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their pastor in pennsylvania beginning in the early 1980s. >> he was a very sick, sick man. >> reporter: father augustine gee el low was a trusted friend, a regular at meals where he often said grace. >> he would give us candy. he would take us out and just constantly giving, giving. gave us stuff. bought us clothes. bought us toys. anything we wanted. >> reporter: the fortneys believe giella was grooming the girls. 13-year-old patty was molested as her little sisters looked on. >> he was constantly hugging me in front of them, kissing me in front of them, trying to put his tongue in your mouth. he needed to know my cup size.
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i would continually remind myself, he's my priest. he's the mediator between god and man. this is okay. >> i mean even at our kitchen table, things happened in front of my parents' face that they couldn't see. >> reporter: father giella retired in 1989, but the family still saw him. >> my niece actually found a box that had some pornography in it and nude photos of carolyn. >> reporter: their parents, ed and patty fortney, immediately reported the photos to the harrisburg diocese in 1992. another sister called child services, who then contacted the police. father giella was arrested and charged with child pornography and sexual assault. he died awaiting trial. ed, you weren't there today was talking with your daughters, hearing some of these details for the first time. what was that like as a father in. >> i got to contemplate on it
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probably for the next ten years to figure out where the hell i went wrong, you know? >> how did you not know? >> we were on the inside. we didn't know. i mean can you honestly think that if we knew, we would let something like that happen to our babies? >> reporter: the fortney family did settle two civil lawsuits with the harrisburg diocese. the sisters say they never discussed their abuse as children because they didn't understand what was happening. >> for a long time, we just -- it's not that we weren't close. we just didn't know each other. >> right. >> so there was always this big elephant in the room whenouow there was so much going on that we didn't want to talk about it. >> reporter: today the each other with the support of their entire family. why did you decide to share your story? >> we knew that we needed to do more to help prevent this from happening to other people.
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>> i believe that there's going to be change. i pray that there's going to be change because nobody should live like this, with this pain. nobody should. it's every day. but i have hope now. i do. >> reporter: the bishop of the harrisburg diocese told cbs news today that he sends his deepest apologies and prayers to the fortney family. the sisters say they have never received a direct apology, and, jeff, all four women left the catholic church. >> extraordinary reporting tonight, nikki battiste. thank you. up next, we remember burt reynolds.
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>> is this fun? >> i forgot to tell you. >> reporter: burt reynolds owned the hollywood box office starting in the late 1970s. the top grossing star each year from 1978 to 1982. >> cledus, get the money. >> reporter: born in 1936, reynolds was raised in florida's palm beach county. a high school football star he played a year at florida state until a knee injury ended his career. he then turned to acting. >> get back to dodge before dark. >> reporter: enjoying some success in 1960s tv including a short stint on "gunsmoke" before his breakout role as louislo in where he would later write it was his best movie, proving to himself and the public that he could act. his decision to pose nude on that bearskin rug in cosmo three
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months before the movie opened hurt him with critics. reynolds would later say the centerfold was one of his biggest mistakes ever. his ladies man onscreen persona was matched by a colorful history offscreen. relationships with dinah shore, his "smokey and the bandit" co-star sally field, and a marriage to lonnie anderson made him a tabloid favorite. >> jack horner, filmmaker. >> reporter: he would go on to score an oscar nomination as a porn director. >> adult films, exotic pictures. >> reporter: 1997's "boogie night nights". but even in later years when he would get a ribbing from "saturday night live." >> burt reynolds, where did you come from? >> i've been here the whole ac e and career. there's one thing they can never take away, he wrote. nobody had more fun than i did. list of the roles he did take are the roles he said he did not. he once wrote he passed on han
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the fast-moving zedelta fir is threat rning homes in california, shutting down a 45-mile stretch of a major interstate. a number of abandoned tractor trailers caught fire. a frightening shooting today in downtown cincinnati. a man with a 9 millimeter handgun hoped fire at a bank building, killing three people and wounding two others. police shot and killed the gunman in the lobby of the bank. twitter said today it's permanently banning alex jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist as well as his infowars show. jones was cited for abusive behavior after shouting at a cnn journalist outside two congressional hearings yesterday. jones had 900,000 followers on
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50 years ago, arthur ashe became the first african-american man to win the u.s. open. ashe, who died in 1993, might not have gotten that chance were it not for his brother's sacrifice. here's james brown. >> vietnam was an ugly war. >> reporter: in 1967, johnnie ashe was a marine fighting in the jungles of vietnam while his older brother, arthur, was in the army stationed at west point. in may, they wrote to each other. >> i had said to him in the letter, you know, i got only a couple of months left. how much time you got left? he said, well, i have 15 months left when you get back home.
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so i started thinking about it. >> reporter: he was thinking about protecting his brother from combat given the military's desire to avoid deploying siblings to a war zone at the same time. >> i said, look, i want to extend my tour in vietnam. i don't want my brother to have to do a tour. and he sat back in his chair and said, well, who's your brother? i said, arthur ashe jr. >> reporter: in addition to being a young army officer, his brother was one of the top amateur tennis players in the world. >> in vietnam, they didn't shoot any bullets with your name on them. they were all sent to whom it may concern. >> reporter: why were you better situated to hand the that better than your brother? >> i wasn't concerned about what happened to me. >> reporter: johnnie served a second 12-month tour in vietnam and made it home in the summer of 1968, just in time to watch arthur make history as the first majo tennis championship.
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johnnie never told his brother what he did. he only told their father, arthur sr., a widower who raised both boys by himself. >> that picture was evidence of the pride that daddy had. >> reporter: years later, arthur sr. told his eldest son about his brother's sacrifice. at the u.s. open on monday, in arthur ashe stadium, retired captain johnnie ashe accepted a west point flag in his family's honor. >> i know that they're up there, and the only thing arthur would say is, not bad. >> reporter: not bad at all. james brown, cbs news, new york. that is the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news and "cbs this
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morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm anna werner. the bandit has made his last run. burt reynolds, one of the most popular actors of his age, has died. reynolds was a smooth-talking leading man with a sly smile and thick mustache. he made his mark in such movies as "deliverance," "the longest yard," "smokey and the bandit," and many more. jim axelrod looks back on his life and decades-long career. >> is this fun? >> i forgot to tell you. i'm running block here for 400 cases of illegal booze. >> reporter: burt reynolds owned the hollywood box office starting in the late 1970s.
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>> oh, no. >> reporter: the top grossing star each year from 1978 to 1982. >> cledus, get the money. >> reporter: born in 1936, reynolds was raised in florida's palm beach county. a high school football star, he played a year at florida state until a knee injury ended his career. he then turned to acting. >> get back to dodge before dark, we better get started. >> reporter: enjoying some success in 1960s tv, including a short stint on beg"gunsmoke" bee his breakout role in "deliverance" in 1972, where he would later write it was his best movie, proving to himself and the public that he could act. >> i was shot. >> reporter: his decision to pose nude on that bearskin rug in cosmo three months before the movie opened hurt him with critics. reynolds would later say the centerfold was one of his biggest mistakes ever. his ladies man onscreen persona was matched by a colorful
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history offscreen. relationships with dinah shore, his "smokey and the bandit" co-star sally field, and a marriage to lonnie anderson made him a tabloid favorite. >> jack horner, filmmaker. >> reporter: he would go on to score an oscar nomination as a porn director. >> adult films, exotic pictures. >> reporter: 1997's "boogie nights." >> burt reynolds. >> reporter: but even in later years when he would get a ribbing from "saturday night live." >> burt reynolds, where did you come from? >> i've been here the whole time. >> reporter: burt reynolds was clear looking back over his life and career. there's one thing they can never take away, he wrote. nobody had more fun than i did. a manhunt is on at the white house to identify the so-called senior administration official by a scathing "new york times" op-ed. the unnamed writer describes a quiet resistance within the trump administration. aides who have vowed to keep president trump from doing harm to the nation.
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the president is demanding the "times" tell him who wrote it. weijia jiang has the latest. >> reporter: president trump ignored questions today about the anonymouslyri op-ed "the new york times" said was the work of a senior trump administration official. the writer claimed to be part of the resistance against the president. among those working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. >> it's not mine. >> reporter: top administration officials including nearly every member of the president's cabinet quickly issued statements of denial. >> i come from a place where if you're not in a position to execute the commander's intent, you have a singular option. that is to leave. >> i think editorial published in "the new york times" represents a new low in american journalism. >> reporter: first lady melania trump, usually mum on political matters, said in a statement, to
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the writer of the op-ed, you are not protecting this country. you are sabotaging it with your cowardly actions. "the new york times" defended its decision to publish the piece. the editor of the op-ed section, james dao said on a podcast his team was 100% confident of the author's identity after a lengthy vetting process. >> i would guess that this person has reached a breaking point and they felt they just needed to say what was on their mind and what was on the mind of other people in the administration in their view. >> reporter: house democratic leader nancy pelosi's take, don't shoot the messenger. >> it's a sad statement, and it is a manifestation of corruption, cronyism. cronyism, just having your friends around you, incompetence of some of the people who are advising him. catholic church officials in new york state say they will cooperate with a new investigation into sexualbuse by priests. the attorney general is demanding documents relating to abuse allegations, payments to
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victims, and internal church investigations. the subpoenas come three weeks after the bombshell grand jury report in pennsylvania. nikki battiste has more on that. >> reporter: how old were you when your alleged abuse began? >> 13. >> i was 10 when i met him. >> i was in the first grade. >> i was under 2 years old. i didn't realize it until i was 12. i, um, was watching a movie of a priest molesting altar boys, and that's kind of the day that i put it together. i never knew what the word "molest" meant. >> reporter: these are the fortney sisters. patty, laura, teresa, carolyn and one other were sexually abused by their pastor beginning in the early 1980s. >> he was a very sick, sick man. >> reporter: father augus giella was a trusted family friend, a regular at meals where he often said grace. >> he would give us candy. he would take us out and just
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constantly giving, giving. gave us stuff. bought us clothes. bought us toys. anything we wanted. >> reporter: the fortneys believe giella was grooming the girls. 13-year-old patty was molested as her little sisters looked on. >> he was constantly hugging me in front of them, kissing me in front of them, trying to put his tongue in your mouth. he needed to know my cup size. i would continually remind myself, he's my priest. he's the mediator between god and man. this is okay. >> i mean even at our kitchen table things happened in front of my parents' face that they couldn't see. >> reporter: father giella ill saw him. >> my niece actually found a box that had some pornography in it and nude photos of carolyn. >> reporter: their parents, ed and patty fortney, immediately reported the photos to the
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harrisburg diocese in 1992. another sister called child services, who then contacted the police. father giella was arrested and charged with child pornography and sexual assault. he died awaiting trial. the fortney family did settle two civil lawsuits with the harrisburg diocese. the sisters say they never discussed their abuse as children because they didn't understand what was happening. >> for a long time we just -- it's not that we weren't close. we just didn't know each other. >> right. >> so there was always this big elephant in the room when we were together because, you know, there was so much going on that we didn't want to talk about it. >> reporter: today they're slowly telling their stories to each other with the support of their entire family. why did you decide to share your story? >> we knew that we needed to do more to help prevent this from happening to other people. >> i believe that there's going to be change.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." students in detroit are wrapping up their first week of the new school year. there were a lot of smiles but also health issues such as copper and lead in the drinking water. michelle miller reports from downtown detroit. >> reporter: students here at chrysler elementary and across the school district will be drinking from water coolers like this instead of their standard drinking fountains. they don't work anymore. no one's clear on what caused this tainted water, but aging pipes and outdated fixtures are the likely suspects. >> there are higher levels of copper and lead not just in detroit, but throughout this country. >> reporter: a few months after taking the helm of detroit's public schools, nikolai viti
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began seeing the outlines of a health emergency. testing of every water fountain and fixture began in june. in august, he learned 34 out of 50 schools tested so far had harmful levels of lead or copper. any level exposure to lead to children is dangerous. >> that's right, and we're not testing. so this has been an awakening for me as superintendent. >> reporter: the government accountability office reported 57% of u.s. school districts either didn't test their water for lead or were unsure if they did. tests are mandatory in at least seven states, but no federal law requires them. last week, viti ordered all water fountains isedff bottled water and water coolers are being provided, which will cost about $200,000 over the next few months. >> that's putting a band-aid on a gaping wound. >> reporter: ricky rice worries about his three grandchildren in detroit public schools. >> i'm willing to give them time to fix their problem, but if
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they drag their feet, something is going to be said, and something has to be done. >> reporter: viti says the long-term solution is to install new water stations with their own piping systems in every school. >> i don't think it's realistic to think we can just change the plumbing infrastructure in schools or play a whack a mole game of changing faucets or changing fixtures. actress gwyneth paltrow's lifestyle company goop has agreed to a six-figure settlement over charges of false advertising. consumer watchdogs call it a wake-up call about the validity of many health and wellness products. >> people have been selling snake oil for a long time. this is just another type of snake oil. >> reporter: orange county district attorney tony rackauckas says gwyneth paltrow's company goop is guilty of false advertising. a task force settlement announced wednesday focused on three products sold by goop. two are vaginal eggs that were promoted as a way to balance hormones, regulate menstrual
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cycles and increase bladder control. the third, a mix of essential oils, was advertised as a way to help prevent depression. prosecutors alleged the descriptions were not supported by competent and reliable scientific evidence. >> there's a group of people who have problems like that, and they might be vulnerable. a lot of people might do the things that you suggest, and so you can do a lot of harm by falsely advertising that something is a medical cure. >> reporter: in agreeing to the $145,000 settlement, goop called the dispute an honest disagreement. it says it provides a forum for users to present their views on the products, but the law sometimes views statements like this as advertising claims, which are subject to legal requirements. we appreciate the task force's guidance. >> health and wellness is a very hot industry, and part and parcel with that we're seeing a significant rise in misleading and deceptive marketing claims. >> bonnie patton is executive
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a new documentary about the man behind mr. rogers' neighborhood was the runaway hit of the summer. it raked in more than $22 million, making it the highest grossing biodoc of all time. now "won't you be my neighbor" is available on dvd and streaming services. faith salie takes us back to our favorite neighborhood. ♪ it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood ♪ >> reporter: his song. his smile. and his sweaters are old friends to generations of children who grew up with mr. rogers. >> hi, neighbor. >> over here is king friday's castle. >> this is the real castle. >> reporter: david newell was mr. mcfeely, the neighborhood's speedy delivery man. he was also the show's props guy
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and p.r. man. >> we had a very small staff t. was like let's get together and put on the show. people ask me did you learn anything from working on the show? i said after that many years, i could build a house out of construction paper and round-tip scissors. >> nick tal low was the floor manager. >> reporter: you sometimes gave mr. rogers a hard time. >> i gave him lots of hard times. >> reporter: like swapping his shoes for a smaller pair. >> whose are these? >> reporter: but when it came to helping children make sense of a very complicated and often troubling world, fred rogers was a man with a mission. >> love is at the root of everything. all learning, all parenting, all relationsh relationships. love or the lack of it. >> i think what he was trying to do is teach us how to be human. ♪ please won't you be my neighbor ♪ >> reporter: oscar winner morgan
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neville's new documentary, "won't you be my neighbor" is an exploration of fred rogers, the man. >> this knew medium was coming, television, and he recognized from the moment he saw it that many generations of children were going to be raised by that thing, and somebody had to use that thing to help children. >> reporter: mr. rogers neighborhood went on the air nationwide in february 1968. ♪ it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood ♪ >> reporter: fred rogers, an ordained minister, who studied early childhood education and music composition wrote the scripts, the songs and created the characters. >> fred rogers did all the voices for all the puppets. each of those puppets in the land of make believe is actually some facet of his personality. >> i don't want any noise while i'm taking a nap. >> reporter: lady elaine fairchild's the trouble maker. >> i'm starting my own television station. >> reporter: king friday is kind of blustery. >> if it were not for me, there
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would be no television. >> all the insecurities and fears that fred had as a child, he brought out through daniel. many of us tend to forget all of our childhood fears. fred didn't get forget any of them. >> what does assassination mean? >> reporter: from the beginning, the program talked to children about difficult subjects. even those familiar 1960s traumas adults had trouble understanding. >> have you heard that word a lot today? >> yes. >> as simple as the show seemed, it was anything but simple. there was so much thought and consideration that went into every single thing he did. >> i've been terribly concerned about the graphic display of violence. there is just so much that a very young child can take. >> there's officer clemens. >> reporter: in 1969, with battles over desegregation raging, mr. rogers invited the nabd's officer clemens to share his kiddie pool. >> would you like to join me?
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>> i thought it was civil rights light. that pool of water was so insignificant. i didn't quite get the impact of the symbolism that so many people would see it and totally understand it. >> cool water on a hot day. >> reporter: francois clemens was 24 years old, an aspiring operatic tenor, when fred rogers first asked him to visit the neighborhood. >> he walked around and showed me the tree, the clock, the castle, and i thought, well, all that's well and good. but there was a part of me thinking, what does that have to do with me? i'm a ghetto boy. i grew up in youngstown, ohio, a steel meill. >> i might even like to tell people how to fly. >> reporter: clemens says he didn't get fred rogers' message for a long time. >> that's why you're so special. >> reporter: and then one day --
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>> during that segment, we made eye contact. and he said, you know, i like you just the way you are. you know, you make every day a special day. and i like you just the way you are. and something inside of me turned on, like it's turning on right now. and i thought, he's talking to me. >> we've just got that inside of us. and when we can know it for sure, it's such a good feeling. >> no man had ever told me he loved me, and he did. and i knew he meant it. i knew he meant it. >> he certainly made me a better person. >> reporter: in 1969, joanne rogers watched from home as her husband testified before congress. >> all right, rogers. you've got the floor. >> i could tell that he was nervous. >> reporter: defending public television to a skeptical senator john pastorry. >> i'm the host and i do all the
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puppets and i write all the music and i write all the scripts. >> i'm supposed to be a pretty tough guy, and this is the first time i've had goose bumps for the last two days. >> that story was a marshmallow underneath. >> that's what fred rogers could do. >> that's right. >> what do you miss most about your dad? >> i would have to say probably his sense of humor. it's one thing people really don't get is he was a funny guy. >> reporter: jim rogers says his father would sometimes use the puppet voices at home. >> if we were at dinner and there was something he wanted to say that wasn't particularly dad-like, he would use lady elaine's voice. whoa. where did that come from? >> as a king,bo reporter: at the fred rogers centre in latrobe, pennsylvania, emily urran is archiving songs, scripts, memorabilia, and
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thousands of letters addressed to mr. rogers. >> it's amazing what they were comfortable sharing with fred. what do you think about this? how can i deal with this? and fred did respond to every letter that came in. >> every letter? >> yes. >> reporter: but fred rogers did have his critics, and there were myths. he had been a sniper and that he had tattoos. >> we tend to think that most of our cultural figures have some dark side, and we've seen so many of our cultural icons falling from grace. so you almost expect it at this point. >> i've got to be off, but i'll see you tomorrow. >> one of the most exceptional things about mr. rogers is that he was exactly who you think he was. in fact, he was even a better version of that person. >> reporter: fred rogers died in 2003. his gentle message of tolerance and love, says director morgan neville, is more necessary today than ever. >> what he left in the millions of us who grew up watching him and loving him, that's his
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for a lot of people, a friday night out means getting together with friends at a bar or a restaurant, maybe a movie. well, jamie yuccas found some ladies in california who begin their weekend smashing into each other on a roller derby rink. >> reporter: under the night lights, risky business. >> we got this. >> reporter: is getting out some of her aggression. how did you that? >> because skating at my age is risky business. >> reporter: for 45-year-old bryna chadwick it's a risk worth taking. more than a quarter of roller
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derby players are now over 35. >> this is not book club. >> nope. >> you guys aren't soccer moms. >> nope. we might soccer mom on the side, but we skate derby. >> reporter: the team is made up of nurses, waitresses, software engineers, and full-time moms. 52-year-old elianna jameson or foxxy bloxxy brown is on her ninth pair of skates. >> the fact that me taking up more space in the world was a valuable thing on this track was very attractive to me. i had never played a sport before. >> reporter: tonight is fresh meat night. okay. i'm really going to fall. where those who have never done derby are invited to try and try again. this is the slowest pain train you guys have ever been on what derby mean? g u time a tain. lways hen ey say, i can't do it, we tell them, you can't do it yet. >> reporter: it's easier to get people excited now that the 1970s version of roller derby is
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gone. no more fake brawls, fake falls, and trick skating. >> the popularity started to die down. th med away from the theatrics, and they really turned it into a legitimate sport that showcases the athleticism of the skaters. >> reporter: win or lose for these women, girl power is more than just a saying. it's how you roll. >> good job, guys. >> reporter: jamie yuccas, cbs news, temecula, california. >> go get 'em, jamie. that's the "overnight news" for this friday. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm anna werner.
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captioningd by cbs captioning funded by cbs it's friday, september 7th, it's friday, september 7th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." >> i think their reporter should go and investigate who it is. that would actually be a good scoop. >> president trump is demanding the identity of the missing person who wrote that scathing op-ed piece in "the new york times." new reaction from his inner circle. it has happened again. more planes arrive in the u.s. with sick passengers. the common factor. >> and he was once the brightest star in hollywood. we say good-bye to burt reynolds.
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