normal. now just part of everyday life. >> we are now as a society in a position where we have to be permanently vigilant. >> pete williams is nbc news justice correspondent. roger crest is a terrorism analyst. pete, let's start with you. i know there's been an intense investigation over the past day or so. what are officials saying? >> they're trying to find out if this is true. what this single source said that three men are coming here to set off car bombs are right or not. they're looking at travel records. look at travel patterns people who have come from the mideast maybe started in pakistan or went through dubai. that helps to narrow it down a little bit. so far we're not told that there's been any information that they've either found them or they can say that this is not a real threat. they have to assume even though they can't can't confirm that it's for real, they have to

assume that it might be. that's why you're seeing all this ratcheted up security in new york and washington, d.c. that's making the morning and the afternoon commute probably take a lot longer. >> roger, we've been told this report is credible. but uncorroborated and unconfirmed. can you explain precisely what that means? >> craig, i'm sorry, i've lost audio. >> roger, while we try and get that fixed, let me go back to pete. i'll pose that same question to you. you've been covering these types of stories for years now. if a report's credible and uncorroborated and unconfirmed what does that mean? >> it means that the source of the information, the source who told this information to the u.s. is someone who is considered trustworthy. who has given correct information in the past. although has also given information that wasn't correct. so it's someone that can be believed. now the task is it true or not? it's possible the person isn't telling the truth. it's also possible that what the

person heard and relayed isn't true and is just a rumor. so they have to try to confirm it. how do they do it? one of the things they do is try to look at on this end did somebody that fits the pattern of this report did three people come into the u.s. at a certain time with certain travel documents through certain places that's what they're trying to do. on the other end they're trying to go back to this source and say where did this come from? are you sure. they're working at both ends. >> new yorkers to go about life as usual. a lot of folks are going to be out this weekend. probably more than usual attending those commemorative events this weekend. what is your advice to people who are watching, who are listening, who have unfortunately perhaps become unsensitized to warnings like this? >> craig, the message is straight forward. you continue to live your life as you would if there wasn't a terror alert. the professionals are going to

handle this. the police, the fbi working with federal intelligence community. and so what people need to do if they see something that looks out of the ordinary, then they have a responsibility and obligation to notify law enforcement. beyond that the worst thing we can do is to change our pattern of activity, our way of life in response to these threats. once we do that, then al qaeda achieves a certain degree of success. resiliency on the part of the american people is the theme here. one way to be presill yent is not to change your pattern of activity based on a potential terror threat. >> the president was briefed yesterday. congress briefed throughout the day yesterday as well. it was kept secret from the public until late thursday. fair to say that the breaking news alert was an attempt to get some help from the public? >> no, not really, craig. this was a case where up until last week the administration did not have what they would do any credible threat information leading up to 9/11. this was a late breaking

intelligence development. so combined with the time frame of the weekend coming up, they felt an obligation to notify state and local law enforcement and that's when you also saw the need for dhs to issue a public notification. it really is a confluence of several things. when they actually acquired the threat reporting and then the time frame in which is potential threat might take place. that's why they rolled it out the way they did. >> roger and pete william. thank you so much. i do appreciate your time. >> you bet. >> defense secretary leon panetta is reacting in very strong terms to tlatest threat. here he is in washington at a breakfast honoring 9/11 victims and first responders. >> you don't mess with this country when you attack us. with we made clear is when that happens, we will come and get you. >> nbc's peter alexander is live

at ground zero this morning. pete, how rebous is the visible security there right now? >> craig, i had a chance to visit the new york city mayor michael bloomberg a short time ago. she said this is the way we do things in new york these days. there is a difference as we arrive upon the tenth anniversary of 9/11. the police officers throughout this city have now extended their shifts by about four hours through this anniversary especially putting an extra 1,000 officers on the ground at any given time right now. their priority among other things is increased security checks at the bridges and tunnels throughout the city as they use bomb sniffing dogs, radiation detection devices as well as focussing on illegally parked cars. if your car is parked illegally they don't want to take my chances. you really get a sense of that added security right now. it's only going to increase as they truch it up over the next several days as well. one other point the mayor has

made, he made it clear that he doesn't want this site to be referred to as ground zero anymore, but much more as the world trade center site. again, that new york is back in business. as we pan the camera off this direction, frank our camera man will give you a sense of what it looks like and formerly known as the freedom tower. but now is one woshld trade center. you can see that flag that was unfurled earlier this morning for the workers that will not be here this weekend. the moment of silence held at 9:03 coinciding with the time the second plane hit the south tower here. at this location we know over the course to have weekend a lot of the events are planned on sunday. there will be many dignitaries including the president of the united states, barack obama as well as george w. bush here as well as they formally unveil the memorial location here to these sites where the towers used to stand. 30-foot waterfalls at each dropping into a pool of darkness. this weekend they will reveal for the first time the names of

the victims that have been carved into the sides of that fountain itself. >> peter alexander from one world trade center this afternoon. thanks, pete. >> to honor the lives on 9/11 the new york stocks exchange opened with a moment of silence this morning. the same group that rang the bell on september 17th, 2001, the first day of trading after the terror attacks rang it again today. >> let's take a look right now what's happening on wall street. all ray rows are down. the dow down close to 300. the s&p down almost 30. nasdaq down 54.5. the stock index has tumbled more than 2% today. there continue to be lingering concerns over the european debt crisis. there was word this morning that a bank executive in europe a

board member there that he was resigning for personal reasons. there appears to be some skepticism over president obama's economic stimulus spending plan as well. so again, the markets reacting down 300 now the dow. as peter just mentioned, president obama will travel to new york this weekend for sunday's 9/11 memorial. right now the president is in richmond, virginia, home district of house majority leader eric cantor. the president making the case for his american jobs act. >> everything in the american jobs act, everything in there is the kind of proposal that's been supported in the past by both democrats and republicans. nothing radical in this bill. it will create more jobs for construction workers. more jobs for teachers. more jobs for veterans. more jobs for young people. >> so here's a snapshot of what the president's proposing. his total package comes to $447 billion. about $175 of that will come in

the form of payroll tax cuts for employees. there's another $70 billion for employer payroll tax cuts. $140 billion would go to fixing schools and rehiring teachers. then there's about $62 billion for extending unemployment benefits and job less programs as well. jim clyburn is a democrat from south carolina. he is also the assistant democratic leader and part of the deficit supercommittee. thank you for joining me this afternoon. >> thank you so much for having me, craig. >> the plan that the president unveiled last night was it what you were expecting? did he go big or safe? >> i think it's pretty big. he went beyond what i expected. but for the $447 billion, he seems to have tossed a lot of that into the laps of those of us who sit on the joint select committee. but we had already begun to think beyond the $1.5 trillion that we were instructed to come

back with. so getting up to near $2 trillion wouldn't be all that uncomfortable for us because most of us on the committee wanted to go big anyway. >> how are you going to do it? how are you going to find that additional money? it sounds like you guys are going to aim even higher than that? >> yes. we're instructed to do $1.5 trillion. if we don't do $1.5 trillion, then sequestration takes place to the tune of $2.2 trillion. none of us want to see that. so we are going to work very closely together all 12 of us, six democrats, six republicans, six members of the house, six members of the senate. and we're going to try to make some collective decisions in a bipartisan way that will carry the day in both the house and senate. >> starting where?

what's the starting point? >> we have our first hearing on tuesday. we organized on yesterday and i am very pleased with what we've done this far. i feel very good about our prospects of getting something done that will be positive for the country. >> let's go back to the american jobs act. walk us through what's going to happen next with the president's plan? >> well, the president's plan will come to us in the form of some paper maybe next week sometime i would hope by spend of next week. the speaker has already indicated that he wants to work with the president to get something passed. so the speaker thn decides what comes to the floor. hopefully we have some hearings on that plan. now while all of that is going on, the committee of 12 as i said would start our hearings

and by the time that plan worked its way through the house and senate maybe we'll be able to incorporate some of that if not all of it into what our legislation or report will be to the congress. so we'll be going on more than one track here and hopefully at some point all of this will come together. >> all right. congressman jim clyburn from south carolina. congressman thank you so much. always a pleasure. >> thank you so much for having me. president's address last night? i asked that questio on twitter. i'd love for you to respond to it. send me a tweet @craigmelvin. here's what we've been hearing so far. i want to bring in our guest karen finny. ron is republican strategist who used to work for former speaker dennis hastert and trent lott. let's take a look at these

tweets and talk about them here on the other side. first tweets, said it was inspiring, well deserved reminds officials they were sent to do a job. and another tweet says, the powe tus' angry eyes were back. time for congress to get back on board. let's start with the tone from the president. how did he seem to you guys? >> he was sounding a tone of urgency, which is absolutely appropriate given the sense of urgency that i think people feel out in the kuhn trif. i think he was also the tone was aimed at here are the things that i want to do, but i need your help. i think that's important because we need to remember that, you know, congress is not, can't just sit on the sidelines here. in order to get these things done, we need congress to participate in the process. >> did the president strike the

right tone last night? >> i think the president is acting like the professor that he enjoyce being and lecturing congress. that didn't work out too well for him in the debt ceiling talks. i do think it's urgent that we create jobs. i think republicans are willing to work with him on some parts of the plan. i think most people believe this did not merit a joint speech to congress. that this did not rise to the occasion. and that he could have done it just as well as georgetown university or the detroit economic club because he only has a certain amount of bullets that he can fire in pressuring congress and to take it up to this level the white house can be a dark amateur unto itself. >> i want to take issue with that. i looked up in the constitution yesterday under the various powers. under the powers of congress it does say that at times in addition to the president coming to congress to give an update on the state of the union, that in dire circumstances when there is

an insurgent -- sense of urgency that is it is the president's responsibility co-tom co-congress. if job creation in this country does not rise to that level, yank of what orissue does. >> ron, here's the thing, if the president needs congress to get the plan passed. why would he not address them? >> it's important to address congress. but the way he did it and the rising to the joint session, you only -- if you look at the last decade, there's only been a couple of times where it rose to this occasion. you have to really bring something strong. i thought what rebrought to the table was interesting. republicans are very interested in a payroll tax cut. you know, it didn't rise to the occasion at this point. i think that he could have used this later on in the process, but right now i think he's really taken it to a level that i don't think congress will rise to. >> let's talk about the tax cuts. the bulk of the president eats plan is these temporary tax cuts.

what do we know about the corelation between cuts like these and job creation? >> it's my understanding a lot of these tax cuts, there's some short-term ideas and longer term. the idea this near term tax cuts could be done very quickly to start getting money into people's pockets very quickly. for example, it would incentivize hiring new workers and increasing salaries of existing workers. we know that's a significant problem. people's money is not going as far as it used to. tax credits for hiring veterans. another big problem veterans are comings home and they need job. tax cuts for hiring people who have been out of work for more than six months. again, another big problem in this economy. we have so many people who have been out of work for so long. let's incentivize a way to get them hired rite away. when we look at the payroll tax cuts that would impact middle

class families and middle class tax cut, the idea being you get about $1500 back into people's pockets then they will be spending in the economy and that stimulates the economy. >> karen, ron, thank you so much. i appreciate your time. hang on, ron. we'll get you back next. there he is. i saw you chuckled. ten seconds. >> i was laughing because it's the first time i heard karen ever back tax cuts. i think it's fascinating. >> what are you talking about? i'm always for tax cuts? >> we'll pick it up next week. the sus kwa hannah river in pennsylvania crested below the pennsylvania crested below the levees. you had me at "probiotic. [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health.

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amid all the hardship that rocked new york city it's easy to forget about the state of new jersey whose losses were staggering. more than 700 people died in those attacks. more than 30 of those victims were from middle toub. this video was taken in middleton two weeks after 9/11. can you believe it's -- >> hard to believe. >> take me back ten years ago your predecessor christine today whitman you took over when she left to run the e.p.a., do you recall where you were? >> i was at the governor's mansion. and i was hosting a meeting of the holocaust commission. that's when the state trooper said in my ear that a plane had flown into the world trade center so we'd better get out of there.

we didn't have any information. all the lines of the communication are at the top of the world trade center. so i sent a fellow over by helicopter to get information for me. we sent people to liberty state park to wait for injured people. we sent doctors, personnel waiting across the river for people to come and be helped. and i went over there be and i watched. >> in addition to the close to 700 that died in new jersey, the now immortal flight united 93 originated in newark. how did that day change you? how did it change new jersey as a state as well? >> that day i'm sure pataki and mayor jewel -- giuliani felt the same way. let's let the tins know we're working to ensure their safety. the second part of it, the

families of the victims and the first responders coming home from school their father or mother or both not being there fs i was concerned dealing with that. finding the families, dealing with the safety, deploying national guard, state police, police personnel all over the state. by goal was to have new jersey citizens feel safe. so we knew after a few days of course that now it was a response and a recovery that we were dealing with. i'll tell you the scene the next day when i went over to the site, to the world trade center site watching the workers quietly, you could hear a pin drop moving junk around trying to find people was just unbelievable. >> ten years later as you sit there and again word of another potential threat, do you think that we are any safer today than we were ten years ago? >> absolutely. we definitely are. >> in what ways?

>> i think for one thing that event changed the way states prepare themselves. as a state we never really worried about homeland security until that event occurred. now local law enforcement county and state law enforcement worked together in dealing with preparations for these kinds of matters. so i think that particularly has changed and i think our way of life of course has changed dramatically. i think people are absolutely more patriotic today. more pride in america. and we'll see it of course over the weekend. i think it's changed our views and our attitudes towards life a lot. >> what about that sense of togetherness that we all remember so fondly in the days after 9/11. all the tributes and the concerts and the people, talking to strangers. what happened to that? >> on the-year-oa yearly basis

great deal of that. a lot of terrible things have happened in the last ten years. tsunamis, earthquakes. on a yearly basis and i see it out there people still think and talk about that. so i think people still feel it. >> thank you for your time, sir. appreciate you. >> millions left many the dark on the west coast. a big oops. coming up. my doctor told me calcium

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president obama has signed emergency deck collations for new york and pennsylvania to provide frail aid for areas hard hit by massive flooding. authorities in central new york say floodwaters have started receding after inundating the

city of bington. the weather chan's chris warren has the latest. >> reporter: here in binghamton for many it could be days before they could get back into their homes. just listen to their story. this door like a window. the water has come down rushing. the water looks like it's many the river instead of just floodwaters coming up. we are seeing the floodwaters come down. that's the good news. just a few hours ago this was water where i'm walking right now. that's showing you that it is going down. but much like the hundreds if not thousands of people that are away from their homes every story's different. one house right now may have the water slowly receding. they have damage in their basement. other houses like the blue house it could be days before they're allowed to get back in because the water's going to take much longer for it to get out and then you have all the damage

from the leftover floodwaters. even though the flooding might be gone by early next week, the river might be closer to being at its normal banks it could be several days if not longer before people get their lives back to normal. that's the latest from here. now back to you. >> chris, thank you. floods in the northeast, darkness in the southwest. one of the biggest blackouts in history is over. five million people lost their power in southern california, arizona and mexico when a worker removed a piece of monitoring equipment at a substation in arizona. this was just one of the scenes that played out probably about the last place you'd want to be when the lights go out an elevator. firefighters spent hours freeing people trapped in elevators. united airlines flight 93 crashed into n a field in shanksville, pennsylvania, despite the heroic efforts on every everyone on board, especially today beamer with his

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[ bell dinging ] ground zero is not the only place that people go to remember the victims of september 11th. every year thousands visit a field near the tiny town of shanksville, pennsylvania, where brave passengers of flight 93 forced the plane down. all 40 passengers and crew died that day. >> you can see small american flags there in the distance. we treat this as a cemetery. it is their final resting place. >> we laid some flowers down there. it's still hard to talk about for me. >> a memorial for flight 93's victims is under construction right now the first phase is being unveiled this weekend with the dedication tomorrow. >> reporter: behind me as you can see the the first completed

portion of the flight 93 memorial. right now it's covered up before the dedication ceremony, but it is a white marble wall inscribed with the names of the 33 passengers and seven crew members who were killed on flight 93 on september 11th. now that was the only plane of the four hijacked flights that day that did noit reach its intended target thanks to the quick action and courage of those on board on september 1 19 those on board were able to make phone calls and they found out what was happening around the country and they took a vote and decided to fight back and try to regain control of that airplane. cockpit voice recorders show when the hijackers realized what was happening they intentionally crashed the plane here in rural pennsylvania as opposed to have it taken over by the passengers. that flight was en route to washington, d.c. at the time it crashed it was 20 minutes flying time from the nation's capital. all those on board are still hailed as heroes for saving the loves of so many on the ground.

tomorrow there will be a dedication ceremony for this part of the memorial. sunday there there be a memorial service marking the tenth anniversary of september 11th. the president will be here for that. this is just the first part of the memorial. the memorial is not completed. one of the issues here is money. organizers say they're $10 million short from completing this memorial. they are confident they will get that money that they need to complete it and it will be done by 2014. back to you. >> thank you. this sunday at 1:00 cities across the country have pledged to stop and remember the thousands of lives lost on 9/11. new jersey senator frank lawsuitenberg introduced a measure. all 100 senators co-sponsored it. the u.s. senate unanimously proved it. >> during the national 9/11 moment of remembrance, the entire country will pause for a full minute to recall this tragedy. for 60 seconds all regular

activity in america should stop. >> churches can ring bells and fire houses can sound sirens. >> so we all remember the victims of 9/11. >> senator lawsuitenberg joining me now live.utenberg joining me now live. first of all, a unanimous vote? >> it was irresistible. it was a horrible event that touched 41 states with people who were lost there. countries around the world. so many places felt it that they couldn't say no. in fairness they were helping all the way through. >> what else does the proposal call on folks to do? >> it calls on churches and fire houses to sound their alarm, the bells and fire alarms just to take that minute out.

60 seconds to remember that 3,000 people died that day. but our entire world changed. no event in the united states' history had ever a devastating effect like 9/11 has. >> i've got you here. i want to pivot here and talk about a bill that you introduced yesterday, the works progress administration you are looking to bring it back. you introduce third-degree bill before the president made his speech last night. what was the thinking there? >> the thinking was that we had to get going with something that had an immediate effect. something that had teeth and the one way to get people working was to go into infrastructure work and put the money up and get people working immediately. franklin roosevelt did that in the '30s and they put two million people to work. >> again, this is modelled on that depression era program that

put if i'm not mistaken some eight million people to work all over the country build things, laying railroad tracks. >> at that time. >> this is modelled after that program? >> it's expected to do the same thing now. one of the things that you notice maryland the president's speech last night was the time limits that he put on getting the bill and the money going. he wanted to do it immediately and act on it. he was insistent. i thought it was a great speech. >> your bill is it going to be considered part of the president's plan? >> it could be a parallel program. we'd like to see that. the american people are most concerned about jobs. and that's where we ought to putting our focus. this is one great way to do it. and the president's call for his bill is terrific for his laws. >> i want to ask you the same questions i asked the former

governor of new jersey earlier. here we are almost ten years to the day after 9/11. you have -- you've been in the senate a long time. give us some perspective on where we are now versus where we were ten years ago in our ability to respond to attacks? >> i'll assume that you've heard rumors of being ready now. when you see how it's affected our lives. i don't know anybody that doesn't have an i.d. card. there's always delays as a result of checking. and so these are both important programs and the one that i proposed is one that as they say shovel ready. lots of people work in the contracting area are wredy to go to work. there's lots of them who are unemployed, given the money and encouragement they get to work right away.

>> thank you so much, sir. i appreciate your time. >> nice to be here. before we go to break, let's take a look here at the markets. they have gotten worse since we started the hour. the dow now down some 327 points. it's almost 330 points now. s&p down 33. nasdaq down almost 65. the market volatility today at least being blamed on the european debt crisis. word today that an executive in europe announced he is stepping down. and also there seem to be some concerns over the president's newest economic stimulus plan as well. well. dow down 333 points.pation, dia, gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health.

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ray clark pled guilty to her murder and was sentenced to 44 years in prison, but now annie's family is suing yale saying that the university did not do enough to protect her. i talked to the family's legal advisors about the lawsuit and with annie's mother vivien about how she's coping? >> i feel -- terrible my daughter was being killed. i talking for my daughter because i want everyone in the world to know that my daughter is very smart and she study doing research for diabetic and the cure for the disease.

i'm proud of her. i'm missing her a lot. >> paul, let's talk about the lawsuit here. what is it specifically that you guys are saying that yale university should have done in this case? >> well, craig, the case alleges and we believe and we have evidence to support the fact that yale is responsible for allowing this to happen. they should have known that this young man was a threat both to annie and to others. and they didn't take reasonable steps to prevent that threat from happening. as a result annie le died this very tragic death. >> he didn't have a criminal record. so what are we basing this on? how should the university have known? >> there's a couple of answers to that. and i don't want to play all the evidence out here on television because our system is designed to have the evidence presented in the courtroom and not on tv. i will tell you that there is

very strong evidence that yale in fact did know that this man was threatening to women in particular. and as matter of fact one of his supervisors at the lab where he murdered annie le was his brother-in-law and his sister also worked for yale. they both would have known about his dangerous propensities. and yale should have responded accordingly to prevent this from happening. mary, you've been a friend of the family for some time. at any point in the three years that she'd been at yale had annie complained of feeling unsafe as she said, anything about a specific threat at the university? >> that's a great question. she was very concerned about the safety at yale. she was involved in projects where she and other students would walk women and other students back and forth from class from the lab or from the library. she even wrote an article about being safe on campus.

it was a very important thing for her and she was concerned for her own safety as well as other students. >> vivien, paul and mary, thank you so much for your time this afternoon. >> thank you very much. >> yale did release this statement saying in part quote, there's no basis sis for the civil suit. yale had no information that ray monday clark was capable of committing this crime and no reasonable security measures could have prevented his unforeseeable act. this lawsuit serves neither justice nor annie's memory. up next, an all expense paid summer camp for children who lost loved ones on 9/11. first up, a look at the freedom tower this morning during the moment of silence at 9:08. and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day.

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on september 2001, a young man named scott hazelcorn showed up at one trade center for work. the 21-year-old bon trader together with his girlfriend had a plan to start summer camp for needy camps. those dreams almost died with scott when terrorists crashed into the towers that day. janice lost her son that day. she kept his dream alive by creating camp haze in his honor. janice is joining me live along with scott's cousin. you went to camp haze for a number of years. janice, i want to start with you, first of all, this weekend i can only imagine how difficult it is every year and now the ten-year anniversary is the ten-year more difficult or every year around this time is it just about the same? >> i think every day actually. you lose a child, it doesn't go away. early on because it's a national

issue for us that we decided that we would have to cope with hearing about it all the time wherever you turn you're hearing about 9/11. especially this tenth anniversary. more so than i ever thought. you took your grief, you took that di and you turned it into something good. tell us about the camp? >> scott had such a spirit for life and loved children and did talk about having a camp and stripping the children of everything materialistic and learning of each other's difference. when 9/11 happened we said that building was filled with people with every nationality. every religion and every economic level. so we felt we could make his dream come true and it would give us a healthy focus to do something positive in his name. >> you're 19 years old now do you still go? >> yes. i'm a counselor now.

>> that's good. a week long camp. what goes on here? >> well, every morning we wake up, have breakfast together. do great activities all day. it's a real family experience. we bond like no other place. >> nine years ago you would have been 9 years ago old. do you remember it all that day. >> >> i remember the exact moment sitting in the classroom. the announcement over the loudspeaker that there was a terrorist attack in the city and we all got dismissed from school and i found out the news when i went home. >> janice, what do you remember? >> i was at work that day. and initially i heard that the plane went into the building and like everybody we thought it was just kind of a freak accident until the second tower was hit. and i got a phone call from my husband and he said, you know, i can't reach scott. i kept thinking like many of us did, you know, he got out.

but he just can't contact us right now. and so we searched for him and the next few days walked the streets showing his picture, asking people if they heard about him or if he's in a hospital or whatever. but we never found him. >> camp haze started for just kids who that had day lost someone. now it's grown. >> it's a camp open to children who have lost parents for tragedy or illness. what i realized for kids it is the loss of someone they loved be it 9/11 or not. and so loss is loss. so we opened it up and we do have now the siblings of the children that were originally affected. >> and you know scott's smiling. >> he is smiling and saying awesome, mom. >> thank you. thanks for your time. devin, thank you as well. i'm craig melvin.

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