after that, jean ross.ext we're joined by matt lee talking about what's happening with their thousands of americans stranded overseas during the pandemic. matt lee, thax for being on the phone with us -- thanks for being on the phone with us this morning. >> my pleasure, good morning. host: give us an idea of the numbers of people and what's being done to get them back. >> this has been really -- [indiscernible] -- effort that the state department has taken on here since the end of january, when the first repatriation/evacuations began. the last count that we got was that they have gotten back over 61,000 americans who were either stranded overseas because of the virus or wanting to come back and there was no way to get -- for them to get back. so that's quite a few. the numbers, you know, there are a million or so outside of the states at any one time. maybe even more. there's not really any good estimate because, you know, americans aren't required to register with u.s. embassies abroad when they're trave

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