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First of all, update you on our hiring effort. You know, we were at record low unemployment in february, so we had low staff and low federal funding. Fast forward now, this historic demand for benefits and we are getting more increased federal funding, so we are now in the process of hiring 4,800 new staff to come help us with the unemployment and insurance demand that we are dealing with. Were doing that in an expedited fashion. Theres a great web page to give you the information about those positions that were filling, all aimed at trying to help us increase capacity as much as possible to deal with this historic load. Are you seeing any differences in the past week in terms of the claiming coming in as california starts to reopen and peopl are startg to go ckwo . Are you impact on your end yet . Well, we continue to see hundreds of thousands of new claims each week and well have some new numbers out again tomorrow as we do every thursday. And we have paid, the last week, more than 2 ....