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hastert many times. >> you can't begin to talk of the be trail that's, everything he claemd to imed to be and tur to be. >> reporter: in sentencing the 74-year-old hastert, the judge exceeded the recommendations of the prosecutors. the judge said there are some things that are unforgivable. no matter how old they are.
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dean reynolds reporting for us, dean, thank you. tonight, two law enforcement sources have told us that prescription medications were found in prince's possession and in his house when he died last week. it is not clear yet if these medications played a role in the singer's death. but the dea is investigating where the drugs came from and whether they were prescribed to prince. there were more dangerous storms today across the western plains. this tornado hovering over suburban omaha, touched down several times, but, no major damage. another twister left stanton, iowa, largely unharmed. one year ago tonight, baltimore erupted in riots after the funeral of freddie gray. an african-american whose neck was mysteriously broken while in custody in a police van. the police commissioner anthony batts was fired. since that moment, batts has
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maintained his silence, that is until tonight. in an interview with jeff pegues. >> i was clinching my gritting my teeth. saying move, go. >> reporter: when the rioting started former police commissioner, anthony batts remembered wondering why his officers were reacting so slowly. he denies an allegation from the police union that officers were told to give the protesters room. >> you are saying it's not accurate? >> i'm telling you that the mayor never told me or gave me an order to stand down. i never heard at any given point in time he give any one anned or tire stand down. i never told any bed to stand down. >> reporter: batts said the real problem was training. >> we didn't have enough time to get prepared the way we should. that falls on me. i take accountability. >> reporter: within days, six police officers had been arrested on various charges for putting freddie gray in a police van unrestrained and for 45 minutes denying him medical care. should the six officers have
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been charged? >> i will answer your question like this. unfortunately in my career, in my all most 35 years of doing this job, i have had to tell wives their husbands have been killed on duty. the only time i have kind of lost it was talking to my police officers in baltimore about these six officers. >> reporter: batts says gray's death and subsequent riots exposed deeper problems in baltimore. >> it was just the straw that broke the camel's back that unleashed it. you got to talk about the racial issues in that city. people don't look to talk about those things. but you got separate but equal taking place in that city. >> reporter: even before the riots, commissioner batts' critics accused him of being out of touch with the city and rank-and-file officers. scott, trials of accused officers resume next month. late last year the first one, it ended with a mistrial. jeff pegues, thank you. >> coming up, two parents bury
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a mother and father buried their son today. but they refused to bury the truth of his death. demarco morgan is in bridgewater, massachusetts. >> reporter: family, friends. strangers watched as the coffin carrying the body of emmett scannel, a 20-year-old college sophomore made its way into central square congregational church. [ bells tolling ] >> reporter: inside an emotional father celebrated the life of his oldest boy, an honor student on full academic scholarship. with painful honesty, he told the world that heroin made it
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all go wrong. >> our honesty and openness in his obituary was so other parents could follow suit without shame or embarrassment. >> reporter: bill scannel and mother amy, decided to be owe any but the cause of their son's death, posting the facebook message with the obituary and his dad read it all before all today. >> when you look at the picture do you see a junkie, des trit young man addicted to heroin, some one so sad and depressed he had become a prisoner of his own life. >> emmett was on heroin for 18 months in and out of rehab while in school. >> he was looking for the next high. i think he, it's a disease. he was looking for the next best thing. >> i hugged him right there. i whispered in his eer, emmett, please don't shoot dope. just finish your finals. and i love you. and he looked right at me in my eyes and he said, dad, i promise i won't. i love you. and 11 days later, about april
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20th, 2016, he was dead. >> their public plea is already making an impact. >> a close friend of mine came up, hugged me, whispered in our ear, because her daughter who had been a heroin addict and substance abuse sufferer, saw emmett's story they were leaving right here from the funeral to check her into detox, immediately. >> reporter: here in massachusetts, four people die every day overdoses, the scannell family are on a motion to bring those numbers down. >> there is help. it works. it is easy to find. demarco morgan with such an important story. demarco, thank you. and we'll be right back.
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today the federal reserve left the key interest rate unchanged. the economy slowed over the past month but the job market is improving. not improving are the grades of american high school seniors. the nation's report card today from the national center for education statistics shows only 37% of 12th graders are prepared for college in math and reading. math scores dropped slightly. reading skills held steady. one of the first female army rangers is at the top of her class. captain kristin grist will graduate from maneuver captain's career course, making her the army's first fae mail infantry officer. more women are marching in behind her, the army approved
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in the age of tweets, hatefulness has no bounds. words that people would never say are so much easier to send. a podcast called just not sports noticed that female sportscaster are enduring harassment. so it asked a group of men to read some of the tweets to female sports writers. the men you see did not write them. but read them to demonstrate the power of the words. >> all right, you ready to do mean tweets. >> sarah spain sounds like a nagging wife on tv. one of the players should beat you to death with their hockey stick like the whore you are. hopefully the scanning, julie dicaro is bill cosby's next victim.
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>> i hope your dog gets hit by a car, you [ bleep ]. >> why bring up your own rape in the story is it your way of firing back at critics who said you can't get any. i hope your boyfriend beats you. >> one of the will yien saw there, espn.com sarah spain and dana jacobson of cbs sports network were on our digital channel today. cbsn with josh elliott. >> i wonder what did you hear? especially from your male colleagues yesterday? >> i have to say it is interesting, guys often say this made be think of my daughters, this made me thing of my sisters. every guy has the got a mom too. how about just thinking everybody is a human being, male, female. how about thinking about the mom that made you. >> a lot of head shaking. >> would you say the word to your mom? some of the male colleagues i was talking with, i have gotten comments like that. two of them over the span of five years being on twitter. i can't imagine getting those daily. i think it is again a broader
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thing of, can we be a little bit nicer to people. if you wouldn't say it to my face, why is that okay to say it on twitter? >> sarah, what do you say now? today, to an aspiring young woman who wants to be you? >> i have a young girl who graduated and wants to get into the field. over the course of the last couple months she is job hunting paying close attention to my career as we become friends. she sort of sadly lost her goal. she said i don't think i can do it anymore. i don't think i am the kind of person that can deal with that stuff. i say, eventually you get to the point where you are confident in your own abilities, val daltd in your own abilities, co-workers, peers, viewers, people who are positive. makes it easier to look at the comments and say you are wrong. i do belong here. i am great at my job. i'm not wasting my time believing any of the things that the you are saying to me. >> that's the "cbs overnight news" for this thursday morning. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and of course "cbs this
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morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "cbs overnight news," i'm don dahler. a day after declaring himself the presumptive republican nominee, front-runner donald trump turned his attention to foreign policy. in a major speech the billionaire businessman outleaned how he would lead the united states on the world stage. touching on crucial global issues. here is some of what he had to say. >> my foreign policy will always put the interests of the american people and american security above all else. it has to be first. has to be. that will be the foundation of every single decision that i will make. america --
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[ applause ] america first will be the major and overriding theme of my administration. our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster. no vision. no purpose. no direction. no strtegy. president obama has weakened our military by weakening our economy. he has crippled us with wasteful spending, massive debt, low growth, a huge trade deficit, and open borders. our manufacturing trade deficit with the world is now approaching $1 trillion a year. we're rebuilding other countries while weakening our own. ending the theft of american jobs will give us resources we need to rebuild our military which has to happen. and regain our financial independence and strength. i amount only person running for
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the presidency who understands this and this is a serious problem. i am the only one, believe me, i know them all, i amount only one that know houtz s how to fix it. our allies must contribute to financial, political and human costs. have to do it. of our tremendous security burden. many of them are simply not doing so. they look at the united states as weak and forgiving and feel no obligation to honor their agreements with us. iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, cannot be allowed. remember that, cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. and under a trump administration, we'ill never, er be allowed to have the nuclear weapon. our actions in iraq, libya and syria have helped unleash isis.
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and we are in a war against radical islam, but president obama won't even name the enemy. and unless you name the enemy, you will never, ever, solve the problem. this will all change when i become president. to our friends and allies, i say, america is going to be strong again. america is going to be reliable again. it is going to be a great and reliable ally again. it is going to be a friend again. we are going to finally have a coherent foreign policy. based upon american interests. and the shared interests of our allies. >> trump's speech came after the clean sweep of five northeast primaries tuesday. the victories mathematically eliminated his rivals from clinching the nomination outright. here maze your garrett.
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>> do you consider yourself the presumptive nominee? >> i consider myself the presumptive nominee absolutely. he predict heed would win the gop nomination on the first ballot. even if he doesn't. he says he will win any way. >> how do you pick a man, second, third, fourth, fifth ballot. has 5 million, 6 million votes less than trump. the people at a minimum are going to be upset, angry. at a minimum they will not vote. >> reporter: trump said it is time for ted cruz and john kasich to quit. >> i think they are hurting the party. again, they have no path to victory. >> this campaign moves back to more favorable terrain. >> reporter: cruz from indiana, a state he needs how to win tuesday to stop trump's delegate march. from the famous gym in the basketball movie, "hoosiers." what is it 15 feet. cruz attempted to connect with voters by re-creating a scene from the film. >> do you have a tape measure?
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>> instead he flubbed the word for hoop. >> the amaze thing, that basketball ring here in, indiana, the same height it is in new york city and every other place in the country. >> back in new york city. trump devoted more attention than ever to hillary clinton. >> if hillary clinton were a man i don't think she would get 5% of the vote. the only thing she has got going is the woman's card. the beautiful thing is women don't like her. okay. >> reporter: on the democratic side, hillary clinton all but assured she'll become her party's nominee. winning four out of five states on tuesday. but senator bernie sanders insist he's will stay in the race. eight years ago, clinton was the democrat who didn't want to drop out. nancy cordes shows the us how the 2016 primary race compares to 2008. >> whether you support senator sanders or you support me, there is much more that unites us than divides us. >> reporter: hillary clinton is familiar with the long process of uniting a fractured party.
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in 2008, her fight against then senator barack obama also got a bit nasty. >> well, i am here. he's not. >> i can't tell who i am running against some times. >> shame on you, barack obama. >> by the middle of may, clinton was just over 100 delegates behind her opponent. and virtually tied with him in the popular vote. >> i am in this race, i am staying in the race. because i believe -- >> the game isn't over. the elections aren't over. no buzzer has sounded. >> reporter: some polls showed half of clinton voters vowing not to support her upstart rival. john hileman chronicled it in the book "game change." >> the women largely said they would never, never, never, never, vote for barack obama, never, was going to happen. party unity my behind their attitude. >> this isn't exactly the party i had planned. >> reporter: in june after contests in all 50 states, clinton bowed out. immediately called for solidarity. >> i ask all of you to join me
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in working as hard for barack obama as you have for me. >> the policy differences between clinton and sanders now are bigger which could make party unity more elusive. >> people in the democratic establishment recognize that the party has moved to the left. sanders represents the left ward shift. sanders, not clinton, ills the one who connected in a powerful way with the future of the party. >> reporter: while clinton had incentive to be a loyal soldier in '08. >> we will some day launch a woman in the white house. sanders could have more to gain by holding out on the issues that motivated his long shot bid in first place. >> is it enough for hillary clinton to share your concern about some of these issues? >> we are going to go to the convention here in philadelphia. we are going to fight for a platform that represents the needs of working families. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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as the weather gets warmer many people will be having fun in the sun at their local fair. from the rides to the food and the games, bill goois shows us how fair organizers are getting ready in a story for "sunday morning." [ laughter ] ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the carnival season fast approaches. >> thank you for coming, you guys. good be with you. keep up the good work. bless your generators. >> reporter: father john is out offering his blessings. >> in the name of the father and the son. >> reporter: up and down the midway. >> isn't this wonderful.
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this is my parish on wheels. i called myself the carnival priest. and bless your game here. bless the games. and hope you have great business. >> thank you. >> bless all the rides. >> you bless the rides? >> every single one. >> reporter: the annual preseason carnival trade show. held in gibsonton, florida, and the 4,500 member international independent showman's association. >> not too fast. >> reporter: it is one carnival where if you like a ride, you can buy it. >> the air max is $750,000. >> at these prices there aren't a lot of impulse purchases. >> this we're looking at $100,000. >> reporter: it one-stop shopping for carnival operators like danny brown in arizona. >> we own 40 rides. >> trying to keep up with customer demand. >> they want more things. they want to be scared to death.
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[ laughter ] >> reporter: you scare people to debt r dea defendant for a living? >> they can't scary rides an pretty frightening carnival food too. lee stevens the carnival food vendor. >> we have a death by chocolate funnel cake. came up with a chocolate batter, chocolate cream cheese icing with hershey's syrup. >> reporter: custom food trailers are serious business. >> $8 sausage sand sandwich it is a $300,000 food trailer. >> reporter: games of course are crucial to the carnival experience. >> oh! >> reporter: this game that we are standing beside now is what we call our whopper water. and the price on this is around $210,000. >> we are coming out with new stuff all the time.
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a legend in the game industry. and for one very good reason. >> you are credited with building the first whack-a-mole. >> yeah, we did the first whack-a-mole. >> are you proved it? >> yeah, very proud. very proud. >> reporter: prizes have never been more important. >> we have to make people walk up to the game and want to play it. so they want it they want size. >> reporter: this is a giant serpent thing, all new for 2016. what's this guy? >> this guy, we call him t-u-r-d-l-e, turdle. >> what won't they find? side show, human odd tease, bizarre animal stunts. those have been rel gated to the carnie museum across the street. doc riviera is curator. >> you paid your dime and want to see the three-legged man. was he real? maybe. maybe he wasn't. but you had to pay your dime to go in and find out.
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incidentally he was real. that was franklin tinney, the three-legged man. he lived here in gibsonton. that made for one strange little town. >> in the '40s, and '50s. 138 human odd tease in this town. >> reporter: you had the tallest fire chief. >> 8'4." >> police chief was. >> a midget. >> all relics are not in the museum. wade hall is a renowned former side show owner. he recalls old gibsonton. >> over here on crystal street was a guy who had 15 big bears. >> reporter: did the neighbors object? >> no. because the neighbor was the guy who had two 24-foot python snakes. >> reporter: ward traveled with ward's wonders of the world. >> i had the lady of the frog
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girl, oh, my goodness. >> lobster boy? >> no, lobster boy never worked with me. we were friends. but general, there are no more freak shows. if i could find the freaks i would open a freak show tomorrow and make more money than ever. but where do you find the freaks? they're not here anymore. >> prime marry elections. >> i guess. yeah. >> all that remains of the old side show days, small monument on the highway. and the showmen's cemetery. the final resting place of the human cannonball and lobster boy. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the carnivals are still thriving. providing thrills to the bold providing thrills to the bold and to the rather more jill and kate use the same dishwasher. same detergent. but only jill ends up with wet, spotty glasses. kate adds finish jet-dry with five power actions that dry dishes and prevent spots and film, so all that's left is the shine.
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>> rooted in die leg and staged on a simple set." "horace and pete" is unlike anything on tv. >> so what is going on? >> it is a long story. >> more death of a salesman than modern family. >> is this impractical today? >> louie wrote and directed all of it. challenging not only the format of television. >> here's what i want you to do. >> but the way it is distributed. >> i can't have a 10-year-old friend. >> each episode is sold directly to his fans for about $3 apiece. >> it its what you do, not what you say. this place ain't racist. we served coloreds here in the 30s. >> similar to his trademark comedy, only in the way it approaches controversial subjects. like this exchange with a female character who may or may not be transgender. >> if you used to be a guy i think, i mean, you would have an
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obligation to tell somebody you are going to be with. >> why? >> aren't we all saying -- that when someone becomes trans, that is a woman. caitlyn jenner is a woman now. >> right. >> with all of the rights of a woman and the yes and hooray, she is a woman. and it's -- not polite to say, that's bruce jenner in a dress or bruce jenner who got an operation. that's a woman. >> a woman. >> if caitlyn jenner sleeps with a man, does she have to tell him i use to be bruce jenner? i think that is a really interesting unresolved, for the average person, who doesn't think about this kind of stuff all the time, which is what horace is. >> tell me who horace is? >> he is a, you know, nothing, just a nothing guy. >> you are not writing yourself, clearly. >> there is parts of me in horace? >> which part?
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>> moves a little slow. a bit of a schlub. me on some level. >> do you think of yourself that way? >> in life, i am, i have my guts hanging out out of my t-shirt half the time. put ice cream on my chest like tony soprano, eat, watch "shark tank." >> you think of yourself as an ordinary guy. >> sure, yeah, hell yeah. >> with the creativity. and your capacity to reach inside the human experience and tell a story. >> because i am an ordinary guy that i think i can tell ate story about an ordinary guy. >> putting on my socks is the worst part of every day. it always will be. >> reporter: with horace and pete behind him, he plans to spend a year honing the skills of what he is best known. stand-up. >> sunday morning, my least presentable hour. there is a lot of just, stains, just like, you know, food, and me and whatever.
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and i'm sitting there. >> where is truth in comedy? >> it is not always there. i think lying is effective way to get laughs. lying, yes. >> do you really? >> yeah, sure. lying is like magic. there are so many lies. >> if it takes lies, let's lie. >> so many lies in my act. i have so manysters that i really convince them it its true. that's why they're laughing. this really happened, man. and that makes them laugh because i'm sharing something. >> some parents are really afraid of their daughters, a lot of dads get scared, i don't know what to do? i have this friend his daughter is 15. she is going to start having sex. i don't know what to do. she is going to have sex. what do i do? i'm leike well you didn't do anything. you don't have a role in that at all. >> his jokes embrace discomfort. >> a mexican at the border, just let me in. >> what some people call cringe worthy. >> there is an actual reason babies cry on airplanes it's
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because they're upset that gay people are getting married. >> a cringe is a -- it is repelling away from something, so it is like an area you don't want to think about, oh, i don't want to think about that. to me it's fun to a deep breath, which is the opposite of a cringe, and, walk in there. >> that's exactly right. >> see what's in there. >> all kind of stuff in there. >> the essence of you. >> i think so. any night i am free. i run in here and go on stage. >> in march he made fans cringe with anger when he sent an e-mail about horace and pete that included rambling thoughts about trump. >> i wrote, ps, all i mint to write was stop with the trump. just stop it. it's not fun me anymore. all i was going to write. i sat and looked at it. because like this, well because the of this, and the thing is this. this, this, this chls i wrote this whole malignant tumor of a
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thing. this wasp nest of thoughts. and i sent it to my mom. she said, sure. send it. >> you isn't it to her for approval? >> yeah, go ahead and send it. i hate to put her on the spot. but she said, sure. >> sure. you compared him to hitler. >> yeah, yeah. sure. not hitler when he was done. you know, that's -- that's an unfair comparison. >> in the 30s. when he was coming up. >> in his rookie years. >> you said what? >> i have never done this before. i have no track record of running my mouth politically. >> will you do it again? >> no. i probably won't. i shouldn't have set what i said now. but, i shouldn't have written it. i apologize. >> you don't mean that? >> no, not at all. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,
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"time" magazine celebrated the 100 most in flew in shall people at a new york city gala tuesday night. honorees, actors, scientists, humanitarians and leading presidential candidate. here is vladamir dutiers. >> reporter: just as word began to spread that donald trump swept all five of last night's primary races we found him at the time 100 gala. >> we feel really good. early numbers seem to be phenomenal. tremendous interest and tremendous voting going on. record setting voting. that is supposed to be good for me. >> reporter: but mia farro was disappointed in the night's presidential politics. >> this is a hard one, because of course i feel ate bern. but being a pragmatist on some level, i'm voting for hillary.
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as the far as the republicans, i don't even want to talk about it. ♪ ♪ >> ariana grande kicked off the night with performance of her hit song, "dangerous woman." ♪ open my eyes the song's subtext, i'm an impressive woman. she's not the only one. what does it moon to be here, rubbing shoulders with politicians, people who have done tremendous things what's that like? >> i haven't walked in the room yet. i am really looking forward to seeing, astronaut scott kelly at our table. can't wait to talk to him. when he was in space we communicated through e-mail. >> how exciting to be back on earth? >> certainly. it is bittersweet. space is an amazing place. unbelievable facility we have up there. and also, my crew members that i left there. that are still up there. so i think about them every day.
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but it is great to be back. back on planet earth. we have got a lot of good stuff down here. >> reporter: good stuff like music, sports, and fashion with a conscience. like supermodel philanthropic work. >> we will have 80 girls this summer across the country learning how to code with coding, and something i am passionate about. our own gail king, veteran of several time 100 galas, passioned word advice to daily show host trevor noah. >> always some body in the room you know, don't know or want to get to know. the beauty of being in the room. don't you feel tlat whhat. >> i just went wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. >> that's the "cbs overnight news" for this thursday morning. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler. ♪ ♪ ♪
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captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, april 28th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." carly! carly! >> campaign 2016 and headlines from the back of the pack. first, he's mathematically eliminated, but ted cruz picks carly fiorina to be his running mate despite running hundreds of delegates behind donald trump. and bernie sanders has vowed to fight on, but he's laying off hundreds of staffers. a look at where his campaign goes from here.
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