65yearold Randall Drescher of milwaukee faces one count of first degree reckless homicide, in connection with the august 18th shooting death of reed carlsen, right in front of the district 6 police station,. Prosecutors say a friend of drescher arranged to purchase a gun from an unidentified person, and they agreed to meet, at the station. Around 640, as the two sat in this van, watching passersby, the 42yearold carlsen w questioned drescher about staring at him. When drescher told carlsen to leave, he refused. Dreschers friend says carlsen appeared to be on drugs, and, when drescher told carlsen to leave, again, carlsen, threw an orange construction cone into the open passenger window. Prosecutors say that when carlsen began to walk away, drescher got out, to put the cone back in place. But then, drescher says carlsen approached him, and drescher pulled his gun. When Carlsen Drescher says he feared for his life, so he shot carlsen, three times. Then, drescher entered the police station, and turned himself in, to police. Uh. Im. I. I dont have any words. I mean, the violence is that, that, that random . . when we stop by dreschers house, today, no one answers the door. Meanwhile, if convicted, the 65 yearold drescher could face up to 60 years in prison. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for august 31st. Anchors . To breaking news now. Flig town of trenton in Washington County for a skid loader that fell on a man. The call came in after 2 30 this afternoon on county highway y. According to the sheriffs office, the injuries are critical. Newburg fire, as well as west bend responded to the call. Helping a Community Heal with food. Today, feeding america was giving away food to residents of the sherman park community. Beverly taylor was there for it all and joins us live now from the mary ryan boys and girls club. Feeding america of eastern food between one and three today. The Agency Partners with the boys and girls club here and does a food giveaway quarterly. But because of the recent unrest, the agency moved up the scheduled date to today. They gave away chicken, eggs, milk, cereal, mac n cheese, canned veggies, lettuce and peanut butter. This was especially families. C71 1 30 22 27. Helpful. I mean, i was low on food but not no more now. I thank god that helped me out a lot. C32 1 02 40 48 its important especially when kids are still not back in school where theyre given breakfast and lunch that they and their families have access to healthy nutritious food. Mclimans said studies continue to show a direct correlation between hunger and violence. We heard from people who said they were thankful that a live in mke, bt fox6 news steph thanks bev. Three people are injured after a shooting on milwaukees west side. It happened around 840 last night in the area of 29th and clybourn. Officials say it started with a physical fight. Then at least one person pulled out a gun and started shooting. A 32yearold man was seriously hurt in the shooting. Hospital and he is expected to survive. A 22 year old man was also shot and hospitalized. And a 22yearold woman was treated by paramedics at the scene after suffering a graze wound. Police continue to look for suspects. A potentially dangerous situation on carroll univesritys campus last night. Fortunately, the whole thing turned out to be a false alarm. Waukesha Police Responded to a report of a suspicious person with a weapon looking into windows of a campus building. Turns out it was just a professors 15 yearold nephew newsroom with why University Officials say the situation was good practice. Classes dont start at Carroll University until after labor day but theres already been a pretty good lesson learned. Around 450 studentsmainly athletes have already moved into housing. Yesterday. The campus was briefly placed on lockdown while police investigated the suspicious person report. Officials sent out texts and emails to students through its alert system called pioalerts. anything to a Severe Weather alert to an incident like what occurred last night on campus. Last night, they worked very well. We were able to notify everyone quickly of the lockdown situation. A spokeswoman for carroll says although the pioalerts are routinely tested. Last nights incident provided reassurance that the system is working properly. Just in time for the rest of the 3500 steph thanks ted. Tonight well see some more clouds in the sky, with some thunderstorms possible later. Weather expert tom wachs is out on the weather deck with a look ahead. Increasing clouds tonight with temperatures falling into the 70s. Overnight. We will have offandon chances for thunderstorms throughout the day wednesday with a high around 80. A few thunderstorms could linger into thursday morning, otherwise gradually decreasing clouds. Highs in the low 80s thursday. Friday is quiet and sunny before into sunday morning. Tonight increasing clouds. Chance for thunderstorms overnight. Low 69 dewpoint 68 wind s 510 mph wednesday mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms. Muggy. Hig wind sw 515 mph thursday a few a. M. Tstorms, otherwsie decreasing clouds. Am low 68 high 81 dewpoint 66 wind wnw download the fox6 storm center app. Its free and available for apple and android devices. Youll have instant access to the interactive radar and fox6 weather forecast. President obama makes his first visit to louisiana following devastating flooding that killed at least 13 people. Many have criticized the Obama Administration saying his visit was long overdue. Foxs kevin corke has more from denham springs, louisiana. Southern louisiana, coping with historic flooding for almost two weeks. Hardhit baton rouge meeting with flood victims, first responders, and local officials. Hoping to spread the message their communities will be rebuilt not forgotten. Obama says even after the tv cameras leave, the whole country is gonna continue to support you and help you. The devastation here is extensive at least 100thousand homes damaged or some republicans who say he should have cut his vacation short and visited the region sooner. Recalling criticism heaped on president bush eleven years ago when he decided not to visit new orleans in the immediate aftermath of hurricane katrina. Fleming says it really makes people in louisiana angry and sad that the president seems to have turned his back on the people of louisiana. But the white house says the federal response this time has been effective. Fema already on the ground here, registering more than people for federal disaster aid. President obama says all Government Resources will be at louisianas disposal as it begins the long recovery process. Obama says this is not a photoop issue. This is how do you make sure that a month from now, three months from now, six months from now, people still are getting the help they need. Oncam tag the white house says 120million dollars in emergency federal funding has already been approved. The first step in a recovery effort expected to kevin corke, fox news children heading back to school can see a range of emotions from anxiousness to excitement. A studio in connecticut is helping kids get back into the School Schedule with yoga. Instructors say it helps kids get over the anxiety of possibly starting at a new school, or just transitioning back to the classroom. They use games to help kids enjoy the yoga. The children who take the class relax. The goal is to empower the kids. Disasters this summer have sent red cross workers around the country to help. But now when problems strike close to home, many people arent around. Coming up how you could lend a hand to help the red cross your childs wrist. The Mcdonalds Happymeal toy, we asked u. S. Cellular customers to show us all the beautiful places they get coverage with our strong signal. You posted from the seashore. You shared from your hike. You showed us this sunset. You posted from the farm. And you adventured way out there. A lot of amazing places. . . U. S. Cellular put towers where the other guys dont. So join our network, and start sharing your moments feingold thats my grandfather with a brand new truck. It was one of the first to come out of this plant in 1923. But today, too many good manufacturing jobs are shipped away because of a tax code that actually rewards companies for exporting jobs. Lets close the corporate loopholes that will save taxpayer money and help business create jobs here. Im Russ Feingold and i approve this message because we dont need an economy that works only for ceos, a College Student in pennsylvania found himself in a tight spot last night. Apparently love got him into the mess. Was trapped between two buildings. Police say the man was trying to impress his date by jumping from one roof to another. But, police say he missed, and ended up wedged between the buildings. Crews had to break through the brick wall of a nearby restaurant to rescue him. The man was put on a stretcher and taken to the hospital. A second grade teacher makes a decision that may make her students happy. Students in her class in texas homework the teacher sent this letter home to the parents informing them of her new homework policy. She said research has been unable to prove that homework improves student performance so she said she would not be formally assigning homework this year only if a student doesnt finish their class work. Instead of homework she suggested parents spend their evenings eating dinner as a family, reading together, playing outside and getting to bed early. A big recall hitting a dangerous mcdonalds happy meal toy. And officials are saying if your kids have one to make sure they arent wearing it. The recall is for these stepit activity wristbands which measure your steps. They were pulled from all company got more than 70 reports of them irritating skin and burning wearers. The company says theyve given out more than 30million of the wristbands in total. If you have one you can bring it back to any mcdonalds for a free replacement toy or for a some yogurt or apples. Kfc releases an interesting new product. The fastfood chain released its very own Fried Chicken scented sunblock. The chain is calling the lotion kfcs extra crispy sunscreen. Only threethousand tubes of the sunscreen were released. They were all snatched up online within two hours yesterday. Now its being resold online. And to get your hands on a bottle, be prepared to pay a hefty price. One bid on ebay is more than 80 dollars and while it smells as the phc classic played out at brown deer golf course, one player was closer to her dream. Brandon cruz goes beyond the game with what started in a small wisconsin town and could end up reaching the world stage. I think its a fantastic thing. I just love to do it. Even as shes getting ready for a tournament that could help shape her future, Allyssa Ferrell is enjoying her time on the golf course. I think thats really important to remember, is to have fun while day leading up to the weekend, to kind of relax and remember to have fun, just like all these guys are. Its the proam round leading up to the symetra tours phc classic at brown deer golf course. You know, were able to help them. And they get so excited about making a putt or hitting a really good drive. So, especially being back home its fantastic and everyones from around here. Playing her 2nd season on the tour, this stop is a special one for ferrell. I love wisconsin. I think wisconsin has some amazing golf courses, especially this one. So its really to spend a week basically at home. She grew up outside of madison in edgerton, which is also the home of pga tour player steve stricker. Yeah, he graduated with my parents. His parents still live right down the street from my country club, so we see them all the time. Yeah, what hes doing is exactly what i want to do. One way in which shes following strickers path, is by hiring his swing coach. I started working with Dennis Tiziani a couple years ago on my swing. And thats been fantastic. Hes amazing. Obviously he knows what hes doing with steve stricker. So thats been fantastic. The hard work, however, began many years ago. Like dad, i would love to play professional golf. But now that im actually trying to do it, im like ok, this is a little more work than i thought. But, i love it. Family is a huge reason the love for the game has grown. That was on full display during the phc classic as her dad was her caddy. I just love it. I know he loves it. Its a great bonding thing for us. And thats what really got me into golf. The passion for golf doesnt rest solely with ferrell and her father. Her younger sister brooke is an aspiring pro, whos playing golf for the university of wisconsin. We always comp always wanted to hit it further. Or, you know, she always wanted to beat me. So we still have that competitiveness, but were also still trying to learn from each other. Which is why ferrell will be taking time to help her sister as she works towards playing on the lpga tour as well. I love it. You can compete any day you want. But sometimes its ok to take a step back and appreciate what you have. So, when im trying to help brooke, im still thinking about golf. But im still able to apply what ive already learned and help her because i know the struggles that ive gone through. In trying to be able to help her, and not have to go through those same dreams as well as strickers path, maybe edgerton will be considered a new hot spot for the game of golf. I hope so, that would be awesome, especially with my younger sister coming up, i feel like were just, there has to be something in the water around there. In brown deer, brandon cruz, fox 6 sports. Undertaking. Ben hur was shot on location in italy. Coming up, gino sat down with the stars of the film, and hear what they have to say about the bonds were made on set. Heres a live look outside from our new berlin camera looking toward milwaukee. Ad lib what you see weather expert tom wachs is up increasing clouds to temperatures falling into the 70s. Thunderstorm chances increase overnight. We will have offandon chances for thunderstorms throughout the day wednesday with a high around 80. A few thunderstorms could linger into thursday morning, otherwise gradually decreasing clouds. Highs in the low 80s thursday. Friday is quiet and sunny before tonight increasing clouds. Chance for thunderstorms overnight. Low 69 dewpoint 68 wind s 510 mph wednesday mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms. Muggy. High 80 dewpoint 70 wind sw 515 mph thursday a few a. M. Tstorms, otherwsie decreasing clouds. Am low 68 high 81 dewpoint 66 wind wnw 510 mph music remember first to finish. Last to die. Without the main man himself. Gino sat down with the man who took on the role of jesus. Ad lib to bite the goodness that comes out of him, its amazing. Its acting. No its actually not i have to say that. I had the times with him when we were shooting in matera and i think he really became my closest friend on set because i he really has that kindness and spirit. I couldnt think of a better person to play jesus. I told her to say all good things about me in the interview today. A bottle of wine back. See water into wine. Shooting on location in a foreign country youre bound to bond with each other. Ad lib to bite ha no what can i say, shes just wonderful and we truly had a beautiful experience together because most of my scenes are with naz and jack and we did because nazs character was probably the character that had the closest connection to jesus since the first moment they meet. And we had the opportunity to spend time together in this amazing city in south of italy where we shot in matera so we would go to mass together we people do. Ad lib out of bite coming up on fox six news at emergencies and disasters here at home and across the country, how the red cross is helping those its all hands on deck for the American Red Cross of dealing with an unprecedented three large scale disasters here at home. But workers and volunteers from wisconsin are lending a hand across state lines as well. Krystle kacner joins us live in the studio to explain. Its been a busy summer for the red cross. Workers and volunteers from all over the country were called to the wildfires in california and the flooding in louisiana. Including from right here in milwaukee. But this branch is already answering a call. A few in fact. From now. They need some help. Of their own. Forced from their homes in louisiana by dangerous flood waters. All of their belongings were on the streets. Some tried to save what they could. A lot the streets were filled with sofas tvs. Clothings, really all of their personal belongings. Amber finley not only saw these situations play out in real life. She met the People Living them. A little girl came up to me and for help that she knew because i had my red cross tshirt on that i could help her, its just incredibly moving finley is one of more than 40 workers called from southeastern wisconsin to help down south. Others. Were called to california. To help with wild fires there. But thanks to the unpredictable nature of mother nature. Volunteers dont have to stray far from home to answer a call. The 2 floods as well as the fire, those are going to cost the wisconsin region 10 thousand dollars for each event not to mention the manpower. The Apartment Fire in sheboygan. Which displaced about 50 people. Already has 30 workers responding. The flooding in the northern part of the state is in recovery mode at this point. But still requires assistance. Finley says its nothing they cant handle but says they do need help. In the form of money. And volunteers. Just know that it has such a huge impact really across the right now the louisiana flood is valued at about 30 million dollars. According to red cross officials. The red cross of southeastern wisconsin says it plans on sending more crews during the recovery phase. In a few weeks. The American Red Cross depends on your generous donations. If youre interested in donating, youll find a link on our website fox six now dot com, or your fox six news mobile app. Youll also find information on on the links page. Chicago police are questioning a person of interest in connection with a threealarm fire that killed four people. A three month old baby, two young girls, and a man, all died as a result of a massive fire at a three story Apartment Building on the citys south side. A woman inside the building heard someone banging on the back door of her apartment, when she went to the door, she found it on fire. Flames quickly shot up the side of the building, causing some people on the father of the 3month old baby is in Critical Condition at christ hospital. Two firefighters also suffered minor injuries. It took over 200 firefighters to get the fire put out. Police are saying arson could be to blame. Investigating a shooting that injured one man. According to police, the shooting happened around 9 15 this morning near 27th and burleigh. A 46yearold man was injured, and police dont know what led up to the shooting. He suffered nonlifethreatening injuries. Police are searching for a motive, and anyone connected to the shooting. Two us senators push the makers of epipens for information about sharp price increases. Epipens inject epinephrine right into the system of pharmaceuticals, bought the product in 2007, and the price has gone up from 100 to 500 dollars in the last year. The senators are asking the ftc to investigate why the price has gone up so dramatically. Ted perry joins us now in the news room with some stories up next on fox six news at five. Employing people in the sherman park neighborhood. Supposedly hundreds of jobs were created there. Fox six went looking for them. At five, see what we found. Business hammering out a hit new series . Coming up, a sneak peak behindthescenes of the show milwaukee blacksmith. Well have all that and more for you in about 20 minutes on fox six news at five. President ial candidates and their running mates spread out across the country from texas to california. The contenders focusing on a wide range of issues from Small Businesses to immigration and Even Campaign rent. Fox news while campaigning in colorado democratic vp nominee tim kaine rolls out a new attack on donald trump accusing him of making money off his donors by raising rent on his own campaign space. Kaine says he was selffunding for a while, but once he started to fundraise dramatically, he immediately tripled the rent payment that his Campaign Donors were paying him personally. The Trump Campaign says the increase from 35 170thousand a month is for an expanding Campaign Office in trump tower. Meanwhile, trump is trying to keep attention on the clintons over how their foundation accepts donations. The republican ticket is calling for the charity to shut down. His running mate mike pence has also been busy trying to clarify reports that trump was changing his tune on his mass deportation policy. Pence says nothing has changed. What youre going to more detail to the policies that hes been advocating from the very beginning of this campaign. The Clinton Campaign is also pushing back on attacks from trump over her health and if shes fit to lead. She joked about it last night on jimmy kimmel. Clinton well this has become one of their themes. You can take my pulse while im talking to you. Kimmel okay. Clinton to make sure im alive. Kimmel oh my god theres nothing there. Says some unsettling poll news for trump. In missouri, a state thats voted republican in the last 4 elections. Hes only leading clinton by one point. In washington, lauren blanchard, fox news most kids could sit in front of a tv for hours. And plenty of parents have certain channels they will let their kids watch. Coming up the problem with trusting tv ratings when it awards open. For students heading to college this fall, laptops are a must. But with so many options, how do you know whats best for you . Contact 6s jenna sachs shares Consumer Reports tips on how to whether its writing papers, taking notes or playing streaming video games, its important for College Students to choose a laptop that can handle what they need it to do. Consumer reports says the first thing to do when shopping is check with your school. Often they have specific requirements when it comes to computers. Most colleges will say you can buy either windows or apple. But some specific schools within the college, may use applications that on College Campuses youre gonna see a lot of mac laptops. Except when you go to an engineering building, in which case youll see a lot of windows laptops. Consumer reports laptop expert says price is the next thing to consider. mac laptops tend to be expensive. Youre probably going to pay a thousand dollars or more for anything they have to offer. But, in our survey, they are the most reliable. But windows laptops offer a much wider range of pricing. You can dollars. Or you can pay as much as a mac, or even more. then theres the size. Consumer reports says 13inch laptops offer a good compromise between screen size and weight for students on the go. Recommended 13inch models include the macbook pro for 13hundred dollars and the one thousand dollar dell xps nontouch. If youre looking to spend less mdash; the 14inch acer aspire is a Consumer Reports best buy at 700 dollars. the small, thin and lights are great. Theyre cool. Theyre easy to carry. But if youre pulling an all youre going to be looking for a larger screen than what those little guys afford you. when shopping, Consumer Reports suggests looking for backto school discounts for students. Apple offers discounted education pricing on laptops and other items, Microsoft Offers discounts of 10 percent or more and many individual computermakers offer them as well. Im jenna sachs contact 6. Do you have a consumer issue or story idea for the contact 6 team . Call the number on your screen or file a complaint on tom wachs is on the weather deck. Increasing clouds tonight with temperatures falling into the 70s. Thunderstorm chances increase offandon chances for thunderstorms throughout the day wednesday with a high around 80. A few thunderstorms decreasing clouds. Highs in the low 80s thursday. Friday is quiet and sunny before rain chances return saturday night into sunday morning. Tonight increasing clouds. Chance for thunderstorms overnight. Wind s 510 mph wednesday mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms. Muggy. High 80 dewpoint 70 decreasing clouds. Am low 68 high 81 dewpoint 66 wind wnw 510 mph friday mostly sunny. Am low 59 high 76 mph saturday increasing clouds with tstorms possible at night. Am low 57 high 77 dewpoint 62 wind se 510 mph sunday mostly cloudy with the am low 64 high 80 dewpoint 65 wind nw 510 mph monday partly sunny. Am low 65 high 80 dewpoint 62 with fires ravaging the west threat isnt the only danger. Mary stoker smith is here with more. Officials are saying the massive wildfires burning in the western us will expose tens of million to high air pollution for decades. Researchers estimated air pollution from previous and projected wildfires in over 5hundred counties in the western us. They found that by midcentury, more than 80 Million People will air pollution caused by wildfires. The researchers say the findings point to the need for changes in highrisk areas. And its not just fires that are a problem. In the aftermath of historic flooding in louisiana. Health officials warn, the danger isnt over just because the water is starting to recede. The American Red Cross says flooding in louisiana is the worst Natural Disaster in the us since hurricane sandy. A rescuer suffered a small injury, a scratch from a dog, wound was enough to allow bacteria from the flood waters into his body, causing infection. Puncture wounds are about the worst. Within 36 hours it can be moving into trouble. Anything from very bad staff and strep infections, but they can go deeper and make abscesses. Doctors urge residents to be aware of the danr waters, and that you should never wade into them. Infections should be treated immediately as they can lead to serious illness or death. The Current Television Rating System is not accurate and very little help to parents. Thats the conclusion of a new study published in the journal pediatrics. The study shows violence is prevalent across shows, regardless of their parental rating. Scientists say the problem with violence as portrayed on tv is it is trivialized and glamorized so kids have a hard time differentiating with their children, and talk about media and risky behaviors whenever possible. Ad lib about tv ratings. Months after seeing the national spo assault case on their campus, Stanford University is taking a step to stop it from happening again. Undergraduates can no longer drink hard liquor on campus. The ban includes hard alcohol that has more than 20percent alcohol by volume. Beer and wine are still allowed. This after former stanford swimmer brock turner was sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a woman after a party. The school says the new policy was not directly related to the tramp from arizona is one lucky dog after having a run in with bees. More than 400 of them actually. The owner says he had let his two dogs outside when he heard the youngest one yelping. When he opened his blinds, he say what he describes as a wall of bees and went to try and get his dogs only to get attacked himself. When he got to the vets office, tramp was having muscle spasms and the doctors were surprised to say the least. With as many stings as he had, he had more than enough to kill here are the stingers they pulled out, more than 400 of them. On top of tramps 400, the other dog had around 50 and the owner had more than 20 stings himself. Firefighters were able to foam down both homes. Take a look at this crazy video of a sinkhole opening up in northwest china. Chinas state media released Surveillance Video of the sinkhole. You can see two nearby people slipping right into the hole as it opened up. Both were injured and taken to the hospital. Their conditions are not known at this time. Check out the ubinas oohbena volcano in peru youre looking at it from a remotecontrolled drone flying nearly 20thousand feet high people studying the volcano used th dron t volcano has become more and more active since the end of 2013. It is the first time an unmanned vehicle has been used for this purpose. Researchers hope it will drum up support and one day be able to provide valuable information about active volcanoes. Eating pancakes outside is nothing special. But with planes flying just over your head its a little different. Next the waunakee tradition that combines breakfast with 5. A Wisconsin Air park celebrated a milestone over the weekend, ringing in seven decades of being in operation. Theres one woman who has been at the controls for much of the air parks success. Fox 6s Jonathon Gregg there. As the sun rose over waunakee air park sunday, volunteers were already up and at em. Ive been doing it for i dont know how many years now. Pancakes and planes has been a town tradition. Best pancakes around. For decades. I come here every year. People come for the food. Pretty easy to roll out of bed and come right over. But stay for the flights. While people take turns taking flight. Dolores ripp. Taped a flashlight to the wing. Is grounded telling stories. Dol back in the 60s as long as were making pancakes, lets see which one of us can flip a pancake and hit it up against the ceiling, and thats what we did. Her husband jerome founded the air park 70 years ago. I present this to dolores ripp. At the breakfast, she was awarded a certificate of commendation from was saying. The ripps no longer own the air park, but dolores is proud its running better than ever. Thats quite a thing. Take off like that. But shes sure happy it did. Its my life. Jonathon gregg fox 6 news. Launching point. Thats how milwaukees Common Council president describes a newly released Public Safety action plan. it spells out possible strategies for reducing crime a. J. Bayatpour is live outside city hall with the details. This report has 23 recommendations. They come after a series of special meetings. Council leaders admit not every theyre describing this as a first step. We all dont agree on everything, right . So were trying to communicate something that is in one document so we can at least start this conversation. Standing with four other aldermen, Common Council president Ashanti Hamilton presents the councils Public Safety action plan or at least the first draft of it. This is the starting point, alright. We go from there report calls for more Police Officers and sheriffs deputies. Along with expanding juvenile detention facilities, including a local boarding school, and less use of electronic monitoring the opposite of what county executive chris abele supports. Abele and his staff meet with hamilton before tuesdays press conference. It is absolutely possible to reduce the level of incarceration and lower crime and for anyone whos wondering about that, you can look to the west at minnesota and many other states that have a lot lower compared to last year at this time, milwaukee has had fewer homicides and nonfatal shootings but those numbers are still high relative to recent years. Carjackings through july match the 2015 pace. As for how the public would pay for this, hamilton says theres no set price tag because theres no final plan. Other Officials Say itll just be a matter of priorities. I would venture to say a majority of the people would say Public Safety over streetcar. Lets start the conversation, and then lets take the evidence, lets take the data, and make adjustments based on what resources we have. Mayor barrett put out a statement this afternoon. It says the citys office of violence prevention will launch a planning process of its own next month. We asked if the mayor would be available to answer our questions about the Councils Report but were told the statement would be his only comment. Live outside city hall, a. J. Bayatpour, fox 6 news
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