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effect for parts of indiana and ohio as severe storms moved across the west. you can see what appears to be a funnel cloud in the distance there. hours earlier, the same storm system unleashed at least nine tornadoes across oklahoma and kansas. at least seven tornados hit oklahoma alone. >> this is just outside of oklahoma city. officials say at least 12 people have been injured and the national weather service says preliminary data indicates the tornado that hit this area was at least ef-2. more than 200,000 homes and businesses still without power across several states. listen here...

Space. so that's what's really different here. and when you look at what happened, that was the falcon 9 rocket on the launchpad at the kennedy space center, very early this morning, there was a problem with the rocket's ignition system. essentially the fluid that's used to light the falcon 9 rocket engines, there was a problem on the ground with that system. and so spacex called off this launch, with four astronauts on board, two nasa astronaut, one russian cosmonaut, and one astronaut from the united states arab emirates. nasa and spacex called it off with two minutes left on the countdown b...