close u.s. ally. this is a drone strike that took place around 9:30 eastern time in an eastern area of background. the commander has not been identified though central command said he was a senior commander of one of the most prominent militia groups in iraq. one of the most powerful iran-backed groups in the region. so we are waiting to get more details about who was struck, but it is clear and the administration is now saying t this, that this is part of what we believe to be an ongoing response in retaliation for the three american service member deaths. >> katai hezbollah is believed to be responsible for the attack in jordan. do we know if this will affect the group's capabilities? >> when that strike happened that killed the three service members, the administration said there was a broader umbrella group that was responsible.

katai hezbollah is not to be confused with lebanese hezbollah. the administration isn't necessarily taking away yet their major capabilities but they are sending a clear message in targeting a senior commander that the administration will try to degrade their capabilities as well as part of their ongoing efforts, but clearly, the intention here is to try to deter and actually in the wake of those three american service member deaths, hezbollah put out a statement saying they were standing down their operations, would no longer carry out attacks against u.s. forces. now, remember, there have been some 160, 170 attacks against u.s. coalition forces since october 7th. since the war in gaza began. major question now is whether what we're seeing in terms of reaction or these strikes from the u.s. will actually serve to deter because we have seen a handful of strikes since that retaliation on friday.

>> more than 100 strikes against u.s. forces from many different groups. thanks so much. now to our politics lead. and the ongoing gop dysfunction in the halls of congress. today, senate republicans blocked bipartisan security deal they originally insisted to be packaged with aid for ukraine, taiwan and israel. it's the same deal republicans were demanding until a few days ago, but as it turned out, donald trump didn't want it because he wants to use the border issue against joe biden in the fall and this, i suppose, dashed the bipartisan dreams that biden spoke of longingly when campaigning for office. >> the thing that will fundamentally change things is with donald trump out of the white house. not a joke. you will see an epiphany among many of my republican friends. >> not sure that every happened, melanie, who joins us from capitol hill. i don't see any epiphanies.

just a lot of people fighting about the border and compromised legislation that is now going down in flames. >> that is certainly the feeling on capitol hill where we are seeing politics winning out over policy. just four senate republicans ended up voting on that senate bipartisan border security deal that some of their own members helped craft, but there were probably more republicans who would have supported it but once they knew it was dead on arrival in the house, they didn't want to put a target on their back. especially with donald trump coming out so publicly against this deal. trump of course wants to preserve this as a campaign issue for november. and that has really sparked frustration on both sides. >> the damage republicans have done this week to their credibility cannot be understated. >> there are other folks that read the facebook posts and the twitter posts and saw different facts that they thought might be true. but i personally told them over

and over again they're false. and it's been hard to overcome. for some reason, we still believe everything we read on the internet. >> if you want to continue to use the southern border as a backdrop for your political campaign, that's fine. good luck to you. don't come to arizona. take your political theatre to texas. partisanship won. the senate has failed arizona. shameful. >> and one of the voices you heard there was james langford. he was one of the lead republican ganegotiators on tha deal. he is now facing backlash from republicans helping to lead this effort and mitch mcconnell facing questions about his own political future. so tensions high inside the gop all while democrats are saying they're going to try to campaign on this issue and hammer republicans for not doing anything to solve the border crisis. >> langford's facing republican backlash for negotiating with

democrats and independent senator sinema. the most conservative border compromise that i have seen in 25 years of covering this issue. it's unbelievable. so anyway, melanie, the senate, there's the stand alone bill being offered now, which is originally what democrats wanted to offer in the fall. for israel, ukraine, taiwan. what's going on with that? >> so the senate is taking a procedural vote but the key test vote isn't coming up until later. right now, senators are engaged in an urgent round of discussions to come up with a path forward, but it is still really unclear whether they're going to have the 60 votes they need in order to advance this in the senate and it's also facing questions about what would happen in the republican-co republican-controlled house. speaker johnson not saying what he wor to do if that would come over. after four months of negotiating that deal, the senate now exactly where it started four months ago, which is trying to

pass a stand alone ukraine package. >> as alfred once said, some men just want to watch the earth burn. now, chris murphy of connecticut. one of the three lead negotiators on the border comp m compromise. we interviewed kirsten sinema, . senator murphy, thanks so much for joining us. the senate seems to be heading into a debate and amendment vote for a spending bill for israel, ukraine, taiwan. do you think that will ultimately pass? >> who knows. republican party is spiraling out of control as we speak. this is terrible for the country. it's terrible for the world. i mean, they told us back in the fall that they could not vote for ukraine funding by it own. that they needed a bipartisan border fix. the three of us who are very different legislators, very different priorities, we got a bipartisan compromise.

a pretty conservative one. they told us this week they were ki kidding. in fact, they did not want to tie border and ukraine together and now we are back to where we were last fall. offering them a clean vote on funding for israel and ukraine by itself. right now as we speak, it does not have more than a handful of republican votes and about to fail. time will tell. this is a republican party that has just become rudderless and i guess to the extent they're tied to anyone and anything, it's donald trump who wants chaos. he wants chaos at the border. he wants chaos overseas because he thinks that will help him this november and right now, republicans are listening to anything he's telling them. i was proud of senator langford. he stuck with this compromise even though all of his republican colleagues abandoned him. he we want to the floor today to explain why it was still the right thing to do for the country and maybe once this trump fever breaks, his style of leadership will come back. >> what makes you think the

trump fever is ever going to break? i've been hearing people talk about the trump fever breaking for years now. i mean, at what point is it not a fever, it's just the body of the republican body politic is infected. >> listen, the flip side of that is that we did actually see the senate work for a short period of time when they weren't sure whether trump was still in charge. right after joe biden got elected, we had the infrastructure bill, the gun bill, the chips act. the gay marriage bill. i know everybody wants to believe this place is fundamentally broken, but we actually passed a lot of good fuf stuff for a two-year period of time. i am not of the school that we can never, ever find a path forward with some of our republican freiends but on this issue of immigration, they have clearly decided they want chaos

at the border. they do not want to fix the problem because they think it helps trump politically. >> senator langford did a very good job of advocating for conservative policy. i've been covering this now for more than 25 years and what you agreed to was more conservative than the legislation that marco rubio and lindsey graham put forward with the gang of eight back in 2013 and it seemed bizarre to me that republicans wouldn't take yes for an answer. i want to run something senator langford said this morning during his speech. >> this is the pen that i was handed at that desk when i was sworn in to the united states senate. and i signed a book that was at that desk with this pen. because i was becoming a united states senator. because the people at home sent me here to get stuff done and to

solve problems. there's no reason for me to have this pen if we're just going to do press conferences. >> that's the angriest i've seen senator langford. you probably have seen him angrier behind closed doors. could the border compromise be resurrected or is it just dead? >> well, i actually haven't seen him angrier. i was actually standing in my office with a number of my staff people watching him give that speech. we were all absolutely awe struck by how strong he has been at this moment when all of his colleagues are abandoning him. the short answer is that i think for the time being, republicans are never going to compromise on immigration. i think the only way it ever gets solved is if democrats are in charge of the house and senate, we change the rules and get something passed with a majority vote. i think republicans can't imagine a world in which the problem of immigration is solved. like, what would they do on

their weekends if not drag the press down to the border to show off how broken it was, if they couldn't complain about this as an issue. i don't think they can live with a world with which immigration is solved so for the foreseeable future, i don't see a world where we resuscitate this compromise that so many republicans said they wanted but then ran away as soon as it was put on the floor for them. >> the republicans controlled the white house from the election of donald trump through 2019 and did not pass immigration reform with control of the house, senate, and the white house. i'm really awe struck and i don't mean that as a compliment. thank you for your time. >> mark esper is going to be here, we're going to ask him about the new u.s. strike that was targeting the commander who

was responsible for attacks on american forces. we're back in a moment.

four months after the brutal attack in israel, millions have been forced to rafah as the idf has been pummelling gaza. now israel has its sites set on that city. the top idf commander there says there is currently no plan in place to reduce civilian deaths but would work on a plan if and when he receives orders to enter rafah. and while the fighting seems to be intensifying, secretary of state blinken is trying to broker a cease fire deal. let's bring in mark esper. his very first interview on the lead in his new role as a cnn global affairs analyst. secretary, welcome to cnn officially. good to have you here. >> thanks, jake. good to be with you. >> has the long standing u.s.

israel relationship fundamentally and irreversibly changed over the last four months do you think? >> i do not think so. i think the historical, cultural and other ties are just too deep and long standing for it to be fundamentally changed. clearly a change in relationship though between washington and tel aviv. most notably with netanyahu and his far right government. i think that's the change. of course, that's going to continue to evolve as this conflict drags on. >> his government is not just far right, if the two far right religi religious sell zealots were to take a hike, they would take with them 14 seats and netanyahu's government would fall. he can't alienate them in any way and they have really extreme views on palestinians, racist views, on the west bank, on gaza. is there any peace possible in the region with this israeli government with these people in it?

>> yeah, look. you're right, jake. you have those members and others who want to reoccupy gaza. who want to push the gazans, the palestinians in gaza, into egypt and other prices and basically put jewish settlers back in. so it's not something that's feasible. i think the broader spectrum of israeli politics does not want a reoccupation of gaza, but they want a better defensive situation and of course, you have to deal with what's the end state. which we still don't know. we have some plans, some ideas, but you have this two-state solution that remains probably the best possible one assuming you have a reformed or renewed palestinian authority. the politics internal to israel within his cabinet are what's driving netanyahu right now to take these hard stances with regard to for example the latest proposal that came back from hamas and what the likelihood of a deal is. >> i want to turn to the breaking news from iraq. the u.s. drone strike from background central command says

a commander responsible for attacking u.s. troops in the region was killed. the strike is very precise. explain the planning and intelligence gathering that goes into a strike such as this. >> well, of course, we go through great efforts at dod and the intelligence community to track the leaders of these various groups and there's many of them out there. these iranian sponsored shia militia groups. you want to track their where abouts. you want to know who they're meeting with. look, it's tracked very carefully. i think this was a good thing they did. a good targeting. it's good to kill the leaders of these groups but look, the best you're going to do is disrupt and degrade their capabilities. if you want to deter, you have to go after things that iran values and for iran, these proxy groups are expendable. they've been at this for 40 something years. funding them, arming them, training them. the talk last week about a strong response to iran based on

after the deaths of the three american soldiers has just kind of left me a little disappointed in terms of what we've seen so far and what i believe will deter the iranian going forward. we've already had two or three militia attacks since last friday's assault. >> thank you so much. appreciate your time, sir. >> and we have breaking news coming in. this intense house fire just outside philadelphia. gun shots apparently were fired from this house. we're piecing together exactly what in the world is going on. we're going to show it to you in a second. we're back in a moment with what we're learning.

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we have breaking news. police say this incredible and horrific scene of a house fire outside philadelphia is apparently connected to two police officers who were injured when responding to a call of a child that had been shot. this is in landsdown, pennsylvania just outside philly. >> like you just told your viewers before the break, this is very much a fluid situation. sources telling john miller and danny freeman that exactly what you just said. there was a call into 911 from an 11-year-old girl saying she was not. po police officers responded and when they arrived, they were met with gunfire. two officers were shot. their condition is stable, not life threatening injuries. we also know an 11-year-old girl was transported to the hospital from that house location.

unclear what her condition is now, but you can see what is happening right there at that house where police officers, firefighters have now responded. it is engulfed in flames. so a lot of questions here like was there anyone in the house other than that 11-year-old girl? who started this fire. these are all questions being asked right now by law enforcement there on the ground. we are still working our sources as well to get more information. but that's what we know right now. an 11-year-old girl being transported to the hospital after she was shot or saying she was shot, and two police officers shot. to our politics lead now, early voting is underway in new york's special house election to replace the vacancy left by george santos. you might remember him. the disgraced representative expelled from congress. republicans maintain a very fragile majority in the house hope a woman named mazi pillaf

can get the seat. miguel marquez has talking to voters in long island and parts of queens. >> the opening salvo in the 2014 election cycle is on. early voting in the special election to replace george santos. voters of all describes say more than anything, they want moderation and political leaders who will work together. >> was there one motivation that got you to come down here to cast your vote? >> i want a sane person. in the government. i'm done. >> i don't like the direction the country is going currently and i think it's an important election. we have to go towards the middle more. >> the issues motivating many voters in this suburban new york largely jewish district, abortion, crime, and taxes but seemingly none bigger than

immigration? how big a concern. >> number one. >> is it about stopping them coming in or handling the chaos? >> it's both. you have a chaotic situation at the border. you're spending a ton of money to try to manage the situation. we don't have jobs for the people when they come in. they're being dispersed. we lose control of where they are in the country. >> what would you like to see with immigration? >> i don't have the answer but i know what's happening now isn't good, but we have to figure it out. everyone has to get together and figure it out and talk. >> the district is mostly in nassau county in long island. total active voters just over 530,000. in early voting, more than 31,000 have already cast their ballots. nassau county breaks it down by party giving glimpses of who so

far is coming out. three days of voting, 43% are registered democrats. 35% registered republicans and 19% unaffiliated with any party. democrat tom swaze has run all out in a short but well funded campaign compared to his republican challenger who's raised only 1.3 million. >> to date, he and his allies have nearly doubled phillip and her backers. $13 million to 6.7 million with a potential rematch looming this november between joe biden and donald trump and congress narrowly divided. voters here in this suburban battleground district see the outcome next tuesday as sending an early message to both parties. >> i would like to see this own t

united. i do not want to see somebody who's elected and creates a partition in the country. >> i think trump did a heck of a good job. would i vote for him again? that's another reqquestion. >> i would rather see him not run but if he run, i'll have to vote for him. >> on top of all this, turnout this this race is expected to be very small, about 25% say most political watchers and even though democrats are right up in the early voting, the nassau county republican party is known to have a formidable get out the vote machine. early voting runs through sunday. next tuesday, the 13th, is election day. everyone expected to be a squeaker, but whatever the result, it would reverberate throughout the country. >> miguel, thank you so much. let's bring in the political panel. thanks, guys, for being here. first of all, let me just ask about the spending disparity with democrats outspending

republicans. something like 3-1. are you surprised by that? >> the margin is what's surprising there. you had two different candidates. an incumbent or previous incumbent, has bigger networks for fund raising. the republican candidate not well-known also running sort of a shadow basement campaign. you don't see her out that much. you've got footage that's sort of surprising. >> the other fascinating thing about this is republicans could not have picked a more diverse candidate shall we say. black, woman, refugee, served in the idf veteran. >> oit's a fascinating example f where we are. let's find somebody that checks all these boxes that could poten potentially go up against a democrat. the early voting is going to make a big difference.

o other folks are working day jobs. this might also account for some of what is democratic enthusiasm about the seat. >> you talked about the diversity of the republican candidate. in 2022, steph onic was very proud of how diverse the republican candidates for the house were. they were minority. they were female. they were veterans. now of course with all the attacks on dei and diversity efforts, nobody's out there praising this mazi except for you. and i mean, it just kind of gets at the lameness of the attacks on diversity. >> it was a big part of why republicans had success in house races. it was a real priority. partner polling is a huge staff where she was chief of staff for patrick mchenry. went to the congressional committee. that was priority number one for her and it's why republicans had

such an uptick in women freshman in the last congress. >> very interesting. we're seeing now some of these divisions in house republican majority. this narrow majority they have. and how it's impacting their ability to govern. take a listen to what congressman gaetz of florida said on news max after republicans failed to pass their mayorkas impeachment vote. >> as i'm watching that board, it's 215-215, i have never missed george santos more. i also wonder like wouldn't it have been nice to still have kevin mccarthy in the house of representatives? after being dislodged as speaker, took his marbles and went home. >> gaetz longing for mccarthy just so there would be a republican. be there to help him impeach mayorkas. >> i'm sure that comment really endeared him to the rest of the caucus. it's a game at this point. the continued effort to avoid

anything that looks like bipartisan compromise such as working on this, the bill, the gop senate's going to filibuster a bill they had asked for and helped negotiate because anything bipartisan would hurt the top of the ticket. >> just as a former house republican staffer, can you believe this? i've been covering this issue since the george bush administration. this was the most conservative compromise i've ever seen. democrats basically got nothing. and republicans still turned it down. >> jake, you were covering this issue when i worked for eric cantor and we were not able to get anything done on immigration and we were talking about doing different things. what do we as republicans do with dreamers. this bill had none of that. this was an absolute legislative win by langford. clearly, they didn't want to take the win. >> democrats were over a barrel

because they wanted the ukraine funding and they were willing to make compromises on the border which democrats are now acknowledging is a crisis, in order to get the ukraine funding and republicans got almost everything they wanted. >> the idea was to take border off the table as an issue for biden politically. that he's got a rising economy. all these good things to talk about but the narrative is about the border. so what would have been seen on caving on principles and issues, we gave you what you wanted. you are the problem. put the problem back in the bucket of the republican party. >> it would have been caving. >> it was a cave. >> and republicans didn't take yes for an answer. >> no. >> it's just -- >> insane. >> but it keeps the border as an issue that's still going to be on the campaign triail. >> yes. we all get it. and by the way, republicans are telling the truth when they say this is a life or death issue.

first of all, there are migrants who risk their lives to cross the border and it's tragic. there are coyotes who rape and kill along the way. sometimes, there are bad people who cross the border and commit crimes against americans. often against latinos. so this is not just silly business. this is life or death. >> i had a very interesting conversation with the sheriff of eagle pass, texas ande he said it's not about crime. it's about national security. >> here's another interesting story from this place we're in with the republican party. the rnc chair is now offering to step down following a vote by the rnc after the south carolina primary if they want her to be removed. cnn reports that north carolina party chairman is one of the names being floated by team trump as a possible replacement. what is his you know, what is his cs? according to the "new york times," the reason he's on the short list is because quote, mr. trump likes mr. wattly for one

overwhelming reason. he is a stop the steal guy. as one of the people described him. he endorses mr. trump's false claims about mass voter fraud. rana has been pretty helpful to donald trump on that, too, but apparently, not enough. >> i've known michael since 2004. i worked for senator burr when he was chief of staff. >> you're a tar heel. >> unfortunately not a great result against clemson last night. we did beat duke. he's done a good job of running the north carolina republican party. i've seen good chairs and bad chairs but his allegiance for trump isn't just stop the steal. he helped censure richard burr and tom tillis. and it speaks to one of the things that if he comes in, the members like him. that's important. but we're going to have to see

can he raise money because big donors who are still skeptical of trump and his rhetoric, they loe don't like the stop the steal rhetoric. >> what do you make of this? >> it is clear what the political play is. it is a donald trump political play where you had pompeo last week still refusing to acknowledge he was elected in a free and fair election. that will continue to be a theme under trump. >> thanks to both of you. coming up, the source of those fake robo calls. ca calls pretending to be joe biden telling democrats in new hampshire not to vote. turns out they were two companies in texas. so cnn went there. how ai is seeping deeper into u.s. politics and political dirty tricks. stay with us.

a criminal investigation is underway into the ai deep fake biden robo call telling democratic voters in new hampshire to not vote in the state's primary last month. here's a portion of what the fake call sounded like. again, this is a fake call. >> voting this tuesday only enables the republicans in their quest to elect donald trump again. your vote makes a difference in november. not this tuesday. >> new hampshire's attorney general says the fake call is linked to two texas based companies, life corporations and lingo telecom. doni, what did you uncover? >> hey, jake. that's right. the new hampshire attorney general giving an update yesterday on this investigation into a robo call that had an ai generated version of president biden's voice telling democrats not to vote in the new hampshire

primary. the ag saying that call might have gone out to 20,000 people in new hampshire. now, they say it was an update yesterday because certainly the investigation seems to be very much ongoing, but officials in new hampshire pointed to two companies here in texas for potentially having some involvement in how that call got, how that call got made to so many people in new hampshire. naming two companies. lingo and the other, life corporation. we have come to texas to try and get some answers from these companies. ironically, these companies involved in making millions and millions of robo calls to americans for years now are not picking up the phone to us. we went to life corporation's headquarters, or an address associated with their business today in arlington, texas. it was actually in a strip mall under another entity called text to survey. no answers there. no answers from either of these

companies. but both the fcc and attorneys generals across the united states coming down pretty hard on this. now, look. these companies seem to have some involvement. certainly according to the new hampshire attorney general in this robo call, but ultimately what still remains a mystery is who created the fake and who paid for the fake. and 11 laps is a service online freely widely available for a small fee. you can make it sound like anybody has said anything using ai. and expert analysis has found that that biden fake was made using 11 labs technology. 11 labs telling us in a statement they take this sort of thing very seriously, that they won't comment on specific cases but our understanding is that it was made using that technology. so somebody here knows who paid for this but unfortunately at the moment, jake, we're not getting answers from the folks here in texas, but we as well as

investigators keep looking into this. >> seems to me like the companies can either be part of the problem or solution. doesn't sound like they're trying to be part of the solution. there's also this altared video of president biden that meta, which owned facebook, says can stay online even though they know it's been manipulated. tell us about that. >> yeah. there's a video on meta, on facebook specifically that essentially purports to show biden behaving inappropriately toward a young man. specifically his granddaughter. the video's been edited in such a way to make it look like he's behaving inappropriately. it's false. totally taken out of context and didn't happen. but meta's facebook's rules on this according to facebook's own oversight board which is this body of experts facebook has set up to try and deal with some of its more difficult content moderation decisions, described

meta's policies on ai, on deep fakes, on all this stuff as incoherent and describing loopholes in those policies that are a danger to elections around the world this year. over the past 24 hours, we have seen meta come out and said they were going to start labeling some forms of ai content but really only a very limited form of content that's made using certain software belonging to major companies. but look, you and i have spoken a lot about this in the past few months and years is that really what we're going into here between these robo calls that are apparently coming out of strip malls in texas and going to new hampshire to very, very misleading i guess types of content. video, audio, that's being produced easily and shared online. it seems like many of the companies just do not know how to get their hands around this. from the social media companies to the producers of this. >> i think you're being nice. i think they don't care pabecau they're making a lot of money so they're just like that's

somebody else's problem. then again, i don't have to get my calls returned by them. thank you so much. be sure to catch doni on "ac 360" this evening where he will uncover even more on ai and politics. a disturbing report. in florida right now, conservative republicans are making a strong effort to keep a specific issue off the ballot in november. that's abortion rights. what are they doing? will it work? we're going to go live to florida next.

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and we're back before we heard amendments to the florida constitution. the state's conservative attorney general is fighting to block that amendment from getting to appear on the ballot in november for the voters of florida to have. carlos suarez is here. walk us through what happened in court.

>> the conservative leaning court seemed reluctant to block the amendment. they took issue with it. now the wording of the proposed a meantment reads, quote, no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient's health as determined by the patient's health care provider. this amendment does not change the legislature's constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abo abortion. now the state told the court that the terms viability and health care provider are not clear and overly broad. if 60% of voters approve it, the ballot amendment would roll back the state's current ban on abortion after 15 weeks to around 24 weeks. it would block a six-week ban

that the florida legislature passed last year that has yet to take effect. here now is some of the back and forth between the attorney general's office and the chief justice on whether the ballot language here is complicated. >> the voters need to know the effects of what's going on here. >> it's pretty obvious that this is, you know, a pretty aggressive, comprehensive approach to dealing with this issue, and if it were to -- you know, the voters can argue about whether, you know, they want something more nuanced than that. it just doesn't seem like this is really trying to be deceptive. >> people of florida aren't stupid. they can figure this out. >> reporter: floridians protecting freedom gathered just under a million signatures of registered voters to get the issue on the november ballot. the attorney representing the group told the court the language here is pretty clear. >> voters have seen and deserve the chance to vote on and include in their constitution

what happens when these decisions are taken away from health care providers and put in the hands of politicians. >> and so, jake, the court must decide the issue by april 1st. >> carlos suarez in miami. thank you so much. a special appearance you'll see sunday at the super bowl. i'm not talking about usher and not taylor swift. stay with us.

in our sports lead the super bowl just got even more exciting, especially for lahaina luna high school. they survived the devastating fires in maui last august and now players and coaches from the school's football team are going to get to serve as honorary coin toss captains at the big game this sunday. the nfl announcement says in

part, quote, the lahaina luna high school football team embodies the power of football to bring people together even in the most challenging of circumstances. many on the team, of course, lost their homes not to mention the football equipment through the wildfires. now the nfl is stepping in to replace all of that equipment. this reminder, tomorrow morning listen in live to arguments before the u.s. supreme court in donald trump's ballot battle. i'm going to lead cnn's special coverage. cnn's kaitlyn collins will be at the court tomorrow morning at 9 eastern here on cnn. you can follow me on facebook, instagram, threads, x formerly known as twitter and tiktok on jake tapper. you can listen to the show whence you get your podcasts. sitting there like a big bowl of doritos. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in "the situation room." i will see you tomorrow.