ukrainians say are gunmen in the ukraine. cnn could not independently confirm the photos. one company is cancelling its climbing expedition to mount everest after 13 people were kill in an avalanche last week. the company lost five sherpas in the avalanche and said it's not looking to profit from this season. >> thanks very much. that does it for us. we'll see you at midnight eastern for another edition of "ac360". cnn tonight starts now. good evening i'm bill weir. welcome to cnn tonight. obey authority you teach our kids but things get scary, find an adult you trust. no telling how many lives are saved each day but tonight in south korea hundreds of parents are wrestling with the idea that

a little rebellion might have saved their life. as the president of south korea likens the captain's actions to murder, we will bring the latest from the water where divers are working and a former navy s.e.a.l. joins us to talk about the incredible difficulty there's. should anyone believe the authority figure in russia when vladimir putin says he knows nothing, nothing about russian special forces meddling in ukraine. the ukrainians say they have photographic proof that he's lying. u.s. government seems to agree. so what to do? we have ideas from both ends of the political spectrum. and we're entering the seventh week in the mystery of flight 370. that bluefin drone coming up empty once again. two-thirds of the way done with the search area that everyone was so hopeful about based on those location pings two weekends ago. to make things harder there's a

typhoon in the search area. we'll have the very latest on this. after so much grim news for so long let's begin with a story that just might be some kind of aviation miracle. a 16-year-old stow away who hitchhiked from california to maui in the wheel well of a 767 and somehow lived to talk about it. according to officials he got into an argument with his folks, ran away from home, jumped the fence at the san jose airport, climbed into that wheel well of a hawaiian air jet bound for maui and five hours later surveillance video shows him climbing out and walking on hawaiian tarmac. having somehow escaped hypothermia and hydraulics that could have smashed him like a bug. let's talk about this story, our medical director at the university of colorado and mary schiavo our friend from the d.o.t. who represents victims of transportation accidents as an attorney now.

thanks to both of you for being here. this is incredible. first of all, doctor, what is supposed to happen to the human body in an unpressurized area of an airplane 10,000 feet higher than everest? >> well, the first thing that happens is that you begin to lose circulation to your brain. and after a few minutes you end up being comatose. it's what happened to payne stewart in the flight he had over montana where somewhere the cabin pressure decreased and soon everybody on the plane was unconscious and the plane ended up crashing. >> mary, you must have seen this in your expense over the years. i month the faa they went back, there's something like 94 flights, people have tried, the survival rate is about 20%. but tell me about the wheel well

of a 767. is there enough room to hunker in there for five hours? >> well, usually not. usually people don't get it right. unfortunately, what often happens they are crushed to death or when the wheels, they make it through the part where the wheels come up and stowed but when pushed down, when the wheels are descended for landing they fall out. that's a typical scenario what happens. the cavity is very small. >> now some of the hydraulic lines that are in there if you are in there tight may give some residual heat, maybe not enough considering it can get down to minus 40 degrees at that altitude. but, doctor, how do you think this kid lived through this? >> well, it's interesting that the speculation is that he had a

temperature surrounding him of minus 40. i just can't believe that anyone could survive for 5 1/2 hours at minus 40. and my understanding is that there were no medical problems with him when he landed, which means that according to my reports he had no frostbite. so, my suspicion is that the temperature was not that low. that it was, low clearly it was low, but i can't believe that it would be down to minus 40. >> but how do you account for the lack of oxygen, though? i know climbers at everest it takes them days to acclimate. >> it takes them weeks, actually. that's a very good question. the plane went up to that elevation probably in about 10 to 15 minutes. it wouldn't have given him enough time acclimate. he probably became unconscious rather quickly at that elevation. and perhaps with the cold and if

it was in the range of zero to perhaps 30 degrees then perhaps he went into what we call this, this slowing down of the machinery state or hibernation that might have protected him and caused him not to need as much oxygen as normally we would if we were exerting ourselves. >> a i hhibernation. the people that survived, most of them were politically motivated. they were seeking asylum. some people psychologically are so month ti stritd survive this. this kid was running away from home. we don't want to discount that. do you buy that? that it has anything to do with the will to make it through? >> well i'm not sure about the will but there's certainly some evidence -- we're doing some studies on genetics on who can

survive these kind of environments at the school of medicine, and we have found that there are some people who are better adapters, who can acclimate much better than others. perhaps he was lucky in many respects one of which he had the right body composition and genetic composition to survive one of these extreme conditions. >> possibility of brain-damage, i'm sure you have to worry about? >> well, with these extreme hypothermic conditions there's some issue around the brain losing its architecture and having swelling in cells and we know from climbers that they have some difficulty when they first come back, if they've had some of this brain swelling, and with dexterity as well as with cognitive issues but they usually go away. but these climbers have been up in thosele ti attitudes for days not hours.

it's not clear what would happen after a four hour exposure or five hour exposure. >> if he escaped that. authorities have announced they won't press charges against him earth in hawaii or in san jose. mary, what does this story say to you about our state of aviation, runaway security and is it wise to let him skate with a alternative talking to >> well the feds can't prosecute him. this is a federal aviation violation, a criminal violation as well, federal aviation because the aviation crimes are federal. the federal government and the federal system doesn't really have a juvenile system, there's no way to prosecute him. so they turn juveniles over to locals and they don't have the laws to reach this kind of situation, so he's lucky in that he fell through a loophole in the federal system. so, i think what really needs to happen is yin the world were the security cameras not monitored at either site. why do we have them if nobody is

watching them. like the radar in our 370 story, if nobody is watching all this equipment why do we have it? that's the biggest question here and somebody has some explaining to do on that front. >> doctor, we appreciate your time. thanks for wk us. mary, if you stay with me let's turn to the hunt for flight 370. so many days of searching. so many false leads. so much worldwide attention in the fate of flight 370. we go perth, australia. richard quest has moved over to kuala lumpur for our coverage. miguel, start us off. what's the latest on day 45. >> reporter: day 45 there, day 46 here, bill. mission nine, dive nine for bluefin-21 is in the final completion stage now they are saying. sounds like they are basically downloading the data from it. so far no hits. nothing in that area.

this is an area that was -- they had hoped that they would find that plane very quickly. i think everybody that we spoke to thought they would come very quickly to some sort of a hit in this area. they are now through about two-thirds of it, perhaps more after this mission nine. and they still have no hits. there's also a storm out there that will probably make the visual search from the planes more difficult but that search, you know, i was out with the p3 crew last week and they keep at it every single day. extremely hard work. this many days on now, they realize it's going to be extraordinarily difficult to find anything on the surface left from mh-370. >> richard, i understand in malaysia there has been some discussions about insurance pay outs. what does that say about the state of mine of both the

officials and the families? >> reporter: i think it says that a sense of reality and practicality has to permeate. there's those family members who still hold out hope that some will be found alive. the reality, of course, for many others they need financial assistance. so under the various international regulations, interim payments now have to be considered and life insurance pay outs have to be made. but how do you make a life insurance pay out without eat ear body or death certificate? that's why the malaysia life assurance association is now looking into ways in which they can start to make those payments. it's not very pleasant to talk about, bill, to be sure, but the reality of these awful cases and these awful stories like plane crashes is that you do have to deal with the practicalities and that includes paying the bills. on the other front malaysia like australia and like everybody

else is now looking at how to move the search forward and what comes next. >> talking about july time frames from the u.s. navy. richard, miguel, thank you, gentlemen. please come back later in the show as we continues this story. after we take a break, the south korean ferry disaster. and the incredibly difficult task of raising that sunken ship. is there still any shred of hope that someone could have survived? find out next. marge: you know, there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try phillips fiber good gummies. they're delicious, and an excellent source of fiber to help support regularity. wife: mmmm husband: these are good! marge: the tasty side of fiber. from phillips.

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se >> scene in jindo, south korea is heartbreaking. parents of high school sophomores waiting for word after last week's ferry disaster. stretchers line filled with bodies coming off these boats one after one. they are taken to tents. and police manning the line are visibly shaken as they hear the wails of the personalities inside. the death toll has risen 1203 with 199 still unaccounted for. cnn's kyung lah is on a boat in the yellow sea where divers are searching for that ferry. how deep has it sunk? how deep do those divers have to

go? >> reporter: we understand that the divers have to go as far as 25 meters. it's a little unclear because we're talking about not a straight down but around a vessel. exactly how far in total that they are going. it's a little difficult, little more difficult math than it seems. what we can tell you is that there's an extraordinary amount of assets in this region. i just want to you scan the horizon quickly with me. you can see, look at all of these boats. these are military vessels. a number of coast guard vessels. you also see cranes out here. these cranes will eventually move in and begin the process of lifting this 6,000 ton vessel. it is a difficult task. and you mentioned, bill, 199 missing. many of them are those high school sophomore, only 15, 16 and 17 years old. that's why we're seeing so many people shaken up by what they

are seeing. we have seen divers, bill, out here continuing the search. bill? >> how are they characterizing it? is it now shifting to search and recovery. is the word rescue left on anyone's lips? >> reporter: rescue is still what everyone is saying. when we speak to divers and we've spoken to some very recently what they tell sues they have to believe that they are unwilling took september that there might not be an air pocket, that all of these kids are dead. an entire high school sophomore class was almost completely wiped out. i want you to look, those at this. look at this. this is the water. you see how incredibly murky it is. it is very murky as well in the search area. so not easy for these divers. and despite that, they tell us they are going to keep going because of that hope. when you say rescue versus recovery, yes, it's language but

important language not willing to go over to recovery quite yet. >> we appreciate the reporting. joining me now a man who knows the difficulties of this search. the author of "the s.e.a.l. survival guide." also kim petersen, president of security dynamics, governor emeritus. we got some new tick tock details of what went down that night, kim i want to get with you. but when talking about what kyung lah was just describing, the visibility that's less than the length of your arm, the temperature of the waters, the task at hand as a diver try to help us understand just how impossible all that is? >> i mean that's the word pretty much near impossible to try and operate in that environment. temperature. visibility. and now that the ship is lying there on the bottom of the sea,

you have all that sediment. so where the visibility was challenging when the ship was floating it's been reduced three times. instead of two feet of visibility, more like about four to six inches of visibility. and to try to locate something in that environment just incredibly difficult for these divers. >> they are literally probably feeling their way around. on electrify you were adamant there could be people in an air pocket and should get those cranes on that ship to stabilize it. couple of days later what are your thoughts? >> well, unfortunately, look i'm not on scene, so i can't understand why decisions were or were not made. with the resources of three kraens on scene i don't know why efforts were not made to keep the ship on the surface. hopefully we'll get more information about that. i got to be honest with you.

i kind of thought the three or four day mark was it with the ticking clock and now we're at where we are, too many variables against somebody surviving that situation. >> certainly can't blame the mom and dads from holding out more. >> we hear more interviews with the survivors and witnesses and you hear the transmission lotion. this seemed like an almost perfect storm of one bad thing after another. the coast guard will arrive in 15 minutes, they got word. tell your passengers to wear life jackets. the ship respond now we lost our ability to broadcast our messages. the message that said stay in your cabin that got to the kids, the second one didn't. but what's interesting to me is that the person at the wheel, at the helm was a woman who had only been 26 year old, youngest of the ship mates. she had been with the company six months. this is the first time through this waterway known for rapid

and unpredictable currents and frequent accidents. does that make sense to you is that common? you give the nubby the overnight the third shift? does that raise alarms? is that libel? should the ferry company be held libel for something like that? >> well, it's an interesting situation. it's very usual for the master or the captain of the ship not to be on the bridge and to leave the responsibility for helming the vessel in the hands of subordinates. in this case, however, the captain may have violated korean law with respect to the particular area where they were navigating, because of the proximity of the islands to the channel that they were navigating through the captain is obliged to be at the bridge. and he wasn't. and there's a reason for his having to be there and that is because of the relative narrowness of the channel. you know, when we look at this

incident, it has eerie similarities to what we saw with the "titanic" 102 years ago and with the "costa concordia," just a couple of years ago. than that is at the outset the captain failed to recognize the severity of the damage to his ship, and as a consequence failed to do what was necessary in order to muster his passengers and crew to stations where they could abandon the ship properly. the captain didn't do that. in addition to those two failures we also have seen a failure in the lifeboats in the "titanic," in the "costa concordia" and here in the sewol they didn't have lifeboats they had life rafts and only two of the 46 on board were deployed. >> later one of the witnesses said the captain order they release the lifeboat, they tried but because of the angle of the

ship they couldn't get to it. is this the best system for lifeboat deployment? this is a 20-year-old ship. i look at that footage and i see the guy kind of going over there to that stack of lifeboats. isn't there a design that would fire these things automatically? >> there isn't. if you look at similar sized ferry passenger vessels what we call roll pack, roll on, roll off operating in the baltic, for example, you have lifeboats which are ready for people to get into and then have them lowered into the water and life rafts which have to be manually deployed, thrown into the water and passengers and crew would have to swim to them in order to get on board. in the case of the korean ferry there were only life rafts. because of the delay by the captain to order that the life rafts be deployed the ship was at such an acute angle they were unable to deploy them and as a result it just added to the

tragedy that we're witnessing now. >> if there's a legacy for those kids it's hopefully we re-evaluate this entire set up. thank you both very much. when we come back, more on the crisis in eastern europe. is vladimir putin using a centuries-old secret that allows russians to hide in plain sight? at delta we're investing billions of dollars, improving everything from booking to baggage claim. we're raising the bar on flying and tomorrow we'll raise it yet again.

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take over another sovereign nation. you can assassinate leaders or have a revolution or invade old school shock and awe style or send in guys in ski masks to lead an armed revolt all while pretending to be a bunch of concerned locals. in russia they have a name for that flavor of military strategy. it's top secret white house national security director describes the russian doctrine as the use of camouflage, concealment and deception in the conduct of military operations. wait. how did you get a top secret white house directive you wonder? well that one was signed by ronald reagan in 1983. the point is it's nothing new. they used it against germany in world war ii and to sneak missiles into cuba in the 1960s. now vladimir putin said let's put the mask back and take crimea and eastern ukraine. two problems those masks are

itchy and these days everybody has got a camera. so the government in ukraine is happy to share their evidence that the men taking over government buildings are russian military in bad disguise. check out the guy in the duck dynasty beard. this was when russia was creating turmoil in georgia in 2008 and then here's someone that looks similar in two cities in ukraine this month. we can't confirm those tos as smoking guns but ukrainians are pointing to guns and distinctive russian accents all used with those with russian ties. and u.s. endorse these allegations. what to do? reagan had a plan to deal with it. unfortunately a censor blocked it out. what should barack obama do about this rounds of russian deception and denial.

bi nick you're just back from the fatherland. your father is from ukraine. >> my dad grew up there. i was back in ukraine. also went back to my dad's native village. >> what's the feel? what are they saying about putin, about america and everything? >> one 16-year-old girl in my n ancestral village said i can speak russian and as a patriot i won't. that was the mood there. people they especially kids they want to be a part of the west, they want -- they see poland getting richer and stronger. they want to be poland. they want to listen to modern music. they want to be wealthier. they want to have better lives. to them russia represents the soviet union and a failed experiment. >> what do they want from the united states and the west? >> they are disappointed in the west. they feel they have had

unrequited love affair with the u.s. they admire the u.s.. they want to be part it. they feel the u.s. is standoffish. we're not providing as much as aid as we might or much moral support. they understand we won't send troops. there's no expectation of that. they would like to see more of a hug. >> do they reed bill krystal. when you say troops we think bill krystal. do you think we should have american boots on the ground in ukraine >> i'm not sure we should. i'm not sure the president of the united states should rule it out. what happens if putin invades ukraine. we stuck to that position in syria. assad used chemical weapons. let's ball club to air power or air support or providing weapons to the ukrainians. is that a bridge too far for

president obama. people in ukraine are right to be disappointed in us and i say that with great regret because we don't have an american president who is standing up to putin in the way reagan did. >> but it doesn't seem, you know, if history is any guide, you really think he's motivated by what obama thinks about foreign policy? >> i think he could be deterred by what obama does in foreign policy. putin is worried about the u.s., standing up to him. he's an opportunist. he's moved to take parts of the ukraine, move to take more parts if he doesn't see strength. it's not us alone, it's us leading nato. but he has to see strength from us. >> bill and i have very similar last names. we have a different approach on this. president reagan, it was under president reagan, after all, that the soviet union and poland cracked down on solidarity in 1981. it was under president george w.

bush that was at tough an interventionist as one could imagine that the soviets grabbed two parts of georgia in 2008. this is not about president obama. this is about putin. >> right. >> i think there indeed have been places where the obama administration has messed up and syria is one of them. i don't think that has anything to do with president putin's actions today. >> you said you met some taylor swift fans over there who love the west. you'll bet on taylor swift winning hearts and minds more than putin, maybe push these people through this afwregs into the aren't of the west? >> in the long run -- in 1968 when the so let union invaded czechoslavkia -- maybe putin can

grab a chunk of southern ukraine or eastern ukraine. in the long run he's expelling ukraine from the russian empire and it is becoming a part of the west. these people increasingly, teen russian speakers are offended by the propaganda that they see on russian television and that's driving them to the west. >> bill, speaking of obama's fortitude, the steel in his spine, you might have seen this news out of yes money over the weekend. 65 militants killed in a drone attack. your report card on that side of his foreign policy must be pretty glowing. >> he has a decent counterterrorism policy just doesn't have a decent foreign policy. putin was influenced what he saw happened last summer when

president obama backed off the red line. for nick to say calmly, you know, wait a few decades things will work out fine, is that how the real world works? you let the dictators digest their games and we hope people rise up. reagan did a lot of things to liberate eastern europe. he didn't react with force most of the time but he had a defense, he stuck with nato. he deployed missiles to western europe. >> he wasn't coming off a ten year war in iraq. >> he was coming off tough wars in vietnam and korea. vietnam was how many years before reagan game president? seven years. that didn't deter reagan from derogatory a tough foreign policy. it's weakness that invites war and weakness we'll end up having to use force when we wouldn't

have had to if we seemed stronger. >> up disagree with the idea that there's a war fatigue in this country because historically we get through big ones and then go back. the appetite for this is -- >> the latest survey i saw was that 58% of americans did not want us to do anything about ukraine, even economic sanctions. >> 58% of britains didn't want anything to do to be done about czechoslavkia in 1938. >> in the long run, i agree that's an unappetizing solution. i which there were a more immediate solution. but think back to when russia grabbed moldovia. looking back i think we can agree it would have been a worst mistake to try to send u.s. forces there over this little territory.

we accepted something unfortunate and russia stole it. in 2008 we accepted russia stealing parts of georgia. this year we accepted russia stealing parts of crimea. it's frustrating. but sometime there isn't a better alternative. >> i'll give you ten second rejoiner, bill. >> nick would agree to defend our nato allies or do we accept some trouble making and seizing of a country there. >> those guys can have missiles and taylor swift cds all they want. more than six weeks of intensive searching. still no plane. they are recalibrating the hunt for flight 370.

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in australia it's day 47 in the hunt for flight 370. underwater search area is on going now. joining me now captain tim taylor who has mapped hundreds

of square miles of under sea. tim, let's talk about the plans that are already being floated. u.s. navy is starting to think about all right what will we do in july? there are really killing our buzz. we thought we had something to go on there a couple of weekends ago. what do you make of the current state of the search effort? >> i've been saying all along if you think of this mission to find the wreckage based on the pings, there's a hundred bluefin mission and we're on mission nine. so you have a ballpark figure. it takes time to survey the bottom of the ocean especially that deep and you got to couch your expectations. if they do fine it it's going to be one of those super lucky again we just found it in nine

dives. think a hundred dives and then you might be getting some place. it will take until july. >> did they set unrealistic expectations at the beginning. we just need one to cover all the ground we need? >> one is enough. it just takes the time. you start launching multiple vehicles you seem to be able to solve some problems like they did with air france by covering more ground. it's more complicated. it's like juggling. you got multiple signals and multiple vehicles. >> if i'm a mom or dad sitting in a conference room and i see this one torpedo thing that's all you got. why not two or three. >> it's hard to find two or three available. >> is it hard to procure three bluefin? >> two was okay.

three was harder because we have to -- we found one in germany and talked to the germans and okay. it was a brand new one. it's not very easy because especially in deep, deepwater, you know, they can go 20,000 feet. bluefin can go to 15,000 feet. >> they launch it from multiple ships or -- >> same ship. one mission every day. because each mission is about 20 hours. and about six hours between the time to come up and come down and to download all the stuff. and worked for 66 days consecutively and we were almost finding good one. but unfortunately we were diverted. you have to go there to look --

we western there and we lost two weeks. we have 66 days at sea no more after 66 we have to stop and we have to wait and the french -- at this time i was working for the french ntsb to raise money again between the french government, between air france and when we get money we go back at sea and after ten days we fine it. if we weren't diverted the first time we would have found it. >> these are the things that, you know, we think just the dedication, they are there, we see it. if you tell your wife i'm going to find this plane i'll be back in a couple of weeks. these other things at play. funding. >> funding isn't an issue right now because it's such a big international mission and people have brought things to task.

the navy isn't sitting there saying we're is going to leave if you don't write a check. these things are expensive. a few years ago they were going for $60,000 a day to put the bluefin in the water. now they come out to half of that. if you put it in the water that's just the bluefin. not counting the boat. >> now it costs $200,000 a day. >> $200,000 a day. >> just for the boat and the plane if you put it all together. >> thank you both for being with us. when we come back some of the families of flight 370 turning to lawyers. can that help at all? we'll find out next. is

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the anguish of the families of flight 370, very few of us can even understand. i guess it's understandable some of us are looking to the laws for answers where they've gotten none other, but will that give them what they want? back with me now, mary, who represents families, and joining us, aviation trial attorney, michael verna. so, michael, what do you think, if they are getting nothing but frustration from the malaysian authorities and the airline, would going to court give them leverage that they wouldn't get elsewhere otherwise? >> well, i wouldn't so much as call it leverage. it gives them opportunity.

that's what our court systems are meant for, opportunity to do their own independent investigation and seek damages they are entitled to under the law that applies. the montreal convention international treaty dictates recovery families can obtain, where the cases will be venued, what law will apply will also dictate by the convention. that's dependent on the ticket for each individual passenger, but i think the greater issue is whether or not they could file action in a court, but without having any of the wreckage discovered, without getting the black box, we're talking about issues that go far beyond the 239 souls that lost their lives in this accident and their families, we're talking about not knowing what happened to this aircraft and, thus, not having a probable cause determination by any official government investigation as to what happened. that very well may mean that all of the flying public doesn't know if the next boeing 777 they are in has any design

deficiencies or if any pilot protocols or training they normally engage have been improper or insufficient that allowed this accident to happen. so it's not just a matter of the claims of the 239 families, which is, certainly, they have the right to pursue those claims and should pursue them, but it's also getting to the bottom of really what happened here, and i fear that the lawsuit can't answer that question. >> yeah, mary, speak to that. we need to know if i'm going to buy a ticket on malaysia airlines, what their maintenance schedule is, all those things. what do you take of michael's take? >> yes, but you're never going to get that at the rate they are going because the malaysian government won't tell them. what families want to do is they want to feel empowered and it happens about the time they feel they are not getting answers, they don't have the rights to anything, and it's one thing for an airline or the government to say, well, we're not going to answer your questions, but once

you start the legal system, the one thing the legal system does do is it levels the playing field, so when you ask the other side for answers, they have to answer the questions, because otherwise a court and a judge will say you will answer the questions, so i think it's about empowerment and discovering things right now no one will tell them the answers to. it does take time. on average about three and a half years from the accident to the going through the door of the court. >> we talked at the top of the show, michael, about discussions from some life insurance companies whether to do payouts to some of these families. without death certificates, that is a sticky proposition, i'd imagine. >> oh, very much so. and you're talking about, you know, just access to bank accounts that families have, probating estates, dealing in real estate transactions. i mean, the day-to-day things these families have to go through that they can't accomplish without having some

clarification as to what the status of their loved one is. and, certainly, having evidence that there has been a death, which the death certificate certainly would be, is necessary in order for any of the families to file an action in a court and try to have an adjudication of their rights and be empowered, as mary says, because that is what the court systems are intended to do, to empower the victims of this accident to get answers to the questions that they need answered. i just fear that there aren't any answers to be found yet because we still don't have the black box. we can hold malaysian airlines and insurers accountable for their responsibilities under the law and we can find out, certainly, through the discovery process, what the investigation entailed and whether there are things that can be done better to prevent loss of aircraft like this, but the ultimate issue is what caused this crash, and we still don't know that. >> we do not. we're all in limbo on this story. michael and mary, appreciate your insight.

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