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top of the hour. good morning, everybody. i'm bianna golodryga. a missile strikes in ukraine and this time targeting the city of kramatorsk, and they were trying to carry out a missile strike when they hit a rescue center. we will take you there in a moment. now, chinese officials are
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condemning the u.s.'s move to create military bases after strikes on taiwan. and now, after a meeting with the president and kevin mccarthy on the debt ceiling. and this comes after a move to remove democratic congresswoman ilhan omar from her committee. joining me live from cr kramatorsk is fred pleitgen, and we know that as rescuers were coming into the apartment complex, there was an attack? >> yes, that is correct. there was an attack in
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kramatorsk coming into the apartment building, and the ukrainians say it was hit by a heavy surface-to-surface missile head, and the building was flatten and the ukrainians say three people were kill and one missing, but at that site, there was an active search and rescue operation with cranes being in use, and more than 300 police officers at the scene. we went to cray kramatorsk to g there to film, there was a second attack there at the building that we had just parked in front of. so the first missile was 30 or 40 yards from where we were. you could tell it was a giant blast and a big missile and so obviously a lot of people went to cover, and we tried to make our way to safety to the hardened location and i turned around and i looked up and i saw
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the second missile hit the exact same building again, and the ukrainians say further people were wounded in that attack, but this time, it was a s-2-300 missiles that are used to shoot down airplanes, and if they are used against the ground targets, they are very inaccurate and in urban centers, it is all the more dangerous, but the bottom line is that there was a place where there was an active search and rescue operation, and it was targeted in a densely populated area once again today by the russian military, bianna. >> it is the hallmarks of the russians, and this is as the u.s. officials are in kyiv today, and the ukrainians are continuing with the fast acts and one is fast-track to join the eu and another is for the fast advanced weaponry and f
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f-16s, and any indication that any or either of those asks will be granted? >> as far as the jets are concerned, the u.s. says nothing in the cards, but it does not mean that down the line, it is not something that could happen, but right now, it is difficult to do that, and one of the things that the ukrainians wants is the longer range missiles, and it is something that i have spoken to so many ukrainian officials in the country, and they say that the longer distance weapons are necessary because they need them to stop the russian logistic lines that are put further away from the lines of the russians to avoid the rocket missile systems that the ukrainians have, but to prevent the russians from conducting strikes that happen today from the further missiles, because they can travel a far distance and the ukrainians say they need something to stop that from happening, and currently
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that is not the case, because the missiles today that the russians are using are something that is impossible to detect. and so that is high on the agenda of what the ukrainians want, and they want it from the u.s. and the u.s. allies as well, bianna. >> and this is all happening as russia is planning for a new front, right? any time soon and a new offensive for the ukrainian offensive is planning as well. fred pleitgen there on the ground. thank you and stay safe. also new this morning, chinese officials are responding now as the u.s. announces that it going to have new access to bases in the philippines and closer to taiwan. china is claim nag the move intenses tensions and instability in the area. we are joined live from the pentagon from oren at the pentagon, and this is increasing
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access by the u.s. in more than 30 years? >> yes, we will get to that in a moment, but a major announcement from the u.s. anded philippines with lloyd austin meeting the national leadership in the philippines including his counterpart and the president, and expanding on the enhanced u.s. defense agreement. that is now having more access to military bases and neither the u.s. for the philippines have said what bases those will be, and we know in the past they have expressed interest in and gives us a sense of why china is reacting way they are, because that puts the u.s. closer to access to on the northern side of okinawa where there is a more organized marine unit which is 200 miles off of the northern coast, and now potentially 200 miles of the southern coast,
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china and taiwan could be looking at u.s. forces there as well depending how this agreement is playing out, and that is how china is responding with the accusation of the american selfish agenda and accusing the u.s. of affecting the regional stability, but it is bigger than that, because the former philippine president rodrigo dueterte had made it clear that it is moving the philippines back towards the united states, and that for the u.s. is an accomplishment as it is shifting towards that region, and towards the indo-pacific region and in effects to contain and deter china as some officials are more concerned than ever about a beijing invasion of taiwan. bianna. >> and those officials are including a u.s. air force general that says that, and some
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say that is not bearing true to the way they view the situation. nonetheless, thank you, oren liebermann. and now, we are waiting to hear from a vote of congress to remove ilhan omar from her congress committee. so we go to raw jja manu, and we do things stand? >> it is almost certain that she is going to be removed, and kevin mccarthy made it clear to me and other reporters to me and others that he does have the votes to kick her off of the committee over the past comments that were criticized as anti-semitic, and she has apologized for those comments, but he has vowed for a year or so to take her off of the committee after the democrats removed two republicans over their comments in the last
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congress. this is required with a full vote in the house, and we are expecting it today, and kevin mccarthy can only afford two republican votes and he is going to lose one, but he believes they can keep the defections lower, but the bigger issue of avoiding the first ever debt default in u.s. history is looming large. kevin mccarthy did meet with president biden yesterday, and they both sounded positive yesterday, but he made it clear kevin mccarthy did, there is a lot more work to do. kevin mccarthy told me last night that he rejected one of the key issues and one of the key demands of the white house to raise the national debt ceiling and no conditions and no strings attached and he said that he would not accept no ceiling. >> i would not go in there with any demands, because this is the first meeting. so he made it clear that he would not negotiate. and this is the first meeting
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and times that we would disagree, but on the parts that we would disagree, and we were honest in the things that we would not do. >> like what? >> raising a clean debt ceiling, and i was clear that we are not going to keep raising limit on the credit card, and we will do something different, and i am telling him that, but i am more than willing to sit down and talk with him and work with him in how we change this together. >> and that is really where the challenge begins, bianna that he'll have to include some level of spending cuts and the republicans will have to detail exactly what they want. he is not detailing exactly specific cuts that he has to tie it to, and the democrats don't want any cuts whatsoever, and they want to avoid the first ever default here in passing the debt ceiling, and all of the major deals, and whether he can do that or we will be looking at
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the first ever default if they can't agree. >> the stakes are high. thank you, manu. it is fitting, david, that it is grounds hos hog day, because hee are year after year talking about this and is that premature for kevin mccarthy to come out as optimistic as he was to quote find common ground with president biden? >> i don't think so. because two different things. kevin mccarthy made it clear yesterday as manu detailed, there is a long road to go hereb and nobody expected yesterday to have the president or the speaker emerge from that meeting with a roadmap to exactly how this is going to be resolved. it is the very beginning of to process, but i think that for both of their benefits and sort of the message that they want to put out there on this, both the president today at the prayer breakfast and speaker mccarthy yesterday, they wanted to turn
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down the temperature a bit. they were doing so much shadowboxing before they sat down, and to emerge and express some optimism for professional and respectful relationship while still acknowledging the hard work of finding a fault to avoid default remains ahead of them, i think that both things can be true at the same time. >> so much of this also is about wording, right? i mean, you have a path to look at with president obama and biden in circumstances where they started to negotiate and it did not lead to much, and so that is why you have president biden to say now, i have been there and done that, and that is why we are firm when we say we want a clean debt bill, and if we want to talk about the deficit reduction, we can talk about that separately, and so do you think that he is going to move from that at all in the next four months? >> well, it remains to beianna
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bianna, but you are pointing out that it is all in the eye of the beholder, and if kevin mccarthy sticks to the position, and the conference holds him to the position of clean debt ceiling to be nonnegotiable, and they will not pass, then does the white house agree to some cuts to be passed simultaneous in a separate package and a pass of the semantics of a clean debt ceiling hike and negotiation and this is the resolution here, and they are clearly going to negotiate and no doubt about it, but what the white house is trying to accomplish here is that we have to pay the bills on the money already spent, and that has to be separate and apart from any negotiation on spending cuts. >> one thing that does seem certain is that ilhan omar is going to be removed from the house foreign affairs committee. is that, again, just another symbolic move and perhaps a campaign pledge for republicans to say that they fulfilled or does that, do you think, lead to
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something more serious and toxic in the new congress in the months to come? >> well, the former. and it is certainly a fulfillment of the cam page pledge. i don't know if washington could get more toxic politically. it is a pretty polarized town that reflects the polarized politics across the nation, and this is example number one of how this plays out. whether or not it is going to have real world ramifications of the way things get done in congress from here on out, i am not so sure, but it is certainly something that the republican base has been demanding is enthused about and kevin mccarthy wants to prove after that elongated battle to become speaker that he can keep the conference together on things and actually even something that is a message item, keep the conference together and deliver on some of what they promised in november. >> i like the strategy of yours, david, keep the expectations
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really low on the pessimistic side, because you never know, tomorrow we may be surprised. david chalian, i think that your experience suggests otherwise, but we appreciate the time and insight. thank you. >> thank you, bianna. still to come hunter biden and the legal team is taking on the right wing critics and calling for criminal investigations, and who he is accusing of trying to weaponize the personal contents of a laptop. and now, as black history month begins, the outrage of some of how black history is taught in schools. we will talk to a senator in florida about his concerns. and could the way we work be about to change, and we will look at the jobs that could be the most vulnerable. >> which jobs is ai coming after first? >> if you a middle manager, you are doomed, and report writers and journalists. [ auaudience cheers ] maybe try switching yoyour car insurance to progressive.
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hunter biden is fighting back with a new legal strategy with the spreading of his personal data. his attorneys are calling for the state and federal agencies to investigate several people in disseminating contents of his laptop including a computer repair shopowner and rudy giuliani and several right wing reporters. he says it is his personal data purportedly on that laptop left at that repair shop. and so, thank you for coming on, and i wanted to quote you, you said it wreaks of desperation.
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and how so? >> i am glad to be with you, and what a ridiculous day in the news on this, because it is a typical strategy, and any time that you have somebody in the crosshairs of an investigation, and they feel like the walls are squeezing in on them a little bit, what is the first thing they typically do? that is to attack the investigators and i'm not justifying or giving any credibility to the investigation at all, but hunter biden has a very good lawyer, and as you suggested in the lead-up remarks, they are acknowledging that the information was his, and essentially from the same individual who has basically denied whether or not it is a laptop that he may have dropped off or maybe he doesn't remember if he dropped a laptop here, and the victim here is the president who has to deal with the family distractions at a time when we should be talking about the policy and the debt ceiling, and
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he is obviously, and he is a son, and he loves his son, but he is having to deal with this, too. >> talking about the president being the ultimate victim here and we also mentioned abbe lowell who is hunter biden's attorney, he is a prominent attorney and well known in washington circles especially, and why do you think that he would make this shift in strategy now of all times before we have even herd whether president biden is going to officially announce whether he is running for president again? >> well, you have the republican-controlled congress now, and they are trying to use the oversight powers to reach into the biden family past, and while it is an illegitimate use of the powers and abusive and one of the reasons that they won't hold congress very long, you know, abbe lowell is trying to get out in front of the stories, and he knows that the committees is going to meet, and he knows that there is going to be stories about the laptop, and
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politicians are going to try to throw more red meat to the base, and get in front of this, and he is representing client which he is supposed to do, but at the same time, there is political ramifications of this, and who would have thought that on the one day that the fbi is searching the home of the current, the sitting president and on another day we are talking about whether or not the president's son has a laptop out there with information that could be damaging to the president. so this is -- it is sort of a sad day for me as politics as whole, but i don't blame abbe lowell for getting out there to get in front of it for his client. >> well, you are talking about the political ramification, but there are legal ramifications into the investigation of hunter biden which has to do with hunter biden's taxes and the use of the firearm, and these are two separate issues, and you don't think that he is trying to -- is that what you are
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trying to say that he is coming out ahead of where this investigation goes? >> i think that he is a smart lawyer, and he knows that in a legitimate criminal investigation, they won't be publishing stories and having press conferences about what may or may not be in the investigation, and at the same time he is going to have a congress out there who is going to be talking about things that they found or lies that they want to tell. so he is simply saying, let's talk about this so that we keep the story focused on my client. we know that we will have to deal with statements made by politicians, but at the same time we may have a criminal case, and he is just asking to have an investigation of how this information got out there, and you can file injunctions and all sorts of things, but he knows that you cannot separate politics from the law. >> michael moore, always great to have you on. thank you. >> great to be with you, thank
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it is black history month. a time to recognize the
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contributions african-americans have made to this country, but in florida, the governor is pushing a plan to bandy versity, equity and inclusion initiatives. ron desantis propose d a plan t ban funding hoping those programs would wither on the vine. i want to introduce a congressman who serves in the 34th district. thank you for joining us. yaw call these discriminatory and discriminatory regardless of where the funding comes from. and now, in terms of recruitment of colleges and the impact on that. >> yes, thank you so much for having me. and first of all, florida is hailed as one of the country's top higher education systems in the country. this is not happening because the institutions are practicing
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this ideological conformity that the governor is saying. colleges is where you go to explore your thinking, and the professionals are challenging you to think outside of the box, but the casting of the large net to dissolve the dei programs and couch it as one net as the governor has done is the reason that we need dei on the campuses and in the businesses. florida is the largest educational system in the country with over 450,000 students, and that warrants dei programs on the campuses. >> how is this going to impact recruitment specifically? >> exactly. it is going to recruit it from
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attendance, and they are already seeing that applications are not wanting to teach here or send their students here to florida, and it is going to alter recruitment, and he has dissolved some of the colleges and boards and fired the president, and now they have to put money behind recruiting the teachers and the students. that is not going to solve the problem. people come here for more than the beaches and the weather, but they come here for the education as well. >> and we know that these programs will be mandated in states like new york and massachusetts, these dei programs, and is that reassuring for you or that it may help to move some floridians and students there thinking of going to school in that state or perhaps to work in that state thinking of moving elsewhere? >> absolutely. you are definitely going to see this great migration of the
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individuals who will leave the state of florida, and teachers have made it clear that they are not returning to teach next year from our colleges and within the k-12 system. it is more than just talking about the equity and equality in the workplaces or on the college campus, and some of the dei programs have important applications like following the americans with disabilities on the come pus campuses, and so t implications is far greater than being played. >> and this is the a.p. african-american course studies has become quite a divisive issue, and i am curious about your thoughts on this framework? >> well, bianna, this is a monumental moment for education as we are going to recognize the incredible contributions of african-americans considering this is day two of
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african-american history month, and the fact that we are having this conversation and on one hand we want to celebrate african-american history, and on the other we have to fight to legitimize ourselves in this state that says that we want to be legitimized. and this is a course that would have been happily signed up for as told to us from last year, but because of the political gains being paid, the african-american community are now once again the punching bag here in the state of florida which is unfortunate. >> yes, the college board said no political pressure here within this decision, but it is coming weeks after the governor banned it in state schools. thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. if you have heard of chat ai, and what happens when
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well, at this point, you have heard of chatgtp, and it is a tool that can write everything from research papers and songs, and now it has passed the u.s. medical licensing exam. it is the latest achievement from the artificial intelligence tool. it had previously passed law
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schools and the entrance exams at the wharton business school. so jacqueline, is this the answer to the sophisticated medical questions is one thing, but how accurate is it really? >> well, it is surprising, bianna, but chat gtp got right answers more than half of the time in the answers that we typically use in the u.s. medical licensing exam. this is what the study showed that the chat bot answered questions according to the researchers with greater than 50% accuracy across three tests that are used in the licensing exam, and they said that in most cases, it exceeds that it got more than 60% accuracy, and that 60% is what they use to measure whether it passed the exam. and since it got 60% most of the time, it passed or nearly passed the u.s. medical licensing exam. does it mean that chat gdp is going to be our doctors in the future?
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probably not. instead, the researchers say it could be a reliable tool when it comes to making medical decisions, diagnoses or plans or translating jargon to understand. that is the role we could see. >> so no dr. chat in the future. but it does not feel empathy like human doctors, and we have heard of medicine becoming more personalized, so it could play a specific role, but it would not take the role of the doctor. >> right. it could be used as a tool, and while it can make a accurate diagnosis, it cannot break down how it got there, and how it made the decision, and that why we are seeing this more so in research as a tool for translating medical jargon, for writing study reports, and for drafting pamphlets, bianna, and so maybe that is what we will see in the future.
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>> so after going to school for years on end, we can reassure the doctors that they are still needed. jacqueline howard, thank you. as the chachatgtp could impe and go after your job, we have a report on what industries are already feeling the impact. >> reporter: what jobs are ai coming after? >> any kind of middle manager, accountants and bookkeepers and oddly enough doctors who are looking to, who specialize in things like drug interactions. >> do you mean out of the job or -- >> no. >> or that part of your job. >> that part of the job. >> yes. >> reporter: that is the relief that americans are looking for right now, the explosion of chat gtp and ai platform showed us that we could do a lot of what we humans do at work, and
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faster. >> will it take my job? >> yes, and no. it is not going to replace you, and someone who knows how to use it well will take your job, and that is a guarantee. >> by 2024, 8 million jobs are going to be displaced by automation and technology, but it is going to create 97 million new roles. we have seen it before in the auto industry. >> while the auto worker may be displaced because they are not as good as welding or painting as a robot, there are 35 people who have to be involved in the creation and the maintenance of that device that welds better than a person. >> that is what happened at carbon robotics and the former workers are building a laser weeder for detroit farms. >> it is a direct result of the auto manufacturing that we have the skill set available to us all in one place. >> the laser weeder is operated
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by a robot, but it is run by a human, because it fills a role that it is harder to find humans they cannot find to do the role. >> it saves time and money for roles that humans are hard to find. >> ai is more affordable, and there is no composer or musical artist. >> it is taking food away from families because artists are not able to fulfill it. >> reporter: and ortiz claims that they are using her name and art to train the ai. >> it is feast and famine for most of us. we go job by job, and what happens when there is a little
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bit less work to go around. >> stability ai as it is called says the student misunderstands how the ai and copyright law works and says that it intends to defend ourselves and the potential that ai has to expand the creative power of humanity, and the other two companies failed to respond. >> it is straight out of the movie. >> and can the robot write a symphony, can the robot turn the canvas into a masterpiece. >> and the robot looks up, and he says, can you? >> and the robot is not picasso or choose your famous and amazing artisan, and it is not coming to kill us, but it is coming to help us. >> if you have not seen irobot,
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and what happens is the intelligence robots come to help save humanity, and that is what the experts think is going to happen in the future, that we'll be working together with the artificial intelligence and since i gave you the top five jobs that ai will take first, these are the top five they will take last, elementary teacher, professional athlete, politician, judge, and mental health professional, because these are the jobs that need human nature, and they need emotion. a preschool teacher is going to want to hug her preschooler at the end of the day, and the judge needs judgment and a politician, well, maybe they just need unique qualities, and we will all leave it at that for the politicians. >> maybe we need robots to get things done in washington. and your face when you said journalists. both of our faces, but rest assured, bosses. just aids.
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drag him! wow, my goodness. a terrifying rescue in las vegas as the police release this video of police and a man dragging a person from the car that burst into flames. the officer was treated for smoke inhalation, and the driver who faces dui charges was hospitalized and is expected to make a full recovery. well, the opioid epidemic is taking a deadly toll across the u.s. the cdc says that in 2021 there were more than 21,000 drug overdose deaths, and more than 75% of those involved opioids. the movie "american pain" takes us into the rise and fall of a pair of brothers who ran one of the largest drug empires in the country.
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>> the george brothers did not start the drug crisis, but they sure as hell poured gasoline on the fire. they were the largest street distribution group operating in the united states. nobody put more pills on the streets than they did, nobody. they created a blueprint of how this is to be done, and they were operating in broad daylight. >> the scale of the enterprise was enormous. >> you had addicts streaming in from all over the country thousands of miles just to come to florida to get drugs. >> when you see what is going on inside of that clinic, your jaw just falls to the floor. >> get your pills to the parking lot to shoot up. >> i have seen a lot of crazy, but this is just bat [ bleep ]
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crazy. and joining me now is chief law enforcement analyst, and that is quite a trailer. but the george brothers had an influence on the opioid market, and how is that? >> the george brothers had an influence, but most of the customers were coming from out of state, and coming to out of state, and this is an all you can ask pill mill. >> and what did the cartel play in this play? >> well, the george brothers set up the pill mill and once they were shutdown, the cartel stepped in and said, what do people want? oxycodone, and we will make a counterfeit blue fill, and it is not oxy, but it is going to be filled with fentanyl, and they
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have filled the void since, but what the george brothers did was interesting is because they figured out the need, and what are the legal requirements? you need a doctor to write a prescription and you need a basis, an mri and you need the things to meet with the regulator and so they took the legal steps as a cover for a vast illegal enterprise. i was working fbi at the time this case was put together, and what they brought was a rico case which is a racketeering enterprise, and so they basically said that the chain of pill mills, $40 million they made, millions of pills they put out, and 66,000 prescriptions for multiple pills at one location alone in a short period. so they had really figured out the volume of it. one of the great things about this documentary is that you will hear all of the wiretaps and you will see all of the text messages, and you are kind of living behind the scenes.
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>> and obviously, the pill mill can be shutdown, but the implications here are huge, and a huge challenge for the law enforcement community as well. >> tremendous. >> john miller, thank you. and the new documentary is only seen here on cnn this sunday at 9:00 p.m. i'm bianna golodryga a and we wl have more on cnn with kate bolduan.n. as a musician living with diabetes, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that's why i use the freestyle libre 2 system. with a one-second scan, know my glucose numbers without fingersticks. try it for free at fres
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