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This as dr. Anthony fauci issued this on deaths and cases in the tthe bad news . Our so will this recital. Day. Leave bleeding gums behind. U. S. Looking at what were seeing now, i would say between 100,000 depend® fitflex underwear offers and 200,000 cases, but i dont your best comfort and protection guaranteed. Want to be held to that because because, perfect or not, lifes better when youre in it. Be there with depend®. Its excuse me, deaths. I mean, were going to have bewere bringing the theater home to you millions of cases. With xfinity movie premiere. Yeah. Such news. The number i gave out is based on modeling. I know what this is. This is a real thing. And i think its entirely conceivable that if we do not our Brand New Service that lets you watch movies at home, mitigate to the extent that were trying to do, that you while theyre still in the theater. Could reach that number. Oh, mister elton. Yeah, yeah. Ahh its possible. I mean, you could make a big he has figured out a way to be invisible. Sound bite about it, but the they picked the wrong woman. Fact is, its possible. Just say xfinity movie premiere when i heard the number into your voice remote to bring the theater to you. Today, first time ive heard that number because ive been asking the same question that some people have been asking, i felt even better about what we did last week with the 2. 2 trillion. So youre talking about 2. 2 million deaths, 2. 2 Million People from this. And so if we can hold that down as were saying to 100,000, its a horrible number, maybe even less, but to 100,000, so we have between 100,000 to 200,000, we together have done a very good job. It was just an aspiration. We actually will be hitting, potentially and this was with our meeting before, on easter, we probably well, that could be a peak. That could be a peak period. That could be the peak, sadly to say, the peak number of deaths before it starts coming down. Now, that was aspirational. We had an aspiration of easter. But when you hear these numbers and you hear the potential travesty, we dont want to do anything where you know, we dont want to do it sooner, then all of a sudden you go down and then youre coming up again because we discussed that can happen. We dont want that to happen. Weve gone through too much. I didnt say easter. I said it would be a great thing if we could do it by easter. And as the coronavirus pandemic expands nationally, the coronavirus continues to former fda commissioner scott impact wall street this morning as global stocks point to another low open while crude oil gottlieb points to a rapidly prices are down. Karen tso joins us from london. Increasing spread that suggests whats the latest on wall street multiple epicenters. This morning . In particular, the city of good morning. Chicago now accounts for almost weve had some volatility. 2,000 cases. The futures already suggesting while Los Angeles County itll be another rough week on accounts for more than 2,000 of californias over 6,000 cases. Wall street. And in addition to new orleans and detroit, another city to Oil Prices Take us to 21. 50. Watch is miami. This morning, we slipped below Miamidade County accounts for 20 on the trade. Almost 800 of floridas nearly 5,000 confirmed cases of the 23 handle in brent in session. Coronavirus. Joining us now, Health Care Despite pressure from washington editor for bloomberg, drew for the saudis to alter the price war with the russians, armstrong. They are not taking part in any good to have you with us this morning. Lets look back over the weekend conversations, suggesting what were seeing in the price action may continue for some time. And some of the comments made by dr. Anthony fauci. Meanwhile, its the first of the month coming around, and its a he gave a projection of 200,000 pinch and a punch when it comes to the invoices, the bills that are coming due. Deaths. What are the numbers around the some will delay the rents that are due. Dont forget, they cant afford country telling us where we stand with this stay at home a payment for some of the order if it is actually apartment rentals. Also for cafes, as well. Mitigating the number of cases . Itll be a problem for some soft companies to pay. Are we having any kind of impact cheesecake factory, it is a on blunting this curve . Multimillion dollar business, and theyre not paying the bills so i think one of the things thats important to realize is in april. That it takes a really long time the question is how much bills will be delayed. For them to play out. The stimulus isnt coming soon. Youre talking about new cases, itll take weeks for that to deaths, the reality of this arrive where it is muchneeded. If many of the bills are disease is that you have a long delayed, it means getting out of an economic crisis will take incubation period and the average is 5. 1 days and then a much, much longer. Long course of illness before meanti meantime, when it comes to companies deferring staff, some are trying to furlough to keep patients either hopefully recovery or in some cases die. The staff on board, and some are and so everything that were watching right now is both a trying to cut pay to ensure those employees retain their portrait of things that happened jobs for the long term. In the past because people got for other white collar jobs that infected days and in some cases it is not the case, some have up to two weeks, some time ago, been axed. When were talking about white and then it takes them a long collar jobs, it is 54 of the time for their illness to u. S. Economy. Progress and either resolve or important when we talk about economic recovery. Technology jobs, marketing jobs, other professional roles are going to be impacted. Back to you. Karen tso live in london, end tragically. In new york, two weeks ago, we thank you. Up next, axios one big had fewer than 500 cases and now thing. On morning joe, as the theres 33,000. Coronavirus spreads across the so it gives you an idea of, one, u. S. , confirmed cases in the the magnitude of which this can state of ohio climbed up to more than 1,600. Grow and also the number of days that it takes for these things to expand and play through. Ohio Governor Mike Dewine will and i think we still dont be our guest. Necessarily know are we nearing after 100 deaths in a single day, the toll in new york is a peak in new york city or not. 1,000 lives long. To that point about the peak congresswoman grace meng, whose district includes the elmhurst in new york city, the question a hospital, will join the conversation. Morning joe, everyone, moments away. 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And House Speaker nancy pelosi unless youre attached to your wrinkles. Slammed President Trumps response to the pandemic saying one week is all it takes. Neutrogena®. His lack of action early was deadly. His denial at the beginning im part of a community of problem solvers. Was deadly. His delaying of getting we make ideas grow. From an everyday solution. To one that can take on a bigger challenge. Equipment to where it continues, we are solving problems that improve lives. His delaying continuing to get equipment to where it was needed is deadly. What did you know and when did he know it . Thats for an after action review. But people are dieing and we have to take every precaution. But are you saying that his down playing ultimately cost american lives . Yes, i am. Im saying that. And a quick programming note, Speaker Pelosi will join msnbc tuesday morning. You dont want to miss that like rock, reggaeton, on alland techno. Nge. Interview. Joining me live from london, ali get ready for the drop. Wait for it. Aruzi. Good to have you with us this wait for it. Come on man hit me morning. Lets talk about the wait for it. Developments that have taken just do it already one more time place in the uk. What is the reason behind yeah. Standing these protocols possibly up to six months right now . What do they know that is making them make that suggestion . Good morning, ayman. Theyre saying three months up to six months because they want joining us from washington, d. C. With a look at axios am, to stop people interacting with political reporter jonathan swan. Good to speak, as always. One another. They dont want this virus to what is the one big thing for this morning . Good morning. We look aide story of how spread. There are about 20,000 cases trump, the pressures trump came here and the fear in this country is if it gets out of under to make this decision to control, if there are so many extend the National Social distancing guidelines and shut positive cases, not only will it down an extra month. Kill a lot of people, but it it wasnt just his Public Health will put enormous strain on the National Health service here which is already starting to officials, dr. Fauci and dr. Feel the strain. Theyre running out of emergency birx, but the governor pressure was immense. Beds. A lot of Convention Centers have i interviewed larry hogan, been turned into makeshift republican governor in maryland. Hospitals. And they fear if the sheer he is the chair of the National Numbers just go way up, they governors association. Will collapse under the he is coordinating between the nationwide governors. Pressure. So they dont want that to he is in a rare position because happen. Thats the main thinking behind he can speak his mind. This. Hes not up for reelection. Every day, ayman, you see on he is a republican in a Blue Television here warnings from state, and he speaks for many Health Officials telling people when he says he said to me, not to go out, not to socialize quote, if trump had gone to his with each other. First and foremost because they dont want it to spread and the easter timeline, quote, itd be second message is to protect the very harmful because wed obviously not listen to that. National health service. And you have to remember, ayman, wed obviously not listen to this is a huge turn around from that. He said on the record had trump what boris jounsan was doing gone through with that, he would have ignored it and followed the scientistic and doctor initially. He has coronavirus, as well, guidelines. He had been talking to white house officials over the weekend incidentally. Before this all went into and last week. Trump was faced with a dual lockdown in this country, he was telling people to go about doing situation. Doctors were presenting herd immunity. He was one of the last people in europe to close the shops, bars, modeling, kwhich he referenced. Restaurants, and schools and now 2. 2 Million People could die if this country is in a very, very this got out of hand. This was essential for saving tight lockdown. Lives. He was also getting Pressure Parliament has passed from dpovr knogovernors saying, legislation here to be able to you tell everyone to do this, give the government new powers were going to ignore you to enforce some very, very anyway. Let me get your thoughts on strict rules. So all of a sudden theyve had the new reporting you have coming out over the weekend, moved from this step by step that the United States saw the start of what could be the approach to a cart downan rules largest governmentled air lift of emergency medical supplies. On lockdown toes try and protect what more can you tell us about the National Health service and where theyre getting all this stuff from . It is an incredible effort. The country at large so they i interviewed a rear admiral. Dont lose control of the the first flight came in from coronavirus. The heir to the throne, prince shanghai saturday, flew into jfk charles, has the coronavirus. Sunday morning. The Prime Minister has it and surgical gloves, gowns, et the Health Secretary has it. Cetera, et cetera. So they have to take a vastly theyre working with existing different approach to the one that they had taken a few weeks medical supply distributors, but the federal government is buying ago. This country has only been in lockdown for a week now. These. The first load is being flooded and quickly, what is the latest from italy . Into the new york tristate area there has been a brutal few days because it needs it. Of death tolls now surpassing the supply chain has been a complete disaster, and the government is way behind. This is an effort to catch up. 10,000. Thats right. A staggering 10,000, over 10,800 yeah. To that point, i know the rear deaths there. Admiral is now in charge of fixing americas coronavirus 97,000 cases in italy as theyre supply chain. Struggling to cope with the what is he saying needs to happen . Virus there. You cant buy your way out. In spain, its not much better, it is a combination of things. One, they have to do preservation, sterilizing and either. 7,000 people have died in spain. Reusing existing equipment, then you have other things like that makes up for about half of working with u. S. Manufacturers the deaths around the world to speed up production. Right now. Incredible. This is another part of it, which is, working to bring in and we will be getting a live extra equipment from overseas. Report from rome just a moment it is actually a multifront from now. Ali, stay healthy. Thing. He said, he literally said on still ahead, President Trump wastes no time pushing ba on the record, we cant buy our way out of this. You probably think all the oversight of the 500 billion countries around the world are and bailing out money for big doing the same. Businesses. The measure he says his how competitive is it to get the administration will not comply with, next. Hello, son. Supplies oversea overseas. Jonathan swan, stay safe and healthy. You, too. Sign up at signup. Axios. Com. That does it for me on this monday morning. Aymi morning joe starts now. I grew up near elmhurst, queens. Elmhurst hospital. I know it, where it is. I can tell you the color on the outside, the size of the windows. I know it very well, right . Dad not cool. It was near my community where i you know whats not uncool . Old spice after hours. And jazz. Lived. 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But youre not mad, because you have e trade, whos tech makes life easier by automatically adding technical patterns on charts and helping you understand what they mean. Dont get mad. Get e trades simplified technical analysis. President trump signed a roughly 2 trillion Coronavirus Relief package into law over the weekend. The bill extends aid to many struggling americans to direct payments that expanded Unemployment Insurance that should be exact. The package provides loans and grants to businesses and sends Additional Resources to health care providers. The wall street journal notes trump has told people he wants his signature on the direct payment checks that would go out to american stimulus. Notify congress immediately if the administration unreasonably withholds information. The white house called it a violation of executive branch authority. Joining us now, danny sovalis. What do you make of President Trumps defiance of the oversight clause in the relief bill . Can he claim executive authority about that right away . President s have been issuing signing statements since Andrew Jackson in 1830 who signed a federal law saying that he understood it as not extending the federal road beyond detroit, michigan. So president s have been signing these statements along with legislation to voice their concern with a bill of even their possible defiance of a bill. This is nothing new. Its been around for centuries. The president is arguing that any requirement that an executive foishlg be beholden to congress or anything else without president ial supervision is a violation of powers. Hes not indicating that hes going to defy it, but that his interpretation is it doesnt take away from the powers inskrefted in the president by the constitution. Lets discuss the reports that trump wants his signature on the checks being sent out to americans. That is not usually how it happens in this country. Its not the president s name thats on the check that we get. Ordinarily, treasury checks are signed locally by whoever is in charge of that particular agency head. But in this case, and what i can see, and i may live to eat my words, there doesnt appear to be any bar to the president ordering his checks or the im sorry, the treasury check toes be emblazoned with his signature. Now, procedurally, it may cause additional costs because theres already a system in place for essentially rubber stamping these checks because no one human could sign them all. So there may be additional costs. And look for folks to, you know, on the democratic side to make noise about the fact that this could add an additional cost to issuing these checks, which may already be a considerable cost to begin with. All right. Danny, thank you, my friend. Always a pleasure. Still ahead, the u. S. May be in crisis, but theres still a president ial election in november. Well tell you where that stands, next. Cancer wont wait. 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Trump, in the meantime, has taken on the persona of a wartime president which in turn as the times notes has given him a bump in the polls with his Approval Rating creeping towards 50 . Republican officials tell the times that it has been harder to raise money without events featuring the president. On meet the press yesterday former Vice President joe biden criticized trumps slow response to the virus saying we must be ahead of the curve. The coronavirus sdmis not th president s fault, but the slow response, the inability to do the things that needed to be done quickly, those are the things that cant continue. Were going to go through another phase of this and we have to be ahead of the curve, not behind the curve. Your campaign put out a critique of President Trump saying if he doesnt do these things, he could cost lives. Do you think there is blood on the president s hands, considering the slow response, or is that too harsh of a criticism . I think thats a little too harsh. I think whats happening is failure to as i watched a prelim to your show where someone said that dpsh used the phrase that the president just thinks out loud. He should stop thinking out loud and start thinking deeply. He should start listening to the scientists before he speaks. Here is the ad that chuck todd referenced from the Biden Campaign suggesting trumps ego could cost lives. I say, mike, dont call the governor of washington. Youre wasting your time with him. Hear in Washington State tonight, 175 people have now died. 3700 more are sick. Dont wall the woman in michigan. Governor Gretchen Wittmer officially calling on President Trump for a major disaster declaration in michigan. Governor of washington no, you know what i said . If they dont treat you right, i dont call. A brutal political ad there. Lets bridge in meteorologist bill karins. Hes been diving into the growth rate numbers every morning. A pretty tough weekend, not just overseas, but here at home. Especially saturday. Interesting in the trends on the numbers, yesterday was a sunday so the reporting may have been lower. Well wait and see what happens today. But last sunday, it was also a little lower. First on saturday, we went over 500 in one day and sunday, yesterday, we had about over 250 new reports of fatalities. Now our number has jumped up close to about 2,500. It was only five days ago that we went to 1,000. So yes, the death race has been jumping. Every three to four days, weve been doubling that number. As far as the new cases go, about 140,000 now. It was only march 27th, three days ago, that we hit 100,000 cases and you can see towards the beginning of the month how small those numbers were. This is doubling about every three to four days. So that would tell you that by the end of this week, well be somewhere close to 300,000 cases nlsz we really see a change in the curve. These are linear graphs. So were seeing that number go left to right. East to west. Its not going to go down because this is a total number of cases, but we want to see it flatten out. We just havent seen that yesterday. A lot of that growth is now happening across the country. Lets get into some of the forecast maps. We still have some of these whether. We could get some serious weather this time of year. Today, isolated strong storms, louisiana, north texas, oklahoma. Tuesday, its more of a widespread Severe Weather threat. Were watching our friends in southern georgia, the panhandle of florida, the mobile areas included. That is tuesday for your forecast. What a gloomy, miserable weekend it was in the northeast. Today, still from new york city northward, a lot of clouds, chilly, damp weather. Better from new york city southward. But ayman, when you get those cloudy, rainy, dreary weekend and everyone is stuck inside, it makes it that much worse. Tell me about it. I was holed up with two kids inside over the weekend, but were not complaining. Bill karins, thank you very much. Were going to talk to you again in just a little bit. Still ahead, what governors from several hot spots are saying. Plus, we go live to italy. We are back in a moment. E them h sensitivity as well as gum issues. Does it worry me . Absolutely. They are both very much hand in hand. So you should really be focusing on both and definitely at the same time. The new sensodyne sensitivity gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. By brushing with sensodyne sensitivity gum at home its giving you the relief that you need and the control that you need to take care of your oral health. And it creates a healthier environment. Theres no question its something that i would recommend. But when allergies and congestion strike, take allegrad. A nondrowsy antihistamine plus a powerful decongestant. So you can always say yes to putting your true colors on display. Say yes to allegrad. 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No states, no metro area will be spared and the sooner we react and ensure theyve put in full mitigation at the same time understanding exactly what their hospitals need, then well be able to moved Forward Together and protect the most americans. Louisiana reported news cases yesterday bringing that states cases to 3,500 cases with over 150 deaths. In michigan, more than 800 news cases yesterday puts that states total at almost 5 a 500 confirmed with 132 deaths. The city of detroit confirming almost 1400 cases. And more than 2,000 cases in new jersey leads the state with over 13,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 161 deaths. The governors of those states spoke yesterday about what theyre dealing with. Were still way short. We have a long way to go. Id say, martha, the big headline for us right now are ventilators. We had a very specific conversation with the white house last night about ventilators. Thats our number one ask, its our number one need, and thats the one that we are focused most on right now. We have hospitals already at capacity. Were running out of ppe, as well. Im grateful we got a shipment from fema yesterday for 112,095 masks, but, you know, were going to be in dire straights again in a number of days. We know if we dont flatten the curve, were on a trajectory currently to exceed our capacity in the new orleans area for ventilators by april 4th and all beds available in hospitals by about april 10th. So were doing everything we can to surge capacity. It is very difficult. We did get some ppe yesterday. Weve allocated about 100,000 masks just yet to the hospitals. Ventilators are the shortterm really big pressing issue that were trying to solve for. Very difficult because every state is looking for these. There are only so many to be had. And so were trying to get the public to slow the spread by following the mitigation measures while we ramp up our medical capacity. This is a very challenging Public Health emergency. Following yet another catastrophic weekend in the empire state with more than 100 deaths in one day, the total number of lives lost to coronavirus is now amassed to 1,000 in the city of new york alone. This is a new grim reality. New york city straets lined up with fridge rated trucks acting as makeshift morgues. One registered nurse in manhattan told buzzfeed, quote, maybe as a jew i relate to all of the holocaust footage because ive never seen anything like it. Meanwhile, a paramedic told the New York Times, quote, im terrified. I honestly dont know if im going to survive. Joining us now, drew armstrong. Good to talk to you again. New york city as weve just showed there facing a shortage and critical supplies, some horrifying accounts there from some of those on the front line. But in particular, theres a shortage of ventilators. As shipments come in, the city facing another growing concern. Who will operate the equipment . What are you hearing about the redundancy capabilities of Health Care Workers as they begin to go down for their own medical needs . You bring up an important point. Not only do you need lots and lots of masks, not only do you need ventilators which patients need to be on for weeks at a time. It can be a longterm situation. But you need people to run all of this stuff. So one of the things that weve seen around the state and around the entire u. S. Is call for retired nurses and, doctors to come back into the workforce. Weve seen medical schools graduating people early so they can come in, hospitals that have shut down, elected procedures asking doctors to come and basically get crash trained on how to be a pulmonary specialist and operate a ventilators since those folks now have a lower workload. There is a wholesale repurposing of the medical workforce right now and an attempt to grow it back, folks who have been off the front lines to have enough people. These are the people who are most exposed to this illness and the folks who are in many cases because of the lack of ppe and even with it, some of the most likely to end up getting sick. So those are the people where you need even more Human Capacity to supplement some of the Human Capacity you might have. Over the weekend, President Trump said he was considering a forced quarantine of the new york area. The cdc did issue a travel advisory in the new york area. This late in the game, is it even an issue . Are people still traveling in large numbers . You do have people leaving the new york area, and quite understandably in some cases. I certainly have friends who i know have thought about doing so. I think people who have the ability to leave, many folks have certainly thought about that and gone to stay with family or just trying to get out of the area because there are cases where Grocery Stores dont have tons of food, youre worried about the virus. But at the same time, people carried this virus, and you want to stop them from spreading it to other places. One on of our reporters saw in rhode island the state police there actually stopping new york plates and having conversations with those folks. There have been other reports that people in that state have been asked to do a 14day selfquarantine. So you do meaningfully worry about people spreading this disease from areas to other cities that dont necessarily have it yet or dont necessarily have the same volume of cases. It is a concern and you do want people to limit their travel the same way that we did limit travel from some other countries that have significant outbreaks. All right. Drew armstrong, good to talk to you again. Stay healthy. In italy, the total death toll from the coronavirus reached a grim milestone over the weekend surpassing 10,000 now more than a third of all deaths worldwide. On friday alone, over 900 people died from the virus. Reaching a record high that has since fallen for two straight days. By sunday, the daily death rate declined to 756. Italys measures were set to expire on april 3rd, but there are signs that the countrys lockdown is expected to continue. Joining us now from rome, italy, nbc news correspondent claudio levango. Good to speak to you this morning. What do the latest numbers coming out of italy suggest for that country . Is this a real slowdown . Do officials there feel theyre getting the situation under any kind of control . Good morning, ayman. Those numbers that you mentioned, these bring some bad news and some good news. The bad news is that a lot of people, hundreds of italians are still dieing every day from the coronavirus. It was more than 700 yet that brought the total to more than 10,000. And then, of course, thousands of italians are getting infected every day. By today, we may brake the 100,000 mark of the people who have been infected with coronavirus here. The good news, if you can call it that is that the rate of the people getting infect odd a daily basis has slowed down. At the beginning of march before the introduction of the lockdown, the rate of increase on a daily basis was in the double digits. At some point, it was 33 on march 1st. And that means every day, 33 more italians would get infected. Yesterday, waits 5. 9 . That is a very good sign, a good indication that the contagion is slowing down. And it could be a reassuring sign also for americans and everywhere else in the world that the lockdown works, ayman. Yeah. It will obviously be a big test to see if the italian model works here, as well. What is the mood weeks into this lockdown in italy . Has the government given any indication of when it might be lifted . And im curious to get your thoughts quickly. Is italy going through the same kind of economic struggle that we here in the u. S. Are going through . The government is saying even though there are indications that the rate of contagion is slowing down, this isnt the time to lower the guard because we havent reached the peak yet. Also, they say it will take weeks if not months before that curve will go down to zero. So people can just go out and walk about without a worry. That is why they are saying most likely theyre going to extend the deadline of april 3rd by at least two weeks. Maybe more. In terms of how are people reacting, there is the indication that some italians are starting to lose their nerve. On saturday, police checked 200,000 people Walking Around in the country. 5,000 of them, a report number since the start of the lockdown were fined because they could not prove that they had a real emergency which is by decree and by law. 50 of them were positive from coronavirus, which means that they should have stayed home in selfquarantine for about two weeks. And now those that were fined, the 5,000 that were fined and couldnt give a reason to be out, they will be fined for anything between 500 to more than 3,000. But those 50 who were positive, now they risk to be charged with causing a pandemic and that brings a sentence of up to 12 years in prison. While italy is a much worse than the u. S. In trms of how it starts the pandemic, in terms of how healthy the economy of italy is. Italy was still lagging behind the rest of europe in terms of the economy and is still recovering from the previous recession from ten years ago. 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Did not respond sooner when it might have helped reduce the toll of the pandemic. Meanwhile, the death toll is increasi increasi increasing rapidly now. Lets bridge in bill carin wes a check of the numbers and a check on the weather. I want to show you our case by case daily. Yesterday it was a little number with the total number of new cases. We had 18,000. We had more than that on saturday and on friday. But was saturday the peak of this pandemic for new daily cases . We dont know yet. You notice its not exactly jumping every single day. There are little discrepancies. Here is the new cases broken up by state. Obviously, the new york area, northern new jersey, but look at illinois. Over 1,000 new cases yesterday. Florida had 900 news cases yesterday. Michigan 800 and massachusetts 700. Detroit, chicago, boston included in that list. So as far as the monthly march calendar goes, march 2nd, 400. Last week, 46,000 at this time. 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