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"newsroom" with robin curnow. >> begin with what some describe as quote, act of state terrorism. leaders in europe, uk and u.s. blasting belarus for forcing commercial flight to divert and arresting opposition activist on board. on a flight from greece to lithuania, the airline pointed to potential threat on board but reporting that president ordered the fighter jet to escort the plane to minsk where the passenger was detained. a passenger on board described what he saw. >> it was announced we're going to land in minsk, so stand up, open luggage door, take the
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luggage and was trying to split things like computer, gave to girlfriend or iphone, whatever it was. i think he made small mistake, around 90 people so he could give things not to the girlfriend which was also i think arrested. >> founder of two channels critical of the government, classified as extremist in belarus and been on wanted list for terrorism. lithuania's president is slamming belarus and plans to speak with european council in brussels in hours ahead. >> translator: we demand the release. if that's not done, we'll talk about serious sanctions at eu's disposal, and regime could face other measures, declaring air
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space unsafe for commercial flights. >> leader who ran against lukashenko called it unprecedented and calling on countries to help free him. >> people in prisons now who suffered for they wish to tell the truth about this situation, they are all our heroes, and i want him to be brave and strong but we really don't -- just can't imagine what is happening to him right now because, you know, it's difficult and conditions of people there are awful and just i want him to stay strong. and he is strong. >> senior adviser to the opposition leader joins me now from lithuania, also a friend and activist of roman, spoke to him before the flight. before we get to the details,
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get your thoughts and reaction now to all of the information that's coming out. >> honestly i'm still shocked. news was devastating, a few hours before everything happened, i was in touch with roman, and no one believed it could happen. exactly one week ago i was taking the same flight back from athens, and could be arrested the same way, could be imprisoned right now. >> that's your concern, no doubt about your colleague and friends. have you had any indication of his whereabouts and what is your concern about his state right now? >> we don't know what's happening to him, but imagine a young journalist flies back from athens where he worked and had vacation time and knew on the plane it was turning to minsk where he might face the death penalty, can't imagine what he was thinking in that moment, and
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of course all the passengers after four or five hours got back on the plane but no roman, and he's probably in cage right now at interrogation, usually takes several days and in belarus, when they interrogate, might use torture and other means. >> why have they targeted him and gone to such huge lengths to do so? >> he's very vocal and brave. he was covering protests since last fall when elections were falsified, he was posting videos and pictures and always commented on the events and challenged president lukashenko. and he used last few months to work on project, belarus of the brain, commenting on the development of the events in belarus to belarus audience in minsk and the regions. became personal enemy from
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lukashenko. >> why would he go to such lengths? one analyst said this is a sign of weakness, not strength. do you agree? >> absolutely. strong leader doesn't need to stop aircraft in order to arrest opponent. of course lukashenko doesn't have support in the country. lost his legitimacy, can rely only on violence, police force, law enforcement and kgb and enforcement on activists and journalists, that's a sign of desperation. >> what are you asking europe and u.s. to do. had comments from blinken and outcry from leaders. what do you want them to do? >> we want action, not condemnation. this is moment when west
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democratic countries must react. ask for imposing sanctions on lukashenko's enterprises and cronies that support the region. asking g-7 countries to raise the issue in summit in london, asking state department and white house to discuss how belarus democracy act might be implemented to help belarusians on the ground, people on the ground need help and need help right now. >> how concerned are you that all of that might be too late? you know, there is torture, perhaps, going on right now. and that a death penalty might be instituted here. how much urgency is needed? >> never too late to make effort to do something good. 35,000 people got detained since august, 3,000 under criminal charges in prison.
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about 20 face terrorist accusations, fake terrorist accusations and might face the death penalty, they don't death penalty for women in belarus but still horrible. immediate western reaction is must. >> thank you for joining us. for sharing your analysis and your concern. we'll continue to check in on you. >> thank you. >> and united states and european union are adding voices to condemn the arrest. european commission president tweeted the outrageous will you illegal behavior of the regime will have consequences. those responsible for the hijacking must be punished and shocking act perpetrated endangered lives of 120
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passengers, including u.s. citizens. we stand with the belarusian people and support their call for the regime to respect human rights. the u.s. secretary of state will also head to the middle east to meet with israeli and palestinian counterparts. u.s. is putting focus on reconstruction and humanitarian aid in gaza right now but anthony blinken insists there has to be a prospect of peaceful solution. >> president biden is committed to two-state solution, it's only way to ensure israel's future as jewish and democratic state and give the palestinians the state to which they're entitled. i hope everyone understands if there isn't positive change and particularly can't find a way to help palestinians live with more
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dignity and more hope, this cycle is likely to repeat itself. >> humanitarian aid is beginning to flow into gaza. palestinian officials estimate reconstruction will cost tens of millions of dollars. israeli air strikes left many structures damaged and unuseable. visits resumed to temple mount, the noble sanctuary. clashes between the palestinians and israeli police helped to trigger cross-border fighting earlier this month. with the latest. >> reporter: that tension is on gaza, trying to rebuild, reconstruct and assess the destruction that's befallen it. hundreds of trucks of aid finally flowing into gaza and tens of millions of dollars or more pledged by international organizations and others to help the people of gaza. there is concern from the
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international community as well as from other governments to make sure that money funneled into gaza actually goes to humanitarian efforts and doesn't end up in hands of hamas to rebuild tunnels and rockets arsenal. big concern about that. israelis also looking into ways to make sure the money is funneled through palestinian authorities to get to humanitarian efforts. egyptian delegations have been shuttling between israeli, palestinian and gaza officials trying to find ways to ensure the ceasefire lasts and hammer out the details to keep it as it is. we've seen quiet since the ceasefire announced early hours of friday morning and u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken is expected to meet with israeli, palestinian and other regional counterparts. what is interesting about his
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visit and comments he was making in interviews, speak of the need to restore confidence, dignity and calm but not jumping into negotiations for two-state solution. that's well within the goals of what americans want but said it's too early to speak about. what is also interesting, hearing from the israelis as well, finance minister, member of the cabinet speaking in interviews saying the ceasefire is holding but the hamas political leader needs to be careful, if rockets are fired, israelis will target him again. shows you how the ceasefire is holding but things are still tense as we saw in the clashes between the police and protesters friday. but ceasefire is holding. still intense and diplomatic efforts are under way. robin. >> thanks for that. tuesday marks one-year
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anniversary of the police killing of george floyd. president joe biden will observe the occasion hosting the family at the white house. family members held a rally at george floyd's memorial sunday. joe jones was there with this report. >> reporter: a rally and march in minneapolis commemorating the one-year anniversary of the death of george floyd who died under the knee of then officer derek chauvin, a death that set off demonstrations around the country, a tragedy and murder that is now a political movement. one of the big messages is passage of the george floyd justice in policing act which is tied up now on capitol hill. president biden had called for the bill to be on his desk by one-year anniversary on tuesday, but doesn't look like that's going to happen. family of george floyd will visit the white house, but the
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bill, tied up due to disagreements over immunity for police officers. joe johns, cnn, minneapolis. >> new jersey state policemen investigating after gunfire killed two and wounded dozens more at house party. shots rang out before midnight saturday in fairfield, new jersey, police still looking for motive and no information released. local minister heard at least nine shots, saw people running from the house. deadly shootings also reported in several other states over the weekend. new u.s. intelligence is raising questions about the origins of the coronavirus, because of high level reports that don't match up. intel found several researchers at wuhan institute became ill, hospitalized in november of 2019. but china reported to the world
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that first patient with symptoms wasn't recorded until month later. dr. anthony fauci says the search for answers needs to continue. >> i think we should continue to investigate what went on in china until we find out to best of our ability exactly what happened. certainly the people who have investigated say it likely was the emergence from animal reservoir that infected individuals, but could have been something else, we need to find that out. >> director of the wuhan national biosafety lab calls the u.s. intel report a complete lie on the hospitalizations. according to state media. cnn has reached out to chinese foreign ministry for comment. coming up, tragedy in italian alps, a dozen people killed in cable car accident. flexball veg designed to get virtually every hair on the first stroke.
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car accident that killed dozens. child the only survivor. opened investigation into negligence. in rome. >> reporter: following tragic news out of the italy, sunday morning, a cable car with 15 passengers plummeted down and almost all died immediately at the accident. this accident happened just as the cable car was about to reach final destination, 1,491 meters above the lake. trying to reach a panoramic outlook area over popular lake in north of the country. rescue workers had to be airlifted down or travel on site to reach the site, inaccessible by road. cnn, rome. >> at least 11 people dead after saturday's volcanic eruption in
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democratic republic of congo. hundreds of children are feared missing, separated from families. occurred near the city of goma, thousands fled to rwanda. how one described the situation facing survivors. >> translator: we were in the market, had to run without belongings. when we returned, houses were burnt and some people were left destitute, i got into an accident and got hurt, we're appealing for assistance, especially for food. we need food because we don't know where we're going to get it from. >> officials say the lava flow stopped by sunday, not before swallowing up 600 homes and flattening five schools. disposed myanmar leader aung san suu kyi due to appear in
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court. people killed by security forces in myanmar since the anticoup protests began in february. more than 4,000 people are still under detention. china is mourning death of 29 people after extreme weather hit a mountain race on saturday. frigid temperatures set in hours after the race began, some runners suffered from hypothermia, others went missing. 50 had to take shelter to wait for rescuers. next on cnn, nearly a year after death of george floyd, cnn sits down with black leaders to discuss its impact on the civil rights movement. >> i can't breathe has become almost the language of the streets. >> i can't breathe. #1 selling nerve care company.
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welcome back, 26 minutes past the hour. as we mentioned, tuesday marks one year since the death of george floyd at hands of police in minneapolis, minnesota. floyd's murder sparked a global protest movement over social justice and policing. sat down with civil rights leaders to discuss the impact of the worldwide protests. >> i can't breathe. >> george floyd's death went around the world in less than an hour. >> no justice. >> no peace. >> kept saying to myself, i
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can't believe this. i can't believe this. >> when i say george, you say floyd. george. >> floyd. >> begging to live, let me breathe. >> civil rights leaders who fought for racial justice with dr. martin luther king jr. more than 50 years ago are shocked that some of the same issues they marched and bled for are being relitigated today. voting rights, health care, police brutality. >> there's so many broken promises, unfinished pieces. we haven't repaired and eliminated bigotry, it's still with us. >> till is 14-year-old boy lynched in mississippi in 1955, his killers acquitted by all-white jury. but video and conviction of
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floyd's killer derek chauvin makes this moment dramatically different than the overwhelming number of cases against black people. global pandemic, perhaps igniting the largest mass movement in u.s. history. >> people matter. life must not be cheapened. >> i can't breathe, it's become almost the language of the streets. >> i can't breathe! >> i compare it to the little girl in vietnam who was walking down the road naked because napalm had bombed the clothes off her. george floyd's death had that kind of disgusting impact on people of good will who said no, this is too much. >> for the surviving members of dr. king's inner circle, there are lessons today's activists
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can learn from their experiences and experiences of leaders lost in 2020, reverend -- and john lewis. andrew young, one of king's trusted advisers, dedication to the greater cause is key. >> we just decided that freedom, justice and opportunity, and to perfect this democracy, was really worth your life. and he said we probably won't make it to 40. he said, but if we make it past 40 we're going have to make it 100 because it's going to take a long time to straighten this place out. >> media pioneer, dr. king's confidant, activists must protect the movement. >> dr. king never did anything without a plan. keep environment clear of interlopers, people who just want opportunity to get in on the news making moments. >> for reverend jesse jackson,
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king's protege, help is papable. what do you take away? >> keep your faith, love matters, there must be a way out of the crisis. i miss him very much. >> most important lesson, uphold nonviolent resistance. the moment they knelt before dogs and police in birmingham to show the power of nonviolence. >> instead of marching up and yelling, people got down on their knees and started praying. dogs were calmed down by the people praying, and the policemen were telling the firemen to turn on the fire hoses and they just -- they too were moved and let the hoses drop. that was one of the amazing things about the civil rights movement. nobody gave a damn about death,
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you know, dr. king used to preach our funerals and made us laugh at our own possibility of death. >> laughter in the face of death, enjoying the journey. three all recall king's final birthday, trying to help him break through some of the depression they all felt. >> martin luther king's day today. >> jesse and andy said the one who could change this. >> we thought would be stronger on shoestring, when you go to jail, shoestring potatoes. >> they knew through the pain and struggle, must also find the joy. it was his last birthday at 39. >> martin luther king is more with us now than he was in 1967. i would say to these young people that we're not going to ever be able to get george floyd out of our systems.
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as we will never forget martin luther king, or john lewis, and we shouldn't. >> cnn. just ahead, kenya's population has grown and that along with poaching and climate change may have been disastrous for the for the wildlife, how k is now taking action to reverse cocourse. with up to 30 days of freshness. get relief with febreze.
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>> reporter: good to see you too, this is first time country is planning something of this scale. traditionally focused on the elephant and rhino. in 2020 with most parks closed and tourism at standstill, didn't see as many ryhinos and elephants poached. but there's still a lot of wildlife, it's really expensive to count but with everything that happened, thought it was good time to figure out how much of the resource exists, how much is threatened and what to do next. i joined them here at the park. hippo getting a break from curious eyes now that pandemic has stopped most tourists from coming here. he's being tracked along with 1,000 other species, officials watching closely for irreversible decline in numbers. kenya's most ambitious
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conservation efforts. >> help us contribute to conservation, lost livelihoods without tourism and parks closed. >> reporter: lost 80% of the tourism because of the pandemic? >> yes. >> reporter: how long to recover? >> projection is 2024, we need to rethink to survive. >> reporter: to do that, they're using aircraft, gps trackers, camera traps and lot of manpower to know exactly how many are left. >> i feel really empowered, and feel yes, i'm contributing to the conservation. and getting out data that can be used to inform the officials on conservation matters. 126, right. >> reporter: five hours a day, seven days a week, researchers
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in the air combing through every inch of the country's rolling landscapes. >> we're just kilometers away from the tanzania border, this is good patrol height to be able to count, observe and report any animals they see. >> reporter: the census will track the consequences of climate change, poaching and human wildlife conflict. back on the ground, a growing power struggle with the masai people who gave up land for some of kenya's most famous parks. their livelihoods depend on their cows. but when covid tourism dropped, income disappeared. >> sure. >> reporter: what are they doing now? >> we have to sell one cow to buy for them the food. >> reporter: the team suspects
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erratic weather is affecting animal routines. >> seen wildlife in places they've not been in 50 years. lot resulting from climate change, we never used to have them permanent, and investigating as scientists. will you also lessened the habitat. >> will cover all the preserves on land and water, result will provide the largest ever source of data for kenya's conservation and tourism. >> reporter: the government says will help protect the millions who depend on this for their survival. pandemic has been devastating for kenyan tourism, about tenth of all jobs in economy and similar in gdp, completely wiped out, almost. and one of the initiatives that ministers suggested is
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privatizing the management of national parks and reserves and led to outrage in the country, he had to walk it back. lot of people are hoping this census will help make better decisions how to revive this critical part of the kenyan economy, robin. >> great report, larry, thank you. u.s. plans to restrict visas to those linked to humanitarian crisis in ethiopia. would block visa for former or current government officials, anyone involved in undermining the resolution of the situation in tigre. cnn has investigated atrocities there, sexual violence, mass killings and blocking of care to an area on the brink of famine. if you're international
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welcome back. japan has just opened two large-scale vaccination centers in tokyo and osaka as the country battles a surge in covid cases. less than 2% of the population is fully vaccinated. for more, go to tokyo for more on that. tell us where you are, what's happening right now. >> reporter: hey, robin, outside of the tokyo mass vaccination center, just moments ago there was large group of cars and security. prime minister just walking out of the area and going into the mass vaccination center,
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expected to shortly deliver some remarks. along with the osaka mass vaccination center that opened today together, aiming to vaccinate 15,000 people a day, run mostly by self-defense forces. doctors and nurses were administering the moderna vaccine. spoke to several people who got first dose today, feeling huge sense of relief. japan in midst of fourth wave of infections, also frustrated it's taken japan this long to start the large-scale vaccination. take a listen here. >> translator: everyone thinks we shouldn't hold the olympics but government isn't in position to say that. i think they'll definitely be canceled. >> reporter: the olympic frustration here is echoed by people on the ground i'm speaking to, according to local polls, more than 80% don't want them held this year, and mass
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vaccination centers only solving small part of very big problem. less than 2% of the population fully vaccinated, less than half a percent of the elderly and majority of health care workers are unvaccinated. problem is not lack of supply but manpower, doctors and nurses to administer the vaccination. japan, one of the most technologically advanced countries on the planet held back by red tape, bureaucracy and vaccine hesitancy. officials say they're confident the olympics can be held safely and expect the athletes to be vaccinated, but medical community feels differently, group has urged the government to cancel the games, feel they're going to further overstretch overburdened medical system in japan.
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>> thank you for that update, selina wang in tokyo. india hit another covid milestone, third country to stop 300,000 deaths from the virus. 3,500 on monday after dipping below 4,000 a day earlier. delhi is extending lockdown for fifth time and black fungus cases arising, found in states and union territories. fungal infection found among patients who recovered from covid in india. latin america countries are watching cases explode as well. argentina entered a new lockdown over the weekend and icus are pushed to the brink. >> reporter: as cases drop in the u.s. and country opens back up, other countries are locking back down. today more than ever, we need to
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take care of each other said the president of argentina as he announced another strict lockdown over the weekend. only essential workers allowed out in day, schools and nonessential businesses shut down once again, restrictive measures now in place until at least end of the month. comes as seven-day average of new cases hits highest mark of the entire pandemic. about even with average new cases in u.s. even though argentina's population is more than seven times smaller. inside the icus, stats on line graph become real. every patient is someone's child or parent says the doctor, tears in his eyes. i feel their pain. argentina's grief shared across latin america and the caribbean as entire region grapples with what might collectively be its gravest moment of this pandemic. seven-day average of new case
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recently the highest it's ever been. brazil, one of the worst-hit c countries in health officials are saying a covid-19 variant are reaching places like brazil, and covid-19 patients are forced to wait outside hospital entrances for beds to open up inside in facilities overwhelmed by sick people. they let her die because of a lack of bed and oxygen, said this woman who struggled three days to find a bed for her mother sick with covid. about 7% of all people in latin america and the caribbean have been fully vaccinated, far beyond the u.s. the hope is that the u.s. will share what this part of the
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world a lot of the 80 million doses promised for export for the biden administration, because without vaccines it's unclear how any of this gets better soon. cnn, mexico city. now the controversial arizona audit of the 2020 election is set to resume in the coming hours, and they could be sued over baseless claims that part of the information was deleted. joe biden and his team will have a busy week planned. on tuesday the president is hosting floyd's family at the white house. the biden administration is still trying to negotiate a massive infrastructure deal with
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the gop. president biden will mark the one year death of george floyd, who was killed at the hands of police. on tuesday biden will host the family of george floyd here at the white house. biden has actually met with them in person before traveling to houston back in june of 2020 to visit with the family ahead of george floyd's funeral there last year. the president has also spoken with the family on several occasions over the course of the past year, including a phone call to the family after the guilty verdict came in in the trial of officer derek chauvin. this visit comes as lawmakers up on capitol hill are still trying to hammer out a bipartisan deal on police reform. the negotiators have said they expect to blow past that initial deadline the president had set of having a bill on his desk by may 25th, but they insist progress is being made, even if
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they will not have a bill together this week. later in the week the president will travel to cleveland, ohio, to deliver marks on the economy, and he will also be releasing his budget, outlining his spe spending priorities for the coming years. there will also be a lot of attention paid behind the scenes as the white house is trying to negotiate a infrastructure deal, and the republicans have cut about $550 billion in funding from their initial proposal. republicans have objected to it saying that right now the two sides remain further apart than they were just a few weeks ago. the window for hammering out a bipartisan deal could quickly come to a close. the white house had suggested they wanted to have a bipartisan agreement around the memorial day holiday so there's clearly a lot of work for both sides to do
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if they are going to pass an infrastructure package bipartisan deal. at age 50 phil mickelson is the oldest to win the championship. mickelson was mobbed by fans calling the experience a little unnerving but exceptionally awesome. this is his sixth major career win. one of the city's largest crowds since the start of the pandemic came out to seat new york knicks play the atlanta hawks with the hawks edging out a slight victory. caroline has more. >> reporter: the crowd at madison square garden in new york city, the latest sign of a
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return to normalcy after the pandemic. 15,000 diehard knicks fans gathering under one roof in the playoff series against the hawks, and the largest indoor event in the state of new york since the pandemic began. about 90% of the crowd was vaccinated and that proof was required upon entry, either proof of vaccination or proof of a negative test within a 72-hour period. fans i spoke with said they feel c comfortable with the guidelines in place. >> twe're taking the right precautions. as long as everybody is vaccinated, at the end of the day everybody needs to be safe but obviously everybody here still loves their knicks and we have to get as many people in here as possible. >> first, the fact that fans are allowed to go back to sports the way they were used to, and dare i say it does feel a little
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normal out here, at least by our typical standards. of course the fact that the knicks are actually pretty good, fourth seed in the eastern conference making it into the playoffs when they have not won a playoff series in close too a decade, and all in all, a good night to be a knicks fan in new york city. >> thank you. four time u.s. olympic champion is the first to land this double pike. the difficult move has only historically been attempted by men, but biles makes it look so easy, doesn't she. she had a rhinestone goat on her leotard, and the goat standing for the greatest of all-time. the viral charlie bit my
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