certainly not helping that young man, not helping his family, or what he aspires to. he should aspire to that house and part of that is that you don't spend too much money, that you order a pizza. >> my son is so happy for the tips he gets, he's working at a restaurant. >> 25%, big tip. thanks to everyone, don't forget to dvr the show. now here is "america reports." >> it's been terrible, terrible. >> the lines has been long, i'm exhausted. >> we sat on the plane an hour. >> have to cut some flights or asking, can't handle it. >> frustrated travelers dealing with delays and cancellations en route to their destination, now braced for the more disruption on the return trip. both ways. hello, i'm bill hemmer in for john roberts. >> gillian: i'm gillian turner in for sandra smith. she's off today this. is

"america reports." already, more than 150 cancellations and 1700 delays today as folks are trying to get back home. the national flightmare has been causing major chaos at airports close to a week now. >> bill: pete buttigieg, the transportation secretary claims everything is back to normal but bad weather could slow things down even more, especially in parts of the plains and the midwest, gillian. >> gillian: right to jonathan serrie now, he joins us from atlanta's heartsfield jackson airport. how are the lines there looking this hour? >> hi there, gillian, as you can see behind me, long lines outside the main tsa checkpoint but they are moving along rapidly. much of the activity is taking place on the concourse as passengers transit from aircraft to other aircraft. what's going on nationally, according to the tracking service flight aware, more than 1700 flights into or out of the u.s. have already been delayed

today, and more than 150 have been canceled. those numbers are expected to continue to go up this afternoon as hot temperatures fuel pop-up thunderstorms as well as storms moving across the country's midsection going into later this week. airline travelers are reporting mixed experiences. >> it was pretty good, it wasn't bad at all. no delays, no big pushes of people, nothing like that, seamless. >> i flew in yesterday, i was supposed to fly out again yesterday, a layover, like a short layover and but ended up being a stay. >> air travelers set a new record heading into the holiday weekend with nearly 2.9 million passing through tsa checkpoints on friday, up from 2.5 million the same weekday last year and even that was above pre-pandemic levels in 2019. gillian, travel experts say the airlines have been slow to replenish their levels of staff

and aircraft inventory, as consumer demand post-pandemic continues to surge and then you add the bad weather and it creates, pardon the pun, a perfect storm of travel troubles. back to you. >> gillian: certainly is, jonathan serrie in atlanta for us. thanks so much. >> bill: pack a lot of patience. drove into new york yesterday and the big fireworks display, never been easier. i get it depends on where you are at a certain time. >> gillian: now you are just bragging, bill. >> bill: i think i got lucky for a change. house republicans pressing for key information about the criminal case on hunter biden. david weiss says he will not meet their deadline. a new report finds three top delaware prosecutors were taken off the case before the charges were filed. senator john kennedy with me, louisiana senator, and nice to see you and happy 4th of july on

the day after. david weiss sent jim jordan a letter, pretty much denied all the claims made against him, including this one, i've been granted ultimate authority over this matter including responsibility for where, when and whether to file charges and for making decisions necessary to preserve the integrity of the prosecution. went on to say if i want to work in d.c. or central california, i can do it. someone is not telling the truth, senator. >> well, bill, i guess i would make two points. number one, it's almost always the cover-up and not the crime and number two, i'm repeatedly amazed at how many smart people there are in washington, d.c., who have no sense. look, i don't know if mr. hunter biden committed a crime. i sure don't know if president biden committed a crime. we are trying to get the facts. but i do know this, and i think the american people can see it.

the washington managerial elite, the establishment, if you will, is -- is working harder than an ugly stripper to cover up whatever happened, and that's all that congress is asking for is the facts. and to the point that they have no sense, the elite in washington think that the american people don't see that they are covering up and that they are being on constructionist. maybe it's a reflection of the contempt they have for the american people, but any fair-minded person can see that our effort to get to just the facts are being obstructed in my opinion. >> bill: gary shapley is the whistleblower, a quote from him. he says none of the three were involved in the underlying investigation during gary's tenure to my knowledge. what they are talking about are three prosecutors apparently worked on hunter biden's case

for five years and then they were removed recently. what would explain why that would happen or is that a regular course in law? >> well, that is why we need the fact. look at it from 35,000 feet. suppose you are an important government official, bill, and very powerful and your grown kid comes home one day and says dad, good news. a bunch of russian companies and chinese companies and romanian and ukrainian company have just hired me, giving me million dollars of dollars to give them stuff i know nothing about. what are you going to do as a responsible government official? you are not going to say don't tell me anything about it, but be sure and share some with your sister. you are going to try to find out what's going on.

and the white house's story is that the president knew nothing about any of this and i mean, it just doesn't pass the smell test. and again -- i'm -- >> bill: if you want to figure this out, then you have to put him under oath, and he -- he said that he would accept an invitation from house members, i welcome the opportunity to talk about these topics with the committee in more detail. if that's the case, bring him in, swear him in, and you work for answers. >> you also have to have the documents, and you have to have the emails, and you have to have the taped telephone conversations, and that's what the house is trying to get. i mean, it started with hunter biden's laptop. they tried to convince the american people that it wasn't real, and it was. and i think many people in the federal government knew almost from the inception that it was

real. and so a lot of folks lied to the american people. >> bill: do you think there is obstruction here? >> it sure looks like it. >> bill: time will tell and maybe we get that hearing on the hill and find out together. senator, thank you for your time. john kennedy, thanks. >> thank you, bill. >> gillian: we are expecting a white house briefing coming up in a few moments, it's going to be the official's first chance to explain exactly how and why cocaine was found in the west wing on sunday. the white powder caused a brief by harried evacuation before it was tested and verified as cocaine. mark, the president turns out was at camp david during this, is that right? >> he was, along with members of the first family, and came back for the 4th of july festivities, and we are expecting an update from the white house when they

have the press briefing this afternoon. secret service officials have confirmed the second test proved it was cocaine, it was suspected along to be that, and now the confirmation. the investigation into who brought it into the west wing remains ongoing. the white house likely to say the secret service still investigating this, so likely they are going to pivot to them and the secret service not expected to be at the briefed today. the white house has yet to offer a formal comment when the investigation first started, discovered the cocaine in the phone cubbyes, president biden is also likely to be asked about the situation when reporters catch up to him in the oval office, welcoming the swedish prime minister to the office. so many of the president's critics have been silent on this, surprised we did not hear more reaction from the other

side of the aisle to what was going on. that could change depending what we learn later this afternoon or the president's own comments. but the big line at this hour, secret service confirming it was cocaine found at the white house. as to who brought it in, still under investigation. gillian. >> gillian: unusual circumstance, leave it at that. >> see what we learn next hour. a blockbuster divorce battle is raging. kevin costner's estranged wife says she is not moving out of their $145 million mansion unless she is granted one condition. we'll tell you about that coming up. >> gillian: sounds like a smart lady. a judge finds a biden administration pressured big tech companies during the pandemic to limit free speech during covid. katie pavlich has thoughts on that. >> stunning rebuke but an appropriate one, the agencies with social media working to suppress the truth and amplify

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>> bill: breaking news from the persian gulf. apparently earlier today the u.s. navy was involved in two incidents that involved iran. iran was trying to seize two different oil tankers, one flying under the bahamian flag, another out of the marshall islands and the u.s. navy responded in kind sending numerous craft from the u.s. navy fifth fleet, i'm reading here about the u.s.s. fall, a guided missile destroyer, nq9 reaper drone, pa poseidon patrol plane, the iranians backed off.

it's not uncommon, especially in the strait of hormuz. today they were at least 0-2 and the news just breaking. and share the video with you from the department of defense. all right. 1:15 here in new york now, to this. >> this is a huge win for the first amendment and for those who enjoy the right to free speech. happy birthday america, we get our first amendment back. >> as the judge says in his opinion, it's what we call viewpoint discrimination. i believe it's one of the most important cases, first amendment cases in the century. >> those attorneys general declaring a major victory for the first amendment that the biden administration likely pressured big tech to censor free speech during the pandemic, and barring from contacting the social media companies at all.

katie pavlich, i want to read you this from the injunction, judge writes if the allegations are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in u.s. history. in their attempts to suppress alleged information, the defendants named here are alleged to have blatantly ignored the first amendment right to free speech. talking about the president of the united states. >> not just the president of the united states, but obviously a huge problem, administration wide, widespread operation that was used through hhs, fbi, homeland security, all the agencies to try and suppress -- >> gillian: all blocked as well. >> blocked from talking to the social media companies as a result and the judge pointed that out. it shows it was not a limited effort by a communication team to try and do something on behalf of the president from the

white house, this was going on throughout the federal government. and it's interesting, we read the 155-page ruling that was handed down, it really shows that the administration was trying to remove what they would say was false information, and it's not that they likely pressured big tech to do this. jen psaki, the former white house press secretary admitted they were working directly with facebook and other social media sites to take down information. emails between mark zuckerberg and dr. anthony fauci, you know, talking about how they could help, and then all of a sudden the lab leak theory disappearance from facebook for a year and those posts about real information are censored and they would say they wanted to take down false information they said was "harmful." false information is protected speech under the first amendment but also censoring legitimate and factual information about covid and other topics. one of the plaintiffs here, a doctor from stanford, was one

person who was an expert in medicine and he was censored on twitter as a result of him having a different opinion than the biden administration did on covid, on the vaccine, on whether lockdowns were efficient, whether kids should go back to school, the list is endless. biden administration clearly used the private sector through big tech to subvert the first amendment, to go around the first amendment, something they are not allowed to do, censor people's free speech. they violated the rights of a number of americans by doing this for so long. >> gillian: it's not entirely unusual, let's say, for a commander in chief to assume extraordinary powers to exaggerate presidential prerogative during times of national emergency, presidents do it from time to time, do you think it was the white house

trying to do its best with the info they had to protect americans' health as best they could or do you think there was more sinister motivations at play. >> we know this white house and administration has used big tech censorship to target their political opponents, inconvenient narratives and inconvenient stories that affected their political aspirations during the 2020 presidential election with the hunter biden laptop story heavily censored. this is something they have used in a number of arena, not just on the issue of covid. and when it comes to -- you asked the question whether it was sinister motive, they wanted people to comply with their orders and they did not want to listen to factual information and scientific evidence about how to handle covid, about vaccine mandates the president implemented because he wanted to get his way, he wanted to implement the mandate for the entire country through an osha regulation. so, yes, they wanted to make sure that all other arguments and debate were out of the

picture so they could implement and get everybody to comply, thinking there was only one way to think about these issues. >> gillian: katie, we have to leave it there. we'll have the attorney general of louisiana coming up in a moment, get a chance to question him with all of this. bill, over to you. >> bill: gillian, thank you. breaking news now out of philadelphia, following the crime story, a shooting in philly. the d.a. larry krasner what they know now. >> a lot of juveniles have been affected directly and indirectly and appreciate his work and being here. several members of the dao lgbtq+ liaison group, some of also whom are victim witness coordinators, kelly burkhardt, victim witness coordinator in the d.a.'s office, and in addition to this role, asa khalif, mr. khalif, i should not have to introduce him, he should

be so well-known for his remarkable work as an activist and many other ways. we also have the wonderful safo fulton and micah thomas here on behalf of that group. our sheriff is here, senator shareef streak, p.a. senate district 3, done so much with his colleagues to try to address issues of gun violence and prevention around gun violence here. we have dr. zaf qasim, a medical doctor and emergency physician from penn presbyterian medical center. he is here with registered nurse stephanie horton, also works in emergency at penn presbyterian medical center and both of these individuals have come here to tell you what it was like to treat many of the injured in the

emergency room on the night that occurred and to speak more generally about the reality of their everyday situation as gun violence victims coming in for years. dr. qasim has been doing the work at penn presbyterian eight years, but a doctor for 22 years. we have with us the executive director of acana, acana, africa cultural alliance of north america, the offices are close to where it occurred, and the mayor of the neighborhood, boffi is well-known and played an important role in assisting the d.a.'s office in reference to one of the homicide victims, the son of an immigrant from africa.

he is present. we have reverend, senior pastor of the church christian compassion, collaborated with us many times and among other things is providing assistance to one of the families to deal with one of the most traumatic aspects of the aftermath of the shooting. we have imam kenneth nordin, anti-gun violence work is constant. we have the reverend dr. sean james, senior pastor here at the salt and light church, which is our host. in the back at this time we also have josephine wama and jasmine wama, the two sisters of one of the homicide victims. if they are able, they will be speaking today, and if they are not able, you will understand the reality of what they are up against. so let me just say a couple words, it should only be a couple words before we hear more

from community. as many of you are aware, there were a lot of people who came to the scene of this crime yesterday and within several hours of the shooting itself. my office at that time had fully deployed our cares team, our victim witness coordinators team who immediately got in contact with the families of all of the victims of this shooting with the exception of the one young man who had not been identified at the time. as soon as he was identified they kicked into gear to address that. while we were out at the scene yesterday we were accompanied by leader joanna mcclinton, the speaker of the pennsylvania house, representative jordan harris, who is essentially her right hand, the number two in the pennsylvania house for the democrats, being councilmember

kathryn gilmore richardson was there, and another councilmember by phone, she was a couple thousand miles away but wanted to know everything going on and we were in close contact. and boffi was there, and reverend stewart there as well, and we were struck by many things. just one was the bicycle, which is still there. i don't know if you saw it. but right at the corner where this all went down yesterday, 24 hours ago, actually, 28 hours ago, there was a small bicycle, looked like a child's bicycle, sitting on that corner and we were informed by some people who were there that that bicycle was dropped by someone, i presume a child, during the shooting. hours later nobody had touched it. nice little bike, hours later, nobody had touched it, as if they all felt they couldn't. that it was a memorial, it was some kind of a silent memorial.

well, it's there now, it's been moved a few feet, maybe some child came along and moved it and somebody else told them to put it back, but it's there now and i think that that fact, the desolation on those streets, the absence of cars, absence of people, curtains closed, the doors locked in that neighborhood and the comments from neighbors, the ones who did come out, how close they themselves came to being shot and killed. thank goodness i didn't get the bag out of my trunk right then, because -- those are the kinds of things we heard. obviously this office is 100% committed to the vigorous prosecution of this mass killing and we will do justice in court with this case. but it's not my time to keep talking, it's my time to call forward some people who have in my opinion very important things

to say. my pleasure, my honor first to call forward zaf qasim, m.d., physician, as well as registered nurse stephanie horton to speak as much as they wish and as little as they wish about their experience and thoughts about this incident. >> thank you, d.a.krasner, i'm an emergency room physician at penn presbyterian, and here with my colleague, stephanie horton, registered nurse also in the emergency room, and certainly would like to start to thank the d.a. for the invitation to speak today. also our deepest condolences to everybody who was affected by the tragedy that happened on monday night. the families in particular, i

wanted to also thank the philadelphia police officers while taking fire were rapidly able to get the victims of this insanity that happened on monday to penn presbyterian in a timely fashion and able to limit the additional loss of life on the scene by apprehending the suspect very quickly. and most importantly, i think i would like to thank my colleagues who i'm representing here today and stephanie as well who came together on that night with very little notice and were able to -- >> bill: so not a ton of new information here but the story really rocking the city of philadelphia. a 40-year-old now charged with five counts of murder, injured two children along the way, had a bulletproof vest and as the local police chief said, this person was armed and armored and really shakes the town of philly, which gillian as we know for some time has had a lot of

problems in that town. crimes and drugs, etc. >> gillian: gone on for decades. i lived in philly about a year in the early 2000s. the suspect came for battle, he was armed and armored, knew there would be a big fight. >> bill: as we get more we will pass it along, and the police chief, and what the d.a. and the mayor saying in philly. all right, this now. >> get out of the water! >> gillian: looks and sounds like a scene out of "jaws." a shark came dangerously close to ocean goers enjoying the waters just off a florida beach. apex predator has another state scrambling now and on high alert. >> bill: from tennis to push-ups to running.

2024 candidates are doing all of it, right. will that attract voters who might be concerned about the health of the current commander in chief? joe concha has a look coming up.

decades after he starred in "jfk," kevin costner is finding himself back in a courtroom. california judge is hearing a case against his estranged wife, christine baumgartner. it's becoming a high profile, high stakes hollywood divorce. jonathan hunt joins us from santa barbara, all the details, including how much the divorce may end up costing costner. is that right, jonathan? >> yeah, gillian, it's going to cost kevin costner a heck of a

lot of money. however, this turns out, the divorce itself is not contested. both costner and his wife christine baumgartner want this divorce to happen but as is so often the case, they can't agree on the finances of it. chief among costner's concerns right now is getting baumgartner out of his $145 million mansion. in court papers filed just on friday, his attorneys said "kevin costner respectfully requests christine be ordered to vacate his separate property residence forth with and no later than july 13, 2023," baumgartner says she can't, because she cannot keep herself and her kids in the lifestyle.

>> the last thing kevin costner wants to do is a court delve into his financial records and have a court determine how much he will owe for child support and alimony. >> and look at some of the most expensive divorces in hollywood history. mel gibson tops the list, $425 million, then harrison ford, 118 million. steven spielberg, 100 million and fourth place, kevin costner with his first divorce costing him $80 million. this one, according to most legal experts, could be twice that amount. it's an expensive business. gillian. >> gillian: jonathan hunt in santa barbara, thank you. >> bill: the 2024 candidates and there are many, from both parties now, literally flexing their muscles trying to make the case they are more fit for the job than their party's respective front-runner.

joe concha, hello to you. good afternoon to you. vivek is out there playing tennis and kennedy is out there doing push-ups and is this all going to work for any of them? >> on the republican side, some of these republican candidates, bill, they have a problem in terms of how do we peel away trump voters when the trump core base is so loyal. and then ok, on policy. but policy, whether it's vivek, tim scott, ron desantis, they mirror trump with immigration, education, taxes, that sort of this. vivek playing tennis or rfk showing he could do push-ups. vivek is in his 30s. tim scott, 50s. ron desantis in his 40s, they could be trump's sons. ar for rfk, jr., he's in his 60s and we have a president that is 80. so you see the polls, two-thirds of voters believe joe biden does

not have the physical or mental fitness for the job. so that's something that i think can be exploited. the problem for the republican candidates is that trump, even though he's approaching 80, still has energy and seems to have his wits about him in a way that joe biden does not. >> bill: biden is 80, 82 if re-elected, and trump is 76. concerned about biden having the mental and physical health to be president, 68% say yeah, a major or moderate concern. ramaswamy is 37, he was on fox and friends this morning talking. take a look. >> i do think when it comes to our commander in chief, it's not a bad idea who has vigor, able to bring energy to the table. it's good gesture to send to the next generation. physical and mental health along with it is down, especially among young americans.

>> i remember in 2004 when john kerry went kite boarding and paid a price for that. it could be good, but if you do it incorrectly my hurt you. >> come across as an elitist as john kerry is, reagan road horseback, obama played a lot of golf, trump plays golf, bill clinton used to jog and clearly he had to in terms of a weight problem, but the presidents have been tall, and they have been active for the most part and i think that's what vivek -- i'm glad you say his name correctly, vivek. >> bill: montage with joe biden saying i'm ok, just watch me. >> does it give you any concern? >> watch me. that's all i can say. >> bill: watch me. >> only i can say is watch me.

>> bill: so, for now, that's his answer. >> he has a light schedule and watching him fall a little too often for our taste. it's ok if you are a golf starter, bill, but this is the commander in chief and president of the united states. go bengals, preseason soon. >> gillian: awaiting a white house press briefing after the fairly shocking news of cocaine found in the west wing. major questions still lingering surrounding the discovery, who the drug belonged to, we don't know any of it. >> bill: a couple of questions there. maybe we get answers. a huge market for tiny homes. living small is the new living large. veteran homeowners. prices are going up fast. the grocery store and the gas station alone are taking a big chunk out of our paychecks. fortunately, you've earned the valuable va home loan benefit. the newday100 va loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value, not just 80%.

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>> gillian: five new york swimmers, including two teenagers are recovering from shark bites they got over the weekend. officials say a group of about 50 sharks temporarily shut down a long island beach completely yesterday morning. this is where we find c.b. cotton, joins us from robert moses beach. c.b., what is going on out there? >> hi, gillian. long island is said to outpace the number of shark bites that happened last summer. as you mentioned, we are already at five. last summer eight. waters in the northeast are being monitored closely every single day before swimmers can get in, and for good reason. take a look. a pod of 50 sand tiger sharks was spotted by drone surveillance 4th of july morning. about 200 yards offshore at a long island beach. the sharks were spotted at 8:00 a.m. and swimmers were not allowed until an hour and a half

later. the day before, 15-year-old girl was bitten. five swimmers have been bitten on long island, feet, thighs, knees, hands, all were life-threatening injuries. and out of florida, a shark was spotted at a pensacola beach, dangerously close to swimmers. sharks are swimming closer to the shore to bead on bunker bait fish. always swim where a lifeguard is watching and avoid murky waters. it's not something you want to happen. >> the vast majority are sand sharks so puncture wounds, but you also have bites that bit and then pulled, so you have a laceration and the puncture. and they are absolutely painful. >> while there have not been any shark sightings today, officials say they are always there.

gillian. >> gillian: c.b. cotton in long island. thank you, bill. >> bill: better on the sand i guess. an upscale grocery store trying to freeze would be shoplifters in their tracks. what they are now bolting down that can only be cracked open at the register. it is happening more and more, gillian, coming up. >> gillian: raging debate over reparations. another u.s. major city is considering payments fo atone to a race massacre that happened 100 years ago. l leo terrell with his reaction coming up. ♪ i'm gonna love you forever ♪ ♪ ♪ c'mon, bear. ♪ ♪ ♪ you don't...you don't have to worry... ♪ ♪ be by your side... i'll be there... ♪

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>> gillian: another u.s. city is considering reparations payments for eligible. east st. louis, illinois, a race massacre in 1917. leo terrell, fox news contributor and civil rights attorney. leo, take a right at what the committee is considering, in addition to $1 million payments to eligible black citizens there, they are also looking at eliminating interest on past due child support, tuition-free college, funding for wellness centers in black neighborhoods and programs that will help remedy discrimination against

blacks in the lgbtq+ community. what do you say? >> it's a failure, gillian. i wish these committees hire a constitutional lawyer and hire the 14th amendment. you cannot go back in history. look at past injustices and believe you can get compensation for black americans. it's illegal, it's unconstitutional and i think what's happening, this is just another gimmick, a gimmick to further divide this country along racial lines. >> gillian: so we were doing some digging before the segment and pew was the latest center to put out polling on this. they found that among the general american population, 70% of americans opposed reparations, 30% favored nationwide, but among black americans, interestingly, 80% of folks are in favor of reparations. that certainly tells us something, doesn't it? >> i think it tells us that the

democrats have -- should get an a plus grade for indoctrinating this country still a country divided by race. they don't look at the historical achievements of black americans. we had a black president, we have black mayors throughout the country, black chief justices, black americans are millionaires, billionaires, the race card is used by the democratic party to keep black americans misguided the country is divided by race. it is absolutely false and more importantly, a large group of black americans such as myself this committee does not speak for. >> gillian: do you think, leo, i guess you know, in your putting your lawyer hat on here, is there a way at all for government offices to try and atone for past racial atrocities, racial injustices, is there anything they can do,

or do you feel like the key on history has got to be, you know, the door has to be locked and the keys thrown away? >> i think we should look at our past and say let's not make the same mistake. gillian, looking at 2023, i'm a civil rights lawyer so i know this area of law very well. there is no systemic racism in government anymore. i ask you right now, fox viewers, who is the white bogeyman, what is his name, what department does he run. is it los angeles in chicago in new york where black americans are running the city, identify the white bogeyman. i've got news for you, gillian, no one can, he does not exist. >> gillian: aren't reparations, though, and i hear you and i would ask aren't reparations about past injustices rather than where we are today in 2023? >> great question, let me put my lawyer hat on. you have to show me these past

injustices are somehow rooted in why black americans today, 150 years later, are somehow harmed. i'm a black american, i'm not harmed, i have a law degree, a masters degree, a bachelor's degree, i'm a teacher, i'm an lawyer, i am not harmed. because the system is fair. >> gillian: all right. well, thank you for levelling with us as always, we appreciate your perspective, we learn from you every single time. thank you, leo. >> thank you, gillian. >> bill: new at 2:00, the white house brief is moments from now, this after cocaine was found in the left wing. a lot we don't know. reporters will be asking questions. we'll drop in as soon as it gets underway. with a home loan from newday, take out an average of $70,000, pay off debts and high rate credit cards, and save hundreds every month.

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