Highway 30 in Benton County is get more information. Well is here now with your storm track seven forecast. Good morning. Its much colder than what it was at thisime yesterday morning, but at least we arent dealing with the snowfall. Temperrtures right now are in the Single Digits to the north and teens to the south. The winds arent too bad this morning. They are out of the as the roadsgo. The snow wont be blowing arnd as much. The northern parts of wa right now are dealing with h partly covered snow and ice roadways, so there could be slick spots for the morning commute, so keep that in mind. Storm track 7 live Doppler Radar shows dry conditions across eastern iowa, but there are a we will keep ta chance dont be surprised to seeh flakes flying, especially this afternoon. Heres the forecast for today. Mainly seasonable temperatures, increasing clouds with flurries. For snow in the forecast. Details in just a few minutes. Just into our newsroom in the last 15 minutes. Highway 30 in Benton County is blocked in both directions. This is south of keystone. Its due to a crash were working to get more information. Well update you as we learn more. Now that the snow is done remember many cities in eastern iowa have rulerequiring you to clear your sidewalks or faae fines. In some cities, its a 24hour policy. So youd need to take care of that today. Also be sure to Pay Attention to your citys guidelines for ccty snow removal. Ny cities declaring snow emergencies this week, so plows can get through and clear the snow from the roads. And if plows cant get through. Some polie departments will write you a ticket. I80 through nebraska is back open this morning afterrbeing closed for nearly two days. The blizzard made several stretches of the interstate impassable. All truckers and travelers could do was wait. Because it could have been avoided if we wouldve been rerouted a different route. But yoyo know it happees. Being out here in this kind of weather it happens. State patro troopers directed traffic to areas where they stop. Right now erythings thinking about how to stay warm. But not everyone can afford arm clothes. One group found a way to change that. Peple in waterloo have been finding bags of warm clothes with notes attached to them. Theyve been found attached with rope to utillies poles at placess such as park. And near east high. No one eems to know who is leaving these bagsf warm clothes around. Alal the bags haveelittle letters on them that says things like. I am not lost. I am here for whoever needs me. Someone took their money. You know they took their time appreciation. This isnt the first time Something Like this had happened. People also placed scarves on deborah earlier this winter season february bririing tornados to other parts of the country. In georgia for days. Some people are staying at army continuing coveragee a man whose job was to watch over inmates. Is now becoming one. Garrett barton, of anamosa, pleading guilty to multiple harges. In a plea agreement. Barton admitted to accepting money from an inmate to smuggle two cell phones for inmates to use at the anamosa state penitentiary. Drugs with other correctional officers. Hell spend more than four years in prison a Lottery Winner files a lawsuit. Claiming his 9million dollar jackpot should have been much bigger. Lucky larry dawsons lawsuit may be the first of several filed by lottery playe. Claiming thy were allegedly rigged by a former employee of the multistate lottery associationn its a move which could cost state lotteries tens of millions of dollars. Heres the response from the iowa lottery. terry rich, iowa lottery ceo the iowa lottery believes that course and in all of this, its will defend this litigation. Dawson is asking for 10 Million Dollars plus interest. The mexican actress who arranged a meeting between sean penn and drug lord el chapo has a request for a court. Shes askii the court to block y arrests stemming from mexicos relationship with guzman. In january, mexicos attorney general theres an investigation into possible Money Laundering involving guzman and the actress tequila business. A convicted murderer at the center of a popular podcast is arguing he deserves a new trial. The podcast serial revolved around the story of adnan syed, who now 35 and ssving a life sentence. At 19, he was convicted of strangling his high school girlfirend. The podcast raised questions about the fairness of his original trial and uncovered new evidence. A threeday hearing began yesterday to determinenewhether syeds cooviction will be overturned and case retried. A convicted killer who escaped from prison apologizes. David sweat escpaed a new york prison last summer with fellow convict richard matt. Their escape d to a massii search, spanning three weeks. A judge sentenced sweat on charges following the escape. But hes already serving a life sentence for murr. I would like to apologize to escape. That was never my for thh your honor. Sweats fellow escapee richard matt was killed by police during the search. Oregon standoff leader ammon bundy is indicted by a federal grand jury thth indictment is against bundy and 10 others who joined him at the occupation of an oregon wildlife refuge. No further details on t chargs are availab at this time though the indictment may be unsealed later today. Auththities arrested 11 people last weee on felony conspiracy charges. A group is calling for the usda to investigate an elephants death. The elephant is the second one to die in recent months at the oklahoma zoo. She had recently been transferreefrom a seattle zoo whee its elephant exhibit closed. A seattle based group now calling for the federal investigation. Chai had a chance, she had an city zoo instead. Protestors are calling for the zoo to close its elephant exhibit following the deaths. Authorities are searching for a robber dressed like a superhero. Police in florida say his man, dressed as batman, robbed two dollar stores. He had a gugu. No store employees were hurt. Batmans now the suspect instead of the one fighting crime. Decision 2016. First a town hall, tonight a debate. The democratic president ial canidates are preparing for the final faceoff before tuesdays New Hampshire primary. And as tracie potts shows us, the tonights msnbc debate is Hillary Clintons last chance to take on Bernie Sanders face to face before New Hampshire votes on tuesday. If its about our records, hey digit lead here. Hes hammering cliiton on her sixfigure speeches who has a super pac and takes 15 million from wall street. Thats just not progressive. Her response . I dont know, its what they offered. The leading Republican Donald Trump is claiming he couldve won iowa if ted cruz hadnt send carson was dropping out you know these politicians are brutal, theyre brutal, they are brutal, they are a bunch of dishonest cookies. I wake every day and lauggat the latest thing donald has tweeted because hes losing it. Marco rubios going after cruz too. Rubios a close number three here. Ultimately i think it goes back to what i said before and that is a willingness to say or do smaller. Rick santorum just dropped out and endorsed rubio. Rand paul dropped out too, without endorsing anyone. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. Tonight, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will face off in a tonight at 8 n msnbc. President obama visits a mosque to correct what he calls a distorted view of muslim americans. The president spoke about the discrimination and threats that muslimamericans face. Saying americans need to speak out against it because its not who were one American Family and when any part of our American Family starts to feel separarae or second class orrtargeted, it t tears at the very fabric of our nation. He aslo said since Many Americans dont know a muslimerson, they only hear about th following an act of terror. Which distorts their view abouttthe islamic faith. People get a chance to check out a new space craft. Nasa showing off its orion space craft. Set to fly at least 30thousand miles beyond the moon on an unmanned test flight in late 2018. The ultimate goal is to send astronauts to mars and deeper into space than astronauts have ever gone. This is what we worked on for the epitome of theres still a lot f work to be done to get ready for 2018. Weddings are expensive and getting married in some cities can cost a lot more and ereate more headaches. Wallethub studied the 150 largest ties and rankeke them as best and worst places to get married. The best places based on cost and availability of venues. Orlando, vegas, atlanta, and tampa. Coming in at the bottom of the list due in part to a high overall st anchorage,alaska; worcester, massachusetts; newark, new jersey; and yonkers, new york; its coming up on today in iowa. An unusual sign spring is almost here. Plus. Shes 90 years old. But still serving others. Her coworkers come together to na pop part oo your world d a nurse issa big hit with young patients going through cancer treatments. Youre watching kwwl, now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. From the kwwww stormtrack 7 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team welcome back im meteorologist quiet a bit the last cououe of days. Herer is one that was taken yesterday. Thanks for sending these photos in. Threat tracker is in the green over the next 48 hours. We arent expecting any hazardous weather. There could be some flurries or light snow today or tomorrow, no one event will be a big snow maker but nonetheless the chance is there. Saturday looks pretty good with partly cloudy skies, and many of us will be above freezing. Road conditions right now are partly snow covered across northern iowa. A lot of refreezingg overniniht with temperatures in the Single Digits. These Road Conditions should improve. If you want constant updates, you can follow kwwl storm track 7 on twitter, we have hourly updates on the roads when they are bad. Heres the storm track 7 live across eastern iowa, but you can see some flurries off to the north. Its part of a weak system tipping into the upper midwest. Not a huge deal, but could leave a dusting in some areas. Tracker temperatures. Pretty cold this morning in some areas. Eastern iowa temperatures are split where theres nn snow on the ground versus where there is snow on the ground. About a ten degree difference in the temperatures. Winds arent too bad, and neither are wind chills. Future track shows that there is the chance for some passing flurries or light snow showers throughout the day today,y,especially during the afternoon. Tonight, similar to last night, we will see clearing skies and cold temperatures. Tomorrow we see an increase in clouds once again, especially in the afternoon, and that is when we will have the cnce for flurries or light snow as nother wave ofof energy passes by. Again, maybe a dusting, but not looking like a big deal. Heres the storm track 7 forecast for today. We will have increasing clouds with the chance for light snow and flurries highs will be in the upper 20s north to lower 30s to the south withha west wind 5 tt 10 miles per hour. Tonight, we will have a partly cloudy sky with temperatures in the teens and a west northwest wind from 5 to 10 miles per hour. Heres the storm tracseven day forecast. Flurries today and tomorrow with temperatures in the weekend, with windy conditions sunday through tuesday. There is a chance for snow sunday and monday. Not a major storm, though. Then cold temperatures return next week. Theres a sign spririg is almost here. E. Home depot is hiring 80thousand spring is their christmas home depot has been hirng about 80thousand Seasonal Workers every year for a decade, a ad about half of them turn into permanent employees. The Seasonal Hiring means each store will hire 40 to 45 workers. Its still to come. Nats a Magic Carpet Ride a nmrse is getting a lot of attention for his erformance at a hospital. But for him. Its all about making the patients feel better. Plus were learning this pandas pick when it comes to whose going to win the super bowl yoyore watching kwwl. Weve got you covered in marion, North Liberty, oelwein and all of a traffic update this morning this morning highway 30 is blocked in Benton County due to a crash heres a map of thh area were talkinggabout. That black line in the middle of your screen is the area thats blocked. Its about a 5mile stretch just west of 218. Thiis the area souh of keystone and van horne were still working to get information on the crash we have a crew on the way employees at an applebees gather to honor their coworker. As she turns 90. The great grandmother says she works five days a week partly because she has to, but mostly because she wants to. Her coworkers, who call her they love her. A lot of them shes really sweet, she does great person. Im part of life, im not just sitting there. Im part of living. m out every day. I have a purpose. I enjoy it. Shes the oldest of applebees 40 thousand employees and is more than fofor times older r an some of her current co workers. One nurse goes above and beyond to help his young patients. As kevin quinn shows us, thie for brann waterhouse, pediatric oncology is a second career. A couple years ago he neo be. And this is where he met Sophia Torres a four year old with a wide smile, a big heart her last weekend. Up late. Shsh couldnt sleep. Er father ppsted this video to a Facebook Page they set up to keep Family Friends updated on how shes doing. Its been viewed nearly 200,000 times and has nearly 3500 likes. Much. It just feels so good to put a smile on their face and make them maybe forget oh, im still in the hospital. He adits hes a bit embarrassed. But waterhouse says any attention he can bring to the importance of fighting cancer the better the more people know about it. Theeore people talk about it. The more people that are donating money to Cancer Research the research that one day just might save a life just like sophia. Truly that could be a its coming up. A panda takes his time. But eventually decides on who he thinks another check of your storm track seven forecast. Heres the storm track seven day forecast. Flurries today and tomorrow with temperatures in the 20s. Will have 3030 this sunday through tuesday. There is a though. Then cold temperatures return next week. It seems choosing the winner of sundays big game. Takes time. This giant panda keeping anxious crowds waiting on him as he makes his pick bftween the denver broncose and caolina panthers. Afttr about 20 minutes and some treats. He picked the panthers. Youre watching kwwl. Weve reaching out to help people in iowa without warm clothes. But nobodys sure who it is. Plus. One president ial candidate wanans a redo of f e and the stanford bands haltime performance at the rose bowl. Now an issue in front of state lawmakers. Good morning, im ally crutcher. And im jerry gallagher. Storm track seven meteorologist with your storm track seven than what it was at this time yesterday morning, but at least the Single Digits to the north and teens to the south. The winds arent too bad this morning. They are out of the west from 5 to 10 miles per much. The northern parts of iowa right now w re dealing with partly covered snow and ice roadways, so there could be slick spots for the morning commute, so keep that in mind. Storm track 7 live Doppler Radar we will keep that chance throughout dhe day wiih a clipper system moving through. It wont be anything widespread, bb nonetheless, dont bbsurprised tooee the flakes flying, especially this afternoon. Heres the forecast for today. Mainly seasonable temperatures, increasing clouds with flurries. There are a couple more chances for snow in the forecast. Details in just a few nutes. Nonetheleles, dont be surprised to see the flakes flying, especially this afternoon. Heres the forecast for temperaturee increasing clouds with flurries. There are a couple more chances for snow in the forecast. Details in just a few minutes. A traffic alrt for you this morning highway 30 is blocked in Benton County due to a crash a traffic alrt for you this morning highway 30 is blocked in Benton County due to a crash heres a map of the area were talking about. That black line in the middle of your screen is the area thats blocked. s about a 5le stretch justst west of 218. Its blocked in both directions this is the area south of keystone and van horne were still working to get information on the crash we have Winter Weather upon us. An unknown donor is leaving gifts throughout one eastern iowa city, to help people stay warm. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert shares what people are seeing. They had them ied around tts all thats left this utilii pole. But this bag of warm bag. I got out and looked. While driving to her moms house. At first she thought someone had been evicted. I thought it was their clothes, instcad of putting in on the but then she saw this nono. Thh said im not lost if you need me take me. Standup and this was just the beginning. Tayla saw more bags along other utility poles on sherman ave in waterloo. Other spottings have been here at sullivan park. As well as randolph ststeet and east igh of waterloo. Nat this isnt the first time Something Like this has happened. People left these scarfs out in dorah earlier this winter season. We need more people like stuff up for people that needed it, that. Appreciation. This is the only hint. The words denver snl on the bottom of the letters. Denver slt or something lie that. Tayla would like to say thank you to whoever did this. And underrtands if he. She or they want to remain anonymous. A kwwl follow up. Police e arrest t suspect. After a stabbing sends a person to the hospital it happened around 4 30 ysterday evening in the 500 block of reihl street in waterloo. Police have not released the suspects name. We do not know the cooition of the victimim which promotes violence against women schedules meetings in iowa. Safety alert to warn people about the group knows as tge return of kings. The website lists des moiies and cedar rapids as two meet up sites across the country and around the world. The concern is that they might try to lure women and girls. Were encouraging people not to go for the obvious safety and d hats not ssmething wed want anyone to be around. Des Moines Police they dont know if any meetings will take place in iowa. But say theyre still taking the possibility seriously. Deparment posted on facebook that it has no specific knowledge that a meeting will be taking situation. An iowa man is hoping politicans can help him free his brother prison in ngo you see the man here, this picture taken in prison, of him praying district superintendent for a hurch in cedar rapids. He moved here from congo, hoping for r better life for his fafaily. He says his brother was thrown in prison shortly after a press conference where he stood kiboko kiboko district superintendent east Central District of the United Methodist church the reporters asked him term and he said he cannot do that he cannt do that. He fears for his brothers life. He wasrecently moved to a military prison. The iowa man believes if bill and Hillary Clinton intervene his other will be freed. Due to their relationsjip with the president of rwanda. Who is very powerful in central africa. Following recent controversy a superintedent is switching districts. Greg herbst, east dubuques superintendent, will take the head job in the Galena Community school district. Herbst was placed on administrative leave last summerthe school board eventually saying it was because a principal lodged a complaint against him. Hundreds showed their support for herbst, and he says its the people are its heart and difficult to leave, herbsswas one of 24 applicantt for r the galena job, and one of three finalists for the position. Hell begin his new contract july first. The us and eleven other countries sign the Trans Pacific partnership. The complex and controversial agreement is designed to increase t tade and investment between the countries. The tpp must be ratified by at least six countries, including the us and japan, before it takes effect. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may surrender to British Police tomorrow it depends if a United Nations panel rules against him. The un has been investigating whether assange has been illegally detained. Hes been living in the Ecuadoran Embassy in london since june of 20512, when ecuador granted him asylum. Assange is wwted for questioning about an alleged Sexual Assault in sweden. Attempt to extradite him to the us du to Information Published on wikileaks. Today, a House Committee will hold a hearing ononthe rising cost of prescription drugs. The embattled former ceo of turing pharmaceuticals, martin shkreli, and others will testify. This comes one day after he faced security fraud charges in a new york courtroom. Hes accused of defrauding investors and misappropriating millions of dollars from the Pharmaceutical Company he founded to repay them. We do not believe that mr. Shkreli every knowingly violated the media. He gained attention last year after the Company Raised the price of a cancer and hiv drug by five thousand percent. A judge refusues to throw out a secual assault case against bill cosby. The case now moves to a hearing to see if prosecutors have enough evidence to prove cosby assaultededthe accuser in 2004. They reopenn the case last one president ial candidate is calling for an iowa caucus doover. Donald trump is accusing ted cruz of stealing the Iowa Caucuses. Cruz tooed trump on monday niniht but trumppsays the results should be thrown out. Hes upset because fellow candidate ben carson says rumors that h was quitting were circulated by the Cruz Campaign before and during the caucuses. Which he believes affecteddhe tcome. First, because if you take a look, ok, it is no urprise that donald is throwing yet another temper tantrum or if you like, yet another trumper tantrum. Cruz said he has apapogized to the herd which is exactly two more republicans have dropped out of the race. Keketucky senatoorand paul is out. Hes expected to turn his former senator Rick Santorum is also ending his campaign. He won the Iowa Caucuses four years ago but could not get any momemtum this time around. Hes now endorsing senator marco rubio. Now to the democrats. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton shared the stage at a town hall last night the big focus . Whos a progressive. Attsanders watch paay in des moines monday night his supporters were watching clintons speech she is a progressive. There are other issues, superpac andtakes 15 million from wall st. Thats just not progressive. I saad that im a rogressive who likes to get things done. I sanders is favored to win New Hampshires primaay next week. Another former nfl player diagnosed with cte following his death. Latesuper bowl mvp and Oakland Raiders quarterback ken stablblr had the brainnisease likely the result of repeated head trauma from stablers football days. Researchers say they immediately noticed a part of his brain was visibly smaller. More potential Health Problems associated with flints toxic water crisis are surfacing. A Health Department now investigating if the leadtainted water is causing skin rashes. Theyre planning to personally inttrview residents who report skin rashes and test the water in their homes. They say its still too early to make a direct connection between skin rashes and flints water. The cdc says a mosquito borne illness tied to birthdefects is now being transmitted sexually. They say the zika virus was transmitted through sexual zikas been detected in at least 24 countries and continues to spread. An iowa company as developing could be ananswer. New Link Genetics Corporation in ames haha created successful breakthroughs in the past, including vaccine. Now the company is working on solutions to th zika virus. The predominant mosquito while. The other, which is aedis albopictus thats present all the way into iowa. He says its unknown how the virus crossed into the western hemisphere, but its possible the 2014 world cup in brazil had something to do with it. Search on mice could mean big improvments to the health of humans. A new drug developed at the mayo clinic is extending the lives of laboratory mice. Researers believe this will help them develop a drug with the potennal of treatiig heart attacks. And maybe even fight if a Clinical Trial turns out years away. Some iowa lawmakers havent gotten over the stanford bands rose bowl halftime performance. And they want to ban future meetings with stanford until the university apologizes. A bill in the state senate calls the ststford performance offensive to iowans. It would ban the three state universities from collaborating with stanford, pending an apology. Sporting events would still be allowed. Its still to come. A plea from safety groups aboutut yoyor tvs. As many of us are plus. Amazon is often blamed for putting brick and Mortar Stores out of business. The forecast from storm track youre watching kwwl, so, let me get this straight u. S. Cellular has the phone youre looking for, a network thats built to give you coverage way out here where the other guys dont, and 6 gigs for only 40 a month. Thats a lot less than verizon and at t. So, why on earth would you ever go with one of those other guys . Switch to u. S. Cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for 40 a month plus get 300 back. Now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl. Weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl ststrmtrack 7 team kyle kiel. Weve been getting quiet a bit of pictures from the snow over the one that was taken yesterday. Thaaks for sending these photos in. Over the next 48 hours. We arent expecting could be some flurries or light snow ttay or tomorrrr, especially during the afternoon. No one event will be a big snow maker but nonetheless the chance is there. Saturday looks pretty good with partly cloudy skies, and many of us will be above freezing. Road conditions right now are partly snow covered across northern iowa. A lot of refreezing overnight with temperatures in the Single Digits. These Road Conditions should improve. If you want conontant updates, you can follow kwwl storm track 7 on twitter, we have hourly updates on the roads when they are bad. Heres the storm track 7 live doppler raar. It is mainly dry across eastern iowa, but you can see some flurries off to the north. Its part of a weak system tipping into the upper midwest. Not a huge deal, but could leave a dusting in some areas. Heres a check offthe weather pretty cold this morning in some areas. Eastern iowa temperatures are split where theres no snow on the ground versus where there is snow on the ground. About a ten degree difference in the temperatures. Winds arent too bad, and neither are wind chills. Future track shows that there is the chance for some passing flurries or light snow showers throughout the day today, especially d dring the afternoon. Tonight, similar to last night, we will see clearing skies and cold temperatures. Tomorrow we see an increase in clouds once again, especially in the afternoon, and that is when we will have the chance for flurries or light snow as another wave of energy passes by. Again, maybe a dusting, but not looking like a big deal. Heres the storm trac 7 forecast or today. We will have increasing clouds with the chance for light snow and fluuries. Highs will be in the upper 20s north to lower 30s to cloudy sky with temperatures in the teens and a west northwest wind from 5 to 10 miles per hour. Heres the storm track seven day forecast. Flurries today and tomorrow with temperatures in the 20s. We will have 30s this weekend, with windy conditions sunday through tuesday. There is a chance for snow sunday and monday. Not a major storm, though. Then cold temperatures return next week. Its coming up. The wild chase for a missing goat. The story when today in its coming up. The wild chase for a missing at. The story when today in the dadas ahead of thh su [burke] at farmers, weve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. [turkey] gobble. [butcher] im sorry burke covered march fourth,2014. Talk to farmers. Weve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almostanything. To be a busy time for tv sales. Of the possibility of tipovers, which can be very dangerous for children. Product safety commission, one child o weeks and one child is injured every4 minutes when a tv or a piece of furniture falls o oto them. Multiple groups are urging people to do a quick check of their tvs, often, to make sure theyre safely secured and properly placed. More th 158 thousand dirt devil vacuums are being recalled due to an eleerical shock hazard. The recall covers three models of the dirt devil total pet cyclonic upright vacuums. There have been 14 reports of a prong on the electric cord plug detachin and remaining in an eleerical outlett. Which poses an electrical shock risk. No injuries have been reported. Stop using the vacuums and iteems amazon is planning to open hundreds of bookstores. Back in november, amazon opened a bookstore in seattle. Now, the ceo of mall opprator General Growth Properties says amazons goal is to open up to a spokesman for amazon has declined to comment. A research goat is still on the lamb. This is not william the goat but anooer goat that looks like him. William escaped from the university of Iowa Research facilities last week. This is a picture of a goat that looks like william, but it isnt the missing goat. The goats been spotted mumuiple times near North Liberty and the coralville dam. But police and the university havent been able to catch him. Control officer this has kind yeah id say its kind of been one of the more crazier stories, but juss because its grabbed so much attention and so many people are aware of it. Most students at the university think its a funny story and hard to believe the goat even has utliple twitttr accounts. Its were wrapping up today in iowa with the forecast from storm february is huge for us. All our handcrafted classic footlongs the media is going a little crazy. Submageddon with an incredible amount of accumulation inside. That now seems. Enjoy all our classic footlongs 30 is blocked in Benton County. This is west of highway 20, the dots detour is about a 12mile trip. Were showing it here between 15th avenue and 21st avenue youll have to head north and use 70th street to get across. You can see the spot weve marked in the middle thats where the crash is. We still havent been able details on the crash, we have a crew on the way. Keep an eye on our website, kwwl dot com, for the latest information. Is back with another check of your storm track seven forecast. Heres the storm track seven day forecast. Flurries today and tomorrow with temperatures in the 20s. We will have 30s this weekend, with windy conditions sunday through tuesday. There a major storm, though. Then cold temperatures return next week. Thanks for joining us, the today show is next and well be
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