things. karl lagerfeld was a larger than life character. you know, the trib autes to him last night, i have nails, black and white, i can't afford channel, i can do my nails. but to your point, but we can't forget what he did and said and i think that makes the whole person. >> what a night. it's the ticket. it's the ticket. so glad you were there. >> it was pretty phenomenal. my friend was texting me and said how did last night go? i cursed a little. it's amazing. it's the oscars. it's the grammys. it's everything rolled up into one. you know, i get las nas x meowing at me. it was great. mark, thank you. and "cnn this morning" continues right now. if there is a strike do you

go dark? >> if there is a strike, yeah, i think we will, yeah. >> they are entitled to make a living. i think it's a very reasonable demand that is being set out by the guild. >> these are our writers. i will stick myself in there because i am wind gust, too. they are so important to the show. they write the monologue, the meanwhile, the cold open. without these people this show would be called the late show with a guy rambling about the "lord of the rings" and boats for an hour. >> good morning. we are glad you are with us. the writers strike. >> what is it? 15 years? >> 2007. >> hollywood writers, 11,000 plus of them on strike this morning. coming up, what it means for late night, your favorite shows and movies in production right now. house speaker kevin mccarthy has accepted president biden's invitation to meet next week about the debt limit after a new and urgent warning from the

treasury secretary janet yellen. and three stabbings in less than a week in college town. uc davis students are told to stay inside after another attack this morning. "cnn this morning" starts right now. live in los angeles with what is a string of stabbings at uc davis. what do you know this morning? >> well, we that a third person was stabbed monday night. a third person stabbed within a week. now, police are not saying definitively that all three incidents are connect the, but they say there are similarities. the attacks were brutal and the suspect used a knife. so, state, fbi officials now involved in trying to find this suspect. security is upped on campus.

a shelter in place. this small college down, obviously, on edge. this small, usually laid back college town on edge this morning as police still try to find a suspect. now, the first attack was thursday. a man known as the compassion guy, david bro, 50 years old, found dead in a park according to the mayor. he was a well known figure in the town. would often walk up to people asking for their thoughts on compassion. then saturday night a 22-year-old computer science student stabbed and killed in another park a mile and a half away. riding his bicycle back from an undergraduate awards ceremony. another man due to graduate in about six weeks. his father told the local station that the family had moved to california in 2018 from lebanon. he says we came here hoping for safety. so monday night that was the third attack. a woman says she was stabbed

through her tent in what police are calling a known transient camp. now, the suspect from that saturday night murder that police are looking for, they describe as 19 to 23 years old, 5'7", light skin, long curly hair. but while this manhunt continues, as i say, the community of davis on edge. guys. >> no question. nick, thank you very much. also this morning, hollywood writers are headed for the picket line on strike for the first time in 15 years. saying they are not paid fairly for their work. the board of directors tweeted 11:38 p.m. saying they voted unanimously to call a strike midnight this morning. oliver darcy, the question is, how long this could last, given the last 115 years ago, went o

for 100 days. >> massive disruption in hollywood this morning as 11,000 writers are now on strike after they failed to reach that agreement with the studios and their previous agreement was expiring may 1. they are now on strike. there are a number of sticking points. streaming is really factoring into this dispute between the studios and the writers. part of this is because streaming has really reshaped the way writers are paid. and so, for instance, they point to residual fees, fees that get for the shows they worked on running on broadcasts, re-airing on broadcasts, they say the fees per episode have gone down in light of streaming. there are other things as well. the a&t tp the trade organization, sorry, that represents the studios they said they were willing to move up on some stuff last night but unable to reach an agreement. they are not willing -- they sigh to compromise other things. the writers guild released a statement and said that the

studios responses have been wholly insufficient given the extension crisis the writers are facing. they have opened the door to writing as freelance profession. the question is how long this will last. expect that late night shows will immediately go off the air because they rely on writers to produce those on a daily basis. fall shows that were supposed to premier later in the year could be pushed back if an agreement is not hammered out quickly. >> your newsletter was fascinating on this. one the points you make, and i think this is the question, if streaming is the future the writers say we need a wholesale change. they are getting less pay. they are saying the structure how people consume is changing. therefore, the way we are compensated needs to change. >> this is one of the main sticking points here because the writerers guild says because

there are less episode ordered on a show, that means there are less writers on the streaming show. so they would like to fix this. the they are saying they want to force studios to hire a certain amount of writers even if not needed to work on a show. this is a sticking point here. i am not, obviously, sure how they will reach an agreement. but certainly the strike is going to apply additional pressure to the studios. >> we have eseen our television production has ballooned in the last several years. we will see how long it takes. thank you. this morning major highway in central illinois has reopened after a blinding dust storm caused a 7 #-car pileup that left six people dead, 37 people injured. police say the rare storm caused zi zero visibility. it included two tractor-trailers that caught fire. we are just 30 days away from a potential economic

catastrophe if congress doesn't raise the debt limit. now speaker kevin mccarthy has agreed to meet with president biden on tuesday. the president invited all congressional leaders to that meeting after a dire warning from the treasury secretary janet yellen predicting in this letter the government could run out of money by june 1. if it happens, mills of americans would lose their jobs and benefits and despite the planned talks president biden is still refusing to given into mccarthy's demands for huge spending cuts that would gut his agenda. joining us catherine, cnn senior political analyst and anchor john avlon. good morning. you say i cannot say this emphatically enough, this would be catastrophic? >> yu. this is not a traditional government shutdown. people are like, oh, this is when the national parks close. no. this is when the government cannot pay its bills. that effects, as you pointed out, the benefits that americans

receive, social security benefits, for example, military, et cetera. even more catastrophically you could have a global financial crisis because the relative safety, the risklessness of u.s. debt is what underpins the entire global financial system and if all of a sudden we look like unreliable borrowers that has kind of these cascading effects through other financial markets. and that would be bad. just to be clear, in case that's not object sus, it would also be unconstitutional. the constitutional says the validity of the public debt shall not be question. >> we worry about inflation, if we are on the brink of a recession. this is what people are at home will be affected by almost immediately? >> this is so much scare your to me. the fact that americans -- if you look at polling data, a quarter of americans think it would be a cry sies if we

defaulted on our debt. it should be much ahigher than that. inflation is bad. risk of recession a bad. banking turmoil, not so great. global financial crisis, way worse. way worse. >> it's also a function. fact that folks haven't seen it, so it's hard to imagine. i mean, you can't overstate how reckless this game of chicken is. it's the opposite of fisically responsible. it makes.com look dysfunctional. the only people to benefits are countries like china who want to see the united states removed as the world currency. we can't even take care of our own house. these are the the stakes. this is not a lever to pull to push your own political agenda. do that through the budget. but here we are. >> why is it a mistake for the democrats not to do it when they have control of both chambers? >> i think so. there were voices warning this is coming. this groundhog day only when a democratic is president and they had unified control and could

have taken steps to take this off the table. we are the only country in world that does this to ourselves and we have the large e at stake. we could have taken it off the table. we didn't. i think that was mistake. but everybody loses in we go over this clip. >> to their credit, republicans did vote to raise the debt ceiling under trump multiple times no conditions attached. mccarthy is now accepted this invitation to go to the white house. mcconnell and schumer are invited. it's a question of who blinks first and when. >> i think the challenges, even if you accept the premise that it is appropriate to negotiate with a gun to the had evidence head of the global economy, take the debt limit hostinl in exchange for some demands, the republicans don't know what their demands are. yes, they passed this bill last week but it has across the board

spending caps, doesn't specify what they would cut because they don't know -- >> and knowing it wouldn't be real, basically? rnltd and anything they would specify would be so unpopular. they know that. are you cutting infant nutrition, fbi, border security? all those are unpopular so they have this vague across the board spending cap plan similar to 2011, by the way, and they could not keep to in 2011. >> they kept voting to -- >> exceed their own limits. >> when republicans had unified control, what she said is right but also a reason not to take democrats saying this is what would be cut as gospel because nobody news. some could be popular. permitting reform, clawing back on covid spending. work requirements. those are areas where democrats could make concessions but say let's do it in regular order. not with a gun to the head of the global economy. >> i think it's appropriate to negotiate over the budget when

you are supposed to be negotiating over the budget. it is not appropriate to be taking a hostage as a condition of getting those demands. >> yeah. and would this warning from yellen it's basically in slow speed fight we are watching play out to now, the clock is ticking, there is literally a countdown. also a quick programming note. former president trump is going to take questions from new hampshire primary voters in an exclusive cnn town hall. i am going to moderate that event wednesday, may 10 at 9:00 p.m. eastern. really important to take voter questions. he is the frontrunner in the gop. new overnight, samsung banning the use of generative a.i. on their company devices. they are joining a growing list of companies clamping down. we will speak to the co-founder of apple, steve wozniak, the biggest dangers he sees in the rise of a.i. we tried dove instead.

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on their devices. others wreote that a.i. developers are locked in an all-out -- in an out-of-control, i should say, race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one, not even their creators, can understand, predict or reliably control. people listen when wozniak talks about tech. he designed the apple one and two computers that helped put apple on the map. apple one was built in jobs' parents' garage in 1966. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. plenty early out here in california. >> plenty early. we appreciate you getting up early. you are worried, elon musk is worried, the man from google, the grandfather of a.i. quit because of how worried he is. what to people need to know? >> well, you got a little bit wrong about me. i am not like worried, i believe in fear.

i just believe when some powerful technology is introduced we should look at -- almost all technology brings good to us and bad things and we should be responsible and study these things and kind of prepare people for what's coming and take steps maybe to keep it from being too horrible and bad. for example, you know, look at how many bad people out there are hitting us with spam and trying to get our passwords and take over our accounts and mess up our lives and, you know, now a.i. is another more powerful tool. it's going to be used by those people, you know, for basically really evil purposes. i hate to see technology being used that way. it shouldn't be, and some, probably some types of regulation are needed. regulation is telling parties that are producing things you will obey, you will not do certain bad things. it's like our bill of rights. the congress will not pass certain types of laws. and, you know, you call that regulation. not like stopping you from doing

your business. saying no, you have to have ethical concerns. >> i am curious how you think a.i. has evolved since recent years. in 2018, you did an interview that i watched yesterday. you said this about a.i. >> no machine sits down and says what should i work on? humans tell it what to work on. we are building technologies that will make life easier for us. where is the lack of jobs? at least where i come from in the united states, you know, people have jobs. >> and now we see what you are saying and also talking about regulation. could there be global regulation for something like this technology? >> no, there never can be. it's one of the reasons that technology has so many bad sides. i often say those that brought us this digital world, you know, when i look back at some of the easier life days and less worries about this stuff and things worked more, i say those who brought the digital revolution should be executed

or, worse yet, make them live in it. so, yeah, you cannot regulate bad people very well. could a.i. be employed to spot all these little tricky little worded spams that are trying to get your pat wsswords? it's never used that way. it's used by people who want to make a name for themselves or make money for themselves and that never quite goes as well as it should. >> i want to talk -- >> it's like love over money. i mean, i have feelings. i have emotions. if i read a certain story i might cry. does a.i. cry? you know, so it's -- employed for the benefit of humans. when we started even without a computer, a personal computer was a tool that would let humans do more than they ever did before and be more capable and in control of their own destiny more, and it's sort of like hard to judge it that way now. do we get to that world where we're happier than 10,000 years ago? nothing tells me that's true. >> i want to talk about what you

would do because the fact i mentioned the godfather of a.i. as he is known, jeffrey hinton, left google the last week. he said the idea that this stuff, a.i., could actually get smarter than people, a few people believed that. but most people thought it was way off and i thought it was way off. i thought it was 30 to 50 years, longer away. obviously, i know longer think that. you said maybe we have to take changes. this letter talks about pausing things. this is what google's ceo, right, where hinton worked, sunday darpy chr told me in 2019 about slowing down on a.i. if they have to. here's what he said. >> you are basically saying we have to weigh our technological advancement and competitiveness with what it americans for humanity? >> absolutely. you know, i think it's important and i think it's important. it's what society expects us to do. >> that was then.

this is now. should google slow it down? and the competitors? >> well, jeffrey hinton is, you know, he won the torino award, the nobel prize of computer science. i would die for that. i got one close to it. but so -- and these people that were involved in a.i. from the start, he is, obviously, one of them and the woman, the cto at oakland a.i. they put out -- yes, there are concerns, yes, we should have regulation. they are close to it. they are the producers of this technology. you normal people out there, we should be told, here is something that was generated by a.i. so we can say i prefer to know things that are always right and not some that are a little bit untrustable and flaky. i like the trust. >> well, what do you think about the political aspect? we saw president biden announce he is running for re-election. republicans responded with an

a.i.-generated ad, saying it would be a dystopian future if he is elect ltd. he was criticized. are you or worried about the effect a.i. have on the politics. >> it's beneficial like being a good reporter and we humans should be the editor. when that's not the case, we will have a lot of problems. you know, as far as, you know, a.i. being used to, i don't know, deepfakes. making somebody sound like a person you know in their voice and taking advantage of a mother. we have seen that recently and there is going to be a lot more of that than ever before. tricking you anything things. tricking is going to be easier for those who want to trick you. we don't really have any -- we are not making any changes in that regard. we are just assuming that the laws we have will take care of it. so i am a little -- you know, i am worried about people being abused. fortunately, i am not political, but, yes, a.i. could be used to

sway and make it seem like political truths are there. people are very different and a.i. comes out with a broadcast that says we are all the same, i am truth, you know, here is a deep understanding of something. well, you don't know what i'm going to feel like eating tonight, you know? and a.i. is not like that. it misses a lot of emotional i drive. a lot of the decisions we make have an emotional content and a.i. will kind you have act like here is a decision to make, you know, and it's just kind of like montone, sort of boring. >> we have so many questions. steve, we hope you will come back. >> could i ask one more before you go actually? one thing we talk about here is elon musk. do you talk to elon musk ever? >> i have never met him and spoke with him. i admire some things he has done for the world, electric cars. but, you know, his real motivations, is he a purist of trying to clean the air and all that is shadowed by a lot of

other things and he basically got a lot of money from myself for a car i believe -- a car would drive itself across the country by the end of 2016789. oh, i had to upgrade to that model, $50,000. and then it wouldn't do anything. it wouldn't make it across the country. here, we have a in you one with eight cameras that will make it across the country by 2017. i believed those things and it's not even close to reality and boy if you want a study of a.i. gone wrong and taking a lot of claims and trying to kill you every chance you can, get a tesla. >> wow. any thoughts how he is running twitter? >> well, it's kind of bumbling. i can't say good or bad. i am not really there. and twitter, you know, probably needs a lot of change and revamping in most people's eyes. we will see. twitter is a social network and i avoid the social networks. i don't know, you can get so

distorted and get in groups and people are free to criticize everybody and they are sort of anonymous and aren't judged. people can do illegal things very easily on youtube or twitter. very illegal things and the companies won't do anything to even shut it down other than you can report it like you can report anything it takes that one instance down and another pops up like whac-a-mole. the way the social web works brought a lot of negatives. you can see that movie "the social dilemma", and how they treat the users to get more business. love versus money. >> very important. tesla would probably dispute what you said about the cars. i know you expressed frustration before with what elon said what the capability was. fascinating conversation. steve, we love having you on. we hope you come back even though it is really early for you.

>> yeah, any time zone for me. >> thank you. also this morning, a muslim new jersey mayor is demanding answers. he says he was turned away from the white house yesterday. what the secret service is saying and what the mayor thinks was behind that decision. mayor mohammed carula is going to join us live next. a thing of. by relieving pressure pointsts and supporting your body in a way no other mattress can. experience the mattress ranked #1 in customer satisfacaction by j.d. power, four yeyears in a row. - representatative! - sorry, i didn't get that. - oh buddy! yoyou need a hug. you also need consumer cellular. get the exact same coverage as the nation's leading carriers and 100% us basecustomer support. starting at $20. consumer cellular.

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serve in city, county state government across the nation, comp meant you. some are the first muslims ever to hold the seat you have. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. and i am so proud to see this during my time as president of the united states. >> that was president biden yesterday welcoming muslim leaders from across the nation to the white house to mark the end of ramadan. but mohamed khairullah, the mayor of prospect park, new jersey, says he got a call uninviting him 30 minutes before he was set to arrive at the white house. afterwards. secret service released a statement saying we regret any inconvenience this may have caused. no further explanation was

offered. mayor khairullah joins us now. thank you for being here. i know this system well, it's the secret service system where you put in your name, birth date, they check on you before they grant you access into the white house. have you gotten any further explanation from the white house from secret service on why they told you, you would not be able to come in? >> well, good morning. good morning to both of you. no. at this point we still did not receive any explanation. all that happened is i received that call as i was entering d.c. and i was told by a staffer from the white house social events department that the secret service advised them that i cannot attend the event and that secret service did not provide them with any explanation. >> what questions do you have for the biden white house this morning? >> well, i think that the big

question is what are we going to do about the targeting of arabs, muslims, south asians by federal agencies that are basically not telling us why we are being harassed at airports, border crossings, and now for me to be denied entry into the people's house is baffling. why aren't there checks and balances on these uncontrolled powers to put us on lists that are not admitted to and are essentially illegal and target americans of certain backgrounds. >> which federal agency specifically do you believe he targeting you? >> well, according to the council on american-islamic relations, i was placed on a

list that was created by the fbi. so back in 2019. and that's when my problems started initially as i was returning to the u.s. from turkey. what i was asked directly by a custom border patrol agent, quote, did you meet with any terrorists while you were in turkey? >> we cannot verify what you just said that that list. obviously, we are doing our reporting, reaching out, we reached out to the agencies to get more information. finally, mayor, if you were invited to the white house again, would you accept that invitation? >> i think i would accept it under the condition that we are going to discuss the secret list and the targeting of muslims, south asians, middle easterners and anybody, nobody should be targeted, especially as an american citizen.

if someone like me who has a high-profile, who has clearly served their community, who has demonstrated dedication to local community and global community can be targeted like that, i have someone who could speak on my behalf. the average citizen doesn't know who to turn to and who to speak to. so i think there has to be a system of checks and balances on how these agencies are adding people to the list while denying that there is such list ps. >> mayor, have you had any issues flying since that 2019 incident you just referenced at jfk? >> i did. i had plenty of incidents and many of them included embarrassment of my family as well. and i had an incident while returning from canada through border crossing, land border crossing, at which point the

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[ applause ] i felt all the support in this room. i really did. it gave me a lot of strength to keep going. >> that was for fox news foreign correspondent benjamin hall, a standing ovation from his colleagues in the press corps at yesterday's state department briefing. it was his return to the briefing room after year long recovery after a deadly missile attack in ukraine that killed two colleagues. ukraine's military says russia has launched missile attacks yesterday. the white house says russia exhausted its military stockpiles and armed forces estimating russian forces suffered more than 100,000 casualties, including over 20,000 killed in action since december alone.

the kremlin denied that. fox's benjamin hall sat down with the secretary of state antony blinken to talk about the invasion pushing him on russia's detainment of american citizens. >> but i think what you are seeing again is maybe the biggest sanction of all, is to further us in isolation, an isolation -- >> but that hasn't stopped them from taking americans. >> no. at some point along with the isolation, along with measures that we can take that others can take, and by the way, we are working with other countries to build a stronger coalition to make sure that there are strong consequences for any country that engages in these practices. >> joining us now samantha power, administrator for the united states agency for international aid and the former united states ambassador to the united nations. later today she will be developing a keynote address commemorating world press

freedom day and what her agency plans do to protect reporters abroad. evan gershkovich is the first one everyone thinks to go. your program will give resources to reporters around the world interacting with these authoritarian governments. how will that work? what to it have done to potentially help someone like evan gershkovich? >> around the world there are more than 500 journalists in detention of some kind and just in the last year, 67 journalists have been killed doing their work. this is a growing phenomenon, a growing problem. as crease are more oppressive, as corrupt actors want to hide what they are doing they lash out at journalists. we realized lately the tactic is to bankrupt journalists as well as detain them. what we are launching today is reporters shield, an insurance fund to allow journalist ds who

may not have the means to compete with an oppressive government or oligarch to have the insurance and legal protection to stay in the bids of holding accountable those actors trying to steal and prepress their people. >> what about in a place like mexico? so many reporters have been murdered. "the nethe new yorker did a fan piece on a member killed. >> in our engagement with every government we are encouraging them to have the checks and balances of the legal systems in place. but u.s. aid provides about $160 million in support for ind me independent media around the world from legal protection to viability givg these journalists that do the work can be driven out of business by the digital age and by changing, you know, economics. so we recognize the importance as a governance means of having

free media doing their work around the world and we try to support it as the united states. >> turning to ukraine which is one of those places where reporters are doing incredible work ever since russia invaded a year ago this assessment from the administration saying casualties are in the 100,000, obviously, that's casualties that's not just all killed, they said that number is closer to 20,000, they say that is a clear effort that what russia to go backfired. is that how you see it, too? >> well, i mean, those are devastating numbers. 20,000 soldiers killed just since december? i mean, this is a battle that putin thought he could win in a week or a couple of weeks just decapitate the government, you know, put in place some allies right there in kyiv and, you know, create greater russia. that's not happened and the cost for russia every day of this grinding war goes up and up and un. we now are at a crossroads

because the ukrainians of course want to take back the territory that has been unjustly taken from them. we at usaid helped ukraine get through the winter because putin tried to weaponize winter and freeze them into surrender. it didn't work. the ukrainians stood up. we supported the rebuilding of pipes, the provision of generators, heaters, boilers. we are now through the winter and the summer a critical time for the people of ukraine. >> it is a critical time. leached documents recently revealed that the biden administration is skeptical ukraine will be able to retake that territory. >> i think you have seen what the ukrainians are capable throughout this war. i mean, look just on a map at the geographic size of russia and ukraine. look at all of the forecasts that the russian government and many around the world made about ukraine's prospects for taking any territory back or even holding the territory they managed to preserve. all those people who bet against

ukraine have been proven wrong and the same is likely to happen now. what we do as the united states is just put them in the strongest possible position to succeed both in terms of growing their democracy, anti-krurpgs institutions, media, civil society. they are doing all that work at the same time they are fighting on the battlefield. >> and your agency has sent some $12 billion, right, to ukraine to that figure, to help with that. i want to ask you about something that house speaker kevin mccarthy said. he is in israel right now but he has been asked about ukraine. this is an sbr action during -- with a russian reporter at a press conference in israel. >> i vote for aid for ukraine. i supporr ukraine. i could not support what your country has done to ukraine. i do not support your killing of the children either. and i think for one standpoint you should pull out and i don't think it's right. >> strongest comments from him on supporting ukraine where

we've seen republicans waffling on what that support is going look like, how full-fledged it would be. what did you make of hearing that? >> the united front that the united states has shown throughout this conflict has been absolutely critical. i mean, being able to provide more than $16 billion in direct budget support to keep the lights on for the to government as well as the security assistance that gets all the headlines, that is a critical factor in supporting crane and standing up against aggression and this is an important set of comment as has been the bipartisanship on the united states' response to this horrific act of aggression, war of aggression from the beginning. so we are encouraged. we look forward to continuing to engage capitol hill on further support down the line. right now we are taking advantage of the big supplemental passed in december ma make sure ukrainians can defend themselves, take pack their territory, have the humanitarian support and the

support for democracy this continues to get stronger even as the balls fall. >> i have to ask about sudan and what you are doing right now, what is your struggle trying to make sure people who rely on international aid are able to get that given what's happening with the fighting? >> thank you so much for asking about it. 16 million people in sudan were dependent on humanitarian assistance before this horrific civil war or conflict between two military camps unfolded. so we have set up a dart, which is a disaster assistance response team. it's operating outside of the country now, but we are looking to flood the zone with humanitarian assistance as soon as conditions allow. >> when do you think that will be? >> well, again, already health items and food in certain parts of the country is flowing, but, you know, about more than a toz of our partners had to shut down operations. we hope they can start them up. this is where the diplomacy and humanitarian have to go together

because of secretary blinken's pressure for a ceasefire gave rise to a little bit of relief f in the violence over the weekend. we need a permanent ceasefire so the humanitarian aid can reach people in need given so many hospitals have been bombed and people have run out of fuel and food already. >> yeah. the situation has gotten so dpier. administrator, thank you for your time this morning and for joining us here. we will watch your speech today. thank you. and we'll be right back. it's making me think of doioing other things i've been putting off. like removing that tattoo of your first wife's name. inspire. lelearn more and view important safety information at inspiresleep.com. ♪ ♪ a bunch of dead guys madep work, way back when. ♪

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