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First story takes us to the Korean Peninsula, where there's a lot of talk taking place about a second summit between the leaders of North Korea and the U.

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The 1st 1 which happened last summer in Singapore, was historic because it was the first time that sitting leaders from both of these countries met face to face.

And it was considered a foreign policy success for U.

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President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun.

They signed a declaration that said the U.

S would work toward normalizing relations with North Korea.

The North Korea would work toward giving up its nuclear weapons, but critics say concrete steps toward a peace treaty haven't been taken.

A big hang up is that North Korea wants security guarantees from the US before it starts giving up its nukes, and the U.

S wants North Korea to give up its nukes before relations were normalized.

But they're not the only two countries that factor into all this the U.

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Fought alongside South Korea in the Korean War in the early 19 fifties.

The two Democratic nations have historically been close allies.

North Korea's Onley close allies China and the leaders of those two communist countries held a surprise meeting last week.

So is American and North Korean officials reportedly plan a second summit between their leaders.

A lot of questions are being raised about the influence of South Korea and China on that meeting.

Following a secretive trip to China on his armored train, Kim Jong Eun, the once shunned dictator, has emerged tonight with two key world leaders and power brokers by his side as he angles for a second summit with President Trump.

One of those brokers, South Korean President Moon Jae in, says he's expecting to hear news soon of a second summit hinting it could be imminent.

Analysts say just about every side in this process needs a win Right now.

South Korea's Moon Jae in tonight is seen as hell Bent, almost desperate to push a peace deal between Trump and Kim.

Moon, suffering politically at home, sees a denuclearization deal as key to his political survival, and it's seen as making moves that might go against the interests of the United States, which he partially depends on for his country's security.

Moon at this particular time is trying to mediate between the two sides, but he's mostly adopting Kim Jong UN's negotiating position, which is the United States, should give sanctions relief on a partial basis.

And so it seems that Moon is pretty much working with Kim Jong UN against the United States.

Thea, other power broker in Kim's corner, his fellow strongman, Chinese President Xi Jinping, who Kim traveled some 800 miles by rail to meet.

It's really about reminding the White House that China central to this discussion and nothing's going to happen here that doesn't include the Chinese.

Kim was in China this week at the very same time that top American trade negotiators were.

Also they're trying to work their way out of a trade war with China.

Experts say that was no coincidence that G is now holding his influence with North Korea over President Trump.

What is the danger to the United States of Ji Jin Ping being so powerful right now with North Korea and the U.

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I think the risk for the U.

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In China's leverage in this process right now is that if we don't start making some progress in the North Korea US bilateral channel, this makes gives Kim Jong un a lot of leverage.

To be able to say, I have the Chinese backing me, you need to make more concessions to me on armistice, on Peace treaty and so on before I'm willing to start declaring what I have in terms of nuclear capability.

10 seconds.

Trivia.

What are the names Whirlpool, black Eye and sombrero all have in common?

Are they all appliance brands, names of Galaxies, special ops forces or oceanic reefs?

These are all the names of Galaxies, massive concentrations of stars Course.

The one we live in is the Milky Way, which would have made that question too easy.

And scientists say they have detected some sort of signal from outside it.

Fast radio bursts that repeat radio bursts, which air signals that only last for a millisecond or so, are that rare in space.

But researchers say that last summer a Canadian radio telescope recorded a burst six times from the same location, and that is said to be unusual.

This is only the second time that this type of signal has been found to repeat.

So what is it?

No one knows.

Some people think they could be a form of communication from extraterrestrial life trying to contact us, but scientists say that's probably not it.

The bursts could come from neutron stars or a black hole.

What they're hoping is to record more of them so they could be studied and used to explain their origin.

Low Earth orbit is probably a lot closer than wherever those radio bursts came from.

And there's a long wait for companies that want to put their small satellites into low earth orbit.

There's a new process that could speed that up by launching the satellites from the sky itself.

But that could come at a price of almost 10 times the cost of launching a satellite from Earth.

It's better than washing off the top of Mount Everest.

Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Heart is talking about launching a rocket off a Boeing 7 47 It's one of the ways the company is looking to differentiate itself from competitors who all launch from the ground in the red hot, small satellite launch market.

What kind of performance advantage was talking about?

We get somewhere between 10 and 20% improvement by flying on the aircraft, and it also allows us to get above the thick air that you haven't sea level because we get a performance advantage, we can make the rock it a little bit smaller, make the engines a little bit smaller and less expensive.

The advantages don't stop there, Virgin Orbit says.

Theoretically, it system can take off from most commercial airports.

The company, 7 47 Cosmic Girl, serves as a flying launchpad for their 70 foot long launcher.

One rocket at 35,000 feet.

The two stage rocket is released from under the wings and ignites deploying customers lightweight satellites.

The company says each launch will cost customers 10 to $15 million Virgin is aiming to be operational by early 2019.

Having just completed its first test flight Orbit already has contracts with NASA and the Department of Defense.

Most people don't realize that the satellites are supporting us every day, so a lot of our customers are commercial enterprises who are setting up new applications for communication for tracking ships for mobile communication.

Why did you want to get into the small SAT space?

It's very expensive today to put satellites into space on Do you have to wait for sometimes six months, a year before you get it?

Slot on a big rocket to get him up there?

So we thought that if we could take it up to 35,000 feet, dropped the rocket and then fire it off into space, we would have a lot of advantages over any any competitors.

Kelly Latimer Pilots.

Virgin Orbits.

7 47 Cosmic Girl.

A retrofitted Virgin passenger airplane.

This does not look like a typical 7 47 Why isn't completely stripped inside?

Part of that was just to get rid of the extra weight.

The total weight we took out.

It's about £50,000 and the weight of the rocket is gonna be about £58,000.

Put a rocket on without really eating the weight.

Vladimir performed the first captive carry flight of its launcher one rocket, but says she's really excited for the company's next major milestone, its first orbital flight.

I look forward to the day.

Where's the actual rocket?

It's got fuel on board, and we're gonna just go up there, drop it and see it, you know, go off in front of us.

While virgin or burn inches closer to that milestone competitors, a rocket lab recently launched six small satellites into low Earth orbit.

Rocket Lab says it hopes to complete 16 launches next year.

A number Virgin Orbit would like to top.

We expect to be launching 20 30 maybe more times a year.

I could easily see us doing missions much further than low Earth orbit.

Going to Geo going to lunar going to Mars.

Demand, I think, for small satellites around is enormous.

There's about four billion people are not connected.

They all want to be connected.

Ah, boy from California accidentally left his stuffed animals at a hotel in Hawaii, and that's when their vacation turned awesome.

The teddy bear and stuff seal got to chillax by the pool.

Yeah, I said Chillax, 2009 sunbathing a spot treatment, a personal tour by the staff, all part of it.

And it was that same staff who, after finding the lost toys, took them on this photo shoot, packed them up and sent them home safe and sound to their owner.

So how was their vacation?

Plush.

Had it make them feel soft?

How were they after the five star cuisine stuffed And they can't build a bear the weight until they get back to where they Beanie.

Carlos was in that CNN tent.

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