let's bring in robin smith there now he's head of corporate banking at a fraser bank and joins us from. robin this is an ecological and economic disaster in one how will this affect life in hoods on russia's. thank you very much for having me on the show or. you know the truth is that that is quite difficult to determine right now because the crisis is not yet over you know current iran 1000 tons of fuel that's built into the the other protected marine areas on the east coast of the island. the japanese ship. which crashed into there are limits as to meditate carried around 4000 tons of fuel and the good news that right now is that most of the remaining fuel on board has been removed and 5 recent rescue efforts and i think there's been a superb effort by the merchant population. over the past few days to to try and address the crisis and clean up but there's a point in time we formed that this around 200 plants remaining on board the bad news is that the ship was close to breaking out. posing a strong chance that the remaining fuel leak if not removed in time and that would further dee

was amended with a new name, cohn robins as co-chairman of that spac they join a slew of other famous finances that launched spacs that include bill ackman, jeff smitherry and former house speaker paul ryan have also launched spacs recently. 79 spacs have been filed with $32 billion. that's up 136% from the $13.6 billion raised in all of last year and it's only august. melissa? >> leslie, thank you leslie picker. i thought it was interesting that a sole book runner on gary cohn's speak this used to be sort of a shady back water of financing, backdoor way of going public and here we are with some very famous people, very famous investors. you know, legends perhaps going into this space. >> right, it's a backdoor to an ipo. that makes it appealing to the target companies so this is a pool of money that investors believe that whoever the sponsor is, let's say gary cohn can find something and cliff robins can find something in their area of expertise to bring public through a backdoor andhe investor, they have a look at whether or not you like that deal if you don't like it, share your sells back to the company. most deals get approved and that's the ex

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