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$50 million of a trust earmarked for fire survivors has been spent. now the abc7 news i-team is asking the woman in charge why. good evening and joining us. i am ama daetz. >> and many are still waiting for compensation after they w mosto this is a >> steve remembers the camp
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fire in 2018 . the winds were erratic, they were brothering in every direction. you can see the embers and flames blowing sideways. we all thought they were going to die. >> reporter: this father rescued his daughter from her home. >> it is hard toto now, but dad was there for me and he was able to keep me calm and we were able to just trudge through. i mean, there is nothing else you can do except continue trying to get out. >> the rental home and the home steve and his wife owned were destroyed. the fire sparked by pg&e equipment was california's deadliest and most destructive fire. >> in that type of fire it is like a blow attach. nothing with stood it. it was a pile of ashes. >> reporter: he had fire insurance which enabled him to rebuild, but his daughter and
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many others did not. >> we know 350 victims of the fire living on their property in trailers, waiting for the settlement. that is the neighbor across the street, the closest trailer. that was a house. everybody is waiting on money. >> reporter: on july 1, 2020, the fire victims trust was created and funded in part to process and pay claims from a 2019 pg&e settlement. the victims of the 2015 butte fire, 2017 north bay wildfires and 2018 camp fire. according to court documents the trust is funded half with cash and half with pg&e stock, which means the value of the trust constantly fluctuates. in pg&e bankruptcy proceedings, the judge appointed a retired justice john trotter as the fire victim trustee, and a fire trust claims administrator. >> this is the most complicated case i have been involved in.
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>> reporter: according a letter the trust hired lawmaker brown greer out of virginia to process fire victims claim payments. more than 300 staff members evaluating and processing victims claims report directly to her. >> is it fair to say the buck stops with you in that respect? >> that would be right. >> reporter: staff member salaries along with justice trotter's salary and kathyiany's salary are paid for from the trust by the same pool of money that pays fire victims. justice trotter charges $1,500 an hour. kathy yanni confirms she charges $1,250 an hour. >> lawyers who are lawyers as long as i have been a lawyer with my background, those are the kind of rates we >> reporter: there are 60,170 individual claimants. the trust paid less than 10,000
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of them, the bulk of a preliminary payment of $25,000. only 334 fire victim, less than half of 1% of fire victims, have received a 30% partial payment of their total claim. according to its annual report, the trust spent more than $38.7 million in operating expenses from july 1, 2020, to december 31, 2020. that is in addition to $12.7 million spent to set up the trust according to pg&e. likely millions of dollars in operating expenses not yet reported by the trust this year. >> i don't know what they are doing. the woman in charge of the thing is getting over a thousand dollars an hour? two weeks ago she was in hawaii on vacation and people are sitting here with no place to live? >> yanni admits she went to hawaii in march but said she was working the entire time. >> i was in contact with my staff the entire time i was there. i answered every email i got. i was on the phone everyday, so
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it wasn't like i wasn't working. i was working. i can actually understand that they are waiting and wondering what is going on and they are concerned if i am the person who is approving the claims that maybe i wasn't doing that. and, in fact, i was. i approved claims the whole time i was there. >> she said she did not expense any part of her trip to the trust. >> reporter: why is this taking so long? >> agree it has to get faster. i am not disputing that. >> reporter: what is the solution? >> we need more documentation from the claimants. once we get that documentation, as soon as we realize we need additional people to help us review, we will hire additional people to do that. >> reporter: who will also cost money. >> we are all fearful that the trust people, this woman on vacation or any of the people that are getting these exorbitant salaries to manage
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this trust and do this thing, we hear that money is coming out of the trust. i mean, i am telling my lawyer, go sue the trust. >> reporter: will there be enough money to pay all the claimants? >> oh, yes. definitely. there will be. i don't have any doubt about that. >> reporter: iany says the goal is to keep administrative costs and 1% but it is unclear how the trust plans >> reporter: but this gentlemen is not ready to hang his home on hope. >> we are angry. we lose. we got nothing. >> this could have been avoided if pg&e would have kept with keeping things up. >> reporter: yanni has this message for these folks and others waiting. >> mostly, i want folks to know that everywhere, myself and everyone who works with me, they are totally devoted to
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getting the fire victims paid. >> reporter: that, brigitte says she is grateful, but it is a matter of when. >> i try to keep looking forward. >> reporter: since interviewing her, she has received and accepted her claim determination from the trust. steve has not. if the newsroom, melissa pixcar, abc7 news. now to another abc7 news i- team update. three suspects are now in custody accused of vandalizing a statue in the former home of the witness in the derek chauvin case. pigs blood was smeared along with a decapitated pig's head where barry broad used to live as he testified as a paid use of force expert for the defense. someone covered the hand statue at a shopping plaza with blood a short time later. >> we don't want to lose sight there was a victim, a family
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involved at the residents that were traumatized and felt terrorized in this case. >> here are the three suspects -- they are all from santa rosa. police say the investigation is ongoing. you can go to abc7news.com/iteam to contact the team. vaccinations are a best chance of beating this coronavirus pandemic. in a month on june 15 california will officially reopen. at least that is the plan, lifting coronavirus restrictions. governor gavin newsom has made what appears to be contradictory remarks about whether that reopening includes
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changes to the mask mandate. now more with abc7 news anchor liz kreutz to break it all down for out. liz? >> reporter: dan, governor gavin newsom said likely there will be a shift to the indoor mask mandate although we clarified it likely will not happen by june 15 when the state reopen, so experts we spoke to said at the rate things are going in california, it won't be much longer until we can safely do so. california is one month away from its official reopening and according to governor gavin newsom part of that may include a shift in the mask mandate. here is what he told and los angeles tv station about masks after june 15. >> only in those settings that are indoor, in the massively large settings. otherwise we will make guidance recommendations, but no mandates and no mandates and restrictions to businesses large and small. >> reporter: the comment suggested the state may lift the indoor mask mandate at most places as part of the reopening, but today the governor clarified it may not happen by june 15.
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>> for indoor activities we will still have likely some mask guidelines and mandates, but we hope sooner than later that those will be lifted, as well. >> reporter: although the exact timing is unclear, the ucsf dr. george rutherford says he thinks by mid-june it will be time to re-think indoor masks in many places. >> i think we are in a position now to back away from this pretty quickly. we are doing really well. >> reporter: if the mask mandate does lift gyms could allow people back inside without a mask. the owner of mx-360 says that could help bring business back. >> it is not easy to do hard, cardio aroby workout with a mask on. we are not about that >> reporter: but the doctor say
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there is are some places we will need mask like large indoor events but a trip to the grocery store, you soon may not need it. >> trader joe's is crowded, man. >> you should go during the old folks hour at 8:00 a.m. that is when i go. >> thanks! [ laughing ] >> reporter: of course, even if the state does make this change, countys will be allowed to keep a stricter mandate if they choose, but you heard dr. rutherford. he feels at some point this summer we will be able to leave the house and go to trader joe's without this. live in san francisco, liz kreutz, abc7 news. >> strange to hear and hard to imagine. thank you, liz, very much. today governor gavin newsom announced the highest level of state school funding in california history. a $14.5 million plan that includes universal pre-k and college savings accounts for low income kids.
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one of the candidates in the gubernatorial plan was in the bay area talking taxes. the former san diego mayor unveiled his tax cut plan in emoryville. it would lower the marginal tax rate for the first 15,000 earned and the first 100,000 earned by joint filers. he calls it the biggest middle class tax cut in state history. >> california doesn't have a revenue issue. it has a government spending and waste issue. that demands reform now. >> let me clarify. it would lower the marginal tax rate for the first 50,000 earned to 0, then the first 100,000 earned by joint filers. to check out what california went through in the last recall, watch our documentary "total recall" on the abc7 news app wherever you stream. well, the wildfire 2017
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>> reporter: let's not romanticize dried brush. this is the so-called golden state. it is beautiful, sure. but from a distance, up close, across the street, mike irwin of fountain grove feels differently about it. >> it makes me really made. everybody up here pretty much burned down. >> reporter: including him in. october of 2017 it was fountain grove where the tubbs fire entered santa rosa while on its way to burning 4,600 homes. conditions now have become worse than they were then. >> i am telling you the ecology in fountain grove changed. >> reporter: a santa rosa firefighter remembers how this area used to be open with grass woodlands but now with the trees burned it lost the canopy which means more sun and thicker growth. so next week they begin an inspnd gara >> our goal of the program is not only to protect our community but to protect bu >>report: may 17
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fire crews will canvas every vacant part of santa rosa, a month-long process, the beginning of fire season here and one month earlier than usual. >> to us we are dealing with an earlier start and a long, dry, hot summer. >> reporter: they want brush cut back by 30 feet at a minimum. if property owners don't get that done, the fire department will and then send a bill. michael irwin has already done the work, and putting in a drought-resistant landscape. the burns on his palm tree remind him of a frightening night. no better teacher than a brush fire. >> it was fast. >> reporter: but borrow property owners, it is so dry they will probably have to cut this brush just once, not twice, a benefit i suppose. wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> it is scary how hot it is already, dan, and so dry. >> boy, it sure is. it is a reminder, spencer, of just how delicate this balancing act is because a
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serious fire could touch off at any times in these conditions. it is extremely delicate. even though it is cooler now than earlier in the week, we are still looking at low humidity, even though it is rising slightly. it is breezy outside. wind speeds generally 15 to 20 miles per hour, up to 23 at sfo. very breezy. it will get even windier later in the week. you can see how much of a cooldown we have had in the last 24 hours. 5 degrees cooler in oakland and novato and 3 degrees cooler in the east bay. 57 degrees here in san francisco right now. oakland 61. 67 at mountain view. san jose 71. 81 at morgan hill, 52 degrees at half moon bay. a beautiful view of the sun reflecting off the waters, a beautiful view from emoryville. 64 in santa rosa, napa 67.
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mid-80s in fairfield and concord and 79 in livermore. a different view from above the clouds looking down on mt. tam, you can see the fingers of fog eaching out over the bay. the clouds and fog will increase overnight with patchy morning drizzle likely. a cooling trend continue into the weekend and we could expect sprinkles or isolated light showers on saturday. overnight tonight, just a wave of high clouds passing over and increasing low clouds near the coast. maybe a spot or two of drizzle in the early morning hours but that is it. overnight low es in ithupper 40s to low 50s. tomorrow's highs mid-50s at the coast. low to mid-60s along the bay shoreline. the south bay up high of 77. san jose to the east bay upper 70s to low 80s likely. the north bay low to mid-70s the high tomorrow. friday evening, the forecast animation is showing the approaching system that could bring ugh sprinkles on saturday in the morning hours. maybe patchy sprinkles
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scattered around the bay area, but a greater chance of actual rain hitting the ground, light rain, though, in the afternoon hours, mainly a north bay event. not much rain to measure out of this system. however, the air quality will be good on friday, saturday and sunday, so that is good news. here is a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. as i mentioned, the cooling pattern we are in will continue through saturday with temperatures rebounding just a couple degrees on sunday, then cooling down again on monday. then we have some minor warming going into the middle of next week. sprinkle on saturday. we need a lot more rain than that, but that is all we can squeeze out of it right now. >> thank you so much, spencer. coming up next, an underwater property for sale in san francisco. we a
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have to cross over some barriers. it is clearly off the beaten path, but offers you a chance to do some recreational fishing. the weather is sunny and mild with some amazing views. the only caveat is that the 1.1 acre lot is under water, located three blocks east of candlestick park. the lot under water was purchased several years ago. i asked the owner what he planned to do with it when he bought it. he said no plan. it with us cheap, good deal. meet the owner, this is trent zoo. >> i haven't seen the property myself. >> reporter: what, you own it and haven't seen it? >> no, no, i haven't. >> reporter: it is under water. >> yeah, it is under water. okay, this is $19.29. >> reporter: zoo bought the lot from san francisco county at an auction about six years ago for less than $5,000.
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his asking price today is $75,000. so far no takers, but people are curious. so, that is ghthere. what do yo buy that? >> well -- [ laughing ] >> maybe build above sea level and put it on some stilts or something, you know? >> reporter: zoo, who happens to be an real estate agent is hoping another pier will be added to san francisco's waterfront. >> like a pier, a stadium. >> reporter: a stadium, did he say? that may be a good investment since a certain baseball team is now threatening to build a ballpark outside of oakland. here is another disclosure. he owns several other lots under water. >> it is just one at a time, if someone wants to buy more, i can sell more, but this is only one. >> reporter: that is because for now, he says, he is just testing the waters. >> it is owning a piece of san francisco and buying into the future. >> reporter: nothing like a
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good sales pitch. in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. >> lyanne is funny, testing the waters. [ laughing ] >> we all like the idea of a place by the water. how about a place on the water, in the water? >> does it come with diving gear, maybe? may come in handy. next, abc7 news works everyday on building a better bay area. >> these are things that i don't think i have even told my parents. >> our own staff both behind and in front of the camera share stories of moments they have never been able to forget and what we can
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$200 million, that is the size of the request authored by san francisco assemblyman phil ting and others to the state budget to address aaip hate incidents. the money over three year's time would combat crimes and provide community support. >> we are also asking for $20
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million in cultural development and we anticipate non-profit community organizations that really deal with that work would be in charge. >> money would also go to collecting data about the asian community to. find out more about the needs, challenges and barriers it faces. and recent physical attacks against the aapi community are certainly top of mind here locally and, really, across the country. >> tonight a look at the invisible wounds asian- americans carry everyday, pain inflicted by hurtful words and stereotypes. we have abc7 news cultural reporter julian glover about how much words really matter. >> i will tell you a story that i have never forgotten. i am reggie aqui, an anchor here at abc7 news. i am hawaiian, filipino and caucasian, so i am a mixed bag. i remember one time in middle school out of nowhere in the hallway this girl that i kind
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of knew turned around and say my mom said you bombed us at pearl harbor. my dad was a little boy living on the island when it got bombed, so i made that very clear to her that it was my family that was attacked. >> reporter: words can cut deep and the wounds last a lifetime. >> these are things i don't even think i have told parents. i am kimberly and i am an asian- american woman. in first grade i was so excited to get my picture taken. the photographer said honey, can you open your eyes? i went my eyes are open. so now all my life you can see the whites of my eyes because i open them very wide. >> reporter: painful memories seared into the sub conscious
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by microaggressions that feel like anything but small. >> the real consequences of microaggressions is the notion that they are additive. >> all of these things end up attacking the core of who you are and who you are capable of being in society. >> reporter: these microaggressions are packed full of preconceived notions about someone and their identity and often perceived at back-handed compliments. >> people say your english is so good, with the expectation that, what, my english would be accented, i would have poor ve grammar or speak broken english. that made me sat sad. >> hi, i am kristen sze. i moved to california when i was 8. in terms of race in a professional setting, it begins with my name. i use my anglicized name.
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i also have a chinese name which i don't use on air because i was told early on when i was starting my career that ethnic names didn't do well on tv. i think if i was starting now i would have made a different choice. >> these biases, unwelcoming to the aapi community are rooted deep in our culture and reflected in how we treat those around us. >> i am not sure if it is because i am an asian woman or just a woman, but i find myself constantly being talked over. >> reporter: and how we perceive those around us. >> i am docile, eager to please. >> reporter: so, how can we all just do better. >> i am filipino. >> do not ignore people's experiences and microaggressions, fu, because they are significant. >> reporter: understandi ng there could be more than meets the eye. that is a big step. >> cultural ability asks us to
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listen, listen to the people around you, be open to learning. >> solidarity to me in this moment looks like people of all colors supporting each other. when one has been agreed, the other will step up to say i am with you. >> reporter: a remind their words matter. putting in the effort to understand the person you are saying them to matters even more. julian glover, abc7 news. >> those words from our colleagues matter, too. so powerful to hear from them. this saturday lew be dedicate the 4:00 p.m. hour to an a abc7 news bay area conversation "stop the hate." what you can do to help protect the aapi communities. >> please join us for that. still on abc7 00, california's red hot housing market. >> a market like this really underscores the value proposition of why so many folks want to get into homeownership in the first place. >> owning a home is a big part
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reasonable price, you will get multiple offers and honestly most of them are way asking, from $10,000 to $40,000- plus. >> reporter: california is experiencing one of its hottest real estate markets ever. across the state homes are increasingly selling above list price, in some areas as much as 5% above the asking price. and homes are selling more quickly, as well. the number of days homes are on the market has rapidly decreased since the start of 2020. in the los angeles metro area the median period from the listing of a home to its pending sale was cut in half from 26 to 13 days. in some inland metro areas like riverside, the number of days homes are on the market has dropped by two-thirds, going from 30 days to ten days. the fresno metro area has seen record demand. the median days on the market is down to just nine. >> a market like this really underscores the value proposition of why so many folks want to get into homeownership in the first place.
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you are continually accumulating equity and that is the end game, right? for homeownership and one of the key benefits and values of it is you improve at just your own quality of life but you built the kind of lead to intergenerational improvement, the american dream, the value can't be overstated. >> a lot of the trends happening, sales growing 2.7%, mortgage interest rate, etc., is all taking place in the rest of the united states. in california we have such a tight housing supply that it makes the market competition that you are seeing creep up across the board even more intense here in california. >> in november we had kind of a budget in our mind and this would be the max we would go to. we have certainly blown out that number and we are still finding ourselves short. >> there is no inventory. , thi , rirse, there for sale right
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can't do it, so then i push myself to prove them wrong. when i do things, i do things to shine out. i want to be noticed. i want to be seen. >> reporter: caleb parker never lost sight of the possibility of attending a four year college. while in high school he enrolled in san francisco state's step to college program, attending classes on weekends. >> hi, i am a step to college lecturer with san francisco state university and the associate director for 100% college prep. he feeds the homeless people, he does so much. it is like caleb attends all our virtual programs, the after school stuff, zones, attendance. his attendance is immaculate. >> reporter: he will candidly tell you he wants to find the cure for cancer. >> my grandma had cancer and one of my aunts ended up dying of cancer. i don't want to see people dying that kind of death so i
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>> i like his winning attitude, by the way. let's look at what is going on with the weather. overnight we will see an increase in low clouds and fog along the way and coast but it will push inland overnight. upper 40s to low 50s. tomorrow we will have high clouds lingering, giving us filtered sunshine and low clouds near the coastline. highs tomorrow will range from mid-50s on the coast to mainly mid-60s along the bay shoreline and inland areas. then saturday we bring on the rain. we start the forecast animation friday evening. it looks like saturday morning there will be enough moisture with the system passing over that we may see a spot or two of light showers and sprinkles. the best chance will be in the afternoon hours and after that the chance goes away. here is the accuweather seven- day forecast. this cooler pattern we are in will continue through the weekend, that is for sure. mainly dry weather through the middle of next week after cool weather on sad through monday,
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a mild warmup will occur midweek next week. dan and ama. >> a little cooldown will be nice though. thank you, spencer. let's switch to abc7 news sports director larry beil talking as baseball today. >> yes. don't make ramon angry. you won't like him when he was angry in. boston he became a
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good evening. the marketing machine that is the nfl has turned schedule reveal day into a big thing. number 17 games this year, not 16 like we had before. the 49ers opened games, first at detroit, that is on september 12, then they are at philly, week three sunday night at home against the packers with or without aaron rodgers. 9ers will make five prime time appearances including monday night against the rams, an espn game. four of the final six games will be on the road, including seattle, finishing with the rams on january 9. the as continuing their battle with oakland calling up a rookie james -- to make his first career start in boston. his family in attendance. his dad, doug, stole the show,
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fired up. he walks christian vasquez with the bases loaded and the red sox go up 1-0. but then he gets hunter renfroe swinging to end the threat and papa is pumped. and laurean know lets the home umpire hear about this and matt olson, his 8th home run of the season. the giants have the night off. the warriors pulled off their most impressive back-to-back win of the season, taking down the top two teams in the league, utah and phoenix. they came back from a 16 point deficit last night. the warriors back to being the hunters. just don't tell draymond green there is any similarity to a popular warriors team from the past. >> we believe those days are over. we won three championships i ain't part of no we believe
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team. that is no disrespect for the ogs that came before me. what they did is incredible but we are not no we believe 2.0. >> the fans are back in the stands at the giants and warriors games. yesterday a unique day-night hitter and abc7 news' chris alvarez was there. >> the ultimate fan double- header. i am looking for people doing the same thing as me. >> we are, a double. >> it is unbelievable to come here and walk two different arenas within a mile of each other. >> well, i just have some sort of baseball going. [ applause ] >> if i was not doing what i am doing i think i would be spending an entire day -- >> will you go to the warriors game tonight? there we go! [ laughing ]
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>> if steph conceded, what would you say to steph? >> hey, it is me. >> go giants, go warriors. >> when you have so many games in the same area back-to-back, you have to take advantage of it! >> a very good day. a couple of stadium notes. the nfl is planning, hoping to have full stadiums this up coming season. as we showed you the schedule earlier. we are four months away. hopefully we will be safe by then. regarding the as stadium, the mayor of las vegas said today
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she has been talking with major league baseball for two years about the as relocating to vegas so anybody that thinks the as are trying to bluff the city of oakland, vegas would throw money at the as to get them there tomorrow night so take that for what it is worth. >> as and raiders -- woe! thank you, larry. well, coming up here on abc7 -- >> and remember, you can watch all our newscasts live and demand through the abc7 news bay area app. download the app now and start streaming. that is it for us now. thank you for joining us. i am ama daetz. >> and i am dan ashley. for larry beil and spencer christian, we hope you have a great evening and we see you
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