>> four people are dead, including the goounman. >> identified as 34-year-old ivan lopez, an iraq war veteran. >> he was undergoing a variety of treatment ranges from depression to anxiety and prescribed a number of drugs to address those. >> isn't the problem in politics though there's too much money, not too little money? >> 98% of americans say big money has too much of an interest already. >> i don't know about that. >> and an investigation revealing a program funded see xreltly by the u.s. to cause unrest in cuba. >> the idea was to engage unsuspecting cubans in a form of social media like twitter. >> if it sounds familiar, it should be familiar because it was their economic plan in the 2012 campaign. it was their economic plan in 2010. it's like that movie groundhog day. except it's not funny.

this hour a comprehensive and fast-moving investigation is under way into what led an iraq veteran to go on a shooting rampage at ft. hood. from the army to the fbi, to capitol hill. here's what we know. four are confirmed dead, including that gunman who took his own life, 16 others hurt and three still in critical condition. >> in terms of life threatening events, right now i feel pretty good for our patients but we still have time to go before i'm going to declare them completely out of the woods. >> military sources tell nbc news that the shooter was this man, specialist ivan lopez. he's an accoutive duty iraq vetn and said to be struggling with mental health issues. this community is shaken, especially as it is the second shooting at ft. hood in less

than five years. in 2009 major nidal hasan killed 13 people. secretary of the army spoke on capitol hill on this subject this morning. >> any time the army loses a soldier we all mourn when that loss comes at the hands of another soldier and indeed when that event occurs at the very place that suffered so much pain, so much anguish just four and a half years ago, it only adds to the sorrow and the all consuming sense of loss the army is feeling this day. >> the all-consuming sense of loss for the latest on this i'll turn to charles hadlock in texas and jim miklaszewski at the p pentagon. what's the status of the investigation? >> reporter: the army and fbi are trying to figure out why the

soldier came on the post with a loaded gun and open fire on his fellow soldiers, killing three of them and wounding 16 others and then committing suicide. now, authorities say they don't believe this was an act of terrorism but say they haven't ruled out anything. part of the investigation involves the gun itself. it was a 45 caliber imagine numb hand gun bought here locally at the gun store in texas, the same store major nidal hasan bought his weapon and laser pointers back in 2009, just before he committed the criminal act of murdering 13 soldiers here at ft. hood back in 2009. now, there was nothing illegal about the gun sales to either of men. they both passed the background checks available at the time but the gun store owner confirms to nbc news this morning that the fbi has confiscated the purchase records of the gun used by lopez. >> thank you very much.

charles hadlock, appreciate it. of course, also everyone is wondering about the suspect's past. new information on that subject was released this morning in a hearing on capitol hill. nbc news pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski has been following this in depth from washington. what more do you know about specialist lopez? >> according to the secretary of the army, john mchugh, who you had on the air in a few minutes ago in testimony on the hill today, it presents somewhat of a mystery. here's somebody who went on a shooting rampage but if you look at his record, it's not necessarily stellar, but it's a clean record according to mchugh. he was in iraq for a brief period of time, four months. at the very end of the war and appears to have been one of those who drove the last few trucks, american trucks out of iraq in kuwait. also, mchugh revealed that just

last month the suspect, lopez, sat down with a psychiatrist there at ft. hood for an examination. lopez was complaining that he had bouts with depression and anxiety and sleeplessness but according to the report that mchugh released today, the psychiatrist found no indication of any possible violence or any suicidal ideations. in other words, no clues at least from that psychiatrist about this rampage that took place yesterday. >> of course, one potential clue would have been the fact he had a gun. but, of course, it is a concealed weapon specifically. i should clarify. but it is a military facility. how possible do you think it would be to track and regulate guns more acutely on military posts of this type? >> quite frankly almost impossible. the military culture itself is gun related.

it's a gun culture. and in texas in particular, but when they isarrive on base, the are not patted down. they flash their i.d. card and drive right through. they have to register the weapon but in this case had no intent to do that, bought it just days before the shooting and the idea, there are 50,000 troops on that base. the idea of patting down or sending even a small portion through a magnetometer on any given day is simply untenable. >> a lot of technical challenges to pulling off any gun regulation in this context. a lot of people are asking that question. thank you, jim miklaszewski. >> yesterday's attack occurred haubtingly close to where hasan took 13 lives at that time.

>> it's beyond real. really unreal. because in 2009 i was here. and this thing happened again. and it's unbelievable. >> the president mourned with ft. hood nearly five years ago after that incident and he did so once again last night. >> any shooting is troubling, obviously this reopens the pain of what happened at ft. hood five years ago. >> my next guest survived that horrific shooting in 2009. he was shot seven times and still carries a bullet in his back. he joins me here now. thank you so much. appreciate you giving us your insights on this. what you went through is a horror that anyone would envision and hope that no one they know or love would have to live through. what do you say to those going through this on this post right now? >> well, first i would like the

families of the fallen to know that they are in my prayers and my family's prayers and i can truly say that i understand how they feel, the grief and anger and despair and disappointment. the message for the survivors is as follows, fight, it's not your time to go home yet. intestinal fortitude, dig deep and live. it's rough what you're going through right now, but there's a higher purpose and you can and will survive this but you're not fw going to do it by yourself or alone. not only do i stand at your back to help you, but the whole nation is going to do the same thing. >> i know there are families that are listening to those words closely and they mean a lot. one of the things that makes

your words so poignant, you said that authorities should have identified hasan before the last incident. do you think the same is true in this case? do you see the signs this could have been identified and stopped? >> absolutely. to answer a question that i feel you're going to ask me, why this did not occur? is because right now the military is crippled in terms of mental health care professionals and we don't have enough individuals to help complete that mission. so those ones that fall through the cracks, this is what we get. so we have to instead of doing cuts in the military, budget cuts, let's go ahead and shift moneys and things that really is not a benefit to strengthen the military and give us the necessary tools we need to have to perform above 100%. >> some especially those on the hill congressman john carter on air today, suggested that more

guns on this base would have made the difference. what do you think? more guns or less guns? >> i think more guns. there's note a need to have fear of guns because if you have to remember that our tax members are trained to use every military personnel. be it if you're a medic or if you are a computer guy, you're a soldier first. and when that time comes, you have to use that weapon to defend what we hold dear, our way of life. and had it been where other service members would have had guns or weapons on them at that time, i don't think that that specialist would have reacted the way he was reacting. he was calling for help. he was using that weapon as a tool to capture someone's attention and let them know, hey, i'm in trouble, i need some help. and when of the mps showed up, it's like a man backed in a corner. he chose to take his own life because he knew that the act he

persecu performed wrong. >> that call for help came far too late and with far too devastating consequences. thank you for that gripping story you lived through and stay with us, up next on the show, we're going to look at that mental health dimension of the story. was this a cry for help? we're going to start with our own war correspondent live from one of the world's toughest hot spots. ups is a global company, but most of our employees live in the same communities that we serve. people here know that our operations have an impact locally. we're using more natural gas vehicles than ever before. the trucks are reliable, that's good for business. but they also reduce emissions, and that's good for everyone. it makes me feel very good about the future of our company. ♪

welcome back to the program, everybody. the news raising some of the hardest questions this hour is the fact that specialist ivan lopez was under evaluation for

ptsd, post-traumatic stress disorder. >> he was not diagnosed as of today with ptsd, efgs undergoing a diagnosis process to determine if he had ptsd. that is alengthy process. there are reports that he self-reported a traumatic brain injury previously coming back from the iraq tour. he was undergoing behavior health and psychiatric treatment for depression and anxiety and a variety of other psychological and psychiatric issues. >> undergoing behavioral and psychiatric treatment. one of the doctors treating victims of his shooting said this good the gunman just moments ago, a beat of compassion. >> they are exceptional people however they are put in circumstances that are often not understandable and so even once physical wounds are managed, the

wounds that are deeper that are psychological are there and it's something we're continuing to see and really cast more light on in this country. >> today we look at that challenge of ptsd. i'm going to start by turning to richard engel, our chief foreign correspondent embedded with troops facing this challenge all over the world. he joins us from afghanistan. richard thank you so much for joining us. specialist lopez served in iraq but never actually in kpat there. you've dealt with soldiers in combat and not in combat, is the latter as hard in some ways? what psychological effect does it have to not be in the fight directly? >> well, he was in iraq according to the reports in 2011 on that last convoy out of iraq. i was on that that convoy but did not meet him. this was a relatively peaceful time in iraq. u.s. forces weren't doing combat

operations but they were mostly packing up and being in combat and seeing your friends and colleagues being killed and fearing for your own life is far more traumatic than just being in a combat zone. but ptsd is not a simple on/off switch, not like you have it or you don't have it. you can have a few symptoms of psd which will bring out other problems, financial problems, problems with your spouse, problems with your family, previous drug or alcohol problems you might have. and ptsd can come and go. you can be okay for a while and then notice these symptoms coming back. it's hard to provide any kind of psychological evaluation of this particular soldier since i didn't know him or debrief him. many soldiers who i've met and many people who cover wars do follow similar patterns. even if they don't have a traumatic event, they can have a little bit of ptsd, which could

bring out depression or other problems that they might be facing. >> the symptoms you're talking about are ones that are already documented on mass for troops returning from afghanistan, where you are, more troop withdrawals happening right now. how do you think the troops will hold up? what is it like from your conversations there right now in terms of their experience? >> well, troops are the same way this soldier was leaving iraq, troops are now leaving afghanistan. and some of them will be wondering, was it worth it? was there experience in this country worth while? most feel they do accomplish something and most believe they did succeed in their mission and did what they were asked for. during a drawdown period, there are always extra stresses because things are packing up and leaving. we were at a base today for example, a few months ago when there were more troops here that base operated at full strength

and hot meals. now they are on sandwiches and packing up their belongings. it's a different kind of experience. but it wouldn't necessarily be the kind of traumatic experience that would cause someone to go thome and open fire. there's got to be more to it than that. >> but of course, perhaps isolating in other ways and you mentioned in passing something we don't touch on a lot on air, the fact you and other reporters there are living through very traumatic circumstances. stay safe out there and thank you for the overview. for more on military mental health, this urgent but too often under reported crisis, i'm going to bring back alonzo lunsford, survivor of the 2009 shooting at ft. hood. i'm going to bring in dr. barbara van dalen, give an hour, a national network of mental health professionals providing troops to u.s. troops. a "washington post" poll released last week shows one in

every two soldiers at least knows a fellow service members who attempted to commit suicide. and more than a million suffer from relationship problems, experience outbursts and things we've heard about from richard engel. is enough being done to address this? >> these are extremely complicated issues in terms of what we were just hearing from your correspondent. the stress on the men and women who serve our country. in the nine years i've been working in this space, there's been a tremendous effort by the department of defense to look at how we can identify early and how we can get services in to bases, units, embedded with troops overseas. is there enough? part of the issue here is that this issue, the mental health issue is not just a military issue, it is a cultural issue. we should talk say little bit about what might have made it difficult for this particular service member or those who knew

him to get appropriate care for him earlier, get appropriate care in terms of the intensity that he needed. complex issues, a lot is being done now at d.o.d. and in other services to support these men and women. >> a lot being done but the firsthand account often reflects it's not enough. let's hear your story. tell us more about what you went through and whether you felt you had the support you needed during that process? >> my experience was that when i was at ft. hood after the shooting, i had a surgeon come to me and say, well, sergeant lunzford, you walk okay and talk okay, we're going to rtd you, return you to duty. my response was that no, because i still have some challenges. it was just that i was humble enough to add mitd i had some challenges. what we have to look at, the service member a lot of times not going to openly open up and say i have challenges because

they are in fear that they may damage their career, one. two is that if a service member is seeing a mental health care professional and they ask someone, well, are you prior service or are you just a contractor given this job? and that has a huge consequence. because it's very difficult if you are to lead a person from alcoholism but never taken a drink in your life. you can get the context out of a book but if you never experienced what alcohol can do, it's a little challenging to lead a person from alcoholism as well as with person with ptsd and tbi. with ptsd as you all stated earlier, you have different triggers and it is a condition that plays with you, like for me, i know that from the 18th of october through the last week of november, i'm going to have a tough time. why? because 18th of october is the first day i work with major

hasan, then going through thanksgiving, the biggest holiday is thanksgiving. then my birthday is during that time frame, you have to be willing to seek help and just open up and speak from the heart. >> something as simple and for most joyful as birthday or thanksgiving can be a complex trigger in cases like this. thank you for your story. just to get your personal take on what's needed right now, of course, individuals like yourself suffer trauma based on shootings like this, acts of violence here on this soil. what would you say the support that's most needed for the people living out of the trauma of this shooting. are all of the people at the base reeling? >> yes, they are. now is a time for the ncos to talk to their troops at the quad level and as the job of nco, know your people. all of the -- so you know they

have a bad day without them telling you. look at nonverbal cues. these are telltale signs when a person wouldn't openly communicate with you. >> there is a challenge to access people that need care. dr. van dalen, do you think the military is doing enough? >> well, again, that's a long discussion. the military is doing more than they've ever done. as you just heard there are several different levels, one has to do with access that's available to people when they need it. comfort with the providers available and are they cultur culturally sensitive to this dmunt. what do we need to do as a nation within our military and broader to help people be comfortable expressing their stress, their distress, their pain and suffering, how can we as a nation and we in the military learn to reach out to each other when we see someone next to us who is suffering? are we there yet?

no, we're not. are we getting there, i hope so. >> on some sense this is son al of us. thank you for that call. dr. van dalen and sergeant, we appreciate that and we'll come back to them as we continue to cover this story. there will be a lot of people continuing to reel over the next several days. coming up at 4:00 p.m., officials at ft. hood will hold the next press conference and there will be big revelations there. you can watch here on msnbc. up next, we'll break down your picks for most underreported story this week. then we'll put our top people on it. promise. ow, it's what we do. we grow big celebrations, and personal victories. we grow new beginnings, and better endings. grand gestures, happier happy hours. so let's gro something greater with miracle-gro. what will you grow?

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all around the world, usaid does life saving humanitarian and development work and some of the most important faces america presents to the world. i know i worked on american aid programs for two years and in hot spots all over the world. those workers face constant accusations that they are american spies. those are charges they deny throughout the world. and a revolution like this one puts all of them and those critical life saving programs at work. joining me now, one of the senate's big voices on american aid and surveillance. patrick leahy is live with us from capitol hill. thank you so much. >> glad to be with you. >> in the last hour the usaid administrator said it wasn't a covert program and they found it was all done legally. do you take issue with those claims? >> i take issue with the fact that they are not being covert? covert is such an elastic thing.

they can say it wasn't covert but you'd have to really stretch it. but the thing that gets ignored in all of the debate didn't make any sense? it didn't. it was dumb. we have people in our state department and past administrations and same thing, where if we just be tough and do these things, we'll get rid of those castro brothers and making the same argument to president eisenhower. it doesn't work. we have so many good things we can do in the united states openly with cuba if we wanted to show a little initiative. we're not going to change everything about society, of course not, nor are they ours. but openly having exchanges of students lift the embargo that stops americans from freely traveling to cuba. there are so many things we could do that would have a

tremendous influence on cuba and their society and their openness. they do some dumb thing like this, which is bound to backfire. >> and senator -- >> and hurts the image of usaid. you talked about your own experience. i visited some of these usaid places and very tenuous parts of the world. they are putting their lives on the world to help people with clean water and help with health care, maternal care and all the rest. why tarnish usaid with something like this. >> you make an excellent point in saying that the content and ambitions of a program like this often are very admirable and could be done less covertly and cause less problems to these workers putting their lives on the line as a result. we have overt programs on internet freedom, trying to expand communications in

repressive places. the question how this was executed. i want to hit on one question mark about that. ap reported the funds were ee marked for a program in pakistan. is it possibility that this instance of moving money without consulting congress was breaking the law on their part? >> it's one of the questions i will ask dr. shaw when he comes before our committee on tuesday. the fact is that they will say we were notified -- we were not notified. i think most people if they had heard of a program like this would have said you've got to be out of your mind. let somebody else try that if you want but don't risk usaid's representation that way. i would say if we get rid of our embargo which does nothing but hurt a u.s. citizens more than it does cubans, you probably would have had a half dozen telecommunications companies down there trying openly to do exactly this. >> right, there is a certain irony in the embargoes leading

to less communications and then these programs trying to skirt the lack of communications. the last time -- >> it's a cold war mentality. >> it does seem to be. >> i had hoped this administration would get rid of it. they have not done enough to. >> instead of getting rid of it, what has happened repeatedly in cuba specifically, we have try to build these communications networks the last time they tried a similar program aimed at generating communication in 2011. a usaid subcontractor was thrown in jail for 15 years for it. it's a sentence he's still serving, he's in dire health. are you concerned about the impact of the latest news on him? >> i'm very concerned about it. i visited mr. gross twice in cuba. i've talked with his family. i've communicated with him, members of my staff are in constant contact, i worry for his health. in his case a 15-year sentence

is really a life sentence. i wish the administration had been doing more to get his release than fooling around with some dumb thing like this. >> and you see him there with his wife judy gross. i know a lot of people are looking and watching and hoping it doesn't have a negative impact on him. thank you very much. appreciate you taking a stand on this. a lot of questions for when you have dr. shaw appear before you. >> we will, thank you very much. coming up on "rf daily" our call to action this week. what can you do to help america's children stay safe in school and stay safe afterwards? up next. ♪ driving rock/metal music stops ♪music resumes music stops ♪music resumes

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arrested in public schools vafltly more often than white ones. it is the start of a so-called school to prison pipeline. here's what we'd like you to do. call your local school and ask what programs they have for at risk youth and then tell us, do you think it's enough? send your responses to at ronandaily and let us know on facebook or e-mail them. today we're going to look at what these students face when they ends up in the criminal justice system. someone who's worked in america's worst neighborhoods, professor david kennedy, the center for crime prevention and control. thank you for joining us. you have a personal take on this issue. tell us before these kids even get to school, what are some of the challenges that just getting there presents? >> i work in really dangerous mostly african-american neighborhoods and the kids there will tell you, i have to cross

rival gang turf. you have to cross drug market areas the cops are stopping me all the time. they get arrested for things that white kids would never get arrested for. they spend two nights in jail and have to talk to their defense attorneys and show up in court. all of these things grind away at being able to be a decent student. >> i can only imagine that making it almost impossible to focus on what we need and want them to focus on, to be productive members of society. >> scared people are not good students. >> what do you think is leading to students being arrested for these minor offenses and particularly minority owe fences? is it zero tolerance policies? >> it's zero tolerance policies in school just as you say and you've had your viewers call schools and have them call their legislators and say we don't want zero tolerance in schools. it's stupid and destructive and takes discretion away from the administrators and gets kids

locked up for nothing. it's ridiculous. high crime areas tend to put police officers in schools for all kinds of well intentioned reasons and we know that cops in schools tend to arrest kids. that's what happens. high crime neighborhoods have a lot of police on streets, for all kinds of good reason. they disproportionately stop black men and get arrested for stuff their white counterparts get away with all the time. even if they don't do serious time, again, they have to go to court and talk to counsel, cases gets continued and you have to go back and back and back. and i've talked to really good high school students in new york city and said, did get stopped? and the one young man said, oh, yeah. how often? he said, six or eight times a month. over and over and over and over

again. and when he gets stopped that many times, cops are going to find stuff, you start distrusting authority and don't feel a real citizen and feel cut off from the community. >> i can only imagine that profoundly isolating if they are oit to get you and very often end up in a prison in a more isolated setting. what's wrong the often young men are behind bars? >> people have no idea how bad this is. across the country on a national basis, more than one in three young black men who do not finish high school are behind bars at any given time, over a third of them. and over year lifetime if you do not -- and black male, serve a 70% going to prison doing your

life. it's normal in certain neighborhoods. and what we know now about that is it's bad for you. you can't get work. you can never pass a background check. you're less likely to support your family, you're less likely to marry. and your kids are far more likely to fail school and go to prison. >> profound effects for all of society. what can be done both on a school level and national policy level? >> on a school level, the biggest single thing we could do, i think, is get rid of all of these zero tolerance policies that legislatures have imposed on school systems. when kids are getting thrown out of school for carrying a plastic peanut butter knife to school, we have gone insane. that's got to stop. the evidence now shows that you have police officers posted in schools they are much more

likely to arrest than just to mediate. that turns out to be a bad idea. and we ought to stop doing things in the lives of ordinary students that routinely bring them into contact with the criminal justice system. >> we've got to get less contact across the board is what it sounds like. >> different content. these are communities that need law enforcement but not this kind of law enforcement. >> thank you for that call. fascinating to get your take. it's a big issue. up next, we're going to stay with this issue because we have another devastating report to look at. one nation underemployed. our panel will respond to a new national urban league report on the state of black america. i'm going to ask them about all of this after the break. in the nation, we reward safe driving. add vanishing deductible from nationwide insurance

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the urban league today has just released its annual state of black america report titled "one nation underemployed." it pulls back the curtain on a widening economic gulf between whites and african-americans and latinos. as of february of this year, it finds the unemployment rate for black americans is double that of white americans. joining us to put a human face on this report, james peterson, director of africana studies. heather mcgee, president of the public policy organization demos. thank you both for being here. you guys were here listening to our discussion with david kennedy on just how dire the situation is in schools. you heard about that report that we've all been reeling in response to about inequality in the education system. how related is -- i'll start with you, heather, is this educational inequality early on to the long-term effects we've seen chronicled in this urban league report? >> i understand one of the things that connects these two issues, disproportionate locking up of 4 and 5-year-olds to the

babies to the inequality in the job market is something we shouldn't be ashamed to talk about it. which is our often unconscious prejudices and stereotypes. i have a thinking that a call to action for your viewers should be to go on the harvard university website for the implicit association test. which allows you to just go and find out how hard it is for you to make a connection between a darker face and a positive word. and what it's found is that over hundreds of thousands of people who have taken this test, that still in today's america, the majority of people are -- actually have anti-black bias. we have to just recognize that. know it's unconscious. know that we're not doing consciously wrong in order to root that out before we can get to these other issues before they manifest in our schools. >> and in the job market, you mentioned that, there is all this literature if you see a supposedly "black-sounding name" on a rez nay. this also has a huge economic

component. we're in this post-recession recovery. how is the black community dealing with that. what do these underemployment numbers say to you? >> they say what we've already known, which is this has been a recovery for the 1% and the 2%. unfortunately, black and brown folk are not overly represented in the 1% in terms of wealth and income in this nation. so it's not shocking or surprising to me that we're seeing the underemployed ratd for african-americans being around 20%.e for african-americans being around 20%. black folk unfortunately are a last hired, first fired. when there's recovery like this, the recovery is market-based, but it's not people-based. and i think the black community is unfortunately used to this, but the surprising piece here -- >> what do you mean by people-based? >> well, it's not a recovery where the federal government has -- in previous recessions, the federal government has had jobs, bills, infrastructure bills. the federal government has played a role in the recovery. even under reagan that's the

case. under president obama, that has not been the case. partially because of obstructionism. partly because we don't have the proper understanding of the role the government must play in a proper economic recovery. >> you mentioned brown folk. hispanics are doing better in terms of this inequality that we see around the country between minorities and majorities. what do you say about that? >> that was something "the new york times" led with in the headline. >> you think it shouldn't be led with? >> that's not the headline. the headline is actually still that both african-americans and latinos have a big challenge. worse off than white americans. let's think about what we did in this country to create the great american middle class that we're so proud of. all of those investments, the g.i. bill, strong tight labor markets, those are all at a time of real exclusion for african-americans and latinos. we have to recognize that public policy helps create opportunity and that we are still not at a place where public policy has been able to translate that

opportunity today in a time of rising inequality. >> it's these numbers and how daunting they are. they hit me personally as someone who grew up with black siblings. i know it's something that all of us deal with in our personal lives. thank you for taking such a strong stand on them. we're going to have you both back to talk more about them, a big impact on our country. >> thank you, ronan. >> good to have you here. that wraps things up for this edition of "ronan farrow daily." you can catch my show weekdays at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. "the reid report" is up next. it is one of my favorites. stay with us. why? because selling their funds makes them more money. which makes you wonder. isn't that a conflict? search "proprietary mutual funds". yikes!! then go to e*trade. we've got over 8,000 mutual funds and not one of them has our name on it. we're in the business of finding the right investments for you. e*trade. less for us, more for you. the fund's prospectus contains its investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other important information and should be read and considered carefully before investing. for a current prospectus visit www.etrade.com/mutualfunds.

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