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okay. we begin with the latest developments in that breaking news story we re covering out of haiti. a group of 17 christian missionaries abducted by gangs outside of port-au-prince. the washington post reports one of the victims posted a call for help on the whatsapp messaging service while they were being kidnapped. ohio-based organization called christian aid ministries has confirmed that the victims are members of its group. and we got more a little earlier from cnn s matt rivers. reporter: so this is basically very much an ongoing situation at this point. but what i can tell you is that we were doing stories about kidnappings months ago when we were there after the haitian president was assassinated back on july 7th and this has been an issue that has plagued haiti for a long time, but this year significantly, a significant spike in kidnappings. and i have a couple of statistics i can read for you. since january, at least 628 kidnappings have taken place. 29 of whom,
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