Whats your reaction to this . Look, its sad. I mean, i think the broader reaction, ana, is where are the republicans . Where is the Republican Leadership and the Republican Party . Governor kemp, rightly or wrongly, has been a close associate of President Trumps, more or less has done what he wanted him to do throughout the pandemic, but he doesnt want to disavow the constitution and break the law. William barr doesnt want to disavow the constitution and break the law. Youve got guys like chris krebs that want to tell the truth and tell the American People that the election was safe and secure, arguably the most secure election ever. And so, you know, hes going to continue to do this. The good news is, even if the governor said that he wanted to do that, there are likely more patriotic men and women that would never let that happen, and even if he was able to flip georgia, that wouldnt even be enough for him to get the Electoral College votes that he needs so hes in it, hes panltpanl painted into a corner, 46 more days of destructive personality disorder from him. Why do you think hes emboldened to do this, though . Do you think it has to do with republican lawmakers going along with him or at least just staying silent . Well, its been a 45, 50year strategy. The moralization, the jawboning the overcompensating bullying, all of this has been in the mix for the president for five decades and so i think if anything hes concerned and doesnt really understand why its not working this time. Thats why youre hearing from sources inside the white house about the rage and the denial and the anger, but this sort of behavior has worked for him for five decades, but its not going to work here. People dont want to go to jail, and youre watching his halflife of power fade very quickly, and of course once hes out of office on january 21st, it will be like that scene in ghost, ana, when the little ghosts came up from hell and took the bad guy down, that is going to be the republican aspirints for the republican primary. Theyre going to knock trump into next week. There is an election just around the corner next month and the president will be in georgia tonight trying to rally people for this special election runoff there, actually two special election runoffs for control of the senate, essentially. This race will decide who its going to be, if its going to be republican or democratic control. Is the president , do you think, going to be able to stay on message and avoid talk of election fraud, or is this going to turn into a potential nightmare for republicans . You know, it depends on his mood. You know, hes clearly can stay on message. The third debate, which became the second debate, he was more or less on message, which was lying with some level of con jeenlty. Well have to see which direction he goes in but if he goes off on a tangent its going to hurt those two senatorial candidates because a very large portion of the maga base feels those senators let them down in the state of georgia and theres a portion of the president s supporters that are so cultlike in their behavior that they want to boycott the election to punish those people, which is in the direct disinterest of the Republican Party. But remember, you know, hes going to have a hard time tonight because its not for him that hes down there. And so since its not for him, hell be more or less disengaged and less interested and less passionate. Our jim acosta reports that the white house exodus is already under way. We reported, you know, the White House Communications director left this week, sources say staffers at all levels are plotting their departures. Whos going to be there at the bitter end, do you think, and is it more advantageous for members of the administration to stay glued to trump for their own political futures or is it time to jump ship . Well, i think the people that will be there are sort of the people that carried him through celebrity apprentice, a few of his family members and a few very, very close acolytes. I think everyone else is sort of leaving and trying to figure out what theyre going to do and how to recalibrate themselves and there will be a big debate in the Republican Party. Will it be trump sycophants Going Forward and carrying the torch of the Republican Party, like representative matt gates who was caught in jersey city last night, maskless, disavowing the Health Orders there, or will it be some type of return to normalcy and ultimately, i think, thats going to be people like Mitch Mcconnell that are going to make that decision. Hell be the titular head of that party and it will be up to him to direct people as to where things are going to go. Right now its a personality cult but i predict that when President Trump loses power and that disintegration of power takes place, you may get a return to normalcy, or you may find people becoming trumpier than President Trump. I mean, you can just follow some of these jokers like senator cruz on twitter, and youre like, okay, i mean, this guys really lost it. I mean, the president went after his wife, he accused his father of killing john f. Kennedy, and hes sitting out there as one of the trumpiest of trump people. Trumpier than trump. Thats hard to even fathom. You talk about Mitch Mcconnell, maybe he brings things back to normal. As far as we know he hasnt publicly even acknowledged that joe biden is president elect, and in fact, a New Washington post survey of all 249 republicans in the house and senate conducted in just the past couple of days finds only 27 of them acknowledge joe bidens win over President Trump. Just 27. What does that tell you . That tells you that they think that the 74plus Million People that voted for President Trump are tied to him and that tells you that they dont want his wrath politically. They dont want his invective on twitter, and they dont want to be primaried, and so theyre trying to you were just saying hes losing his power and his hold over the party. Well, yeah, so, once hes out of power its like a very bad breakup. Imagine that youre in a relationship with somebody and you know the persons completely nuts but theyre moving to the other side of the world and you just dont want that powder keg to explode so youre sort of going through the motions until that person departs and youre youve got a countdown clock on your iphone watch waiting for that person to leave. And thats what these people are doing. Its a very bad breakup with somebody thats abnormal, sociopathic, and they dont want to go after him right now because he still has keys to some levels of power and they think it will be too disruptive, and so thats whats going on. Bottom line, joe biden will become president in just 46 days. I want you to listen to how biden answered the question about whether trump should attend his inauguration. Do you think its important that hes there . Youre laughing. I think it would important only in one sense. Not in a personal sense. Important in a sense that we are able to demonstrate at the end of this chaos that hes created that there is peaceful transfer of power with the competing parties standing there, shaking hands, and moving on. And as we come back live here, you can see a lot of people are there ready for this rally for the president. This is in valdosta, georgia. Do you agree with what we just heard from joe biden . Do you think President Trump shows up . Well, i still think hes going to show up, yeah, im probably the contrarian on this. I think that someones going to explain to him theres been 44 people that have been president. Grover cleveland was president twice, which is why youre 45, and every one of those president s, including john adams, you know, was roughed up. Now, in john adamss case, he left but theres been 120 or 140year tradition right now, could be longer than that, but its a long tradition where the president s hand over the power peacefully, irrespective of party, and i dont know if he necessarily wants to break that tradition. It will certainly hurt his political fortunes Going Forward, and the potentiality of his family members political fortunes, and so i dont see the upside of not showing up. It makes him look like a sore loser and so hopefully someone will convince him of that and on that day, perhaps hell be in the right sort of mind and his impechsty will get him there. If he doesnt show up, its an embarrassment to him. What soon to be president bind is saying, its not the end of the country, well move on but its more evidence of why he never should have been president in the first place, why he was so ill suited for that job in terms of his temperament. Anthony scaramucci, i appreciate your perspective. Thanks for joining me. Good to be here, ana. Thank you. It is a sobering statistic. On average, one american is dying from covid every 30 second. So that means 24 people lost just since the top of the hour. The loss so unprecedented that some Funeral Homes are buying reridr refrigerated trucks just to keep up. Were backed up four and five weeks out now and weve had married couples that die within a day of each other. Parents and children die within a week of each other. It hits its heart wrenching. If Funeral Homes are overwhelmed accepting the dead, how are our doctors and nurses coping with losing the battle to save these lives . Well ask one next. Stay with us. Here live in the cnn newsroom. A must in your medicine cabinet less sick days cold coming on . Zicam® is clinically proven to shorten colds highly recommend it zifans love zicams unique zinc formula. It shortens colds zicam zinc that cold we made usaa insurance for veterans like martin. 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A virus we had never heard of a year ago is the leading cause of death here, surpassing heart disease. Think about that. And now, an influential model from the university of washington is predicting, by april, so just four months from now, there will be almost double the amount of deaths in this country. If thats true, 539,000 people will be dead. That would be equivalent of taking a city the size of atlanta or sacramento and just wiepg it off the map. Already, one american is dying about every 30 seconds. Ping it. Already, one american is dying about every 30 seconds. And even that statistic, as staggering as it is, doesnt do justice to the pain of people like lizann, an oklahoma nurse who lost her husband and her mother within a matter of days. Here, she describes the moment she got in her husbands ear and told him he was about to die. Giving him morphine and ativan and i turned him over and i said, i love you and he said, i love you and i said, youre going to go now. You can finally be at peace, and he said she took his last breath about 30 minutes later and i bathed him and i cut his hair and i put clothes on him. And i left him. Theres nothing else i could i couldnt save either one of them. We cant put into words what it was like for quincy drone and lastasia to lose their 5yearold daughter just hours after she tested positive. As parents, you never expect to see your daughter in a coffin. You never expect to see your daughter in the emergency room with her eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling, dead. And if you needed just one more reason to please, please, please wear a mask, listen to the words of this nurse and do it for her. As an e. R. Nurse, i havent cried a lot on the job. You hold that back and you want to stay tough for the family and stoic, and theres been a lot of tears shed in e. R. Rooms during covid. Because we are treating that person dying like our loved one dying, because they dont have anyone else, and they need that grace and they need that human touch and they need someone to be there when theyre taking their last breath. The holidays have been rough for a lot of us. Were not seeing our families. Were doing everything we can to keep the public safe, and so its extremely frustrating for us when people are not doing that. Cnns sara sidner has more on the pandemics impact on daily life. My business pretty much tripled. Reporter in imperial county, california, with an 18 unemployment rate, that would normally be great news. But this is a funeral home, inundated with bodies. How much worse can this get . Were afraid. When the first wave hit, our hospitals were sending patients out of county to other hospitals, because they were at capacity. Thats not going to happen this time because nobody has room anymore. Reporter the covid19 summer surge overwhelmed her staff, going from an average of 55 deaths to 135 in one month. Sheila krueger frantically bought and soon filled three new refrigerated containers with the dead. They are filling up again. So we can put two or three. Were backed up four and five weeks out now and weve had married couples that die within a day of each other, parents and children die within a week of each other. It hits its heart wrenching. Even with all the new treatments helping bring deaths down and a vaccine on the way, covid19 is killing one person in america every 30 seconds. In kansas, one patient says the politicization of masks is killing people. Im convinced that there are going to be so many people that are going to die just because of what i am going to call political. Reporter for months, throngs of healthcare workers have been working to exhaustion battling to save as many lives as they can, but seeing more deaths than ever before. I dont want to say its been harder for us than it has for everybody else, but the truth is, it has. Reporter from a doctor in colorado where one out of 41 people are contagious, according to the governor, to a covid unit nurse in kansas where icu beds in one part of the state are at capacity. There has been no respite. Two to three weeks, were going to be just swamped. Reporter one Healthcare System with hospitals in 21 states is reporting a 70 increase in hospitalizations over the past three weeks, caring for highly contagious coronavirus patients is taking its toll on everyone. In a newly released survey of 1,100 healthcare workers, 76 reported exhaustion and burnout. I think were past the breaking point, so the staff is here, but theyre broken. But they still continue to come. Reporter dr. Edward runs El Centro Regional Medical Center in california. This hospital has just two icu beds left before theyre at capacity, while working nonstop since the summers deadly surge, theyre facing down yet another surge, this time a second Field Hospital with 50 beds has been erected. The medical tent mimicking a familiar scene to this air force veteran. This brings me back or takes me back to when we were in the middle of baghdad. Reporter are we in a war zone . We are. We used to shy away from using the term, but were in a war zone against covid. Reporter the signs of a big battle are reappearing across the country. On staten island, an Emergency Hospital reopened, corona hospitalizations there have nearly tripled. In rhode island, a Field Hospital erected, another put up by the National Guard in massachusetts and a terribly familiar plea we heard at the beginning of the pandemic now repeated. If you have the skills, the ability, the cando constitute and ha attitude and have time to work in a hospital, we need you. Reporter what they really need, the vaccine. Here they took part in the astrazeneca trial and now have one of the precious super cold refrigerators that hold the delicate vaccine. This refrigerator, i call it my life right now. This is, every night, we come in to make sure everything is okay with it, that it has what it takes and that were prepared to take it to the next level. That was sara sidner reporting. I want to bring in dr. Shirley, associate director of hospital medicine for hennepin healthcare, and doctor, thanks for being with us. I know your hospital is in downtown minneapolis. The state of minnesota currently dealing with a recent spike in the number of people hospitalized with covid19. What has been the hardest part of your job this week . I think it is just the feeling of just suffocating all the time. You know, were were suffocating in our patients isolation and their fear. Its suffocating in just the emotional and physical exhaustion of all of our colleagues. Its feeling helpless because theres often nothing we can do for people. And i think its the constant thought of whats coming next. 9,000 minnesotans were diagnosed with coronavirus on sunday, and then another 9,000 on monday, and every single day, thousands more people are getting this virus, and we know that means that in a few days, in a week, hundreds of people are going to be coming to the hospital and hundreds of people are going to die. And i think that sometimes when you hear statistics like that, you become numb to what those numbers mean, but for us, you know, the people that are taking care of these patients every single number is somebody that we have to look at and say, im sorry, theres nothing more i can do for you, and its just another family we have to call to tell them that their loved ones are going to die. Its so hard breaking. And clearly, its so overwhelming. I can feel i can feel your stress and your strength at the same time. Because youre hanging on, and youre still doing your job, even when it seems obviously so difficult. And i wonder, you know, why. Why do you think theres this surge . Is it what do you attribute this . I think that people are tired. People are tired of, you know, wearing masks. People are tired of staying in their homes, and truly, my heartbreaks for everybody who has lost their jobs or their housing and for kids that arent able to go to school and for people that cant see their family, but i dont think that people can really comprehend how horrific this disease is unless theyve been personally touched by it. I mean, people are literally suffocating inside our hospitals, and they are dying alone, and they dont get the luxury to complain about covid fatigue, and their families dont get the luxury to complain about it because theyre living in, like, covid hell. We all want to be able to have our lives go back to normal, but it doesnt mean that we cant can pretend that this doesnt actually exist and i think thats the problem is that, you know, no one wants to believe how horrible it is and so theyve just given up. How do you keep pushing forward . You know, i think its just its hard. I think its really challenging sometimes to not accumulate all of these experiences and have that weight, but im only dr. Xie in the hospital, you know . When i leave and i go home, im shirley, and i am mama to two amazing little kids, and they know what covid is. They know what their parents do at work. And theyve had their whole lives changed already, but quite frankly, i mean, they are more concerned with, you know, complaining about what im going to cook for dinner than whats going on in the world, and i think its just remembering that we have responsibilities to our patients but we also have responsibilities outside of the hospital too. And remembering that you cant change these things that have happened, but you have to keep moving forward because there is still so much more work to do. When you talk about us not becoming numb and not be just seeing the numbers but really seeing the bigger picture, can you tell us more about what you and your staff have been witnessing with the patients that are coming in with covid . Yeah. You know, when i think about what were seeing with covid, theres always a picture that comes to mind, and its a photograph that was on the front page of the star tribune, our newspaper, a couple weeks ago. Its a picture of a man in an icu bed, and hes lying on his stomach, and hes got highflow oxygen in his nose, and it just every time i see that picture, i think, this is what covid is. This is what were seeing. And you can see that hes fighting to breathe, and hes fighting to live, and he is suffering. You know, covid, its not the cold. Its not the flu. It ravages your body. It attacks your heart. It attacks your brain. It destroys your lungs. You know, were just were seeing so much suffering. I think i have had more patients die in the last eight or nine months than i have my entire career. And i dont know how to describe that to people. And i just dont know how you even begin to cope with that, the work you do is really, really gods work. Were so lucky, all of us, as americans to have people like you working hard to save lives. Dr. Shirley xie, thank you for talking with us and sharing your experience. Were sending you and all of your colleagues strength and just tremendous gratitude. Thank you. Well be right back. Were all putting things off, especially in these times. But some things are too serious to be ignored. If you still have symptoms of Crohns Disease or Ulcerative Colitis even after trying other medications, it may be a sign of damaging inflammation, which left untreated, could get much worse. Please make an appointment to see your gastroenterologist right away. Or connect with them online. Once you do, seeing the doctor is one less thing to worry about. Need help finding a doctor . Head to crohnsandcolitis. Com breaking news just in to cnn. Ten Million People in california will soon be under a stayathome order. As the hospitals there face just an increasingly dire situation. Cnns Paul Vercammen is live in california. Give us the latest. Reporter okay, so well get straight to the horrifying numbers out of the state of california. We have 25,000, more than 25,000 new cases in california. That means 10,000 people hospitalized, including here at ucla Medical Center where im standing, and we also had 209 new deaths. About these stayathome orders, soon it will be almost all of the state of california, and heres why. When that threshold drops below 15 of remaining icu capacity, that triggers the enactment of the serious stayathome orders in a region. The san joaquin region has officially made this announcement. We know another six Million People are going to go ahead and invoke those orders in the San Francisco bay area and then looming, we expect this to come this afternoon, Los Angeles County will dip below that threshold and that means 23 Million People, and i should say Los Angeles County and the rest of this massive Southern California region. 23 Million People will go into these severe stayathome orders. Thats at 11 59 p. M. , a minute before midnight, thats tomorrow, sunday night, local time. This means no ones to head out to museums, playgrounds, most businesses curtailed, you cant go to nail salons, you cant go to hair salons. It is rather strict. Some of these measures are already in place depending on the county in Southern California but this sweeping measure, again, to be enacted at 11 59 west coast time on sunday, ana. Paul vercammen for us in los angeles. Thanks, paul. With just 46 days until joe biden is sworn in as president , members of the Biden Transition Team were unable to meet with pentagon intelligence agencies this week. We have your weekend president ial brief next. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. [narrator] with the ninja foodi power pitcher, you can crush ice, make smoothies, and do even more. Chop salsas, spoon thick smoothie bowls, even power through dough, and never stall. The ninja foodi power pitcher. Rethink what a blender can do. Oh my gosh you made it oh shoes i thought yall got lost or something. Did you put some ah, kale in the greens . Oh thank you we didnt forget about you welcome to the family. Thank you. Wooooow. I love it laughter thank you dad almost two weeks after the Trump Administration finally signed off on a president ial transition, cnn has learned that bidens intelligence Transition Team was still prevented from meeting with counterparts at pentagon intelligence agencies this week. 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Well, Agency Review teams or arts are key parts of the postelection process. Theyre authorized to enter federal agencies in order to understand operations and ensure a smooth transfer of power. Despite the ascertainment, weve learned that a. R. T. S have not been granted access to pentagon intelligence agencies like the nsa or the Defense Intelligence agency. Pentagon officials are citing process fouls on behalf of the Transition Team, while other reporting indicates that pentagon political appointees have layed down purile procedural roadblocks. Whoevers at fault, the bottom line is were wasting time. No one should want a rushed transition on programs like government surveillance, which the nsa is largely responsible for. Fortunately, members of bidens a. R. T. S have deep experience on intelligence so that may be a mitigating factor here. I want to ask you about some other reporting. This is from our k file team and its that trumps nominee for a Senior Pentagon position, scott ogrady spread debunked conspiracy theories. What do you think the impact is of his nomination . Well, hopefully he wont have time to get confirmed. But this is the latest reminder of trumps dangerous approach to the pentagon. Just recently, hes fired senior officials at d. O. D. And replaced them with conspiracy theorists like general tata. Hes removed experts from defense policy boards and instead appointed acolytes like corey lewandowski. Im, corey lewandowski, seriously, its ridiculous. At the same time, we have to remember that while the new secretary of defense can remove unqualified political appointees, with 47 days until inauguration, these moves are not without impact. Were drawing down in iraq, somalia, and afghanistan, and we have an islamaphobe, general tata, leading policy at the pentagon. We have a trump loyalist kash patel inappropriately involving himself in transition and separately, trump is threatening to veto the National Defense authorization act for an unrelated personal vendetta. Overall, ana, these measures are the opposite of supporting our military. Instead, it looks like President Trump is waging a war on the pentagon. And sam, in a wall street journal oped this week, director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe wrote, if i could communicate one thing to the American People from this unique vantage point, it is that the peoples republic of china poses the greatest threat to America Today and the greatest threat to democracy and Freedom Worldwide since world war ii. Ratcliffe also revealed chinas targeting members of congress with six times the frequency of russia and 12 times the frequency of iran, he says. How seriously do you take ratcliffes warnings . I dont to diminish the multiprong threat the Chinese Communist party poses pot United States but we cant take anything he says at face value. Hes established himself as a political messenger and perhaps because of those political bona fides, hes established himself as a key player in the administrations full court press on china. He did this cbs interview. He penned an oped and his office publicized the fact that the intelligence communitys budget next year will increase by 20 . At the same time, pompeo is engaged in a rapidfire punitive measures against china. And overall, whether motivated by politics or policy, its clear the administration really wants their swan song to be about china. All right, sam vinograd, as always, good to have you here. Thank you very much. Thanks. Facebook announced this week it will remove any debunked claims about coronavirus vaccines, and it is measures like that to cut down on misinformation that have some Trump Supporters looking for other sites where anything can be posted, even if its filled with lies. Cnns Donie Osullivan reports. Ive been suspended by twitter a few times. I got sick of twitter. We got censored too much. Censored. She was in jail every other day. Twitter jail. We just want to exist. We just want to be able to be a part of the conversation. We want to be able to speak on the platform without being labeled, without being besmirched. I mean, it is toxic out there. Reporter convinced that Tech Companies are biased against conservative views, some Trump Supporters have turned to parler. It touts itself as a free speech social network, one with far fewer rules than facebook or twitter. Every time twitter or facebook takes authoritarian steps to curate content and act as a publication, it drives more people to our platform, which is a town square. Reporter how is parler different . You can have free speech. You can say whatever you want. You can voice your opinions. As long as youre not getting people riled up to go out and actually make threats on people. And incite violence, which we dont. Never have, never will. Then we just go and have our free speech on there. Reporter what is something you can say on parler that you wouldnt be able to say on facebook . That the coronavirus is not as deadly as everybody says it is. And you can literally post that on twitter and get in twitter jail for that. Reporter but you can post it on parler . Yes. No problem. Reporter i mean, the cdc says we should be wearing masks. You dont accept that . No. No. Reporter you said you were in facebook jail. Yeah. Reporter can you explain to our audience what facebook jail is and how did you end up in there . Lets see. I posted something about the proud boys. It was taken down as racist. I wasnt allowed to post for about, i dont know, 48 hours, you know. Its every time you write something that they disagree with. Reporter why have you been suspended from twitter . Pass. Reporter i mean, have you said racist stuff in theres ways to get suspended from twitter, being racist, sharing hate, do you share stuff like that . No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. No, its just its just stating a disputed opinion. Reporter so, give me an example of a disputed opinion in the case of you getting suspended. No. Reporter and what is parler . Parler is the latest alternative social media platform. Reporter ben decker, on online radicalization expert, compares parler to a dive bar. Before the pandemic, we used to go out to baseball stadiums and watch games as a community. If you started cursing or infringing upon the experience of another fun, you were removed from the game and where did you go to watch the rest of it . At the dive bar next door where the behavioral standards are lax and its okay to share opinions that arent okay to be shared around others. Reporter so, if somebody is pushing very hateful, maybe dangerous rhetoric, do you worry that that could lead to offline violence and then having a platform that allows for people to post and promote certain hateful viewpoints, that could be dangerous . I mean, obviously, anything can be dangerous. I live with my mind free enough to know that any situation can spiral out of control. But the whole idea of people sharing their ideas with each other and i dont see how that leads to real world violence. A spokesperson for the el paso mayors office. Reporter but violent speech online can lead to real world violence. 8chan, a platform that preached free speech, was linked to mass killings in el paso, texas, and christchurch, new zealand. In other echo chambers like parler, there are no dissenting opinions, so constantly, beliefs, ideas, new narratives are just further reinforced by others, and this is these are the kinds of places that facilitate an unintentional radicalization process. Reporter facebook and twitter deny theyre biased against conservative ideas and instead are cracking down on misinformation and hate. But parler has seen a spike in downloads since election day, and most of its users appear to be on the right. Have you started using it . No, but i mess around a little bit. But its never any fun when its just us. You know . It just turns into an echo chamber, and its never any fun because we cant mess with guys like you, you know what i mean . Its no fun when its just us, saying what we know to be true. To each other. Reporter no lids on the platform. I want to have a discussion. I want to talk to people. I want to engage. I want to have, you know, a discussion, but its totally it cant happen. The way things are going. Reporter and can you not have that discussion on twitter or facebook right now . Not if you want to keep your account. Reporter Donie Osullivan, cnn, atlanta. On january 20th, joe biden will join the small and exclusive club of american Vice President s who have gone on to serve as commander in chief. And that is the subject of new cnn film tonight, president in waiting that airs at 9 00 eastern right here on cnn. Well be right back. Im happy to give you the tour, i love doing it. Hey jay. Jay . Charlotte oh hi. He helped me set up my watch lists. Oh, hes terrific. Excellent tennis player. Byebye. I recognize that voice. Annie . Yeah she helped me find the right bonds for my income strategy. Youre very popular around here. Theres a birthday going on. 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