so joining us live now is h.d palmer, the deputy director of california's department of finance. thank you so much for being with us. you know, the department recently, the department recently released a report about state population trends. so can you summarize the key findings for us? >> well, i think the summary would be that the decline is declining. um, not unexpectedly, we saw an outmigration and lower population during the peak of the covid pandemic, uh, with the increase amount of deaths and, and a little bit more outmigration from california than we have historically seen. and that's been a historic trend. but but that's turning around our outmigration in from july. to 2022 to july of 2023 was about 37,000. that's about half of what it was a year before. and it's nearly 90% below what it was two years ago. and so there are a number of things that are changing. number one, the deaths associated with covid, uh, are declining. um, we are seeing a return to normal migration patterns that were that's legal immigration to california that were slowed because of the trump admini