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Launched from the historic moon shot pad at cape canaveral as you heard him saying, blasting off on a tree-day journey to the international space station. the first florida launch for spacex since one of its rockets exploded last year and they announced a few days ago they're going to have to delay their robotic mission to mars by two years, so that won't happen until 2020, making today extra special. will carr is following this from our west coast newsroom with an eventful weekend. i understand this one almost didn't happen. >> reporter: that's right, harris, it did today after it was suppose...

And nothing seems to change on that front. >> i was in mexico city in 1968 when it happened. the big difference today is we're talking about it. you know, and the president has pressure and there are people on the streets and he knows that the press is writing about it. that's very different. >> some press. >> it's very different than 20 or 30 years ago. the fact they're more open today is a reflection what is going on. and no question it's a tragedy and i think the president knows it. i don't think he has to be reminded he has huge domestic issues. >> we have news i want to go. casey hunt on ...

Beijing early this morning where he plans to meet with china's president. seems like the house and senate will agree on a bill to extend the ban on manufacturing plastic firearms. the house approved the ten-year extension of the ban tuesday and the senate is expected to do the same when it returns from break next week. >> two skydivers in arizona have been killed in a mid air collision. witnesses say the two divers had opened parachutes when they ran into each other causing them to fall about 250 feet. the third skydiver was taken to a nearby hospital. space x launched the first commercial sat...