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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Welcome to the Daily OS. It's Friday, the

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Speaker 1: ninth of July. Joining me is Zara Sidelove for another

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Speaker 1: Friday roundup of news both here and overseas. Zara, what's

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Speaker 1: making headlines today?

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Speaker 2: As always, we have a New South Wales COVID update.

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Speaker 2: There is an update on what the federal government is

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Speaker 2: doing to help Sydney siders, some good news about housing

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Speaker 2: in Scotland, and a chat about the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: There's definitely been a shift in public sentiment and in

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Speaker 1: tone around this New South Waless COVID outbreak. After thirty

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Speaker 1: eight new locally acquired cases were recorded yesterday. Twenty six

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Speaker 1: of these are linked to a known cluster. Now, this

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Speaker 1: figure represented the highest daily increase in cases New South

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Speaker 1: Wales has recorded in over a year, and eleven of

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Speaker 1: the new cases had been infectious for a number of days.

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Speaker 1: While in the community, of concern to authorities is the

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Speaker 1: fact that forty people are in hospital with COVID, including

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Speaker 1: eleven in intensive care.

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Speaker 2: Reflecting on the growing situation in New South Wales, Prome

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Speaker 2: Minister is Scott Morrison yesterday announced that the liquid asset

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Speaker 2: test and Sam, do you want to just explain what that.

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Speaker 1: Means, it's basically how much money is in your bank account,

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Speaker 1: how much money you can access really quickly.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so that test will be waived for the COVID

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Speaker 2: nineteen temporary disaster payment for the third week of the

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Speaker 2: New South Wales lockdown. So prior to this announcement, in

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Speaker 2: order to access that payment, you had to have less

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Speaker 2: than ten thousand dollars either in cash and shares, whatever

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Speaker 2: it might be. But Morison said yesterday that it doesn't

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Speaker 2: matter what funds you have available to you in your

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Speaker 2: bank account or that you can readily convert to cash,

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Speaker 2: so more people will be eligible to access this payment.

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Speaker 1: In the press conference yesterday, when Morrison was outlining these

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Speaker 1: economic changes, he also commented on what needs to happen

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Speaker 1: in Sydney for the situation to improve.

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Speaker 3: To my fellow Sydney ciders, in particular is compliance with

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Speaker 3: the orders that have been put in place by the

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Speaker 3: New South Wales government. Could not be more critical, in

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Speaker 3: particular having issues with compliance when it comes to casual

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Speaker 3: contact between households.

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Speaker 1: Leon Charles, who's the director of Haiti's National Police, announced

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Speaker 1: yesterday that four suspects have been killed and two others

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Speaker 1: arrested following the assassination of President Jovenell Moyz. Charles said

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Speaker 1: we are pursuing them so that in a gunfight they

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Speaker 1: meet their fate, or in gunfight they die, or we

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Speaker 1: apprehend them a few options there. Charles also said that

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Speaker 1: three police officers had been held hostage, but that authorities

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Speaker 1: managed to free them.

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Speaker 2: Onto some larder news for your Friday and plans for

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Speaker 2: Scotland's largest net zero housing development in Edinburgh has been

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Speaker 2: granted approval by planners. It'll include four hundred and forty

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Speaker 2: four flats that are a mix of one, two and

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Speaker 2: three betters. The homes will be built with improved insulation,

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Speaker 2: low carbon heating and renewable technology. The Council has set

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Speaker 2: a target of twenty thirty to achieve net zero carbon

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Speaker 2: in Edinburgh.

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Speaker 1: So after we learned on Wednesday night that Paddy Mills

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Speaker 1: and Kate Campbell are going to be Australia's flag bearers

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Speaker 1: for the upcoming Olympic Games, it really is starting to

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Speaker 1: feel like Olympic season. But there are some big developments

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Speaker 1: in the last twenty four hours that we think it's

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Speaker 1: worth catching you up on. That is casting a massive

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Speaker 1: shadow over the games. Late yesterday, Japan's government revealed they're

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Speaker 1: set to declare a state of emergency for the city

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Speaker 1: of Tokyo due to a COVID nineteen spike.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so when we're talking about a spike here, how

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Speaker 2: many numbers is Tokyo recording? In twenty four hours?

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Speaker 1: Nine hundred and twenty new COVID cases were recorded in

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Speaker 1: Tokyo on Wednesday. That's the latest starter we've got.

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Speaker 2: And has that been an incremental rise or is that

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Speaker 2: a pretty stark difference to what we've seen in the

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Speaker 2: weeks beforehand.

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Speaker 1: It has creeped up over the last seven to ten days,

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Speaker 1: So the nine hundred and twenty hasn't come out of nowhere,

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Speaker 1: but it is a steady enough in is to really

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Speaker 1: make authorities concerned. Additionally, it's worth noting that COVID is

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Speaker 1: firmly now in the Olympic village. We have two Olympians,

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Speaker 1: a coach, and two Olympic staff members testing positive for

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. We don't know whether they brought the virus

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Speaker 1: in with them or whether they caught it on the

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Speaker 1: ground in Tokyo. Strictly speaking, athletes and staff are meant

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Speaker 1: to be staying within this Olympic bubble when they get

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Speaker 1: on the ground. But it's pretty safe to assume that

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Speaker 1: it's not one hundred percent compliance.

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Speaker 2: When you talk about this state of emergency, what material

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Speaker 2: impact will that have on the Games? I mean they're

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Speaker 2: set to begin in a number of weeks, So what

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Speaker 2: can we expect from a state of emergency and an

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Speaker 2: Olympic Games being held at the same time.

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Speaker 1: The most obvious difference to us watching on our couches

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Speaker 1: on TV is going to be the fact that there's

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Speaker 1: either going to be very few people in the crowd,

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Speaker 1: or if things keep getting worse, no crowds at all.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a remarkable scene to see people

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Speaker 1: winning gold in the pool are on the track in

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Speaker 1: front of an empty stadium. At the moment, the limit

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Speaker 1: is ten thousand Japanese fans. Fans from other countries up

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Speaker 1: banned from attending the Olympics, but crowds can't exceed fifty

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Speaker 1: percent of venue's capacity, So if the venue can only

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Speaker 1: hold two thousand, then a cap has to be set

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Speaker 1: at one thousand. This cap can go lower before fans

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Speaker 1: are totally removed from the stadium. When the fans are there,

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Speaker 1: they can't cheer or sing, and they must wear masks

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Speaker 1: at all times. For the Olympics and for the actual

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Speaker 1: athletes and staff, it's all going to be about testing.

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Speaker 1: So testing is now going to be every single day

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Speaker 1: and before departure one thousand no and before departure and

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Speaker 1: on arrival for Japanese citizens. It's going to take a

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Speaker 1: lot of the fun out of hosting the games. For example,

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Speaker 1: the torturial ages got canceled.

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Speaker 2: But from all accounts, the general sentiment among the Japanese

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Speaker 2: population is that they do not want the Games to

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Speaker 2: go ahead. What do we know from early polling in Japan.

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Speaker 1: So there's been a number of polls run by Japanese

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Speaker 1: newspapers in the last few months and the results sit

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Speaker 1: between sixty and eighty percent of respondents who don't want

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Speaker 1: the Games to go ahead, purely because of the health

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Speaker 1: risks that are facing the Japanese people.

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Speaker 2: So if there's this general sentiment that the Japanese population

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Speaker 2: doesn't want the Games to go ahead as a state

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Speaker 2: of emergency being established, why are the Games going ahead.

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Speaker 1: There's two really important bodies to think about here. There's

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Speaker 1: the IOC, which is the International Olympic Committee. The spokesperson

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Speaker 1: for the IOC throughout this whole planning phase of the

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Speaker 1: Tokyo Olympics has been an Australian who's the vice president.

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Speaker 1: His name is John Coates. He was the former president

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Speaker 1: of the Australian Olympic Committee. Here's what he had to

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Speaker 1: say about how he sees the role of the IOC

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Speaker 4: We just have to make sure that we get on

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Speaker 4: with our job, and our job is to ensure these

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Speaker 4: games are safe for all the participants and all of

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Speaker 4: the people of Japan who might come into contact with

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Speaker 4: the participants.

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Speaker 1: When THEO select a city to be the host city,

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Speaker 1: the host city ends into the strictest contract you've ever seen,

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Speaker 1: and basically that contract hands over all the rights to

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Speaker 1: cancel or postpone the games to the IOC. So it's

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Speaker 1: up to the IOC to cancel it, not Tokyo's health

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Speaker 1: authorities or any sort of officials on the grounds.

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Speaker 2: So does that mean that last year, when the Games

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Speaker 2: were meant to take place, the IOC postponed those games.

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Speaker 1: That was a pure IOC decision. Obviously, they listened to

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Speaker 1: the host city and the representatives on the ground for

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Speaker 1: their input, but at the end of the day, the

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Speaker 1: IOC has one really important factor driving their decision making,

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Speaker 1: and that is money. It's revenue. The TV rights for

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Speaker 1: Only America for NBC is worth four point thirty eight

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Speaker 1: billion US dollars to the IOC. That is a big

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Speaker 1: payday that only comes around once every four years. And

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Speaker 1: because of this huge payday, it seems really likely that

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Speaker 1: as long as there are still athletes in Tokyo, and

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Speaker 1: as long as there's something to put on TV, then

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Speaker 1: the games will push ahead, regardless of if there's empty

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Speaker 1: stadiums or no fans in the country.

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Speaker 2: We'd love to hear your thoughts about whether or not

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Speaker 2: you think the games should go ahead, because here at

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Speaker 2: TDA headquarters we are divided on it. So slide into

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Speaker 2: our DMS and let us know. But as always, thank

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Speaker 2: you for tuning in for another week of the Daily OS.

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Speaker 2: We love bringing you the news every day and we

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Speaker 2: hope that you stay safe this weekend. We will chat

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Speaker 2: to you again early on Monday morning. See Yeah,