this hour we'll have the very latest on the aggressive search and rescue effort at a collapsed florida condo, plus the justice department sues georgia over the state's new voting restrictions, but does attorney general garland have any hope of winning? much of the u.s. northwest swelters under a record-setting heat wave. we have a forecast for the reenl region. welcome to all of you watching in the united states, canada and around the world.

i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." we begin in florida, where the death toll has risen following the collapse in the city of surfside. this is what's left of champlain south condominiums after part of the structure came crashing down 72 hours ago. a fifth body was pulled saturday. 156 others are unaccounted for. the mayor says the aggressive search for survivors is still the top priority. >> our teams have been working, around the clock, as always, to search for survivors. they have not stopped. and today, our search-and-rescue teams found another body in the rubble. and as well, our search has

revealed some human remains. >> the cause of the collapse is still unknown but we've learned that major structural problems with the buildings were flagged back in 2018. randi kaye has more on that. >> reporter: officials here are also looking at report from three years ago which has caught the attention of many from 2018. it's a structural field survey report. it talks about the structural integrity of this building that collapsed and there are some things in it that are alarming. they cite the sizeable cracks in the concrete slab below the pool. they have crumbling in the parking garage they say. they found abundant cracking in the parking garage in the concrete columns and in the beams in that parking garage. they say the previous garage concrete repairs are failing. so the question is why wasn't anything done about this or was anything done about this in the last three years?

it is important to note that in this 2018 report there is nothing to indicate that this building is facing imminent collapse or at risk of collapse. i just want to be very clear about that. the mayor here in surfside, florida, is saying that it's really unclear to him at this point what steps were taken to address those concerns that were cited in that 2018 structural field survey report. i'm randi kaye reporting in surfside, florida. back to you. >> as randi mentioned the 2018 field survey is raising questions about the structural integrity of the building. the report revealed alarming concerns about concrete below the pool deck and in the parking garage and part of it reads abundant cracking and spalling of various degrees was observed in the concrete columns, beams and walls. some of the damage is minor. most of it needs to be repaired in a timely fashion. spalling is a term for concrete cracked or crumbled.

they are concerned about the north tower. surfside mayor is recommending residents evacuate out of an abundance of caution. >> they didn't find anything out of order so that's reassuring. people have concerns staying in the building. i can't say i'd be excited about staying in that building either. >> joining me now is forest landing, structural engineer with fema nine in california. thanks so much for being here with us. you've seen the detail about the structural problems and repairs needed and looked at the pictures of the building before the collapse. so let's set aside hindsight here. should the alarm bells have rung much more urgently? >> i think so.

it's been several years since that report came out, and reading through the report, there was evidence of the concrete spalling, cracking and corrosion on the rebars and what's really concerning is it was happening in the basement, the basement covers the whole block, so it extends beyond the footprint of the building. so above the basement is exterior, the outside and the report said there was no slope to the slab so it was ponding water. so the water would stay on there until it evaporated, and there was a lot of calcium carbonite in the contreat and attempts to repair cracks but the report also stated there was further cracking since the repair. that is a red flag. it's unfortunate what happened but there is, there was warnings for this.

>> one of the possible factors experts are talking about is salt from the ocean, from the air, many years ago i covered a deadly pancake collapse of a structure and engineers found runoff from the deicing road salt contributed to the corrosion of the rebar and the bonds with the concrete. explain what the long exposure salt has on the integrity of the buildings? >> having the outside air is a problem. having high humidity is a bigger problem. having high humidity and salty air is a worse problem. we have ocean front structures. the structure is being basically blasted by the sea air, full of salt, especially if it's on the beach the entire lifetime. it doesn't get a break from it. salt is the worst corrosive agent for the rebar inside. usually in structures in the

environment, there is extra thick concrete covering the rebar. i don't know if this case it had extra concrete but my guess is it wouldn't, because a lot of the structure was internal to the building. you usually do that only on exterior features. it sounds like there was excess amount of cracking through the top slab of the basement, and through on the exterior cladding of the entire building, there's evidence of a lot of this. >> the concern, of course, is that this could be more widespread in terms of other buildings perhaps. miami-dade's mayor said there will be an audit of all the buildings in the county that are at the 40-year point and beyond. sounds like a huge undertaking. my question is, why 40 years? why is that the magic number, if the building is say 35 years, is nothing to worry about there? why is that significant? >> i'm not really sure where they came up with 40 years. a lot of times buildings have a life span they're designed for.

typically, depending on the type of use of buildings, but more or less they're about 50-year life spans. 40 years is -- my assumption is that's approaching the end of that life span so they're going to do this whole recertification of the building. there's enough time before the end of the life span. >> but with bridges and other important structures they do it much more often. shouldn't that perhaps be doing it every ten years, something like that, considering especially some people are saying climate change might play a factor with the changing climate, should we perhaps change our regulations? >> i agree. i think it probably should be 20 years. it should definitely be shorter than the 40 years especially on oceanfront structures. now if there's buildings on the interior inland away from the ocean, 40 years might be fine. the oceanfront structures need

inspections more often. there will be a lot more quicker corrosion. it just gets a beating from it including all of the hurricanes that hit florida. >> thanks to forest landing, structural engineer with fee in a region nine in california. as rescue crews ramp up efforts families are holding on to hope their loved ones will be found alive. the mother of delgado, her daughter spoke with wolf blitzer on saturday describing some of her mother's plans for the future. >> we were planning a trip after covid she became 80 during covid and let's go to napa with the grandkids and august and september, she couldn't wait for that to happen. >> she's lived in this building for ten years? >> over ten years. >> has there ever been any indication of structural problems or anything like that? did your mom ever complain about

the building? >> she didn't complain about the building. she was complaining about assessments and reviewing those assessments, whatever they were. i will say when the other building beside it was being, relatively new, was being built she did complain of a lot of tremors and things that were being done to the other building that she sometimes was concerned of what may be happening to her building that may be putting it at risk as a result. >> but she loved living here and loved living in this building. >> she loved the building. she loved the community. faith-born woman. she had her group of friends at the church, st. patrick's, very close knit. we're about an hour and a half. she'd drive over to see me in jupiter without problem. she just loved being able to do whatever she wanted, to be by the water, she loved being by the water. >> to learn how you can help the collapsed victims and their families head to cnn.com/impact.

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matt hancock was caught kissing an aide in photos published by "the sun." a british tabloid said they were having an affair and the images were from may before stricter covid restrictions were in place. hypocrisy is at the center of the controversy. >> that's right, that was the downfall from matt hancocks, former health secretary forced to step down given the pressure on him from that photo that you mentioned. it's an impaneling put on the front page of "the sun" newspaper on friday. this image shows matt hancock, in an embrace, kissing his aide at the time. it wasn't so much the morality of his actions of the affair, the infidelity but rather the

hypo hypocrisy. it was may 6th, a week after easing of social distancing, a week after that photo that you can hug people. this from a health minister who told people they had to abide with the rules, it was strict for the right reasons to keep a lid on this pandemic. this is a man who created, he was the architect of these rules and clearly what people are saying it is hypocritical of him because he was doing the opposite and this was what really broke the camel's back. that and now accusations of cronyism, because gina michaelangelo the aide captured in the photo he brought her in

as a nonexecutive in the health department and that is public money being spent so plenty of accusations regarding that, but let me give you a sense of what the papers are saying. i'll show you the front page, humi humiliated, inside "puritan in chief" who became the minister for had inkrissy says "the sunday times." "hancock quits his job and marriage." in the "observer" hancock may have gone but questions of integrity linger. xwgs matt hancock wrote a letter to the prime minister. the prime minister said he was sorry to see him go but he apologized for his failings. take a listen. >> i understand the enormous sacrifices that everybody in this country has made, that you have made and those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them and that's why i've got to resign.

>> reporter: it wasn't just the public outcry but also members of his party of boris johnson's party who felt that his position was untenable. kim? >> so much more than just a kiss there. cnn's isa suarez reports, appreciate. new coronavirus restrictions have gone into place in parts of australia this weekend as covid case numbers tick upward. a two-day lockdown went into effect a few hours ago in some northern territory areas, the two-week stay-at-home order is under way in the sydney region. ivan watson joins us live from hong kong. what is the latest? >> reporter: an outbreak in south wales, 100 linked to a cluster to the driver of a vehicle transporting airport air

crews around and this is centered on the bandai beach region. the top official is warning the numbers are expected to continue to grow. >> i also do want to foreshadow that given how contagious this strain of the virus is, we anticipate in the next few days, case numbers are likely to increase beyond what we've seen today because we are seeing that people in isolation will have already transmitted it to all of their household contacts so we want to anticipate that case numbers will increase. >> reporter: the authorities in new south wales have a softer term, not lockdown but stay-at-home. our cameraman was filming around sydney and bandai in that neighborhood, which is kind of the hot zone for this outbreak. we saw some kind of empty

commercial areas along beaches, large numbers of people out on streets and on beaches exercising, which is allowed without masks on, and as he pointed out, quite close to a covid testing area, where the people administering the tests were in full kind of almost hazmat suits which made for an unusual contradiction there. one of the challenges that australia is facing with relatively low number of infections, about 30,000 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, very strict quarantine rules for travel in and out of the country, that it has very low vaccination rates with about 7.2 million doses distributed in a population of some 25 million, estimates around 10% of the population vaccinated so it is a population that is vulnerable to new potential outbreaks and to the highly transmissible delta variant. there are efforts to try to

contact trace after a minor tested positive in the northern territory, and now the authorities are looking for some 900 other people who were working in the same gold mine there. the latest outbreak in new south wales punctured temporarily at least the travel bubble with new zealand which suspended quarantine free travel for the moment to and from new south wales. >> something to keep an eye on. thank you for wrapping that up for us, ivan watson in hong kong, appreciate it. nathan hmong, a u.s. citizen is speaking out for the first time since being released from prison in myanmar. he was tortured by the june ta in the rooms of hell. he's fighting for the release of other journalists just like him who have been arrested. anna koren has the interview.

>> reporter: dwarfed by elm trees on the outskirts of washington, d.c., nathan hmong takes in his new surroundings, a world away from the hell where he's been. just last week the 44-year-old american journalist arrived on american soil after more than three months behind bars in myanmar. >> sometimes i dream i really went back to prison because my daughter is here. i'm with my friends. my country. >> reporter: nathan a u.s. citizen who lives in myanmar was arrested with his producer back in march. a month after the military june ta staged a coup. they raided their office, blindfolded and taken to an interrogation center on the

outskirts of yangon when the real terror began. how did the treatment begin? >> they put the blindfold and started questioning and they get in our face and head and shoulder all the time. for every hour answer they beat us for three days nonstop. >> reporter: on the fourth day, nathan says the soldiers realized he was a u.s. citizen and stopped the beatings. but the 39-year-old hantha it only intensified. they bashed him, burned his skin with cigarettes and then as a way to get his password to access his phone nathan said they threatened to rape him. >> crying i will give my passport. >> re >> reporter: they found a photo with aung san suu kyi. the torture lasted for 15 days, the screaming and crying nathan heard from other prisoners haunting him. >> sorry. >> reporter: soldiers moved to the notorious insane prison home

to about 10,000 prisoners. >> i believe i was in that room. >> reporter: they were separated and held in solitary confinement in cells 8x12'. >> i was in cell number nine, he was in 12. >> reporter: denny fenster was held at insane prison but did not see him. on the 14th of ju uncne charges spreading misinformation were dropped and released. but his partner remains behind bars. >> i said see you buddy. we'll be back together outside. we'll be all together. i'll be waiting for you. yeah. yeah. we'll be together. someday. >> reporter: it's been ago know, the military refusing any access to him.

>> translator: as a sister, i just want to hug him tight. i miss him so much. i'm so worried he will not be released and have to stay inside. >> reporter: nathan says the junta see the people as the enemy and is pleading with the international community to stand up against this brutal regime. the junta says it's using restraints against what it calls r ri rioteous protesters. >> please don't deal with the terrorists. people fight for the people's freedom. >> denny fenster was charged under the fake news law and appearing in court on thursday. his family still hasn't had any contact with him and are appealing to the u.s. government to secure their son's release. washington says it hasn't been granted access to him by myanmar officials. sudan's council of ministers agreed on a resolution with the

country's military to hand omar bashir to the international criminal court. he was ousted in april 2019 after months of nationwide protests and faces five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes allegedly committed during sudan's military campaign in darfur between 2000 and 2008. the court says arrest warrants for him were issued in 200 9 an 2010. he is the first sitting president to be indicted by the international criminal court. 'not clear whether he will be transferred to the court. coming up the death toll in florida's devastating building collapse rises as desperate families await news of loved ones unaccounted for. a historic heat wave is baking northwestern north america. is there any relief in sight from the record-breaking hot weather? we go to live to our meteorologist ahead. please do stay with us.

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welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. returning to surfside, florida, search and rescue operations are growing more aggressive after another body was found in the wreckage of a massive building collapse. part of the structure came crashing down in a matter of seconds early thursday. right now the death toll stands at five and the whereabouts of 156 others are still unknown. we've learned manlg dwror structural problems with the building were flagged back in 2018 so that's leading to concerns about the nearby north tower and just how safe it is.

the impact of this tragedy extends far beyond south florida. many are from latin american countries. their loved ones outside the u.s. are watching the situation unfold from afar. matt rivers has more from mexico city . >> reporter: as so many american families are awaiting news. any sort of word on the fate of their loved ones, as a result of this partial collapse. so, too, are dozens of latin american families. whose loved ones are among those that are missing. remember, there are multiple south american countries that have citizens that are among the dozens and dozens of people that remain unaccounted for, at this point. we have done some reporting over the last several days talking to different family members from some of those south american countries. and the consistent theme that we hear is that, among the worst part of all of this is just the lack of information. the lack of any sort of news on the fates of their missing family members. we know this is an international

response. both israel and mexico saying that they have sent workers, rescue workers, to try and help with the international effort. with the search-and-rescue effort that is currently underway in south florida. we also know that the u.s. government, u.s. senator marco rubio's office, trying to expedite visas for the foreign nationals who have family members who are among those missing at those -- at this juncture. trying to get family members the ability to even come to south florida, and be there, present, as these rescue efforts continue. but unfortunately, we know that the more time goes by, as each hour ticks by, the chances of finding people alive in that debris continues to go down. matt rivers, cnn, mexico city. >> residents of the other champlain towers are asked to voluntarily evacuate. reporter joseph ojo from wplg has the story of a woman survived climbing through rubble

in the dark holding her dog. >> i was one of two i think that survived on my floor. >> reporter: as sharon schechter was fast asleep. her condominium came crashing down. >> it felt like the whole building was shaking. >> reporter: she looked outside to see what was wrong. i realized, oh, my god, where's the building? there's no building. >> reporter: then quickly grabbed her dog and ran for safety. >> i literally walked out with nothing. >> reporter: sharon tells me she and others tried running down the only available stairwell but then they were faced with a ton of rubble. >> there was no way it was going to help, we're here, come get us. >> reporter: she had to climb through the rubble and on top of cars to get out. >> it was pitch black. like the titanic. we're finding our way out until we got to light. >> reporter: once she got out -- >> it's like mike. mike's in the building. where is mike?

i called him. i have his number. >> reporter: all she could think of is her neighbors who didn't make it out. >> i feel like i'm mourning. every minute, for someone in that building. >> reporter: sharon operates a medicare insurance business out of her apartment. she says the building collapsed so quickly that she wasn't able to grab her personal items like her passport and important documents for work. although her livelihood is gone, she is grateful to be alive. >> i'm hoping that there's a reason why i survived, a bigger picture. >> that was reporter joseph ojo from cnn affiliate wplg. we're also learning from, hearing from a man who witnessed the immediate aftermath of thursday's tragedy. daniel groves was on a vacation in a nearby hotel when he heard a loud explosion that shook the building. he spoke with cnn about his terrifying experience. >> that video is six minutes, a couple minutes after the building collapsed. my thing was i was just showing my family what was going on.

if we lost cell service, i was recording the video for my family so they could see what was going on at that very moment and i mean i don't know. i mean, there is shock, all kind of everything all at once. i was on the second floor right by the pool so in the middle of the blue hotel the solaris hotel beside it, i was on the second floor. literally dead asleep. it was 1:20 in the morning. my wife and i were sleeping. it literally sounded like a bomb going off, the loudest thing i've ever heard in my life, from a dead sleep and the whole building shook. felt like we were in the worst earthquake of my life. and i immediately run over, talking about 15 seconds, i run over to the windows, i pulled the blinds aside, i couldn't see four or five feet. we are in a tornado, babe, get up, we're in a tornado. right just as i said that, the alarms go off and we run into the next room, grab our kids and take off outside, leaving everything in the rooms. >> if you want to help the

collapsed victims and their families go to cnn.com/impact. we have links there to charitable organizations that have been verified by cnn. u.s. authorities are investigating a deadly hot air balloon crash. the balloon went down in albuquerque, new mexico, on saturday killing five people. the crash involved power lines temporarily knocking out electricity to 13,000 people. the area is popular with ballooning enthusiasts. officials from the federal aviation administration and national transportation safety board are supervising the investigation. according to ntsb data, there were at least 12 fatal balloon crashes across the u.s. since 2008. it's never been this hot in portland, oregon. the temperature hit 108 degrees on saturday, the hottest it's ever been since records have been kept and it could be hotter today. saturday warming watt the second of all-time in seattle.

more than 18 people are under excessive heat warnings across parts of the western u.s. the big question, is there any relief in sight? meteorologist derek van dam, the man with the answers? so? >> quite simply, no. we have several days of this ahead of us. that's what makes this so difficult and dangerous. at cnn we don't use the word unprecedented that frequently, it is reserved for specific moments in time and this is one of them. portland, oregon, unprecedented heat. never been experienced since recordkeeping has begun in that city and other cities breaking daily and monthly records as well. you can see the list from oregon to washington and california, seattle second all-time record high temperatures set yesterday. it is looing more than likely w experience the hottest temperature recorded in seattle within the coming days.

triple-digit heat for three days in a row. in three days' time, we have a a chieved what has taken 126 years of record keeping. that is incredible, the all-time record high set back in 2009 it was 103. you can see the forecast temperature of 108, roughly 30 to 40 degrees fahrenheit departure from normal. if we extrapolate that, atlanta 110, phoenix, arizona, 136, world record-breaking heat, not only the pacific northwest, it extends as far north as the arctic circle. kim, this is big-time stuff. >> yes, and as we were discussing earlier, this is not just a matter of being uncomfortable, it can be dangerous because the areas don't have ac, so no way to get cool again. >> some of the lowest air conditioning units per household in the entire country. >> something to keep an eye on,

derek van dam, appreciate it. the u.s. federal government gets involved in a battle over a restrictive voting law in georgia, but does the justice department have leverage to succeed? the former u.s. attorney weighs in. stay with us. slam, pan, still...fresh move, move, move, move aaaaand still fresh. degree. ultimate freshness activated when you move.

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a high stakes legal battle is brewing over controversial voting law in the state of georgia. on friday the justice department sued the state over the law it passed in march. the law imposes a number of voting restrictions, including new voter i.d. requirements for absentee ballots allowing state officials to take over local elections boards limiting the use of ballot drop boxes and making it a crime to approach voters in line and give them food and water. opponents say the measures are nothing less than voter suppression but state republicans, including governor kemp who signed the law say it's necessary to boost confidence in elections. kemp slammed the biden

administration for filing the suit. >> the biden administration is weaponizing the department of justice to serve their own partisan goals. they are coming for you next. they're coming for your state, your ball game, your election laws, your business, and your way of life. >> joining me now from la jolla, california, former u.s. attorney harry litman host of "the talking feds" podcast. in the context of all the voting restrictions that republicans have passed or are passing across the country, this case could obviously have national implications so how does the dodge make its case here and what are the odds it will succeed? >> yes, you know, in fact it's not that easy a case for it to make. it used to be able to go under a different provision of the voting rights act that the supreme court struck down about eight years ago, so this

remaining provision section two requires it to show that people in georgia, officials in georgia had the purpose of limiting of suppressing the vote of minorities, not in the sort of sense of hatred for minorities, but nevertheless knowing that the provisions they were passing about absentee ballots and drop boxes and keeping people from giving food in line and the like would disproportionately disadvantage black and brown voters, so that's their showing. always a little hard to make a showing about what's in the mind of state officials, but that's what they've taken on with this lawsuit. >> but then to help them make their case, i suppose you could say republicans in the state have already said listen, our election was run fairly.

there was no fraud, so then how can they defend taking up these measures to prevent a problem that they said didn't exist? >> that's right. so one of the big pieces of evidence will be that the proffered reason really doesn't hold water and that pulls the rug out from under, and the dodge will take the additional step of showing what's the real reason, the real reason is to disadvantage the vote especially in a place like georgia, which is on the real nice edge in the country of blue versus red as is by the way arizona, texas, the places where the republicans have passed the most restrictive sets of laws. >> absolutely, and another case about arizona is we're going to see a decision from the supreme court about that, which may impact this one. i want to ask you specifically about one of the things that the republicans are really making a lot of noise about and that's

the fact that the federal government would take over state elections, asking the courts to invoke a provision putting georgia elections under federal supervision. is that at all likely here? >> well again, it's just whether the suit will succeed. kim, that's basically straightforward. it follows if in fact the law goes afoul of voting rights act section two. you could call it the feds taking over or call it simply showing that it violated federal law and a state can't violate federal law, so that just follows as night from day. i do want to double back quickly to the point you made at the top, though, because the department came out of the box with this lawsuit today under section two, knowing that next week, almost certainly not later than next week, the supreme court will issue a decision in

two cases involving section two, and it's possible that the supreme court will announce new or different standards in section two that will make the department's road steeper even to climb. they are doing it in advance of that, rather than in arrears in order to at least try to strike the blow before it's potentially disempowered. >> yes, i'm intrigued about how that will turn out and especially we're talking about the judges there, we're talking about a supreme court which recently hasn't been all that friendly to voting rights arguments. >> correct. >> and that was before it tilted even further to the right. >> yes, that's exactly right, and remember, this is a court who just as you said already gutted the most important provision of the voting rights

act, section five, and now it's poised to gut or at least substantially change the remaining tool that the department is now invoking. >> thank you so much for joining us, harry litman, always appreciate your insights. >> great to be here. the reopening of a paris landmark, is ahead. stay with us. spray, lift, skip, step. swipe, lift, spin, dry. slam, pan, still...fresh move, move, move, move aaaaand still fresh. degree. ultimate freshness activated when you move.

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historic department store in paris which fell into disrepair but harkens to a bygone era of elegance is reopening after 16 years. cnn's jim bitterman takes us inside the newly renovated la samaritan. >> reporter: it's not every day the president and first lady of france turn out to open a department store but then this is not just any department store and it is owned by france's richest man. this is a newly renovated icon of consumerism, classed as an official historical monument of france, a veritable jewel of art

deco that macron called an institution and owners hope will become a tourist destination. it wasn't always like this. la samaritaine opened in 1870, expanded into four buildings, eventually becoming the largest store of its kind in the country, offering hardware to fashion, groceries to home furnishings a fixture on the river. it passed into the vernacular with the slogan "you find everything at la samaritaine" with an ad featuring king kong. the building fell into disrepair becoming a safety issue and something of an eyesore on prime parisian real estate. before the new owners of the site could begin a $750 million renovation program, there was more than a decade of very

public political debate and administrative red tape over exactly how the historic monument should be rebuilt. >> you know, politics when you have such an iconic building in the center of paris of course it comes into play. >> reporter: the company won approval for a concept store, attempting to integrate on one site a sales point for 600 brands, a dozen restaurants, luxury hotel, spa aand offices, all the while restoring the dedetails of the building with optimistic expectations of turning it into a tourist destination. in an era when businesses of every sort are abandoning bricks and mortar it might seem like a risky venture investing huge amounts of money restoring a department store. the directors of the project are confident or hopeful that the iconic nature of this building is going to help make it a financial success. >> bricks and mortar is not finished and this is the demonstration that we can still

make things happen and really deliver something outstanding that is differentiating and true choice. >> reporter: finally consumers still can find everything at the renovated samaritaine. lvmh has redefined the word everything. jim bitterman, cnn, paris. >> that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber for the united states and canada. "new day" is ahead. for everyone else it's richard quest's "world of wonder."

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