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little robot provides real time updates robot by whisker. cnn news central tomorrow at nine eastern. it's the top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom, i'm fredricka whitfield in new york and right now in nashville state, lawmakers are about to vote on whether or not to expel three of their own for using a bullhorn during a gun control rally at the capitol to call for action in the wake of last month's deadly shooting that left 39 year old children and three adults dead. they are now
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accused of breaking house roles , and moments ago, the chamber voted to allow the viewing of a republican edited video of the day. the protest took place one week ago. alright it's been a contentious afternoon and at any moment now we expect to final vote on whether they will be able to keep their job. you're looking at live pictures right now, and that's lawmaker justin jones of nashville. he is the first of the three lawmakers who will be hearing about their legislative fate in a vote. he has been speaking about five minutes and the clock allows him around another 15 before the first vote might happen, or ryan young is outside the a state capital, where he is joined by a whole lot of protesters who were there. in support of trying to
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ensure some safety of schools at the same time, many of them are there in support of these three lawmakers whose fate hangs in the balance. ryan what's happening? yeah you can hear the protesters behind me, fred. they've been chanting all morning long they writer early. despite all the rain, there have been thousands of them at some point many of the media and inside to make sure lawmakers heard their voices because they wanted to say not only were they standing up for these three lawmakers, but they wanted to make sure that everyone didn't forget why they are here. the fact that those three children and those three workers were killed about a week ago. right now they're screaming. go justin go because, like you said, justin's on the inside talking right now about why he wants to remain in his seat. but as we were walking around here, and i was talking to people, we saw the state democratic leader who's here, hendro you told me you believe this vote's not going to go the way that so many people don't want to see it go, which is you believe the members are going to get voted out. what
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makes you feel that way at this point? absolutely thank you. ryan what? what we just witnessed on the house floor was a double standard. where republicans who recorded a video of this our representatives on in the in the world of the floor. we saw a republican violating rules by recording that video on the house floor, and there was some back and forth about whether or not that was a violation of the rules. and if not, if the house was in recess or not, if the house was indeed in recess when republicans were violating the rules, then at that same time democrats would have been subjected to the exact same level headedness of not being indicted on violating the rules . what message? do you think what what's happening today since two not only tennessee, but the rest of the country about how our discord may not be even anymore? absolutely i think it sets a dangerous president. not just here for in our state of political retribution, but across the nation, it sets a reckless road map. for other republican controlled
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legislatures to emulate what has happened in tennessee or what's happening in tennessee, and then we will see the fabric of democracy erode from the state level and not the national level. i think this i think what we're seeing in tennessee is going to become a dangerous president for the entire nation. you believe your members will be expelled today if you were thinking about this. you think this is going to happen well, thinking about the tennessee supermajority in the republicans that we've had to deal with? i wouldn't be surprised, but we're prepared to fight vigorously to make sure that they are returned to the state house in the seats that they've been rightfully elected to. and fred. if you don't mind, i'm gonna ask at least one more question here, which is just the idea of what is the procedure here now because each of them gets 20 minutes before the vote happens. is that how it worked out so we could be here for at least another hour. maybe yes. so each one of these representatives will be pretty much brought up one by one and will essentially go through what the rules have been suspended. and they will essentially go through hearings to defend themselves in their actions, and then the full body
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will vote on them. one by one. some of them will represent themselves. some of them will have representation by lawyers. there are some retired members of the state house who have returned to defend some of these members, so it's going to be a long process. probably another hour or two. is there any sort of olive branch had all that can be shown to the republican side on the republican side and surely kratz side to sort of get us past this impasse, because right now it seems like you got to immovable forces. and right now, the republicans have the upper hand completely at this point. well i know that the democratic leadership the democratic caucus leadership has gone above and beyond, to try to quell this before it even made it to the house floor. but the republicans have set out on a on a mission to make this a reality and they've even compared this to an insurrection. i think when you go that far, it's hard to walk it back publicly, but it's the type of hypocritical governing that we've seen from this republican supermajority in our state. don't want to not ask
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skew about this. how shocked and saddened where you buy the video that we all watched and the pain that this community has experienced. in the last two weeks or so, absolutely as a father of children who attend school here in nashville as an emergency manager, someone who has had to train small children and educators on how to survive acting shoot after shooter situations. it's definitely hard, disheartening to watch. and we want to listen in real quick that justin jones as he's on the floor, not to interrupt you, but we want to get to that so you guys can hear what's going on on the floor. the world is holding up a mirror. to a state that is going back to some dark, dark roots. a state in which the clue klux klan was bounded. is now attempting another power grab by silencing the two youngest black representatives and one of the only women democratic women in this body. that's what this is about. let us be real today. let
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us be real today. colleagues. there is another part of this. this extreme measure. it's a violation twofold. because it also is an attempt. to silence and undo the will. of over 200,000, tennessee in the three of us represents your extreme measure. is an attempt. to subvert the will of voters who democratically elected us as representatives to speak. passionately. fight for them.
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when i entered into this chamber, many members so what will you do with this supermajority? i said we will. bites for you. we will not bow down simply because they have numbers because we know that we are on the right side of history and that this body is not the ultimate say. that this is not a palace or a frat house. or the belle meade country club, but that this is the people's house. and so when we came into this well to say, i see you, i'm with you. the people of the state we are standing with you. we were saying, this is the people's house. and we will not bow down. somebody said they were shouting on the floor. they were shouting on the floor, and it reminded me
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of a scripture from genesis that said, the blood cried out. the blood cried out. that's what we were saying that scripture that says if we are silent, the stones were shout out. that's why we were shouting. no action, no peace. no action, no peace, no action, no peace. hmm. let's talk about the power grab. this is unprecedented. not just for our state, but it's the reason why states across this nation are sending letters condemning this body. the white
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house is talking about what's happening in this body, because what tennessee is doing. is a power grab, ousting three lawmakers, your colleagues simply because you have the numbers to do it. if i didn't know this was happening to us. i read the news. three opposition. legislators expelled from the legislature. i would think that this was another nation. but no it is tennessee. showing to the world. that democracy. is no more. that's simply because of gerrymander districts and voters. oppression you have stolen the people's house. hmm. and think that you are ultimate authority. so we were just
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listening to some of justin talking. you told me a fact that i didn't know if he is expelled . what happens at that moment if he is expelled at that moment, he's no longer a member of the state house of representatives. he will be escorted out of the house floor and out of the state capital. if there's not a space for a visitor to be essentially , we would hope that house leadership will take him on as a guest and escort him back to his office and out of the building so that he's not paraded out by state troopers. could you ever imagine a member of losing their position like this? not convicted of a crime and maybe being walked out of the state capital? absolutely with the tennessee suit republican supermajority we've seen the unthinkable happened, um and we have three duly elected democratic state representatives who are essentially going to be expelled from the statehouse for without a legitimate calls that's unthinkable and
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definitely an erosion of democracy in our state. i want to thank you for joining us. i'm sure we're going to talk again at some point. so you hear this passion? you hear the protesters who remained here? some have made their way on the inside. some have left or right now, but obviously this is very contentious with what's going on. as it's gonna play out. they do believe these expulsions will happen in the near future, and we'll continue to watch fred extraordinary moment. extraordinary words. there again live pictures right now of legislature. justin jones. he's one of three gloria johnson and justin pearson. i also legislators among the three uh, where lawmakers there will be voting on their expulsion will bring you all the details as it happens. ryan young, thank you so much. alright surveillance footage reportedly captured the moments just after the founder of the cash app. was stabbed to death were alive in san francisco, with the latest on the investigation. how the city is reacting, and it was a troop
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supreme court analyst joan baez. cubic is with us now. so, joan, i mean, what more is in this report, and has there been any reaction from the high court. yeah as you said, it was really a stunning report really impressive reporting by propublica, you know, documenting all these trips that clarence thomas and his wife had taken on this super yacht to these lavish resorts across the world. indonesia, new zealand, you know, just episode after episode, i think there were a total of six different trips and they were all really lavish trips that would cost you know other people, you know hundreds of thousands of dollars to take and that they were not disclosed . now the question is, you know how is the court responded, and that's that's what's really concerning here. once again. the supreme court is not responding at all. clarence thomas did not comment on this. and chief justice john roberts hasn't either, and i think that's what undermines the stature of the court. right now. the court has
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no formal code of ethics that justices say that they abide by the rules that lower court just judges. have to abide by, but there's no way that we know how it's enforced. how it's policed . there's just so much ambiguity in terms of what they will disclose and what they are required to disclose, and this report is so extensive. it's dance, head and shoulders above so many others that have come out in recent months and years. but there's just been a drumbeat of concern. members of congress have called on the court to be more transparent about their rules and once again today, fredricka. the justices have said nothing. mm hmm. and you wrote the book on chief justice roberts. how do you think he is reacting? even though we haven't heard anything publicly, what's your suspicion? my suspicion is that he is very concerned, and he would like to get unanimity among his colleagues and some sort of code of ethics. some statement, but you know, he's
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one of nine and they can't put out some sort of code of ethics that it's a 6 to 3 vote that three justices don't want to do this, and i think that over the years in fact, i know that over the years he has tried to develop something that they would all sign on to, and i don't think it's a matter of his colleagues not wanting to say that they follow ethics. it's just that they don't feel the kind of public pressure that i think most of them should feel that people want to believe in the integrity of the court that has so much concentrated power that has so much to do with our daily lives. that right now is seen as so political as you know, fredricka in poll after poll last summer after the justices had rolled back nearly a half century of abortion rights. people said they weren't trusting the court. and i think these off bench activities only reinforces a sense of distrust. sure people be worried about the message that's being sent about
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what justices could be bought. you know and how that's going to impact. what decisions they make . all right, joan biskupic. thank you so much. thank you. the last moments of life for the founder of the cash app bobbly were recorded on surveillance cameras and a 911 call, according to the news site, the san francisco standard. it reviewed the video and a transcript of the emergency call reporting that lee is seen gripping his side with one hand and his cell phone in the other , leaving a trail of blood behind him. san francisco police say someone stabbed bleed to death and his murder is further fueling outrage. over crime in that city. cnn's veronica miracle is in san francisco. uh, veronica. reportedly the video shows a car pulling away from bob lee as he appeared in distress. what more do you know about that? it's absolutely horrible. fredricka the san
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francisco standard reporting that in that video, he was able to stagger over to a car that had its hazards on and apparently, he lifted up his shirt to show that he had been stabbed and that car drove away . separately the standard also reporting on that 911 call that lee made himself to police, where he's apparently heard screaming. help. someone stabbed me. a crime scene blocks from google. san francisco office, the victim, 43 year old bobbly tech executive himself the founder of cash app and the first chief technology officer of square. we was stabbed tuesday, friends and police say , walking in a downtown neighborhood around two a.m. tomorrow night. that's a little strange, um. we just happened to my mind still processing it. you know, when you lose someone you're like, this is a not expected. you know, he had 22 daughters as well that you love. lee's father honored his son on facebook writing. bob would give you the shirt off of his back.
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bob lee had recently moved to miami with his father, who wrote so happy that we were able to become so close these last years. lee was known in the industry as crazy bob for his tenacious energy. his latest employer, the crypto firm mobile coin tweeted. this photo calling lee child of dreams and whatever he imagined, no matter how crazy he made real. this is not a city where anybody should fear for their lives at 2 30 in the morning. the killing has renewed anger in san francisco over perceptions that the city isn't safe. on twitter. elon musk claimed many people i know have been severely assaulted, then pushed the district attorney to do more to incarcerate repeat violent offenders for too long. the leaders of san francisco have ignored the basics. cardio worked on the successful recall campaign of the previous progressive d a last year, then won a city supervisor seat, defeating the incumbent by running on a public safety agenda. residents are feeling like the city is not working for
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them, and they just want clean streets, safe streets and good schools and they don't understand why the city hasn't been able to deliver. still violent crime overall is falling in san francisco compared to previous decades. this is the 12th homicide this year, according to police data. baltimore with fewer people reports nearly 70. but property crime is high in san francisco. in 2020, there were more than 4000 incidents per 100,000 people. that's nearly three times the rate of new york city. friends of bobbly say all that matters now is the one crime that has them in morning i talked about his kids a lot family, just generally good guy. and some are speculating that this could have been a random attack, but the san francisco police department has not released any information about the circumstances surrounding his death. they also fredricka have not released any
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faced intense scrutiny for its withdrawal from afghanistan, and now the pentagon is ready to release its findings on the controversial troop drawdown and we'll send it to congress. the reports include the attack on the abigail at kabul airport were 13 u. s service members were killed during the evacuation. cnn national security reporter natasha bertrand joins us now from the pentagon. natasha what are you learning? so we're getting a lot of information here from u. s officials who say that this report essentially is going to lay out everything that the us has learned about specifically that withdrawal from afghanistan back in 2021. what we are learning is really that the administration feels that it conducted a good evacuation. all things considered the fact that they were able to get over 100,000 people out of the country. as it collapses the taliban took over they feel is a success, and they are emphasizing here that they still believe that the administration was severely constrained by the
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decisions that were made by the trump administration, namely that deal that former president trump made with the taliban that required all u. s troops to be out of the country by may of 2021. so the administration saying that they are working that they were working, essentially with the conditions that they entered into the administration under and they're also, however, acknowledging that there are certain things that they could have done better in that very specific instance for example, they are now saying they're going to prioritize evacuations in a in a way that is faster. so basically when, when security situations deteriorate in these kinds of environments, they're going to advise americans and other people to leave the country sooner than they did, of course, with americans in afghanistan now the reason that they did not advise those evacuations to happen sooner is because they did not want to undermine confidence in the afghan government at the time, they did not want the afghan government to collapse, and they did not. foresee. the taliban taking over
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as fast as they did, but they said that moving forward they are not going to make that mistake again, essentially and saying that they're going to communicate the risks to americans much more aggressively than they did in the incidence of afghanistan and they're also going to move faster to get people out. fred mhm alright, natasha bertrand, thanks so much. according to a new report. for the first time in a year, ukraine is open to negotiating with moscow over the future of crimea were alive in ukraine next. sunday night. we're trying something a little different.. one whole story. one whole hour . world's best journalalists dig deeper into the stories. they can't ignore the whole story with anderson cooper premieres sunday, ril 16th at eight on cnn. important kitchen toolmy brain, so i choose areva plus, unlike some others, plus is a multitasker supporting six key indicators of brain health. help. keep me sharp. areva think
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faster, easier way to put on shoes they know, attend when they see it. for the first time in a year. ukraine maybe showing interest in negotiating with moscow over the future of crimea . ukrainian officials seem to indicate that crimea could be up for negotiation. if ukraine is successful in its counter offensive, but now there are significant. david mckenzie is here to sort all of this out for us. david ukraine cut off peace talks with moscow about this very thing last april, so what's happening now? what's really taboo here in ukraine to discuss any territory that was ukraine's as leverage into any kind of negotiations, and chief among that, of course, is crimea, the part of ukraine that russia took in 2014. now you have these comments from the deputy head of the president's office to the financial times, the british newspaper saying that perhaps if
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there was a counter offensive threat that went all the way up to the borders of crimea, then that is something that could be discussed. but pretty quickly there's been pushed back very significantly from that person's boss at the president's office and other officials, saying, no, there is no sense from ukrainians and the ukrainian leadership that they are willing to talk about any territory within ukraine. that can be part of negotiations with russia. that is consistent what we've heard over months and months. and also, of course, this conversation is theoretical because they required to take a great deal of territory before they can get to the borders of crimea, fred and david. are there any signs of the counter offensive that has been discussed? what they are signs in that you had a real ratcheting up of western weapons coming into the country of the last few months and increasingly
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over the last few days, and the ukrainian military and the defense department of pretty wreak frequently shown off those weapons like us armored personnel carriers and anti mine equipment. so you do feel that there is a movement in a certain direction, and that direction is potentially for counter offensive. i mean, you can just look where i'm standing. the weather is not great. it's still being snow significantly in the west of the country where i have am today. you need good weather . you need less mud and the sort of functional things of logistics. to be a little bit better. i think before you see a ukrainian counter offensive, but the truth is, no one knows there's been hints from the president on down about until it actually happens. we don't know and it will be a critical moment . i think the next few months to see if ukraine can gain enough ground. to make significant inroads into that territory that
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russia has taken. fred all right. david mckenzie. thanks so much. eager shavon tech, the world's top women's tennis player, is slamming her sports specifically wimbledon when it comes to its stance on the war in ukraine, cnn's carolyn manno explains. fredricka the number one player in the world on the women's side dish, biontech says that her sport really missed an opportunity here to send a strong message by failing to impose a blanket ban on players from russia and its ally belarus after the ukraine invasion, and she says that even though she and her contemporaries are athletes that the sport wields tremendous power, and that that should be used to reinforce the fact that players are against this war, wimbledon banned players from the two countries last year after the invasion. that was very significant is that was the first time the player were excluded on the grounds of nationality since world war two era but they lifted that ban last month, and players are now competing on the tours and other grand slams
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under the heading of quote unquote neutral athletes, and what's biontech is describing here is a locker room atmosphere at these events. that's pretty tense, but she did underscore that this is a complicated situation for some of these athletes. he's russian and belarussian athletes who could face consequences for not being complicit or for speaking publicly about the war in ukraine. they do in fact protest, but she said that all players can make an impact and that any decisions that are made by the federation's should really be done. so while keeping russia's aggression top of mind in her opinion, fredricka all right, carolyn manno. thanks so much for that. alright today. in vatican city, pope francis celebrated holy thursday mass at st peter's basilica. erotica lunch. me, amanda. important. five minutes. hmm. the 86 year old pontiff was just released from the hospital this past saturday after being treated for bronchitis. and after today's mass pope francis visited a
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who is now facing expulsion. yeah, that's right. i have here the three house resolutions for the tennessee house, um 65, which would expel justin jones 64, which would expel gloria johnson and house resolution 63 , which would expel state representative justin j. pearson was which is the individual we spoke with yesterday and we hope to speak with today. um it should be noted. it's not just that they joined protests on gun violence. it's that they disrupted the proceedings of the of the floor and violated state rules. state house rules which i don't think anyone really disputes. it's just a question about whether they should truly be punished this way. given that the last person to be punished this way, i think is somebody who had allegedly sexually groped 22 women or something like that. i mean, this is a pretty extreme punishment for an act of civil disobedience. they admit to having broken the house rules, but they also, you know,
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add that they're giving voice to those who have felt silenced. so you're you're also going to be covering the afghanistan withdrawal report today. what more can you shed on that? well, yeah. i mean, we've obviously been covering this story for since since 2021 when president biden took office and talking about like what was going to come and then covering it as it happened, the chaotic withdrawal , trying to find out as much as we can about the after action report we're going to be interviewing today. former admiral william mcraven, who you may recall was the head of special ops did a lot of time in afghanistan. he actually was the one who oversaw the mission to go across the border and get bin laden and pack. kiss tan, so we'll be talking to him about the news today about the lessons learned that the biden ministrations says. or a key part of their after action report. alright. well look forward to that, jake. thanks so much. of course, we'll also be looking forward to the lead with
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sunscreen. and trust me, trust me. this is all stuff that happened 25 years ago is coming out. now put some sunscreen on. you'll still have a incredible time out there. all right. please be sent. all right. good advice and more advice from chief medical correspondent dr sanjay gupta. sanjay so, you know, jackman, you know, he's hoping that he can be the example to encourage people to wear sunscreen. but what was you know? what was the scare? did he see brown spots lesions? what was it well, he's had skin cancer in the past. so i think he was getting checked and saw something that looks suspicious and had it removed and sounds like got the all clear there's that's good news. he talked about the fact that some of the sun damage from 25 years ago which is really important, i mean, you know the sun damage can accumulate over time. fredricka this is one of those things where we all know the importance of taking care of our skin. but very few of us actually do it about 5.5 million
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cases of these types of skin cancers every year in the united states. eight out of 10 of them are what are known as basal cell cancer. that's the type that hugh jackman was talking about. they're not commonly fatal, but they can spread and they can lead to the need for extensive procedures. let me just show you quickly here. if we can we have this graphic. you're the adelaide. your skin called the epidermis. most people know that it's about the thickness of a credit card in that layer is where all these cells lie, basil cells, squamous cells and even milana sites. which can lead to melanoma any of those cells when they get mutated because of uv light could potentially turn into cancer and again that can accumulate over time. that's why sunscreen and all that is so important. so who should be screened for skin cancer and how often mostly it's people who have had, you know issues. in the past, people have had previous basal cell or squamous cell carcinomas. but most people can sort of self screen and medical people love these acronyms. so i'll just give you
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a quick one. a b c d. e if you have a lesion or a mole or something, is it a symmetric different one side to the other or the borders? changing or becoming jagged? is the color changing or is the diameter the size of it changing? is it evolving in some way, if it is that's a flag. and you should get it checked out more times than not. it's not gonna mean anything significant, but that's the kind of screening that you really want to take place. okay you know, i'm i'm i'm glad that my mom really impressed upon me to wear sunscreen. when i was seven. i was one of those kids that just stayed at the pool every day all the time and would get roasted and i feel like today we're we've all been conditioned, and now we all have a pretty good understanding of why it's so important to wear sunscreen. but then there are there are a lot of things to choose from. how do we make the right choices about the kinds of sunscreen we need to grab? most of what you're going to find out there are going to have these specific ingredients. criteria of the sunscreen. spf sun
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protection factor of 30 or more. where it all the time make it part of your daily routine. even on cloudy days and broad spectrum is a term you hear a lot. let me just explain that really quick. if we can put up this other graphic, there's two types of uv light that we're most concerned about. uv a and uv b uv b is the one that attacks that epidermis is more associated with developing some of these skin cancers. but you've a is deeper and that's typically what's associated with aging. so if for no other reason you want to get both of them in there and let me just share with you quickly. but if you look at men and women yeah, wearing sunscreen, 12.3% of men only wear sunscreen even on sunny days for women, but still less than a third easy folks, especially with summer coming up , but it's probably easier for women to because a lot of our makeup has sunscreen in it now. okay, gotta go. thank you. dr sanjay gupta. thanks so much. the lead with jake tapper starts right now.