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california where it is still very hot, but conditions improving just a bit here in the next couple of days. the state of pennsylvania is investigating the sexual abuse of children by priests in six catholic diocese. with the grand jury report due out soon the diocese of harrisburg today identified 71 priests among the accused and said bishops who led the church will be held accountable. details on this from nikki batis batiste. >> i express profound sorrow, and i apologize to the survivors of child sex abuse. >> reporter: harrisburg bishop ronald gain yers apology today comes as the catholic church is once again under fire. >> we take seriously both my and prevent such abuse from occurring. >> reporter: the bishop publicly released the names of 71 clergy accused of sexually abusing minors in the harrisburg diocese no longe in ministry.
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the anticipated release of a grand jury investigation expected to name more than 300 priests accused of being sexual predators and six of the pennsylvania's eight catholic diocese. 66-year-old sharon tell says she told the grand jury she was first abused by monsignor james mchale when she was 12 and it tpd for 20 years. >> i was just a happy go lucky kid and all of a sudden he started laying down with me at night. it started off with just touching and went to intercourse. >> reporter: like many other victims tell's case fell out of the state's statute of limitations, but some say this grand jury report will give their stories of abuse validation. what does this grand jury report mean to you? >> it means everything. i went and testified in front of the grand jury. so there was 30 people sitting in front of me. i testified for like two hours.
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and they believed me. >> reporter: there have been two arrests so far. yesterday one priest pled guilty. the other is awaiting trial this fall on criminal charges. but most of these cases fall outside of pennsylvania's statute of limitations. jeff? >> great interview, nikki battiste, thank you. coming up next on cbs news americans are killed biking in central asia and isis has claimed responsibility. and later, thieves in a speedboat make off with sweden's crown jewels.
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isis has been decimated, but it is still active, not only in iraq and syria but farther east in central asia, where the group says it killed an american couple that was bike-riding around the world. here's chip reid. >> reporter: a little more than a year ago jay austin and lauren geoghegan gave up their comfortable office jobs in washington, d.c., he with the federal government, she with georgetown university, for the adventure of a lifetime. traveling the world by bicycle. on their website, simply cycling, they chronicled their adventures as they pedaled thousands of miles through africa, europe, and central asia. austin wrote of bumpy roads, strong headwinds and tough challenges, but also of the freedom to see some amazing places, meet some wonderful people, and spend lots and lots of time with a really lovely girl. the dream for the 29-year-old couple ended suddenly sunday in
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tajikistan, near the border wit eupe suspected terrorists, who ran into them with a car, then attacked them with knives. three other europeans in the group were injured. isis, whose membership has been growing in recent years in predominantly muslim tajikistan, claimed responsibility for the attack. tajik authorities say police tracked down the five suspects and killed four of them. >> devastation is the word i've been using the most. >> reporter: molly scalise knew both geoghegan and austin well. >> they were such an example of an intentional life and a principled life, and had so much love to give. >> reporter: in a brief telephone interview austin's mother said her son was a gentle soul who simply wanted to leave the world a betterplace. the deparent says theu.s. hasff. jeff?
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the officers involved are under investigation. federal officials warn more than two dozen saltd and wrap products sold at trader joe's, kroig kroger's, and walgreen's may be contaminated with a parasite. it is the same parasite that caused mcdonald's to recall salads from thousands of restaurants last month. all of the recalled salads and wraps had sell by or use by dates that have since expired. the police in sweden are investigating a royal jewel heist. two thieves made off yesterday with two golden crowns that once belonged to sweden's king and queen back in the 1600s. they also stole a royal orb. the priceless jewels were on display at a cathedral near stockholm. witnesses say the thieves first took off on bikes and later hopped into a boat and sped off. up next here, the super kid making a big splash in competitive swimming.
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10-year-old phenom.with a his name is clark kent. they call him superman. he has the powers of aquaman. here's jamie yuccas. >> if i'm superman in the water, then i'm heroic in the water. i feel like i'm flying.
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>> reporter: clark kent apuda -- yes, that's his real name -- may only be 10 years old but on sunday at the far west international swimming championship he placed first in all seven events he swam in, and in the 100-meter butterfly he broke a record set by michael phelps at the same meet back in 1995. >> most people just call me clark, but now when i beat michael phelps' record they started calling me superman. i thought to myself, yeah, if i had positive thoughts then positive things would happen. >> reporter: late this afternoon michael phelps tweeted, "big congrats to clark kent for smashing that meet record." i got into the pool with apuda to see for myself how fast he is. >> you win. >> reporter: travis rianda is apuda's swim coach. how cool is it for you as his coach to see him beat this record? >> it's the coolest thing in the world because that's all he talked about. it wasn't like i want to be editor than michael phelps or
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anything like that. it was his first gold were i want to be a scientist, an olympic gold medalist for the united states, and i want to be a black belt. he's on track for all three of those things. >> reporter: technically, apuda can't qualify for the olympics until he's 15 years old. but the olympic games are his ultimate goal. i think it's going to happen. should we just mark it down today, that you're going to make it in 2024? >> sure, yeah. why not? >> reporter: apuda has only been swimming competitively for four years, but with sky-high dreams and a name to match he just may be a real-life superhero. jamie yuccas, news, salinas, c california. >> that is the "overnight news" for this thursday august 2nd. 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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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." it's thursday august 2nd. welcome to the "overnight news." i'm meg oliver. president trump is again demanding that attorney general jeff sessions needs to stop the russian investigation ight now." the president attacked special counsel robert mueller calling the probe a hoax. at the white house press secretary sarah sanders said mr. trump was simply fighting back. >> it's not an order. it's the president's opinion. and it's ridiculous that all of the corruption and dishonesty that's gone on with the launching of the witch hunt the president wants -- has watched this process play out but he also wants to see it come to an end, as he's stated many times. and we look forward to that happening.
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>> following justice department guidelines the attorney general has recused himself from the probe. major garrett at the white house has more. >> reporter: white house press secretary sarah sanders said today president trump wants the special counsel investigation to end because it's corrupt. >> the president is not obstructing. he's fighting back. the president is stating his opinion -- >> sir, do those tweets count as interference, sir? >> reporter: the president ignored questions about a series of tweets this morning that suggested a new l of anxiety about robevert mueller's probe into russian interference in the 2016 election. "this is a terrible situation and attorney general jeff sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now," mr. trump wrote. "mueller is totally conflicted." >> i have recused myself in the matter that deal with the campaign. >> reporter: because of that march 2017 decision sessions can take no action. deputy attorney general rod ros mueller's probe, which began over a year ago.
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>> i think the inspector general should be thorough but i wish he'd hurry up. because the american people republican titled to know the facts. >> if the president is innocent, he should act like it and he should cooperate with the mueller investigation, have it go through to its logical conclusion, and then have his name cleared. if he's convinced he's innocent, trust our rule of law, trust the system. that's what he should do. >> reporter: but the president does have the executive authority to shut down an investigation he believes is illegitimate. >> if he believes that, why doesn't he follow through on it? >> once again, the president has allowed this process to py out but he thinks it's time for it to come to an end. >> reporter: one roadblock, a presidential interview. negotiations over the scope of any questioning of mr. trump have dragged on proposal. we responded to their proposal. it took about ten days. and yesterday we got a letter back from them. and now we're in the process of responding to their proposal. to california now, where fire crews are struggling to contain more than a dozen zroivthd wildfires r destructiv
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raging across the state. yesterday governor jerry brown said the state would spend whatever it needs to combat the flames. more than 13,000 firefighters are battling the fires in triple-digit heat and bone-dry conditions. mireya villarreal is on the front lines. >> reporter: giant flames as high as 40 feet roared into this lake county community forcing firefighters to take quick action. crews rallied to save homes as the mendocino complex fire continued to show just how unpredictable it can be. >> the winds kicked up. the temperatures kicked up. the humidities went down a then we started getting really erratic fire behavior. >> reporter: this fast-moving wildfire has already charred 140 square miles, and it's still only 24% contained. this is the easiest way to get rid of some of the hot spots that have continued to pop up over the last few days. you attack by air so that your ground resources are working on other parts where the wildfire is growing. >> reporter: farther north in and around redding, california specific wiese were allowed to
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return to neighborhoods where more than 1,000 homes were torched. officials have confirmed a sixth person, 61-year-old daniel bush, died in the fire. july was a devastating month for californ california. the state has already spent more than a quarter of its firefighting budget for the entire season. today governor jerry brown sounded the alarm. >> over a decade or so we're going to have more fire, more destructive fire, more billions that will have to be spent on it. all that is the new normal that we have to face. >> reporter: this is what's going to go on for the next few days. basically, these ground crews come in after the air drops have been made and by hand they take their tools, their water hoses and they try to check all the hot spots to make sure that no flare-ups are possible. yami llvialca,liforernbsia. c audio has emerged from that aeromexico plane that crashed just moments after takeoff on passenger. remarkably, all 103 people
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survived. a priest on board called it a miracle. we get more now from manuel bojorquez. >> reporter: this video shot by a passenger shows the stormy weather. aeromexico flight 2431 encountered upon takeoff from durango, mexico yesterday. the plane appears to struggle to climb above land, eventually crashing down. in the moments after, screams can be heard. as panicked passengers looked for the exits. the engines had caught fire. ashley garcia, who was visiting from chicago, shot this video as she and other passengers fled to safety. >> i got off the plane and saw people like their face were gushing blood, they had cut lips. i know some kids g like burns, like aotctual burns. >> reporter: mexican officials say the control tower reported the embraer 190 jetliner descended abruptly as it attempted takeoff, possibly due
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to a severe gust of wind. the leftaninamego appdea stop t than 300 yards from the runway after losing its engines, still somehow upright, allowing exit slides to deploy. chicago priest esquivel sanchez spoke with us by phone as he recovers from broken bones. >> i think because we lost velocity the plane didn't flip over. we were able to get out, and my respects to the crew. they did a great job helping everybody get out. >> reporter: aviation experts also credit improved airline construction, including seats and floors less prone to collapse. though many remain hospitalized with burns, including the pilot, survivor alberto herrera, who is from the chicago area, told us it's all still too hard to believe. >> first thing i did was drink a big, big, big shot of tequila. i'm not going to lie.
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i said to the bartender give me the best tequila you've got because i just fell from the sky and i'm here to live and talk about it. >> reporter: aeromexico has not had a deadly crash in a eay tour mechanical problems. the crash highlights the importance of open areas around airports, land which can act as a buffer if a plane goes off the runway. the growing trade tensions between the u.s. and canada have hit the already struggling newspaper industry. coming up, we'll take you inside one of the largest printing presses in the world. more news in two minutes. stay with us.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." more protests are expected in minneapolis over the decision not to charge officers involved in a deadly shooting. thurman blevins was killed by two minneapolis police officers on june 23rd. they say he pointed a gun at them during a short case. dean reynolds spoke to blevinss family in minneapolis. >> reporter: this is the alley where thurman blevins was shot as he fled from two minneapolis police officers. mily, who admitted that yes, he did have a gun on him at the time but they believe the officers overreacted. >> why did he run? >> it was the way that they approached him when they came out of the vehicle. >> reporter: thurman blevins'
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sister darlin and cousin sidney brown say he feared for his life when he ran from police. >> put your hands up now! >> who else is not going to run if somebody's behind me telling me i'm going to shoot you, i'm going to kill you? >> reporter: after a two-block chase officers justin schmidt and ryan kelly opened fire 14 times and killed blevins. [ gunshots ] moments before they shot the police say body cam video shows blevins turned toward the officers with a gun in hand ready to fire, something both officers say happened. >> before i pulled the trigger, when the gun came out i feared for my life. i paerd for mr's life. >> i remember see ing ythat barl pointed right at me, and i'm pretty sure he got a shot off and in about another quarter of a second i had my gun out and now i'm firing shots back at him. >> what about the notion that the police say he fired the weapon? >> that's untrue. >> we believe that it's false, and we are calling for a
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third-party investigation. >> reporter: the family believes it did not matter how blevins responded. they say the officers were intent on coming out shooting. >> if he had followed their command he'd probably be alive, don't you think? >> not necessarily. not necessarily. >> they would have shot him even if he had his hands up? >> yes. >> it happens all the time. it happens all the time with black men. that doesn't mean that they were going to not shoot him. >> reporter: the family told us they want the case reopened and they intend to pursue all legal avenues against the two officers. >> that was dean reynolds reporting. could it soon be curtains for movie pass? the movie ticket subscription service has ballooned at 3 million subscribers with a too good to be true deal of unlimited movies for $9.95. but it's now out of cash and struggling to stay in theaters. emily shoier used her movie pass just a few days ago to see the "mamma mia" sequel. she's one of 3 million members who were paying $10 a month to
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see up to a movie a day in theaters. >> i've had it sin january. it's been six months. and i've probably used it to see 12 to 15 movies. >> reporter: but a few days ago the bottom fell out when a cash crunch at movie pass led to service outages. >> error making reservation. >> i don't know. it was pretty frustrating. >> reporter: now the company is raising its rate by 50% to t astriing tickets for major releases. that's what happened this weekend with the opening of the newest "mission impossible." movie pass holders were blocked from getting tickets. movie pass explained the change in a message to its members, that to continue growing it needs to maintain a high level of financial discipline. derek thompson is senior editor at "the atlantic" and says the model is flawed. >> it's not a business model. it is a consumer giveaway. they can use that card every single day to buy movie tickets. but movie pass still has to pay full freight for each movie ticket. >> reporter: shoier says she's not sure'l
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membership after the price goes up. >> it's really frustrating when the problems happen, and so that's kind of a question that i'm dealing with. >> reporter: but she says it was great during oscar season. the company that owns movie pass has seen its stock drop below 25 cents and is in danger of getting kicked oft nasdaq exchange. the struggling u.s. newspaper industry is caught up in a costly trade dispute that's pushing up its production costs. most of the newsprint paper comes from canada. the trump administration has slapped a tariff on those imports because it claims the paper is ssidized by the canadian government. for more alex wagner visited "the new york times" printing plant in new york city. >> reporter: this is the stuff that is in the crosshairs of this debate on tariffs. >> correct. >> reporter: wood pulp. and it comes from canada. >> all of our newsprint comes from canada. >> reporter: nearly 70% of newspapers in the u.s. rely on this. ground wood paper. nick diandrea, the vice president of production at "the new york times," says the tariff
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has made printing on paper that much harder. >> newspapers have their own challenges already. our job is to try to protect the revenue of the printed newspaper. >> reporter: ken doctor, a news industry analyst, says the tariff is a blow to a print industry already in decline. >> this is the kind of unexpected event that happens, it takes an industry that may be hurting a little and makes it far worse. as a result small newsrooms have had t>>o makeep : choices, from laying off staff to cutting o pfages theumbe they print. >> those tariffs have caused an increase in newsprint pricing of about 30% to 35%. >> reporter: beyond the tariffs declining print readership overall has caused printing plants to make adjustments. at "the new york times" printing plant in queens over 600,000 newspapers are rolled out every night but not all copies are of theeone over the last couple of years is we tried to bring more business
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in. we started printing "usa today" here. just recently we started printing "long island newsday". that's happening nationally the consolidation. >> in the last decade weekly news faiper circulation has 2kr0 dropped by 30 million nationally. >> market for news and how atically. has changed >> reporter: in just five years as chief operating officer at "the new york times" meredith copyat levan has notice aid 40% drop in subscribers to the "times'" daily print papers. it's called a newspaper. but are we even going to have the paper part in ten years? >> the question is will we have quality original independent journalism available to the masses in ten years. and i think the answer is yes. but it requires that news organizations make digital experiences that are as journalism itself. >> reporter: the "times" readership is increasingly going digital. in just the last year they've
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seen an increase of close to 1 million online subscribers. but not all papers have been able to pivot so successfully. last week the daily news laid off half its staff and in march the denver post cut its newsroom by a third. >> we're in a scary time for journalism and i think quality original independent journalism at the local level is like foundational to a community, to society and ultimately to democracy. >> that was alex wagner reporting. coming up, how a 10-year-old beat olympian michael phelps in his own sport. and four months after a deadly bus crash a paralyzed hockey player returns to the ice after doctors said he might never walk again.
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by olympic champion michael phelps 23 years ago. clark kent apuada, whose friends call him superman, competed in the 100-meter butterfly at the far western championship and finished a second earlier than phelps. not too bad. >> an>me tihockey player involved in a deadly bus crash is making a triumphant return to the ice. ryan strazniski was paralyzed from the chest down when the team's bus crashed in april. 16 people died including many of his teammates. but less than four months later the 19-year-old is ready to compete again. here's don dahler. >> reporter: at a hockey ring outside calgary ryan strasnitski skates effortlessly on the ice. it was his first day learning to play sledge hockey, a sport designed for people with physical disabilities. for ryan this dreay has been a dream of his since learning he was paralyzed from the chest down. >> i just wanted to be on the
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ice. i knew my legs aren't going to work for however long if i don't heal, but just being on the ice would be amazing. >> reporter: ryan was a defenseman playing his first season with the humboldt broncos in saskatchewan, canada. the team was traveling to a hockey game in a neighboring town. >> all i remember was the bus driver screaming and i blacked out from there and woke up against a semi truck looking at the mayhem. my first instinct was to get up and help my teammates and my brothers. i couldn't move. >> did you know there was something seriously wrong? >> yeah. i was in a lot of pain and the only thing i could do was scream for help but it was tough because i had broken sxribz a punctured lung. i did way could to help. >> reporter: a tractor-trailer collided with the team bus on an isolated stretch of highway. 16 of the 29 people on board we killed craseran's dad told t moment his s found out t might neveal >> when they told us, ryan just
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looked at us and goes, "dad, olympic sledge hockey, i can get us the gold." >> are you kidding me? >> no. i couldn't fall apart there. i had to be strong for him. but that kid's amazing. >> reporter: but the road back to the hockey rink has been difficult. yan suffered four broken ribs two shattered vertebrae. after a six-hour surgery in canada ryan was flown to the shriner's hospital in philadelphia, which specializes in spinal cord injuries. when he arrived, ryan spoke to reporters from a stretcher, still unable to move. >> i just keep my teammates in my heart and every day set new goals and challenges, and i just remind myself that i do it for them. >> reporter: ryan's rehabilitation began that same day. the doctors' first priority was to help him adjust to life in a wheelchair. then ryan's athletic skills were put to an even greater test with an intensive program of physical rehabilitation, which included time in the water, on the treadmill -- >> one, two, three, up.
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>> reporter: -- and even upper body workouts. >> there's lots of muscle strengthening because my left side was weaker than my right and i did a lot of weights and training and now it's starting to get stronger so i can last longer in my wheelchair. >> reporter: less than a month after not being able to move ryan was strong enough to join his teammates in las vegas for a reunion. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> reporter: shortly after he was a guest of the philadelphia flyers at their training facility. now ryan is back playing the sport that he loves, doing what comes naturally, moving forward in body and spirit. >> i just want to say thank you and, you know, stay strong. life will get you down but as long as you keep that positive mentality anything's possible. >> in july the driver of the tractor-trailer that allegedly caused the crash was charged with 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death. a court date is scheduled for later this month. >> don dahler reporting. coming up, they heard the
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she is perhaps the most famous missing person of all time. amelia earhart disappeared in 1937 over the pacific during her landmark round-the-world flight. now her final distress calls may finally reveal what happened. here's dana jacobson.>> repr:or of aviator amelia earhart 81 years ago remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in american history. researchers revealed a new clue that may shed light on what happened to earhart and her navigator, fred noonan, as they tried to circle the globe. ve>> ery ebodyxpteecd a happy ending to the search because amelia was out there call for help and her calls were being heard. >> reporter: rick gillespie, who has researched earhart's doomed flight for 30 years, says he has
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proof earhart crash-landed on a remote south pacific island about 2,000 miles from hawaii and that she called for help for nearly a week before her plane was swept out to sea. gillespie has located documentation of distress signals sent in the days after earhart's disappearance, prompting the navy to launch a rescue mission. >> and it took the battleship a week to get there. by which time the radio signals and stopped. e isla, the didn't see an airplane. now, the airplane's manufacturer, lockheed, had said that if you're hearing calls from this airplane it's not floating around in the water because the radio would be wet, it wouldn't work. the airplane is on land and able to run an engine to recharge the battery. so it's on its she lln't st heard by the navy but also by dozens of people who unexpectedly picked up earhart's transmissions on their radios. thousands of miles away. >> these were just regular people who had a commercial
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radio set that they listened to little orphan annie on, that also had a shortwave band where they could tune in foreign stations. >> reporter: rep of people hearing calls for help were documentedor in platsces like florida, iowa, and texas. one woman in canada reported hearing a voice saying "we have taken in water. we can't hold on much longer." >> then suddenly they're hearing amelia earhart call for help. and they're astonished. >> reporter: gillespie's organization, the international group for historic aircraft recovery, has also found forensic evidence that bonest b found on the island are almost certainly earhart's. and while the official sta is that earhart and noonan were lost at ncseea, gillespie says radio evidence only strengthens his theory that they survived the initial landing. >> the world will never forget amelia earhart. >> that was dana jacobsson reporting. and that's the "overnight news" roadcast center inaugust 2nd.
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new york city, i'm meg oliver. captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, august 2nd, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." manhunt. houston police say this is the suspect wanted for gunning down a prominent doctor as he biked to work. we're hearing from survivors of the aeromexico plane crash and video shows the moment of impact. and out of the ashes, how a dog managed to survive greece's deadly wildfire. good morning from studio 57

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