hi, everyone. i'm zinhle essamuah. >> and i'm kate snow. nbc "news daily" starts right now.

today, friday april 29, 2024, breaking news. chaos outside court. moments after the full jury was seated and former president donald trump's hush money trial, a man set himself on fire outside the courthouse. what we know and where the case goes from here. remembering columbine. tomorrow marks 25 years since the school shooting in colorado. 12 students and a teacher were killed. my visit to columbine so see what's being done to remember and move forward. and israel retaliates against iran after that missile attack. the leaders urge for calm. and taylor swift fans are over the moon today as she dropped her new double album overnight. the surprise for fans and the songs millions are trying to dissect. >> well, no shortage of stories for you as we end this week. thanks for being with us. >> happy friday to everyone. we do begin this hour with that breaking news and the chaotic

scene at the first criminal trial of former president donald trump. >> today, the complete 12-person jury along with six alternate jurors were selected, and just moments after the full panel was selected, a man set himself on fire in an area outside the courthouse designated for protests. police rushed to the man to put out the fire and transported him to a nearby hospital. >> let's get right to nbc news correspondent vaughn hilliard. he's outside the courthouse in lower manhattan in new york. vaughn, what more do we know at this point about the person that set himself on fire, and what's happening inside? >> reporter: good afternoon, guys. a difficult, complicated few moments. literally as the jurors were being escorted out of the courthouse, the sirens could be heard from inside because outside here just a mere 100 yards from the entrance of this courthouse where donald trump's criminal trial continues to proceed, a man lit himself on fire, threw pamphlets into the area before dousing himself in gasoline and lighting himself on

fire. for multiple minutes, law enforcement were attempting to respond and put out the flames. the man was still moving when he was taken by an ambulance to a local hospital. this individual appears to be somebody who believes in a vast -- complex conspiracy theories involving the american government, universal players including the university, and this is somebody who have been posting online, and this is not in response to trump's trial, but because of the mass media here covering it. this is a complicated few moments that was taking place literally as the courtroom was being let out onto lunch break, guys. >> vaughn, i mean, could this incident have some security implications for the trial? any impact on this trial? >> reporter: the trial is going to be going back into session here this afternoon. at the same time, you see a major uptick in nypd as well as

the fire department here now. this is an area that while it's been secured, there's been a free flow of traffic including right down center street. literally just steps away from the courthouse doors, and so we're looking at a trial the last six to eight weeks, and it just calls attention to the level of scrutiny and the attention that is being paid on the trial and just the extent to which folks are aware of what is happening here. again, we are still trying to get some details here, but at this point in time, it appears that the trial will be able to move forward. as i said, that jury empanelled 12 jurors as well as 6 alternates moments before this man took that act putting himself in harm's way, guys. >> all right. vaughn hilliard with the latest for us. thank you. israeli and iranian leaders are staying largely silent today after israel launched a retaliatory strike against iran overnight. >> a source familiar with the situation tells nbc news that israel carried out a limited strike inside iran.

the strike was near a city that is home to a military base and a nuclear site. it's all in response to iran's drone and missile attack last week. secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. was not involved, but a source tells nbc news the u.s. was informed ahead of time by israel. >> nbc news international correspondent matt bradley is with us in beirut, lebanon, and also joining us is tel aviv bureau chief, martin fletcher. good to have you both. matt, first of all, it seems like regionally speaking, they thought this could explode, but it's de-escalated in a sense. you spoke with hezbollah's second in command. could we see iranian-backed proxy groups like hezbollah respond and make it worse again or what do you think? >> yeah. i mean, you could kind of call this case the sum of all fears when it comes to the last six months of what we have been seeing here in the middle east. once we see this escalate beyond just iran and israel, that was enough to cause everyone to really hold their breath.

once we see it spill out beyond the borders of those two countries and beyond the palestinian territories, we're into very, very lethal and destructive and destabiling territory. here in lebanon, you see just over my left shoulder here down the coast is where hezbollah has been attacking the israelis for the past six months. this has been very bloody. tens of thousands of people have been displaced. hundreds have been killed, and yet it has never really gone over the berm into what you might call a full-on war. there are rules of engagement, and i spoke with hezbollah's second in command and he made direct reference to those rules of engagement and how the israelis and he, hezbollah, have not exceeded them. so there hasn't been a full-on war like we saw in this country all the way back in 2006. so that is kind of in miniature, what we're seeing in a much larger scale. the iranians do back hezbollah, and so far it looks like while everybody is fighting, and one

analyst i spoke to today called this a dance fight, it looks as though everybody's playing by the rules. >> martin, let's bring you in here. there were a lot of understandable concerns that this back and forth could escalate tensions in the middle east. what is the relative silence from israel and iran suggesting to you? >> well, i've seen bad things, but this was as matt suggests, under precipice of a very, very significant, wider war which would have brought in so many countries, and a terrible conflict. i think what's happened is that the rather limited response by israel to that devastating iranian attack kind of put the genie back in the bottle in a way. there is much less sense now that a regional complication is going to explode. israel's response here was very low-key. it was huge drones. that's basically the weakest long-range weapon israel has in its arsenal. they could have used long-range aircraft with bombers.

they could have used -- they could have fired missiles from israel, but they didn't. they chose to fire drones, and they did very little damage, and the target they chose was an airfield in iran which was used by -- well, we believe it was an airfield as far as we know which was used by the iranian air force in isfahan which has some of the nuclear fachlt facilities there. they didn't choose to attack those. they attacked an israeli base in the south of israel. israel retaliated by attacking an iranian base in the south of iran. low-key, limited, and that's good news for anybody fearing a wider situation. a mass in gaza, you could say they're the only people in the region who actually wanted a wider war. it looks like they won't get it. >> thanks to you both. appreciate it. let's turn now to the u.s. economy. americans looking to buy a home suffered a blow yesterday after mortgage rates took an

unexpected jump. >> freddie mac says the average fixed loan passed 7% for the first time this year. it comes on the heels of last week's inflation report as well. christine romans joins us to try to help us understand what all this means for you and me. so christine, for context, we should point out the rates were around 8% last fall. >> they were. >> this is not an all-time high when we talk 7% mortgages or home loans. are we going in the wrong direction though? >> i think that's the worry. people saw them start to drift lower this year because the fed would at some point start lowering interest rates, but the economy is too strong to keep lowering interest rates right now. that's the irony. you have a strong u.s. economy. inflation is not back down to 2% because of the strength in the u.s. economy and that means inflation -- mortgage rates have to stay high. for context for you guys, in 1981, a fixed rate mortgage was

16%. in 2000, it was 8.6%. this is a more normal level, but a couple of years ago, it was 3%. it's that near-term memory that's easy, easy money for so many years that has people adjusting now. >> it's a big impact on those buying homes or home inventory? i think people may be not wanting to sell because they have these locked-in low interest rates. >> both. the typical home payment right now is up 11%, a record high. it's more than $2,700 a month is a typical payment and that's because home prices keep going up and mortgage rates are above 7%. that makes it expensive, that typical home loan, and then for sellers, i call it the golden handle cuffs. if you don't need to move and you have a 3% mortgage, that doesn't mean anything to you. you'll sit in your house because you have an affordable mortgage and you probably have a lot of value in your home so when you do sell, you'll make some money.

>> christine, is this -- this mortgage movement, the rates, is this possibly like a canary in the coal mine telling us that other rates like credit cards or other loans are also going to start creeping up? >> i think that's a really good point. i'm more concerned about the credit cards. those are between 20% and 30% for the cards in your wallet and that's very dangerous if you are carrying a balance and i'll tell you what i hear from a lot of people. they say, i carry a bit of balance. don't carry a balance. you have to pay it off or you're paying 20% to 30% of that money that's left over. >> say that again. >> do not carry a balance. >> i want to make sure people got it. christine romans, thank you. it's time for today's cnbc money minute. china is cutting off messages to several apps. and tesla has recalls. eamon javers is with us. >> china's top internet regulators made the request due to national security concerns.

according to an apple statement, the company is required to follow the laws in the countries they operate in even when they disagree. tesla is issuing a voluntary recall of about 4,000 of its cybertrucks. the reason, a potential issue with the accelerator pedal. according to the national highway traffic safety administration, when a lot of force is applied to the pad on the accelerator pedal, it could dislodge and cause the pedal to get stuck. and wayfair will open its first ever physical store next month in illinois in an effort to attract and retain customers. the 150,000-square-foot store will also feature an on-site restaurant called the porch, taking inspiration from ikea's setup. it comes adds the online furniture retailer has struggled with slowing sales. >> that will be interesting. >> i guess that's why i get emails every single day from wayfair. >> sitting on the porch. >> thank you. >> thanks. coming up, another close

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reactions from air traffic controllers averted this. sam brock explains. >> stop! >> reporter: a frantic warning at dca directed at a southwest plane which the faa says had just received permission from controllers to cross runway 4 while a jetblue plane was beginning its takeoff roll on the very same runway. the source says the planes came within a thousand feet of each other. >> stop. stop. 2947, stop! >> we stopped. we were cleared to cross runway 4. >> reporter: teresa hoffman was on board the jetblue aircraft. >> you were about to lose the ground underneath you and right before that's has been to happen, we slammed on the brakes. >> reporter: thankfully a potential disaster was averted, but there are many questions about what might have caused the mishap in the first place. >> it appears that you had two different airplanes talking to two different controllers, one

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after a shocking 2:00 a.m. surprise. . hi, everyone. i'm zinhle essamuah. nbc "news daily" starts right now. today, friday april 19, >> it's all yours. ♪ we were forever running ♪ >> her 11th studio album includes the lead single "fortnight" featuring post malone. sharing the new music video ahead of its debut. taylor also sharing her thoughts about the album in a social media post overnight, describing it as an anthology that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure adding, this

period of the author's life now closed, boarded up. swifties loving the new record already. superfans stayed up late for a first listen. >> there's a whole community here of swifties. >> reporter: students taking a taylor swift course at harvard that we visited earlier this year, meeting up at midnight for a listening session. >> i thought it was life-changing. >> reporter: it's all taylor all the time on sirius xm's channel 13 which plans to play her new music through the weekend, and overnight, iheartradio sharing special messages from the musical mastermind herself. taylor discussing the inspiration behind "florida," her collab with florence and the machine. >> i'm always watching, like, "dateline," people have these, like, crimes where they immediately skip town and they go to florida, you know, they try to reinvent themselves, have a new identity, blend in, and i think when you go through a heartbreak, there's a part of you that thinks, i want a new name. i want a new life. >> reporter: after a week of interactive installations and easter eggs that fueled

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off property to transfer them to other federal prisons. earlier this morning, this coalition filed a request for a temporary restraining order in federal court in oakland to ask a judge to stop these transfers. the activists argue it's not equipped to handle the transfer of the female inmates who she say are at risk of suicide and psychological stress due to possibly being transferred out of state and away from family. the bureau of prisons ordered sci dublin closed immediately. this was ten days after a federal judge took the step of appointing a special master to oversee the prison. in a court filing on behalf of the federal department of corrections, attorneys say on the day the closure was announced, 90% of the staff went home early. since then, staffing levels have been so low, they have had to bring in employees from other prisons around the country. the attorneys add the prison needs to be closed even faster.

here is an activist this morning calling for the current inmates not to be transferred but rather released. >> a lot of people say they committed a crime, they were sentenced and they should serve the full sentence. what would you say? >> i would say that while i feel like they are serving their sentence. but their sentence didn't involve sexual abuse and didn't involve the level of medical neglect that they are experiencing. i think if people really understood what people inside are dealing with, it would change how they feel about public safety and about people serving their sentences. >> sci dublin should not close. it is being rehabilitated with the world watching. we fixed many issues and will continue to make dublin a model prison under the watchful eye of the judge and the special master

we would have been a success story. we were denied the opportunity as it is apparent that the bureau of prisons did not want any more transparency. >> reporter: that was the president of the union who represents officers who work inside. we caught up with him outside the protests this morning. he says his officers are not part of the problem inside the facility. rather, they are providing things like psychological support for the inmates and teaching special education. we did reach out to the federal bureau of prisons this morning. they said they respectfully decline to comment on the protests. bob redell, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. another story we are watching. three police officers now facing involuntary pan slaughter charges after the death of 26-year-old mario gonzalez. officers pinned him down in 2021 for several minutes. gonzalez died while being restrained. the previous district attorney found insufficient evidence to charge the men.

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selected in former president trump's hush money trial. the process wrapping up on the fourth day of jury selection. let's bring back nbc news correspondent vaughn hilliard. he's near the courthouse for us. vaughn, what are the next steps then for this trial? >> reporter: right, kate and zinhle, donald trump is back inside of the courthouse with his legal team. there is what is called a sandoval hearing taking place. this is in the same courtroom, but what this hearing does is give the defense the opportunity to fight back against some other trial determinations that were made outside of this courtroom because the prosecution has indicated that if donald trump testifies, they would like to cross-examine him as it relates to a litany of other cases he had been involved in previously, for instance, the e. jean carroll defamation suit, where he was found to have sexually abused e. jean carroll. he was found to have repeatedly

engaged in financial fraud. they would like to bring this to the attention of the jury and cross-examine donald trump on it. now it'll be up to the judge to make that determination, but the big moment is expected to be monday morning at 9:30 a.m. eastern when we are expecting opening statements in this trial to take place, guys. >> vaughn hillyard, thank you so much. today is the third straight day of pro-palestinian protests at columbia university in new york. demonstrators are on the main lawn again one day after a chaotic scene on campus. the nypd says 114 people were arrested on thursday after police cleared out a protest encampment. among those arrested is the daughter of minnesota democratic coveragewoman ilhan omar. antia hylton is outside. what are you hearing from students and protesters today? >> reporter: hey, zinhle, well i just got the opportunity to go past the gates and onto campus. they wouldn't allow our nbc news

cameras in, however, and what i'm hearing what students who are in the encampment is they are furious with the administration. they feel like the invitation of the nypd onto campus, that watching about 114 classmates get arrested last -- yesterday, that that was traumatizing to them, and that it felt like it directly went against their right to free speech here. the students have been for months now, calling on the university to cut ties with companies and organizations connected to israel. they've asked for more transparency and accountability when the school has either disciplined students who have spoken out or planned protests or perfecters as well. it's frankly creating tensions here and the students have no chan plans of stopping soon. let's listen to one pro-palestinian professor and a jewish student who says these tensions have made him fearful. >> they're sitting there, chanting, singing, you know, no

one was in any danger. so it was a real dissonance to see the actual immediacy, the overwhelming numbers of the nypd. >> these protests, they go on, and it rarely sees like they're punished. the nypd finally getting involved was -- that was a new installation. that hadn't happened before. >> reporter: right now the nypd is lined up outside of the campus, but there is not a police presence on the campus right now. still students tell me that they are on edge, and they're waiting to hear more about what the administration is going to do next. >> and antonia, you mentioned free speech concerns from students briefly. what's columbia's response to all this? >> reporter: well, the president here released a statement saying that because of extraordinary circumstances, and because these encampments they described them as presenting a clear and present danger. however, as you just heard from that professor there, professors, faculty members on

campus, and some students have pushed back against that, saying that protests at that time were incredibly peaceful. the kind of brawls and tensions and violence that people saw in some cases last night, that happened with people who were not students out here on the street, people who didn't have columbia badges and access to campus, and so there is this dissonance, this sort of disconnect between the administration and what the students say it's actually like on the grounds, zinhle. >> important reporting. thank you. tomorrow will mark 25 years since 12 students and a teacher were killed during that mass shooting at columbine high school in colorado. april 20, 1999, was a day that forever changed our country, and while we might still think of those young students as young people, many now have kids of their own in high school. i traveled to columbine to see how much has changed 25 years later. what i found was a tight-knit community with a culture of kindness, connection, and pride.

>> their energy feels inspiring. building their future on a campus with a tragic past. the current principal and former principal are showing us the columbine of today. >> this is the cafeteria. used to have the library upstairs and you've changed that completely. >> now a vaulted ceiling filled with panels of aspen trees in memory of the 13 who died that day. 12 were students. dave sanders was a coach and a teacher, and the father of connie. >> we really felt initially for a few years he was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and that changed to he was in the right place at the right time. >> why? >> once we started realizing the

impact that he had -- >> reporter: sanders saved many students that day. >> over the years, i've run into people that were his students, and i had one couple ask me to hold their child, and they said, this baby wouldn't be here without your dad. he had saved them in the cafeteria. >> lives that wouldn't be here. >> lives that wouldn't be here, and, you know, for all of time, there will be people that exist because of what he did that day. >> reporter: ashley gladder was just 11 when her brother, john tomlin was killed. >> he was just a very kind, caring, sweet brother. just one of those boy that is -- that has a sensitive side and very thoughtful. >> reporter: both women say their losses gave them a greater sense of compassion. >> it completely changes your world, your perspective on everything, but it also gave me a really big heart for kids who had been through loss. >> reporter: connie is now a mental health specialist working

for people who have committed violent crimes. can we link that directly to what happened to your dad. >> >> it is linked directly to what happened to my dad. i see it as carrying on his legacy. it's really important me that we stop the violence where it's starting. >> we decided to come back in. >> reporter: former principal deangelis helps lead columbine through its darkest times. now he works with a network of principals counseling school leaders when shootings happen. >> what do you do at the first graduation? how do you work with the media? what do you do about memorials? >> reporter: even more than those practical matters, deangelis says columbine now serves as proof that a community that's been through so much can ultimately become a source of joy and pride. >> and when i do reach out to these other community, i'm saying, i know where you are now. we were there. 25 years later, we're stronger now than what we were, and i really believe that. >> tomorrow will be a day of service and recommitment to helping others. everybody i met described

columbine as a community where people care about each other. they expect hundreds of people to show up for that day of service. connie and ashley told me that they love that 25 years later, a tragic day, is now marked with something so positive and encouraging. also tonight on nbc "nightly news," i'll have the story of a woman who went to her senior prom just three days before she survived the shooting back in 1999, and now her own daughter is a senior and going to prom tonight. it's a full-circle moment. >> kate, thank you so much for that. the state of california is searching for new solutions to address its ongoing housing crisis. the state has spent more than $24 billion in the last five years as a number of unhoused people in the state has climbed. now los angeles county is using artificial intelligence and a new pilot program to help find those who are most at risk for losing housing. kate rogers has more on this and joins us now from san francisco. kate, good to see you. can you tell us more about this new program? how does it work? >> reporter: hey, zinhle.

so l.a. county's homelessness prevention unit has intervened with nearly 800 people and families, identifying people most at risk of losing housing to offer money to help them with housing costs. the program relies on a model that was developed by the california policy lab at ucla. it uses data from seven different l.a. county departments, anonmised for privacy, for health care, and food stamps and income support and homeless services. at-risk individuals like courtney peterson are then found. peterson was laid off from her job working for a now-shuttered in-patient living program, and she wouldn't be able to pay rent for herself and her 7-year-old son. >> i feared i was going to have to leave my apartment. i feared i was going to have to take my son to, like, a homeless shelter or family shelter. >> reporter: peterson said she and her son received some $8,000 from the county to cover rent,

utilities, and basic needs, allowing her to stay in the apartment while she looks for a new job. that's being funded by rescue plan act dollars receiving between $4,000 and $8,000 to help cover those expenses and stay housed. that's just a fraction of the nearly $36,000 that a chronically homeless person costs taxpayers a year. 86% of these people retain permanent housing once they leave the program according to the county. the solution here is preventive, and they spent $24 billion in the last few years to tackle homelessness. >> it's a relatively new strategy in the life span of home services. we need more evidence. we need to do more experiments around how to find people at-risk. i think this is just one way to do that. >> reporter: new ethicists do raise the concern about a.i. being used by governments, especially around consent and

privacy of anonymous data, but in l.a., this is reaching the population in need. >> being used for good. kate rogers, thank you. well, the excitement is growing surrounding basketball superstar caitlin clark. >> yeah. after an historic run at iowa where she shattered all sorts of college hoop records, clark is now drawing crowds to indiana. here's nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: after a year for the record books, caitlin clark is just days into her new chapter in the pros with the indiana fever, and her star power is undeniable. the 22-year-old receiving a hero's welcome in indianapolis. >> i can't think of a better place to start my career. >> reporter: and making a splash on major sports air waves. >> i think i'll be, like, moing here in, like, a week. >> reporter: country superstar tim mcgraw rocking her new jersey in indianapolis overnight, and her massive fan base only getting bigger after this awkward moment wednesday with a local reporter who made her signature heart gesture.

>> i do that at my family after every game. so pretty cool. >> start doing it to me and we'll get along just fine. >> reporter: immediately jumping to her defense online while the reporter later apologized for his behavior. clark's legions of fans are rallying around the player about her new salary saying she deserves much more than her rookie payout. it comes as america's favorite new superstar is continuing to break barriers. a record 2.45 million viewers tuned into this year's wnba draft featuring clark as the number one pick. the new 22 jersey has become the top selling jersey ever for a draft pick. average ticket prices for fever games have nearly tripled since last season. >> there are other teams that are moving their venues so that people can come and watch you play. >> yeah. i think it's -- i think it's cool for women's basketball. playing on a professional level is a whole different deal, but a crowd is not anything i've ever shied away from.

>> reporter: now with crowds watching her every move, clark is set to ink a major new endorsement deal. according to "the athletic," she's nearing an eight-figure deal with nike. this is all just a part of the growing clark effect. >> i want to be like her when i'm older. >> reporter: as the young phenom continues to usher in a new era for women's basketball. >> more people we can bring into the league, it will only help the league to grow. >> reporter: stephanie gosk, nbc news. >> love that. coming you, mastering the art of good communication. what you can do to help get your point across and

in today's mental health check, experts say communication is the key to a healthy relationship. >> but it's also a hard skill to master. here to help us is katie horowitz. she's an author and mindset coach. so katie, first off, i think the big question here is what makes someone a good communicator, and how can we become one? >> well, a lot of people when they think of communication, they think of their side of the deal, right? but communication is actually about not just what you're saying, but what the other person is hearing. it's a shared experience. it's collaborative, and the thing that holds most people back from being ineffective and a confident communicator isn't a lack of knowing what to say. it's a lack of self-trust. >> oh. >> yeah. so what are the things that

hinder us beyond that? >> yeah. >> well, when it comes to self-trust, there are ways that we can break our own trust if you will, and this is not to say that we are going to micromanage the natural way that people speak, but oftentimes, people will manipulate the way that they speak in order to fit into surroundings. so stuff like talking really fast. they're afraid they're not going to get things in, speaking up, ending things like a question. that can be a sign that maybe you expect that you're going to be questioned after you say the thing, or negating or diminishing yourself before someone else has the chance to. >> and often when we talk about communication, we hear about intent versus impact as in i might intend to communicate something, but the person might not receive it that way. >> right. >> how can we limit that sort of communication disparity happening? >> yeah. if you want to actually have integrity in your communication, and make it a circle, you can

ask yourself questions before you get into the situation. that's the best place to start. so asking yourself, how do i want to look, sound, act? how do i hope to be perceived in this scenario? what are the points i really want to be heard right now? how do i want to feel after this is over? that's when the negative self-talk can come up, right? >> mm-hmm. >> i say choose what i call anchor words. that's one to three words that you can come back to that remind you of who you are and what you stand for. >> in my house, we talk a lot about validation. explain what that is, and is that -- is that important, you know, when somebody says something that you validate it first? >> i actually come from -- in my past life, an acting background, and something that you learn in acting and improv is yes, and. so listening. actively listening to the people that you're with, and affirming like you said, what they say, and hanging onto that. >> and communication is not all words. so let's talk both being passive aggressive, but also the face.

it can hold a lot of information. >> yes. sometimes you can say a lot without saying anything. >> uh-huh. >> right? that gets back to how do i want to look part of this scenario? i define presence as the best parts of your personality with the best parts of your expertise and how you bring those forward. it comes back to that self-trust, right? so being able to take up space, physically, mentally, and emotionally, being unafraid. that's going to take practice to do, and then active listening. making eye contact with people, and yes-anding what people are saying. it can be hard, especially if you are in a pattern of maybe interrupting or being passive aggressive, but with practice comes that progress. >> katie horowitz, helping us practice. practice. ank you so much, th an i love your dress. oh thanks! i splurged a little because liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. that's great. i know, right? i've been telling everyone. baby: liberty. did you hear that? ty just said her first word. can you say “mama”?

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