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a whirlpool of dan's air has hit america's east coast with thousands of flights being canceled across the north american continent a shift in the weather a pattern known as a polar vortex as dropped temperatures in some parts of the continent to near record lows and it's also causing a number of deaths shut schools parks and businesses it was reported it was so cold that even the polar bears in chicago's lincoln park zoo had to be kept indoors. now moscow has demanded an explanation from senegal over the detention of a russian trawler the ship and its eighty two crew were captured at the weekend off the coast of guinness oul in western africa later on tuesday it's hoped the vessel will be freed as russian diplomats are due to meet with the president of senegal to discuss the issue at least two people including the captain were reportedly injured during the seizure of the official reason is all were on the licensed fishing but the senegalese side has failed to produce any evidence to support the accusations sixty two russians are still held on the ship with their passports confiscated.

the polar bears in chicago's lincoln park zoo had to be kept indoors on tuesday the whirlpool of dan's air is predicted to hit america's east coast. well the man who is on your assignment when the banks beat you down is max kaiser and he's up next with his report. there are many internal battles and society liberals and conservatives will never agree on gun rights or abortion but there is one battle that is often more generational than anything the battle for school uniforms teachers argue that uniforms eliminate a big distraction in the classroom and break up the caste systems that can evolve at school between the cool fashionable kids and the ones who can barely afford lunch like me in my younger years but teenagers will scream uniforms course their freedom of expression and that they have a right to express who they are their individuality who has the right to dictate to them what to wear the thing they don't realize is that if the school doesn't tell them what to wear that big corporations and m.t.v. will all the cool individuals who dress alike and blindly follow all the trends are ju

air. my co-anchor dan harris with the times of crisis and the spectacular saves. >> reporter: the video startsn to the outside of a plane preparing to jump. the small camera recording this video is attached to the helmet of an experienced 25-year-old sky diver named james lee. he's done this thousands of times. but never before has this happened to him. seconds after he leap, a freak accident. one of his fellow diver's legs hits lee in the back of the head knocking him out. the camera goes wobbly as lee tumbles unconscious from 12,500 feet, hurdling at an approximate speed of 120 miles an hour towards certain death. look at what happens next, though. about 30 seconds into the dive, his friends notice there's something wrong with him. they approach giving him hand signals to check if he's okay. seeing that he's not, they attempt to reorient his body to the correct position so they can deploy his chute. but they only have maybe 60 to 90 seconds to do so before it's too late. at the 58-second america, bingo, it works. you can hear the hiss of the air relent as lee's descent lows down. >> it's pre

dan and bianna. >> thanks. >>> now to the dangerous arctic air covering the midwest and northeast. it's plunging temperatures to record low with snow and ice in the deep south even. we're happy to have bill evans from abc here in new york with us. hey there, big. >> good morning. nice to be here. thank you very much. that cold air has worked its way all the way down into the deep south all the way down to mccomb, mississippi. i'm from mississippi and i can tell you when it snows there it's a big deal. first thought i saw it know there i thought the grits factory had exploded. brittany from wabt is the one who sent us that. the deep arctic air surging in in san antonio, texas and houston. yes, that's one of houston's finest trying to navigate the ice. we take you to san antonio where it's very slippery on roadways and highways and i it's tough driving there. they don't get to do it that often and don't get used to it. sdiptss everywhere. sterns county, minnesota, accidents all along the roadways. this is another one in a series of snow events that have been coming through the area.

dan and bianna. >> thanks. >>> now to the dangerous arctic air covering the midwest and northeast. it's plunging temperatures to record low with snow and ice in the deep south even. we're happy to have bill evans from abc here in new york with us. hey there, big. >> good morning. nice to be here. thank you very much. that cold air has worked its way all the way down into the deep south all the way down to mccomb, mississippi. i'm from mississippi and i can tell you when it snows there it's a big deal. first thought i saw it know there i thought the grits factory had exploded. brittany from wabt is the one who sent us that. the deep arctic air surging in in san antonio, texas and houston. yes, that's one of houston's finest trying to navigate the ice. we take you to san antonio where it's very slippery on roadways and highways and it's tough driving there. they don't get to do it that often and don't get used to it. sdiptss everywhere. sterns county, minnesota, accidents all along the roadways. this is another one in a series of snow events that have been coming through the area. lo

dan and cheryl. >> fire island with flames shooting into the air. >> plus, dismrining students. >> you want this planto not flower. >> our warm weather doing funny things to winter gardens. >> unusual, indeed i'm sandhya patel. at a price i'll let you know how long the pattern will last. >> we're continuing to follow an out of control brush fire on kimble island. you can see structures are burning. >> right now a coast guard boat and helicopter are putting water on the fire. 11 people have been evacuated but three remain the fire first reported around 3:30 this afternoon. the island is on the contra costa, solano and sacramento county borders. good evening, thanks for joining us. >> let's get now to coast guard lieutenant about what they're doing now on that fight. what can you tell us? >> hi. this afternoon, around 3:00 the coast guard received a report of a structure fire. station rio vista averted to help evacuating people off the island. they ended up evacuating four people off the island. >> what do you doing now? what's happening in terms of the fire fight? >> the coast guard is there they don't

dan weiss good to speak to you again. i get it. cold airs come down that is not a whole -- that doesn't change the game, however, things start to add up like cold temperatures, snow. like global warming scientists geth stuck in the arctic because it's too cold, you have to say okay, it's cold, getting colder. >> well, first thank you for having me. scientists have a technical term for what is going on now. it's called winter. in fact, winter conditions have happened in recent years in 2010 horrific snow storms up and down the east coast in washington z in 2010 the warmest year on record. right now in, australia they're breaking all kinds of heat records. it's 122 degree there the other day. >> for a while always global warming. al gore, warm, getting warmer, then, we realize it's getting cold, too. then, climate change. which is it? global warming? what is wrong with climate change? >> well, first it's the court denotes nasa reports 97% of climate scientists believe the earth is warming and humans are primarily responsible. that is the same

air rescue. unconscious sky diver plumme plummeting toward earth is saved by the other divers. tonight dan harris sat down with the man whose fellow jump percent helped to defy gravity and the odds. >>reporter: when is james lee went out on the evenly of the airplane even though he had done more than 1,000 sky dives he had no way of knowing that his fellow jump percent were about to have mere seconds to save his life. >> i 11 the aircraft afterwards came town knocked me unconscious from then i have no real recollection of what happened on that part of the sky dive. >> fellow jumper leg had smashed in his helmet. lee is knocked out. his arms gone limp with the camera on the helmet still rolling as he free fall at times more than 120 miles an hour over the british countryside. from this camera on another diver you cap actually see lee falling. experts say to land safely you need to deploy your chute about 75 seconds into the dive. about 30 seconds into their dive something amazing happene happened. his fellow divers realize lee is in trouble. as you can see from the new footage they leap int

air rescue. unconscious sky diver plumme plummeting toward earth is saved by the other divers. tonight dan harris sat down with the man whose fellow jump percent helped to defy gravity and the odds. >>reporter: when is james lee went out on the evenly of the airplane even though he had done more than 1,000 sky dives he had no way of knowing that his fellow jump percent were about to have mere seconds to save his life. >> i 11 the aircraft afterwards came town knocked me unconscious from then i have no real recollection of what happened on that part of the sky dive. >> fellow jumper leg had smashed in his helmet. lee is knocked out. his arms gone limp with the camera on the helmet still rolling as he free fall at times more than 120 miles an hour over the british countryside. from this camera on another diver you cap actually see lee falling. experts say to land safely you need to deploy your chute about 75 seconds into the dive. about 30 seconds into their dive something amazing happene happened. his fellow divers realize lee is in trouble. as you can see from the new footage they leap int

air rescue. unconscious sky diver plumme plummeting toward earth is saved by the other divers. tonight danris sat down with the man whose fellow jump percent helped to defy gravity and the odds. >>reporter: when is james lee went out on the evenly of the airplane even though he had done more than 1,000 sky dives he had no way of knowing that his fellow jump percent were about to have mere seconds toif. life. >> i 11 the aircraft afterwards came town knocked me unconsci from t from then i havo real recollection of what happened on that part of the sky dive. >> fellow jumper leg had smashed in his helmet. lee is knocked out. his arms gone limp with the camera on the helmet still rolling as he free fall at times more than 120 miles an hour over the british countryside. from this camera on another diver you cap actually see lee falling. experts say to land safely you needhute your chute about 75 seconds into the dive. about 30 seconds into their dive something amazing happene happened. his fellow divers realize lee is in trouble. as you can see from the new footage they leap into action. >> my

aires cue. a sky diver in freefall knocked out cold not able to open his chute. abc's dan harris shows us what happened next. >> reporter: this video starts with a group of skydivers climbing onto the outside of a plane preparing to jump. the small camera is attached to the helmet of an experienced 25-year-old skydiver named james lee. he's done this more than a thousand times, but never before has this happened to him. seconds after he leaps, a freak accident. one of his fellow diver's legs hits lee in the back of the head knocking him out. the camera goes wobbly as lee tumbles, unconscious, from 12,500 feet toward certain death. slowing the video down, you can see his arms go limp. skydivers fall at the rate of 120 miles an hour on average. look what happens next, his friends notice something is wrong with him. they approach giving lee hand signals to check in he's okay. seeing he's not, they reorient his body to the correct position and then deploy his chute. you can hear the hiss of the air relent as lee's descent slows down. >> it's pretty incredible when somebody is

. >>> dan, let's start with michael skakel, everything, literally up in the air. >> right now, this caseto a trial court, right? so in theory they're going to begin the process of trying michael skakel again, in reality, we're waiting to see if an appeals court steps in and overturns the lower-court opinion. if the higher court overturns it, that means michael skakel goes back to prison. if this was a decision to be upheld -- >> he gets a new trial. >> he gets a new trial. we'll see what happens that at that point. >>> let's move over to jodi arias, it looks like she'll be fighting for her life once again. >> once the jury hung on the penalty phase, they should make a deal with her for a life without parole. remember, she was convicted. she is now in the penalty phase because that same jury could not reach annan verdict on whether she should get the death penalty. you have to get a whole new jury to answer that request question. what should the penalty be? >> life or death? >> for that crime, that seem to me that's something they should allow to move into history, but this prosecutor and

dan and bianna. >> all right, thanks, kirit. >>> now to the dangerous and relentless arctic air covering the midwest and northeast.t's plunging temperatures to record lows with snow and ice even in the deep south. we're happy to have meteorologist bill evans from abc here in new york with us tracking it all. hey there, bill. >> good morning. nice to be here. thank you very much. that cold air has worked its way all the way down into the deep south all the way down to mccomb, mississippi. now, i'm from mississippi, and i can tell you, when it snows there, it's a big deal. first thought i saw it snow there, i thought the grits factory had exploded. we're looking at what will be snow all across that area. brittany from wabt-tv sent that in. that's our fine abc affiliate there. well, across the country, we're seeing a deep ridge of arctic air coming in. we take you now to where that deep arctic air has been surging in in san antonio, texas, and houston. yes, that's one of houston's finest trying to navigate the ice. we take you to san antonio where it's very slippery on roadways and highways. expressways have been fil

air. >> susan, i haven't heard any mention of vice president dan quayle. was wondering, what contribution if any comments the first lady and the president had involving the election. keep up the good work. >> dan quayle and marilyn quayle. >> i think of that as a place where we see a real tension. he is above all things a gentle man and wouldn't want to say ill things about people who work with him and for him, but i think the president has alluded to this from time to time -- would agree that is not a helpful choice. there is a lot of discussion of whether quayle should be dumped from the campaign in 1992. he was not bringing anything. president bush said, that would be the wrong thing to do, especially as a former vice president. this was an area he didn't want to revisit while he was in the presidency. historians look back and have to shake your head a little bit over that decision. >> paul from boston, you are on. >> i would like to know, is there a public school named after barbara bush? >> thank you very much. is there one in kennebunkport? >> if not

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dan kerman, kron4. >> reporter: taking a live look outside, a placid evening. calm conditions continuing into tomorrow and the weekend. a little cooling next week and a possibility of rain. we will track it. unhealthy air, 26 alerts this season. that is a lot this early. take public transit and no wood burning. 66 in mountain view. 64 for fremont. 66 in san jose. east way and walnut creek, 65. 64 in pittsburgh. we have 64 in san francisco. out by the beach 63. 65 high in berkeley. in case you hadn't heard green bay will be 0 at kick off. high will be 2. it will be almost warm. not at all. mike pelton will be there following it. lots of sunshine, partly cloudy skies. up until next week we have a cool down. we will track it here on kron4. >>> coming up how the 9ers are preparing for the cold in green bay. beating lee lebron and the heat next. female announcer: female announcer: it's time to make room for the new mattress models during sleep train's huge year end clearance sale. get beautyrest, posturepedic, even tempur-pedic mattress sets, at low clearance prices. save even more on floor samples, demonstrators and closeout inventory. plus, free same-day delivery, set up and removal of your old set. why w

seven-day forecast spare the air alert tomorrow mild weather continues and we see an increase in the cloud cover and decrease in the temperatures middle of next week. carolyn and danill holding out hope for some rain. >> thanks, sandhya. >> hope they are getting a good night's rest. 49ers are in seattle. >>> a prediction, i would like to thank my facebook friends who responded. kevin durant explodes. all the >>> good evening. the warriors got into a blistering shootout with the oklahoma city thunder tonight. this was like bringing a butter knife to a gun fight. witness magic. it took us frame by frame, but we figured it out. nba's leading scorer kevin durant on the break. unstoppable. the splash brothers are raining three's in the first. steph curry from way out. he had theater 7 points. klay thompson with 36. 16 was not enough. durant had 29 in the half. green was all over him. jordan crawford hit his first three shots and finished with eight points. in the end too much durant. a career high 54 points. hands in his face and the thunder rolled 127-121. are the 49ers loose and relaxed headed to seattle? sure looks like jim harbaugh is. the coach spent time today ra

seven-day forecast spare the air alert tomorrow mild weather continues and we see an increase in the cloud cover and decrease in the temperatures middle of next week. carolyn and dan, still holding out hope for some rain. >> thanks, sandhya. >> hope they are getting a good night's rest. 49ers are in seattle. >>> a prediction, i would like to thank my facebook friends who responded. kevin durant explodes. all the the warriors got into a blistering shootout with the oklahoma city thunder tonight. this was like bringing a butter knife to a gun fight. witness magic. it took us frame by frame, but we figured it out. nba's leading scorer kevin durant on the break. unstoppable. the splash brothers are raining three's in the first. steph curry from way out. he had theater 7 points. klay thompson with 36. 16 was not enough. durant had 29 in the half. green was all over him. jordan crawford hit his first three shots and finished with eight points. in the end too much durant. a career high 54 points. hands in his face and the thunder rolled 127-121. are the 49ers loose and relaxed headed to seattle? sure looks like jim harbaugh is. the coach spent time today raving about his

dan. >>> we want you to know that tomorrow morning, amanda knox will be live on "good morning america." >>> and we turn, next, tonight, to the final big blast of arctic air loosening its grip on 34 states. and even the national guard had to help drivers slog home. abc's steve osunsami tells us about the people still digging out. >> reporter: how dangerous still is the ice in the south? watch carefully, this video from alabama. the tow truck driver clearing one accident, nearly became another. in atlanta, today, they started moving abandoned cars from the middle of the roads in the melting ice, with their bare hands. today, the national guard took families who walked all the way to shelters, back to the cars they abandoned in the snow. >> i've not been home since tuesday. >> reporter: since tuesday. >> yes. yes. >> reporter: audrey williams, still in her high heels from work. >> we're going home. and i want to go get my bed and go to sleep. hello? >> reporter: georgia's governor and other state officials apologized today for not shutting the city down before the snow. >> i'm the governor. the buck stops with me. i accept the responsibility for it. >> repo

seven-day forecast spare the air alert tomorrow continues anr continues and we see an increase in the cloud cover and decrease in the temperatures middle of next week. carolyn and danill holding out hope for some rain. >> thanks, sandhya. >> hope they are getting a good night's rest. 49ers are in seattle. >>> a prediction, i would like to thank my facebook friends who responded. kevin durant explodes. all the the warriors got into a blistering shootout with the oklahoma city thunder tonight. this was like bringing a butter knife to a gun fight. witness magic. it took us frame by frame, but we figured it out. nba's leading scorer kevin durant on the break. unstoppable. the splash brothers are raining three's in the first. steph curry from way out. he had theater 7 points. klay thompson with 36. 16 was not enough. durant had 29 in the half. green was all over him. jordan crawford hit his first three shots and finished with eight points. in the end too much durant. a career high 54 points. hands in his face and the thunder rolled 127-121. are the 49ers loose and relaxed headed to seattle? sure looks like jim harbaugh is. the coach spent time today raving about his qua

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dan kerman, kron 4 news. >>> a live look from on top of mount tam. a very nice picture of san francisco. we have another spare the airay. similar temperatures tomorrow to what we had today. mild conditions persisting through the weekend. a cooling trend will begin late next week. as for that spare the air day, 26 so far this season. no wood burning allowed. they will fine you. it's not just an empty threat. and they're big. i don't think you want to pay it. public transit, a better option to help spare the air. 66 in palo alto. 66 in milpitas. we'll get up to 68 in evergreen. tomorrow more of the same. 66, san leandro. 65 for danville. 65 will be your high tomorrow in pleasanton. 63 in alameda. if we take a look at your around the bay forecast, you'll see those temperatures dip quite a bit. but they're not going to dip as far as what we'll see in lambeau. if mike pelton ever comes out of the atrium, he'll feel the elements out there. two will be your high. game time, more like zero. add wind chill, it will feel like subzero. absolutely brutal conditions. a lot of sunshine around the bay until we start cooling off ear

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dan who is our ace engineer said on the ultimate pass it was 62 degrees. on the ultimate pass and calm. that is unheard of. that is very warm air aloft. things are picking up radar wise. yo can see fort bragg point arena. so there is hope here. amazingly cold. frost and freeze warnings out to new orleans. and there is freezing rain and snow. this is something we may not see for a long, long time. 55 ukiah. and they say fog as well. 57 sacramento. snow level in the sierra will start way up. winter storm warning starts tonight. a lot of humidity. if yo do anything, you will feel it. it's almost florida like here. light rain to the north. that winter storm warning goes from friday. so snow level way up but then it will come down. 60s on the temps. everyone will be really close here. i don't think it will be that big of a spread. oakland 62. st. helena -- san leandro in there. 60s on the coast. much of the peninsula around 63- 64 degrees. and cloudy today, tomorrow. light rain will take us into thursday. and then the cold air arrives. and look at the lows on friday and saturday. >> don't forget you can follow steve and the rest of

walter cronkite and cbs was the first on the air with his then after a few minutes fed carries warm up and he sat down. he knew from the various sources including dan rather on the scene that kennedy was dead but did not say that and tell it was announced officially by ava press secretary sallinger in a plane over the pacific and on their way back land remember the video of cronkite saying it is the official. president kennedy died 1:00 p.m. dallas time today and he took off his glasses. forgive me for the editorial content. cronkite to lead is moved to tears by he could not cry for various reasons but mainly it was not his job. it was to report the news as emotional as he was in dicey reporters today maybe they have a right to paid members themselves in the story like katrina into they feel for people but their job is to report, not to use themselves to tell us how sorry they are. sold back to you you know, as much as i do. >> it was the first historical event that unified the country it was a pioneering moment for radio and television "saturday evening post" and look antilife. the american people saw the coverage together it was more evades commu

they say air force cargo jets are on standby in germany in case americans need to esalk wait. joining us now, former seek correct service agent who work at the cia, dan emmett. he wrote a book about his time the secret service. good to see you. >> hi, shep. >> i never know that would make of these security concerns. how much they're hype. how much we need worry about our athletes. what's your take? >> i think in this case, shep, we need to be very worried. from a counterterrorist point of view and a security point of view, sochi was probably the worst place in the world that could have been selected for these events. >> the worst place the in the world that could have been selected? >> in my view, one of the worst if not the worst. >> a lot oft of it has to too where it's located. explain the challenges. >> if you look at your map, you'll notice that several countries lie in fairly close prompt estimate to soapie, iran, iraq, and then to the east you have chechneya, and they're still a little bit angry, to put it mildly, over the fact that russia reduced them to rubble on more than one occasion. >> so your thinking is that would be an easy way in, bu

dan jones. >> and i'm newt gingrich. join us tomorrow for another edition of "crossfire." erin burnett "outfront" starts erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> next, bitter cold. the frigid air forcing schools to close, cancelling flights and postponing a major vote in washington. >>> plus the family of the 13-year-old girl declared brain dead looking for a miracle tonight. >> she has been taken from children's hospital and brought to a place where they will use her name instead of calling her a body. >>> and a major shake up at "saturday night live." let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone, thanks for joining us i'm don lemon in for erin burnett. a major vote in washington postponed tonight blamed on the weather but did either side have the vote? it's a bill that affects 1.3 million americans and whether they get their unemployment checks. a vote to proceed would have been big for the democrats. tonight they didn't have the bodies on capitol hill. straight now to joe johns who is on capitol hill for us. there was uncertainty about the vote and now the reason we are hearing is the waersds. would the democrats have had the votes? >> we don't know. if all 100 senators were

dan ashley shows us the fine art of making wintry mixer when there is none. >> ski resorts have come a long way since they first started making snow in the 1950s. >> the basic system mixes cold airressure. >> the recipe for man-made snow is still essentially the same, but the process has evolved into a high stakes operation. >> it's a pretty sophisticated piece of machinery. there's a control panel like this. the last major snowfall was back in september, so the resorts are spending big money to keep at least some slopes covered. this school teacher betsy masterson skiing at heavenly for a weeks. >> the conditions are great. you wouldn't think that driving up with no snow on the ground, but they are doing such a great job grooming the runs and i just had a blast. >> that's the kind of has been endorsement that keeps barrett warm. even while he's making snow. he's in charge of heavenly's snowmaking system, the largest one on the coast. he's been at it for 26 years. >> i've been doing it a long time and i'm pretty passionate about it. >> this is what the mountain looks like in areas with no snow making. on the ski runs it's a different story. several feet of base and new snow on t

dan ashley shows us the fine art of making winter when there is none. >> ski resorts have come a long way since they first started making snow in the 1950s. >> the basic system mixes cold airh water under high pressure. >> the recipe for man-made snow is still essentially the same, but the process has evolved into a high stakes operation. >> it's a pretty sophisticated piece of machinery. there's a control panel like this. the last major snowfall was back in september, so the resorts are spending big money to keep at least some slopes covered. napa school teacher betsy masterson skiing at heavenly for a couple weeks. >> the conditions are great. you wouldn't think that driving up with no snow on the ground, but they are doing such a great job grooming the runs and i just had a blast. >> that's the kind of endorsement that keeps barrett warm. even while he's making snow. he's in charge of heavenly's snowmaking system, the largest one on the west coast. he's been at it for 26 years. >> i've been doing it a long time and i'm pretty passionate about it. >> this is what the mountain looks like in areas with no snow making. on the ski runs it's a different story. several feet of

. >> dan i can't in detroit, incredible images, thank you. >> the deep freeze taking its toll on airtalking to travelers at new york's laguardia ain't, describe the scene for us there. >> it's certainly a bustling morning. overnight it was pretty busy, because there were so many stranded passengers having to sleep at the airport overnight, some for a couple of days. let's set the scene for you here. yesterday, about 4,000 flights canceled nationwide, today an additional 2,000 flights canceled. >> with thousands of flights canceled, ticket counters in hubs like new york city are crowded even in the wee hours, the same goes for waiting areas, packed with people trying to sleep. that some exhausted travelers got lucky, landing a cot in the corridor on the second floor. >> that was a really nice thing. i was sleeping on the seats last night. some guy came down and said we've got cots upstairs, so everybody ran. it was also really nice. >> the rows of cots are a welcome sight for sore eyes, since many passengers have been stuck for days with nowhere to sleep. like brian heading home to wa

dan morris, global investment strategist for tia crest. we got your introduction wrong the last time. you haven't just changed firms while we were on air.o let's just dive in. first of all, can you tell us your take on the spanish banking sector this week? do you think the spanish banks are out of the woods? >> well, what we're seeing is the improvement in the spanish economy over the last quarter. starting to feed through for some banks in terms of lower provisions or lower rates of deterioration of mpls. having said that, profitability levels are very, very low at this stage. and i think the key question is if there is going to be a recovery in the spanish economy and, therefore, spanish bank profitability, how fast will that recovery be and what's already discounted in valuations? >> stephane, come in here. >> yeah. do you think that the core business lending of the spanish bank is picking up? because this is something that we've seen for bbva, but it's not so clear for smaller lenders like banco popular. >> well, there's always a timing difference between asset quality trends and flows and the situation in the wider economy. so whil