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the south texas region should start drying out tomorrow. >> all right, courtney, thank you. problems continue to mount tonight for purdue pharma. the maker of oxycontin laid off its entire sales team this week. 24 states are suing the company accusing it of fueling the opioid crisis. they claimed it was less addictive than other opioids. a former salesperson said the questionable practices did not end there. here's tony de colpo with the cbs news investigation. >> i think they misrepresented to the public, i think they misrepresented to their salespeople, and, yeah, i think it was just a big charade. >> reporter: carol said she joined that charade in 2008 as an oxycontin salesperson for purdue pharma. so bottom line sell as much as you can? >> sell as much as you can. >> reporter: to what end? >> to making money, to making money. >> reporter: just a year earlier purdue had admitted it falsely promoted oxycontin as less
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addictive. by among other means claiming the drug's slow release formula did not cause a buzz or company misstatements ended in 2001. pheu.ia th but amid a widening addiction epidemic, panera claims the company taught her to tell doctors some patients might only appear to be addicted. in training she was given a term for this, pseudoaddiction. did this concept of pseudoaddiction come with studies backing it up? >> we had no studies. we actually -- we did not have any studies. that's the thing that wd of disturbing was that we didn't haveas k studies to present to doctors. >> reporter: you know how that sounds? >> i know. i was naive. >> reporter: a 2015 study published in current addiction reports found no empirical evidence to support pseudoaddiction as a diagnosis. in a statement this cbs news purdue said it is confident that oxycontin sales had been consistent with the information contained in the fda approved
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label. but the word pseudoaddiction doesn't appear on oxycontin's label. and a spokesperson for the fda said the labeling is not intended as a discussion of pseudoaddiction. >> i reject any notion that there is science behind pseudoaddiction. >> reporter: oklahoma attorney general mike hunter is one of two dozen ags suing purdue and other opioid manufacturers. many of the lawsuits mention pseudoaddiction. do you think this is an epidemic that begins with pure due pharma and oxycontin? >> yes, that's the start of it all? >> yes. >> reporter: carol who quit in 2013 said she hopes the drug maker is held accountable. do you regret the five years you spent with purdue pharma? >> i'm going to sum it up and say this. i think it was one of the,f not the worst career decisions of my life. >> between 2006 and 2010, it tripled to an all-time high. jeff, one year later the cdc
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the u.s. supreme court ruled today states can force online companies to charge cus sales tax even in states where the businesses don't physically exist. here's jan crawford with the winners and losers. >> reporter: the court said states are losing between 8 and $33 billion a year because consumers aren't always charged sales tax when shopping on the internet. thanks to old legal rules written when mail order was king, that retailers had to have a physical presence in the state. it's a victory for traditional stores which say they find it hard to compete against online behemoths like wayfair and overstock.com because their tax-free products cost less and said tax expert scot peterson, a win for states searching for new revenue. what does this mean for consumers? >> some purchases are going to
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e. >> yes, there's going to be st o consumers out there that find there are fewer places that they sales op and not berg >> reporter: the last time the court considered the issue in 1992, less than 2% of americans had access to the internet. today nearly 90% do and last year e-commerce sales alone topped $450 billion. >> that's a big, big victory for the governors in this room. >> reporter: president trump praised the ruling and had lashed out at companies like amazon, though it collects sales tax on most purchases. >> i don't think it was a surprising victory. it was the right thing to do. >> jan, as you mention it is a totally different world now given the amount of online shopping. when should consumers expect to see these changes? >>, look, this is not going to happen repovernig: the states are going to have to take a look at this issue and then make sure that any new laws aren't too burdensome on those out of state retailers. jeff? >> jan crawford for us from the supreme court.jan,
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from a car they believe had been usedn a drive-by shooting. rose was unarmed and shot in the back. the officer is on paid administrative leave. chart krauthammer ham died of cancer. the fox news contributor was a pulitzer prize winner, harvard trained psychiatrist. a spinal cord injury left him paralyzed. he posted a message, i am sad to leave but i leave with the knowledge that i lived the life that i intended. he was 68 years old. nevada highway patrol officers ran into danger when they ran into a fiery crash. the man's car was loaded with ammunition. the heat of the fire caused the bullets to go off in all directions. pty.>> was hit.ke uand gets a new title.
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prime minister and new mom. she is only the second world leader in modern history to give birth while in office. the first was pakistan's buto. she was driven in her car to a public hospital and delivered her child alongside everyone else. the end to a pregnancy that was extraordinary just for how ordinary it was. a point underscored in january when she and her partner made the announcement to media camped on their doorstep. >> i am not the first woman to multi task. i'm not the first woman to work and have a baby. >> reporter: at the time people questioned whether the 37-year-old leader could hold down two demanding jobs. some calling it super human. >> the one thing i'm really keen to reemphasize is that i am no super woman. and nor should any woman be expected to be a super woman. we achieve what we achieve through grit, determinaon and help. >> reporter: her partner will be a stay at home dad when she returns from maternity leave in six weeks.
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while she's away her job will be handled by the deputy prime minister. before she became prime minister or pregnant, she was asked if employers were right to ask women if they were planning to have a child which sparked a national debate. >> it is totally unacceptable i 2017 to say that women should have ton answer that question i the workplace. >> reporter: she has become a national folk hero, a prime minister fighting for another title, mom. >> when you are only the second person in the world to have a baby in office, of course it's going to be of interest. i don't mind that at all. what i hope is that some day in the future it won't be interesting any more. >> reporter: jonathan vigliati, cbs news, london. >> that is at overnight news for friday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor.
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/s >> announcer: this is the cbs overnight news. >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm michelle miller. the house of representatives will try again today to pass a compromise immigration reform bill. a much more hard line measure was defeated yesterday. meanwhile, president trump's executive order ending the separation of migrant families is sparking confusion at the border. by law, children can only be held for 20 days, and that clock is ticking. also, the white house apparently has no plan to reunite the 2400 children taken from their parents over the past two months. nancy cordis begins our coverage. >> they are open border democrats. >> reporter: president trump railed against the minority today, but it was his own party
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that split on a conservative immigration bill. >> the bill is not ed. >> reporter: and then had to postpone a votepa on a second bl that was supposed to be a compromise between the two wings of the gop. >> i think there's just been a lot of confusion in the last 24 hours. >> reporter: the compromise bill would allow migrant children to be detained with their parents. it would also provide a pathway to citizenship for some amnesty. dreamers, a move some >> this provision all mer totivecall sponsor their parents to come here and get citizenship. that ia hard thing to sell in a conservative district. >> reporter: as children wrapped in mylar blankets protested on capitol hill, democrats urged the white house to roll back its zero tolerance policy altogether and stop detaining families that cross the border. >> does anybody really believe that incarce children with their parents isra theti soluti? >> reporter: the president made
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it clear he is not backing down. >> if we took zero-tolerance away, you would be overrun. >> reporter: but the executive order he signed yesterday is not a permanent fix to the separation problem. court precedent prevents chi children from being detained with their parents for more than three weeks and it can take a year or two for asylum seekers to get a hearing. how long is it humane to hold children even if they're with their parents? >> obviously what we're trying to do is put the families at the head of the que so they can be adjudicated faster and have the proper facilities to house them. >> firstady melania trump flew to the mexico border to visit a detention center housing children separated from the migrant parents. she made headlines before her plane even landed. david begnou reports. >> reporter: melania trump began her unexpected border visit at up bring new hope children's
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shelter with an offer of help. >> how i can help these children reunite with their families as quickly as possible. >> reporter: a handful of the nearly haveeen sarated frochil 6dr hou parents. curt zinski is ceo. >> most of the children here escaped some pretty horrific situations where they have been asked to j gangs. they have said no to joiningoin gangs and then they're worried about their own lives. and so escaping some pretty horrific tsituatiohens.e >> reporter: the first lady's tour was nearly overshadowed by her choice to wear a z touring the facility. it read, i really don't care. do you? the first lady's spokeswoman said there was no hidden message t jackesident trump fired off a t sahe refers to the fake news media. melania has learned how dishonest they are and she truly no longer cares. this morning's stop was les trump under intense pressure
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signed the executive order temporarily halting the their parents who crossed the border illegally. the time line for reuniting more than 2300 children with their parents remains far from clear. we reached out to multiple government agencies for answers on when and how it would be done. so far, no clear response. minors as young as 8 months old have already been sent to one of 100 shelters in 17 states. bob kerry was director for the office of refugee re-settlement under president obama. >> there is currently no system in place to children with parents who are in r detention. >> many of the migrants trying to get to the united states say they are fleeing deadly gang violence in their home lands. omar villa franca has more from el salvador. >> reporter: we are in the town of santa ana outside the capital. here the two main gangs ms13 and
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barrio 18 have tremendous power and they are not afraid to resort to violence. teresita always keeps the memorial candles lit for her grandson anthony, a victim of the violent gang ms-13. he is not a gang member. it's one thing to die in a accident, he was murdered. we are not using this family's last name because they might be in danger. one of anthony's childhood friends was a ms13 gang member. he killed him to move up. with help, she searched for his body. two years later his remains were discovered, cut up and stuffed in a septic tank. the violence is worse now, he says, than it was in the civil war. on tuesday night, police caught 26 suspected gang members, many of them accused of extortion. the gang's main source of income.
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tot message is simple.hat basicy me silver or take my leg. there is an american connection to that successful raid. american tax dollars helped pay to train those police officers. the u.s. government sent $72 million in aid to el salvador last year, but it's down to $46 million this year. that's too little too late for teresita. anthony's death destroyed the family. this house used to be full when my kids and grand kids were here, she said. but now not everybody is here. i feel alone. >> the cost of shopping on the internet is about to rise. the supreme court ruled that online merchants musle colct sales tax even if theyt don't jaaw hheaincenouta >> reporter: the court said states are losing between 8 and $33 billion a year because consumers aren't always charged sales tax when shopping on the
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internet. thanks to old legal rules written when mail order was king that retailers had to have a physical presence in the state. it's a victory for traditional stores which say they find it hard to compete against online thli wfa overstock. tax-free products cost less acoi said tax expert scot peterson, a win for states searching for new revenue. what does this mean for consumers? some purchases are going to cost more? >> yes, there are going to be consumers that find there are fewer places that they can shop and not be charged sales tax. >> reporter: the last time the court considered the issue, 1992, less than 2% of americans had access to the internet. today nearly 90% do and last year e-commerce sales alone topped $4 billion. >> that's a big, big victory for the governors in this room. >> reporter: president trump praised the ruling and had lashed out at companies like
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>> announcer: this is the cbs overnight news. >> 24 states and more than 400 cities are suing drug makers for their alleged role in the nationwide opioid crisis. this claimed more than 200,000 lives. just this week, purdue pharma which makes oxycont laid off its entire sales force. now a former purdue sales rep is coming forward with information about how the company down played the dangers of opioids to increase sales. >> reporter: purdue makes objection oxycontin. the company admitted falsely selling the drug as less addictive than rivals. the now former purdue salesperson tells cbs news the
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deceptive sales did not end there. >> it was always in the back of my mind that maybe the company had not told us the whole truth when they hired us, when we interviewed, when we went through training. this is our cl >> reporter: carol panera trained for a sasales job with purdue pharma in 2008. >> so, this was for the quarter. >> reporter: not bad. she showed us how the company's bonus system put her in position to make more money, by convincing doctors to prescribe higher doses of oxycontin for a wider range of pain. so bottom line sell as much as you can. >> sell as much as you can, the idea being we're trying to expand our reach beyond just pain doctors. >> reporter: a year earlier purdue had admitted it falsely promoted oxycontin as less addictive, claiming the drug's slow release formula did not cause a buzz or euphoria and could be used to weed out addicts. the company said the misstatements ended in 2001. >> they made it sound like it was a little bit of a witch hunt on the government's part.
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>> reporter: but amid skyrocketing addiction rates and ovdoses related to oxycontin, panera claims she was taught a sales tactic that was questionable. some patients may appear to be addicted when in fact they're just in pain. in training she was taught a term for this, pseudoaddiction. >> so, the cure for pseudoaddiction, you were trained, is more opioids? >> a higher dose, yes. >> reporter: did this concept of pseudoaddiction come with studies backing it up? >> we had no studies. we actually -- we did not have any studies. that's the thing that was kind of disturbing was that we didn't have studies to present to the doctors. >> reporter: you know how that sounds? >> i know. i was naive. >> reporter: a 2015 study published in current addiction reports found no empirical evidence to support pseudoaddiction as a diagnosis. in a statement to cbs news, purdue said it's confident past
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marketing and sales of prescription opioid medications beand spokesperson for the fda said the labeling is not intended as a discussion of pseudoaddiction. >> they oblige you to explain. you come up with a ridiculous term like pseudoaddiction. >> reporter: oklahoma attorney mike hunter is one of two dozen ags suing purdue and other manufacturers. many lawsuits include the term pseudoaddiction. >> that is the most disgraceful we've seen in the pattern of disgraceful conduct. >> reporter: as far as you can tell there is no scientific basis for pseudoaddiction? >> i reject any notice there is science behind pseudoaddiction. >> reporter: hunter alleges purdue and come fet pours caused a devastating health crisis costing his state billions of dollars a year. do you think this is an epidemicha wh purdue oxycontin?
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>> yes. >> reporter: that's the start of it all? >> yes. >> reporter: purdue has been in discussions with multiple states, but he is not interested in the talks. >> i have conif i dns in our lawyers, i haveouwsavfie afi ci jury of oklahomans. >> reporter: she said she hopes the drug maker is held accountable. >> i think they misrepresented to the public, i think they misrepresented to their salespeople, and, yeah, i think it was just a big charade. >> reporter: to what end? >> to making money. to making money. >> reporter: do you regret the five years you spent with purdue not thworst dns of my life. >> price of fuel is on the rise and air travelers are about to feel the pinch.
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american airlines says fares will soon rise after a 26% rise in the cost of jet fuel. some airlines are fighting back by working to make their planes lighter. chris van cleave reports. >> reporter: long before this boeing 787 left the gate, a team of united airlines was focused on making it and their entire fleet as light as possible. every little bit counts even on a plane that weighs more than 250,000 pounds. aaron stash leads that team. >> any time we can reduce an ounce of weight, that means we burn less fuel to fly to that destination. >> reporter: even an ounce matt ers? >> even an ounce because if you are multiplying that across the thousands of seats andus of flights we have, that ounce adds up and multiplies very quickly. >> reporter: that one ounce lighter magazine saves nearly united rethought everything about its aircraft from what's stocked in the galley tofhose do
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newer lighter seats, many without heavy video monitors. >> this cart is kind ofheavy. this one is noticeably lighter. >> reporter: these new beverage carts are 27 pounds. that's about half the weight of the old 50-pound carts. these new cargo containers are about 80 pounds lighter which will save 2 million gallons of fuel a year and stopping duty-free sales saved united another 1.4 mil that is a combined savings of $n milliogan. all of these efforts, what does that mean as a bottom line for the airline? how much fuel does that save you? >> we improved our efficiency over 30%. that's through the changes that we're making on the interior of the cabin, the changes on the exterior of the craft as well as new aircraft we're purchasing. >> reporter: changes that have saved unite the well over $2 billion. other airlines are also pinching pounds. southwest is rolling out slim line seats in its new 737 max fleet. they're lighter and take up less space. the low fare carrier saved
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148,000 gallons of fuel by changing how it stocks the galleys and dropping glass bottles for cans. giving pilots tablets instead of paper manuals saves 80 pounds a flight. that doesn't sound like much but it translates to nearly 576,000 gallons of fuel a year. that's more an a million dollars savings annually. jet flew is featuring lighter components that take up less space. spirit went with lighter seats and smaller tray table. that also allows more rows of seats to fit on board. >> it all gets down to weight. >> reporter: peter greenberg. >> it doesn't make them faster and doesn't make them more comfortable. it's about fuel efficiency and fuel savings and that gets back to the airlines. there's no real passenger benefit. >> reporter: but united says it's more than just dollars. >> united alone uses 4 billion gallons. any time we can reduce our fuel use that goes to our bottom line from an environmental perspective, reducing oi
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emissions, reducing our carbon footprint. >> reporter: fuel is 39% of a carbon footprint. the 737 max is 14% more fuel efficient than its predecessor in part because of the thing on the end of the wing. ring let reduces drag so the plane burns less fuel. later this summer the airline plans to completely strip down one of its planes looking for anywhere else it can save weight and thus fuel. >> the cbs overnight news will be right bac are you taking the tissue test?
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there is a real-life jurassic park off the coast of joth aan tour from the man who literally wrote a book on dinosaur hunting. >> reporter: hundreds of millions of years have weathered scotland's remote isle of sky. they have attracted a care van of time travelers. >> this is spectacular. >> reporter: american paleontoligist invited us. >> we're detectives for the next hour. >> i want to warn everybody >> reporter: you don't know what you're going to find. they have traveled to extreme landscapes. i love dinosaurs more. is scotland a new frontier for this research? >> i think scotland is one of the most exciting new frontiers for dinosaurs. there are still a lot of fossils to find here and they're important fossils. >> reporter: important because they come from the mid pdl ar
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little is known. a time when dinosaurs evolved from the size of house cats into the monsters brought to life by hollywood. in this real-life jurassic park, he is in pursue of what could be stegasaur bones. the discovery trapped in a bowl der. >> you can see it has that porous honeycomb texture. >> reporter: belief it or not these markings are prehistoric bones preserved in sand stone. >> this is a set of bones steve and his team have been looking for well over a year. they have found them, but now the next challenge is trying to extract this rock to get those bones into a lab for studying. so, if those are two different bones, you would have two platy bones. paleontology is like detective
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work. people put detectives behind bars. what's your "end game"? >> we put fossils in museums and people can get inspired by them. >> reporter: in the past 15 years he's hel identify 15 new species ofped dinosaur. is that what it's called in the profession, dinosaur hunt? >> that sounds good. >> reporter: he took us a few miles down the coast. >> i always say it and i know it's a little bit lame, but this is a real jurassic park. it is. >> reporter: to a real jurassic lagoon. >> they're covered by water so much of the time. >> reporter: but when the tide goes out, a land before time is revealed. about 170 million years ago, this would have been a watering hole, and today you can literally walk in the footsteps of these dinosaurs. these prints here believed to belong to theaus. they discovered 15 dinosaur prints in this one location. >> you can see okay ts' the size of a basketball, maybe a little bigger. it has something there,
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something there, something there. and those are toes. so, this is a dinosaur footprint. >> reporter: i would never have guessed. 170 million years ago -- >> you had this plant eating dinosaur literally stepping right here. >> reporter: he believes everything from long-necks roamed this part of earth until an asteroid wiped them out. >> some people say lumbering and foolish, but you make a point of don't call them stupid. >> some are enormous, some evolved into birds. they're smart. to me they're nature's ultimate success story. >> reporter: what do you think the lesson is for humans in all of this? >> the lesson is the earth is old. it dhazchanges a lot. the climates change. sometimes a species for a ki climate can go extinct. if it happened to dinosaurs
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around 150 some million years, could that also happen to us? >> reporter: a journey to the past may help >> dr. stanley: remember this: cannot change the laws of god. when he has visited you in some form of adversity and he brings you through that, that's like he has increased the strength of the foundation of your life and your faith in him. [music]
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a new geiser at yellow stone national park is getting the attention of both visitors and scientists.d it mean an undergr erupt?olcano is ready to jaime ukas is going to tell us. >> reporter: yellow stone is as beautiful as it is unpredictable. more than 3,000 square miles of hot springs, mud volcanos and, of course, geysers. >> there it goes. >> reporter: old faithful may be the park's most famous. but steam boat is now grabbing the spotlight as the world's largest active geiser. >> we see gas emissions, we see all kinds of thermal activity. that's what yellow stone does. it's one of the most dynamic places on earth. >> reporter: steam has erupted ten times in three months. prior to that, it erupted just ten times in 27 years.
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but volcanoologists don't know why there is so much activity at steam boat. >> when people start hearing steam boat geiser is going off, they're thinking, oh, my gosh, what if the big one happens. >> there's been a lot of hype about the super volcano of yellow stone and the potential for a super eruption. >> reporter: because this geiser field at yellow stone national park lies on top of an active volcano with multiple chambers of magma from deep beneath the couowldovexplosion means lava . clouds aser far seral as chicag seattle and los angeles. the good news? the last one happened 70,000 years ago. >> the n'sde vie th monito wring equipment that we have that there will be a super eruption any time soon. >> reporter: but that doesn't stop volcanoologists from collecting data on the yellow stone plumbing system, a 50 mile wide magma field.
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scientists also monitor 28 size mow graphs throughout the pk because a super volcano would include major earthquake activity. so far, nothing indicates danger. >> if people are worried about that happening in their lifetimes, i think they may be th used on the wro sorngf ts in. boat's calling card these days isn't gloom and doom. it's the chance to see something spectacular. >> eruptions are fun. >> reporter: they are starting daughter early bringing theld s, en with mom eight month s t>>ld co in the air. >> that would be amazing. >> reporter: so even without a super volcanic blast, there is a super interest in science. amaz. this is a nerd's >> ts is tliouupow >> yespa, yes.dise >> it's so much better. >> reporter: jaime ukas, yellow stone. >> that is the overnight news this friday. for some of you the news
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continues. for others check back with us a bit later. for the morns and of coseur c tbshis in ng caioniun fd by bs it's friday, june 22nd, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." hundreds of children separated from their families at the southern border have been reunited, but the process is proving not to be simple. >> there's currently no system in place to reunite children wi detention. protesters take to the streets near pittsburgh, shutting down a busy highway. they'rnd
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