>> a massive and brutal winter storm turning deadly in several states including western new york where the city of buffalo is starting to dig out from what one official calls one of the worst storms in the community's history. hello everyone i am in need of vocal and for arthel neville. merry christmas is welcome to fox news live, brian great to be spending christmas with you today. >> merry christmas to you and

yours in everyone at home watching us. i am brian llenas and for eric shawn, western new york is no stranger to severe winter storm, but this blizzard hit with a vengeance dropping more than 3 feet of snow officials blame them for multiple deaths and the region, the storm causing chaos for air travelers "coast to coast", millions are stuck at packed airports with thousands of flights canceled and delayed at one of the busiest travel times of the year. anita: we have fox news team coverage, meteorologist michael on whether any relief is in sight. charles watson is in atlanta on travel grinding to a halt at the nation's busiest airport but first to "fox weather" max gordon in the hard-hit buffalo suburb of hamburg new york, max, the other day you spent the night in your car because of the weather and now it looks like you're in the middle of a blizzard, tough duty for you over christmas my friend. >> merry christmas to both of you, a very white christmas for folks and western new york but it's going to be a difficult christmas at-bat.

thousands are still without power at this hour, crews are working hard to get it restored, they said the power should be back on by later this evening or early tomorrow morning but very difficult because trees have been going into power lines and many of the substations are frozen over, tough conditions to work in. a travel ban is still in effect here in erie county that's because roads are too difficult to drive on, too dangerous to drive on, many folks had to spend nights in the car just like we did because they had to pull over during the height of the blizzard, unfortunately the death toll continues to also rise due to the storm, seven deaths in new york have been confirmed, one man died in buffalo he was found frozen to death. two others died because emergency crews simply could not get out to them the roads were too bad and then for others have been found in snowbanks were dead in their vehicles frozen. it is a tough situation for a

lot of people. though there have been silver linings people have been out helping one another on snowmobiles trying to help their neighbors as best as they can. a difficult christmas here in western new york. back to you. >> no kidding, it is terrible how those conditions turn deadly for people, you been doing a great job out there for us, i know this'll be a christmas you will never forget. thank you so much max gordon in western new york. merry christmas. brian: the wicked winter storm not done unleashing its fear he on the holiday weekend with much of the country shivering to a deep-freeze, when could we see any relief, that is the big question, "fox weather" meteorologist michael has a forecast for the week. michael please give us some good news. >> let me start with the good news right off the top we are expecting a warm up but that doesn't happen until later in this upcoming work week right now from the big apple all five boroughs the coldest christmas in new york in 20 years, this is

what is responsible, the deepening area of low pressure dragging down the canadian air and this is helping file up the lake affect snowmachine off the lake erie and lake ontario where specifically watertown is just getting blasted with snow as we speak. where max gordon was south of buffalo they picked up 43 inches of snow with more snow on the way, check out the snowfall forecast through tomorrow, that is an additional 8 - 12 inches and watertown the bull's-eye of orange that uc is 24 - 36 inches of additional snow on top of what you are depicted. it's one of the reasons why we have blizzard warnings in effect for watertown that is not expected till 7:00 p.m. it is an all-day thing for us. we are going to be fighting

through, here again is some good news on christmas day you could use some, right. for today, this is what were anticipating, 200 million americans below average in terms of temperatures, notice that that number starts to decline as we head into wednesday, by the time to get into the upcoming work week, the middle of the second half of the workweek we will be talking about temperatures returning, not just back to normal but way above normal and i feel like that cannot come soon enough for so many along the midwest in the eastern seaboard as well. even in new york city, to be nice to finally catch a little bit of a break from the arctic blast. >> no doubt about it, real quick i definitely want some for christmas next year, well done my friend, very christmasy, "fox weather" meteorologist michael estime. thank you. check more of all the stuff with weather, you can get continuing coverage on the winter weather storm, download the app for free at foxweather.com.

you can also use your phone to scan the qr code conveniently right on your screen. anita: that was quite the outfit brian. santa and his reindeer have come and gone, thank goodness, millions of would-be air travelers are stuck airports as the storm cancels or delays thousands of flights. the brutal weather also snarling travel on roads and rails. charles watson live it wanted americans busiest airport at jackson international in atlanta. charles, it looks medium behind you, a little bit of steady stream of people but not too crowded there, how is it going? >> it is a surprisingly busy day christmas day at hartsfield jackson atlanta international airport and you can bet there are a lot of folks off camera and some of the tsa lines who are hoping along with thousands more across the country that santa gives them the gift of being home for the holiday today because prior to today it's been an absolute nightmare for tens

of thousands of travelers, cancellations and delays have plagued airports nationwide because of the deadly arctic blast we've been dealing with over the last few days, let's track the flights, today were looking at 2800 delays in more than 1500 cancellations across the country, not great but it is better, lower than 24 hours ago and it could be a sign that conditions are improving at transit hubs across the nation but make no mistake about it, airlines and airports are not out of the woods just yet. here in atlanta the brutal temperatures snap pipes flooding the delta lounge in the terminal. you saw what looks like near buffalo new york max gordon's the airports shut down on friday and officials in buffalo say it will remain closed through 11:0s and visibility are expected to

improve. >> i feel bad it's canceled so many plans for the holidays for people and were just really fortunate the families been okay and traveling. >> i'm used to it, coming from the midwest, your used to the snow and your used to the crazy changes of weather. this is natural, always being prepared for the weather. >> drivers on the roadway have a pretty easy, clear roads expected, come wednesday and tuesday aaa expects the big crowds on the roadways to return. buckle up. anita: no question, you still got 1500 plus flight cancellations today. a lot of people are not getting the christmas that they expected, hopefully over the next few days they get to where they need to go. charles watson live in atlanta, thank you so much for the live report. >> the dangerously cold conditions not stopping the

stream of migrants crossing illegally across our southern border, this as we get reaction to brand-new apprehension numbers that hit a record number last month. christina coleman is live with more on this. >> three busloads of migrants arrived at the home of vice president, the harrison washington, d.c. last night on christmas eve according to several reports, they were dropped off at the naval observatory, that's where she lives, no cold news outlet they were sent from texas this will not be the first time that greg abbott has sent migrants to the vice president home, this is video from back in september with other asylum seekers were dropped off at her house. abba has passed more than 8000 migrants to sanctuary cities this year alone to draw attention to all the chaos at the border. take a look at this video that texas dps lieutenant chris olivarez posted friday night. smugglers and migrants bailing out on the side of a major

highway and running into the brush after troopers spotted them. the human smuggling attempt was stopped but so many others are not, last night the department of homeland security released a statement saying dhs continues to lead a whole government strategy to secure the border and build safe orderly and humane immigration processes. there are 23000 agents and officers working to secure the southwest border in the u.s. government continues to work closely with our partners in mexico to reinforce and coordinated operations to target human smuggling organizations and bring them to justice. a lot of people are not impressed with the statement. take a listen. >> there are seven statements in the last ten days of dhs web website, not one that says working to reinforce the border better, not won this is a border patrol agents in the front line of dhs the tools that they needed the tools that they know that work to secure and solve

the problem on our southwest border. the vice president has been out of touch on this issue probably for most of her career. >> for now, definitely no slowdown insight on this crisis at the border. the new cbp number show more than 233,000 border encounters last month in november, that the largest amount border encounters for november on record. brian: migrants and their families left out below freezing temperatures, humanitarian crisis continues. christina coleman, thank you and merry christmas. >> merry christmas. anita: president biden is expected to sign the massive $1.7 trillion spending package, now that it's past the house and the senate, critics are still slamming the bill for what they call unnecessary spending, the latest on this from washington coming up next. oh man.

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>> i am billy graham from salt lake city utah 143rd as a training and platoon sergeant, i want to wish my wife and daughter and merry christmas and a happy new year. anita: so nice to hear from our service members, to the latest reaction on washington after the house and senate passed the

massive $1.7 trillion spending bill that president biden is expected to sign into law. this as the biden family celebrates christmas at the white house. aishah hasnie is live in washington with more on all of this, great to see you, merry christmas and happy holidays. >> afternoon to merry christmas as well congress may be out for the holidays but this bill is still causing major aftershocks here in washington. in the last minute -- the massive $1.7 trillion government funding bill also called the omnibus, 18 senate republicans and nine house republicans help democrats pass this bill and they really were applauding the 800 billion in defense funding, democrats taking a victory lap. >> many senate republicans knew that this package was a bipartisan deal, they think them for their willingness to work together in delivering for american people,, quite frankly

i find these endless increases in defense spending your after year to be appalling. >> others say what's appalling in this bill is all pork and they blame their colleagues for rushing through this process right before christmas and here is representative pat fallon on "sunday morning futures" this morning. >> $3 million for a be friendly highway and $3 million for lgbtq museum in new york. it was absolute piece of garbage and that's why i voted not only no but hell no. >> house majority leader kevin mccarthy is already threatening to kill bills sponsored by senate republicans who voted for this bill if he become speaker next year, he still doesn't have the votes for that. the ironic part is that the very reason for rushing this through happened anyway congress had to pass yet another stopgap bill for another week at least since is going to take a couple of

days for the omnibus to reach the president's desk. anita. >> funny how it works out like that. anita: may be some of the members who didn't get to read the bill will spend their christmas vacation reading it. >> doubtful. anita: great to see you, thank you for the report. brian: for more on this in a look at the new congress to be sworn in next week let's bring in democratic strategist and pollster doug scholl in. merry christmas and happy holidays. thank you for spending holidays with me. let's start off with this, congress arguably their bigotry possibility is the power of the purse, it is the power that they wield and yet 4155 pages, $1.7 trillion and this is done and the dead of night with no real debate, what, why? >> it is a sign and a symbol of how broken down, polarized,

divided our politics is and how really policymaking in good government has lost its way, we are focused only on short termism and really, it's a very sad commentary for christmas. i want to bring up number two from kim strauss on the wall street journal, we want to know if your senator approves about the raise in the food and drug administration to micromanager mascara or killing off fishing operations are leading athletes that service academies get a waiver to play professional sports, good luck, members of both parties will say that they voted for this turkey solely to avoid a government shutdown and they'll dock questions on the other major changes, 0 accountability only this is not lock it is by design, there are people that say why not take the $800 billion of defense spending

and vote on that separately. a real debate can be had without the hostagetaking on the other money that needs to be spent. >> there are two reasons it was all put together because it was not enough time and i daresay not enough of a political will on both sides to get it done, we need the increase in defense spending president zelenskyy couldn't have made a more compelling case to congress, i believe it was wednesday, bottom line there is a lot of pork in there that doesn't make sense, there was also very little if anything in the bill for border security. this is an imperfect bill passed just to keep the government going and to provide the necessary defense spending. but this is how to run a country which are run a government, that is for sure. brian: doug we had a record-setting november and the border over 233,000 migrants crossing illegally in one month.

this bill offers something like $16.7 billion for border patrol. that is minuscule when you consider the crisis, are you worried that democrats are still not seen this crisis for what it is and that the party may have to face these consequences in 2023 and beyond. >> i am worried, i think we literally and metaphorically dodged a bullet in the midterms but candidly, i think with the aggregation of title 42 and the likelihood we're going to have a greater stream of migrants, i worry that this problem is going to get worse and i would urge my party to do responsible border control at the same time they push for a pathway to citizenship for those that are here playing by the rules. brian: at a comprehensive immigration reform do you see that happening. >> i hope we can get something done to tighten up the border to secure our country but also say

to those who pay their taxes, work hard that they have a right to become citizens, yes. >> the house republican leader kevin mccarthy up for the speakership of the house, he did not want this bill at all and people were looking at his pounding of his chest as a way to win the speakership, he is trying to appease to the far right of his party, this is what chuck schumer, the leader of the democrats in the senate had to say. listen. >> i think you could be surprised at how much pull there will be a mccarthy once he is elected to move to the middle rather than to the hard right. if he is a smart politician you know that's the right place to go, that doesn't mean will always agree or get everything that we want but i think you're going to find bipartisanship continuing in the next congress. brian: doug what you make of that you think have a mccarthy pushes to the middle and two, do you expect bipartisanship?

>> first, i think everything that i see in everything that i hear is that the freedom caucus, the far right in the house is pushing mccarthy to the right as he made clear he is going to fight more spending bills, he's going to do a number of investigations abiding in the democratic administration. i don't expect bipartisanship, i expect more polarization and if kevin mccarthy literally has to sell his soul to get elected, i think the losers will be the american people, i would love for more bipartisanship and him moving to the center. i just don't think, brian, is going to happen. brian: doug, thank you again, merry christmas and happy holidays. we appreciate you. anita: christmas eve in ukraine marked exactly ten months since

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the governor minnesota says this is unacceptable violence as shoppers are now calling for more security measures. take a look this is what happened inside of the mall of america in bloomington minnesota friday night, investigators tellis agrippa teenagers got into a fight and open fire a 19-year-old man was shot and killed, the sound of gunfire with people running searching for cover inside of the mall. you can see is people were about to shop and they started filming on their cell phones when they heard the gunfire. investigators rushton and put the mall of america on a lockdown. five teens facing serious charges in connection with the murder. >> if you come here murder people in normal, you get one of these as christmas, five people got one of these today. five people got one of these.

if you come to bloomington and think you're going to kill people and get away with it, we are not playing that here, you are going to jail. >> they took the teenagers into custody pretty quickly, here are the two of the mugshots deandre he was arrested and also to sean adams right, will go to the next one, they were both taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder, 317-year-old were also taken into police custody but the mugshots are not public yet, this is not the first time the mall of america was forced into a lockdown this year and back in august there was another shooting where police say the violence will not be tolerated but still a lot of questions on how this keeps unfolding and what are the busiest malls of the country. >> strong words from the police chief if you come to the mall to shoot someone you are going to jail. hopefully everybody heard that. alexis mcadams, thank you so much for the live report, merry christmas to you. brian: no holiday break in the bloodshed in ukraine, russia shelling the city of her sean

killing more than a dozen people on christmas eve, just as some ukrainians decided to break the tradition is celebrated the birth of christ today instead of on genuine seventh nate is live in kyiv with more on this. nate. much more subdued christmas celebration this year than in years past it comes as related to more deaths from yesterday's russians attack in kherson, 16 people were killed and 64 injured. take a look at this inspiring video or pictures that were seen today in kherson, their spending their christmas day waiting in line and donating blood to help save the lives of those 64 people who are still trying to recover after yesterday's attack. president zelenskyy described as terrorism. president zelenskyy had a positive message for ukrainians this christmas. listen. >> we will sing carols more cheerfully than ever to be

louder than the sound of the generators who will hear the voices and greetings of our loved ones in our souls even if the connection and the internet go down. >> the front-line city of ukraine's east, soldiers are finding a way to sell brick christmas today some have christmas trees in trenches like you see russia has been pushing and extended resources to do it in the ukrainians have held the line to this point soldiers getting a nice surprise and the harkey reason, actors showed up and put on performances to boost morale and allow those soldiers to celebrate christmas as they defend their country. meanwhile here in kyiv, take a look at this video from sophia square, christmas decorations a lot more modest than in previous years here in sophia square, there's a christmas tree that was donated by local business owners, it is only illuminated between five and 9:00 p.m., it is run entirely on generator

power and is decorated with doves that symbolize peace as well as the flags of every country that is helping ukraine's war effort. back at here live in kyiv, christmas caroling event that is about to start at the train station. big power issues in kyiv, 50% power deficiency, you heard president zelenskyy say no matter what the circumstance, they are going to continue celebrating and being as festive as it possibly can be during such a difficult time. brian: truly inspiring the spirit of hope and resilience and ukraine despite it all, nate reporting live from kyiv, stay safe you and your crew. anita: china seems to be looking to change things up in the new year, foreign minister says beijing wants to recalibrate its relationship with the u.s. and rebuild ties to follow through on understanding reached between president xi jinping and biden,

what could this mean. let's bring in gordon chang, gait stone institute senior fellow and author of the coming collapse of china integrate u.s. china tech war, great to see you today, thank you for coming in on this christmas, merry christmas to you. >> merry christmas to you. anita: thank you. what do you make of this, china making overtures of improving relations with the west specifically the u.s. and europe and they're starting to talk about talking with russia, and they want to isolate the united states the european diplomacy is more determined that it is with the u.s. after president biden when she's inching in volley with a promise to send secretary of state blinken to beijing next year, the u.s. sent to senior envoys to china and they got a very cold reception, that's a real

indication that beijing is not that serious when it comes to improving relationships with us. they want us to comply with their demands and if we do so we can buy peace for a few moments but they're not really interested in any sort of meaningful relationship. anita: it does not seemed like it according to what you just said. also while they're saying that, china is still busy selling fentanyl to mexico and in turn those drugs and pouring across the u.s. border coming across the u.s. i want you to take a look at the recent headline from the wall street journal. it says sour u.s. china relations feed the fentanyl crisis, beijing has stopped cooperating in restricting the flow of chinese made chemicals that mexican cartels use to make the deadly drug. that does not sound the cooperation with the west, exactly like you're saying. >> it certainly isn't, we'd like to remember in china's total surveillance state, beijing knows what the large fentanyl gangs are doing and also the fentanyl gangs launder the

proceeds to the chinese state banking system, the problem here is that american presidents and this goes back quite some decades, we know exactly what's going on with fentanyl and yet we choose not to hold the communist party responsible. the communist party wants a fentanyl gangs to operate and until we understand that and act upon it, we are not quite to be able to deal with the problems. the wall street journal headline is misleading. it is not any question of cooperation, day-to-day, it's a question of a long-term decade-long plan on the part of the party. anita: yeah, and the willpower to do something about it, even from the united states. let me turn the topic here, what did you make about the lack of support from the white house for the protesters in china who were protesting the draconian covid policy that kept people locked up without food and medication.

i want to read a quote from dan hoffman, former cia officer and statement chief, he said i witness firsthand in my career how our closest allies appreciated presidents who publicly defended democracy, the u.s. should never hesitate to use arguments soft power advantage against our adversaries, we should be as publicly supportive of those striving for liberty and freedom in china and iran as we are vigilant about protecting human rights at home, what do you think, do you agree with dan hoffman, should the u.s. tomorrow say with places like china and iran while trying to maintain good diplomatic relations, i know that's a little difficult. what do you think about that. >> i absolutely agree with his words, you gotta remember in 2009 hillary clinton when she was secretary of state, publicly said that the u.s. is going to downplay human rights concerns in order to have good relations with china. just a few weeks after that,

first of all beijing leaders were ecstatic as what they called clinton's cow town and we know that from reporting, just a few weeks after clinton said that, china started to attack u.s. ships in international water, unarmed u.s. navy vessels. president biden should know he needs to stand up for human rights and when we heard the comments of john kirby, the nic coordinator on the protest, those words were dispiriting and disheartened people, not only in china but around the world as well. anita: it was a very input response from john kirby, you are right. let me ask about something that dan said in his quote, he said the u.s. should not hesitate to use our soft power. what do you think he meant by that? >> he met human rights and we had a series of presidents who refuse to vigorously promote human rights. remember ronald reagan who promoted soviet human rights to the people and soviet union and

that led to the failure of that regime, unfortunately, we have administration and administration, republicans and democrats who don't understand the value of human rights, that's remember china viewed the united states as an expert essential threat because of our values and our form of governance, the worried about the inspirational impact that we have on the chinese people. so we have to promote this, this is the core of the problems of our relations with the communist party. anita: yes, it sure is. gordon chang, thank you so much for your insights today, from the gait stone institute, senior fellow, we appreciated merry christmas to you. >> merry christmas, thank you so much. brian: the holiday season is a time of joy for many. but for some including many veterans christmas can take a toll on their mental health, our next guest works to make the holiday season a happy and healthy one for those heroes, we have some tips next.

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i am major joshua i am a representative for the 143rd, i am from st. cloud florida and i want to wish everyone a merry christmas and a happy new year. brian: holidays can be stressful for many of us, they also bring unique mental challenges to our nation's veterans were already

struggling to adjust to civilian life. one organization is teaming up with communities to prevent veteran suicide, jim is the president and the ceo of america's what your partnership, he joins us now, merry christmas, thank you for what you guys do over there and i appreciate you guys being there today. >> merry christmas to you, let's start off with this the reasons for this, why did the holiday seem to exasperate these feelings and why is it specifically with the veteran community? >> i think the time of the year when i served we used to say christmas when it be christmas without a war, there's a lot of time to do deployed with a small group of people you been training with four years and you really focus on purpose on doing something that you're meant to do and then you come back to the united states and you're back home and you may not be around friends and family and you may

not have the same sense of purpose, my recommendation as we go forward for veterans is to get out volunteer, everybody always need somebody to help them. connect with another veteran, text them, call them, i think that's a big piece and it's never too late if you need help to seek assistance and ask people for help. >> we have that on the screen right now some tips for covid and managing the holiday stress, look for free activities to enjoy understand perfection does not exist, be flexible and give yourself a break we needed it, this is advice not just for veterans but for everybody at this time of year it is not always merry for everyone. >> it is not but if you can give a little bit of yourself to someone else it helps herself and helps others in america is where your partnership, with communities throughout the united states that we work with, we have a partnership with

county veterans service officers in the united states and they are a great resource to go to if people need help if there is a crisis i just really want it's important for people to know there is a three digit, 988 and hit one if you are a veteran if any crisis support. but if you do need some help i encourage people to go to america's what your partnership.org and go to our website we can give you help we have a great partner and an organization called vets for warriors that can help 24/7 and they work with us and we work with them. >> wonderful advice you can go to america's word underwear you should partnership.org in the veterans crisis line we have that as well. and 988 which a lot of suicide prevention crisis hotline and you can dial 911 if your veteran, real quick, people don't know this but veteran suicide are at an all-time high, four times as many veterans have

died by suicide as have died in combat over the last 20 years, what is your message to d.c. about what more can be done here for people who have given us so much. >> americas were your partnership has a suicide study called operation deep dive, we recognize that suicide rate like the va was higher. we also recognize overdose rates that are more categorized in suicide was even as high as the suicide rate there is a crisis in our country, what we said together we can do better, what we encourage to work in the communities and to better serve, i would add asked the american people to the chemicals were your partnership.org, help us with her suicide study, learn more about it, i think again i'm going to say together, we could do better, it's a crisis and we have to get beyond this crisis, we have to fix it, it's the same for 30 years, it is time to make

a significant change. anita: you are not alone, that is a message. we thank you for everything that you have done for this nation. and honestly for all of those dealing with loss and lonely, we wish you peace and strength this holiday season, jim from americas were your partnership, thank you so much for joining us on christmas day, merry christmas. >> merry christmas, thank you. anita: pope francis delivering his special christmas message today, details on what the pope is urging his followers to do this holiday season. that is coming up next. ♪ once upon a time, at the magical everly estate, landscaper larry and his trusty crew... were delayed when the new kid totaled his truck. timber... fortunately, they were covered by progressive, so it was a happy ending... for almost everyone. pain hits fast.

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anita: thousands in st. peter's square while the faithful have been flocking to bethlehem, the birthplace of jesus after two years of pandemic restrictions. trey yingst is live in jerusalem with a round of a christmas celebration at the vatican and the holy land. >> in afternoon, happy hanukkah and merry christmas, around the world people are celebrating here in the holy land historic sites are teaming with visitors

in the biblical town of bethlehem overnight, thousands gathered at the traditional birthplace of jesus the church of the nativity was filled with worshipers praying with the latin patriarch of jerusalem, the palestinian president attended a midnight mass, earlier in the day christians walked through major squares and prorated pilgrims entered with bagpipes playing alongside a marching band the celebration this year was a welcome change from the past two years that saw sharp decline in visitors to ancient sites due to the covid-19 pandemic. >> last year we celebrated christmas during the pandemic and without any tours from any country in the world. this year we are celebrating christmas with tourists that arrive to palestine from bethlehem all over the world. thousands of miles away in vatican city pope francis delivered the christmas eve mass more than 10000 people were in attendance both inside and outside of st. peter's square the pope had a solid message

calling on people around the world to remember those suffering from poverty and war this morning during the christmas message he discussed suffering around the globe in places like ukraine, yemen and afghanistan, he also spoke about greed and consumption in the modern world. >> on this day as we sat around the table way may we not ever our gaze, whose name means house of bread but think of all of those especially children who go hungry while a huge amount of food daily waste and resources are being spent on weapons. an important message to remember this holiday season, be think for for what you have and who you have and be kind to others. anita: that is a great message. it certainly is an merry christmas and happy hanukkah to you trey, thank you for the light report. trey yingst in jerusalem.

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