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we'll stay right here for outnumbered. >> click on the overtime. what the (bleep) >> anybody in the post has to understand that there is a dangerous dynamic in the night. it allows a small number of violent agitators to hide in the crowd and attempt to create chaos. >> i understand the passions and the anger that a rise over the death of michael brown. giving in to that anger by looting or carrying guns or attacking the police only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos and underminds rather than advancing justice. >> a community on edge. >> ferguson, missouri, rocked by another night of gunfire and
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violence. schools and businesses are closed and residents wonder if peace will be restored. i am ed henrow in for jon scott. and i am uma pemmara ju. there are reports that molla telecocktails were thrown at the police. take a listen. >> we can't have that. we don't want any citizen hurt. we don't want an officer hurt. the shooting in the apartment complex and children are laying in the bed in the apartment complexes and bullets are flying through the air, the old saying on the streets, a bullet has no name. >> the bullets have no names.
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wendall goler is at the white house where the president ordered attorney general eric holder to go to ferguson. but mike is on the ground. >> reporter: there is a pattern in the avenue. in the morning it is quiet and volunteers clean up the mess from the night before. demonstrators start showing up throughout the day, particularly at night fall, we see the numbers increase. and after dark, the demonstrations start to get more aggressive and more rowdy and those demonstrations give away to clashes and this was the scene last night. shots are fired. here we go. yeah, shots fired and they are firing the teargas. you can see it.
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all right. the teargas is out and a couple of pops that came and that flash bang went. a lot of the flash bangs and smoke. the smoke has teargas in it. whew, that is in my eyes. no, i don't. all right. there is a good bit of teargas that went out. sounded more like firecrackers that got everything started out here. and what we see is a core group of people and i should say a majority of people who want to get out here and make a statement and have their voice heard. a small people come out like it is a game and have a contest with the the police. two people were shot last night and 31 arrested and four police were injured by thrown bottles
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and rocks, ed, back to you. >> mike, tobin in the middle of the action. >> president obama sending attorney general eric holder to over see the investigation. wendall goaler has more from the white house. >> reporter: >> reporter: missouri senator roy blunt said the president assured him it is a parallel investigation and he supports it. mccaskil said historically civil right system pushed by the federal government and not local. paul ryan of wisconsin said it is important that the feds don't take control and thomas dupree is a bit uncomfortable with eric holder's involvement. >> he's sending a signal to the justice department and prosecutors in missouri that there is a correct out come. they will not say they prejudged
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it but people could conclude there is a right way and wrong way to do things in the mind of the attorney general. >> reporter: as the violence in ferguson continued, the president seemed cautious. saying he recognized the justice department as a federal agency and he made it clear that it is not law enforcement versus the community. >> it is clear that the vast majority of the people are peacefully protesting and what is clear, that si small minority of individuals are not. while, i understand the passions and the anger that a rise over the death of michael brown and giving in to that anger by looting and carrying guns and attacking the police only serves to raise tensions and serve chaos. >> reporter: he said violence
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underminds instead of advances justice, uma. >> so what will the attorney general and justice department do in the ferguson case? our legal panel will take that up just ahead. ferguson will remain a no-fly zone. the fa a extended the band on low altitude flights to give police helicopters unrestricted access. they asked for the access because of their helicopter being shot the at during the looting. >> governor nixon said the national guard's mission is limited one. only 80 are in ferguson at this time. the state has len thousand guardsmen available. they will protect the command center set up by the state. >> also in ferguson right now. a team of observers from global rights known as amnesty international. they will before the the resident and police in the
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protest. this is an unusual move for the group to looks at human rights abuses. this is first time they have been sent anywhere in the united states. >> another ceasefire between israel and hamas has been broken. smoke seen rising above gaza city has the israeli military said rockets were fired toward israel and intercepted two more in the past few hours. israel is pulling the delegation out of the cairo peace talk. rick is joining us live with more from gaza city right now. >> reporter: uma, we were in the neighborhood in east gaza this afternoon 3:30 when we saw the first 2 or 3 rockets fired from behind buildings from gaza to eseral and that broke the 24
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hour ceasefire extension that began at midnight. and two more rockets were fired to israel from gaza and that's when the air strikes began from the israeli fighter jets hitting 25 targets and some of them in northern gaza. seven reported wounded and besides the shattered lives or neighborhoods and the casulty is the peace talks. israeli prime minister netanyahu recalled the delegation from cairo saying the negotiation were based on the premise of violence. hamas denied responsibility saying it had no information on the attacks and said it was israelis that attempted to foil the negotiation. israel said no matter who pulled the trigger hamas is in control of the gaza strip. it is now roughly five and half days of silence and hundreds of negotiations may or may not have
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been wasted and we'll find out if they get back to the bargaining table. uma. >> and rick, thank you so much for the live update. >> a fox news alert. police holding a news conference on a scoot shooting plot that was disrupted by police in south pasadena after two teen boys were arrested after planning to gun down staffer ares and students in high school. >> news of a fast- moving wildfires putting hundreds of homes in danger as authorities tell more than 10,000 people to seek shelter. the obama administration promising transparency and refusing to answer questions of health care.goff and how safe your personal information may be. and the justice department has a history of pursuing racially motivated crimes. and the doj's legal tool box is light and so what can attorney
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welcome back, everybody. "happening now", crews in california fighting a wildfires. it is heading to a foothill community upon near yosemite national park where there is a mandatory evacuation order in effect. crews say they hope cooler attaches and smaller winds will help contain the flames. >> the centers for medicaid and medicare service citing a potential for hackers. despite earlier assurances that information would not be with held. and ken baker, interesting, sam,
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when the associated press was pressing on this, the administration said they will not give up the information even though we heard calls and promises of transparency before. >> that is exactly right. they would not provide any of what the associated press requested which is a comprehensive set of information about the security of healthcare.gov and the information it stores. you can clearly understand there is operational details in security system that the government shpt and wouldn't want to release. but the justice department said we will try to do partial releases and will not hold back information just because something could happen and that is what is happening here. >> in fact, we learned of community health care systems. four and half million patients had their data compromised because of a hacker.
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and they had promised transparency before but maybe didn't anticipate the data security breaches that can happen? >> there is a good reason not to release, again the whole game plan of securing the site. but we know that there are security tasks that are delayed and not done on time and done before healthcare.gov launched. there are sort of legitimate security concerns and questions about were the necessary steps taken to protect the data that this site holds in >> how is the website functioning? >> we heard about the problems in the beginning, and then everything is fine; what is the the data on that. >> there are back end issues that are not completed, that pay insurance companies and
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reconcile how many people insurance companies are getting versus how many the government thinks they are getting. the real test will be in november when consumers will be trying to use the site and see how much progress they made in making permanent the patches. >> and sam, republicans if you broaden the lens, that come november after the midterm election, you will see premiums sky rocketing and the white house pushed that back in terms of open enrollment so that would not be seen before the midterm elections. but in noticing when you track campaign ad spending, republicans are not issuing many attacks on health care. is it lessening as an issue? are republicans shying away?
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>> i don't know if they are shying away from it, but we have had the debate about obama care for the entire obama administration. and i am not sure how much more mileage there is to get out of this. it is a party id question and a set of health care policys and so rallying against. it maybe it is good for the base. but especially for candidates who don't want a false promise of repeal. and it doesn't make much sense to build your entire midterm strategy around. it >> bloomberg said in the race involving senator kay haggin in north carolina, it was expected to be the key issue and turned out to not be; why do you think that is? >> you know, part of it, as we were saying republicans got the mileage they are going to get out of this. and dynamics are trickier.
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millions of people are getting coverage in a lot of states and millions more people getting medicaid benefits and the republicans don't have a plan to fix the system that is working for a lot of people. it is a lot less scary now that it is real. and premium increases are not bad as a lot of republicans were expecting and hoping for. and you have people who are using the system and so it is a lot more difficult i think to indiscriminately be up on it. >> sam baker, thank you for breaking it down for us. >> thank you. >> the u.s. throwing more support behind iraqi troops fighting islamic extremist. how much more we prepared to go in and is the president being straightforward about all of this? wait until you hear what our next guest said about that. >> it has flown in every
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living nearby and u.s. personnel in that country. critics say it doesn't go far enough. but the next guest said it could set up a dangerous precedent. welcome, great to see you today? >> thank you. >> talk to me about why it sets up a dangerous precedent? >> the president said we are not becoming the air force for iraq but supporting the ground operations of the iraqi kurds and iraqi military sources. that is a definition of being an air force and it looks like we are not willing to be the air force when sunni are attacked and in fact iraq sunni are preyed on by maliki shiite government and now by isis and we are the not helping to break
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the siege in their neighborhoods and cities. i think we are buying trouble in the future by looking like the only iraqis we are willing to protect is the kurds and the religious minorities and not the majority of iraqi society. >> that is a fair point, but a lot of people are saying the president is under pressure to go further in the fact that isis poses a serious threat not only to iraq but the rest of the world. with that in mind, do you think that the campaign will ultimately go in that direction? well, i personally think it should. but the president is claiming that it is not. any other politician made the argument that the president made yesterday, that is a humanitarian operation to destroy isis forces that were in possession of the damn, if any other politician made that claim
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that it was a humanitarian operation and not a broadening of the mission president obama would ridicule them. >> those argue that it would include saving the dam since it poses a huge threat to the region and could ultimately reach baghdad. >> yeah, that is a possible interpretation, but i also think we are not owning up. we are acting as though providing humanitarian assistance is a neutral activity. and that is the mistake in the balkans in the early 1990s. we are preventing isis from achieving the war aim. and i personally think it is a good thing but it is also an act of war. >> thank you for your insight, appreciate it. >> it is a pleasure. >> a new report said president obama is getting the cold
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shoulder not only from republicans but members of his own party. his frayed relations from democrats and including harry reid could impact efforts of getting anything done in the last two years. sending eric holder to ferguson. is this unnecessary. >> anyone in the protest understands that there is a dangerous dynamic in the night.
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>> eric holder will personally oversee the investigation of the shooting death of michael brown. this is not the first time the justice department got involved. 1968 investigators were dispatched and in 1991 they got involved after a riot spread over los angeles after the beating death of rodney king. and two years ago, when the justice department conducted the investigation of trayvon martin. no material charges were filed. eric holder who briefed the president may have few options at his disposal. joining us is doug burn and a lysse whole. and welcome to both of you. >> at the heart of the
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investigation there are serious questions. we don't have all of the facts n. but the fact that we are sending the attorney general in to ferguson and 50 fbi agents, what does it say? >> it makes sense. you went through the different crimes before 1991, and even two years ago, the feds investigate. what they are looking at is a civil right's violation under the cover of someone wearing a badge or violating someone's civil rights and determine it was a homicide that was in violation of civil rights. that should be taken seriously at a state and local level. that's where these kind of crimes, homicide allegedly or potentially are usually investigated. >> what is your take on this? you think they will find a civil right's violation based on what you have seen so far? >> it is primarily a state crime.
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federally we have had cases also in new york city, landmark nelson and other cases. for a federal civil right case. you deprive by reason of color or race. it creates a difficult standard because you have to show that the reason the action was taken was specifically because of their race. it may be some what difficult to do that and having said that, the most important thing is not to prejudge. in a trial lawyer it is not my dna to listen to say it was a senseless murder or totally justified by the police. >> we need to have the facts before we make a legal judgment. every day, this happen ten days ago. every day it is a different autopsy report and was it self defense or coming at the officer. what needs to happen, prosecutor
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and or law enforcement without the glare of the rallies and look at the facts as they come in and evaluating the facts. that is hard to do given the atmosphere in ferguson. what impact will the attorney general help or hurt. >> it will help. the community wants to see. it and the justice department is going to come in. >> and the president take its seriously. >> quite apart of a making a federal case. it is interesting. that a federal review in some way shape or form carrying a higher objective and not a good thing. the department of justice looking at this. >> we should realize it is it a different standard for the feds to come in. it is not a homicide type of a standard. looking at missouri law.
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was the officer acting reasonably? did he think he had to use his gun? was there reasonable force necessary? that is the safe standard. >> that is two different things. we are saying on the state analysis, was it excessive force? >> exactly. >> and then look what was in the police officer's mind? what how big is the victim? how big was the police officer? but federally again, not to be a broken record. it is civil rights. >> and if the police felt threatened. >> whether or not he was armed or unarmed didn't make a difference. it is what the officer reasonably could have believed at the time of all of this happening. >> that is worth emphasizing. unfortunately people who are not looking at it from a courtroom standard, he was unarmed and the rhetoric. but to say what did the officer
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think about whether he was unarmed and was it reasonable? >> and in terms of the politics and optices. we hear about chicago and new york and urban areas and violence is high and murders are taking place and you don't see the feds stepping in, in this way. it is a high profile. and captured the nation et cetera. and you have to look at a 1983 evaluation and just see where civil rights violations are. they have to pick and choose a little bit. >> perhaps little less diplomatally. and when the case gets tremendous attention all of the sudden, political figures and others are under pressure. >> is that necessary at this point? >> probably not. >> i mean, if you are going to
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go and send taefrn general holder and we are going to investigate. and 1 or 2 fbi agents and that looks like you are not taking it seriously. and 50, the state is botching it if we see no evidence. >> it does suggest that there is little confidence at what the local authorities are doing. >> autopsy after autopsy. dr. michael baton and we think highly of him. and the reports are coming back from the so- called witnesses and that is uma life in the world. >> it is political and other realities weigh in. and i hear in the tone of what you are saying it is not a great thing and i agree with you. >> you are going to follow it? >> absolutely. >> and it is a lysse birthday.
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>> happy birth day. >> the looting that hit ferguson, missouri spreading beyond that town. a mob of looters shot their way in a liquor store. this happen ten minutes after the store owner closed on sunday night. one of eight stores looted outside of ferguson. and the ordeal began on saturday, august 9th when michael brown was shot dead. as police released more information about the shooting, the mobs grow more unruly. and on one week after the shooting the governor jay nixon initiates a curfew and the massive show of force stopped the rioters from throws molatov
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cocktails. school has been pushed back a week. the decision affects more than 11,000 children and for some of thome only meal they get is at school. one teacher started a on line site to feed the children of ferguson. all of the money will go to the st. louis food bank to make sure the children get the food they need. >> president obama reportedly taking heat from members of his own party. the prominent democrats are frustrated by what they see as indifference of what is happening on capitol hill. james, good to see you. >> uma and ed. reports of outreach by president
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obama to allies occurred throughout the president so. is this dooming the second term of presidency. the new york times opens with an account of a rare session president obama had with the four congressional leaders and the president waived off concern by harry reid about gop efforts to block the nominees. work it out. six years in his term with his popularity at the lowest, president obama remains distant from the party on capitol hill. in interviews, the time said two dozen democratic law makers and senior congressional aides said there that mr. obama after the accident approach left him with few loyalist. and the new chief of staff
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sought to repair relations with the senate democrats. and a leading democratic consultant, said the problem resides with the chief executive himself. >> there is always a question about the president's ability to move legislation and back slap with members of congress. he is not a washington paw and that caused a lot of problems for him. the president's supporters won't like it. but the closest an log is jimmy carter and disdain the stroking of law makers and paid a price for. it but president obama won the reelection. >> indeed. thank you, james, for much. >> and a primary battle between three gop candidates. fighting for the chance to unseat a democratic senator seen as vulnerable in november.
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>> hi, everyone. i am grech ep carlson. coming up. the former u.s. deputy general will tell us if eric holder's upcoming trip to missouri is the right or wrong call. one- third of all of us haven't saved a dime for retirement. and we'll give you tips to start and a new app allows people to respond to mean facebook post and tweets. we'll bring you the mean
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comments fox hosts have received and they will tell you how they responded in the top of the hour. >> a fierce primary race underway in alaska as three gop candidates. sullivan and lieutenant government treadwell and tea party favorite joe miller compete to take on democrat senator mark begich. dan, good to see you. >> that is right. this small population figures to play a big role in the u.s. senate after the election in november. and consider that mark begich is one of the vulnerable democrats and the front runner in the race is dan sullivan. he never run for office before. but former alaska attorney general and seven years in the
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bush white house. and he's a lieutenant colonel in the marine reserve. he tripled the campaign donations of all candidates combined. >> fighting the obama over reach and harry reid and begich's agenda four years and taken the epa to court. we need a fighter back in washington. >> but the field is strong. tea party conservative joe miller shocked everyone when he beat the republicans in the primary. close to sullivan in the polling is treadwell and was stunned when sullivan announced he was running. the senate democrat super pack has hammered sullivan and accused him of being a wealthy
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businessman of ohio. and a line of attack that treadwell made. >> we have seen other races where people without money did well. and i won last time without most of the money. >> primary voting going on. and polls close at 8 o'clock tonight and we'll have the results for you. and this is who ever wins the race is interesting. and mark begich is a good politician and we know, ed, he will have the backing of his party as they try to hang on in a red state. >> and barely waking up. but delivering a great report. >> a crocodile attacks a man on a river with his wife. >> and johnathon is at the base.
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we're just learning that texas governor rick perry is going to be turning himself in around 5:00 p.m. central time, 6:00 p.m. eastern at travis county justice complex in austin. this is over that indictment that perry has said is political and bogus but new information from dallas is that this is a formality but a mug shot will be taken and he'll be fingerprinted. interesting because you'll remember when tom delay was indicted, he called that political but his mug shot went viral. the theater, the political theater down in texas continues.
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>> now to a fox extreme weather alert. heavy rains causing flash flooding in parts of arizona. surging rivers. police had to make several water rescues including a woman in phoenix whose car got stranded in quickly rising waters there. this is the second round of flash flooding for some neighborhoods in just the past week alone. fox news alert. brand new video into fox news of a collision between two italian air force fighter jets that sparked a forest fire. the pilots of both planes reportedly ejected safely. the accident happened during a training mission in eastern italy. it's not known if there are any victims on the ground. crews are battling big flames. we'll bring you updates as we get them. the c-130 hercules is considered the workhorse of the skies. the cargo plane has been in use since the vietnam war and 60 years later she's still going
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strong. jonathan is joining us live from georgia with more about this workhorse. jonathan? >> reporter: a quick tour here. we're in the cockpit and look at the instrument panel. the panel has been updated throughout the decades keeping this aircraft relevant even though its basic design dates back 60 years. >> it's not the most glamorous aircraft in the inventory but i'll tell you what, it's going to get you there and out of there which is just as important. >> reporter: the c-130 can carry heavy loads but take off and land on dirt runways or in tight areas. it's even taken off and landed on aircraft carriers. we spoke with one man who escaped on the last c-130 out of vietnam. that aircraft, which is now on static display at little rock air force base, was at least 10,000 pounds overweight. it was packed with 452 people
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including tim, who now works as an engineer no lockheed martin, the company that builds the plane. listen. >> i feel attached to the airplane. >> reporter: lockheed martin has delivered more than 2,400 c-130s like this one you see behind me delivered them to 70 countries over the past 60 years and more than half of those aircraft are still in service. >> still going strong. thank you very much. a horrible end to a couple's fishing trip after a crocodile attacked a man on the river in australia. his wife not witnessing the attack directly but she heard her husband scream and then turned around and saw a tail splashing in the water. listen to this. >> not long after we located the
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crocodile within the vicinity of the area and we showed up and killed is that crocodile and recovered the remains of a male person believed to be the missing person within that vicinity. >> the river is notorious for crocks. population swelling since the species was protected by federal law back in 1971. >> such a horrendous story there. we're awaiting the start of the daily press briefing at the pentagon and a possible update on iraq where kurdish forces are gaining ground on isis. we'll have more as we get it.
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playmate forming an unusual bond. two meeting when they were just four and five weeks old and quickly became best friends. apparently the pups were raised together as ambassador animals to provide companionship and help each other stay calm in public settings. soon they will be moved to a new amphitheater at the park where they'll be featured on behind the scenes cheetah and friends tour. >> got to love it. thanks for joining us. >> have a great day, everybody. >> "the real story" starts right now. we do start with a fox news alert because all eyes still on ferguson, missouri, as the town continues to boil over with anger, protests and more violence. hi, everyone. i'm gretchen carlson. welcome to "the real story" today. the national guard patrolling the town that's been overrun with clashes between demonstrators and officers. police firing tear gas and flash grenades after bottles and molotov cocktails were tossed into the crowd at them last
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night. two people shot. 31 more arrested. ten days now after an unarmed teen shot by a police officer. and now the protests are spreading to neighboring towns. local shops now the victims of looting as attorney general eric holder prepares to arrive in ferguson tomorrow. our own mike tobin is there live. explain to us what happened last night and to you, as well. >> reporter: well, the way it went down, gretchen, kind of a pattern. after nightfall things start to get more boozy, more aggressive, a little more angry. the demonstrators got out on the street ultimately the police formed up and pretty soon we saw plastic bottles and glass bottles flying over the crowd crashing in front of the officers. that ultimately gave way to clashes. the police responded with the tier gas, with rubber bullets and what we found from the demonstrators is they responded with live fire. there
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