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that does it for us from all of her colleagues across the networks on nbc news. thank you for staying up late with me. i will see you again tomorrow. the date is october seven and previously only on my calendar for one reason which it is vladimir putin's birthday . he is 72 today. congratulations. but now for me and you and everybody, the date october seven is its own unforgettable indelible thing the same way that 9/11 is an unforgettable indelible date for us forever now too. on october seven, israel lost 1200 people in the hamas attack and october seven of 2023, a year ago today and they lost

1200 people and if you extrapolate that given the relative size of the population of our two countries, and attack of that size in our country would have been the equivalent of us losing 35,000 people. we lost 3000 americans on 9/11 and they lost relative to their population relative to that 35,000 people on october seven. they didn't lose them by crashing into planes or doing that in the buildings but they were all killed face-to-face person-to-person by hand one by one. after 9/11 our country started wars in afghanistan and in iraq which stretched out into america's longest ever war and they killed hundreds of thousands of people. after october seven it has spread from gaza and the west bank into lebanon and started to include some significant

military exchanges with iran and in gaza alone the death toll is said to be roughly 42,000. if you extrapolate that in the same way given the population overall compared to ours that is the equivalent of us losing over 6 million people in a single year. more than the population of missouri, maryland, and wisconsin. even today, there are still 97 israeli hostages who are still thought to be held by hamas and today for them marks one year for their captivity. but on it goes. we have been watching all day today memorials and vigils and protests marking the years since the october seven hamas attack and since the start of the war in gaza and we have seen president biden in this country in both of the presidential candidates in this

country take part in commemorative events marking october seven at oddly this anniversary today has been a slightly unsettling reminder of one of the unmarked upon oddities in this presidential contest. all major presidential party candidates for years now have been given intelligence briefings by u.s. intelligence agencies during the campaign and they do that not just as a complement but they do it so presidential candidates of major parties and people who have a shot at eating in the white house if they are briefed by the intelligence agencies, thinking as they will be better prepared for the transition and taking power if there ultimate the elected and also presumably so they are aware of the implications of their statements of a presidential candidate while they are running that campaign. the presidential candidates get intelligence briefings and so do former presidents. donald trump normally is a former president would also qualify and be entitled to

ongoing intelligence briefings and all former presidents generally get that. and that said after trump incited the january six violent attack by congress to stay in power president biden decided maybe it's time to break that and this a former president shouldn't get the courtesy of post office intelligence briefings and that decision was pretty good when trump was ultimately brought up on federal charges for mishandling the classified information he illegally took with them in huge quantities to his house in florida when he left the white house after his presidency was over. when the republican party in its infinite wisdom nevertheless decided this past year they would make trump their presidential candidate again that was this interesting scenario in terms of intelligence briefings because it meant even if he wasn't get intelligence briefings of the former president because it was

decided he couldn't be trusted with him, as a presidential candidate he should have been able to start getting again and not because of his status as a former president because he is a candidate for office once again. here is a strange and mostly unremarked upon thing in the presidential campaign that nevertheless came roaring back today. even though the u.s. government said in president biden said that trump is now entitled to official u.s. intelligence briefings because he is a presidential candidate, you are not allowed to get them is a former president and a bridge too far given how you behaved at the end of your presidency. but, okay, you are a major party candidate for president see you can get the briefings but he nevertheless isn't getting them because he decided he didn't want them. trump said he would only be accused of leaking the information he was given in the intelligence briefings so we didn't want them. he doesn't watch them and he has since been refusing all

intelligence briefings from the u.s. intelligence community. so sure we are on the anniversary of the october seven attack and trump's publicly demanding that israel should launch a large scale bombing campaign against iran. who knows. maybe you think it is a good idea. it is worth remembering that he is making that kind of radical and bombastic demand not just while that whole region is teetering on the edge of the abyss and in some ways already over it but making that demand while simultaneously deliberately choosing to not know are here with the u.s. government thinks might happen if anybody decides to follow his advice. refusing intelligence briefings and nevertheless demanding that one of the most potent allies in the world already engaged in a war on multiple fronts should scale up a big bombing campaign and what could possibly go

wrong? something could go wrong? i don't want to hear it. responsibility. confidence, sanity. we also have our eyes tonight on the absolutely massive new hurricane in the gulf of mexico that is headed toward the yucatan peninsula in mexico before it heads here toward the state of florida. hurricane milton is category 5 and one of the top five strongest atlantic hurricanes in recorded history and you may have seen this today and emotional report from the nbc miami meteorologist and hurricane specialist john morale is being interviewed alive today when the news crossed that the storm had grown explosively into a category 5. >> we begin with our hurricane specialist john morale is it is

a category 5. >> that news just came in right now and it is an incredible incredible hurricane. it has dropped -- it has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours. and i do apologize. this is horrific. the maximum sustained wind is at 160 miles per hour it is gaining strength in the gulf of mexico where you can imagine the wind and the sea is so incredibly incredibly hot and record hot as you might imagine and you do know what is driving that and global warming and climate change leading to this and becoming an increasing threat. >> an emotional john morales in

miami flabbergasted by the size and explosive growth of that mega storm. it is as yet unclear of what the impact may be in the yucatan peninsula but current tracks have it coming here afterwards as a category 3 or 4 when it heads toward landfall on the west side of florida on wednesday and the day after tomorrow. i will show you one more thing and this is in print and not tape but it does convey the same level of upset and worry an alarm which is the latest from the climate unit and i will read it to you directly and this is what they said. hurricane milton shatters records in the landfall likely with a catastrophic storm surge never before seen in this area. milton went through an

astonishing period of extreme rapid intensification jumping from a category 1 to 5 hurricane in 18 hours. and again this is an 18 hours. landfall expected very late wednesday early thursday is a borderline category three or four hurricane between clearwater and fort myers and florida and while it is expected to weaken, it will grow in size which will maximize the storm surge potential despite having a lower category of wind. risk of a direct hit on tampa continues to grow raising concerns for catastrophic and historic storm surge and life- threatening flash flooding possible for a large portion of florida with the highest totals most likely to occur along or near the interstate 4 corridor with widespread outages likely on the corridor and those could last weeks. milton is another climate change fueled hurricane expected to go through extreme rapid intensification fueled by the gulf of mexico waters that remain 2 degrees to 4 degrees

above average. >> these intense and even emotional warnings about the impact of hurricane milton come a week and a half after hurricane helene banged into the big bend region and proceeded up and inland were caused shockingly widespread and profound destruction in parts of georgia and south carolina and north carolina, virginia, tennessee. recovery updates continue. but one of the other things that people in these states have to contend with, which is insane is, on top of everything else, a title wave of disinformation and conspiracy theories. these are designed to maximize the chaos and turn people against each other and reap whatever political points can be wrung out of it. and amid everything else here is the front page of the

winston-salem journal in north carolina. the front page above the headline is fighting this information in the last thing you think they would have to deal with giving -- given everything they are dealing with. hurricane helene triggers misinformation search. here in charlotte, north carolina, here is the editorial board. shame on donald trump for worsening north carolina celine tragedy with political lies. fema has had to make a whole section of its website devoted to debunking false conspiracy theories and disinformation about the hurricane and response spread among other people by the republican candidate for president of the united states. the north carolina department of public safety again with everything else they have to deal with have also had to make a factor versus rumor website to help people sort through the trash promoted for political

benefit. back in reality among people actually involved in the response, north carolina's governor called the federal response to helene unprecedented. the republican senator thom tillis said he is impressed with the federal response. he said he is proud of the response effort and they are doing a great job and a republican state senator in north carolina who represents western north carolina said friends, can ask a small favor? will you all help stop this conspiracy theory junk that is floating all over facebook. fema is stealing money from donations, body bags ordered but government has denied bodies not being buried government is controlling the weather from antarctica, government is trying to get lithium from western north carolina, stacks of bodies left on hospitals and on and on and on. please stop this junk. it is just a distraction to people trying to do their job. this is a catastrophic event of which this country has never known in the largest crisis event in the history of north

carolina and the state is working nonstop and the d.o.t. has deployed workers from all over the state with duke power and fema is here in the national guard in large numbers. and it goes on. even some of the most partisan actors like the florida republican governor, even he said his state has received all the federal help it has asked for. but in the trump campaign the federal government is denying anybody any help in the trump campaign and on elon musk's twitter they decided it is better to mess with people and turn people against each other and lie about the response and see what they can stir up and see if trump can benefit from it. for example here is the 9/11 self-proclaimed white advocate conspiracy theorist whom trump brought with him to the 9/11

commemoration. of the people in appalachia should not comply with fema. this is a matter of survival. don't comply with fema. this is what they are doing for political benefit. six different states coping with devastation from hurricane less than two weeks ago and another storm on the way that is so large and terrifying it brings meteorologists to tears. the trump campaign sees that and thinks what better time than to mess with people and what that her time is there than this because maybe we will benefit from it and maybe if people are pushed into the most extreme circumstances possible, maybe we will benefit from things being as possible or bad as possible as they can possibly be. the harris campaign released a new advertisement pushing back at the lies that trump and his campaign have been trafficking in about the hurricane response and reminding the country this wasn't his strong suit while in the white house in charge of efforts like this. here it is. it came out tonight.

>> i worked in the trump administration. >> never in 1 million years that i thought i would be working in the white house with the president the didn't care about the american people. >> he would suggest not getting disaster relief to states. >> i remember one time after a wildfire in california he would send relief because it was a democratic state so he went up and looked up how many votes he got in those areas to show him these are people who voted for you. this isn't normal. the job is a president is to protect americans. this is regardless of politics. >> if trump is elected again, there will be nobody to stop his worst in state -- instincts. >> they will be serving one man. i am voting for kamala harris because she will put the safety and security of every american first whether they voted for

her or not. >> again, that is just released tonight from the harris campaign. in the wake of even republican officials in multiple states affected by hurricane helene, starting to beg trump and his campaign to stop lying about the response and spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories among people who desperately need a real and reliable information and real help. >> less than a month from election day. early voting has started in many places with a bunch of states hitting deadlines in terms of when is the last day you can register to vote in today for example was the deadline for which you need to be registered to vote in all of these states, georgia, arizona, florida, kentucky, indiana, texas, tennessee, arkansas, ohio. all of those states had deadlines of today. if you have been thinking that it may be a good time for you to volunteer or already

registered to vote and what else should i do and maybe this is an election i should do something or maybe some phone banking or canvassing door-to- door. maybe you have been thinking that i can't really do that but i should donate, now is the time. there is less than one month left and it won't do much good if you wait any longer because people are voting. no matter what your candidate is or what issue you want to work on, time to go in time to do it. with time getting this short and with the election as close as it is, everything matters. and trump is telling people that the biden administration is refusing to help people affected by the hurricane because it has taken the disaster money and given the money to immigrants instead. and this isn't even the tiniest bit true and trump is making anything and everything in his campaign relate back to immigration where he is getting darker and darker and darker in

the way he talks about immigrants in order to try to stir up maximum emotion, maximum division among people who are listening. having previously translated from the original german a nice phrase about how immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country, trump is now telling people and recently told the conservative radio host hugh hewitt that immigrants have bad genes in a little riff he was doing about immigrants being murderers, he said it is because "i believe this. it is in their genes. and we have a lot of bad genes in our country right now." no pushback on this pronouncement at all during the interview which is unsettling unto itself. but now i guess we wait and see if this will become a regular thing for trump where he talks about what he will do to get rid of the bad genes we have in this country and the people with bad genetics. will be clean that up in our

country? the bad genetics? how many people are we talking about being cleansed for their bad genetics here? jd vance did an interview earlier this year in 2024, february of this year, where he said he believes that "10% of the population of the united states is illegal aliens." that means he thinks 33 million people in this country are here illegally. that isn't all. he also said probably 10% of our population is illegal aliens and another 15% are in an irregular situation with the law. think about that for a second. another 15%. that means he thinks that 25% of the population of the united states shouldn't be here. they are either straight up illegal or in an irregular situation with the law. this is what jd vance describes

as americans in their terrible migration crisis. 33 million people in america who he says are flat-out illegal and another with an irregular situation with the law. this is the group that trump said, his running mate said, has bad genes in this country. this is 83 million people in this category. 1 out of every 4 people have what? got ago? they have bad genetics? 1 out of 4 people is 83 million people and 83 million people are the crisis that you guys are going to clean up? 83 million people? really? this is starting to sound like maybe it is too much for these guys and maybe their overplaying their hand a little bit here? with time this short and the election as close as it is,

everything matters. here is something else. donald trump hasn't withdrawn his endorsement for the north carolina and republican candidate for governor who called himself a nazi and an online form and who has yet to offer any explanation to what appeared to be his many many many lurid and quotable prolific posts on pornographic forums. trump's endorsement of mark robinson stands. here was jd vance's response when he was asked about mark robinson. >> are you comfortable with mark robinson as the republican nominee for governor in north carolina? >> the allegations are pretty far out there but those aren't necessarily reality and it's up to mark robinson whether he will be there governor. >> reporter: do you believe that those weren't his posts? >> i think you have to let these things sometimes play out

in the court of public opinion. he will make whatever arguments he wants to make. >> i don't not believe him. i don't believe him. this will just play out. he calls himself a nazi and praises mein kampf and praises slavery. not exact the courageous strong stuff on the i am a black nazi site governor campaign and jd vance favors banning pornography altogether and this is something that got him some attention earlier in his career as you see from this headline and also this ohio headline during a senate campaign. watch out, jd vance is coming for your . he is firmly against banning guns but keen on banning pornography. jd vance isn't alone in this crusade of course and in the

forward to project 2025 they put it right there in black and white as a priority as soon as republicans get back into power and it said pornography should be outlawed and the people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered. remember, they are the free- speech party. like i said, with the time this short in the election as close as it is, everything matters. now, for example, the industry is pushing back and really the only way they can. they started a hands off my campaign which includes video advertisements that role before thedoes on adult video providing websites. they are running these advertisement and it comes before thevideos. they will run these on adult content websites and all the swing states for the next month until the election.

now, what is the likely impact of that in those swing states in the last month before the election? everybody looking at online in those states being told right then and there when they are thinking about that that jd vance and donald trump will make it a criminal offense if they get into office? what is the likely effect of that on but say the gender gap on voters in swing states? i don't know. but with time this short in the race this close, honestly, everything matters. we have a lot to get to this hour. there is some new crazy stuff going on in some of the closest senate races and a lot of developments today including one stunning piece of tape that emerge today on what is the hottest issue driving democratic turnout in elections up and down the ballot. time is short and everything matters. lots to get too. stay with us. with us i'm 70-ish. consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan from unitedhealthcare. with this type of plan, you'll know upfront about how much your care costs. which makes planning your financial future easier. so call unitedhealthcare today to learn more about the only plans of their kind

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her from her legendary acting career has just done something and has given a statement of sorts. that is one of the most remarkable things i have seen from a public figure ahead of a presidential election. watch. >> i feel still very shamed about it because i was raised in the 50s. you know, it is ingrained in me. i was 17. i had no choices in my life. i didn't have a lot of family support in any way or finances. i graduated from high school but no one ever said what about college? nothing. i didn't know what would be. and then i found out i was pregnant and luckily i had a family doctor who was a friend of the family. he drove me and his wife and my mother in their brand-new cadillac to tijuana. and we parked on a really scrunchie looking scary street. he parked about three blocks

away and said see that building down there, and he gave me an envelope with money, with cash, and i was to walk into that building and give them the cash and then come right back to him. i guess he thought if i were dying, maybe he could help me. it was beyond hideous. it was life altering. i had no anesthetic and there was a technician giving me a few puffs of ether and then take it away so it made my arms and legs feel numb and weird and i felt everything and how much pain i was in and i realized the technician was actually molesting me so i had to figure out how could i make my arms move to push him away. it was this absolute pit of shame and when it was finished,

they said go, go, go, go, like the building was on fire. they didn't want me there. it was illegal. my doctor, i am sure, his generosity and bravery, because he would have lost his license if anyone had found out, and more, probably, because i was too naove to know anything. i had never been out of the state or near playing. these are the things that women are going through now when they are trying to get to another state. they don't have the money or the means or they don't know where they are going. it is beyond how you can go back to that and do that to our little girls and young women and not have respect and regard for their health and their own

decisions about whether they feel they are able to give birth to a child at that time. we can't go back. we can't go back. we have to all stand up and fight. that was that lovely story. >> actress sally field. today, the supreme court said that texas is allowed to ban doctors in that state from doing abortions even in emergency situations to save a woman's life or prevent serious harm to a woman's health and also the state supreme court of georgia reinstated a ban on essentially all abortions in that state. in louisiana as of last week the two pills required for a medication abortion are classified as controlled substances which means possessing those pills without a prescription is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

it has been more than two years since roe v. wade fell and less than a month until the next election in the legal landscape for abortion access has gotten precipitously worse of the last few years in the political states get higher and higher of course. joining us now is the president and ceo of reproductive freedom for all and i do appreciate your time. thank you for being here. >> absolutely. good to be here. >> see you are watching marginal changes in states that are having their abortion bands temporarily set back and temporarily set back and reinstated. and in innovative approaches like they are taking in louisiana essentially declaring medications that are used on abortions to be illicit drugs and what is your big picture take on the relationship between how profoundly damaged reproductive rights are in this

country and what americans will say about it less than 30 days from now when we get the election results?'s >> i have been traveling all over the country and i say it is go time. i am in orange county about to hit doors for some pivotal house races that we know will be key for us winning back the house and we were talking about advocates who have a ballot measure but have to fight back against tape revealed where he was derogatory about how young people feel about abortion, particularly young women. what we see is a trend line with the supreme court and i will start there. supreme court has essentially punted all major decisions on reproductive rights until after the selection. and really almost like a placeholder for trump and jd vance to come back and institute project 2025 which is terrifying. in the meantime you have

activists and everybody from independents and republicans in 10 states with ballot measures crossing partisan lines and getting activated and fighting back and these damaging efforts in places like georgia and louisiana where you are really trying to do everything they can to restrict abortion access even further than it already is. louisiana basically has a total beyond so classifying this -- ban so doing this for this drug is making it more difficult for doctors. all of this illustrates that we are in this incredibly tumultuous time where there is a single solution. that single solution is we have to elect kamala harris and tim walz and flip the house and hold the senate. if we get this federal trifecta, we can pass federal protections for abortion access and start fixing the damage caused by trump and his abortion bands.

>> you mentioned tim sheehy in montana and some comments he recently made and really derogatory and derisive toward young women caring about productive rights and montana is one of the states where it will be on the ballot directly and a lot of these measures including and a lot of red states or swing states where people can vote directly on abortion rights. every time americans have had that chance since the overturning of roe v. wade, we have seen americans vote for reproductive rights. do you expect that trend will continue through november and that the measures will pass pretty much everywhere if they have a chance to vote on them? >> some of them are harder than others but all of the polling looks favorable for these ballot measures and the thresholds are different in montana and a 50% threshold and while the ballot measure poles above that it all comes down to turnout and whether there is infrastructure in the state and the good news is they have done

a great job of organizing and i was in the flatlands and we did have hundreds of women showing up and men and allies to talk to candidates up and down the ballot and rally around the ballot measure. florida is another to watch closely based on the geography of the country and all of these bands we talked about in the southern states with florida a critical place for us to make sure we can win right >> because it is an access point for women in the south. they, however, have a 60% threshold. right now the ballot measure poles really well but it's a tough thing to make and not an accident that the governor of florida is really going after the ballot measure and trying to challenge advertising on the air in favor of the ballot measure and folks you signed the petitions know how popular this issue is and they will do everything they can to stop it. >> president and ceo of reproductive freedom for all on the road as we speak working on

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ted cruz in texas and rick scott in florida. rick scott is buying another $10 million of television advertisement for the final weeks of the race shelling out his own money and in pennsylvania where the republican senate candidate this week and decided to campaign outside of a cheesesteak shop in north philadelphia, that ended with the manager of the shop saying that the republican dave mccormick is "not welcome the back. you are not welcome back. " and then he crossed the street to a local baptist church where the pastor there asked them to leave because he didn't, among other things, want photographs of his churches numbers to be used by the campaign and the pastor said, you can photoshop or make things seem like they are and maybe they will post that we are eating dogs or cats like in ohio. forgive me if i am wrong but i don't trust these people. and that went great for the republican senate candidate pennsylvania and then there is montana where the republican

senate candidate is on tape repeatedly making really over the top flagrantly racist derogatory remarks about montana's native americans. and in the state were native americans make up fully 6% of the population. the republican candidate tim sheehy first tried to claim that the recordings had somehow been deceptively edited before he was forced to admit they are real and not at all deceptively edited but he refused to apologize for them. there is also that unbelievable ongoing lack of resolution over that same candidate tim sheehy saying a bullet in his arm was from him shooting himself accidentally when he dropped a gun in a national park. it then he said the same gunshot wound was actually from him serving in afghanistan. it can't be both. he refused to release any information that clarifies either way even as the disputed gunshot wound has been a huge

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map and retired from someplace cold like michigan you could do worse than this $1.6 million state in cape coral florida. it has beautiful views and a nice pool. this home is called an estate in the real estate listing shows it purchased two years ago in the summer of 2022 by the michigan republican congressman mike rogers. he served seven terms in congress and six years in the michigan state senate before that before he decided to retire to florida to live in his dream house. and between dc in michigan i guess who could blame him for wanting a taste of exceptional waterfront living. this is also in a much warmer location. the problem is just six months after mike rogers bought his new dream home in florida, and even more prime piece of real estate opened up. the u.s. senate are retired she

is -- announced she is retiring and he wanted to run for that senate seat but that would mean he would have to move back to michigan. mike gers decided he would buy this house in white lake township michigan. he bought it and immediately knocked it down in this photograph was taken by a local reporter of the michigan advance and shows an empty plot of land in this picture i think redefines exceptional waterfront living. two months after this was taken, mike rogers registered to vote using that property as his home address. and then a month after that he did vote for himself in the republican primary for that u.s. senate seat using that address as his registration location.

all of this is turning out to be a problem for the u.s. senate candidate mike rogers. according to the detroit free press, the house that he is still building on that spot is not done and it "did not at the time he voted and does not now have a certificate of occupancy, which means mike rogers couldn't regally live there. if he didn't live there, he may have broken the law by using that address to vote." joining me now is a pulitzer prize winning investigator and columnists with the detroit free press who broke the story and is the host of the soul of detroit podcast. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me, rachel. did i misunderstand any of that or did i get it right? >> i think the only misunderstanding and the rogers campaign won't help us out with it is where does he actually lay his head. the residency laws there are

very loose. they are set up if you leave to go to college or become a veteran or serve overseas, you can go to your old address and vote but the problem is we have no indication that he is actually ever lived here and while they say you can't go home again, if you are not there in the first place, is it really your home? >> he previously said he was registered at his brother's home in michigan. as i understand it from your reporting, you spend some time hanging out around his brother's home asking neighbors and people who lived in the area if they had seen him. it does seem like from your reporting that his registration at his brother's home may also have been a bit of a roos. >> anybody running for office particularly in a close race like this doesn't spend a lot of nights at home. we have 83 counties here in the big state and you want to get to all of them but a former congressman could at least come by and say can i get your vote but the fact is neighbors haven't seen him is pretty

surprising to me. but the campaign assures us at some point he did stay there which means he and his brother get along a lot better than me and my brother. >> both them and their spouses in a house with one half bathrooms. yes. let me ask you about one point and i will read from your column on this. there is still a question of whether he committed a misdemeanor by using a home he could not occupy to register to vote and whether he committed a felony by voting in the primary and whether he can even legally vote for himself in the november five election and you can't legally reside somewhere where there is no certificate of occupancy if you don't legally reside somewhere hard to say you can register to vote. and i these opponents or watchdog groups pursuing this is a legal matter and potentially his ability to vote

for himself and a question of did he break the law by doing so ? >> we just broke this story on sunday so the fallout is cascading through the michigan political landscape. frankly, given how republicans are so worried about voter fraud and people voting illegally, if anybody will raise a red flag, i would think it would be the republican party, but he is the republican candidate. maybe some other folks will say something about it. unless he moves into that place before november five, there is always a chance that if he goes to vote somebody will say i am challenging his right to cast a ballot presumably for himself. >> thank you. thank you for helping us understand the story and i appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. >> we will be right back. stay with us.

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