Australia that have been suffered from power shortages.

Last November, Tesla acquired energy firm SolarCity for $2.6 billion.

CNNMoney (New York) First published October 5, 2017: 10:04 PM ET

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That is, unless President Donald Trump, citing national security, certifies that some unreleased or redacted files be kept from public view.

The documents are among the last of still-secret papers the government amassed on the assassination. Some grand jury and tax documents will remain secret.

The JFK Records Act passed in 1992, following the release of the Oliver Stone movie "JFK" and a surge in interest about the killing. The law mandated the government release the remaining files to the public and gave it 25 years to do so. October 26, 2017, will mark 25 years since then-President George H.W. Bush signed the measure into law and is the deadline for full release.

But concern has abounded from advocates of total disclosure that the Trump administration might block some of the release at the behest of the intelligence community.

The National Archives said government agencies had deemed files covered by the act prior to its passage too sensitive for release, and the Archives would not characterize them outside of noting many are likely only somewhat related to the investigation.

They run the gamut from FBI to CIA materials and all manner of documents said to pertain to investigations into Kennedy's death.

The Archives said the full collection -- much of which is already publicly available -- spans millions of documents.

Many files have been released about the Kennedy assassination over the years, including some in redacted form. Barring a waiver from the President, the obscured text will berevealed, and the Archives posted a tranche of files in July ahead of the October deadline.

CIA spokesperson Nicole de Haay said, "CIA continues to engage in the process to determine the appropriate next steps with respect to any previously-unreleased CIA information."

The FBI and the White House did not respond to requests for comment on the upcoming deadline.

'It's time to let the people know the truth'

Two Republican lawmakers said they intend to push the administration to release the full archives.

Rep. Walter Jones, R-North Carolina, and Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have unveiled legislation urging full compliance with the spirit of the 1992 law.

In an interview with CNN, Jones said his next step would be to reach out to political consultant Roger Stone -- an ally of the President and co-author of a boo k that claims President Lyndon Johnson was at the center of a conspiracy to kill JFK -- to lobby Trump personally on full release. Stone is an outspoken advocate for complete disclosure of the Kennedy files.

"I'm going to play that card," Jones said of reaching out to Stone.

Jones said reading a book by Larry Sabato, a leading researcher into the assassination, sparked his interest in the files and led him to take action. He said he will continue working with his colleagues to drum up public demand for the Kennedy papers. He said there was no justification for the government to withhold some files and called it plain "wrong" to keep information from the public.

"For God's sake, it's time to let the people know the truth," Jones said.

Jones said he was unsure if there would be any major revelation in the remaining files and described the process of studying the assassination as "like a puzzle" where different pieces of information could eventually build a complete story.

Grassley took to Twitter following the two Republicans' announcement on their efforts, saying it was an example of over-classification.

Widespread speculation

The full release of the documents would mark the end of a decades-long struggle for researchers to get a hold of all available information, but will certainly not quell the debate over Kennedy's death.

The US government, via the Warren Commission report, declared Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and without assistance to kill Kennedy before Jack Ruby murdered him while in custody.

The Warren Commission report did little to put alternate theories to rest.

For his part, Jones said he thought others besides Oswald were involved in the murder but that he could not speak to what degree without access to more information.

"My thinking is that there were other individuals and possibly agencies that were complicit," Jones said.

There has been widespread public speculation and in-depth research about the Kennedy assassination. A Gallup poll in 2013 showed 61% of respondents said more than one person was involved in the shooting and some pointed to the Mafia, the government, the CIA, Cuba and others as playing a role.

Trump himself touted an alternate theory to the Kennedy assassination on the campaign trail last year, when he alleged Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's father could have been a part of a plot to kill Kennedy. Trump's comments were widely criticized.

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The government releases its monthly reading on jobs and unemployment Friday morning, one of the most closely watched economic indicators.

Here's what you need to know about the September report, which is due out at 8:30 a.m. ET.

It's likely to be "bad." Economists expect the report will show employers added only 90,000 in the month. That's well below the average growth of 175,000 jobs a month so far this year. But don't worry too much about the slow down -- economists expect it to be short-lived.

Blame Harvey and Irma. The two hurricanes that hit Houston and Florida in the last six weeks will have a big impact on the numbers. There are 11 million people with jobs in the counties that were declared disaster areas due to the storm. But many businesses were closed, so the Labor Department likely had trouble contacting many of the employers that it normally surveys to come up with the jobs estimates.

Unemployment will stay low. Most economists are forecasting that unemployment will stay at 4.4%, although some expect it to edge up to 4.5% due to the hurricanes. Either way, that's close to what most economists consider to be full employment. It will also mark the 25th straight month that unemployment came in at or below 5%.

Trump likely to fall further behind Obama. Employers added 1.2 million jobs during Donald Trump's first seven months in office, compared to 1.4 million jobs added during President Obama's last seven months in office. That gap is likely to grow even wider due to the hurricane weakness in this jobs report.

CNNMoney (New York) First published October 6, 2017: 12:01 AM ET

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A sea of candles lit up the Police Memorial Park, a northwest Las Vegas park dedicated to fallen officers as the community remembered Hartfield. The 34-year-old was a police officer, an accomplished Nevada Army National Guard sergeant first class and a youth football coach.

"[Charlie] loved his country and his city. He is the most patriotic person I've ever met," an officer who worked with Hartfield said.

But he was most proud of being a husband and the father of two children.

"He loved his wife and children, so, so much," one of his colleagues recalled.

His wife, his sister and two children, a boy and a girl, sat in the front of the crowd as Hartfield's colleagues described his spirit, dedication to community policing and his expert knowledge.

"He led his life with honor, dignity and a great capacity for others," a detective who had worked with him for years said.

"He would always serve as a shining example to all of us about what is just and right, and how we live our lives," another of his colleagues said.

Hartfield wrote a memoir titled "Memoirs of a Public Servant," which documented the "thoughts, feelings, and interactions of one Police Officer in the busiest and brightest city in the world, Las Vegas."

"Charlie was a hero," an officer told the crowd.

Law enforcement and military officers from across the state came to pay their respects to Hartfield.

Sean Scott, a state parole and probation officer said that although he never met the slain officer, he needed to attend the vigil.

"It brought us together like never before. We've come together and showed that we are not going to be stopped by a tragedy," Scott said about the shooting.

"People think that the city is sin city, but there's so much light," a woman attending the vigil said. "There's darkness, but this has brought the city together like never before."

Hartfield -- "Charlie" or "Coach Chucky," as some called him -- was also a coach for the Henderson Cowboys youth football program, the group said on Facebook.

Stan King, the father of one of the players on the team, said he was "an absolute all-American kind of guy."

"He is one of the nicest guys I know and helped countless youth become winners through NYS football here in Henderson, Nevada," King said. "This kind of guy comes around once in a blue moon. He was a very special guy to the community."

CNN's Brian Todd and Liz Turrell contributed to this report.

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Fallen Las Vegas officer remembered as hero at vigil

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A sea of candles lit up the Police Memorial Park, a northwest Las Vegas park dedicated to fallen officers as the community remembered Hartfield. The 34-year-old was a police officer, an accomplished Nevada Army National Guard sergeant first class and a youth football coach. "[Charlie] loved his country and his city.

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Tropical storm Nate turns deadly as it heads toward Mexico and the US

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The hurricane has sustained winds of 75 mph and is located 495 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the southern Gulf of Mexico.

States from Louisiana to Florida were bracing Friday for Nate, forecast to pound the Gulf Coast this weekend.

A hurricane warning extends from New Orleans to Lake Pontchartrain and Grand Island, Louisiana, eastward to the Alabama-Florida border.

The storm is expected to make landfall by Sunday east of New Orleans, which was devastated 12 years ago by Hurricane Katrina. It would be the third hurricane, after Harvey and Irma, to hit the US mainland in six weeks.

A storm surge warning was put in place from Morgan City to the western part of the Florida Panhandle, as well as along the northern and western shores of Lake Pontchartrain.

"Residents in these areas should heed any evacuation instructions given by local officials," the hurricane center said.

Nate killed at least 24 people as it passed Thursday over Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras, where it caused widespread flash flooding and mudslides, officials said.

The storm was forecast to gain strength as it moved across the Gulf of Mexico Friday night into Saturday and become a hurricane by the time it reaches the northern Gulf Coast, the hurricane center said.

New Orleans gearing up

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordered a mandatory evacuation of the Venetian Isles, Lake Catherine and Irish Bayou areas of the city after having already declared a state of emergency Thursday.

"We remain focused on vulnerabilities in Venetian Isles, Lake Catherine and Irish Bayou because these areas are outside of the levee system, and because one of the greatest threats to this storm is not necessarily interior rain, but storm surge. It is a serious concern to us," Landrieu said Friday. "The projections are that we could see six to nine feet of surge."

He said residents must evacuate by 12 p.m. (1 p.m. ET) Saturday, when the nearby flood gates will be closed. The New Orleans Fire Department and Neighborhood Engagement Office will be conducting outreach through Saturday to coordinate the evacuation effort, he added.

With the majority of the storm's impact and storm surge expected to occur overnight, Landrieu also announced a mandatory curfew will take effect Saturday at 6 p.m. and end Sunday morning. In preparation for overnight flooding, he said the city's police department will put up barricades and close underpasses once the curfew is in effect.

"If we all stay informed, if we all stay alert, if we all stay prepared, ultimately, we will all be safe, which is our No. 1 priority," Landrieu said.

Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency for all of Louisiana. The storm will "make landfall in the close vicinity of New Orleans," the proclamation noted, adding that six parishes have declared emergencies and others would do so soon.

New Orleans, much of which lies below sea level, was gearing up for a hit, and Landrieu urged people who live "outside the city's levee protection system or in low-lying area" to seek higher ground.

Residents have been wary since the city's unique drainage system experienced critical deficiencies during heavy summer rainstorms, leading to the flooding of several hundred properties.

Of the city's 120 main drainage pumps, three major and nine smaller ones were offline Thursday night, city records show. Also, all 24 major pump stations had backup generators, records show, as only three of five turbines that help power the city's oldest, most powerful pumps were available for service, a city water utility spokeswoman told CNN.

"Residents who live inside the levee system should prepare to take shelter with essential supplies including food, water and medications," the mayor said Thursday.

Edwards authorized 1,300 National Guard troops to mobilize ahead of the storm, with some headed to New Orleans to help monitor the pumps, he said.

Storm to move through quickly

Nate would be the first hurricane to hit Louisiana since Hurricane Isaac in 2012 as a Category 1 storm.

"It will still be fairly strong when it makes landfall, but it will be a quicker moving storm than the last few we have had," CNN meteorologist Haley Brink said. "It's supposed to be in and out pretty quickly."

The storm could drop 3 to 6 inches of rain, with 10 inches possible in some areas, from the central Gulf Coast north through Tennessee and the southern Appalachians through the weekend, possibly spawning flash floods, the hurricane center said.

The last hurricane to hit the Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama region in October was Hurricane Lili in 2002. The last time three hurricanes hit the mainland in the same year was 2008, when Dolly, Gustav and Ike came through.

Gulf Coast states prepare

Hurricane, tropical storm and storm surge watches were issued late Friday from Florida's border with Alabama east as far as Indian Pass, the hurricane center said. The tropical storm watch was later expanded to include most of Central Alabama and several counties in northwest Georgia, according to local National Weather Service offices.

With parts of Florida still reeling from Hurricane Irma, Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency for 29 counties.

"Based on the latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center, (Tropical Storm Nate) will continue in the Gulf of Mexico and we expect it to become a hurricane and bring severe weather to the Florida panhandle this weekend," Scott said Friday. "To be clear, Florida is now in the cone."

He told residents to anticipate evacuation zones, warning that bridges will close once wind speeds get to 30-40 miles per hour and people won't be able to evacuate.

"In Florida, we know to prepare for the worst while hoping for the best, but we don't take any chances," Scott said, urging people to get their medications and have three days of food and water. "Please stock up on supplies today, the storm is ... fast-moving."

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said in a news conference the state was well-prepared for Nate.

Bryant said he had signed an emergency order for a state of emergency in six southern counties.

Mississippi Emergency Management Agency director Lee Smithson said residents should "ride out the storm in the safest place possible" and listen to any evacuation orders.

"We can see a storm surge of up to 10 feet, tornadoes, inland flooding and flooding of low-lying areas. This storm will impact the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast," he said.

Smithson said people needed to prepare for winds of 80 mph, "widespread power outages and be prepared to be on your own for 72 hours with no electricity, no running water, no stores open for food."

In Alabama, a statewide emergency declaration signed by Gov. Kay Ivey went into effect Friday morning. The move "frees up personnel and resources in case there is a need to respond to any storm related activity."

Mayor Sandy Stimpson of Mobile, Alabama, warned residents Friday about storm surge.

"We encourage citizens in low-lying areas to pay special attention to newscasts," he said at a news conference. "There is a projected 4- to 7-(foot) storm surge. It will happen to coincide with high tide, which will give you additional water levels."

Mobile officials were checking storm drains for debris, taking measures to avert power outages and deploying critical equipment. Shelters were prepared to open, if necessary, Stimpson said.

"Don't wait 'til Saturday after dark to decide what you have to do in case things with the storm change," he said.

Deadly storm slams Central America

Of the 24 dead in Nate's passage through Central America, 12 died in Nicaragua, 10 in Costa Rica and two in Honduras, officials said. Several people also were reported missing after the storm hit.

Hundreds were rescued from floodwaters, and many lost power and running water in Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica, officials said.

The main threat for Central America was heavy rainfall, which triggered life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides.

Costa Rica President Luis Guillermo Solis declared a national state of emergency to assist those affected by the storm.

Rain was expected through Friday night in parts of Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and Belize, forecasters said.
This story has been updated to reflect the latest death toll from authorities.

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The hurricane has sustained winds of 75 mph and is located 495 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the southern Gulf of Mexico. States from Louisiana to Florida were bracing Friday for Nate, forecast to pound the Gulf Coast this weekend.

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The astronauts in the International Space Station will have to make a series of three space walks in order to repair a robotic arm.

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As every homeowner on earth knows all too well, every now and then you have to make repairs.

And that's exactly what's going on in space during the next two weeks, 250 miles up above us.

There are three scheduled spacewalks that are all about International Space Station maintenance.

On Thursday, two American astronauts, Commander Randy Breznik and Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei, exited the air-lock, climbing out into microgravity as the Space Station passed above the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Good morning, Israel!!! Egypt!!" enthusiastically exclaimed Breznik as he held on while looking down at earth.

Thursday's task: Replacing one of two Latching End Effectors on the ISS's big robotic arm, the Canadarm2, a procedure similar to hand-transplant surgery.

One of the two grappling mechanisms stalled last month.

It's a minor glitch that the Johnson Space Center says has no effect on planned space station operations, like science experiments and the next cargo ship arrival in November.

As for that big robotic arm, it will be the focus of the next two spacewalks, on Tuesday of next week and Wednesday the week after.

Bresnik and Vande Hei will again be involved, but on the third spacewalk, American Flight Engineer Joe Acaba will get his chance to float around.

Those two space walks are dedicated to lubricate the Canadarm2 and also replacing cameras on the left side of the Station's truss.

In a speech Thursday in Virginia before the National Space Council, Vice President Mike Pence reiterated the administration's outer space intent: Putting humans back on the moon, establishing a permanent lunar base, from which we'll send astronauts, eventually, to Mars.

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First of three spacewalks will repair International Space Station's robotic arm

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Roma Downey, a hollywood actress, speaks up about how the world is better than what the media says and what people are doing. Trying to find the light in the world.

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North Texas man released after being accused of killing a 2 year old daughter in 2015 because his 7 year old son confessed he did it.

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A capital murder charge against a North Texas man in the 2015 death of his 2-year-old daughter has been dismissed after prosecutors learned her older brother admitted causing the death.

The father, Anthony Michael Sanders, 33, was accused of smothering Ellie Mae Sanders at their home in the Fort Worth suburb of Watauga. Investigators believed Sanders held his hand over the girl's mouth out of anger for her interrupting his computer games.

Jailed since April 2016, Sanders denied responsibility. He said he found his daughter not breathing after his son, then 5, reported that she was asleep and would not wake up.

But the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports prosecutors recently learned the boy, now 7, had told his mother that he had hit his sister with a pillow and the pillow was too heavy to remove from the girl's head.

Sanders' defense attorney said his client as "elated" the charges were dropped.

The Star-Telegram reported that the girl was found with some bruises and two bite marks, but Sanders' attorney said any further charges would be up to the district attorney.

"It's my understanding that it's over," he told the paper. "There will be no more charges coming out of it."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A capital murder charge against a North Texas man in the 2015 death of his 2-year-old daughter has been dismissed after prosecutors learned her older brother admitted causing the death. The father, Anthony Michael Sanders, 33, was accused of smothering Ellie Mae Sanders at their home in the Fort Worth suburb of Watauga.

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A train in Russia hits a bus stuck on the tracks. 19 are killed.

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Uzbekistan's Foreign Ministry says that 19 citizens of the ex-Soviet nation were killed when a train slammed into a bus carrying them near Moscow.

Russia's state Investigative Committee said that another five passengers of the bus were injured in Friday's collision, which occurred in the town of Pokrov, about 85 kilometers (53 miles) east of Moscow.

The Uzbek Foreign Ministry said that 56 people on the bus were Uzbek citizens and two others, drivers, from Kazakhstan. The local administration said that the bus was carrying migrant workers from Uzbekistan heading to their native country.

According to preliminary information, the bus got stuck in a railway crossing because of a technical malfunction. The train's driver hit the brakes, but was unable to prevent the collision.

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Trump hints at a war, not specifying what it is, by saying a dinner with his top military leaders is 'the calm before the storm'

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Trump: "You guys know what this represents? Maybe it's the calm before the storm."

Reporter: "What's the storm?"

Trump: "It could be ... the calm, the calm before the storm."

Reporter: "Iran? ISIS? What storm, Mr. President?"

Trump: "We have the world's great military people in this room, I will tell you that. And uh, we're gonna have a great evening, thank you all for coming."

Reporter: "What storm, Mr. President?"

Trump: "You'll find out."

What. The. Hell. Is. Happening.

To be clear: Trump didn't have to say anything. Reporters shout questions at these photo-ops all the time. Presidents ignore them all the time. So he did this on purpose. He wanted to say this -- so he did.

Now as for what he said. When you say "maybe it's the calm before the storm" when surrounded by the top military leaders in the country, it doesn't take much of a logical leap to conclude there is some sort of military operation in the offing.

That's especially true when you have two situations -- North Korea and Iran -- that appear to be coming to a head.

In regard to North Korea, Trump tweeted last weekend that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was "wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man" -- the latest verbal provocation between Trump and the North Korean dictator. That rhetorical back-and-forth comes amid Kim Jong Un's repeated testing of missiles and refusal to stop his nuclear program.

When it comes to Iran, Trump is expected next week to "decertify" the Iranian nuclear deal crafted by President Barack Obama. Trump has been a longtime critic of the deal, insisting that Iran had not kept up its end of the agreement. (The decertification process will allow Congress 60 days to adjust the pact.)

Which situation was Trump talking about with his "calm before the storm" remark? Both? Neither? We don't know, because Trump wouldn't say.

That, too, was on purpose.

Why? Because the bulk of Trump's experiences directly before running for president was as a reality TV star and producer. (In truth, Trump has been performing in a reality show of his own making for his entire life.) And, in that role, the goal is always to stoke drama, always do everything you can to keep people watching -- through the commercial, through the hour, through to next week's episode. Cliffhangers are the best way to do that -- stoking speculation, reversing expectations and, above all, ensuring people feel compelled to just keep watching.

"Dallas" fans in the 1980s spent months waiting to find out who shot J.R. "Game of Thrones" fans waited with bated breath to find out whether Jon Snow was alive or dead.

Stay tuned! Who knows what will happen next!

Or, in the words of Trump on Thursday night, "you'll find out."

The thing is: The stakes of a reality TV show are roughly zero. The stakes of diplomacy with rogue nations pursuing nuclear weapons are incredibly high.

What's not clear at the moment is whether Trump understands that difference. Whether he gets that by saying things such as "maybe this is the calm before the storm," he is flicking at the possibility of an armed conflict -- and the world is paying attention.

The "does he know what he's doing or is he just doing it?" conundrum sits at the heart of virtually every move Trump has made as a candidate and now as President. What's more dangerous with this latest loose talk, however, is that even if Trump is just saying things to hype up the drama rather than to warn of an actual impending military action, he (and we) have no way of knowing if Iran, North Korea or any other potential target understands that.

This is no reality show. And Trump isn't the producer, controlling all the players. His words -- whether he means them as a tease, a threat or something in between -- can have very real consequences.

Does Trump get any of that? We'll find out.

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Trump : "You guys know what this represents? Maybe it's the calm before the storm." Reporter : "What's the storm?" Trump : "It could be ... the calm, the calm before the storm." Reporter : "Iran? ISIS? What storm, Mr. President?" Trump : "We have the world's great military people in this room, I will tell you that.