14/02/2014 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer


14/02/2014

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heart is through the pound. Time now for a look at the news as

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seen across the United States a couple of hours ago, in ABC World

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News with Dianne Sawyer. Tonight, millions of Americans are

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battling the fast, furious and frozen finale of a record-breaking

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storm. Ice, falling like missiles, firefighters barely able to see the

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flames, drivers stranded in their cars. Half a million Americans

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without power on a dark and stormy night. Your cable bill. What will

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happen tonight if Time Warner is bought out?

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Good evening. As we come on the air, 100 million Americans have an hit by

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a winter storm packing pretty much everything in the weather arsenal.

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This map shows the ferocious speed and power. Barrelling from Texas,

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across the south, and up the coast to Maine.

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With snow, ice, wind and rain, the storm that crippled the south,

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killing at least 20 people, is still wreaking havoc. Whiteout conditions

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from the nation's capital to the treacherous New York straightaway.

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Winds whipping a house fire in New York City, at least seven injured.

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In New York, a pregnant woman was struck and killed by a plough, her

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baby saved. In Pennsylvania, a state of emergency still left over from

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the last storm. We helped this woman did her car out. She lost power for

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three days last week, and again last week. -- last night. I have a coat

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on, and I have been wearing it inside. Per 100 -year-old mother had

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to go to the hospital to stay warm. This title with breathing problems

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evacuated. I boil water in a big pan, and then I dump it in the sink.

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For now, the food in her fridge is Phil Gould. Hundreds of schools are

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closed, but in the authorities defended their decision. In

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Philadelphia, we have nine inches of snow today. Some people taking

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advantage, sledding down these steps. Another 3-6 inches expected

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tonight. We are going to head south, where

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will families are telling survival stories after abandoning their cars

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on frozen roads. They were hardly in houses without power, and our

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correspondence is with them. More than half an inch of ice

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finally starting to melt today. Not before bringing down trees and

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leaving more than 100,000 in the dark. More than half a million

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people still without power tonight. For someone who is sitting at home

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without power, that is a bad place to be, and we understand that.

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Authorities say people should not use a fireplace to cook food. These

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people lost power, and accidentally burned down their house with the

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fireplace. Families across seven states will need candles tonight. In

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Charlotte, the people of this Baptist Church were underneath a

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collapsed roof. These people explained why they walked away from

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their cars. Cars around me were spinning. Tonight, families have to

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watch out for falling trees. By the time you hear something hit the roof

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you come out and... Mystery was brought down not by the wind, not by

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the snow, by the weight of the ice now melting below it. Listen closely

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to the sound of danger. Falling ice from city skyscrapers. It just can't

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melt fast enough. Now from that ice and the coalition to the chaos in

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the skies. One in five flights cancelled. By one calculation, the

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worst day for cancellations this winter. Or than 1 million travellers

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delayed in a kind of dominant effect.

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-- domino effect. Massive snowploughs race to clear

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open -- unopened runways as hundreds of thousands of passengers... I've

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had three flights cancelled. Remain grounded. We were on a flight at

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9am. Now we are rebooked for 7pm tonight. While Washington's runways

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were closed for much of the day, a few flights got out of the

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north-east airports. Airlines wasted no time cancelling flights, letting

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many aircraft sit out the storm. One in five flights translates to over

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6000 flights, rippling throughout the country. Airlines even moved

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planes out of the east and will start moving them back tonight.

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Atalanta was trying to bounce back from its storm. Warm winds there

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today. Tonight, a look at what workers to all season, prepping

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claims for takeoff. You can tell the different colours of the ice.

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Basically, we are getting it off. This is antifreeze. In Philadelphia,

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they will use 20,000 gallons of the aviation type of this. Good news,

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you are seeing some planes behind us. It should be better tomorrow.

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Less than 500 flights cancelled for tomorrow.

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20,000 gallons! What a month this has been.

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In New York, seven storms in seven weeks. Tonight, a lot of people

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across the country are praying for better weather. Prayers and said?

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Warm enough to have drizzle but we are switching back to snow. There

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will be up to another six inches overnight. Let me show you what's

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happening. Now that you know you will be getting more snow tonight,

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anywhere from parts of Maryland, up through New York City. Valentine's

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Day is clear. Look at Cincinnati. The new snow storm will slide across

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on Friday night, through early Saturday. It looks like we will pick

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up more snow into the weekend. Look at this. If it feels like it has

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been non-stop, you are right. In New York City, we have had seven days

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where we have had more than one inch of snow, adding up to 40 inches

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since the beginning of this year. Philadelphia, for example, in their

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fifth snowiest year ever. Last year, just half a foot was the average.

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More like 12! Then, 53.5 inches is where we are at this year.

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If you have a General Motors compact car in your driveway augur Raj, we

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have a warning. -- or garage. They are recalling some of their older

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models because they thought -- because of a faulty switch that can

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cause the engine to shut down without warning. It has been

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responsible for six deaths and over 20 crashes.

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We have all of the details on our website. Now to the news reaching

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into American living rooms tonight. Time Warner cable and Com cast

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joining forces. -- Comcast. What will this mean for our access and

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service and the already skyhigh cable bills? Today, Comcast

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announcing it will team up with Time Warner cable and grow its foot and

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30 million households, becoming the biggest cable provider. -- growing

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its footprint. Congress will be looking very closely at the whole

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business of pricing. Comcast says the deal will benefit consumers but

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some watchdogs say not so, telling us this deal would lead to less

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consumer choice, less diversity and much higher cable bills. In general,

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mergers tend to drive up prices. We looked back at other recent mergers

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today and, if it happens, prices could go up to 14% in the case of a

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deal. That is based on other mergers.

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Thank you on this big news tonight. Next, a plea for help. One family's

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fight to reunite to children living very far apart. The parents

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determined to win this fight. We will be back.

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Next, we have been seeing a lot of the Winter Olympics but today a

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reminder of the country behind the celebration. Russia, which has

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banned American adoptions, today extended the ban all countries that

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allow same-sex marriage. Tonight, too little brothers are leaving the

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divide, separated by 5000 miles and so much more.

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This is the Thomas family from Minnesota. My dream of being a mum

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happened. It was all of those emotions that I would say you would

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go through, as if you are having your own baby. They are happy and

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healthy but in their incomplete family. Jack has a five-year-old

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brother. He is still in an orphanage in Russia. If he came home tonight,

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we would have a big party with chocolate and watch movies! Blow me

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a kiss! He loves giving jitters. Almost four years ago, they were

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close to reuniting the brothers. I thought it was going to go just like

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our first adoption. But we would go home and be back to pick him up.

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There was never a thought in my mind that we wouldn't return to bring him

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home. Suddenly, Russia changed the law and the band came into force.

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After a string of high profile cases, one child sent to America was

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delivered back to America alone, no longer wanted. Another toddler died

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when his new father left him in hot car. As the world's focus is on

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Vladimir Putin, Rene is now appearing on Russian television to

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make a direct appeal. It means everything to us. To be able to have

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his brother home and raise them together, we wouldn't be fighting so

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hard if it didn't mean so much to us. Lawyers and politicians here are

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telling us they are in no doubt that politics has played a part in this.

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Of course it is children who are caught in the middle.

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How instant index begins with a change coming to your Facebook page

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starting today. The 150 million Facebook users in the US can choose

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their gender in a whole new way. Facebook profiles that identified as

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male or female and also androgynous, transgender, 50 choices in all. The

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move comes after Facebook users lobbied for more options. One

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engineer said today that it will impact a lot of people but for the

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few it does it means the world. -- it won't impact.

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News over the international jewel thieves known as the Pink Panther

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gang. You can see them in action here, smashing the luxury car

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through a more in Dubai and making off with millions. -- mall in Dubai.

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Tonight, this man is under arrest. He is Serbian, 33, arrested in

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Madrid. Police believe he was part of that brazen heist in Dubai. Don't

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say we didn't warn you, this is not for the faint of heart. New video.

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The group of extreme athletes trying to master a slack line stretching

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between two hot air balloons, hundreds of feet in the air. Watch.

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One after another they go down. What, don't worry, they have

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parachutes. Finally, the Valentine's Day challenge in the snow and ice.

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How do you carry a fragile flower across a river of ice? With

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creativity. On this day, it is one of the most

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important jobs in America. Delivering those Valentine's Day

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flowers was troubled today. With businesses closed, this North

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Carolina florist was ground to a halt. This 24 hour period is Super

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Bowl for florists when many do up to 20 times their normal business. Last

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year, 233 million roses were grown for Valentine's Day. We might be

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delivering late but we do what we need to do. We joined a delivery man

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as he set out on foot through the slush and snow, determined to

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deliver this bouquet. In Georgia, the weather was so bad a sheriff

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actually cancelled Valentine's Day in his county, citing safety

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concerns. I would hope that all of the people who are usually on the

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receiving end with the understanding and would cut us guys some slack. It

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has triggered a Valentine's Day panic. One person said:

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Others are getting creative. Check out these alternative

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bouquets, made up of whatever is in the house. Some people just push on.

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This man and his cargo did make it to where they have to be. Somebody

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loves you. After all, what is a little snow... OK, a lot of snow,

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when it comes to Valentine's Day? I hope you spend the big night with

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us tomorrow night. Thanks for watching. Have a great evening.

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Thursday offered some respite but a different kettle of fish on Friday.

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Quiet across central and northern parts of Britain in the first part

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