it is great to be with you on this monday. i'm geoff bennett. and there is a cascade of news on covid this afternoon that will affect tens of millions of american families, maybe even yours. first, the news that so many parents have been waiting for. pfizer says its vaccine is both safe and effective in kids ages 5 to 11. it's already available for children over 12. with schools back in session,

approval for younger kids can't come soon enough. for elementary school aged kids, pfizer tested a much lower vaccine dose. a third of the amount that's in shots for teens and adults. but doctors say that low dose in kids produced the same strong levels of antibodies with fewer side effects. pfizer says it plans to seek u.s. authorization by the end of the month. and once it does, the data will have to be examined by the fda and the cdc. and the timing appears to be in line with what dr. fauci said, his prediction of shots by late fall or early winter. >> so the company wanted to find a dose that would be very tolerable in the young kids while still providing adequate efficacy, efficacy on par with what we were seeing in older populations. hopefully this dose strikes that balance. fda will have to make the careful review. assuming that the fda's review takes from four to six weeks, which is what they've signaled, a vaccine for children could be available as soon as the end of october, perhaps early november.

>> that's dr. scott gottlieb who sits on pfizer's board. another development we've been waiting for. the biden administration is relaxing covid restrictions for international travelers including from the uk and the eu to the u.s. passengers will need to show proof of vaccination plus a negative covid test within three days of travel. they will not be required to quarantine once here. unvaccinated foreigners are still banned and unvaccinated americans returning to the u.s. will be required to get tested within a day before flying and after they arrive. and if you take a look at date today, it's september 20th, the day the white house had planned to start offering booster shots to all american adults. that plan was nixed by an fda panel for now which instead recommended boosters for those 65 and older as well as people at high risk. a decision from the fda on whether to approve that recommendation or tweak the age range could come at any time. joining us as we start the

hour, nbc news correspondent shaquille brewster in charleston, south carolina, and dr. amish adaljah, welcome to both of you. shaq, this authorization for kids can't come soon enough, children ages 5 to 11 being able to get the pfizer vaccine. where you are, children's hospital, is treating a dozen kids who are still too young to get the shot. what's happening there? >> reporter: yeah, geoff, and one clarification, we heard this morning, the majority of them, about 80% of the kids that this hospital is treating, are eligible to get the shot. they're 12 and up. so you get a real sense of what doctors are saying, what one doctor told me earlier this morning when she said that delta is different, it's impacting kids just as much as you saw it impacting the adult population, in a state, by the way, where they're dealing with a significant surge here. you saw last week a record number of cases, last week a record number of

hospitalizations. and again, impacting kids just as hard as it's hitting adults. i spoke to one of the patients at this hospital. a kid by the name of christian. he's 17 years old. i spoke to him and his dad. he's been in this hospital, geoff, for three weeks, more than three weeks, fighting this virus. he tested positive over a month ago. he said initially he saw covid as a joke. he no longer feels that way. listen to how he described some of the conversations he's having now with his friends. >> some of them are still like, yeah, i ain't getting that vaccine. i'm like, well, i'll see you in a couple of months, then, because i'm not going anywhere near, you know, that group of people no more, because they got me sick in the hospital. >> this is not a joke. you know, i thought it was when it first came out. and after this, it's not a joke. this coronavirus is serious. and it doesn't care, you know, if you're a child, an adult, it don't care what color you are,

it doesn't care what your religion is. it don't care. >> reporter: geoff, in this state schools are banned from enforcing any type of mask mandate. you have politicians on both sides of the aisle who say they want to reconsider that or potentially reconsider that. i asked anthony, the dad there, i asked him, what does he think about this mask debate. he said he not only believes masks should be required but he thinks schools should go back to virtual learning. i said, is that different from what you would have said a month ago before your son was in the hospital? he said yeah, that's the case. seeing his child fight for his life in the hospital for the past three weeks completely changed his perspective. what you hear many doctors saying is they don't want other kids to feel that way, other parents to go through that. they're just asking for basic mitigation efforts as the state is dealing with the surge. >> shaq, it shouldn't have to get to this point. dr. adalja, on vaccines, kids 5

to 11, this news from pfizer, earlier today we heard a member of the fda vaccine committee, dr. paul offit, he called this science by press release. he wants to dig into the data, that's understandable, and that's going to take some time. but from what you've heard so far, you're optimistic? >> i am optimistic. while it is still science by press release, and everybody wants to see the actual data and look at the side effect profile, look at the antibody profile and look at the data on how effective it is, many parents are eagerly awaiting this vaccine and it will be one way to keep covid-19 from schools and from disrupting children's lives the way it has for the last two years. >> dr. michael osterholm said on msnbc today, he sees the pfizer news as promising but he pointed out vaccine approval does not

necessarily mean actual vaccinations. he reminded us that only about half of those kids ages 12 to 17 who can already get the vaccine, only about half of them are vaccinated. and that's well below where it needs to be. what do you expect, when we get this approval for kids ages 5 to 11, what do you expect the sort of results of that to be? >> there's going to be people that are going to be lining up on the first day to get vaccinated. but i do think we're going to hit a wall of vaccine hesitancy. we may see a similar issue that we see in the 12 to 18 group, only half of them vaccinated. 80% of the pediatric cases that your reporter was talking about were people eligible to be vaccinated. we have to get it to where parents want their children to get vaccinated. the theme is persuading those who are vaccine hesitant to get vaccinated. that's what will hold up this country from putting the pandemic behind us. >> on the last big covid

development today, we have easing of restrictions for foreign travelers coming to the u.s. that easing of the restrictions comes with a vaccine mandate. there's talk today it could be a potential for a step on a vaccine mandate for domestic travel. do you see that as a possibility? >> it's unclear. for international travel, we do have certain vaccines that are required. at least for people emigrating to the united states. so it's not surprising [ inaudible ] for foreign travelers into the u.s. but domestic travel, i think it becomes a little bit difficult. i would like to see the airlines themselves do this rather than have this come from the faa or from the federal government because there's often going to be a major backlash when something like that happens. i do think that if you want to make the world safer, the more vaccinated people there are, the more safe it's going to be. and i think the private companies, private airlines, private companies that are facilitating travel, should require vaccinations amongst their employees and amongst

their travelers because it's the best way to keep covid-19 from disrupting your business. >> dr. amish adalja and shaquille brewster, our thanks to you both. meantime the pandemic itself has taken another lethal turn. we're again at 2,000 covid deaths per day nationwide. more than 100,000 americans have died of covid since may when vaccines were widely available. nearly all of those deaths were preventible. there are so many unvaccinated covid patients in idaho that hospitals don't have room for them and many are being transported over the border to washington state where hospitals are now strained. >> washington citizens in many cases cannot get heart surgery, cannot get cancer surgery that they need, because we're having to take too many people, unvaccinated and unmasked, many of whom come from idaho. that's just maddening, frankly. so we are calling for idaho, the leaders there, to lead. >> that was washington state

governor jay inslee expressing his clear frustration to me on friday. he's instituted some of the nation's strictest vaccine and mask requirements. washington state has one of the highest vaccination rates. idaho has few if any restrictions and one of the lowest vaccination rates in america. with us now is a doctor who serves on the idaho coronavirus task force and the former ceo of st. luke's health system in boise and dr. goetz from the sacred heart hospital. your frustration comes through, you have talked about information and disinformation and the failure of school officials there to take better, stronger safety measures. what can be done by the governor or other elected leaders there to turn things around at this point? >> well, i don't think that, given what we're dealing with in idaho, that the governor can make people do the right thing.

i think what we've got to do is we have got to continue to provide people facts. and we've got to really challenge those that are spreading the disinformation, some of it is some of our elected leaders, some of it doctors, and i think the medical community in idaho is so frustrated that i think you're going to see it is stepping up in terms of combating this misinformation and disinformation. >> and dr. goetz, you've said it's not just idaho, it's also eastern washington, which has lower vaccination rates. but in washington there are mask mandates. so paint a picture for us of the strain that this sort of compounding emergency, both from idaho and from the eastern part of your state, is putting on hospitals there. >> geoff, our case numbers over the past two weeks have hit record highs. and as governor inslee

mentioned, we've had to make compromises, including delaying surgeries for things that really can't wait. we've seen clearly that mask mandates work. we've seen reduced hospitalizations, reduced death rates in states that have higher use of masks. in washington state, where we're at, we still have a lot of work to do getting people vaccinated. we still trail behind the rest of the state and that's leading to extra hospitalizations in our community as well. >> dr. pate, your state is on crisis standards of care, they're rationing care there. there was a press release that gave the example of having to choose which patients get ventilators and which don't, based on a person's likelihood of survival. are you at that point yet at your hospital? >> well, not quite at that point. however, it is a situation where we're not doing things like we normally would. so for example, there are patients who require a high

level of care that we're having to keep in a hallway in our emergency room. there are situations where at the moment, we don't have enough of the breathing machines and we have to have nurses and respiratory therapists bag patients, use a bag to help them breathe until we can get more breathing supplies for them. so it's not as bad as i fear it may become over the next couple of weeks. but it's bad. and it will impact care. and it will mean some people will not have as good outcomes. it means we're having to resort to really dramatic things. for example, bringing in people that are nurses or doctors who aren't particularly experienced or trained in intensive care, but pairing them up with people that are so that they can serve as an extension of our care. >> dr. getz, how is this crisis

manifesting at your hospital? and how is what i would imagine to be the frustration and exhaustion among health care professionals, how does that show up, with people coming into the icu, these are covid cases that were preventible. >> it's hugely defeating. i think you look across our whole team, not just doctors and nurses but everybody who works in health care, just exhausted. we're tired of seeing needless death. right now death from covid is largely preventible. it's incredibly rare for us to see a patient in our icu who requires a ventilator that is vaccinated. and i've got to say when i hear bagging patients in the state next door because they don't have ventilators, to me that's terrifying. that's so far beyond standard of care that it boggles my mind that our community can hear this and the next thing they're not doing if they're unvaccinated is going to a vaccine center and getting the vaccine. this is shown over and over again to be clearly effective, safe, and there's no reason for

these people to be dying. there's no reason to be rationing care. there's no reason for us to be delaying surgeries in people who have true illnesses that we can take care of. >> dr. daniel getz and dr. david pate, my thanks to both of you to talk about what it will take to end this covid crisis in washington state and idaho. our thanks for your time. ahead, mass deportations begin from that migrant camp under a bridge in southern texas as an official from homeland security arrived to see for himself. a body is found in the case of the missing woman, gabby petito. the house belongs to her fiance's family and now he has vanished too. and long time trump organization cfo allen weisselberg turns to court with his attorneys, warning more indictments could be coming. stay with us. and you need it here.

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states illegally, you will be returned. your journey will not succeed and you will be endangering your life and your family's lives. this administration is committed to developing safe, orderly, and humane pathways for migration. but this is not the way to do it. >> homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is in texas this afternoon, seeing a massive surge of thousands of migrants firsthand. he's in del rio, texas, where authorities have started mass deportations from that crowd of 15,000 migrants living in a camp city under a bridge. now, it's a government effort to deter more migrants from traveling there. that group is mostly haitian migrants and already thousands have been deported. there is video of one of those deportation flights arriving in port-au-prince and according to officials, i.c.e. will begin flying multiple deportation flights a day starting tomorrow.

you see that parent with their child. for many of those haitian migrants under that bridge, haiti hasn't been home for a decade. and we're seeing an increasingly heartbreaking situation unfold there in del rio. the next image might be tough to look at, but it's important to look at. "the el paso times" reported a mounted patrol agent was seen wielding a whip during an encounter with haitian migrants. joining us here in washington is nbc news national security and justice correspondent julia ainsley. julia, we'll talk about the border patrol enforcement strategy in a second. but you've got these deteriorating conditions, mass deportations, the image that we just showed. how did the situation get so bad, so quickly? >> it did get very bad, very quickly. in the past when we've been talking about caravans coming from places like honduras, el salvador, there's usually a two- to three-week lead time. we're able to watch people come up and dhs has intelligence officers tracking who's coming and where they're going.

in this case it exploded, we went from 5,000 on wednesday to 15,000 under the bridge on sunday. the reason is buses. a lot of these immigrants took buses in mexico, once they got to the border they were getting on buses by cartels who were paying for them. and mexico basically didn't do as much on the enforcement side as the u.s. would have hoped, in large part because they were maxed out on capacity, this group was so large. they were able to make their way to the u.s. border that much more quickly, a much larger number. >> we heard a dhs secretary today talk about mass deportation flights, multiple flights a day. u.s. pointed out in your reporting earlier on msnbc, a lot of these haitians being deported haven't been there in some cases for a decade. help us understand where these folks have been, what they've been doing all this time. >> after the earthquake, there was a mass immigration of

haitians going to places like south america, central america, many went to brazil to get work in the 2016 olympics. they've been bouncing around, trying to find a way to make a meaningful day's work. now there have been deteriorating conditions in those countries as well, at the same time as the u.s. has opened up some of its policies to be a little more friendly to haitians. they announced a temporary status after the assassination of the president. but that only applied to haitians who are already here. they stopped deportations temporarily after the august 14 earthquake. all of that, whether or not it will really protect people who are coming here now or not, in most cases it won't, it gets misinterpreted a lot of times and a cartel member might say now is your time to come to the united states if you don't get in now, you won't get in later. that just triggers a mass exodus. that's what we're seeing now. >> that's interesting because mayorkas today talked about how the deportations are being done in a humane way. we saw that image of one border

patrol agent using a whip, effectively trying to lasso some of the migrants, you see that picture there. why not extend the temporary protected status? i guess you just explained why not, they don't want to send the message that the u.s. is open. >> yeah, you know, i think more broadly, this administration has been caught between its values and the practicalities on the ground when it comes to immigration. they want to show their values, safe, orderly, humane. unfortunately when they enforce the humane part, they don't always get the orderly piece. that's why we're seeing so many people here. the agent on the horse, that's not something i've ever encountered in seven years of covering this agency. they definitely need to answer questions about what's going on there. >> julia ainsley, thank you. police in virginia confirm two people have been shot at a high school in newport news, virginia. the police chief says one victim at heritage high school was shot in the face and the other in the

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the senate returns from recess next hour to a packed agenda and a lot of pressure for democrats. now, on their to-do list, passing president biden's sweeping legislative agenda including infrastructure and the massive social spending bill and raising the debt ceiling. and they've got to do it all in a few weeks. house speaker nancy pelosi says congress will take up the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill by september 27. that's within a week of today. but progressives say they won't vote without first passing the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. that standoff could spell trouble, because according to politico, democratic senator

kyrsten sinema is threatening to withhold her support from that spending bill if the house doesn't vote on infrastructure by september 27. joining us now from capitol hill is nbc news political correspondent ali vitali. ali, we have this face-off between moderates and progressive the in the house and between the progressives and kyrsten sinema. what's the bottom line, what does this mean for passing things like the reconciliation bill, infrastructure, and raising the debt ceiling? >> reporter: it means leverage remains the word of the day and probably the word of the week, geoff. as we start seeing lawmakers all come back to washington, it's clear when you look at the calendar, summer recess is definitely over. and there's very little agreement and very little trust even within the parties on how they're going to move forward on this laundry list of items that they have to tackle. specifically as it relates to the house, you brought up that september 27 voting day. that comes on monday. technically that is the promise that speaker pelosi made to some

moderate members of her caucus, that that's the day they would vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. the reality, though, is that that date could slip if it comes to the fact that democrats don't actually have the votes to put it up and pass it. that could come if progressives make good on their threat to not actually back the bipartisan bill because they want to keep their leverage on the larger reconciliation package. some over the weekend offered a rosier view that eventually, when push comes to shove, democrats aren't going to vote against the priorities that they already have in that $1 trillion package. but there is also the cynical view here on capitol hill that leverage for the future could prevail. that's the juggling act we're seeing here as the days tick down to that deadline. >> democrats had hitched their hopes on passing reconciliation reform but aside from the question of whether democrats are on board with reconciliation, you now have the senate parliamentarian saying

not so fast. >> reporter: the senate parliamentarian saying not so fast because in their words, the changes would be too sweeping. there's something that really struck me when the parliamentarian sent down their reasoning for why democrats couldn't include immigration reform in this reconciliation package. they said, changing the law to clear a way to legal protected status is a tremendous and enduring policy change that dwarfs its budgetary impact. the upshot here being that the sweeping nature of this, not just from a budgetary perspective, but from a cultural and policy perspective, would be too much for democrats to slip into this reconciliation measure that they could go at alone. questions even abound on whether or not all democrats are actually on board with the legislation as it's technically written right now. you and i have been referring to this reconciliation bill as the $3.5 trillion bill. it's not even clear we're going to be able to keep calling it that because the price tag is even in flux, geoff. so, so many moving parts here as

everyone comes back. >> it's true, legislating can be messy. we have exhibits a, b, and c sitting here in front of you. ali vitali, thanks so much. both the infrastructure bill and the bipartisan infrastructure package are key to president biden's climate change agenda. the white house just launched a new initiative to protect americans from the impacts of extreme heat linked to climate change. it's a joint effort involving multiple agencies including the departments of labor, health, and human services, homeland security, and agriculture. joining us now from the white house is national climate adviser for the biden administration, gina mccarthy. good to have you back with us. >> thank you, great to be here. >> and i want to start with where we left off with ali, because the administration is clearly planning on the reconciliation bill as a way to move climate policy that will make the most difference. does the white house have a backup plan, a way to push climate policy, significant climate policy, if this bill

isn't the vehicle to do it? >> i think you're already seeing the administration being able to make strong action happen across the entire government, because we know that we have to take action. this is the decade when we need to move forward on climate. and we're doing just that. do we want the resilience investments that the president has proposed and is moving forward? yes, we do. do we want the tax incentives that shift to clean energy? yes, we do. do we need them to succeed? no, we don't. but if you want to send a clear signal to the private sector and have us working hand in hand with one another to accelerate as fast as we can, and we must, to address the challenge of climate change, then the time is now to do that and the president is going to deliver on his promises one way or another. and the exciting thing about today is that every time we turn around, we have an ability to point out to people the

challenges we're facing with climate now, that we do not want to get worse over time. the science is very clear, this is a code red situation. the president has been out on wildfires, on droughts and severe hurricanes, showing the damage that's caused and the cost associated with that. right now we have an opportunity to actually get people to understand that each part is of equal importance to the others. heat stress may be more important than the others, because we're seeing heat like we've never seen before in this country and across the world. the time is now to invest in safer communities, to invest in keeping our workers and outdoor workers safe. that's what this effort is all about. so if folks on the hill want to pay attention to their constituents and the public, they'll see that people need these protections. people need these investments. that's how we're going to keep ourselves and our families and our communities moving forward

and how we're going to reinvigorate our economy and grow lots and lots of jobs in the meantime. >> how will this new initiative work? because as you mentioned, extreme heat isn't as dramatic as a wildfire or a hurricane. but according to the national weather service, it's the number one cause of climate change related deaths in this country. >> well, they call heat stress really the silent killer of climate change. we saw in the pacific northwest just in june, looking at the heat stress there, we saw hundreds of people dying as a result of heat stress. we saw thousands of emergency room visits that were all about heat-related impacts. so we have to raise the visibility of this. but we also have to do more. we're looking at the department of labor establishing some worker heat standards so that we can protect people in our industries and our manufacturing, as well as very importantly the agriculture and construction workers.

we can focus more attention working with states to invest in their own communities, to get our cooling centers into every school that we have so that people have a place to cool off, so that we can actually move forward to be more creative, which is what we've opened up the opportunity for states to do with money that's generally about investing in energy efficiency and reducing energy basically payments for consumers. we can now use that to actually invest in air conditioning for our senior citizens who are most vulnerable. but the best message here, i think an important one, is that the communities who have been disinvested in, the black and brown and indigenous communities that have been facing these challenges are inundated enough by traditional pollution and lack of investment. what they need now is immediate protections. this is about the federal government working with the states, working with our mayors hand in hand.

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month, an operation intended to target isis-k in afghanistan. joining us now are nbc news digital senior white house correspondent shannon pettypiece and former supreme allied commander at nato and msnbc contributor admiral james stavridis. shannon, what can we expect in the wake of the air strike and withdrawal? >> that's what world leaders will be listening for, not just the chaotic nature of this withdrawal that led to the drone strike on civilians and that left a number of allies blindsided throughout the withdrawal process, but also the bigger question of what it says about where america's place is in the world and how more broad ly president biden sees america playing a role in the world. largely it sounds like the administration and the president are going to look for this to move past afghanistan.

some of the topics, press secretary jen psaki said the president plans to address, are plans to readdress alliances throughout the world particularly after the trump administration which disengaged from agreements. and we don't know on whether there will be a specific announcement on getting more vaccinations overseas but the president has been emphasizing the 140 million doses that have already been given out and bigger issues like climate change and cybersecurity, we expect to hear the president hit on those pretty strongly. >> admiral stavridis, the pentagon has pointing to drone strikes as the new form of engagement in that country where they use drones and aerial surveillance to identify terrorists and then launch those strikes. what should this failure tell us about our capabilities to launch

missions like this and the nature of our ability to really gather credible, actionable intelligence? >> jeff, you and i have been talking about this for weeks now. and the simple fact is, when we pull out of a place like afghanistan and those boots leave the ground, we are diminished in our ability. we have a very exquisite intelligence and drones and satellites and lots of capability. but here you see a horrific, treble incident. i really do want to underline, this is not the norm for the u.s. military. i think there will be very, very detailed investigation of this incident and some very senior accountability. but i'm with shannon on this, the administration is going to want to move past afghanistan generally and this strike in particular. they will emphasize cooperation with international organizations. he's at the united nations,

he'll talk about u.n., world health organization, working with the eu, working with all of those international organizations which the trump administration walked away from. he'll push climate very hard. that's in our comparative advantage. i think we have some good progress to show there. and then covid is on everybody's mind. what more can the united states do? i suspect you'll hear some positives in that dimension as well. so in all of this, geoff, he's going to try and strike a position of leadership, compassionate concern, engagement in the world. yeah, there are some negatives in the background. but i think he can deliver that mission and the majority of countries there will want to hear it. >> i was going to ask you that, how duke this president will be received after four years of donald trump and the former president's america first ideology? >> well, you know, so much of life is compared to what.

and i think on that basis, the president will be very favorably received, particularly on the message of working with the international community and the international organizations. he will have some skeptics and some challengers in the room, including typically nations like syria and north korea and iran and others. but broadly speaking, the world will want to give joe biden his opportunity to lay out a case for american leadership. i think he'll do pretty well and be received fairly well. >> admiral stavridis and shannon pettypiece, thank you both. coming up next, the fbi involved in a case that's garnered national attention. what happened to gabby petito and where is her fiance? stay with us. thanks to sofi. ♪♪

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there are new developments in the story that seems to have a new twist every day. that's the disappearance of gabby petito. today the fbi executed a search warrant in florida at the home of her fiance brian laundrie. this comes after the fbi confirmed that a body was found over weekend.

an autopsy is planned and a cause of death hasn't been made public. petito was reported missing earlier by her parents after her fiance returned from a road trip without her. now he's also missing. according to his family, he went for a hike last weekend and never came back. katie beck is there in the rain for us. we saw earlier today searching the laundrie home. >> reporter: the fbi is still here. they towed away a ford mustang that they told police that brian was driving when he went for a hike. they later drove it back to the home. earlier today, we observed

brian's father coming out to get paperwork. it was towed away, we assume, as evidence. additionally, we have seen police in a large van, and we assume that boxes filled with evidence will be taken to the van. a body has recovered. they assume it to be gabby. it seems as though the focus is shifting on the parents in this case and what they might have known about the whereabouts of their son and why perhaps they didn't report it earlier to police. tomorrow morning is really when i think we'll have more definitive answers about what police are thinking in terms of a theory. when that autopsy occurs and we have a confirmed identity, a

confirmed cause of death, i think we'll see a lot more in terms of potential charges and the stepped-up efforts to try to find brian at this point. >> katie, the fiance, is he the only main suspect in the case? >> reporter: so far he is the only named person of interest, but he was not a suspect as of tuesday, as of now. his parents said he took this hike on tuesday, they never reported that to police until a conversation that took place on friday. so he had had 72 hours or so where he was unaccounted for, and not listed as an active suspect in this case. at this point his whereabouts, they have searched this massive 25,000-acre area, still no idea where he is. >> katie beck, live on the scene for us. thank you. one more thing before we go. incredible images of a volcanic

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