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Terrified civilians in Rafah await Israel’s ground invasion · Apple News Today

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  Gideon Resnick, Narrating: Good morning.
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  It's Monday, February 12th.
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  I'm Gideon Resnick, in for Shumita Basu.
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  This is "Apple News Today."
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  On today's show, a look at Israel as it prepares to invade Rafah,
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  why measles cases are rising across the world,
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  and the new and old Super Bowl champions.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  But first, let's take a quick look at a few stories that are in the news.
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  A tragic death is rocking the sports world.
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  24-year-old Kelvin Kiptum,
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  who set the world record last year in the Chicago Marathon,
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  died in a car accident yesterday in Kenya along with his coach.
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  Officials in the country say the world is mourning his death.
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  [START ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Unidentified Speaker 1: The ministry is also mourning for the loss of an iconic athlete
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  who has started to put Kenya, once again, among others, on the world map.
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  [END ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: In Washington, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized again.
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  He was admitted for a bladder issue
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  and transferred to a critical care unit yesterday.
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  Austin's deputy secretary has taken over his duties,
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  and Congress and the White House have been informed of his condition.
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  The defense secretary faced criticism at the end of last year
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  for not informing the White House sooner
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  when he was hospitalized for a bladder infection.
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  Staying in Washington, a massive foreign aid package
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  got closer to clearing the Senate.
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  The bill includes billions of dollars for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
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  Despite opposition from hardline Republicans and former President Trump,
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  18 Republican senators joined Democrats to move the bill forward,
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  and Senate leaders are hoping to pass it tomorrow.
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  In Gaza, Israel's military dramatically stepped up action
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  in the southern city of Rafah.
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  There were heavy airstrikes over the weekend,
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  which Israel's military says were meant to be a distraction
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  so they could rescue two hostages,
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  a pair of dual citizens from Israel and Argentina.
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  According to local media reports,
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  at least 50 Palestinians were killed in the strikes.
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  Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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  says a ground invasion of Rafah is coming soon,
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  an announcement that sparked international concern.
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  More than half of Gaza's population has fled to Rafah to seek refuge from the war.
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  People there told NBC they desperately want the conflict to end.
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  [START NBC NEWS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Unidentified Speaker 2: Don't you think that we had enough?
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  We're people just like you.
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  I'm terrified of what's going to happen to me and my family.
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  I don't want anything to happen to them.
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  I've already lost my brother. I don't want to lose anybody else.
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  [END NBC NEWS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: And President Biden has privately told Netanyahu not to proceed in Rafah
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  unless there is a plan to protect civilians.
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  [PENSIVE MUSIC]
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  We stay in Gaza for our next story, which begins with an emergency phone call.
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  That's the voice of six-year-old Hind Rajab
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  speaking from a car in Gaza City, surrounded by active combat.
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  She's asking a dispatcher with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society
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  to please send someone to rescue her.
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  That morning, two weeks ago,
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  the IDF posted evacuation orders for people in Gaza City.
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  And as they tried to flee,
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  Hind's family got trapped in their car with heavy fighting surrounding them.
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  All of her relatives, six people, were killed.
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  And Hind spent hours on the phone, alone and afraid,
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  asking dispatchers and her mom, who was later patched in,
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  to send help as soon as they could.
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  Because it was an active combat zone, the Red Crescent Society
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  had to get Israel's permission to send a rescue crew in.
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  Two paramedics went later that day
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  and confirmed they reached the area where Hind was trapped.
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  But then they lost contact as well.
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  That was January 29th.
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  And for nearly two weeks,
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  there were no updates from Hind or the missing rescue crew.
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  That's Hind's mom speaking with NBC.
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  She told them every time she heard an ambulance coming,
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  she hoped it might be her daughter.
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  And every time she heard an explosion, her heart would stop.
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  Then over the weekend, the family announced Hind was finally found.
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  She had never escaped the car that day,
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  and the bodies of the missing rescue crew, along with their destroyed ambulance,
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  were found just meters away.
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  The Red Crescent Society has accused the IDF of attacking the ambulance,
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  and Palestinian officials
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  are calling for the International Criminal Court to investigate.
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  When NBC asked the Israeli Defense Forces for comment,
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  they said they were looking into the matter.
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  More than 28,000 people have been killed in Gaza since October 7th,
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  according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
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  And the U.N. estimates two-thirds of the casualties are children.
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  Public health experts around the world are worried about a rise in measles cases.
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  In 2022, they climbed 18% compared to the year before.
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  That's according to the World Health Organization.
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  The rate of fatalities rose more than twice as fast.
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  And the organization said in December there's been an alarming increase
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  in cases, specifically in Europe and parts of Asia.
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  These public health experts are concerned because even though measles
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  is one of the most contagious infectious diseases,
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  it's also one of the most preventable.
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  Achieving herd immunity requires a near-perfect vaccination rate,
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  around 95%.
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  But in 2022, just over four of five kids worldwide
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  received a dose by their first birthday.
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  That marks the lowest global vaccination rate in over 15 years.
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  The coronavirus pandemic contributed to this decline.
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  The WHO estimates 61 million doses were missed or delayed in 2021.
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  And public health experts told NPR
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  they think some people might have forgotten how dangerous measles can be,
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  especially for kids under the age of five
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  who can have severe, and potentially deadly, outcomes.
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  Dr. Peter Hotez,
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  the co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development,
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  told CBS even a small drop in the global vaccination rate
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  can lead to outbreaks.
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  [START CBS NEWS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Dr. Peter Hotez: Measles does not typically occur among highly vaccinated populations.
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  So in that sense, low vaccination rates are the indirect cause of measles.
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  My concern is that we're still going to see additional measles cases.
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  And I worry that when you talk about up to 20,
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  or roughly 20% of measles cases require hospitalizations.
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  If this continues, we're going to start seeing hospitalized kids with measles.
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  [END CBS NEWS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: Low-income countries that have the fewest resources
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  also tend to have the lowest vaccination rates.
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  The director of the WHO's Vaccine and Immunization Department
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  told NPR, the measles is like an "inequity virus."
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  It finds and attacks anyone who’s not protected.
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  [LOW TEMPO MUSIC]
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  So, public health officials are saying that these rising cases
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  are a reminder of the importance of immunization across the world
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  And finally, let's talk about that Super Bowl last night.
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  We saw Usher roller skating through someone's legs at halftime,
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  an ad where people talked like Christopher Walken to Christopher Walken.
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  Beyonce announced new music.
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  And the victory on the field seemed familiar.
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  The Kansas City Chiefs are back in a position they know all too well.
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  Super Bowl champions once again.
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  They beat the San Francisco 49ers in a dramatic overtime victory
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  that cements their status as an NFL dynasty.
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  They are the first repeat champion in 19 years,
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  and this is their third Super Bowl win in the last five.
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  A lot of it has to do with quarterback Patrick Mahomes, last night's MVP.
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  He told the NFL Network in post-game interviews
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  about the work this team has put in all season.
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  [START NFL NETWORK INTERVIEW ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Patrick Mahomes: I mean, just, um, the attitude of the team to never give up,
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  always believe, and to continue to fight.
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  It's special, and I'm proud of the guys, man.
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  I mean, we battled through and through, all the way through the playoffs,
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  into the Super Bowl.
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  And just like our whole season, it came down to the last play.
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  [END NFL NETWORK INTERVIEW ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Resnick, Narrating: Mahomes rallied the Chiefs for a comeback in the second half,
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  after trailing the 49ers much of the way.
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  And their win puts him in an elite club of quarterbacks.
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  Just a handful have won three Super Bowl titles.
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  Even fewer have been named MVP three times.
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  Just Tom Brady, Joe Montana, and now Patrick Mahomes.
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  You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.
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  And if you're already listening to the news app right now, do not go anywhere.
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  We've got a narrated article coming up next.
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  Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce took a stroll down memory lane
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  with the Wall Street Journal
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  and talked about why this was his best year ever.
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  As you might guess, Taylor Swift plays a pretty big part.
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  If you're listening in the podcast app,
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  you can follow Apple News+ Narrated to find that story.
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  Enjoy listening to that.
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  And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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