i know a lot of people are struggling. joy the labor day weekd.peou i'll be off until the otr side of it,o i thank you very much for watching. this is a time with all this hardship that hopefully we tap into our idea of common cause and collective wl. so many of you have reached out to hp the organizations that e helping overseas in afghanisn, that want to help with the flooding. that mns something. we're not ju our division. we're not just democrat and republican, left and right, all these binary things that allow for an us and them. there's a huge dose of we if w tap into it. if you can, i hope this weekend

a part of making go memories, but remember those who are going be in a hard y. don lemon tonight with the upgrade, laura coates, right now. until it happens tyou, right?th as they say, but for the grace of god go i in so many what we're seeing places where you are right now and across the couny, it's hard to watc but we can do more. >> amen, amen, i say. when i was driving home last night -- being driven home because i'm soft -- we kep stopping in queens, and every cai saw with someo in it, there was a neighbor from that area or there was another driver out and either pushing the car speaking to the person inside, lping get them out. ople do good things -- not always, buwe can overlook that, especially in hard times. we see people doing good things. >> wl, as i was driving you to queens, i saw the same thing beusi'm hard. i'm just giving you a hard tim >> i lose to you ten out oten

times. yoll get no fight back. it's not the normal anchor on the show. >> there you go. thank u. >> the other guy i'll fight with u, il just le. >> sma man. have good ekend. is is don lemon tonigh and i am lauraoates in foron least 46 aths ithe wa ofistorifloodi in e noheast. er 20 llion people sll under flood warnin. ter ner-befo-seen tonht rainfall. 35 bilon glons 35 bilon galns falng beeen 7: p.m. d miight alone. the nypd repting 69 wate iver in central rk.aivery >> that's how you make your

i'm heretuff.ant. i'll hold you. yeah, just like that. >> the cos unending across is region. a new jersey trait commuter train stuck in the floodwaters. houses flooded three quarters of the way up near philelia. hundre of war rescues, and thiss how all began. sunday, hurricane ida makes landfall in louisiana as a category 4 sto with winds of 150 miles per hour. the barrr island of grand isle bearg the brunt, left now completely uninhabitab. the orm losing strenh as it travels north, b leang a pathf destruion, spawning at least eight confirmed tornadoes in the northeast lt night ale, including o in mullica

hill about ten mes south of philadelphia. that twister rated an ef-3 with 150-mile-per-hour winds accoing to the national now, in new york, the biggest single hour of rainfall in the city's history fodthe subway. 835 passengers rescued. look at that. i mean how many mo preventable disasters do whave to see? how many more ericans have to lose their homes, lose their lives bere we can finally admit what we can all see with our own es? climate change is killing us. >> the ereme storms and the climate crisis are here. weeed toe much better preped. we need toct. >> louisiana astis still reelin from ida. hundreds of thousands of people food, and we're talking about in

sweltering temperatures. i mean firesre burning through cafornia andevada. the bottom line is thousands of americanare not sleepingn their mes toght because of and our politics have tued exeme to the preme court's coervati majority allowing a new texas law to stand, a law that effectivelbans the vast majority oaborons, a law at allows now privatcitize toue anyone who assist someone seeking an abortion in octors and family member to abortion appointments -- they uld all face lawsus, and the court let it happen under the cover of darkness. let's get right he latest on the historic flooding in the northeast. i want tgo livto our reporteron the ground. miguel marquez is in new brunswk, new jersey.

paula newton is in mlica, new jersey. and te muntean is in philadelphia. miguellet me begin with you because at least 23 people, we're learning in nejeey, have now died from thastorm that passed through. fldwers are still ghear ere you. are they ever going recede? >> reporter: they are, and they are receding now. there's an alarm going off over here. actually look over this way. they're inging a truck in, probably to start moving out some of that debris as the wat the tide is going out here o the rareton river in new brunswick and the water is going with it. when we got here several hours ago, the water was up over ts wall i'm standing on now. it's recedrobably 10, maybe , 12 inches downhis wall. so by morning, most of this water, if not all of it, will be gone but there is going to be aot of debris left over, and that's why you have that vehicle there

starting to move the debris f the roadway and try to start cleaning this out so they can get back to something approximating noal within a day or two. but, you know, crews are still out looking. emergency crews are still out oking for individuals that are missing. the's a rge number of ople reported missing. whether or not ty are okay or 's just the confusion of the moment, that we're still waiting for. laur >> we hope they're okay. and, pla, at leastight confirmed tornadoes touched down last night with one of them destroyi or daging more th twdozen hos ju wheou are. are pele still without power? what's it ke right now? we saw some t, i guess, receding waters in progress where miguel is. what's it like for you? >> reporter: yea here ere is a little bit of power, but you were so on point when you said so many families aren't spending e thomas family behind me, they're not here. they took two little girls, pregnant mother, father all in

the basement. had just three mines before that fnel cloud ripped right through this neighborhood. and you were tking about the tragic deaths. just in the state of newersey now, up to 23. and most of those fr the floodwaters. i heard again and again in this nehborhood today, we are so lucky to be alive,nd we know that i want you to listen to mike castle, whagain id coming out of the shower, hand his entire family just h to ra to t basement. listen. >> i was up in the shower,nd we got the tornado alert warning. it wasn't threminutes ter that all of my back windows exploded, and then it sounds like a freight train went through my living room. we waited a few minutes, went upstairs and ran outside. fortunately neighbors were helping. it sti fee surre to . the other thing mi said s, this is new jersey. this is not oklahoma. this is not tornado alley. they are not used to this here, and they're wondering if this is going to be a rerring theme in their lives.

and they told me, you know, it's still early days, early hours even. they know how lucky they are because there was not a loss of life here. on t other hand, they're ndering how much resilnce do they really haven them to build here again. they've not seen anying li this, and yet theye wondering can it happen again. and that's why there's just a lot of anxiety in this neighborhoodere tonight, wondering exactly what else can possibly happen. they we prepared for the water here, laura. they were. but they were not prepared for this. >> i mean just the ting, three nutes, paula. >> reporter: three minutes. >> let me go down to philadelphia because, pete, more than 100 people needed to be rescued from the floods. and part of thcity -- and we're looking at it. pa of the city is still underwater. what are officials doingo t those people out >> repter: t big push no laura, is getting ople moving again here iphilelphia. 30 highways closedn this region according to penndot.

maybe the most dramatic scene is what's behind me. this is the vine street expressw, or it was. it would typically be fied with cars. now it's just filled with water. maybe e worst part heris t watewas real not reding all of that much. 's may gone wn a fby my estate in the lt six hours. i ju got off t phone with bradudolph openndo he says a fih water pump has been brought ito get the water out of here and into the schuylkill river talk about the schuylkill river. that crest about 17 feet early this morning, and the national weather service anticipates it toot get back below flood stage unl sometime after midnight, ich is why the flood emgepersis here unti 7:00 tomorrow morning. a lot of work ahead when it comes to t cleanup, though. just the vine street expressway, penndotells me after all the water goes awa they will have to clear a lot of debris out and en inspect the roadbed to make sure that it is okay to drive on. the worst part is we already

lost one rush hour to this flooding today. it really snled a lot of traffic in the philadelphia region. now it seems like it will snarl another rush hour tomorrow, laura. >> iean it's surreal you're talking about phadelphia, and i'm seeing theseloodwaters. yorealkingbout feein terms of the water csting. it's unbievable. let's go back miguel because, miguel, new york city and new jersey, th were blindsided by the amount of rain. it orwhelmed subways, overwhmed the roads. i mean 714 subway riders were scued. we'rseeing images right now of water rushing down the steps of the subway. and w the new york fire department resed more than 500 people from the ros. i mean do have a sense of why >> reporter: wl, i think everyoneas blisided. i mean y had wther professionals fromhe top levelsf the government to news mea likes who watched this storm om louisiana across the eryone knew itas goi to f

a ve big rain event. i think what pple didn't antipate, at when it cam into the new jersey, n york, and pennlvania area, just how intense the ter wagoing to be. jusdumped massive amounts waternto the entire stem, a systemhat was alrey chard, that alreadhad to ofain and tons of water falling in theays before. then you had tornadoes on top of that. here in new jersey, for instce, they had the tornado warnings at the same time they had flooding. so people were gng into their basements and in some cases having to deal with water in the basements as they're trying get away from a rnado. so it was just the intensity, thrapidity, and just the amount of water in the stem laura? the same time. >>ruly nowhere trn. miguel, paula, pete, tha you so mh. > you knowat least 46 people lost theirives, 46 people lo

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> tonight the nypd repting 13 storm-related deaths ew york cy. othe victims died in queens, whicsaw some of the worst flasflooding. donovarichards ithqueens me now. prident and he joins esident richards, what a difficult time for everyone to watch and for everyone to experience what's happening. the images and the aftermath of this historic flooding, they're almost apocalyptic, and sadly at least eight victims in qens died in basements. that according to the nypd commissioner just this morni. i meant's just awful. what is the latest on reue and revery eorts there? >> well, our hrts hurting tonight, laura. let me start by saying that we lost nearly dozen folk and we hope those numbers don't increase over e urse of the next few days as we do rescue

and recovery efforts. i want to thank the men and women of the nypd and all of our essentl workers for the work that they have done. but this storm was of biblical proportion. it came fa and furious, and we ardoing everything we n do to ensure safety and recovery. >> i want you to listen, presenrichards, to o ee resident. i mean her home totally flood. >> i can't think anymore about how i feel at this point because of the chaos outside. my neighrs, there's loss of life. i've lost everything in here. and i just d't kw. we need some- we need some support at this time to start to get this mess out the way so we can -- we can gather as a community. we always y to stick together, but this is -- this isoo much

for us, d there's no end in sight. >> i mean, y can hr the pain in her voice. is hp coming? >> well, what thhell is washington dng is the question? i mean we've got democrats and repuicans who can't get their act together in passing an infrasucture bill, which nobody cares about partisan potics when you're in a neighborhood that continuously floods. you know, i likeo say i'm a basement baby. teenage parents.s born to i lived in a lot of basements. basements helped me get through college quite frankly, and my basement used to flood that i lived in. so from personal experience, this is somethg that i know all too well. but the pain, the emotional toll on residents is unprecedented, d we need washington, c. to really act yesterday. we need biden and everyone to sit down and to move this

infrastructure packa forward that can get some money into states and into localitie to addss this climate ange crisis we find ourlves in. i mean the nypdhief of departnt, rodney harrison, said this today. 18 of the 20 queens water rescues happened, by the way, at the u. open tennis tournament. i an should that have been canceled for theight? i mean was a lot of th avoidable in terms of the chaos? >> don't get me started with the u.s. open, laura. first of allthey were holding thout en mandang that off, people attdingave vaccin that was a big btle in itself friday night, and want to thk the mayor and senator ramos. we wked with her. forward., you know, fast everybody got the warnings. let's put saty first. why jeopardizehe public and why jeopardize the playeho

ha putll their -- put everything into enring that they can compete in this tournament? but safety should always com first over profits. >> president richards, thank you. >> thank you. new jersey was especially the national weather service confirming at let thre tornadoes uching down across the state. the storm unleasngeadly vernor phil murphy says the are at least 23 people have di. joining me now is hector lora, the mayor of passa, new jersey. mayor lorathank you for joining me. i'm sorry it's underhese circumstances. what we're hearing is so tragic gion.l fronts across the whole you were actually on with don last night at the peak of this deadly storm. what'she latest on the rescue i know there were at least two understa.ple who were missin i is there any update you can share with us now?

>> lauraour effortcontinue to try to locate these two indivials, yng alt one d 21one malethe ages of faly members andriends a extremely concned. this storm devastated our ty state.icallybut our entire there was no way to predict th impact it would have in our areas. we oiously made all of the preparations necessary by cleaning out our stormrains, making sure that we had barricades in thapopriate places. but as our governor, pl murphy, stated, we had loss of life throughout our state. our hearts go out ll those who haveost loved ones, and wasn'tven a result of stng winds or tornado. it was a direct result of water, which unfortunately i think individuals, when they hr floods, they may be overly confident in their vehicles. they'rstill driving, a at's w we were so adamant in our city and we declared a state emergency and wanted people

off of the roads becau tragedies like this occur. but i want to share that we have two individuals tt -- we connue to have two individuals unaccounted for. we also --nd this should be part of the story. we had 200 rescues with e city ofassaic alone because othe roic eorts of our paramedics that went aund the city rescuing individuals in their vehicles and tragedies could have been a lot worse. our prayers continue for those who have lost their lives, and we are goi to coin t efforts in our cities, seahing the passaic river. we have ounation guard, our ate helicopters using sonar ov theiver, and tomorrow our dive wl continue the efforts to tryo locate -- we're hoping against home with te that we find these two individualsaybe in another municipalit in a hospital, but might turn into a recovery operation. >> mayor lora, just to hear that

is overwhelming, to think of what has transpired and watching the images as you're speaking. talking about the confidence that some people m have in their rs, you guys ao experienced a tragic loss of a 70-year-old fath who w stuck in hisar with his wife and son. what hapned? >> well, this was ovwhelmily impactful to our eire community and traumatic even for our firefighters, who are accustomed to dealing with these kind of situations. thisather was in a vehicle withis wife and his 25-year-old son, and they ended up in an area in our city at often floods. we ended up in this area wit over 12 feet of water on the ros. firefighters were able to rescue the wife and the son, and founately the water ovtook the vehicle. firefighters were being dragged under the vehicle. they were unable to continue their effort and unfortunately, like you stated,

we lost a father to a family, a member of our community here in and as a community, we mrn together, anwe send our prers outo the families. but we're consisnt telling individuals and we want people to understand that when th see the repos, when they're hearg the directives, stay off the roads, don't drive through barricades. don't thk that you're going to be okay in your car. it's better to be safe tn obviously deal with a tragedy. t all of the infrastructure, all of the resources that we could have had in place uld not have prepareus for the kind of storm that we experienced. keep saying these rare storms, but they're tually becomi not so raretorms, these flash floodsn our area. >> mayor lora, a vy important point. d to correct one thing, the nations grieving with you. the stories that you'vshared and the ongoing operations, the heroism, everything about it is

breaking our collective hearts. but we are holding out hope for there to be many more stories of joy and rescue in what's happening ther i'm so sorry. thank you. >> thank you noto the gulf coast, where ida first slammed into the u.s. as a catory 4 hurricane. about a lot of the aftermath of ida up tthis point now. butonighabout 883,0 stomers in lisiana are sll wiout eltricity, and the suer heat is scorching. nthia lee sheng is t president of jferson parish. she's in gretna, louisiana. president sheng, thank you for being he. i me from area to ea, region to region, we're sing the impact of this. states north of you, as yore hearing, are reeling from the wreckage left behi bida from just last night. buin lisna, places like grand isle he en dealing with ida's devastation for,

what, four days w? >> yes, and honely ie been so busy with things that are necessary in jefferson parish, i onlyound out a little wh ago that this stm wreaked such death and destruction in the nort and i shocked. i just reached out to my fily in new jersey to make sure they were oka i just found out it's just terrle. we had to fight fires last night in lafitte. there were six houses that were on fire, and my firefightersad too by bt to fight these fires because the road's blocke unfortunately we talk about the orm being dangerous, but the post-storm deaths have actually been greater thathe deaths that we had during the storm, plus three more citins today from a generator, improper use of aenerat they died byarbon noxide poising. so this is why it's so upsetting is that this storm just keeps on coming at us and thenf course we're without gas.

we don't he gayet, so that's a very critical issue for us. our refineries down here, it was a dole whammy becae we supply fuel to t rest of the couny, and eightefiners don't have electricity now d so we have fuel issues where i can't get employees to work. i need to make sure our hospal employees have fuel to get work. you know, i d to deny one of our bifo distribut nonpfits wanteto get her employees fu to distribute food, and i d to say i can't give you any of my fuel because so critical situion with fuel that kw they're working at e highest levels of government to help solve. >> from the caon monoxide, you know, misapplication to to choose whether your medal g workers or food suppliers get thcritical fuel, this is a choice no one should have to dealit wh ithe timelinen getting do you have a sense of tt? >> well,opefully, yoknow, the electricity -- we hasome

bright news. one of our majorospitals g backn with electricity today, and that's what nd is the hospitals first, right? so we're doing that. and they're conctrating on the refineriesbut refiries just dot turna swch to, you know, start producing the fuel for . that'soing ttake a couple days for them to get up to capacity, and they're looking at finding inventory of g to bring here for us. so it's a critical te. i'm still telling our citizens who really want get home -- i mean they're separated from eir house. they wt to see the damage, but we just can't have youack yet some of our nursing mes, we've had to ecuate people. the nursing homethat have generator power are starti to many days.causit's been so so we're bringing fuel to nursg homes and assted living places. and it's getting hot. it w a vy hot day today. we had a shelter ialandria that's fled, and we're still the middlof this very much so. time we have left, the in the

president's coming tomorrow. what do you nt to hear from >> well, i think, you know, i want him to see thdestructio beuse you can hear it all you wantbut until you see with your ownyes, it's almost u knowi know you all showed the piur but to see up front anthen you see the water line where the water was, or you come see the people in li at our gas stions. e grou and see what 're on living andyou know, i know all levels ogovernnt areilling to help us. so kw op are workingt it, t we have nohad a major influx of resources and help yet. we really have not. >> wll see what happens ank you. i hope that help is on the way >> tha you. from extremeeather to extreme politics, texas now has the most restrictive abortion lawsthe whole country. ll make my casnext. m with usaa. y see the tow truck? yes, thank y, that was fast. sg houston never expected this to happen.

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they say everything is bigger in texas. well, what texas has done to roe v. wade is a very big deal. texas now has the most restrictive abortion law in the entire country since that landmark decision. a precedent now virtually erased by the supreme court's decision just last night. and not only are abortions after just six weeks now illegal in the state -- and by the way, that's before most women even know that they're pregnant. texas has also deputized private citizens across the country to now sue anyone who aids and abets an abortion for at least $10,000 and attorneys' fees. now, lawmakers purposely left vague what it means to be aid

and abet, so conceivably, it could include anyone from the patient's uber driver to the school counselor she confined in, to the parent who pays for it, to the receptionist that schedules the appointment. anyone is fair game. now, the hypocrisy of it all has me scratching my head in light of the republican governor's views on, say, mask mandates. it's hard to reconcile why the government has absolutely no business whatsoever dictating your private health decisions when it comes to covid-19, and who cares if a child without the choice to be vaccinated might be harmed? after all, in that case, your body, your choice, right? well, the issue of your body, your choice was front and center at the white house today. >> why does the president support abortion when his own catholic faith teaches abortion is morally wrong?

>> he believes that it's a woman's right. it's a woman's body, and it's her choice. >> who does he believe then should look out for the unborn child? >> he believes it's up to a woman to make those decisions and up to a woman to make those decisions with her doctor. i know you've never faced those choices nor have you ever been pregnant. but for women out there who have faced those choices, this is an krublly difficult thing. the president believes that right should be respected. >> under the cover of darkness, five supreme court justices felt that they were the ones that had no choice, no choice but to let texas enact the law despite the fact that the groups suing to block it raised serious questions regarding its constitutionality. because the supreme court said in the majority the case raised some complex and some very novel aspects. now, remind me which supreme court cases haven't been novel or complex in some way? i thought that's why they paid you the proverbial big bucks, to

resolve the complexity, or maybe just to follow your own simple rule. supreme court precedent can't be overturned willy-nilly. that standard something that senator susan collins pointed to when supporting her vote to put justice kavanaugh on the bench. >> i do not believe that brett kavanaugh will overturn -- >> precedents are overturned -- >> he says for a precedent, a long established precedent like roe to be overturned, it would have to have been grievously wrong and deeply inconsistent. >> well, justice kavanaugh was part of the majority that didn't fight to honor that precedent. senator susan collins calls the texas law extreme and harmful, and in a statement says that she opposes the court's decision to allow the law to remain in effect for now while these underlying constitutional and

procedural questions are litigated. the key words here, "for now." for now, it is indeed the law in texas and could quickly become the law in many other states. but let's hope the decisions of the lone star state do not become our judicial north star. congressman jamie raskin is here. what's he think democrats' priorities should be when all this is going on? i'll ask him right after this. finish quantum, nh you save up to 20 gallons of water each time. finish quantum with activblu technology has the power to remove the toughest stains without pre-rinsing for dishes so clean they shine. join finish and skip the rinse to save our water.

president biden slamming the supreme court for allowing texas' new abortion law to take effect. he's calling it an unprecedented assault, but is there anything he can actually do about it? here to discuss, democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland. he's a member of the house judiciary committee and the select committee on the january 6th insurrection. congressman, thank you for being here tonight. it's great to hear from you in particular with your insight. and i wanted to learn from you because a ban after six weeks, there's no exception for rape or incest. it's effectively a back-doorway to skirt roe v. wade. and since when do the supreme court pass on a case because it has some complex or novel aspects to it? >> well, there are procedural

and substantive irregularities to say the least about this. this comes out of the court's so-called shadow docket. it was not the regular doctket, and justice alito was on the watch and clearly wanted to let it go through. the three liberals and justice roberts dissented from it. what's going on is outrageous because it's clear that the texas state law is in direct collision with roe v. wade and planned parenthood v. casey. roe v. wade, you remember, had the trimester framework. but the casey decision said the stace could only ban abortion after the point of viability outside the body of the mother. but texas now draws the line at the detection of a fetal heartbeat, which is six weeks and something like 80% to 85% of the abortions have taken place after that. so this effectively nullifies and ban of abortion including in cases of rape and incest of the woman who's impregnated.

so this is a full-blown assault on a woman's right to choose and on the supreme court's jurisprudence. what we could do in congress, if we could deal with the mountain of the filibuster in the senate, is to essentially constitutionalize the roe v. wade -- we could turn into statute the constitutional standard of roe v. wade, the trimester framework, or else planned parenthood v. casey. but it looks like there's a setup going on here for the supreme court to essentially wipe out both of those decisions and then to let the states do whatever they want. and i think that's obviously what the gop has been fighting for, and i think with the addition of amy coney barrett, they basically have put into place their anti-choice majority and at the same time, of course, we've got this full-blown offensive going on against the voting rights of the people across the country. so it's no coincidence they're attacking democracy and voting rights at the same time that they're attacking privacy rights

in the reproductive freedom of women. >> and overall the rule of law because you can't even redress your grievances or petition the court. what does a representative democracy mean? what is the judicial branch for if you cannot even appeal to it if you are a litigant with a problem? that just runs counter to what we think of as a democracy. a lot of things have been running counter here in the u.s. i want to turn to your work on the january 6th select committee. cnn is learning that the house minority leader, kevin mccarthy, is one of the republican lawmakers whose phone records you're trying to get, and he makes his threat to the telecommunications companies pretty clear here. it's pretty transparent. what will you be looking for with the information you're seeking? >> well, the minority leader has essentially threatened people who have relevant evidence about massive crimes that took place against congress and against the federal government. and by doing that, he, himself,

is arguably putting himself at risk of criminal prosecution because he's interfering with a congressional investigation. that is a federal crime in the united states to interfere with a congressional investigation by trying to obstruct it. so i don't know for the life of me why any member of congress would not want congress to get all of the evidence available about this massive crime against democracy where more than 140 capital officers and metropolitan police department officers were pummeled and beaten over the head with baseball bats and hockey sticks and confederate battle flags and had bear mace sprayed in their face and suffered all kinds of terrible wounds, and many of them are still in the hospital. many of them are still being treated. how could any patriotic member of congress try to block an investigation into an attack on the congress and an attack on

the union? it makes no sense to me. >> and also there's a continued promotion of misinformation and the big lie. you actually caught the freedom caucus chair andy bigs pushing misinformation toearlier today. let's take a listen. >> the fbi recently put out a report saying apparently that they didn't find collusion or a big insurrection, an organized insurrection. >> i assume the congressman knows he's mistaken about that unless there's an fbi report i'm not aware of. >> i'm referring to the report that's been widely discussed and that's been out there, including -- >> what report is that? what date was that released by the fbi? >> i have not seen that actual report yet. >> i mean you called him out, but the misinformation is still rampant. i mean how do you stop it when even sitting members of congress are pushing the blatant lies and are not able to provide the receipts that they are

professing they have? >> well, congressman biggs was either wittingly or unwittingly passing on disinformation and propaganda. the fbi has released no such report. the fbi has not said that there was no insurrection. the fbi has not said any of the things that he claimed in any kind of report. on the contrary, the fbi director testified that this was domestic terrorism. another thing that the republicans were taking exception to today. but that's just one example of how this kind of misinformation and disinformation is spread throughout the right-wing propaganda ecosystem. >> congressman raskin, thank you for your time. i appreciate it. thank you so much. >> and thank you for having me. >> we'll be right back.

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