los angeles clippers. they're reacting of racist comments allegedly by team owner donaldstering. those are the headlines. i am jonathan seigenthaler. "america tonight" with joey chen is next. ♪ on "america tonight" -- >> oh, my god! there' there's a tornado! [ screaming ] >> millions in the path of what could be days of killer weather. what is behind this massive destruction? also tonight is it good news or just money? the often down side of a high-plains boom town.

the sudden wealth that came to williston, north carolina. prostitution. >> right here at wal-mart? >> uh-huh. and defying gravity. the incredible talent of brittney greiner. >> everybody was acting like it was just a freak. >> how she rose above the bullies to be a ballplayer no one could keep down. ♪ good evening. thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. we begin with the deadly tornados that have devastated already three different states. twisters spawned late sunday and continued to pose a serious threat. 30 tornados were reported in

seven states between sunday night and monday, the hardist hit state is arkansas where at least 14 people were killed including 10 from one town. one person was killed in oklahoma, another in iowa. more twisters are possible now. and earlier in the day, five tornados tore through mississippi. this is video of the twister as it roared through the town of tupelo. it also downed trees, power lines and tossed several tractor trailers in the air. remarkably there are no reports of injury. joining us from tupelo is robert thornton. what did you see? >> before the storm hit we left my office next door, and as we were sitting in the lobby of the

marriott, we watched as the wind picked up, there was an 18-wheeler delivery truck that turned over on its side as the wind came. all of the windows started blowing out of the lobby. >> it must have been a crazy scene, chaosic. >> it was. once the windowed starting breaking, we got further down in the hallway of the hotel and road it out there. afterwards there was definitely damage all around us. >> thanks very much. we appreciate you joining us, and we're glad you all are safe. >> thank you. residents of some of the towns hit heaviest on sunday have begun to return home to look at the damage and prepare for what may come next. >> we lived right there.

that's the back porch, but the double is gone. >> what was lost in just moments, everything, but the hope. >> all of our -- our memories inside are gone, and we'll have to find them, hopefully. >> battering a community with high winds, the storm barrels through may flower, arkansas just outside of little rock. the vicious twister even more ground. >> luckily we had enough warning that we could get down in our hiding hole, and we were sitting down there and it came right over the top of us, came out to find total destruction. >> on the day after there were mixed reports about the number dead. but the governor said search

victims. >> all we want to do is just be here to help. >> help is badly needed. medical teams found themselves quickly overwhelmed. >> very rapidly we started getting a lot of patients with a variety of injuries all at once. i myself had five seriously injured trauma patients that were solely under my care. >> and the search for precious memories have already begun. >> our jewelry. we'll be finding this stuff for days and days and days. jay grey joins us now from mayflower, arkansas. and that is quite a scene. >> yeah, joey, overwhelming. you can see there is not much

left here and debris stacked up. believe it or not there were employees, three of them in this facility when the storms moved in. they rushed to this area, opened this door and ran down the stairs into the basement. they all thankfully survived when they got back out, though, they saw very little left of this building. splintered wood, shattered glass, and this area, faulkner county in arkansas probably the hardest hit. there is also concern about the forecast. more severe weather could be on the way. in fact over the next several day there is a chance of tornados in an area that stretches from louisiana all the way to ohio. as they mourn here, they must also keep an eye on the sky

right now, joie to see what if anything may come next. >> i look around you and i know the weather service has told us there is a big storm about a half mile wide and it is stuck on the ground for an extended period of time. you can see the evidence of that as well? >> yeah, no question about it. you know this was a massive tomorrow and one that did stay on the ground for quite sometime. and the damage it did, again, just overwhelming. and this is a scenario playing out across at least seven states right now, and there's the possibility it could happen again, and so that's what is most frightening, especially for the survivors who are trying to rum age through this debris, and find anything before the storm, but knowing there is danger that more severe weather could be on the way.

>> thanks very much. john ward joins us now from mayflower. mr. ward, i understand this is -- or was what is left of your business. there? >> yeah, we had a tornado come in about 7:30 last night. it actually hit a small town just south of us, and unfortunately hit us -- >> now you had quite a big business here? >> yes, we have an rfid dealership here. >> and how many vehicles did you have on the lot? >> 60v's and probably another 15 customer rv's here for service, and then we had roughly 30 cars, automobiles that were here also. >> how much is left? >> there's nothing left.

it's absolutely a total loss. >> were you -- i'm so sorry. were you there when this happened? were you at the lot? >> i was not at the lot, fortunately. i was at home, so i was -- i was safe -- we did have -- we did have three people that stay on the lot here, one in a mobile home that actually works -- he works for us with his wife, they were in the mobile home, and we have another gentlemen that does our security, and we was in an rv staying on the backside of our lot. fortunately both of those groups of people were able to get in our basement and it acted like a storm shelter for them. >> i'm so sorry this has hand but we appreciate you talking us to. and i do have to note your flag is still flying over your lot there. >> thank you very much.

we appreciate you. throughout the weekend there were warnings and the potential for powerful tornadoing moving in. dr. brooks you are -- just soupt of oklahoma of course city. this is a season that got off to a slow start in tornado terms. >> it's quite possibly the slowest start that we have had in almost a century. but as we have seen today even a single event can be deadly. >> yeah, and what caused the slow start and why it heated up so sud inially. >> the big thing was we were cold in part of the united states and warm in overparts of the united states.

and with the pattern of the warm in the west and cool in the east, it really accentuated that. now we have a dip in the jet stream, and so the conditions that we expect to see that are favorable for tornados are now in place. >> so are you anticipating we are going to have a busy season? >> we really can't tell will happen for the rest of the season. there are years like 1987 and 2006 that really never got a tornado season going at all. we know while today is probably going to be the most active day, tomorrow there is still going to be a threat in the southeastern united states. >> dr. harold brooks, appreciate you being with us.

>> you're welcome. ♪ coming up next, the black gold rush. >> wherever you have lots of men and lots of money, you can going to find prostitution. >> reporter: a community suddenly awash in man camps. north dakota's energy boom town and the high cost of all of that new wealth. and still ahead, trash talk. >> when ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't have to do anything, you just let them talk. >> outrage on and off the hard

the stream is uniquely interactive television. in fact, we depend on you, your ideas, your concerns. >> all these folks are making a whole lot of money. >> you are one of the voices of this show. >> i think you've offended everyone with that kathy. >> hold on, there's some room to offend people, i'm here. >> we have a right to know what's in our food and monsanto do not have the right to hide it from us. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> watch the stream. >> and join the conversation online @ajamstream. a huge spike in domestic oil production is helping to bring america just one step closer to energy independence, but the small towns on the frontier of

the boom are finding that with big oil can come very big problems. we begin ourer isties dirty power with christof putzel. >> reporter: how would you describe what this place looked like when you were first mayor, 20 years ago? >> i don't want to say dead, but i will say probably dying. >> reporter: the sign says it all . . . over the past five years williston major has seen his town come back from the brink of death. the race to exact the black golds from the parries of north dakota is evident everywhere. pumps dot nearly every farmer's field. listen carefully and you can hear liquid money filling up waiting tanks. trucks hall it in

tankers to the nearest train depot, and trains hauling the crude rumble through the region all day and all night long. >> it's a great quantity and quality of oil. community. >> reporter: next year the u.s. is expected to overtake saudi arabia and become the world's top oil producer. >> we have unemployment of about a half of a percent. per capita income is some of the highest in the midwest. >> reporter: bob is a long-term north dakota farmer. you are able to lease some of your land and you are making a little bit of money, right? >> i'm not complaining. >> reporter: but not everyone likes what black gold has done to williston. what would you say the biggest impact has been? >> there's a lot more fighting

amongst people here. when you start putting a lot of starts. >> reporter: and the influx of labor has made rents the highest in the nation. and workers have been crowded into what they call man camps. andrew and fabio work as welders. >> reporter: what do you pay to live here? >> 700 a month plus electric. >> reporter: trailer? >> yeah. >> reporter: is there much to do around here? >> i try to go to the gym, and try to stay out of the bars. >> reporter: i couldn't help but notice the ankle monitor that you are wearing. >> yeah, that was one of the troubles. >> reporter: what seems almost inevitable if you have this many

dudes. >> yeah there is a lot of testosterone flowing. >> reporter: yeah. >> many times what happens is they will either come with the police or a friend might bring them in, as long as we can keep them safe until they can find a place of their own. that's what we like to do. >> reporter: before the boom the williston family crisis center filled up 11 days a year. now the shelter has met capacity for two years straight. >> reporter: how much has domestic violence increased since the boom? >> i would say quadrupled. it's really crazy. >> why? >> they get here. they can find jobs but no housing. so they'll living in their

vehicles, in campers, yikes, right. >> reporter: cramped quarters. >> very. >> reporter: the mix of men and money is bringing another playing to willis -- ill uston. >> wherever you have lots of men and lots of money, you are going to get prostitution. i'll punch in willston, and you go over here toes courts -- >> reporter: wendy says an influx of men and money has fuelled prostitution. these are all the girls that showed up today, and this looks like dozens, four pages. but she was not just looking for prostitutes.

>> oftentimes the underage girls will have their face covered. >> reporter: she is looking for victim of sex trafficking. >> reporter: i look for identifying marks like tattoos because a lot of the girls under pimp control are branded with their pimps game. >> reporter: she came here to fight the sex trafficking she says is the direct result of the oil boom. >> reporter: why are you so passionate about this work? >> first and foremost i'm a human being, and a woman, and i'm a survivor of human trafficking, i was trafficked as a young child. i wound upturning to a friend for help and she took me pimp. >> reporter: how often do you drive around at night? >> quite often actually.

>> reporter: she regulately visits prostitution hot shots to build relationship ps and help where she can. >> this is a huge area for trafficking. wal-mart? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: that seems so sur surprisi surprising. >> some of these hotels actually have floors that are bout out by pimps and girls are in those rooms. >> reporter: how dangerous is it for these girls? >> if a girl shows any sign of wanting to exit, there will be -- you know, there's consequences for that. >> reporter: north dakota officials admit that women and children are being caught up in trafficking. but only one fbi agent is

assigned to the problem. >> i'm going to trust that in time with raising awareness and law enforcement doing their part, that we'll be able to offer help. >> reporter: so where are we headed now. >> down to the strip clubs. we're holding a self-defense for the girls. and i want to remind them that the class is tomorrow. >> reporter: until reinforcements arrive, she continues her mission to protect the victims of north dakota oil boom. north dakota's black gold will continue to flow for years to come, but the boom has brought big-city problems to these small farming towns, and life here may never be the same. >> reporter: when you look back at how things used to be, do you have a longing for the old days? >> i guess you do, but i always look at -- you can never go home. we'll work through this, and

we'll come out and probably be a good town again some day. >> reporter: christof putzel, al jazeera, willston, north dakota. our investigate tiff series, dirty power will continue next time with a look at a nevada community confronting coal ash. >> if i were to give you a glass of arsenic laced water, i could be charged with attempted murder. when arsenic gets into people's well water, when se lean um gets into let's say a lake where people fish, and they eat the fish, that's not a crime? >> what happens after coal is burned away. families say they are paying for the energy with every breath their take. our investigative series, dirty "america tonight."

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slapped with a federal indictment, new york republican congressman says it's a political witchhunth. he faces a reelection battle this fall. on the inflammatory comments allegedly made by the owner of the los angeles clippers, donald steering, the disparaging comments he made about african-americans touched a raw nerve. companies have already started to pull sponsorship of the team. but >> reporter: it was a moment of solidarity and protest. >> the clipper players wearing

their warmup shirts inside out. >> reporter: they wore plane red jerries, not a clipper's logo in site. they also wore black socks and arm bands all in response to the offensive statements made by the team's owner, donald sterning. in the recording first released to tmz sports, sterling can be heard arguing with a former girlfriend about a photo posted on her instagram account. the tape provoked immediate outrage. >> there's no room for that in our game. we found a way to make this the greatest game in the world. >> to think about the

disparagement for one of the alumni, one of the most famous andest teamed amum nigh of the nba, magic johnson. >> he should stand up and say i anymore. >> reporter: the fallout has been swipt, several companies dropped their sponsorship. tomorrow evening the nba will hold a press conference about the comments. >> are brood powers in place under the nba's constitution and bylaws that include a range of sanctions, and all of those will be considered. >> we called an emergency call, players weighed in, and they wanted me to communicate a few important points to the commissioner, which i did.

>> reporter: but this isn't the first time that sterlings controversial views have come to light. >> i'm very confident that the commissioner will act in the best interests of the players and owners in the league, and the only way to do that is to do the most severe sanctions possible. >> it's a tough spot for our guys. and for them, i feel awful, because -- you know, this is not what they signed only for. >> reporter: michael oku, al jazeera. the clippers are preparing for their next playoff game. now how should the ownership respond? we're joined boy dr. harry evans

at the california of bleshgly. we appreciate you being us with dr. edwards. this has to be about the wors worst-kept secret in the league. why wasn't action taken earlier? >> i think that's a good question, and as much as i admire and have tremendous exsent for david stern, i think he dropped the ball on this. donald sterling has work going back decades, the way he treated workers in his own organization, i think this all provided some grounds for at least a shot across the [ inaudible ] so he would be prepared to get in line. >> what can the league actually do here? >> i think there has to be some kind of bylaws that have to do with behavior, and statements, detrimental to the image and

integrity of the league and the game. i think the owners can get together and do something, they can most certainly show that it is unlikely that free agents will sign with him, he may not even be able to sign the players on the team now. it's questionable whether he will be able to get his drift picks to sign on for him. who wants to work for him? and then it becomes a league matter because you have a franchise that is non-functional. >> in fact the league itself can only impose penalties, fines, something of that sort as we see sometimes done with players. in this case when people say he should be kicked out of the league, he is an owner. how do you put out an owner? >> i think it comes down to whether or not the franchise is viable. understand that magic johnson may be getting together a group to look at the

possibility of buying from him. but if he cannot sign free agents or resign his own players, i think the owners have to do something for the good of the game. now can he hold out and try to make things miserable for everyone? he has already done a tremendous amount in that regard already. it is absolutely clear he does not have a proper perspective to be an owner in this league, and it's time for him to go. but will be derail the entire train simply because it is time for him to get off. >> now we move to on the hardcourt to the wnba, she is taller than 99% of the american population. at just 23 years old, brittney greiner is so good, that the owner of a men's team said he would recruit her.

but her wise rise to the top has been anything but a slam dunk. sarah hoye has her story. >> reporter: 6'8", size 17 shoe, and 200 pounds of talent. she has been called a once in a generation talent. but it has come at a cost. >> just being cast out, and being so different. and everybody acting like i was just a freak -- i mean just being called freak because i was so different. that was the biggest thing, because i wanted to fit in so bad. so that was the toughest thing i guess i dealt with. >> reporter: today she ask exactly where she wants to be, tucked inside a phoenix arena, the 2013, number 1 wnba draft pick, and three-time all

american is getting ready for training camp. the 23-year-old is arguably one of the greatest basketball players in the game. despite the stats or his forbidable premention in the paint she almost didn't make it here. head and shoulders ahead her classmates, she was a highly visible target. her size and signature voice the subject of relentless teasing. the taunting got so bad she life. >> some nights i just wanted to end it all, it got down to the breaking point where i was asking like why am i here? >> reporter: if things weren't hard enough, she also struggled with her sexuality. get? >> wow, i got through it. i don't know how i did it. i deaf neatly couldn't have done it again. >> reporter: she is

now a public face, 40% of lbgt students struggle. grain greiner came out to her mom, but telling her dad would be dasht story. out. >> it definitely made me have a hard outer shell. he definitely prepared me for life, because people aren't always nice. they aren't going to always look out for you and care for you. so i definitely appreciate those lessons he taught me. and now we're good. you know, he accepts me for who i am. >> reporter: she found solace court. >> reporter: it was a way for me to feel free. i'm not really thinking about anything. it doesn't matter how i dress, how i look, all that matters is

if you put the ball in the hole and how you perform. and just hearing people cheer for you and come out to your games to support you, it's a great feeling. >> reporter: greiner was eager for a fresh start at the university. a private baptist college. but the student hand back denounces all sexuality. she budgeted heads with the head coach. she said he is coach told her not to talk about her sexual ly publicly. >> i would hear some crazy stuff at the gym, like, oh, she's tucking. and i would laugh at it and use

it as motivation to beet think other team. >> reporter: but she wasn't laughing when she was ejected for punching a texas tech player in the face after a foul. do you still harbor that anger? do you still want to punch people in the face? >> no, no. i had to learn how to forgive, and i have to thank my girlfriend for that, because i was holding on to so much before. and she told me how to forgive people and let go. >> reporter: following the incident, greiner was required to see a therapist, a move that would help her confront her past from her father's rejection to schoolyard bullies. >> i don't know why i was so scared to talk about it. i just said i'll get through it on my own and just deal with it. and that wasn't the best way to deal with it.

>> it goes to brittney greiner. >> reporter: she joined new ranks after being named female athlete of the year, and even appeared on comedian conan o'brien show. and she became the first player to drunk nice in one game. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: she is the first openly gay athlete to sign with nike, and play pro prod -- professional ball in china this summer. now greiner and her boyfriend are off to promote her new book. >> it's different it's a real feeling, especially like i have had little girls like come up to me and like cry to meet me, and i'm like, oh, my god -- like i'm doing it. i'm somebody's role model, and

it makes me want to be a better person and do everything right that i can. >> we love you brittany. >> thank you so much. >> she said she wanted to stop writing at times, but she refused to quit. she said giving up on herself meant giving up on others. >> too many kidsave gone through what i went through. >> reporter: now greiner is in a league of her own, and now standing out, being different is no longer a problem. sarah hoye, al jazeera, phoenix. and sarah hoye says that the phoenix mercury training team starts this week. she launched an app to help combat bullying. she homes it will be a forum for young people to talk about their experiences and find support.

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many mentally ill people in u.s. prisons as in psychiatric hospitals. in california more than a quarter of the innates have been diagnosed with mental illness. there is no prison system with a more troubled history than that of california. and jennifer london reports, failure to treat these inmates causes pain that goes well beyond the prison walls. >> you guys ready? >> reporter: in the california state prison system they call this a forcible extraction. >> help! help! >> reporter: inmate a has refused medication, he is naked, dirty from his own fecal matter and screams repeatedly after being dosed with pepper spray. and this is inmate i.

guards say he too refused orders to make medication. and this is joey duran who breathes through a tube in his throat after a tracheotomy. he was also sprayed with pepper spray. he was never washed off, and hours later he was found dead. >> steve and elaine are joey's parents. they adopted him at 5 years old, and remember a fun lovable kid who liked sports. >> we did a lot of things normal families do. we had some good times together. >> reporter: as a teenager, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and skit friendia.

he turned into an angry adult a who ended up in and out of jail. >> i was glad a lot of times when he was in jail, because he was on skid row and we didn't know whether he was dead or alive, and when he was in jail we thought at least he was getting food and at least he was safe in jail. >> i didn't know that they did stuff like that to inmates, what they did do joey. >> reporter: they also didn't know that joey was dead. they found out four months later reporter. >> he told he is doing an article on joseph's death. and i said what are you talking about? i thought it was a joke. >> reporter: and they never had a chance to retrieve joey's body. he was cremated and his ashes were scattered before they even knew what happened.

>> we're catholics and that's the way we were raised, we were sup most to bury our -- our dead, our sons and daughters, whatever, and here we didn't have that opportunity. they didn't give that to us, and for that, i can't forgive them. there's -- that was so wrong. >> reporter: the durans also question why their son and other mentally ill inmates are put in prison in the first place. >> there should be some mental hospital or something where they can be watched and taken care of properly with people that are qualified. because i didn't believe these people in the prisons are qualified to take care of these mentally ill patients. >> reporter: what happened to duran and the other inmates in outrage. >> reporter: each of those used with pepper spray followed the rules to the tee.

in other words those correctional officers didn't do anything wrong. they followed the rules. >> reporter: changing those rules was at the heart of a massive class action lawsuit brought against the department of corrections in 1991. >> they were using force including ex seszive amounts of pepper spray to force these men to cuff up, to put handcuffs on and to move out of their cells. there's been too many mentally segregation. >> reporter: the state's use of solitary confinement and exseszive force not only violated their rights, but in some cases made their sickness even worse. here at the california medical

facility mentally ill patients are still not getting the treatment they need. here inmates are held in isolation without group therapy, the use of day rooms or access to play yards. citing the quote horrific videos played in court, the judge ruled the treatment of the mentally ill inmates was unconstitutional. and ordered the department of justice to change their rules. >> one of the most significant parts of the ruling was to say no, if someone is in segregation for no fault of their own, you no longer have the right to keep them in segregation, and he said i'm not telling you, you can't punish a mentally ill person for their behavior, but you cannot put someone into a unit where you know that they are going to get sick. so they are going to have to set

up new kindsover units that are safe or come up with a whole different kind of punish system. >> the department of corrections says it is reviewing the judge's order and won't comment. but in an earlier interview, a spokesman said use of force is sometimes necessary. >> sometimes things don't go the way we would like them to go, and a mentally ill inmate may turn violent. and in situations like that, custody staff are allowed to use pepper spray. sometimes unfortunately force has to happen. >> reporter: still the videos shown in court were difficult to watch. >> the staff and management were disturbed by what they saw in some of these videos. that in some cases too much pepper spray was being used too often, so we're looking at our

procedures to make sure that going forward that custody staff and clinical staff know exactly what needs to be done and when it comes to the use of force against inmates. >> the guard officers tend to use excessive force against people with mental illness, and the reason is that that's what officers are trained 20 do when someone misbehaves. they are trained to punish and that's what they do. >> reporter: this is a doctor of psychiatry and has studied prison conditions across the country. he says too often the focus is on custody and punishment instead of treatment and care. >> i speak to a lot of prisoners with mental illness, and what they hear from them is a kind of despair, that they know they have a mental illness, they are terrified that in prison their meantal illness will not receive

the proper treatment that they deserve, and instead they are going to be punished. it's very sad that correction departments, if left to their own devices will not do the right thing. they will not provide mental health care to people with mental illness, and that's why the legal battles have occurred. >> it's a case that we must -- we must learn from. i must -- take -- i must hope at least that we can do something so this doesn't happen again. >> joey really liked her. >> steve and elaine duran know it's too late for their son, but they say at least he didn't die in vain. >> i think his death made a big impact in the judge's ruling. because of his death he is helping other inmates that may have been pepper sprayed, so his

life. >> the durans may never find out why he died, but they can take comfort knowing joey lives on in these warnout snapshots and in the pages of this rules which seeks to make sure that mentally ill inmates are never treated like to again. and ahead here, considering an intruder, and its surprising value. a trip down river in kentucky >> start with one issue education... gun control... the gap between rich and poor... job creation... climate change... tax policy... the economy... iran... healthcare... ad guests on all sides of the debate. >> this is a right we should all have... >> it's just the way it is... >> there's something seriously wrong... >> there's been acrimony... >> the conservative ideal... >> it's an urgent need... and a host willing to ask the tough questions

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know that old saying, one man's trash is another man's treasure, it turns out it can work for troublemakers too. among the invasive spee anies our waterways is the asian carp. >> reporter: what do you do when an invasive species overwhelms american waterways. for two rivers fishery, the answer is earn millions for tending them back to china. >> last year we export half a million pounds, and this year we are going to utilize the numbers for export. at the same time, we also will market in the u.s. >> reporter: the massive asia carp first arrived here to control alguy gy. now they are bounded out of

lakes and rivers across the american midwest. one broke darrell's ribs. >> it justs over the boat and hit me in the ribs. they are dangerous. >> reporter: they are too big, too bony and too foreign for many american's taste. earning just $0.10 apound. but they are beginning to catch on with recreational fisherman. >> carp in this country is kind of a dirty word. in europe and asia it's a delicacy. but over here people just don't know. they are used to their big macs and french fries. >> reporter: for most fish there are limited seasons when you reel them in. but there is nothing the department of wildlife would

like than to deplete the number of these carp. >> we are trying to feed people and employ people. >> it is really good, people need to try it. >> reporter: and with the first of the invasive kriters now appearing in the great lakes watershed, no one is worried about overwishing asian carp in america. and that's it for us here on "america tonight." please remember if you would like to comment on any of the stories that you have seen here tonight, log on to our website. nd please join the conversation with us on twitter or on our facebook page. consider this.

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