>> yeah, lester, at least half a million votes have yet to be counted here in arizona. and the soonest we may know who wins this race for governor and senate may be tomorrow night elections officials continue to process and tabulate these mail-in votes. and there is an important batch of votes that are expected to be released tomorrow. these results are going to be mail ballots that were hand-delivered by voters instead of being mailed. in 2018, these votes trended towards democrats. in 2020, towards republicans now one other note if these margins remain close, this is a situation where if any of these races finish within a half a percentage point, it would trigger an automatic recount under state law that wouldn't begin until december. lester >> all right, vaughn, thanks very much for that i want to bring in our political director and moderator of "meet the press," chuck todd chuck, monday night you and i stood right here, and we talked about whether polarization could be the guiding factor in the election was it >> look, i don't think -- i think it was i don't know if

lester? >> miguel almaguer, thank you. >>> we'll turn now to the death of a famous music star, rapper takeoff, a member of the chart-topping group migos, was shot dead after a private party in houston. morgan chesky now on the search for answers and suspects. >> reporter: in houston, a billiard and bowling alley turned homicide scene after overnight shooting killed one of music's biggest stars. police say 28-year-old kirshnik ball, known as takeoff in the rap group migos was fatally shot when at least two gunmen opened fire after a disagreement broke out following a private party. two others were also shot. police adding there were dozens of witnesses. are you confident in saying you don't believe takeoff may have been the intended target here? >> i'm not comfortable by saying that. i don't want to speculate, not at this time. >> reporter: investigators say ball attended the party with another member of migos, his uncle quavo. >> everybody spoke of what a great young man this is, how peaceful

. >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening, everyone, from our nbc news election headquarters with 40 million early votes already cast, millions of election day voters will soon add their votes as the first poll openings here in the east are now just hours away. control of congress and the direction of the country to be decided. democrats defending their slim majority in the house of representatives. republicans need to net five seats to become the majority. in the senate republicans need only flip one seat red to take charge. but it's a higher bar than that might sound as several key senate races appear to be deadlocked tonight, threatening to turn election night into election week or longer both parties closely following president biden's approval rating at 44%, according to a new nbc news poll. his low numbers may be weighing down democrats. that same poll, however, showing democratic voters have closed the enthusiasm gap with republicans there's a lot to cover here tonight let's begin with peter alexander. >> reporter: tonight the final countdown

lester? >> peter alexander in philadelphia. thank you. >>> tonight a closer look at that tight race in georgia with senate control hanging in the balance. here and across the country republicans are fighting to peel away the voters democrats won over in 2020, especially suburban women and young people. gabe gutierrez is there. >> reporter: tonight, battleground georgia, a possible indicator of whether democrats can hold on to crucial voters they swayed in 2020. >> i'm worried about the country. i think -- worried about our democratic system. >> reporter: two years ago georgia shocked the political world by turning purple. joe biden and jon ossoff and raphael warnock squeaked out narrow victories here by corralling a coalition of voters including suburban women and young people. >> women's right -- >> reporter: 20-year-old kayla chambers now voting early for warnock. but -- >> i will say that of course going to the store and seeing those prices hike up you're like what's going on, y'all? >> re

lester? >>> peter, thank you. also tonight, house speaker nancy pelosi breaking her silence about the brutal attack of her husband at their home. paul pelosi was released on thursday after nearly a week in the hospital. speaker pelosi telling supporters during a virtual meeting today that he still has a long road ahead, but the family is hopeful for his recovery. >> it's going to be a long haul, but he will be well. and it's just so tragic how it happened. but, nonetheless, we have to be optimistic. he's surrounded by family, so that's a wonderful thing. >> the suspect in the attack pleaded not guilty. the court today set his next hearing for november 28th. >>> we're tracking severe weather on the move tonight. tornado watches up in parts of texas and oklahoma. 27 million people on alert in the southern plains and mississippi valley for threats including wind gusts higher than 70 miles an hour as well as very large hail and flooding downpours. in colorado, several inches of snow falling acros

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lester? >> all right, maggie, thank you. we could see crippling snow in these places over the next couple of days. bill karins is here. bill, let's be honest. these are places that are used to heavy snow. but this is somehow different? >> this is going to be crippling. this isn't going to be like a variety storm that covers the whole lawn like a sprinkler. this is like the garden hose on the jet setting. if you're in the way of it, look out. paralyzing, crippling, roofs could collapse. people are going to get stranded on the roads have to be rescued. that's going to be the concern over the next couple of days into the weekend. right now it's a garden variety type snow. over michigan, areas near cleveland. we had ashtabula about a foot and a half. now we're starting to get the heavy ban heading towards the buffalo area. there is going to be lightning. that's going the thundersnow you're going to hear. that could come up lake ontario towards watertown also. and when we're all said and done, by

lester holt joins us now from new york with nightly news. snoos tonight the suspect charged in the brutal attack on house speaker nancy pelosi's husband making his first appearance in court. the man who allegedly broke into the home and assaulted paul pelosi with a hammer facing a judge the d.a. saying he was looking to harm speaker pelosi, calling the attack politically motivated and now former president trump weighing in adding fuel to false conspiracy theories about the crime. >>> also tonight, the killing of a famed music star, takeoff, a member of a chart topping rap group migos gunned down at a houston bowling alley. what investigators are saying. >>> two police officers shot by a suspect with a long gun, possibly from a rooftop in new jersey.

. >> the search for answers began here, at the now silent home of betty and lester kester. >> what is happening here is not beautiful. it's not a pretty story. as beautiful as my parents' life was, and as many wonderful things they had in it, the p. vera, it really affected their life in a dramatic way. both passed away in 2008. the p. vera took their lives within about 5 years from the time that they were diagnosed with it. >> ground zero for polycythemia vera in the free world, or in the world in general, was betty and lester kester. when betty kester died, she had decided to donate her body to science for the investigation. >> her body tissues eventually found their way here to dr. ronald hoffman's lab in mt. sinai hospital in new york city. he has spent nearly 40 years studying pv. >> there were too many patients with polycythemia vera in that-- in that area than one could account for. whether the environment or toxins in the environment lead to an increased ri of polycythemia vera is unknown. that's really an area of researcand also speculation. the problem is that there are mult

here is lester holt with the investigation!n was 21 years old, she lived in northeast philadelphia. and worked at a department store. but her greatest shame was to have a daughter. >> i had a girl's name picked out. it's all i ever wanted. was children. >> shortly before sharon gave birth, john answered her life. and he became barbara jean horns stepfather. >> did you consider her your daughter? >> yes. she was my daughter. i raise her as my own. the sweetest little girl that ever walked the face of the earth. she was. she was a sweetheart. >> he was happy to be her stepfather. he would take care of her. >> in fact, john was the one who mostly stayed home with barbara xin, while sharon worked. july 12th, 1988 was one of those days. >> i know this is not easy. but can you tell me how that day began? what was typical in your life than? >> i got up in the morning. get ready for work. kissed barbara jean goodbye. >> she was at work. i was up with barbara tree in the morning. fed her breakfast, we played around the house a little bi

a lot of people thinking about jay leno today. >>> let's talk about an interview with lester holt andholiday travel season and a big question on whether folks will deal with the headaches we saw over the summer and in that exclusive for "nightly news," listen carefully to what buttigieg has to say. >> could i asked you about the upcoming holiday travel season, what you learned from the summer and what adjustments have been made since the summer of delays and cancellations. what do you predict. >> we saw cancellations and part of that is demand returning, people buying tickets as the economy came back and that is good news. but the airlines have to be ready to meet that demand. a number of steps have taken place. i've urged the airlines to make sure their schedules are realistic, to move forward on increasing staffing. they've increased pay for pilots and i think that is going to make a a big difference. so we're in a much better place by the numbers than we were this summer. cancelation rates, any given travel weekend, much closer to what they were before the pandemic. but, i do think

s. lawsuit for allegedly ordering the murder of john lester. marcus shockey and turkey us intelligence officials believe the prince ordered the killing. outside to summit protests against apec and thailand's prime minister romped it into a conflict between demonstrators and police. police say they find rubber bullets and made several arrests after offices or allegedly attacked. activists have called the response an overreaction alaysyah has back that dutch courts like sentence in absentia to, to russian intelligence agents, and the ukranian separatist leader to help down in the laser airlines flight of ukraine. in 2014 was hit by a russian missile fired from territory in ukraine. helpline pro separatists. the kremlin is rejected. north korea has testified another intercontinental ballistic missile. it's the 2nd major weapons test this month. the missile flu eastwood from the outskirts of the north korean capital pyongyang and landed about 200 kilometers off the japanese coast in the countries exclusive economic zone. military analysts say the miss, i would have had the range to hit the

rescue efforts. public disquiet is putting beijing 0 coded policy under increasing pressure. gen lester. sobbing touchmart has been locked down himself in beijing. he told us that the protests may still not achieve what people want. yet the frustration is as high as it has never been before. and during the pandemic, if you go on social media, you see a lot of chinese posting very critical am a statements, very critical videos and also those who are actually not. so a political or who are not. so we're rather petri arctic, but even they've had enough and the sensors are really at, at working overtime. you scroll through a social media opening links and the next morning everything is deleted. so it's, it's really shows you something. and usually i would say that, you know, those anger on social media could also disappear soon. it has happened before, but nowadays, i mean it's hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel because even despite those really strong locked downs, the cases are rising. am baking as posting record high numbers. the country is also posting a record high numbers al

host: what is your propane bill a month, lester? caller: i pay by the year. i paid $2000. know if that is going to make it. host: what has it been in the past? caller: usually around $1200. and before, i got a wood backup. i cannot quite go out and cut wood. as a backup for when it is real cold, because we do get real cold here. host: you are right on the border? caller: right. i look out my front room window and i see canada. host: thank you for the call. appreciate it. aj in atlanta, georgia. good morning. caller: good morning. i am a long time c-span listener. for black friday, it is very dangerous for -- i recommend you bring on dr. claude anderson. when blacks were freed in 1865, we made up .05% of the wealth in this nation. and 2022, we still make up .05% of the wealth. the difference is we spent 1.7 trillion dollars outside our communities. most of that is spent today on black friday. so it is perilous for us. i worked two jobs and this is the first time i have been off in five years. we really need to think about things like, for example, president trump spending a

i'm lester mcgregor in doha. all the reaction to two nights game coming up.of the noon in the moment. kherson under attack — now hospital patients are being evacuated from the ukrainian city because of constant russian shelling. nurses in england, wales and northern ireland will walk out on the 15th and 20th december in a dispute over pay — the first

here is lester holt with inside the hunt for el chapo. >> he was hiding. somewhere in these forbidden mountains. or, in this sprawling city. or, in this sun-splashed beach resort. somewhere. somewhere, in mexico. he was the most wanted drug lord in the world, implicated in hundreds of murders, and finding him became the dangerous mission of this man, and a team of u.s. and mexican law enforcement agents. >> i am pretty sure i never started interview off with a question i am about to ask you. you are chasing some really bad people, with really long memories. what are you doing, talking to me in front of these cameras? >> originally, i started out under an alias. >> for the first time ever, this former dea agent was coming out of the shadows, despite fears for his life. >> the danger is real, right? >> i have to watch my back, the same way, whether i was under an alias, or using my real name. >> is it a calculated risk? >> i am always calculating it, in my head. it was time to step up and be proud of what i had done, of what my teammates had done. >> his nam

philadelphia, as we've noted, reinstated today, savannah and lester. a procedure that helped them prevent against any double votes, that means in the words of the acting secretary of state they may be at this for the next few days. back to you. >> yeah, but the pace of those results will certainly cause some anxiety. >> one thing in the exits is right now dr. oz is getting fewer of those white male non-college educated voters, the white non-college educated voters than donald trump got. >> interesting metric to watch. let's go to wisconsin. governor's race is tight there. we've got shaquille brewster on duty in milwaukee. he's at the headquarters for the republican in the race tim michels. hi, shaq. >> hi there. good evening. and you know, polls just closed about a half hour ago, so there's still a lot of vote to come in. but i've been talking with both campaigns, both party chairs, and it's almost as if they're reading from the same script. they say they're feeling cautiously optimistic. republicans saying they're seeing high turnout in their high pop

he indirectly confirmed that the support measures in the previous premier lester since absurd.han said to fight inflation, tax increases are needed. according to the results of september, it reached 10% immediately in several german cities, including berlin, there were thousands of marches against inflation and the climate policy of the authorities, demonstrators. also dissatisfied with the actions of large german companies, they called for a quote to pay the rich, and also to open the nord stream 2 gas pipeline and lift anti-russian sanctions. after all, they are the cause of record growth. price inflation amounted to almost 11% gas, rose in price by two times. slovenia will host in the second round of the presidential elections, the former foreign minister anzhi-agar and lawyer natasha pirc musarov are running for this post. the first candidate is known for his anti-russian rhetoric and, according to local mixtures of sympathy, unnecessary. to ukraine, the second is in defense of the lgbt community and the rights of women to board and is mainly sympathetic to the left if musa

nbc's lester holt has more. >> reporter: today's lesson is all about giving thanks. >> thank you forovershadowed by covid, many students told us they are grateful for a thanksgiving that feels a little more normal. >> i'm thankful for family and friends. during covid, i wasn't able to see a lot of my friends. >> very grateful that me and my family or my family and i have been healthy and happy and able to see each other. >> i'm thankful for the school and my teachers and my friends. >> i'm thankful for my dog. she's good at comforting people, especially me. >> i'm thankful for my family, because they give me comfort. and i just love them. >> reporter: of course, on thanksgiving -- >> i love cooking. >> reporter: comfort comes in the form of turkey, stuffing and potatoes. >> we bake and we cook and we have this huge feast at the end. >> we make an angel food cake which i love do with my grandma. >> looking forward to eating. we do cook a pretty good thanksgiving meal. >> reporter: when you are in grade school, there's something else to look forward to. >> we get a lot of days off from

here is lester holt with the case of the missing da. >> the clues are tantalizing, as sporty red car, a speck of cigarette ash. a battered hard drive. >> it is a mystery, it absolutely is a mystery. >> but what do these clues say about the sudden disappearance of a district attorney who left them behind? >> it is baffling, it is confusing and perplexing and it is all of those things. >> his name is ray gricar, when he vanished in 2005 it was a big story. >> a prosecutor in pennsylvania who vanished on friday is still missing. >> now his story is linked to an even bigger one. >> stunning allegations of sexual child abuse. >> one of the most storied names in college sports is enveloped in scandal. >> because several years before he went missing, ray gricar decided not to prosecute jerry sandusky for the first known allegation of child sex abuse against him. now, some are asking whether that jerry sandusky case had anything to do with the da disappearance. >> for anyone to think that there is no relationship is the epitome of naivete. >> others say no way. >> eliminating ray gricar does

. >> laura: nbc nightly news you'll be shocked to hear lester hotel delivered a completely impartial report congressman. >> an issue finding traction for many campaigns is voter worries about crime. but as we found, the state of crime in america is not always what it appears to be. tonight fear is on the ballot. >> vote like your life depends on it, because it does. >> fueled, some argue, not by reality but by videos of rampant lawlessness and some unsettling headlines. >> laura: well, congressman, the media clearly see how potent an issue crime is and they are essentially, as i said earlier, picking up the baton from hochul and company to say, look, i'm not saying there's no crime but it's not really as bad as people like you make it out to be. >> i mean, lester holt is playing this video of me on my front lawn with my wife and my kids where right there, just a few weekends ago, there was a gang drive by shooting. my two 16 year olds were at home at the kitchen table doing homework on a quiet sunday afternoon. there was a bullet found about 30 feet away two people shot laying on the

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on mature parents heard lester about a message in the girls bathroom that read, quote, black lives don't matter and kill them all. in a relatively, parents are calling on the school in the district not only to investigate the person responsible, but also to add more security on campus, including police officers, cameras, staff to address mental health needs. they also want more focus on diversity. >> we need to let people know that it's an accepted ball to teach our children, a baby, that a group of people don't matter, and that they should be killed. it's an acceptable. this is learned behavior. this is from home but it's a threat to society. >> the schools did take on the graffiti, but have not identified the person that may be responsible. school district is calling the message unaccountable and says, they are committed to continuing to provide anti- racist teachings and listening sessions, among other things. >>> the reshaping of twitter is happening as we speak. we're now learning about the details about twitter's content moderation under the new ceo and owner, elon musk. bloomberg

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. >> just a few months ago, attorney general merrick garland told our lester holt that no one, includingr, could that decree be put to the test? when it comes to the mar-a-lago documents case, those wheels, they've been turning. nbc news returning that a charging decision maybe looming these the investigation enters what appears to be a decisive faze. sources telling nbc that the justice department is actually examining past cases involving the -- cost by materials they consider bringing charges against donald trump. but the doj is also beefing up their roster of prosecutors. signing up those with experience, and classified material and terrorism. and, there are more signs that trump's legal troubles can are about to get much worse. first, prosecutors no longer have to abide by the code not to make any sensitive moves for a big election as to not influence voters. as political puts it, a less than stellar gop midterms performance threatens to deprive trump of the overwhelmingly republican congress that he hoped would bill committee gavels and subpoena power to protect him and to torment

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." >> i'm lester holt it is great to be with you this morning. we have a super lineup including the return of a holiday classic. >>> plus, we'll introduce you to one of the newest members of the st. louis zoo. but first let's begin with the fall season. and a couple questions that are on the minds of two viewers. >> hi. my name is anneisha and my sister asha. we have two questions for you. first, why do believes change colors like, what happens inside the leaf >> and why do leaves change different colors in the fall, like red and yellow and orange bye. we love "nightly news: kids edition. >> here to explain why leaves change colors in the fall is our good pal dr. john torres >> reds, yellows, oranges and sometimes even purple. as we say good-bye to the green, all these other colors start to emerge but to understand why leaves change we have to go back to the beginning and understand why trees even have leaves >> leaves are the powerhouse they both make the energy and ship it off to the rest of the tree >> leaves have cells containing chlorophyll

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the united arab emirates rock a lot of fossil fueled lobbyists this year that we did not see lester., this cop is about gas deals. since the invasion of ukraine, we have seen european governments scrambling to sign a new gas dealsnd that is what we are seeing at cop. >> i thought cop w abo saving the climate? >> it should be. that is what is so depressing. 25% more lobbyists are trying to stop the process of tackling climate change. it is important to realize the fossil fuel companies have business models built on drilling and burning oil and gas. bpn shall, -- bp and shell, that is where they make their billions. we need to realize that the companies have different interests to all of us who are trying to tackle climate change. maryam: on the flipside, some may argue you need these companies on board if you are to tackle climate change. >> on the flipside, would u.s. the tobacco industry how to stop smoking? no. it is the same situation. talking about tob, the u.n. tobacco treaty actually impose a ban on tobacco lobbying because they be allies to was holding back the ambition of the

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if you use jason lester, all concrete uncomfortable is. wiley looks good, so it will fit the purpose. but i will use the quality of the concrete by not being able to use it later. so, gypsum plaster makes the concrete on recyclable. but a similar looking silicon base plaster doesn't affect the re usability of the concrete. or let's look at steel, a universally used material in construction that could have an infinite life cycle . just a simple decision to use bolted connections rather than welded joints will allow the structure to be dismantled, making it easier to reuse the materials. it's all about designing smarter. while these individual solutions are amazingly easy to implement, unfortunately, they alone will not be enough to make the construction sector, environmentally friendly, says, nor will so, fee grief on though we need the market. we need the politicians. and we need this society to go for these ideas, and i think we are already in a state where our society sees that we need to do something different. so crater to crater can show the solution how this is actually possible

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if you use a jets, lester, all concrete uncomfortable is. wiley looks good, so it will fit the purpose. but i will use the quality of the concrete by not being able to use it later. so, gypsum plaster makes the concrete on recyclable. but a similar looking silicon base plaster doesn't affect the re usability of the concrete. or let's look at steel, a universally used material in construction that could have an infinite life cycle . just a simple decision to use bolted connections rather than welded joints will allow the structure to be dismantled, making it easier to reuse the materials. it's all about designing smarter. while these individual solutions are amazingly easy to implement, unfortunately, they alone will not be enough to make the construction sector, environmentally friendly says, nor was sophie griffon. though we need the market. we need the politicians and we need. this is heidi to go for these ideas and i think we are already in a state where our society sees that we need to do something different. so crated to cradle can show the solution. this how this is actually poss

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so it's like giving hoping michael shebang grew a political analyst from lester is pessimistic about the sci fi deal, which he says it depends on the actions of the rwandan government. many people believe that the m tend to face. yes. one that hiding so the hand depend very much on the run. the blunder has new version over the m. thank you for you should run the truest exercise that leverage we could have the situation could result. you very my depend on the role that one that will play because at the moment the enter, the 10 that has no link with rhonda that it should be engaging in that if with the government and the fact that the editor. and if he wasn't, there means that they're not particularly concerned, they haven't agreed to anything because they were not invited. i think is a way of putting pressure on the government to dial. unfortunately, i don't think that the reason the optimistic giving the this is not the 1st time that the 33 has taken weapon against the company of government. and this is not the 1st time that hence states in the eastern africa you have issues statemen

and at the bottom, there are 40 russian cities lester, which i have already visited in this car. what they see the word piece written in all languages on my car. and when i say to them, i love russia, it's a great country. they all say i was once on the vulgar or i visited moscow. i st. petersburg then, which does others were on lake by call. it was done and they all speak enthusiastically about the russians. he's in these people are so nice, modest. i really wonderful people, hospitable medicine, many germans admit, i will. the doors are always open in russia and tables are set. it doesn't matter how much russians have to share. that is exactly what they think. a lot of people clearly understand. this is a game of big geo politics that does not care about people. i'm not sure that that's why we have been organizing these drew's buzz car rallies for many years. i . we encourage people to look at our neighbors who is being talked about badly in our press bike. in sports news, riots have broken outs in belgium, in the netherlands after morocco's shock victory over the belgian scene

the question is whether we've got the technical fixes that concern, lester, you've got a bigger deliver can't be used better, natural systems. these are the questions of nature versus technology. and unfortunately, finance gets more profits from technology. so that's where the carbon market funding is going, rather than for land reforming for our natural restorative systems. the developing world is largely the key bar of the earth's natural ecosystem that continue to gobble up most of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. and as the head to the united nations, lima change conference, they will make a case for the existing forest to be included in the tree, double credit cobbler market. because long before net 0 became a buzzword, the forest, well, all ready, absorbing, cobbling. if the world is serious about reducing the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, forests like goblins must be a priority and monetizing them will be beneficial to all. and historic polluters like western countries have a stock choice facing the my head of club 27. even increase their coven budgets, or give

madame vice president, lester at the celebration of america you reinforce that ethers that veterans exemplifiedcouraged us to believe in what we can do together, and with your and president biden's leadership, your and his tireless advocacy, this country together is doing so much for veterans. we are grateful for your leadership, for your unrelenting advocacy on behalf of veterans, their families, their caregivers, their survivors. with that, it is my great honor to introduce the vice president of the united states of america, kamala harris. [applause] vp harris: thank you. good morning. secretary mcdonough, i think for the work you've been doing. first lady dr. jill biden, second gentleman, doug emhoff, secretary lloyd austin and the members of our cabinet, general mark milley and service chiefs, leaders and members of veterans service organizations and all of the distinguished guests. good morning and thank you. it is particular to our veterans, service members, families, caregivers, and survivors. it is a profound privilege to think and honor you today and every day. we gather to pay homage

yeah. push guard about where you and lester on lake darkish form was for them. it was, i mean, each is i need to finish. and if you ania and latvia the seriously thinking of closing their borders with russia, this could isolate the cleaning grad region, which is cut off from the main part of russia and has borders with if you ania and poland. russian trunks are already banned from entering the you and exceptions made the delivery of medical supplies, food and energy transit to callian grant is allowed so far. a european as space is already close to russian plains. the road from moscow to kennedy in grad is now 30 minutes longer planes have to skirt the european union and come in from the see about 1000000 people live in the colleen in grad region. they all worry that or at my close them off, the governor is in a difficult situation with new problems arising every day. they need solutions to reassure the residence around the ponies operating rather yes, pretty much the at the girl. never in moscow buzz about disco, florida, and i should moses for full name to hel