Real look at the destruction being caused by the storm. The sun is up there now. Theres not much left standing in the city of rockport, we know, according to cnns nick valencia, who is there. He has seen some buildings down there. He described cars with the windows blown out. Some stark descriptions coming from rockport. I want you to take a look at the damage that is being seen this morning now around Corpus Christi. Hurricane force winds ripped trees down. You see bricks off of that building. Street signs were torn down, and power lines. Thats one of the big stories this morning as well. Almost 300,000 people do not have power right now. I got it. When you see that green bright flash you know transformers are blowing when you are out covering storms. You see the power lines going up in those quick flames as the storm passed through rockport. Again, it seems to have gotten the worst of the damage. Texas officials tell us that more than 293,000 customers across the state have lost power. That number up significantly in just the last hour or so. Harvey is a category 1 hurricane at the moment. Yes, still a hurricane 1 packing 75 mile per hour winds. There are deadly implications here. Coastal cities could suffer from a 13foot storm surge. There are places even far inland that could get as much as 40 inches of rain over the next several days. We are talking the next five to seven days here. These are pictures coming to us here i believe from victoria, texas. President trump is watching, he is tweeting this morning saying closely monitoring Hurricane Harvey from camp david. We are leaving nothing to chance. City, state and federal governors working great together and no doubt all of those leaders from local, state and federal, are up and they are trying to discern what needs to be done now as we are getting our first real look since the sun has come up. Cnns nick valencia kicks off our Team Coverage live from rockport, texas, where there is major damage. Reporter im standing outside the Public Safety center in rockport, looking at about half a dozen police cars with the windows blown out, flag poles bent over at the base. As a matter of fact, i was just speaking with the sheriff here, sheriff mills, and i cant begin to describe the look in everybody we see here, the look in their eyes, and they just describe the experience as simply put, going through hell. The sheriff tells me he believes that 50 to 60 of the town stayed. Just to give you a sense of how fearful they were as the storm approached, the mayor pro tem of this city was requesting that residents write their names and Social Security numbers on their forearms in case First Responders had to recover their bodies. The First Responders, daylight has just broken in the last hour or so, they are just now getting out to assess the damage. I asked the local sheriff what they need. He says we need all the help from the state that we can get. He has at least 60 people, First Responders, working here, including a volunteer fire staff. We just came from that volunteer fire department. It is made up of a collection of collegeaged volunteers who rode out the storm there at that department. They said it was the worst weather they have ever been through. I have a crowd forming around me right now because theres no way for people here to contact their family to let them know theyre okay. As a matter of fact, we are one of the only news groups here. We are joined by a local affiliate here, kris. Their newsstation has been trying to get in touch with them for the last three hours, as have their Family Members. They would like to tell their families theyre okay. We also have a couple residents here who are trying to use our Satellite Phone to call some Family Members to let them know that theyre alive. This damage is extensive, its wideranging, its significant. Theres rain that continues to fall on us right now. The wind gusts are still aggressive. This damage in rockport, parts of it are still barely standing. I would think that when the sheriff says if youre sticking around, you better write your Social Security number on your forearm, that would be the ultimate wakeup call. Is there any sign of anybody who didnt pay heed to the advice to get out of harms way . Reporter i have to tell you, they were backed up with 30 calls last night of people who were saying their roofs were ripping off their homes, walls were falling on people. Because the sheriffs were pinned down in their own department, they couldnt get out to help people. They said at one point during the eye of the storm, they had a window to rescue about 20 people, transfer them to a safe location, but they say as far as they know, all the First Responders are accounted for but they really, really are fearful that they are going to find people that have perished as a result of this storm because as i mentioned, this whole town, the sheriff estimates at least half of them decided to ride out this storm. Again, that was nick valencia in rockport. We are working to get him live again. That was him a few minutes ago. But you can see hes in the middle of a hurricane, so hard to get some of that equipment to be working constantly. Ed lavandara, however, is live for us. Ed, let us know what conditions are now. What are you feeling . Reporter well, this is exactly the kind of thing, what has sprung up on galveston island, that emergency officials up and down the coast are rather nervous about. This is another outer band of the storm that is still pushing its way inland and still kind of whipping the coast here and bringing a decent amount of rainfall. This is exactly the kind of scenario that going ahead into today, that emergency officials from galveston island to corpus and places more inland are extremely nervous about, because even though the winds arent as intense as clearly the wind damage caused in rockport where nick valencia is reporting from, but it is the rain away from the eye of the storm and the more center part of this storm that is going to wreak havoc over the course of this weekend. That rainfall continuing, the strong outer band has been bringing a good amount of rainfall onshore here for the last 30 minutes or so. That continues to push inland as well. Thats one of those things that emergency teams are very nervous about and its not like you can pinpoint exactly where flooding is going to occur. Its a reactionary kind of thing for emergency teams. You know what areas are generally prone to flooding but its hard to predict exactly where dangerous and deadly flood waters could erupt. Again, the reminders going out today to people across the region to be extremely cautious, to minimize the amount of time they spend outdoors, especially driving through these conditions. Flood waters on some of these more rural roadways can be a really dangerous situation. You cant stress enough that people need to be very cautious and very wary if they are going to try to venture outside today. Obviously many people being urged not to do so today. A lull does not mean the storm is over, and when the bands come back in, one does not want to be too far from home and safe shelter. Ed lavandera, thanks so much. Lets go to cnn meteorologist, tracking harvey as well. Allison, earlier we were talking about tornado watches and warnings. Now you have a report of a tornado . Thats right. Lets take a look at what the storm is doing right now. You can see one of the outer bands, Hurricane Harvey right now 75 miles per hour, still a category 1 storm as we speak, its the outer bands that now pose some of the biggest threat, especially in terms of tornadoes. This particular band, its starting to train. You just saw in eds live shots how conditions have been deteriorating quickly. It will likely stay that way. Often with training storms they hit in the same place over and over again. Also, in those same outer bands, its where you have a very great threat for tornadoes. Right now we have a Tornado Warning active just north of conrow, north of houston for those unfamiliar with this region. We have been noticing Tornado Warnings all morning long along that particular outer band. So the northeastern section of the main storm. That northeastern quadrant, if you will, is the area of concern for the rest of the day, truly this red box here that does include houston, is under a tornado watch until at least 1 00 in the afternoon central time. That watch may be expanded or extended as we go through the day and they can assess the threat as to where it may be shifting. Overall, this is the general region where we expect Severe Weather today. That does include portions of louisiana as well as texas. The main threats here are going to be damaging winds and the potential for tornadoes. One of the other concerns is travel. If you have any plans in or out of the Corpus Christi international airport, they are closed until 11 00 a. M. Central time monday. The Victoria Regional Airport is closed until sunday at 7 00 a. M. Central time. Not to mention the airports in and around houston. Talking both the bush intercontinental airport as well as houston hobby airport. Numerous delays and cancellations at both airports and those may only increase as we go through the rest of the day. Now, the longterm threat with this storm is going to be the flooding potential. This storm isnt going anywhere any time soon. Today the heaviest rain will be in the central portion of the storm and off to the east. This is where we expect some of our heaviest rain. Not taking into consideration whatsoever all of the rain that has already fallen, this is how much more we can expect. See this purple and white region . We are talking 10, 20, if not potentially 30 additional inches of rain. The reason for this, its not really going to move much over the next five to seven days. Thats the one thing i want people to take away from this. Even when the winds start to die down or you notice this gets down to Tropical Storm strength only, please dont let your guard down. This storm is not going anywhere for the next week. Good point to make. Thank you so much. All right. Captain tony hahn from the u. S. Coast guard with us now. Thank you so much. We are talking to you because as i understand it, a couple of barges have broken loose and there are people on these barges. What can you tell us . Thats correct. So we have been monitoring the situation all night long and as soon as we have a Weather Window for helicopters to launch, we have two coast guard helicopters heading north to rescue those folks and get them out of harms way. We have good ceiling and visibility so im confident our crews can get up there and get those folks out of harms way. We had multiple Different Things happen during the night. On a good news story, almost all the mariners in Corpus Christi were able to get out of harms way. So we didnt have a lot of these issues. We are starting our port Damage Assessment down in brownsville. We are optimistic we will be able to get the port open soon and port of Corpus Christi will take awhile. We already have our teams on the road doing port assessments from both a facility side and also from the waterway side. We have to check that stuff out really closely before opening the ports. Then we will proceed further up to victoria and make sure that areas safe, too. Absolutely our top priority right now is getting people out of harms way and saving lives. Let me quickly ask you about the barge search and rescue. Do you have an idea of how many people were on these two barges and have you made any contact with them . The one barge we are looking for four people on that barge. We had another vessel keeping an eye on them for us during the night. That barge lost its mooring and so we are looking for those four folks on the barge. The other tug and barge, yes, we have communications with them. They are doing okay. Captain tony hahn with the u. S. Coast guard, searching for two barge ths that have broken y and a number of people starting that search and rescue effort. Helicopters out and pretty confident you will be able to rescue them. Thank you so much for being with us. Yes, sir. Thank you. Appreciate it. Best of luck to you and the crew there, certainly. We have live pictures here from Corpus Christi. Im looking at the preview monitor. Here at the marina you have a boat that is partially submerged in the water here. We know that in these types of storms, considering the speed of the winds, the rough surface there of the water, that these boats are tossed around at these marinas. Now we have seen the damage here to at least this one. More to come. We have a reporter there live at the scene. We will talk to them in just a moment. Stay close. Day 13. If only this were as easy as saving 600 when you switch to progressive. Winds stirring. Too treacherous for a selfie. [ camera shutter clicks ] sure, ive taken discounts to new heights with safe driver and paperless billing. But the prize at the top is worth every last breath. Here we go. 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Crest healthy beautiful smiles for life. Thank you so much for staying with us for our live coverage of Hurricane Harvey. This morning the texas coast is still being slammed this hour. Torrential rain. There are really, really tough winds coming onshore. Nearly 300,000 people do not have power right now. This after obviously the storm just took down numerous power lines. There are two dozen red cross shelters open in galveston, austin, san antonio. There are about 1500 people who are in those. We know that harvey is a cat 1 storm now, down from a cat 4 when it hit the shore. But from the damage you are seeing here, there is already some damage to these communities. We will see more of it as the sun comes up and as teams get to those reports of damage. Meteorologist Bob Van Dillen joining us from Corpus Christi. There has been damage in the harbor there. You look great now. We are glad youre okay. I know it was a tough night. Help us understand whats going on there this hour. Reporter on the Southern Side of the circulation, the wind has shifted from the northeast where it was all day yesterday to now due west. Every once in awhile one of those bands comes through. Thats when the rain picks up, when the wind picks up. You can see a look right here of downtown Corpus Christi. No structural damage that i can see. We have all kinds of trees down. We do have stop signs down and stop lights down as well but really, thats about it. We didnt see the tremendous amount of wind that other folks to our immediate north did. You can see the harbor, some of the sales flapping in the breeze. They are kind of shredded here and this boat right here looks like its resting on the ground halfway down. If you look over that boat, that is the Corpus Christi bay. 20 miles away, talking about port aranas, they had a wind gust of 132 miles per hour. Bob, thank you so much for walking us through. Good to know you are all good. Thank you. The storm is stalling over the coast and forecasters believe inland cities could get up to 40 inches of rain over the next few days. Which means obviously a serious flooding threat. We keep thinking it will be on the coast. We forget about the trajectory of this as it continues to go over on to land. Houstons mayor Sylvester Turner joining us on the phone. Mayor, thank you so much for being with us. First, what are conditions in houston right now . How is everybody faring . Everybody at this point is faring well. This will be a major rain maker for us. We do anticipate flooding. There is some street flooding already. For now, the water is remaining within the banks of the bayou so thats some good news. Communities outside of houston Harris County last night received about nine inches of rain over a 12hour period. There are a number of rain bands coming in and out. So this is going to be a major rain maker. This is just day one. We anticipate four to five days of this. So we are asking people to stay off the roads if they dont need to be on the roads. But if they are on the road, they need to be mindful of streets and intersections that are prone to flood. Our high water rescue teams are ready and strategically placed. The First Responders are out and prepared to go. Underpasses we know are prone to flood, we already put in the necessary gates and barricaded them. We are asking people to really take care of seniors and people who are disabled. We have already been out on the streets yesterday moving people who are homeless into shelters, off of our streets. The port of houston which is number one in foreign tonnage in the country, business has ceased and they made preparations on that end. I talked to the ceo of exxon yesterday. The refineries have stopped for now. They are making preparations to make sure theres adequate fuel for the area once the storm passes. Mr. Mayor, you are telling us the government and industry are taking this storm seriously. Folks who lived in houston for awhile remember back to Tropical Storm allison when 35 inches of rain came down on the city. Are the people of houston taking this seriously . Have they prepared . I am very, very proud of the people in houston Harris County. They have been preparing over the last several days. We asked them to go ahead and get your hurricane kits although we are not in the direct path of the hurricane, to get the necessary supplies, food and water, medications that you need, in order to stay off the streets. They have done that. Im very proud of them on doing that. So the city is prepared. We have already been in communication with the red cross. We have identified potential locations to the extent we need them, we have been in communication and engaged the faithbased community. Over 30 churches at this point are making their facilities available just in case we need them. So its preparation before the storm. We know its going to last four or five days so we are tending to matters during the storm, then the third element is to click into gear once the storm has passed. So we are prepared. We remind people, dont look out, say im good friday and saturday and all of a sudden decide to go out sunday and monday. This will be a serious, unprecedented storm with a lot of water over the next four or five days. Its easy to look out the window and think its clear, i can go out. Mayor, thank you so much. Best of luck to you and all the folks in houston. Thank you for having us. Pray for the state of texas. Will do. Thank you. We will continue to watch all thats happening across texas with harvey. The wind damage and the continued rain and flooding concern. But theres a lot thats coming out of washington, including a president ial pardon, another white house departure and new details about the russia investigation and former nsa Michael Flynn, next. 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This area was among the hardest hit. The hardest, i should say. Its about 30 miles outside of Corpus Christi where we were reporting from all day yesterday and earlier this morning. I was speaking to the local sheriff here, who tells me the fears are they will be recovering bodies for hours to come. At least 50, perhaps even 60 of the town, he tells me, decided to stick this out. This is a community of about 10,000 people, tightknit community. A generational community, from what local residents tell me. It is just within the last hour and a half or so that Emergency Responders have started to assess the damage, go house to house, see if people are still inside. We spoke theo a local resident o says he knows of at least one family that is trapped by water. He cant access them. Also, we know of calls coming in last night according to the sheriff. At least 30 phone calls were backlogged. The sheriffs and First Responders couldnt respond. Calls included roofs ripping off homes, walls falling on people according to the local sheriff. It was about an hour and a half window they had during the eye of the storm. As the eye passed over rockport. To try to he evacuaevacuate peo people to safety. This town was hit directly by Hurricane Harvey. What im looking at right now is at least six police cars, the windows, the velocity of the wind in this storm was so strong, it blew out the windows of the police cars. The sewer main im looking at in the middle of the street is protruding water so its clear there is going to be at the very least a boil water advisory here for the days if not weeks to come. First responders are limited here as well. The local sheriff and leadership tell me they are in desperate need of resources from the state. They are encouraging state resources to make their way to rockport right now as they begin to figure out how bad things are here. Victor . Nick valencia in rockport. Again, the reports there are just stark. Brock long, the new fema director, tweeted out fema is actively supporting texas with search and rescue, mass care, disaster medical services, temporary power and lifesustaining commodities. Hopefully some of those resources get to the town of rockport. They need them desperately. We spoke with the chief who said he had no communication capabilities. Dproe cell phone out, internet out. Nick has a sat phone and we will check in with him later. We have our live Team Obviously covering Hurricane Harvey in many different places but listen, theres a lot that happened overnight in washington at the white house that we want to get to. President trump pardoned a controversial sheriff, also lost one of his top aides. Sebastian gorka. And he moved forward on his military transgender ban as the russia investigation takes a new turn. Cnns senior political analyst and Senior Editor at the atlantic, Ron Brownstein and senior Political Correspondent for the hill, amy, thanks for being with us. Lot of people are speaking out about the pardon of joe arpaio, including john mccain, senator jeff flake, both from arizona, and former acting a. G. Sally yates who wrote potus reveals his own contempt for our constitution, our courts and our founding principles of equality and justice. Ron, what do you make, a, of this pardon and b, of the timing of it . Rarely do we see a pardon for somebody seven or eight months into a presidency. Yeah. First of all, im obviously thinking about everybody down in texas, including all of my friends and family there. Yes. This is an extraordinary moment. For many hispanics and others, i think joe arpaio is the equivalent today of what bull connor was in the civil rights era. The embodiment of the use of state power to enforce Racial Discrimination and the original order against him, the original injunction he defied that led to this conviction was issued by a judge appointed by george w. Bush. It referred to only one of the many controversial areas of his tenure in terms of discrimination. The number of people who hung themselves under custody and the hundred million plus judgments that the Sheriffs Office had to pay out, the failure to investigate molestation cases. There was a theres a big list of complaints. In fact, as you know, he was voted out by the voters of Maricopa County last year. For the president to kind of step in at this point in the process, after he had been convicted of failing to follow a court order, is just an extraordinary statement coming right on the heels of charlottesville. You saw the largest paper in arizona conclude yesterday today, this is a signal basically of not only tolerance but endorsement of Racial Discrimination and so forth. That headline from them, at least buried in the story, institutional racism is clearly trumps goal from the Editorial Board at the arizona republic. Amy, let me get you in here. We have to cut this short because of the breaking news. So after this pardon, the supporters will support it. The critics will criticize it. Those who have been silent will stay silent. Does this move anybody, really . No. I think this is strictly aimed at his base and rallying his base. And making them feel better, i think, in the wake of charlottesville. But it definitely doesnt do anything for President Trump, particularly when you look at the people he needs if he wants to be reelected. Its the people that the Republican Party are trying to aim at, hispanics. That was something, a place where he lacked a lot during the 2016, a lot of support during the 2016 election. So i think the Bigger Picture, and the ramifications of the Bigger Picture will actually take hold and have an effect on him in the future. All right. Ron, amy, so grateful to have your insight on this. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Up next, north korea fires off a volley of missiles less than a week after being praised for showing restraint. Cnn International Correspondent will ripley just arrived in pyongyang and has been speaking with military officials. We will later what they have to say. We asked people to write down the things they love to do most on these balloons. Travel with my daughter. Roller derby. Now give up half of em. Do i have to . This is a tough financial choice we could face when we retire. But, if we start saving even just 1 more of our annual income. We could keep doing all the things we love. Prudential. Bring your challenges. 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In Corpus Christi, you can see signs down, brick walls toppled, signs have been blown out there. Harvey is pounding the texas coastline. The white house is making headlines over President Trumps pardon of controversial exarizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the meantime. A lot of things coming from different places, obviously. Washington and texas this hour. In response to the pardon, civil Rights Groups and republican senators from arizona are criticizing this move. Also late friday, the white house announced President Trumps controversial adviser Sebastian Gorka is out. And the president signed a directive banning transgender military recruits. Plus, new details about the russia investigation. The wall street journal is reporting special Counsel Robert Mueller is examining the possible role former National Security adviser Michael Flynn played in trying to get Hillary Clintons emails from hackers. As we have been reporting, whats happening on the texas coast, it looks like inland, that is where some real problems are going to be. Officials are concerned about the amount of rain and flooding that is headed that way. Take a look at the radar here. You can see how everything is swirling there. We have rain in houston, up in austin, san antonio, victoria really getting hit. Joining us, retired u. S. Army Lieutenant General russell honore. General honore, thank you for spending a couple minutes with us. Your reaction to what we are seeing and reports out of rockport, where nick valencia says some of the town is just devastated there. Absolutely. 140 mile an hour wind will take roofs off of buildings and flatten poorly structured buildings. We pray for the best but expect the worst there where the eye came ashore. But that being said, the worst is yet to come in terms of the amount of pain and suffering that will happen because of the flooding. As you know, flooding itself is a major danger to our population. More homes get destroyed, more people die from flooding every year than any other event. So the wind event, day one of harvey is done. The sustained winds are going to keep helicopters from doing search and rescue and its going to take power lines out. As the storm churned and turned in texas, the area of flooding is going to expand. So day one, the priority is going to be keeping people alive and finding out where you have Vulnerable People that need to be evacuated. Then take actions today for day two, which is going to be tomorrow, of places that you can project that will flood that have clusters of vulnerable populations such as nursing homes, hospitals and lowlying areas. So the Emergency Managers really have a tough time today in balancing search and rescue and keeping people alive, then preparing for tomorrow to evacuate people that if they dont move them today, they will be surrounded or underwater tomorrow. Thanks for having me on and we can share this information. We appreciate you sharing it with us, certainly. General, quickly, how much confidence do you have in the leadership to take care of this for the next four, five, six days . Well, regardless of how good the leadership is, let me say, i think the leadership is good, solid, relationship between the federal and state is solid. I havent seen it any better. Relationship between the military and the national guard, all integrated in military support to civil authorities. Thats working good. The problem is on any given day, Mother Nature can destroy anything built by man and create a disaster. This is a disaster. So regardless how good they are today, they will not be good enough to handle all the needs that are required with people that are isolated because of the effects of the weather, the wind and the expanded flooding. So there will be people out there waiting to be rescued. They are waiting right now, because the phone systems and the communication grid is down, they dont know where they are and they dont know what their needs are because they cant get out. Thats the effect of this hurricane staying around, being a threat on day one, on day two and day three. We will have more people that are flooded and isolated based on the rain predictions that we are looking at. General honore, let me ask you. You were pretty critical of the president yesterday afternoon for not proactively declaring the disaster there in texas and instead waiting for Governor Abbott to request it. That happened late in the evening, the request and the grant from the president. Did that happen in time . The question really is, was that delay detrimental to the response potentially from the federal government . No. The way our National Response plan is written, things were going by plan. The idea of the way this would normally work is the governors, and yesterday Governor Abbott did ask for it, i was hoping it would come earlier in the day but they were following the procedures that have been established over the years on how we do a storm declaration. I wish it had happened yesterday morning to empower the states to get more people evacuated, particularly those vulnerable populations, and to move more assets into position. In other words, hook the generator up to the hospital, because the powers going to go out. Some of those things that could have been done, now they can be done today to affect tomorrow. Im wishing that had been done earlier but the good news is, it got signed before landfall and that decision by the president is having positive impact today in and around texas. All right. Lieutenant general honore, thank you for being with us. We will take a quick break. Lets see, there are the wildcats til we die weekenders. The watch me let if fly. 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Hes the only western Television Correspondent in north korea. Just arrived in north korea within the last few hours. I understand, will, you have just spoken with government officials. What are they telling you . Reporter yeah, we have been meeting with officials here who told me that even though it appears on the surface that things have calmed in terms of the military activity up until just a matter of hours ago, when those missiles were launched, they say this is the most tense situation that many of them have seen in a number of years. The reason for that goes back to those words from President Trump, fire and fury, locked and loaded. Even though the news cycle in the United States has moved on, here in north korea, they are still thinking about that. They considered it a threat and we have heard a lot of fiery rhetoric from north korea over the last month. We are now seeing something very different we havent seen since the end of july when they launched that intercontinental ballistic missile. We are seeing actual military activity. You mentioned the three Ballistic Missiles that were launched. You mentioned they are shortrange. Two of them traveled about 250 kilometers, just over 150 miles, but that puts all of seoul, potentially, in striking range. Key u. S. Military bases in south korea. Even though this was one of dozens of missile tests ordered by north koreas supreme leader, kim jongun, we are also seeing him appear. Just within the last hour or so, he appeared on state media here on the evening news in north korea. He was seen overseeing a special forces operation where commandos were simulating attacks on south korean islands. What the officials here are telling us is that they feel it continues to be a touchandgo situation and they say do not be surprised if we see more in terms of military activity from north korea, given the fact we are about to enter week two of those u. S. south korea joint military exercises happening just miles from where im standing in pyongyang. Thats where thousands of south korean soldiers are training alongside u. S. Soldiers. It happens every zug and every zug it infuriates this regime. Particularly after that rhetoric from President Trump and those threats they say they have taken very literally and very seriously here in north korea. Will ripley in pyongyang, thank you so much. We are so grateful you spent the morning with us. We will continue to keep our thoughts and prayers with folks in texas and watch as this storm continues to develop. Thank you so much. Theres much more. The next hour of cnn newsroom continues with Fredericka Whitfield after the break. 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