good morning. we're following several stories this morning.

a massive bomb cyclone as it's known, winter storm, plowing a dangerous path across central and midwestern states bringing life threatening cold and wind chills as low as negative 70 degrees. you heard that, negative 70. snow and frigid temperatures disrupting holiday travel, forcing airlines to cancel more than 1300 flights this morning across the u.s. plus overnight, a remarkable show of unity on capitol hill. if you missed it, quite a moment to see. ukrainian president zelenskyy handing nancy pelosi and vice president kamala harris a ukrainian flag bearing signatures of ukrainian soldiers from the battlefield. president zelenskyy's mission on his historic visit and speech to congress to make the case directly to the american public as well as to lawmakers about the need for sustained aid to

ukraine and this is a war not just for ukraine but for the free world, in his words. did he succeed? we'll discuss. senators are working to reach a final vote on that critical government spending bill to once again beat tomorrow's deadline and avoid a government shutdown. we're getting positive signs this morning. please do stay with us. we're following it all. first, our team of reporters covering the dangerous weather across the country. two of the cities facing the brunt of the storm, denver and chicago. we're also live in atlanta at the cnn weather center. we begin with denver where temperatures plunging at a record breakin g pace. >> it's hard to think it's

pretty hard to stand out here and quite painfully difficult to just be outside and that's because the temperatures dropped from nearly 50 degrees when i was outdoors yesterday predicting the bad weather to below 11 right now and with the wind chill, it feels like minus 26 or worse. when i and my team are doing at this moment, jim, talking to you is precisely what authorities are asking people in colorado not to do. they're asking folks to stay indoors. this is a storm being described. denver is experiencing the coldest day in 32 years. and this is no joke. it could cause frostbite within minutes. i'm lucky to get out of the street after this and go indoors

and warm up. a lot of folks here in denver and colorado are left lucky. that's why we have recreation centers, libraries, public libraries open as warm areas for people to get out of the frigid temperatures. the denver coliseum is now active and the 24-hour warming center. the temperatures no the expected to increase until friday. >> keep yourself and team warm. thank you so much. we're at chicago's international airport. pete we're seeing more than 1300 cancellations nationwide especially where you are now. i've been through that airport. a lot of folks watching v have. it's a key hub. are there going to be more cancellations? >> one in five flights have been canceled. let me give you an idea of how busy it is right now. these are the folks who have the right idea, get out early before

it starts snowing here. this is the start of the security line. it snakes hundreds of feet behind me. things are really, really busy right here right now. in fact, the faa said today was going to be the busiest in terms of flights scheduled. 47,000 flights scheduled before christmas. the key word there though is was. as the cancellations just keep climbing. we're above 1300 nationwide now. i've been checking the cancellations board here at chicago o'hare. pittsburgh, san francisco, laguardia, you mention the fact this is a key hub. not only for american airlines, it is the biggest hub for united airlines. you went behind the scenes and network operations center to talk about the nationwide ripple effect that this is going to have. there they have customer solutions folks trying to reroute passengers. they're scrambling to find them other connections so the trips just don't crumble and fall apart.

i want you to listen now to the vp of network operations. sure the snow is going to be a problem here but it is really the biting cold that is coming tomorrow. the high temperature here is forecast to be 2 degrees fahrenheit. listen. >> cold temperatures are going to stay through friday and that's what's going to present challenges. people going out on the ramp and experience the high winds and subzero temperatures really going to be challenged to work safely. >> here's is a really big tip from airlines. download the app. much that's how you get update information about delays and cancellations. you might see some of the customer service desk lines inside the terminal snake really long. at united, they may hand you a qr code. the scan that with your phone, instead of talking to the agent face-to-face, can you talk to somebody over a video call in a place that may not be as busy with cancellations like l.a.

where the weather is good. just one innovation they're trying to put in place to alleviate the cancellations and delays. it's going to be a big one, jim. >> your private pilot's license may come in handy. that may be your solution, flying yourself home. >> not in weather like this. >> stay at the ready. thank you so much. cnn's allison chinchar is live from the cnn weather center. every time i spoke to you this week, i look at that map and go, oh, the whole country is covered in cold and snow. that is still the case. >> i think that is the thing that we want to druf home. the message, this isn't just impacting people in the upper midwest or in the high plains. this is going to be a very widespread concern over the next 48 to 72 hours. yes, some of the coldest temperatures exist off to the north. but even when you talk about places like texas, oklahoma, and georgia, these areas are going to be well below what they normally would be. but, yes, the temperatures are peaking. for states like montana and south dakota, look at some of the wind chill numbers. minus 70.

minus 59. again, the concern there is that frostbite sets in five to ten minutes when dealing with numbers like that. here again, not much better. denver currently the wind chill minus 37. des moines, minus 34. even amarillo, texas, minus 26. so again, even places you don't normally think about being cold are dealing with this same blast of cold air. we also have the same system that is now sliding off to the midwest and into the northeast. this has a lot of snow for some midwestern states. over towards the east, you still have some little bit of warmer air. so we're dealing with that rain-snow mix for a lot of cities before the bulk of that snow on the back begins to make its way into the northeast for tomorrow. you have a lot of areas dealing with blizzard warnings, winter storm watches and warnings. heavy snow in chicago and st. louis. boston and washington, d.c., even tomorrow morning though, jim, still looking at pretty good rain showers. >> we'll be waiting for them

here, allison. thank you so much. back here in washington, we're getting new details this morning from the white house on how effective it believes ukrainian president zelenskyy was in making empassioned case to the american people and to congress. jeremy diamond joins me now. quite a moment last night in washington to watch these comments live. does the white house believe he was able to move some of the more skeptical folks about continuing ukrainian aid? >> they believe this was a powerful moment and effective case that president zelenskyy made. and, frankly, this is going to be a powerful speech regardless of the timing. because of the symbolism of the ukrainian president making his first trip outside of his country since the beginning of that russian invasion 301 days ago. but the timing was also critical. because the president zelenskyy's visit comes at an inflection point in ukraine where they're dealing with a very hard winter ahead as russia continues to cripple their

energy infrastructure system, but also with the timing here in the united states. the political landscape about to change with house republicans some of whom who cast doubt of aid coming into ukraine coming into power next month. a senior white house officials says that they feel that president zelenskyy made a very compelling case, with unthat the white house hopes will help them in the funding fight ahead, particularly as it relates to additional aid to ukraine. president zelenskyy, of course, he made that case to lawmakers for additional aid going forward. but he also made a case directly to the american public. something that the white house hopes will help pressure the lawmakers who are unsure about the future of aid to ukraine. and president zelenskyy was expressing gratitude to americans. he also made clear that he needs more aid ahead including when he was talking about those patriot missile systems here at the white house yesterday. >> what's going to happen after patriots are installed? after that, we will send another

signal to president biden that we would like to get more patriots. >> your smoney is not charity. it's an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way. >> we also heard president zelenskyy in that speech to congress making that same claim about, look, we're appreciative of the artillery. is it enough? no. and prompted some laughter. the reality is that while president zelenskyy is leaning on the comedic chops here, it was joking but not joking at all at the same time. he is trying to make the case that, yes, he is grateful for the u.s. support and aid. he still needs much, much more. >> he hopes the message would resonate in the hearts of the american people as well. jeremy diamond, thank you so much. will rippley is live in the ukrainian capital, kyiv. watching it here, it was quite a moment to watch and witness. i wonder, of course, middle of

the night there in ukraine, but were ukrainians, those with power watching? what's been the reaction there? >> the problem, jim, is that very few ukrainians have power and were awake. you do combine middle of the night with widespread blackouts across much of the country, here in kyiv where for much of the war the situation has felt relatively normal until recently because of the unstable power grid and the dramatically crippled power generation capacity. there are people that we met and that we spoke with who have electricity in the capital city for 40 minutes a day. we have to go to the tents to warm up to charge their phones, to connect to wi fi. people who have to line up to get a hot meal. they don't have ability to cook in their own homes. this is the reality in the capital city. arguably, the area that is best protected in ukraine, you get to some of the other cities where being without power for days and days on end is regular occurrence. and you have the dead of winter,

you know, plunging temperatures and all of the associated risks and dangers that come with that, you know, they're having a hard time and some places keeping the lights on in hospitals at critical infrastructure. that is how bad things are here. and yet, you have russia now after, yes, a triumphant moment for president zelenskyy. they're proud of their president and glad he's coming back with more money and weapons and pledges for deliverables for this war effort. you have people dying on the front lines every single day here. they're holding the lines. but they're not making offensive gains. and the kremlin is saying that bringing patriots in will prolong people suffering. they say they didn't hear anything from president zelenskyy's visitor president biden supporting, you know, addressing russia's safety concerns whether they're legitimate or not. i guess that depends on your point of view. and then they say that the west, the collective west is basically bracing, jim, for a prolonged confrontation with russia. that could be the most alarming thing we're hearing out of the kremlin. frankly, not surprising. >> yeah.

we should always note the russian strikes are deliberate. they want to take the power and heat away from ukrainian people to spread the pain in effect. will rippley, thank you so much. joining me now is retired four star army general david petraeus, former commander of u.s. central command. general, always good to have you on. >> thank you, jim. >> as i was watching the speech yesterday, as well as the visit in general, it struck me that the u.s. and ukraine are even more so than they already were joined at the hip in this war as allies. is the ukraine war more obviously and more openly a proxy war in infect between the u.s. and russia and should americans then be concerned that the chances for escalation beyond ukraine have now increased? >> well, i think that's correct in large measure. but it's not just the u.s. and ukraine. it's the nato countries and the

west. and ukraine. i thought that president zelenskyy was quite persuasive in making that very point. again this is not just charity for ukraine, this is investment in western security, u.s. national security to be sure. in fact, i thought it was very compelling and a very skillful speech. you know, if you recall, he is, of course, the former actor. he played the president. that is part of how he got elected. this is the part of a lifetime and he deserves an academy award for this. he's been positively churchillian in his leading. but certainly there is an element to that. they're fighting our war. of course, that's true. the more that russia depends on ukraine, the less it has to expend on nato and the western world. and i would not subscribe to the

idea though that the escalation is increased. i think the last thing russia needs now despite the nuclear saber rattling and the rest of this that vladimir putin does and just did it the other day, despite all of that, the last thing he needs is a war with nato. he knows that. he's just trying -- he's reaching for anything. he is quite desperate. all of his measures have largely failed. the battle right now is really stalled on both sides as both sides try to conduct additional force generation. i think ukrainians would fair better than the russians once again. but it's very clear that there are months if not years of tough fighting ahead before the very crucial calculation is made in the kremlin which is the realization that this war is unsustainable for russia in the same way that afghanistan was unsustainable for the soviet union. >> let me ask you this. there is still some, it's a

minority opposition here to the amount of money and weapons that the u.s. is sending there. is there a way to look at this war from a u.s. perspective, beyond helping ukraine defend us self against an unjustified invasion. but for purely selfish reasons. the u.s. invested a tiny percentage of its defense budgets and in effect decimated the russian military? you know, disabled it for many years to come. is that a way, an alternative way to look at this war? >> it's a democratic country in the face of a brutal invasion by a autocratcy. and that matters for the entire

world. deterence in the world depends on a potential adversaries assessment of the willingness to employ them on the other. frankly, in the wake of the decision to withdraw from afghanistan, as you know, i agreed with that and then the conduct of that withdrawal, that did not help deter it. this does. this shows you the united states once again leading the world, doing more than all the others put together. we can be frustrated about that. but that say reality that we dealt with throughout our time as the superpower of the west. and ib ndeed, this is very muchn investment in our security and the security of like minded nations around the world. but especially obviously in nato europe. >> and perhaps message to china regarding taiwan as well. general david petraeus, thank you very much. happy holidays to you and your family. >> thank you. and best to you and yours, jim. still to come this hour, senators still hashing out the details over the $1.7 trillion

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a live look at capitol hill. any moment, vote kog ing could . to ticking down to avert a possible government shutdown on friday. also clock ticking down on them leaving for vacations. a sticking point among republican effort to extend the title 42 border restrictions. the have they overcome all that? >> the challenge in the united states senate is the process. there is the policy and process. the process was agreed to by a handful of key senior members and leadership earlier this week. they unveiled this bill in the wee hours of tuesday morning. they're trying to jam this through the senate in just a few

da days. they require all 100 members to reach an agreement to have a vote. they do not have that agreement yet. even though the amendments are likely to fail. one amendment in particular that you mentioned created an issue. mike lee of utah pushed that amendment. there is concern among democratic leaders that that could actually pass. so democrats have been working behind the scenes to stave that off, offer their own alternative amendment to give members something else to vote for. not the mike lee amendment and assuming that both measures will fail. so all these negotiations happening behind the scene. but it appears they're moving closer to locking this down. chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell indicating optimism that they can get this done. if they do, it will have to go over to the house tomorrow. that big snowstorm though scaring members. they want to get out of town adding urgency to get this done

in a matter of hours. >> nothing like a flat to catch to push a vote on capitol hill, right? thank you so much. >> sometime today, the january 6 committee could release the final report on the attack on the capitol. they released the first set of interview transcripts. they include members of the inner circle including roger stone, former lawyer john eastman central to the efforts to overturn the election and former national security visor michael flynn. joining me now cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid. so a lot of transcripts yesterday. they were fighting news. we had president zelenskyy here and help folks who were not following. >> you can see the committee had a lot of difficulty getting dmind of information out of a lot of these key trump allies. they made very liberal use of the fifth amendment right. now typically when you invoke the fifth amendment right you at least answer buy graphical questions. but, for example, roger stone,

he wouldn't even answer a question about his age. it's interesting. for example, john eastman, there are memos about the election, how to overturn it that his name is on. he wouldn't even acknowledge that he wrote that. another former justice official jeffrey clark trump wanted to install as attorney general, he stone called the committee in two different interviews. p in the second interview, he invoked the fifth 120 times. it's also notable that in the transcripts, you see eastman and flynn and said that election was fraudulent, they didn't provide any information to support the allegations to the committee. now they have conducted over 1,000 interviews. they said that they will release hundreds of transcripts. so they are going to withhold some transcripts. they say there is sensitive material. this is going to be considerable interest to the special could you be, jack smith. he asked the committee for all the information that they gathered. even trump's defense attorneys, they, too, want to pour over the

transcripts over the next few days. >> that may be the most significant effect. so the final report is going to come out sometime today. what do we expect from the report as owe pozed to just the transcripts? >> i put a huge caveat on this. they said the report was going to come out yesterday and it didn't. we're expecting it to come out today. of course, they put out a lot of big headlines and high profile hearings over the summer. the they released an executive summary earlier this week. so we're looking evidence of this pattern of obstruction that they alleged from trump allies or if there is any other high profile white house officials or people in trump's orbit who they got to reveal they told him the election wasn't stolen. we're looking for anything new that hasn't been highlighted by the committee. >> we'll be watching. paula reid, thank you very much. still ahead, this hour, disgraced ftx founder is freed and headed to new york to a court there after extradited from the bahamas. we'll be live outside that courthouse as he now faces a litany of criminal charges. that's coming up.

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a reckonning for the founder of crypto trading platform ftx as well as though connected to a fraud scheme that led to the epic collapse. sam bankman-fried is expected to be arraigned in a new york court today after extradited back to the u.s. from the bahamas overnight. two of his former top lutz have now pleaded guilty to multiple counts of conspiracy and fraud and are cooperating with investigators. investigators say their probe into all of this is on going.

>> let me reiterate a call i made last week. if you participated in misconduct at ftx now is the time to get ahead of it. we're moving quickly and our patience is not eternal. >> we're out sued the u.s. district court for the southern district of new york. so, you know, especially given that two of the close colleagues have now pleaded guilty and are cooperating, what's next for sam bankman-fried? >> that is a significant development that two of the insiders who co-founded ftx and caroline ellison, the former ceo of the hedge fund that prosecutors say is intertwined with this fraud. now their cooperation means that they're going to tell prosecutors everything that happened. they'll be the insiders that can explain this fraud to a jury. so that really amps up the pressure that bankman-fried is

under. he waived extradition in the bahamas. they announced the cooperation of the two insiders as he was in the air flying to the u.s. to face these charges. he landed last night. he is already inside the courthouse behind me. he will appear before a judge this morning. and there the judge will, you know, he'll face the charges, wire fraud and conspiracy, counts that the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york called the biggest financial frauds in american history. now before the judge today, he may ask him to enter a plea, arraign him on the charges. and also they'll discuss bail. now sources tell many he that prosecutors and bankman-fried's attorneys are discussing a package that could allow him to walk out the doors later today, jim. >> thank you for covering. well, amid still rising inflation as well as still rising interest rates, new numbers show the u.s. economy had an even stronger performance than previously thought in the third quarter.

christin ch christine romans joins me. it's noose ice to see the econo growing strongly, but, of course, folks start to think about the next thing. maybe they are going to raise interest rates more. >> let's look at this quarterly picture. this is a strong quarter by any measure. any economy growing 3.2% over that three month period that, is a nice performance. you can see that is in the third quarter decisively shaking off that malaise that we heard about earlier in the year, the two quarters of slightly negative gdp growth. the this third quarter number was first 2.6%. then the government revised it and now going back and looking at all of the data available, no, it was a 3.2% growth in the quarter driven by exports and driven by consumer spending. a economist said if we're staring down the barrel of a

recession, this country doesn't know it. the only place you can see that fed interest rate hikes affecting our housing so new housing investment was down in the quarter. actually held that number back a little bit. and then i hook at initial jobless claims, as you know, they're numbers we look at every week. tell us how many people filed for a jobless benefits. still very low. that number 216,000 for perspective jim in 2019, before the pandemic, the average weekly was 218,000. so these are prepandemic lows, near historic lows for how many people are being laid off. you're hearing a lot about tech layoffs. reminder, tech is 7% or 8% of the overall job market. >> that's a thing. when you look at the big picture numbers, job market is strong. well, we'll keep on top of it. there seems like there is news every day. thank you very much. >> you're welcome. still ahead, el paso is now rushing to shelter a surge of migrants at the southern border. legal wrangling creates more uncertainty.

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what will be, quote, a blockade in his words. we're in el paso. first, you have numbers there. you have lousy weather. you have uncertainty what is going to happen to title 42 and for how long. what it is look for the migrants there and also for the folks responding to this? >> there's a great deal of strain and pressure on all of the people here in el paso providing humanitarian relief to the thousands of migrants that crossed into the united states and have been processed by border patrol agents. city officials opening up the convention center. hundreds of cots inside. still despite that, we saw just a -- in the last few hours that there were several dozen migrants still sleeping on the ground around the bus stations. several reasons for that. a lot of it has to do with a lot of times the migrants have been very weary of leaving the bus area especially if they're with family units because they've

been separated and people get released from border patrol at different times. the bus stations have become a congregating point and reunification point for a lot of the families. the city officials here still very concerned about the possibility of title 42 being lifted and the anticipation of thousands more migrants arriving here in el paso. city officials say that the humanitarian efforts are ramping up but that it is really not sustainable for a long period of time. we were at the border wall yesterday. you talk there in the lead in about the governor of texas describing the national guard efforts and the razor wire which is about a mile long there along the border as a blockade. i can tell you, it is far in anything being a blockade. all of the migrants have done now is moved a little bit further down the river and are now lining up at a gate along the border wall turning themselves in to border patrol. and border patrol takes them in 15 to 20 at a time. then they begin the process.

it does not mean that all of the people coming in are staying. in fact, we know that thousands of migrants have been moved to other parts of the border to be processed. last week from el paso aloerne, 4500 mu g 4500 migrants have been expelled. so all that processing continues in anticipation of title 42 ending. >> thank you very much. we're joined now by an immigration law expert as well as an advocate for reform. david, good to have you on. >> good morning, jim. how are you? >> good. so first of all, very basic question. we see the numbers. this has been going on for years now. what happens to these folks when they apply for asylum? how many come into the country? how long do they typically have to wait? >> look, we have a process. certainly, jim, 20,000 people plus at the border waiting to come in and coming in is a

problem. it's a problem that has to be solved. title 42 which ed just reported on and other fixes like that are band-aids. what we need, jim, is for congress to sit down and do the hard work of fixing the immigration system. it's something that american public is demanding. >> so let's talk about the fitches. you -- fixes. you don't have any sufficient political will in either party to do it. what would it take to, for one, accelerate the time lines? some folks that applied for asylum and because there are so many of them and not enough judges and courtrooms, right, to adjudicate, they wait months, years to have the cases heard and are waiting in the u.s. in many cases while they're waiting for that decision. >> that goes with fixing the stum. there have been bills in congress. i think most recently in 2013 and you mention the courtrooms and how long it takes to get

asylum hearing. what we're looking for and what the american people are demanding is an end to the chaos at the border and in efficient due process system. so unfortunately -- i'm going to call it as i see it, jim, the republican party for the last decade plus has blocked creative intelligence solutions that the american people demand. and i think that's what we've got to get to. all this talk of we got serious problems. we have serious problems at the border. and americans demand and deserve and we all need border security. but to get there we need to sit down and do the hard work of fixing a broken and badly outdated system. >> i know that there aren't the republican votes for instance in the senate, the ten you need to get to 60. the fact is democrats have both chambers. they have the white house. they've had opportunities at least to get to the negotiating table. is there a tradeoff here where, for instance, you could get more

resources, more judges to hear the cases, process more quickly? but also more security at the border which is priority for republicans but also, frankly, democrats who live in those border states? >> absolutely. i don't know anybody on any side of this issue that isn't absolutely concerned about border security and about the sovereignty of our country. this issue can be solved. america -- america does great things. the we rebuild europe after world war ii. we sent people to the moon. we just do great things around the world. we can solve this problem. we're not talking -- i heard -- i was so moved by president zelenskyy last night. he talked in very, very potent terms about what an invasion really is. i hope the republicans in congress were listening. when they use that term and they use other incendiary hateful terms like invasion, they're not getting to the answer. and the answer is hard work and

creating a system that is orderly that, is fair,en that res -- and that respects due process. we can do this. we can be fair and protect american jobs and american workers. >> final question. the supreme court now injected itself into this. what is the potential outcome from that on title 42 specifically? can the supreme court extend that in effect overrule the president? >> they can certainly keep the stay, they can certainly keep title 42. that is the health statute that has been used to keep out asylum seekers. they can keep that in place temporarily. ultimately, no matter what the supreme court zshgdoes, jim, wed congress to fix this. ultimately, title 42 is not an immigration statute. steve miller and donald trump used it in a way that blocks immigration. it's a health statute. we need congress to give us a real immigration policy that we can work with going forward into

the 21st century. >> well, we'll see if there is political will. thank you so much for coming on, david. >> thank you, jim. thanks for having me. will. still ahead, a normal day at the office looks a little different for these two nasa astronauts. they're on a space walk right now. the danger though that caused delay and the job they have to do out there. man that, is the earth floating beneath them. the job they have to do out there next.

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. all right, so right now miles above us, this is live. two nasa astronauts are on aur seven hour space walk at the international space station. that is the earth floating below them. they're installing a solar array to increase the station's electrical power. kristin fisher with us now. so kristin, there was supposed to happen yesterday but there was some danger. what was the danger? >> yeah. so there was a piece of debris from an old russian rocket body

that was getting way too close to the space station for comfort. and it sounds really dangerous and it is. this piece of debris was getting less than a quarter of a mile away from the space station. but it has happened repeatedly this year, especially after that russian test of an anti-satellite weapon back in november of 2021. so nasa postponed the space walk that you're seeing now until today and successfully maneuvered away from the debris. but just look at the live images. crystal clear and you're seeing the astronauts installing a roll out solar array, which is going to provide more power to the international space station. so we're getting a treat with all of the live images this morning. >> you don't want to forget the right wrench when you're out there. and you're like, damn it. so another mission is the inside lander on the surface of mars. i was watching the twitter feed, my battery is going low. it is like saying good-bye to an

old friend. >> people are mourning the loss of this little rover. it is been up there for more than four years. don't feel too bad for this rover. because he or she or i guess i should say it was only supposed to be up there for two years and it made it four years and it measured the first earthquakes on mars and hit the end of its life span. but it did a great job and did what it was supposed to do. and it's batteries shut off and good-bye and thank you for a job well done. >> thank you so much. still ahead, it is forecast to be a once in generation winter storm bringing life-threatening low temperatures to areas across the u.s. holiday flights being upended. which areas are being hit hardest today. you need to know. that is coming up next. what will you u change? ♪ will you make something betterer?

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