Visitors to the Riverfront Park in downtown Cape Girardeau wait for the supermoon to rise in the east Monday evening. The moon made just a quick apperance; it rose to just about the tree line on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River before being obscured by clouds. The moon was at its closest point to Earth in 70 years.
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