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New evidence found in Alaska Airlines flight investigation · Apple News Today

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  Mark Garrison, Narrating: Good morning. It's Monday, January 8th.
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  I'm Mark Garrison. This is Apple News Today.
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  On today's show,
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  a possible budget deal in Congress could avoid a government shutdown,
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  the end of online cookies may change the ads you see online,
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  and how tonight's college football championship
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  is the end of an era.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  But first, we're learning more information about the Alaska Airlines flight
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  that was forced to make an emergency landing on Friday.
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  Officials now have a crucial piece of evidence in the investigation
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  of that Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet.
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  A heavy four-foot-long panel came off in midair.
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  A Portland school teacher found the piece in his backyard.
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  The FAA temporarily grounded Boeing 737 MAX 9 jets
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  for immediate inspection.
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  Passenger Emma Vu told "Reuters" about how the incident woke her up.
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  [START REUTERS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Emma Vu: I'm sleeping and I just feel the plane drop
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  and it wasn't like any other turbulence just because the masks had came down too.
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  So that's when I knew like, oh gosh, this is something way different.
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  And, yeah, I started freaking out.
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  [END REUTERS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: She says she was relieved that it happened so soon after takeoff
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  so the pilot could quickly get the plane back on the ground.
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  Vu: But, yeah, I'm so grateful we weren't higher in the air,
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  like, that more things didn't fly out, that no one flew out.
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  I think that's incredible that we're all safe.
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  [END REUTERS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: It could have been worse, but fortunately, there was no one sitting
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  in the two seats right next to the gaping hole.
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  And the flight attendants made sure everyone was safe,
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  including unaccompanied children and several babies.
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  This Boeing plane has a troubled history.
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  The MAX 9 is a bigger version of the 737 MAX 8,
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  which had two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019,
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  killing more than 300 people.
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  That plane was grounded worldwide for almost two years.
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  Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, the company responsible
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  for installing the panel, are working to figure out what went wrong.
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  Federal safety investigators
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  are looking through the plane's maintenance and repair logs.
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  Also, they're looking into why a warning light on the plane
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  had previously gone off because of possible pressurization problems.
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  One challenge is that information on the cockpit voice recorder
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  was overwritten, so some key evidence may be missing.
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  Now, let's take a quick look at some other major stories in the news.
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  Congressional leaders have a bipartisan budget deal
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  that could avoid a government shutdown.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  It's a roughly $1.6 trillion federal spending agreement,
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  but it's not fully done.
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  The House and Senate will have to write the actual bills that fund the government
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  in under two weeks to avoid a shutdown.
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  That's not a guarantee, given that Congress has struggled
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  to pass other major spending bills on time.
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  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is facing intense criticism
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  for failing to notify the White House and his top deputy
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  that he was hospitalized at a time when U.S. troops
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  are facing threats around the world.
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  Austin was admitted to the hospital on New Year's Day for complications
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  from an earlier elective surgery.
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  Key officials were not notified for days.
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  Austin has said he's getting better and that he could have done a better job
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  of sharing critical information about his health.
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  The Supreme Court will decide whether former President, Donald Trump,
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  can appear on primary election ballots.
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  This move comes after Colorado's top court found that his actions around January 6th
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  were engaging in insurrection, so he could be barred
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  from the ballot under the 14th Amendment.
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  There are similar cases in other states.
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  The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments early next month.
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  In entertainment news, at the Golden Globes last night,
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  Barbie won a new award for cinematic and box office achievement.
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  Margot Robbie accepted the trophy with the team.
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  [CROWD CHEERING]
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  Margot Robbie: Thank you.
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  We would like to dedicate this to every single person
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  on the planet who dressed up and went to the greatest place on earth,
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  the movie theaters.
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  Garrison, Narrating: Also, Oppenheimer won for Best Dramatic Film,
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  while Poor Things took home the award for Best Musical or Comedy.
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  On the TV side, Succession was the best drama series,
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  and The Bear was the winning musical or comedy.
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  You can see the whole list of winners and check out the red carpet looks
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  on the Apple News app.
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  Chances are pretty good that you've had an internet browsing experience
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  like "Wall Street Journal" tech reporter Miles Krupa.
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  Miles Krupa: So I think a lot of us have become accustomed to,
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  if we're looking at a shoe on Neiman Marcus's website,
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  that an advertisement for that shoe will probably follow us
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  around the internet and we'll be like,
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  well, I decided not to buy that shoe for a reason, right?
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  [END WALL STREET JOURNAL ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: Those product ads follow us around because of what are called cookies.
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  They track your online activity.
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  Advertisers can tap into them so they can show you ads for stuff
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  they think you're likely to buy.
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  But things are about to change.
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  This month, Google kicked off a test that'll shut down these cookies
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  for some users of its Chrome browser,
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  and it plans to kill them off for good by the end of this year.
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  Krupa told us how this move is causing huge panic among some advertisers.
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  Krupa: I think cookies were a really easy and widely-used standard
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  and an easy way for advertisers to build these profiles
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  on people and with fairly-detailed information.
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  You know, they could give advertisers pretty high-fidelity info
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  into what consumers were doing online.
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  You know, it drove a lot of value in the advertising industry.
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  Garrison, Narrating: He says that eliminating cookies is one of the biggest changes
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  in the history of the $600 billion a year online ad business,
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  where Google is a giant player.
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  Advertisers really don't like the move.
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  Krupa: Their main gripe is that even after four years
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  of planning for this,
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  Google's solutions don't really come close to even replicating
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  the value they got from cookies,
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  and they believe Google has done it in a way that has made it very difficult
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  for people to prepare for when cookies eventually, by the end of the year,
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  go away in Chrome.
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  Garrison, Narrating: The end of third-party cookies is seen as a win for consumer advocates.
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  They've long argued that they're an invasion of privacy.
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  Krupa says over time, we may get a break from all those targeted ads.
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  But make no mistake, there will still be plenty of ads online.
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  Marketers will just have to find different ways to pitch us more stuff.
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  Tonight, the Michigan Wolverines take on the Washington Huskies
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  for college football's championship.
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  Nicole Auerbach is a college football senior writer for "The Athletic."
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  She told us what she'll be watching for.
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  Nicole Auerbach: The Huskies play the most entertaining style of offense in the country.
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  I can tell you that I didn't expect that Michael Penix Jr.,
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  a transfer from Indiana who had injury issues,
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  was going to become, I think, the best player in college football.
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  But he is electrifying.
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  The deep ball he throws is, I think, the most beautiful deep ball
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  that there is in college football.
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  Garrison, Narrating: This will be the last year where only four teams get into the playoffs.
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  Next year, the field will expand to 12.
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  That could help the sport avoid the disputed end to this season.
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  A lot of fans didn't agree with who officials chose for the playoffs
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  and especially who got left out.
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  Auerbach: Well, there was a great deal of controversy around the selection
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  of the four-team field, and it's because of Florida State.
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  They were unbeaten, and they're in one of the five power conferences.
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  We've never seen the selection committee leave out a team with a resume like that.
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  And they put it solely on the injury to quarterback Jordan Travis.
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  They said this was not the same team.
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  Garrison, Narrating: College football teams are also reshuffling into different conferences.
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  After this year, Washington is leaving the Pac-12 conference
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  to join Michigan in the Big Ten.
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  Auerbach: The Big Ten is going to start the 2024 season
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  with the defending national champion. Either way.
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  And that's huge considering how much the SEC has dominated this sport.
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  And so many national champions, in the last couple of decades,
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  have come from the Southeast.
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  Garrison, Narrating: As for who wins tonight, here's Auerbach's take.
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  Auerbach: So, I went to Michigan.
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  I'm going to say that out here because I'm going to be accused
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  of being a homer here, but I'm going to take the Wolverines.
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  They were my preseason pick to win it all because I felt like they had the pieces
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  to get over the hump.
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  And Michigan is finally going to win national title
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  for the first time in 25 years.
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  Garrison, Narrating: You can find more pregame coverage in the Apple News app,
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  along with all the stories we talked about.
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  And if you're already listening in the News app right now, stick around.
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  We've got a Narrated Article coming up next from "The New Yorker."
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  The writer tells the story of how he tried to piece together his father's murder,
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  which happened when the writer was just three years old.
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  If you're listening in the Podcasts app, follow Apple News Plus Narrated
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  to find that story.
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  And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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