me, help me get out of this. >> in the air, you could feel the reality of it. >> time doesn't heal. it does not fix things, but time makes the trauma less sharp. it softens the edges. it is good to be with you. i'm geoff bennett and as we come on the air there is a showdown brewing between the world health organization and the president's plan for covid booster shots which is pending approval. and now, there is a call for americans who have compromised immune systems and the plan laid out for the white house covid team, that boosters are going to be available to all american adults and starting with those who got the pfizer shot, but the head of the w.h.o. said, not so fast and he is calling on the

rich companies like the u.s. to stop the booster shots to start prioritizing those at risk in poorer countries and until every country can vaccinate at least 40% of the population. as you know, the u.s. leads the world by far in vaccine donations to the poorer countries, and as that is playing out, some prominent doctors says that all of the talk of the boosters is taking our eye off of the ball. >> you have a 25 to 30-fold greater risk of dying if you are unvaccinated. and it is the unvaccinated that is spreading the virus in the country, and that is what we should be talking about every hour of this day, because we will never get on top of this pandemic until we do. >> that is what we are already doing is talking about the unvaccinated. and the president is expected to receive a briefing from the team within the hour in what is a critical meeting.

and now, the kids are back in school, and the children under 12 can't get vaccinated and it is raging for the requirements to be vaccinated in schools. now a judge lifted a hold lifting ron desantis' ban on masks in school, and the governor in kentucky called the surge dire, and there is a look at a mask mandate for schools and day cares. and now, we go to cal perry outside of a school in kentucky and we have monica al ba, and the dean of brown university medical school dr. aja. what have you heard now? >> there is a special session in the state legislature, and it is emergency session, and the governor tried to put the mask mandates across the state, and

the courts putting a stop to that. but the situation on the ground is at the brink which is the word of the governor. the cases are up 13,000 in the last week, and that is the worst week since the pandemic here in kentucky, so they have shutdown schools in 38 of to 171 districts to keep thousands is of pupils out of school to keep the case numbers from really rising to keep them to actually where they are. the governor as i said, addressing the need for this special session. he talked about the masks and how it is necessary in his view that people are wearing the masks to keep the schools from being shutdown. >> we have seen it time and time again that covid spreads quickly and shuts down schools and day cares without masking. this is a must, and i will encourage the legislators as much as i can. if they don't pass it, we will go to encourage every school district and child care facility

that wants to stay home, and not because the government is going to shut them down, but because covid will. >> reporter: because so much of the conversation is about the vaccines, kentucky for example 49.1% of the folks wholey in this state have been fully vaccinated, but the bigger issue is the rural areas of the state where you can find 35 to 40% of the folks vaccinated fully. >> dr. jha, what do you think about this? two years into the pandemic, we know that the max work, and 1 in 4 covid-19 cases are in children, and still, as pointed out by cal's reporting, you have a back and forth between the politics and the public health. >> yeah, geoff, thank you for having me back. masks have to stop being the topic. they have to be something that we do to keep the kids safe. liberals and conservatives and democrats and republicans want to keep the children safe, and masks are an important part of

it, and they are not the only tool, and along with vaccinating the adults and other things. that is what we have to do. we want to keep the kids safe, and masks are part of this. it is not debated among the public health experts and other nonpublic health experts. >> and now, we need to stop talking about the boosters according to the w.h.o., and what do you hear about this? >> i know that most of the world is learning, but this is a three-shot regimen, and we need to provide that third shot to the elderly american, and those who are frail and those with chronic diseases, but i don't believe it needs to be either/or, and in some places shots are going to waste, and we should get them in people's

arms, and i appreciate where the w.h.o. is coming from, and i understand what the president is arguing, but i believe it is the right approach. >> and president biden is agreeing with dr. jha, and it is not either/or but both/and, and they can roll out more doses, and the u.s. can continue to do what it is doing, and make more covid doses available to the poorer doses. >> that is exactly what we expect the president to say, that we can do not either/or, but both/and. and lay out a six-pronged strategy of what the u.s. wants to do in the vaccine approach internationally and something for months that this administration has had to defend the rollout domestically, and not necessarily having the promise of what was going to go overseas, though they attribute it to logistical issues and in terms of what else we will maer

from the president, the meeting that takes place in the next couple of hours from the health experts is critical, because they will brief him on what is a part of the announcement tomorrow. once he signs off on it, we will have a better sense, but there is enormous pressure on the president and the white thousands update the nation on what the plan is for schools, for potential new mandates for these potential booster shots, and all of it is coming, and remember that the last time we had this sweeping speech from the president on covid was the fourth of july speech where he tried to declare independence from the virus and at the same time warning that some of the more difficult days may be ahead because of the delta variant, and obviously, they did not envision themselves to be giving a speech tomorrow that is essentially a, yes, the delta variant is worse than what we expected. here is how we are going to tackle it, but that is what they are doing, and the president is going to make the point that he is going to make the science and

the data dictate the policies, and this is why things need to change, but the big question is that the white house said no federal mandates when it comes to masks, and they have applied it to the agencies and to the military, and the federal workers and so is there another element coming for that, and we are watching for that, because it is a big piece of that, and geoff, there is a call for the private sector to continue to do more when it comes to vaccinations as well. >> monica alba, we will cut you loose so you can head in for the press briefing. and dr. jha, can you give us a sense of where we are in the pandemic, because as delta took hold, we saw the cases going nup europe and u.k., and fall over a six to eight-week period, and the u.s. is lagging a few weeks behind where the other countries are, and what are you seeing as far as what is happening in the u.s.? >> well, geoff, it is looking like the south is peaking, and maybe turning, and that would be very, very very good, because

that is where the large outbreaks are happening in florida, arkansas, louisiana and texas and other states. we will see. i am worried about the northern half of the country as we are heading into the winter, but we have the tools to suppress it, testing, masking and vaccining. if we do these things, we don't have to have a tough winter, so we are fully in the driver seat, and we control the virus, and it does not. >> so we have the tools, but the question is do we have the collective will. dr. ashish jha, cal perry and monica alba thank you. and now to louisiana in some of the hardest hit areas like jefferson parish, the water has not fully receded, and in the northeast, people are bracing

for another storm system with the potential of flash flooding. in manville, new jersey, where we saw president biden, they are rushing to clean up from last week's flooding before the storm hit. ellison barber is in new jersey, and sam brock is in louisiana, and what is the latest? >> good to be with you here on a drizzly day in new orleans, and so much here in the recovery from hurricane ida. the electric company efvergy ha been out working to try to get power back, and they believe

most of new orleans will have their power back. and now, most of the residents were evacuated to a warehouse in independence, louisiana, and we have video of those residents lying on mattresses in floodwater filth on the floor, and not getting the help they needed and seven people died in that catastrophe and now an investigation is moving forward and the state department of health and the attorney general's office is investigating this on multiple fronts, and first, what were the plans set up before this happened, because the plan was state approve and also, what happened after the evacuation. we are uncovering all sorts of details are hair-raising in some respects. 6 of the 7 nursing homes that were evacuated were already on a medicare list as the most troubled in the united states. there is a report from wdsu, the nbc affiliate of 2017 of one of these facilities with roaches

and filth and human feces all over or the place, and it is not clear what the state did after the report, and we have certainly asked them for more information there, and the fact that the business owner who owns all seven of the nursing homes is listed as owning 119 establishments according to state records in louisiana. certainly, there is some duplicates there, and the question is that he has such a large printfoot in health care and senior care and dialysis centers, and what is happening to all of the establishments if there are additional charges brought against the owner. it is not clear that there will be with the revocations bush we are out to department of health to find out what is the next step here. and i will send it back to you, geoff. >> sam, our thanks to you for that. we turn to ellison barber in manville, new jersey, and ellison, people there are planning for the potential of flash floods, and in some cases the old floodwater has not receded yet.

what is the scene? >> yeah, i mean, i tried to ask someone if they were worried about the weather coming, and he basically said, look around, we are so busy trying to clean up and deal with the first crisis situation, if you will, they don't have time to think beyond that, and hoping for best and hoping they don't see the heavy rains again. but you can see the heavy cleanups and the crews going block by block, and the subcontractors working with the county to try to get the piles that people have moved out of their homes as quickly as possible. geoff, we have said it a lot, but it is something to keep repeating, the people here, they need help, and they needed the help days ago, and even the children know it. i want you to hear what one 7-year-old told us earlier this morning. >> reporter: pretend i am president joe biden, what would you say to me. >> can you please help us. please help our family grow

stronger, and like, rebuild our house, and lend us money so we can fix all of this. and make it into our original house. >> reporter: do you think that you will be able to make it back like it was before? >> yes, because like, if there is a way in, there is a way out. >> reporter: that little boy was rescued along with his mother and two sisters from the roof of his house. he did meet president biden yesterday, and he gave him a homemade letter that he had made. speaking with his dad, he said that he appreciated seeing all of the politicians coming, but he hopes they see the action and see it quickly, because promises are wonderful, but they need the process of getting the financial aid to be under way. geoff. >> we saw the president hug little zachary in this hour. and ellison, since manville is a

place that had not flooded previously, and so do they have flood insurance there? >> people in the flood zone do, but one example of a mother-in-law lived in a house that her mother had lived in, and they had flood insurance and in another house, because it is mandatory if you live in a flood zone, but a third property that is the home they lived in, they did not have flood insurance in that, because it is an area that is technically outside of the zone, and so yes and no. there were people who did not think they were in heavily flooded areas that were flooded this time around. >> wow. ellison barber with that great on the ground reporting. thanks for that. >> and now, one of the largest confederate monuments is gone. we go live to richmond, virginia, where robert e. lee was taken off of the pedestal. and now, where the strict

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the nation's largest confederate statue was taken down today in virginia. it took over two hours to remove the 12-ton bronze statue of robert e. lee which stood as the centerpiece of monument avenue for 133 years. the governor announced plans to remove it after the racial protests after the killing of george floyd. and then the supreme court decided to bring it down. every other confederate statue in the city had been removed by protesters or the city itself, and for now, the city says that the 140-foot graffiti high statue will stay in place while discussions gone on for what will happen next. joining us is correspondent shaquille brewster, and tv does not capture the immense nature of that statue, and 12 tons and six stories high, and what was

it like when the workers were taking it down. >> geoff, i will be fully transparent, and right now we are moving to city hall, because we are talking to the mayor about what this means as the community, and he was there as the statue was brought down with the governor of irginia and he said it is a healing moment for the city, and to go past the divides that exists, and he acknowledged this is a symbol, but it is a moment that can be taken advantage of, and bridge the gaps and work on some of the more systemic issues, but talking to the folks, that is the same sentiment that i heard. you heard the cheers in the video, and the cheers of celebration and excitement as they watched the statue brought down, and an area that some protesters spent months occupying in a plea to bring that statue down, but you heard a sense of purpose saying it is a symbol, but we need to do more. i want you to listen to some of the folks i had a conversation

with. one of the first folks is the organizer of black lives matter virginia, and he helped to organize the protest. >> it has been a year and some change, a year and a half, and we have invested money, time, sweat equity, and going to jail, and all kinds of things, and you know, it is just, this is the fruit of the labor. >> i started to see the statue in a different way, because we used to live on monument avenue, and i would come up on the boulevard going south, and realize how imposing that statue was, and how intimidating it would be to anybody who, to all of us actually. >> now, the work for crews is not done. the pedestal is more than 40 feet high, and it is going to stay there until the community members decide what to do with it, and there a time capsule

inside that we expect to be replaced. that will happen tomorrow. and now, former virginia governor terry mcauliffe is going to be running for governor to get his previous job, and when i interviewed the governor at the time, he said that a statue of this size shows that this is what we most value, and so now that with this statue gone, what is the message is sent? >> well, i am glad that the statue is gone, and now we can enact legislation to begin to take the statues down. it is a perfect bookend that four year ago that we dealt with charlottesville that we were to

take down the statues when the neo-nazis came into charlottesville to spew all of the stuff i have ever heard, and all of that inspired by trump, and i begged him to come out to condemn them, and he said there were good people on both sides, but that is not the case. it was a symbol of hate and division. i have an election this year, and i am running against a republican endorsed by trump, and extreme position to take the money out of the public schools and give them to private schools. we have to invest in the schools. regardless of the zip code, it is quality schools and quality teachers, but taking the statues down, and people are divided. you have glenn youngins is going to do nothing but to divide

people. so this race for attorney general is going to be important to make our state open and welcoming and get rid of the relics of the past and bring people together and lift everybody up, and make sure that everybody gets a quality world class education, and that is what it is, and my opponent is campaigning today with ben carson who on abortion does not believe that a woman should have an abortion in the case of rape or incest. >> i want to get to the issues that are resonating in the virginia gubernatorial race. you were successful when you ran in 2014 to 2018, and virginia is a blue state now, and that is another advantage, and you are running against a candidate who is not well known, and so you are five points ahead of him, and so why is this governor race

so close? >> well, it always is. and in off years, we are blue, but this is an off year, and i remind you, geoff, i am the only person in 44 years who ever wins the white house, and the next year, they win the governor's mansion. and so i am the only person in 44 years to break it. i won and then president obama won in 2012. so it is energizing the democrats to come out. so that is why we have to energize and the democrats have to understand that i am running against a private equity guy whose life story is going with no benefits and firing employees and he is extreme. he does not believe in vaccination, and he won't mandate them. i am calling to have everybody to get them, and he won't call

for people to wear masks, and he was caught on msnbc to say that he would ban abortions and defund planned parenthood and he said that if they know what i am going to do, they won't vote for me. that is what the issues are that i am up against. i am the first proponent for gay marriage and i am trying to keep virginia open and welcoming, and kept all of the women's clinics open while the republicans tried to shut them down. so it is the real issue in this race. and the democrats and the independents and the like-minded republicans, and we don't want to go to way of texas, and he praises desanty, and thousands of kids in quarantine, and kids in hospitals and school districts closing. we won't do that here in virginia. we want to keep the schools open. i built up a great economy, and we will take virginia the next level, but you can't do it with

glenn youngkins, because he will take the state backwards. >> we have invited him on, and we have not heard back from the office. >> well, good luck. >> and terry mcauliff is running for the future governor of virginia. and now, they were some of the first troops into afghanistan and the last to leave. and the soldiers of 10th mountain speak about their days in kabul. and now, the recall of governor newsom, and gray davis who was recalled himself in 2003 joins us next. it was bleeding. the building was bleeding into the sky. >> time doesn't heal or fix things but time makes the trauma less sharp. ♪♪ ♪ oe esposito♪ ♪

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vice president kamala harris is in california today campaigning, because in six days the voters there will have to answer two simple questions with major consequences. should governor gavin newsom be replaced three years into the temperature and if so, by whom? right now a color cast of more than 40 candidates from all political persuasions are vying to replace newsome, and despite the polling showing him holding a steady lead, the democrats in

california are nervous. joining us is our friend jacob soboroff, and what are you seeing here? >> the recall campaign got this thing on the ballot, and he calls it undemocratic, but it does not mean that the machinery of democracy has stopped working and that is why i am here at the most consequential building in the entire recall election, and this is because this is the mail-in balloting process center here in california, and also the nation, because millions of ballots from this recall will be passing through this building,

because each and every california voter is getting a ballot. this is the intake, and each are looked at individually by workers of the l.a. county registrar and county clerk office. i met joe earlier, and how are you? >> good. >> one at a time, and i am not going to distract him. and geoff, from that process when they arrive whether it is a drop box or the post office or the vote by mail center, they go from the electronic signature verification process, and i don't want to get too close, but each ballot is checked against the electronic record to make sure that it matches, and there is a lot of security matching, and then they will go through every one of those stacks of ballots that does not match to make sure that manually, these workers are experts in this elections field to double-check that the signatures match the

signature on the electronic record if they are triggered. this is where i get in the exercise, and so we go on a run. so from the post three, the data processing signature verification to post three and four, and at post four and five, the ballot extraction process happens. there you are. they are not counted here, but they are taken out of the ballots to be not only verified, but processed quite literally, and so what these folks are doing is in the processing stage. you can see that the activity is humming here, because thousands of ballots are coming in here every single day, but i wanted to point out that does not mean that there is the high turnout that the governor newsom needs to survive. only in l.a. county 23% of the ballots have been returned, and when i say returned, this is the final step of the process. come over here, and this is the machine in the extraction process to prepare the ballots and sort them and colate them

after they are ready for extraction. watch this. so cool. so geoff, you are watching the process in action, and this is democracy in action and even though governor newsom calls this process undemocratic, and if and when he is ultimately recall for office that we will find out a week from now, and tuesday, and election day, they are hoping to get through the process, and these ballots will come back, and he is going to be declared the winner on that election night, and they won't have some long drawnout night. >> jacob soboroff, it is great to see you with all of that great reporting and exercise there. i want to bring in gray davis who lost in a recall to schwarzenegger at the time. and as jacob pointed out, california is a state where democrats outnumber republicans 2/1. so how have republicans done this twice now to have these recall elections? >> well, it is a when i was

elected by 93% of the vote, and then i was sworn in by january 3rd, and a week later i started to hear about a recall. and if there were policy disputes they were resolved before, and a recall is a second bite of the apple in this case, and so the process in california is relatively easy to qualify for recall, but it is running the risk of having a governor not meet the 50% threshold that he has to meet on question two, and where the candidates run, he has to get one more vote than the next person. so going forward, there has to be one question on the ballot, and everyone gets to run including the governor, and if he wins, he serves out the term,

and if he loses then, the next person wins. >> what should he do to keep his job? >> he is doing what he should do, geoff. he is doing the day job, and more people are vaccinated in california than any other state. about 47 million. we have more people vaccinated than five nations on earth, and 64% with two shots and we need to get to 64% number up to 80%, because what is going to stop the virus is more as -- arms, and he has to keep doing to tell people what they need to do to put money back to help the renters pay their rent, and he has to talk about what he has done successfully to deal with the virus. >> and you have talked about

covid grappling with the wildfires and affordability issues and housing crisis in california right now. >> yeah, you can keep on going, geoff. i have never seen more problems dumped on one governor since world war ii, but he has made progress on all fronts. look, this is a question for the democrats. do they want this progressive governor to continue on the path that he is on, and the polls say yes, but this is a september 14th election, eight days after labor day, and people are not used to voting on that particular day, and so the real challenge is to turn the vote out, whether it is filling out the ballot and voting no on question number one, which is should the governor be recalled, and if it is no, then vote no, and turn it in and you is done your civic duty. >> gray davis, thank you. and now they were among the last to leave afghanistan, and

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41st infan tree unit, and the polar bears from the 10th mountain division and they were sent to afghanistan 10 months ago with the deployment with the mission of shutting down the bases all over the country, but they were extended time and time again, and the final mission was the chaotic evacuation mission. >> reporter: this unit saw it all. there for the beginning and the end of america's longest war. soldiers from the 10th mountain division at fort drum, and the first conventional unit in afghanistan after the september 11th attacks and now among the last troops to leave. >> the guys that you can see back there down range, and literally packing up one of the containers responsible for putting in every single base in afghanistan. >> reporter: scheduled to return in early may, but extended to secure the evacuation.

nbc news caught up with them just as they evacuated and arrived fort drum. picking up americans and afghans who needed help. >> we tried to avoid going too far out of the perimeter, because the security was too high. >> reporter: and avoid coming face-to-face with the taliban. >> it is like two rival gangs with the death stare. not my first time there. >> reporter: infantry soldiers trained to fight and faced with a humanitarian crisis. >> thousands of people coming on a flight is something that we have never specifically prepared for that. it is difficult, and the desperation, and people handing babies over, and doing anything they could to get into the airport and trying to get on the aircraft and it is hard to see

some of that stuff. >> reporter: half of the soldiers too young to know what drew the u.s. into afghanistan, the september 11th attacks. >> it was surreal, because growing up you would hear about the war in afghanistan and i find myself there. >> reporter: their commitment surpassing their age. >> every one of these guys absolutely cut their teeth and did a fantastic job. >> reporter: some soldiers still struggling that it is over. >> it does not feel real, and you feel like you are going back. they talk about unfinished business. you feel like at some point in time, you will be going back over there. and i hopefully it is not my son. >> reporter: it is scenes like this etched in american minds for an entire generation who have only known war in afghanistan. as you saw the homecoming the largest u.s. military homecoming of troops that we will see from afghanistan for the war.

it is last large homecoming for the u.s. mail tear there, geoff, and most of the troops are home, and the soldiers are among the last troops on the ground in kabul, and they had a tough mission there closing the bases all of the way down to the evacuation, and there is going to be a lot of concern going forward according to the defense officials that we spoke to, and mental health of the soldiers. >> thank you, courtney kube. and now, on to that plane that crashed in shanksville, pennsylvania on that day, and now on a new podcast, "sacred ground" there is a story that you may not have heard before about that field in shanksville. lambert is a reporter at wtif and he is the owner of the land on that fateful day. it had been passed through his family for three generations,

and he saved the audio recordings of his first visit to that site in 2001. >> debris all around us, and flight 93 was all around us. >> i can't get over. this there must be 1 million pieces. >> it is all over the place. >> it is so hard to get that comprehension in your mind. it is something that huge could get down into those little pieces. >> it is like, that confetti of metal all over the place. >> and paper. lots and lots of paper. >> joining us now is npr scott depro, the host of the npr podcast, and tell me why it was important for you and tim to tell us about the acreage being a point of connection for people? >> yes, because it is a shocking part of the story, and such a

constant of everyone whose family died on that plane, and you would not think that anyone who died in a plane crash, and that site would bring you solace, and the trees were burned to look like hell, but the flowers regrew, and the trees regrew, and the family members realized they had to raise money to raise this national memorial that is there today, and so shanksville became a place of peace, and wroels could you turn to when your loved one had died an reporters were calling you, and that manhattan was ground zero, and the pentagon was the pentagon and here they were in a field and they could gather and talk,

and here so many times family members would come and sit there with the lawn chairs and by themselves to just feel connected with the loved ones they lost. >> of the aircraft hijacked on september 11th, united reach its intended target, presumed to be the u.s. capitol. we were talking earlier about this incredible piece of journalist that you and timmoth put out. you had an understanding of how the passengers on board fought back. tell us about that. >> i knew the main story that they came together and found out what was happening and fought back and i don't think i fully appreciated just how hard that was. you're in this space of incredible violence. the plane is dropping hundreds of feet at the time. they felt like they were about to crash. the first phone call on the air phones in the cell phones is at 9:35. at 9:44 todd beamer says let's roll, the beginning of the

attack on the cockpit. the less than ten minutes to realize the magnitude that this plane might be crashing into another building like what happened in new york city. i mean, these days we can't even agree on whether we wear a mask on the plane u.see the youtube videos of people fighting on a plane. this was a group of mostly strangers, most of them on a flight by themselves. they had the presence of mind in this terrible moment to say we need to fight pack them. took a vote and because of that vote and what they did, they most likely saved the united states capitol. >> scott dutrow. his new podcast from npr is called "sacred ground." thanks for being with us. >> thanks. >> nbc films and peacock will present memory box, echos of 9/11. the new documentary tells the story of 9/11 through personal recollections recorded from a video booth in the wake of 9/11 that have never been shown on film. 20 years later the same eyewitnesses return to the booth. watch "memory box, echoes

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is nbc news correspondent priscilla thompson. priss had a, how are clinics in texas and neighboring states handling this new law? >> reporter: yeah, jeff, clinics like this one here in texas are referring patients to new mexico and colorado where there aren't these restrictions on abortions, and as for those clinics in other states like oklahoma, they are seeing this uptick in people who are requesting these services, and so they are working to hire additional staff, asking doctors to take on longer shifts in order to accommodate for this influx, and to really put it into context for you, texas is the second largest state by population in the country, and i spoke to one provider in oklahoma that says within the first couple of days of this law going into effect, they were getting around 50 calls per day from people here in texas. up week in they have scheduled more than 150 appointments and at least two-thirds of those are

residents here in texas, and i want to play part of my conversation with that provider in oklahoma. take a listen. >> there is so much overflow from texas. there are going to be oklahoma people who won't be able to receive care in oklahoma because the clinics will be full of texas patients, and i wish we could see everyone. if we open the clinic 24/7, i'm not sure we would be able to see all the people who need care. >> reporter: jeff, we're also talking to advocates here who are getting calls from women who say they don't have the resources to travel to a different state to have a procedure like this done, and so there's a very real fear among advocacy groups that some people could try to take measures into their own hands leading to devastating impacts, long-term health impacts for the mother and potentially that unborn child. jeff?

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