having to do all the duties i've abandoned her on with her wounded arm. kathleen, you're fantastic. you do all the work. i'm giving you credit. >> happy wife, happy life is what they say. >> i feel like my dad always helped out. my dad always worked really hard. but i feel like with christmas dinner, he would help and he helps clean up afterwards. >> i will do the dishes. >> left ten seconds. >> i do most of the cooking but that's because i enjoy it but i do have an idea. maybe i need to start out with a land acknowledgment where i have all my families come in and recognize the hard work. >> thank you. >> merry christmas eve. thank you so much for watching "outnumbered." dvr the show in here is "america reports." >> we are packed, ready to go, we are excited.

>> our thing got delayed so we are waiting it out. phone is dead but pushing through it. holidays. >> my first time being on the plane over the christmas holidays i don't know what to expect except for what you seen the movies. i'm hoping it's not that hectic. >> kind of expected this, a lot of heavy crowds and busy traffic. >> get up early, get here late, and then rush around. that's where we're at right now. >> the holiday rush in full effect. hundreds of flights already delayed with tsa expecting to screen 40 million people this holiday season. hello, i'm john roberts in washington. merry christmas to you. >> merry christmas to you. i'm anita vogel in for sandra smith and this is "america reports." an american airlines glitch added to all that chaos as a temporary ground stop went into effect this morning. we are monitoring the skies, the roads, and the weather this christmas eve.

>> john: danamarie mcnicholl is live from the busiest airport in the country, the world for that matter. atlanta's hartsfield-jackson international airport. how is it looking? >> good afternoon, anita and john. this is the best day to travel because tsa lines have been very calm. over my right shoulder you see . that's what it says very, very low and that's what we've seen all day long. it could have been a traveler's worst nightmare this morning when american airlines announced they had that national ground stop. they issued it. it only lasted an hour thankfully. they said it was due to a vendor technology issue and flights started off again at 8:00 a.m. this morning. we are still seeing some side effects of the travel hookup. he was a live look at their missouri map, as we collect, only 44 cancellations right now but just over 3,000 delays across all airlines coming in and out of the u.s. they report seeing the most

delays is dallas-fort worth which is no surprise because that's an american airlines hub. we have surpassed precover travel members. aaa says 119.3 million americans will drive, fly, and cruise, beating 20 nineteenths record by a couple hundred thousand travelers. one person we spoke to was on the way to the airport yesterday when her flight was canceled. >> i actually is visiting my mom who is 97 years old and haven't been with her on christmas for about 18 years. that's a heck of a long time here and i still have no explanation why the flight was canceled yesterday. but i'm hoping to be arriving just before midnight in lima, peru. >> wishing her and all those traveling a smooth experience. for those in atlanta, many walking up smiling knowing it's going to be a quick ride through tsa. john prayed >> john: dana

murray, the scene behind you los positively marvelous. thanks for bringing it to us. >> get the economy going, get rid of the crime and stop the open borders. >> hopefully the cost of groceries will come down. >> to make america great again. >> to be able to walk out like how we are doing our not have to worry about anything happening to us. >> it would be nice to have quit being so divided. for everybody to come together. >> anita: americans across the country telling fox news digital what's on their wish list for the u.s. now senator rand paul shining a spotlight on his tackling wasteful government spending. he is suggesting ways to cut a trillion dollars from the federal budget in his annual report. senior national correspondent rich edson he is in the newsroom. were rich, what are some of the senators biggest grievances? >> how about $90 million in ineffective navy ships or $10 million managing empty government buildings. $122,000 to teach kids

encourages damn to go in in kurdistan. the national endowments for the arts to the bearded ladies cabaret. health and human services determining if lonely rats see cocaine more than happy rats. usa spent 20 million on a new "sesame street" show. you have to go to iraq for that. department of state drop more than 2 million bucks for border security in paraguay. paul says he has identified a lot of wasteful spending. >> a trillion dollars. it's everywhere. it's on to recoat the big departments, department of state, nih, national science one nation. they will wonder why does it

exist. we have this apar department of. the only way to get rid of it is to spend less money. >> the new department of government efficiency will look at federal spending, what the government spends is up to congress. the bulk of the projects come from what's called the nondefense discretionary side of the federal budget which is pretty small compared to what the government spends each year on entitlements. medicare, medicaid, social security. back to you. >> anita: rich, imagine that trillion dollars if it were sprinkled into classrooms across the country. could have gone somewhere good. rich edson, thank you for that live report. john. >> we didn't commit that crime. he made that choice that day, a crime that is pus punishable by death death penalty. we 12 jurors unanimously voted for the death penalty.

that is what was fair. biden took that away from us. >> john: outrage going over president biden's commutations of 37 federal death row sentences to life without parole including a criminal responsible for the heinous murder of a 19-year-old and a convicted drug king responsible for killing at least 12 people, including children. our next guest worked on both of those cases. let's bring in steve millan, retired doj prosecutor. just to set the table here, we talk about two cases. thomas hager and kaboni savage. a philly drug kingpin convicted of killing 12 people including children. your take on the commutations of these two killers. >> it's just incredible.

i can't believe it. i spent 20 years of my life working on terrorism and death penalty cases and to have all of that kind of thrown aside by the president with just one stroke of a pen and disregarding the input from family members, disregarding the decisions of scores of jurors and judges along the way, for all of these cases. it's awful. i don't know how else to describe it. it's a terrible feeling for me. i know it's a terrible feeling for all the jurors and all the victims' families. >> john: i will get to the victims family just a second but there's two big questions raised by this. a, why would joe biden seek to do this? b, wasn't really him who did this or was it staff? >> you now, i mean, i can't speak to whose ultimate decision that was. he's the one who said it was his

decision to clear his cons conscience. but he's clearing his conscience by forgiving the acts of people who committed unforgivable crimes and not talking to family members, not seeking input from his own department of justice capital case section. it's just awful. this is a terrible day in america. >> john: in terms of conscience, here's what "the wall street journal" editorial board wrote. "biden's prisoners of his conscience. why does mr. biden think his conscience is superior to those of the jury or for that matter the larger society in congress that have reserved the death penalty for especially heinous crimes. mr. biden is inconsistent conscience is an affront to the victims and it has not made the justice system better or the country safer." a guest we had this morning also pointed that out. commuted 37 of 40 death row

sentences, if his conscience was to clear death row prisoners, why make the selective decision to do 37 are not all 40. you're not consistent in your conscience. >> i agree completely. very hypocritical. i don't quite understand exactly why he decided to leave three of them out, thankful he did and i'm hopeful he will not change his mind and decided to commute the sentences as well with those sentences being dylann roof and the boston bomber. it's just amazing to me that we are sitting here today. this is unprecedented in the history of the united states. >> john: we are talking about the impact on families. here's what the father of barbara white who we mentioned at the top of the said regarding this. according to nbc 4 in wash washington. biden death sentence commutation

reprehensible since virginia victims father. it's a disappointment and loss of confidence in the government to do something like that, adding the decision reopens old wounds. white's father said the news was especially hard to take so close to christmas and called it "reprehensible." paul white added the family has waited 18 years for the death sentence to be carried out adding his family hoped that would provide final closure. instead, he's going to be waiting until thomas hager dies in jail or maybe because it's happened before somehow gets o out. >> i will say i don't think any of these people will ever get out of federal prison. but i feel terrible for paul white. i know mr. white. it was the prosecutor on that case along with jim trump. not related to donald trump. jim and i were the prosecutors on my case and we worked very hard. i wish to apologize to

mr. white, to the coleman family. to all the victims in all of these cases for the way in which this was handled. it was disgraceful and the president should be ashamed of himself. he should be apologizing to all of these families because they had no input whatsoever before he made these decisions. it is just terrible the way in which this was handled and i feel so bad for these families, all of these family members in the cases i worked on, i got to know them very well. i know the pain, i saw the pain paul white suffered through all of it and the coleman family and all of them and it's awful and it's just disgraceful that the president handled it this way. >> john: no closure i guess for the white family and probably many others as well. steve, thank you so much for being with us. we really appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> john: i know it doesn't really go with the subject matter but we wish steve and his

family a merry christmas. for so many people out there, it's like -- i don't want to say it's a christmas stolen but this idea that they thought they were on track to finally receive justice for the loss of their loved one and it's pulled out from underneath them, they'll have to live the rest of their lives knowing this person who killed their loved one continues to be incarcerated and is still alive in jail. >> anita: that is such a good point, john. it doesn't really bring into question the judicial process across the country. decisions that are made in courtrooms across the country. i like the question that you asked at the top, was it president biden that made this decision or was it someone else who influenced him? you have to wonder. >> john: given what we have been reading about the president, you do have to wonder. that's an open question. that we may never get the answer to. now this. [indistinct]

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>> john: hamas and hezbollah have been defanged but the

houthis are still out there. in the attack comes israel's defense minister threatened to take out the group's. trey yingst live in israel. >> good afternoon. overnight the houthis in yemen launched a ballistic missile at israel sending millions of people to bomb shelters. we were here in tel aviv as air raid sirens blared. these type of attacks are becoming more frequent, raising questions of how the israelis will respond. israel's defense minister said this week that his army will start to target the iran-backed group's leadership. >> we will not accept the fact that the houthis continued to fire at the state of israel. i warned and said that just as we dealt with seymour in gaza, in tehran, and in beirut, we also deal with the leaders of

the houthis. >> diplomatic efforts are ongoing to reach a cease-fire agreement between israel and hamas. in negotiating teams in qatar. >> regarding the negotiations aimed at achieving a cease-fire in the gaza strip, their negotiations are still ongoing. as you know, there are technical and procedural negotiations currently taking place here. additionally there are other tracks operating in different contexts in cairo. >> like last year, christians and the middle east are celebrating christmas and made -- amid war. there was a traditional parade in bethlehem and there will be festivities tomorrow but everyone waiting to see if they will be a christmas miracle, cease-fire agreement to end the

conflict in the middle east. we are learning at this hour the israeli negotiating team that was in doha arrived in tel avi. >> john: we will see what the holiday season brings. trey yingst, thank you. >> anita: let's bring in a retired navy captain, former pentagon official and senior fellow at the heritage foundation. brent, great to have you here today. i want to ask you about this. the houthis firing missiles at israel, firing at least eight times since the october 7th massacre. not you have the israeli defense minister throwing down the gauntlet saying this "we will inflict a devastating blow to the houthi terrorist organization in yemen. it will hit its strategic infrastructure and behead its leadership." given the fact that israel has already taken out hamas and hezbollah, their leadership, should the houthis heed the warning?

>> well, thanks for having me on today and merry christmas to everyone out there. the houthis if they are paying attention most certainly should take note because so far in the 14 months into this war that started over seventh of 2023, the israelis have been very successful in taking out the leadership of all their adversaries so far and severely hurting the iranian regime that is behind this activity. the short answer to that again is yes, the houthis should be taking note. >> anita: since october 17th, 2023, i want to put these numbers up. there have been at least -- look at these numbers. 183 attacks on u.s. forces and only 15 responses. as part of the problem here that the u.s. has had -- a rather tepid response to this group? they are a thorn in everyone's side. what more should the u.s. be

doing about this? >> actually if you look back on the day after the very disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan under president biden's watch, the numbers of attacks on u.s. forces throughout the middle east start to go up in a sustained and very large and startling number. yet, nothing was really done to respond to it. in one respect that contributed to this notion that the iranians had carte blanche to act more aggressively across the region. of course the biden administration also funneled billions of dollars back into the regime and that also was the grease in the gears for this terror industry that tehran has been operating throughout the region. a stronger leadership thankfully is coming. january 20th, can't come soon enough for many of us and i think many of the folks in the middle east most notably the mullahs in tehran are taking

note. >> anita: what do you expect from the trump administration? what exactly do you think they should do? just a quick answer. >> cut off all the sources of funding and take the gloves off on rolling back the irg c, the iranian paramilitary organization that connects them with money, munitions, and the intelligence to launch terror attacks throughout the region. those things will happen very quickly come january 20th. >> anita: money is the source of all of this for sure. i want to just change the topic here quickly. our lucas tomlinson is reporting exclusively, adding to that friendly fire incident from the other day where a navy fighter jet was shot down in the red sea. he is reporting that second navy fighter jet was shot down shortly after the first one was shot down and the pilot had to take an evasive maneuver to eject. this is the first time we are hearing this that there was a second incident.

what do you know about this, the navy is confirming that a second missile was fired from the uss gettysburg and that they are investigating whether that missile was targeting that second check. why didn't we hear about this before? >> again, i think it's still early and an investigation is ongoing and typically from my history and extremes working in the navy for 26 years, usually the first reports are not complete or have a lot of i guess not fully vetted information coming through and i think that's playing out. it doesn't surprise me that there were two aircraft that were taken off from the carrier operating together and that the gettysburg that launched this standard missile, a detail release of this new report, would have fired two missiles if they thought the threat was imminent to the aircraft carrier. it doesn't surprise me that you have two aircraft and also two missiles perhaps fired at a target that they thought was a

threat. >> anita: okay. well, information and i am sure we are going to hear a lot more about this. brett sadler, thank you so much for your time today and a merry christmas to you. >> merry christmas as well. >> john: this is very strange. how does that happen? that you shoot down one f-18 and you almost shoot down a second one? if the pilots of the first f-18 were landing, they were landing to go into the truman, had not said dismissal is coming to us and it's not shutting off, punch out, they probably would be dead. then the second pilot had to take evasive action and narrowly missed. there is some information they may have turned off the guidance system on the second missile or at least made sure it wouldn't. my goodness. i think somebody is in trouble. >> anita: yeah, i think so. one is questionable of course but two incidents seems like a

big problem. >> john: sure does. i'm sure we'll be hearing more about that in the days ahead. it's rather incredible. now this. >> timmy tariffs is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. you go look at the 1890s, 1880s, mckinley, that was no longer proportionally the richest. >> john: a new report saying consumer optimism dropping. our trump's tariffs making americans fearful? trump economic advisor steve moore is on deck. >> anita: the number of americans hitting the road for the holidays will shock you. jeff flock is reporting live from the pennsylvania turnpike. there he is. jeff, keep your eyes on the road for us please. we will come to you soon. >> eyes on the road, hands on the wheel, got it. millions is the answer. i'll tell you how many millions when we comeme back in just a second.

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>> john: a quick look at the chaos or lack thereof at airports across the country. there are some problems at dallas. american had that clicked earlier today. miami is probably, new york city, they are coming in second on the misery index. atlanta moves along really well and despite the fact that it's the busiest airport in the world. salt lake city, that's where you want to fly in and out of. they are green all the way. 107 million americans an addition of the folks flying expect to be driving to their holiday destination according to the aaa. might be a little difficult in the northeast with all the snow coming down and that's where we find business correspondent jeff flock. he is among the folks who are braving the weather and the traffic. he is live right now for the pennsylvania turnpike. earlier today. glad to see you got out of there. hopefully you bought some last

minute gifts. how is it looking on the roads? >> i think you found me out. may have an ulterior motive for going to the mall but anyway we are back on the highway now and you know you talk about full grain when it comes to air travel, that's what we are getting here on the new jersey turnpike and 95 which i just got on 95 now. we had whether earlier but now all good and you know despite the fact that as you report well over 100 million people, that's almost an all-time record, and if you look at the numbers on growth and that's about 2.5% more than last year, last year was a busy travel time. air travel is up another almost 5% from last year and then travel by alternate means like cruise ships and buses and trains, that's up almost double digits this year. that is i guess in part because people are willing to do it. gas prices are reasonable.

$3.04 now. that's about what it was a week ago, about what it was a month ago. opening to folks at aaa, they say people want to go where they want to go and they are willing to prioritize travel. >> we haven't seen very strong correlation when gas prices are a little higher that they are going to stop taking those road trips because they are finding those savings and other areas of their lives. >> john, i leave you with good news. we saw it all. snow, sleet, rain, clouds, and the sun has broken through. i show you interstate 95 clean and green both directions. merry christmas. >> john: that's a great thing about driving the interstate, you can go through every weather pattern known to man. jeff, drive safely.

appreciate it. >> anita: president biden appears to be throwing in the towel on two proposals to provide student loan relief to millions of borrowers. the decision is a major blow to one of biden's biggest campaign promises to help americans trapped under crushing student debt. grady trimble is live from the white house on this. why did the administration have to cancel its plans? >> the main reason, anita, time is running out. they have gotten not much left in this administration so they decided to bail on these two major student loan debt cancellations that would have bailed out around 30 million borrowers and they did it pretty quietly while that government shutdown threat was looming last week. the education department dropped the targeted relief plan that a lot of people have called plan b after the supreme court struck down biden's first attempt at

loan debt forgiveness. called off another smaller effort as well. the education secretary said it made the move because of "operational challenges and implementing the proposals with time and resources running short in the last weeks of this current administration." democrats on the hill have praised biden's effort to cancel student loan debt and even as recently as earlier this month they were calling on him to cancel even more. >> the biden administration has demonstrated the greatest commitment to student loan forgiveness of any presidential administration in american history. and so we are here today to demand the department of education to deliver on president biden's commitment to debt relief. and process all outstanding borrower defense relief before president trump slams the door shut on borrowers on jan january 20th. >> republicans have a different

take. senator bill cassidy is the top republican on the health committee on the senate which deals with education issues. he says biden's student loan schemes were always a lie. they are admitting it now. anita, for those who might be holding their breath for student loan forgiveness, it does not sound like the incoming administration has any plans to do so, as president-elect trump has called president biden's attempts to cancel debt illegal. anita. >> anita: i don't think that is on president-elect trump's list of things to do. we will leave it at that. grady trimble live at the white house for us. thank you so much. >> john: anita, backed to what we mentioned, rand paul releasing his festival's report. the traditional airing of grievances, the economic kind. posting yesterday "i was a

one-man doge before doge was a gleam in the eyes of tech executives and media parents got behind the idea. don't get me wrong i'm very happy they are here. i pass along 2,000 pages of waste to elon musk and vivek ramaswamy in the interest of curbing government waste. now they don't have to work too hard to find what i have already found." let's bring in trump economic advisor steve moore. a little more detail on what rand paul, doge before there was a doge found he said "this time i'm highlighting a whopping amount. over a trillion dollars in government waste, ice skating drag queens, 12 million dollar las vegas pickleball complex, $5 million on ukrainian influencers and more. no matter how much money the government has wasted, politicians keep demanding even more." therein, steve, lies the root of

the problem. >> it sure does, john. by the way, merry christmas. by the way, congress does like to play santa claus, don't they? pickleball. i love playing pickleball but i don't think the federal government should be subsidizing or football stadium towards this is where they're giving rascal came to see what happens. i wonder what happens. it goes on and on and on. this is what's contriving so much to our $35.5 trillion national debt and those are the things that should just be eliminated. we don't have the money to do it. can i say something by the way john about that segment you were just talking about about the student loan debt? smoke comes out of my ears when i hear biden talking about giving "forgiveness" what does that mean? it means all the rest of us have to pay these universities. for the people who didn't pay back their loans. what about the people who did

pay back their loans? you know what, they are chumps. they're not going to get the loan forgiveness. now they have to pay twice. why is it that the taxpayer should be on the line? what about universities charging these kids 60, 70, $80,000 a year. why shouldn't they be on the line for these student loan forgiveness -- wash to be -- why should it be taxpayers? >> john: when you consider the size of the endowment. plenty of cash. >> why don't we put a tax on the endowments of these universities if they have a certain percentage of people who are not paying back their student loans? it's outrageous. $60,000. almost $250,000 these kids are taking in debt and these universities, they could use their endowments to pay the tuition. >> john: i remember the idea that marco rubio had that there needed to be transparency at institutions of higher education

to say okay, you want to become a great philosophy major? here are your job prospects. they never did that. i want to ask. doge is relatively equipment to simpson-bowles in 2014. a report on how to cut government waste. he said thanks very much i'll never get this through congress. as much as pete might want to cut spending, the folks over there don't necessarily want to follow through. >> you been in congress? >> john: yeah. congress is right behind you. speak of this is the real challenge. we think elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are going to come up with hundreds of billions of dollars of saving. in one of the they found, spending a billion dollars a year on rent on office buildings that are empty. empty. what business would do that. the challenge, yes we can identify the waste and i think

they're going to do an amazing job of it and expose it but will congress act? with the act responsibly and get rid of it? i can't tell you yes. republicans are in on this. it's not one party. it's both parties. they love to spend money. >> john: as witnessed by the recent cr that elon musk and vivek ramaswamy helped tank. maybe they have more power than simpson-bowles did because they have the power of social media to embarrass the you know what out of people. great to see you. >> why does it take 1500 pages to pass the budget? how many people in congress do you think read that? >> john: i can count on one hand. steve, thank you. merry christmas to you. anita? >> anita: john, history made as a nasa spacecraft completes the closest pass of the sun's surface, what this mission can

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>> anita: nasa officially touching the sun this morning with its park solar probe flying a little under 4 million miles of the sons surface. what could this tell us? let's bring in leroy chiao, former nasa astronaut and international space station commander. levi, thank you so much for joining us today. merry christmas to you. this is very exciting. this happened this morning and this is being called historic. it's like 50 years in the making. tell us a little bit more about it. >> sure. great to be on. merry christmas to everyone there. which is a first on many levels. approach the sound at a record

speed. 430 million miles per hour. 430,000 miles per hour which is the fastest probe that has -- that we've ever launched. it came at 3.8 million miles of the sons surface and it sounds like a big distance but if you take the distance from the earth to the sun and compare that to a football field, you'd be on the 4-yard line. it's pretty close. this is historic because it's during what's called solar maximum. solar minimum handed about 11 years ago. this was launched in 2018 so it's been able to study the transition from min to max and we are hoping, scientists are hoping it will experience solar flare during its approach and you can learn more about how the dynamics work. >> anita: you mentioned is very hot temperatures but i just want to put the numbers up on the screen so our audience can see.

the flyby again occurred at 6:53 a.m., 430,000 miles per hour and the craft faced temperatures between 1700 and 1800 degrees fahrenheit, flying 3.8 million miles within the sons surface but you say that's less than a football field length so that is pretty darn close. leroy, just tell us, what are some of the things we are hoping to learn from this. i understand we are learning about coronal heating, solar wind. what else can we learn and why is it important? what can we take away? >> as everyone knows, the son is a very dynamic system, the sunspots are an indicator. seem to be a pretty good indicator when there's solar flares and coronal mass ejection so this is a chance to study it up close and develop our understanding of what we call space weather, the interaction

of the sun and charged particles with our magnetosphere and the earth. it's going to help us really understand better about these kinds of things that are important for space travel and satellites. big solar flare, coronal mass ejection can negatively effect satellites, power systems on the ground. we believe that practical side of this monthly will be able to better predict when some of these things are going to happen. >> anita: wow. a lot to learn. leroy chiao, former nasa astronaut, thank you so much for your time today. merry christmas to you. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> john: the truth may be out there, anita, but answers for the drone mystery not so much. eight live update just ahead. >> anita: the vicious venezuelan gain spreading terror from coast-to-coast. we'll find out why law enforcement officers are having such a hard time getting a handle on the growing threat

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one of the prepared to do about the drones out there now? >> john, they have no idea really how to handle this because new jersey hosted a meeting with various law enforcement agencies at the state level on friday of last week and they discussed protocol for how to deal with this but ultimately when it came to his if there isn't congressional action, the authority really lies with federal authorities rather than state and local so they are kind of ham strongly on how they can deal with this and this comes as they reported drone sightings are decreasing significantly. one per night over the past several nights which is down from 150 per night very recently and that's something that at least one new jersey state trooper is very happy about. listen to this. >> i'm glad the temperature has come down on the issue but i think it lets us know we have a little ways to go on those

friends. detection and mitigation. we will put heads together. >> take a look at this, a woman in new jersey took this picture last week. federal and state authorities continue saying there is no reason to worry and it's not just new jersey waiting for answers. drones have been spotted in 11 states from california to new jersey and new york where drones are temporarily banned from flying over more than 50 critical infrastructure sites. nypd wants those restrictions to continue in new york. meanwhile here in new jersey we are outside a power station in jersey city, one of the 22 protected sites in the state. that means that drone pilots can't fly within one nautical mile of here. if they do they could be detained and their drone can be taken down. those restrictions right now are set to expire in the middle of next month, john. >> john: all right, nate foy. the latest from jersey city. thank you.

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