civilians. i've been lost of words. really. every hour, every day it's getting worse. we know that the first days are the most important. >> it's okay. take your time. >> i want my family. if by any chance they're watching this, i want them to know that we love them and we're doing everything we can to get them. i want them to be strong. and we are strong. we want this to end in the best way possible. >> hours after we did that interview yifat sent us this picture that they just found online. it shows shiri, her cousin, shiri's husband yarden with blood on his head and his hands seemingly in captivity. this photo that they've seen now is the first proof of life the family has got nen more than three days since he went missing. but they don't know his whereabouts right now. cnn's coverage from israel continues. this is "the source." i'm kaitlan collins. tonight, americans are among those who have been taken hostage by hamas. a disturbing development that was confirmed by president biden today, who's about as angry as i've ever seen him since taking office. in a speech where he condemned the slaughter of at least 1,200 people in israel, a death toll that was just updated moments ago. president biden denouncing the attack by hamas as, quote, sickening, evil, saying terrorists terrorists butchered innocent people, and compared the rampage to the worst of isis. as he condemned the terrorism in israel, he also defended israel's absolute right, as he put it, to defend itself. >> this is an act of sheer evil. this is terrorism. we must be crystal clear. we stand with israel. israel has the right to respond, indeed has a duty to respond to these vicious attacks. i just got off the phone with my third call with prime minister netanyahu. i told him if the united states experienced what israel's experiencing our response would be decisive, swift and overwhelming. >> the president did not urge for israel to have any restraint in those remarks. he also pledged ongoing support from the u.s. i should note that after that the first plane that was carrying u.s. ammunition actually landed in israel tonight. secretary of state antony blinken will be flying there tomorrow. right now we know that 20 americans are unaccounted for tonight. but officials say it's unclear how many exactly are being held hostage. the families of at least four missing americans are pleading for help today in israel. they say that they're frustrated with the lack of information or even contact from officials both in the united states and in israel. we'll speak to a family member of one of those victims tonight, one of those who is missing tonight, i should say. but first, israel is not letting up when you look at what is happening on the ground. the idf striking more than 100 hamas targets again in gaza today. entire neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble. at least 900 people have been killed in the counteroffensive so far. hamas is also firing hundreds of rockets toward the southern israeli city of ashkelon earlier today. many of them were intercepted by israel's iron dome missile defense system. that is a system that the u.s. is promising to help keep funding tonight. and it's important to keep reminding the world of the horrors and the savagery of these attacks by hamas. my colleague nic robertson spoke to an israeli general about what he saw after arriving at a kibbutz in southern israel that had been terrorized by hamas. >> they come out with their children and they killed them. they killed babies in front of their parents and then killed the parents. they killed parents, and we found babies between the dogs and the family that killed before him. they cut the head of the people. i had during my childhood about the pogrom in europe and the holocaust of course. all my family came from europe, and they are survival, et cetera, et cetera. i never think that i would see in my eyes picture and things like this. >> i want to head straight to anderson cooper, who is live in ashdod, israel tonight. anderson, obviously unfortunately what is really coming into clear view today is just the size and the scope of the atrocities that have been committed. i mean, just even more clearer view, i guess, since saturday i should say. u.s. officials that we've been speaking with are openly getting choked up while talking about it. what have you been seeing on the ground? >> yeah, look, the early indication was 260 people or more killed, slaughtered at that music festival. that was a sign of things to come. that was a horrific loss of life at one single event with thousands of people who had been gathered, killed in just horrific, very personal face-to-face awful ways. a grenade being tossed into a bomb shelter. people being stabbed. all sorts of slaughter. but what we're also now seeing at kfar aza, that kibbutz also nir oz, another kibbutz, all these kibbutzes which are very close to the border, they were among the first places attacked as hamas breached the border at multiple locations. and i mean frankly the savagery that we have seen taking place in those from survivors' accounts and evidence on the ground as you just heard from that general, it's -- it really is coming now into focus. you have very personal killing of families, of people with their hands tied behind their backs. you know, in many of these kibbutz, in all of these kibbutz they're right on the border. they're used to rockets. they're used to the threat. they all have safe rooms in their houses. many people would escape -- tried to escape to the safe room. but many it happened so fast it was so early in the morning they were caught unaware. there's one account at the kibbutz where nic was of a family which put their two children in a cupboard and then the family was slaughtered. the children survived in the cupboard. they were rescued hours later when neighbors heard them screaming, were able to finally get to them. again, this is -- these stories are really now just emerging today. and it just -- it speaks to the brutality that people here experienced. it's really -- it's hard to imagine. and yet you hear the same thing over and over and over again from people at different locations. >> you hear them talk about these safe houses which are supposed to protect them from those incoming rockets, which are unfortunately part of everyday life, not terrorists coming into their communities. i mean, given that, though, it just makes the stories of those who were able to survive almost unbelievable. and i know you spoke with a man who had escaped from the nova music festival. he was crammed into a bunker with 50 other people. and what i couldn't get over when i was listening to you talk to him earlier is how he said he pictured jews who were killed in the holocaust while he was inside that bunker. >> yeah. this is a man his first name is rafael. he was at that music festival. he said he ended up in this shelter, small bomb shelter essentially they use to protect against rockets. it ended up with about he said 40 to 50 people crammed inside. and then the terrorists came and they tossed some sort of device inside. he said that the room filled up with smoke. he said gas. people were suffocating, he said. listen to some of what he told me. >> i just protected myself and after hours of that i just covered myself with dead people. a lot of dead people. so i stayed there inside like for hours, like just -- just waiting for die, you know. i just wanted to die in peace because i suffered so much. so much. the gas. i just -- in the middle of the gas i just remembered -- i don't know how it was, but now i know how was. i just started to think how was in the holocaust with the jews, like in 30 seconds you are dead and you don't have option. you cannot breathe. you cannot -- it's crazy. it's crazy. i passed through the hell. everybody was dead, with the bodies on the floor, not sitting. i was like covered with the people. i was like that. with the dead people. and on the top of them and without move because if i move i know then probably they're going to catch me. >> he said that six people got out of that bomb shelter. he has shrapnel wounds in his back. and -- yeah. it's incomprehensible. kaitlan, back to you. >> it's just hard to even hear him. someone so young and just as he was saying at this music festival. talk about how that ended for him and so many others. anderson, thank you. meanwhile, president biden confirming in a raw and angry speech today that 14 americans have been killed in this attack. his national security adviser says that 20 more are still missing tonight. the white house has been reaching out to those families of those who are unaccounted for as intelligence agencies are also working with their israeli counterparts to try to locate them. >> i've directed my team to share intelligence and deploy additional experts from across the united states government to consult with and advise israeli counterparts on hostage recovery efforts. because as president i have no higher priority than the safety of americans being held hostage around the world. >> one of those americans who is missing tonight is adrian neta. she's a 66-year-old who was born and raised in fresno, california. she moved to israel in 1981 and now lives in be'eri in southern israel near the gaza strip. her son nahar neta is joining me now. he was at that press conference earlier. thank you for being here on such a painful subject. have you heard any update on your mom tonight? >> no. the last update that we had with my mom is when the call got disconnected with her between my siblings and her, when the terrorists burst into her home. that was saturday morning around 9:45 a.m. >> so you and your siblings, you had been on the phone with her as hamas was in the community and then entered her home. what did you hear? what did you and your siblings hear on the other end of that call? >> so initially it was just bombardment. a lot of bombs. a lot of noises. and then my mom started to report that she's hearing a lot of shouting in arabic outside of her home. along with a lot of shooting. at this point we urged my mom to go into the safe house, safe room that she has in her house, which she did. and we stayed on the line. eventually, we heard the terrorists attack the house and barge into the safe house, safe room. there was a lot of screaming and shouting in arabic. and no shooting, though. and that's where the call got disconnected. and that's the last that we heard from my mom or any other information regarding her whereabouts. >> i heard you say earlier that she has seven grandkids. i bet she's a great grandmother. i know you said she's a nurse as well. what else can you tell me about what your mom is like? >> yeah. very special person. very people-loving. devoted her life to taking care of other people. as a nurse first in communities around the area and later on at the regional hospital in beersheva. a happy woman. very active. very sporty. retired about a year ago and really devoted her life to the grandkids and being very involved in their lives. in addition, she was volunteering at the small farm that takes care of youth that kind of got rejected from all other educational systems and was very much involved with those kids as well. yeah. came from california in the early '80s, started a family rooted in israel in the kibbutz where we live. >> what made her move to israel? i know you said you grew up in that kibbutz. what made your mom move there? >> yeah, so my mom just followed my dad. he's from over there. and they met in the u.s. and she fell in love with him and with the idea of the country of israel, and she came and joined him and started our family in the kibbutz. >> what kind of -- i mean, to hear about the atrocities that have happened in these communities where everyone i know -- it's not just a typical neighborhood where you kind of know your neighbors and say hey. i mean, they all work together for the good of the community. did you ever think that something like this could happen where your mom lives? >> no. not in my worst dreams. i mean, it hasn't been a calm part of the country for a while now. but usually it's about bombardment and missiles coming from the gaza strip. and the community learned to deal with that part. you go to the safe room. you close up and you're safe. as terrible as that may sound, we got used to that. and we learned how to flourish, how to thrive in this environment. but this ferocious and murderous attacks by hamas terrorists, killing women, children, and elderly in their beds in our kibbutz and in our community, we did not expect that. and yeah, it's not something that you can imagine in your worst dreams. >> nahar, you said something today that stunned me, which is that you have heard and had zero communication with the israeli government about your mom. it has now been over three days. is that still the case tonight, that you've heard nothing from them? >> yeah. i'm afraid to say that with the israeli government that that is still the case. we did submit all the information to the missing persons department, the people who are taking care of it. but we have not received any information back to date. we are in touch with the american embassy in tel aviv, who have reached out. has not provided any information. but we have reached out. along with state department that reached out to let us know that they're aware of the situation and are following it closely. but still did not provide any information regarding the whereabouts of my mother. >> well, we know secretary blinken will be there in the coming days. hopefully you will get a meeting with him as well, nahar. i mean, we are thinking of all of you and of course your mother tonight. thank you for coming on to share about her tonight. >> thank you very much. >> on the ground in israel as the response to this attack and what we've seen the prime minister pledging, tens of thousands of israeli forces are on the move. more than 300,000 reservists have been called up. israel says it is preparing for the next phase in this war. we'll be back on the ground in just a moment with anderson cooper for an update. and welcome back. we are in ashdod, israel tonight, about 19 or 20 miles or so from the border with gaza, which is in that direction. and even from this distance you can feel the impact of artillery shells landing inside gaza. we have seen a barrage of rockets coming out of gaza today as well in areas around ashkelon and elsewhere. but even from this distance all throughout there's this steady just pounding, booming. you can actually feel it from 20 miles away. cnn's matthew chance is on the ground now for us in tel aviv. matthew, let's talk about the next phase, what we may see here. obviously, the idf is not telegraphing what their intentions are, what their plans are. there has been a massive call-up of reservists. there have been large-scale movements of equipment, personnel as well. the big question of course, is there going to be a ground incursion into gaza? to really effect change, to try to get hostages. to try to decapitate the leadership of hamas or completely destroy their military capabilities. hard to see how an operation here does not involve some level of activity on the ground. >> yeah. and actually, i think that the israeli officials have made it pretty clear that a ground offensive is on the cards. although they're not being absolutely definite about when that's going to happen. you just look around. you see the fact that israel has -- first of all, is furious and is filled with horror and rage as we've been reporting, but has also mobilized, or called up 300,000 reservists. another 60,000 in the past 24 hours. it's deployed something like 35 battalions of its armed forces around the country in what looks like preparation for a land attack against gaza. and so yeah, they're not saying look, we're definitely going to do this right now. but all the signposts indicate that a ground offensive into gaza is the next step in this war. perhaps they're waiting for u.s. forces to build up off the coast of israel. there's already a carrier fleet there. there's another one potentially on its way as well to provide some sort of support perhaps in case there's a regional backlash against a ground offensive. and i think that might be what they're waiting for because other countries, hezbollah in lebanon, for instance, have said if there's a ground attack they would look at striking israel as well. it's a risky strategy, but politically for benjamin netanyahu and the israeli government here it looks like it's got a lot of support amongst the israeli public. >> yeah. it certainly does. matthew chance, thank you very much. our coverage continues from israel tonight. for more on what's coming up in israel's war to crush hamas, israeli ambassador to the u.s. is joining us next. from chrome to 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by the israeli government. >> that comment from the white house national security adviser came just a short time after president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke by phone for what has been several times in recent days. and joining me now is the israeli ambassador to the u.s. michael herzog. ambassador, thank you so much for being here tonight. you heard jake sullivan's comments today saying that they do not believe that israel is pursuing a siege in gaza. but of course the defense minister of israel said there is going to be a complete siege which includes cutting off power, food, water and fuel. how do you reconcile those two statements? >> so let me explain the situation. we are at war. this is the fourth day of the war. the war was waged on us, imposed on us by hamas. you've all seen the scenes of the massacre of civilians. the border right now between israel and gaza is closed. this is a war zone. and we are under no legal obligation to provide them with anything save for the basic humanitarian needs for their sustenance. and we comply with international law. let's talk about facts. talk about electricity. the ten electricity power lines delivering electricity from israel to gaza were destroyed by hamas rockets. i can go on and on. the passage between israel and gaza which serves humanitarian purposes was destroyed by them. so they cut their own humanitarian lifeline. they have a lifeline coming from egypt, the border with egypt. but everything we are doing, we are applying pressure on hamas, having waged war on israel, but we are and we are comply with international law. >> we are told there are between 100 and 150 hostages being held in gaza. yesterday you told wolf blitzer that there are not negotiations happening for their release. is that the case still tonight, sir? >> yes. we are still in the process of forming a picture about the number of hostages, their identities, their situation, their medical situation, who is alive, who's not alive unfortunately. and there are not only israelis there, also americans and others among them. we asked the international community to call on hamas to release them unconditionally because taking hostages is a war crime. and we are in close touch with the u.s. administration to get a better understanding of their situation. we're not talking about negotiations with hamas. we are currently at war with them. >> ambassador, do you believe that some of the hostages have been killed? >> we're not sure about their situation, so i want to be careful the way i respond to that. again, we're still forming our picture, trying to better understand their situation. >> there are victims' families, some of those who their relatives are missing tonight still and they say they haven't heard from the israeli government. is the government committed to reaching out to all of those who have family members who they still have questions about where they are? >> so first of all, we're still counting the bodies. we have over 1,000 bodies on the israeli side. as i said, massacred by hamas. and we haven't completed the process of identifying them. so we don't 100% know who is missing on the gaza side of the border. we are in touch with families and we're in the process of opening a call center where any family can call, provide information and get information from our authorities. and we also in touch with the relevant corresponding american authorities in this respect. >> ambassador, there are obviously civilians in gaza. you talked about what the israel response is going to be there. some of those who are still in gaza tonight include palestinian americans, people who are visiting. one of them is a mother of three young children. she spoke to jake tapper earlier, and this is what she said. >> today i was going trying to get out from gaza. i was going to rafah border. and while we're going there we tried multiple ways to get out of gaza going to rafah, to the south. we couldn't make it at all. >> obviously, ambassador, you can hear what sounds like rocket fire there in the background. my question is where are those who are either visiting gaza or who live in gaza, the civilians, the innocent civilians, not members of hamas, where are they supposed to go? >> so we're in touch with egyptian and u.s. authorities to facilitate the exit of foreigners from gaza, american citizens and others, and i believe we'll find a solution. i cannot relate to their freedom of movement inside gaza because gaza is a war zone, but we'll facilitate their exit. >> does that include the rafah crossing? >> yes. >> because i believe it was hit today. >> it's -- the rafah crossing is temporarily closed but i think there's a way of getting people out. and this is the only crossing that can get people out because -- >> right. >> -- the border with israel is totally closed. they're still fighting along this border. the crossing itself was destroyed by hamas. so the only way out is through the egyptian border. >> and ambassador, this is important. do you believe that egypt is going to allow them to cross, the gazans? >> i cannot speak on behalf of the egyptian government, but i'm confident that they will allow it. >> ambassador michael herzog, that's some news there. thank you very much for your time tonight. >> thank you very much. >> also, we have new video just in that shows the aftermath of the massacre at a music festival on saturday, where at least 260 bodies have been recovered. so many families tonight are still desperate for answers on their loved ones who were at that festival and never came home. wolf blitzer spoke to one of their families and joins us next. -- of terror from the music festival in israel where hamas militants murdered at least 260 people. as we're getting this new video in, the aftermath of the massacre, wolf blitzer spoke to two israeli brothers who are desperate to find out if their 22-year-old brother ori is still alive. >> -- in a vehicle. he had picked up two other people along the way. this is what his brothers told wolf. >> ori called again to our father, told him that he's surrounded by many terrorists that are shooting on them with machine guns, kalashnikov and hand grenades. he update my father that he must to take an action. he must to confront them because you don't want to stay like a duck on the road, you don't want to leave the car and hiding in the bushes. he stood up against them but they shoot the car. he lost control. and the car flipped twice and he lost his conscious. while the two girls in the car had minor injuries. the girls pretended to be dead. but after 20 minutes our brother started to regain his conscious. but the terrorists noticed it and in an act of pure evil i don't have any other word to describe it, they shoot him again in a scene that's taken from the holocaust period or something like that. >> and wolf blitzer joins us now. wolf, i mean, these brothers unfortunately, as we all know, who we've spoken with, they're not alone in what they're going through. so many people have lost loved ones, are still searching for them. it's hard to think that -- wolf, you and i were just there a year ago when president biden visited israel. how deeply do you believe and from what you've heard has this just shaken israel? >> i've been calling friends in israel every day since this war erupted saturday morning. and it clearly has shaken the israeli people. of all political stripes. they're so, so disappointed that the israeli intelligence community, the military failed to appreciate what hamas was up to and this horrible massacre has occurred, by all accounts 1,000 -- more than 1,000 israelis were killed in just one day by these hamas terrorists. it's something that the israelis didn't necessarily believe was in the cards. but it clearly happened. so it's really shaken the people of israel. and then when they see all the stories that have been reported in israel, being reported here, being reported all over the world, these human interest stories about these mothers who are missing their children, the children who are missing their mothers and grandparents, all these little kids who were killed and captured, it's just so heartbreaking to hear about all of this. and the people in israel clearly are shaken by this. >> wolf, many of our viewers know you're the son of holocaust survivors. we saw a holocaust survivor taken captive by hamas. this attack has -- some have called it israel's 9/11. can you talk about how different this feels from previous attacks in israel? >> well, there have been wars, full-scale wars in israel with egypt and with syria, and i've covered those wars. there have been a lot of terrorist incidents. but usually those terrorist incidents were a suicide bomber goes into a sbarro pizza place in jerusalem, blows himself up, but kills a whole bunch of israelis in the process. this is different. and i think it's really the first time we've seen these terrorists go into a kibbutz, for example, and just start killing everyone. little kids, adults, grandparents, just everyone. killing as many people as they possibly can. and that incident at that musical festival that was going on where the 250 people, young people, mostly young people who were just attending a music festival were killed brutally, this is a new development. i think it's unprecedented. if you speak to israeli experts, they'll tell you that as well. >> i mean, wolf, the anger, you could just hear it in president biden's voice earlier. covering him, i think it was the angriest i've ever heard him since he has taken office. and it certainly seemed to be -- and you obviously covered the white house, wolf, as well. one of the most forceful statements from a u.s. president in support of israel that we have ever seen. >> you're absolutely right. and i've covered a lot of these presidents and i've heard many presidents make very powerful, important statements about israel over these many years. i wrote a book on u.s.-israeli relations that came out in the 1980s called "between washington and jerusalem" that oxford university press published. and so i've studied this area. and i don't think i've heard an american president speak with the emotion and the pro-israel attitude as we heard today from president biden. he was extremely powerful, extremely sympathetic to the israelis. he said what the israelis wanted to hear. he promised that the u.s. would be there for israel no matter what. that's precisely what the israelis want. they don't want necessarily u.s. boots on the ground. israel has never really asked for that. they don't need it. but they need the u.s. for military support. and that's what the president is promising them. and that's what the israelis will get. >> yeah. and we saw some of that support arriving tonight. wolf blitzer in washington. anderson cooper in israel. thank you both. >> thanks. also tonight, of course there is a cliffhanger happening in congress as things are about to get very intense in that dome in the next 24 hours. it is truly anyone's guess tonight what is going to happen. how the speaker battle that is playing out in washington could affect military aid that wolf was just mentioning to israel. we'll speak to a lawmaker next. the house republican conference i should note is set to hold secret ballot elections soon as 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. but it is still not clear tonight here at 9:49 p.m. if either of them can get 217 votes, which would be needed. republican congressman mike lawler is here -- of new york is here and joins me now. congressman, first let's start on aid to israel because president biden is asking congress to take that urgent action. how does that happen given there is no house speaker tonight? >> well, this is precisely why kevin mccarthy never should have been removed as speaker to begin with. you had eight republicans and 208 democrats team up to remove a duly elected speaker. and look, events change at a moment's notice. if you're going to do something like this, you'd better have a plan. and i think that's part of the challenge here and the frustration and the anger among many of us who did not want to see this happen. obviously, we need to elect a speaker so that we can get back to the work of the american people. and aid to as soon as we can get the house floor open again. i think it is imperative, obviously, that we stand with our closest ally, in the middle east. a beacon of democracy, israel, and fight back against hamas, a terrorist organization, funded by iran, and backed by the -- in the ayatollah. and we need to hold them accountable. you have 14 americans killed, hundreds of israelis killed, women children be headed. it is shameful, it is disgusting, it is barbaric. and, we have members of congress, who can't even denounce it. rashida tlaib tonight, or walking through the capital, refused to comment on children being beheaded. this is what we are dealing with right now, in america. if you had the gsa, having a rally in support of the palestinians, and people holding swastikas in times square. it is shameful. i have hundreds of constituents, hundreds, who are stuck in israel right now, and cannot get home, because commercial airlines are not operating in israel. i have spoken to the, white house i have spoken to the state department. we need to get military airplanes into israel, to help evacuate citizens of the united states, who want to come home. >> and what has -- the congressman? >> and this is a perilous situation. frankly, the administration didn't really get on the issue of the airlines, until today, in my conversations. and i have been raising this issue for. today's >> so what did the administration, say when you talk about this idea? >> i mean, we have heard people in israel, who also are trying to get -- and having a lot of difficulty, either flying fly to anywhere, much less to the united states. what did the state department say the request? >> they said they are working on it. and i have to tell you, we need to work faster. you have thousands of americans, who are in israel right now. obviously, we have people were being held hostage. i think we can do everything in our power, to get those folks home safely. this is a very dangerous situation, for the first time in 50 years, israel has declared war, and justly. and, we need to do everything we can, both from a financial standpoint, from a military standpoint, and from a humanitarian standpoint. to support. israel >> and congressman, i should note that what we have heard from the administration, and we have been asking in these questions, obviously about these 14 americans, and again that have been killed, and obviously the 24 that jake sullivan said today were unaccounted for, in his briefing. but, let's talk about being able to pass the support to israel, which is what you have the capability of doing, if you get a house speaker. your party met behind closed doors tonight, to talk about who could be the next house speaker. was any consensus reached, of what happened in that meeting? >> well they both announced candidates, and made their case to the conference. a lot of people asked questions, or both of them gave direct answers to the conference. we're going to be meeting tomorrow, at ten a.m., following a classified briefing on the situation in israel. and they have a vote, and we will see if someone can get to 217 votes, within the conference. >> and who will you be supporting? >> i have not declared who i will be supporting. >> have you decided? >> not yet. i think at the end of the day, we need to obviously unify, we need to elect a speaker, and get back to governing. there are a lot of challenges facing the american people, from spending, and our southern border, to the crisis in israel. ukraine, and so on. so there are a lot of challenges, and we need to get back to the business of governing. and obviously, i am hopeful that we can unify, and elect a speaker so -- >> well, are you confident that that will happen tomorrow? >> we, look we are going to have a vote, and we will see where, where it falls. and then, we will take it from there. i am not going to put a timeframe on this, i think the reality is obviously, many folks are very frustrated by what happened last week, and ultimately, the conference is going have to come together behind a speaker. >> but just to be clear, it doesn't sound like there has been any consensus reach, as of tonight, is that what you are saying, congressman? >> well, we haven't had a vote. we have two candidates that are running, and so the vote will take place tomorrow, and we will see what comes out of that. i don't think anybody can say how that vote is going to land. >> okay, congressman mike lawler, we will be on capitol tomorrow, we will see what does happen in that secret election ballot tomorrow. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> up next, many israelis in america are rushing back to join the fight. israeli reserves, including this new yorker, we will tell you his story, right after this. 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