The World and Everything in It: October 21, 2025

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

Israel and Hamas say the ceasefire is still on after weekend strikes…but can they follow through with phase two of a peace deal?

TRUMP: They promised they would.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Also, an outage at Amazon Web Services reveals flaws in the global internet economy.

Plus… kid’s nursery decor is going colorless; why is that?

AUGUSTIN: That’s really a waste because color is one of the aspects of your environment that you can put to work for yourself.

And when lower courts ignore Supreme Court decisions…. commentary from WORLD Opinions contributor Daniel Suhr.

REICHARD: It’s Tuesday, October 21st. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

BROWN: And I’m Myrna Brown. Good morning!

REICHARD: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Gaza phase two / Israel latest » Vice President JD Vance is set to meet with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem today to push forward the next phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza.

The vice president told reporters this is going to be complicated.

VANCE: I mean, the, the best case scenario, meaning if this thing act absolutely produces that sustainable long-term piece that the president, and I hope that it will, there are gonna be fits and starts.

Vance’s visit comes a day after two of President Trump’s top envoys traveled to Israel to help shore up the ceasefire … after deadly weekend violence gave the fragile truce its first major test.

Spokeswoman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Shosh Bedrosian:

BEDROSIAN:  Terrorists carried out an attack of multiple shootings, including an RPG and arm fire in multiple positions killing two of our IDF soldiers.

Israel later said it resumed enforcing the ceasefire … and Hamas claims it is also dedicated to the truce.

Bedrosian also noted that Hamas has still yet to hand over the remains of more than a dozen deceased Israeli hostages.

The group, however, did turn over one more body on Monday … for a total of 13 since the ceasefire began.

Gaza man arrested » Federal prosecutors say a Gaza man accused of taking part in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel has been arrested in Louisiana. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher has more.

BENJAMIN EICHER: Investigators say 33-year-old Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub Al-Muhtadi joined Hamas fighters who stormed southern Israel in 20-23, attacking the community of Kibbutz Kfar Aza.

The FBI says his phone data placed him near the village during the assault.

Al-Muhtadi entered the U.S. about a year later after lying on his visa application and hiding ties to militant groups.

Federal agents tracked him down in Lafayette, Louisiana, where he was working at a restaurant.

Authorities say he’s now behind bars and could face charges including visa fraud and supporting a foreign terrorist organization.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

China trade » At the White House, President Trump voiced cautious optimism about reaching a trade deal with China. The president is set to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea later this month.

Trump told reporters that when his predecessors held office, Beijing took advantage of the United States:

TRUMP:  They would take hundreds of billions and even trillions of dollars out of the country and they would spend it and build their military. Now they're treating us with great respect. Now we'll see what happens. I said if we don't make a deal, I'm putting on an additional a hundred percent on November 1st. Uh, I think we'll make a deal.

Trump touted his good relationship with Xi Jinping and suggested a fair trade agreement is possible.

Trump’s tariff threat came after China unexpectedly tightened export controls on its rare-earth minerals. Some White House officials framed that as a heavy-handed power move on Beijing’s part.

Those minerals are critical for high-tech manufacturing, and China controls much of the world’s supply.

Albanese at White House, minerals deal » With that in mind, the president welcomed a key Western ally to Washington on Monday:

TRUMP:  Thank you very much. It's great to have the Prime Minister of Australia.

President Trump hosted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the White House where the two leaders signed a major agreement on rare-earth-minerals.

The deal secures a steady supply of Australian-mined rare earth minerals for American defense and commercial uses.

Albanese called it a strategically important deal:

ALBANESE:  Not just digging things up and exporting them, but how do we make sure that we have across the supply chains, uh, with our friends being able to benefit, seize those opportunities.

It marks a limited but meaningful step toward reducing dependence on China.

Trump and Albanese also discussed a range of other issues.

TRUMP:  We're here to talk about trade, uh, submarines. Lots of other military equipment. They're big orders of our great military equipment. We have the best equipment anywhere in the world by far.

They also discussed the AUKUS security pact, that is a security agreement between the US, the UK, and Australia.

Potential mass shooting halted at Atlanta Hartsfield » Authorities in Atlanta say a potential mass shooting was thwarted at the world’s busiest airport.

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens:

DICKENS: Lives could have been lost today because an individual came into Hartsfield-Jackson after being reported coming out of Cartersville, Georgia that had mental challenges.

Officials said 49-year-old Billy Joe Cagle had described his plan to carry out an attack at the airport during a social media livestream.

And Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum says the man's family notified Cartersville police, who relayed the information to his department.

SCHIERBAUM:  We have charged Mr. Cagle with account of terroristic threats, criminal attempt to commit aggravated assaults.

The suspect faces multiple other charges.

Police arrested Schierbaum Monday in the domestic flights terminal. Officers say they found a high-powered rifle and ammunition in Cagle's pickup truck

I'm Kent Covington. 

Straight ahead: the bumpy road to Middle East peace. Plus, how some courts are hesitant to overturn ordinances that limit religious freedom.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Tuesday, the 21st of October.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

Up first, clashes continue in Gaza.

After President Trump’s visit to Israel last week, members of Hamas fought with other militias in Gaza City.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump about it on Sunday. 

BARTIROMO: As soon as you left, Hamas executed seven people, and then they went on to execute 30 more. Do you believe they really will disarm?

TRUMP: Well, they promised they would. They said they would. It's down that they would. Now they said they were gang members, etc, etc. You know, but these are very violent people.

REICHARD: Meanwhile, Hamas fighters killed two members of Israel’s Defense Force and Israel responded with airstrikes. On Sunday, Israel announced the ceasefire was back in effect.

With surviving Israeli hostages now back home, what’s next for Hamas? 

BROWN: Joining us now to talk about it is retired U.S. Marine Colonel Darren Duke; he formerly served as an attache to Israel.

DARREN DUKE: Good morning, Mary.

REICHARD: Let’s talk a bit about the clashes in Gaza…who are these clans Hamas has been trading bullets with?

DUKE: So the social fabric of Gaza is made up of clans and tribes, like many Arab societies are, and so these are historic family networks and social networks that pre-exist the Hamas rule and have been in Gaza for generations. And they are perhaps seen as a parallel governance arrangement, were Hamas to disappear.

REICHARD: It sounds like there’s a few snags for completing Phase 1 of the peace plan. Can you tell us about them?

DUKE: Sure, so the first parts of phase one went relatively smoothly. Israel released 1950 Palestinian prisoners, some 200 or so who were serving life sentences for acts of terror inside Israel and against Israelis, and Hamas released the remaining living hostages. And then after that, there's been a trickle of the release of the bodies of the murdered hostages that remain inside Gaza. And this has been the first friction that the ceasefire has met.

The second has been obviously this outbreak of violence between the clans and Hamas as Hamas has brutally sought to reestablish control over Gaza and the areas that it enjoys a majority of the force in. And that also, within the last 24-48 hours, there's also been a resumption of hostilities between elements of Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces. It's unclear what level of centralized command and control Hamas leadership exercised over those elements, and that's been one of the issues under discussion. But the fact is, is that Hamas elements and Israeli military elements have resumed hostilities. That seems to have been restored, but those are all should be seen as warning lights on the dashboard of the ceasefire deal.

REICHARD: What do we know about those terrorists Israel released? Could that be a problem for the future? I recall the planners of October 7th were previously prisoners Israel released.

DUKE: This is always a topic of discussion in Israeli society about the merits of releasing those who are known terrorists and those who've been through the Israeli justice system. How is this justice if those who have murdered Israeli citizens and violated Israeli security are released?

The other side of the equation is a more perhaps pragmatic approach that says, in order to move things forward in the future, sometimes we have to make distasteful decisions and take distasteful actions. And releasing these terrorists is part of a pragmatic approach. And even those who would make that approach will say, if they return to violence in the future, Israel always has the option of targeting and either killing or re-arresting those terrorists in the future.

And so those are the two approaches as the Israelis look at that issue. Historically, the pragmatic side has won out in those decisions, that it's been seen as more worthwhile to get particularly living hostages back alive than to hold on to Palestinian prisoners who are guilty of crimes against Israelis.

REICHARD: Do you know, what does “phase two” call for? And based on this current trajectory that we're on, do you think that's feasible?

DUKE: Yeah, that's a great question. That's the question of the day. So it's very important to pay attention to all 20 points in President Trump's proposal, the specific points related to the withdrawal of Israeli forces is predicated on completion of the delivery of the hostage bodies back to Israel, and to the formation and deployment of an international stabilization force that will take over the territory that is presently held by Israel in Gaza. And the entrance of that force has preconditions itself. And the countries that are supposed to contribute forces to that stabilization force are watching to see if the conditions will emerge for that turnover. And right now, as long as there is violence going on, and the hostage bodies aren't returned, and Hamas is starting to signal that it refuses to disarm. And that's the key rub, right there. Then phase two is looking increasingly in doubt, and that is the issue.

Now, having said that we're talking about the ceasefire at the very tactical level, there's a strategic level to this whole phase two that needs to be kept in mind, and that is Israel's strategic considerations. About, for example, allowing Turkish forces, or Turkey, which is a competitor, at least, if not adversary at most, into adjacent territory to the State of Israel, which it has not enjoyed. And there are Israelis who look at that potential with great distress, because Turkey has been mentioned in terms of a guarantor of this emerging peace agreement. Well, guarantor status is the exact status that they were given in the mid 70s relating to Cyprus. And we see what happened in 74 and 75 when Turkey invaded Eastern Cyprus on the pretext of guarding Turkish residents. And so there are strategic factors about the countries that want to contribute and what their interests are, and those countries provoke varying levels of concern from the Israelis.

And so the ceasefire at phase two is looking increasingly in doubt, as long as those both strategic and tactical issues cannot be addressed effectively. And so this really is going to be a test for President Trump and his team as to whether or not the structural issues that are mitigating against a successful phase two can actually be overcome.

REICHARD: Final question here, Darren, I’ll put Maria Bartiromo’s question for President Trump to you. Do you think Hamas will actually agree to lay down their arms for good?

DUKE: I do not think that it is possible for Hamas to set aside the use of violence to achieve their ends. I think they have shown themselves committed to the use of violence as the means for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and they have never altered that course in their history. And so I think it is unlikely that they will abandon the use of force willingly.

REICHARD: Darren Duke is a retired U.S. Marine Colonel who served in the Middle East. Thanks so much!

DUKE: You’re welcome, Mary.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Up next, internet ripples.

Early yesterday, Amazon Web Services—or AWS—reported it had a problem…

MONTAGE: CNN: A massive outage. It's hit hundreds of popular websites and apps. Maybe you noticed this morning.

NDTV: And it's having a global meltdown.

REUTERS: Disrupting businesses and some of the world's most popular apps, including Snapchat and Reddit.

FOX13 SEATTLE: Including remote working devices, Roblox, Robin Hood, and Coinbase.

BBC: And some banks including Halifax, Lloyds, and the Bank of Scotland.

CNBC: It's also reflective of how large a share Amazon Web Services has and how many things it does power.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Amazon said it identified the problem and worked quickly to fix it, but questions remain. Is the outage a blip…or the symptom of a larger problem? WORLD’s Paul Butler has more.

PAUL BUTLER: Millions of people around the world yesterday encountered at least one app or cloud-based service that didn’t work properly, from online shopping to sharing photos on social media. Amazon.com featured cute pictures of dogs and cats, saying they were sorry for the interruption. Other sites just wouldn’t load. What they all had in common is what’s under the hood: Amazon Web Services.

AWS provides on-demand and scalable computing power, data storage, and other digital publishing and management services. The company is the largest cloud provider in the world. So what happened?

MONTGOMERY: I think enough reports are coming out that lead me to believe it's not a foreign adversary.

Retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery is a cybersecurity expert and Senior Fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

It appears that Amazon initiated a technical update that included an incorrect Domain Name System—or DNS. That’s a directory which translates human-friendly domain names—like wng.org—into numerical IP addresses. Computers use those numeric IDs to communicate with each other—sort of like a phonebook for the internet.

Monday’s error started a cascade of problems for AWS, particularly for the US-EAST-1 Region.

MONTGOMERY: There's a handful of locations around the United States, around the world through which most data flows through. Northern Virginia is a more famous one, probably the most dense, data flow area in the world.

The Virginia site previously suffered outages in 2020 and 2021. The problem this time appears to stem from an internal system that helps balance massive computing loads across the AWS network.

MONTGOMERY: We want Amazon to have systems that monitor efficiency, effectiveness, productivity. That's what you're paying for.

Montgomery compares the system to how traffic lights work.

MONTGOMERY: It ensures that if your light’s green, my light’s red, so that I don't proceed into this.

But if the signals glitch and get out of sync, accidents happen.

MONTGOMERY: The good news is no one was in an intersection getting hit by a car. The bad news is some companies lost, probably lost profits today.

Montgomery says this problem is similar to one last summer, when cybersecurity company CrowdStrike launched a faulty update.

MONTGOMERY: If you think back to CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike cost into the hundreds of millions of dollars with just one customer: Delta.

Montgomery suspects the costs this time will also mount quickly.

MONTGOMERY: It would not be unrealistic to expect that a company as large as AWS, with this long a period of disrupted services could end up in the billions of dollars.

Rating the seriousness of this outage on a scale of one to ten, Montgomery rates this one a seven.

MONTGOMERY: Because it's a lot of money, but it's a “1”, if I think long, long term, where this reminds us that we have to be more secure, more careful, more redundant in our development of systems.

Monday’s outage is a reminder that today’s cloud-based, interconnected global internet economy can be vulnerable. But Montgomery says now is not the time to over-react:

MONTGOMERY: This beautiful integration of networks and data and systems that the United States has undergone over the last 40 years has made us money and that, to me, is the driver. And the driver here is, is that you figure out why it went wrong, you try to make sure it doesn't happen again, and you move forward.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Paul Butler…with additional reporting from Harrison Watters.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Some families leave words of wisdom on the gravestone of a loved one. Others leave dessert.

GRANT: …and they thought, well, why not put her recipe on her gravestone. And it’s such a beautiful marker and memorial to this woman who loved baking.

Rosie Grant is an archivist and self-described taphophile— someone drawn to cemeteries and their stories….heard there on the podcast End of Life University.

Grant documents culinary headstones, from spritz cookies to tea biscuits. And she makes every one of those recipes, even the apricot ice cream:

GRANT: Thank you for giving me this moment. (laughs) It felt like she was giving me that gift… a shared meal with the person…. even if the memory of a person felt very important.

Recipes carved in stone, a sweet slice of women’s history.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Tuesday, October 21st.

Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: A design trend you may have noticed in the baby aisle at Target or on your social media feeds, .especially if you're a new mom.

BROWN: Forget the bright reds and yellows that once filled baby nurseries. Today’s kid gear looks more like a minimalist living room. Online ads and media influencer posts awash in shades of beige.

So what’s behind the muted trend? Here’s WORLD’s Kristen Flavin. 

SOUND: [Camera clicking, baby noises]

KRISTEN FLAVIN: Andria Fontenot crouches to photograph a smiling 15-month-old girl gripping the railing of her crib.

SOUND: [Camera clicking, baby noises]

Fontenot has been a photographer for 20 years and specializes in newborns. She’s seen a big shift in what parents want.

FONTENOT When I first started with newborns, there were a lot of props and a lot of themes. People are definitely leaning towards the more muted style. I did keep some of my props that have more colors in them, like some of my blankets and swaddles, but I haven't been bringing those out as much…

WORLD feature reporter Addie Offereins joined Fontenot at today’s photoshoot in Lynchburg, Virginia. She said this nursery isn’t all beige, but it reflects the trend: a preference for soft colors, simple decor, natural fabrics.

Fonenot wonders if photographers themselves could be driving the look.

FONTENOT: They end up influencing the trends, because they're like, honing in on, like, one aesthetic. But I think too, like, parents these days are being more mindful about, like, what's in what's in the environment, and, like, choosing to go the more organic and safer route with what they're putting on their baby and what they're putting in the environment.

Photographer Liz Cook agrees. She believes a growing interest in health and wellness could be playing into the preference for fewer dyes and plastics. She also wonders if our increasingly visual world is playing a role.

COOK: People are just photographing every part of their lives. I have actually seen hospitals renovating the birth areas to make it more aesthetic, to draw in mothers because they want to bring in birth photographers. And so I think a lot of what we're seeing is also just aesthetic, and it's just easy on the eyes.

Critics of what has been dubbed the “sad beige” trend argue it’s stripping color and life from spaces that should be filled with bright patterns and a little bit of chaos.

The trend has inspired some influencers to parody the trend in videos on TikTok and Instagram—like this one making fun of an online website for children’s clothing:

AUDIO: I call this the gingham shroud of seasonal depression, perfect for staying into the abyss and pondering your own mortality.

And it has some pediatricians and psychologists uncomfortable as well. Their concern: Are children missing out on essential stimulation?

Babies are initially drawn to high contrast colors and patterns. Like black and white stripes and shapes. By three to four months, babies start responding to primary colors.

AUDIO: Yellow….When yellow sneaks into my day I race outside to jump and play.

The classic Baby Einstein videos feature a succession of primary colored shapes, puppets, and images from nature.

Trendy American mothers obsessed with beige may limit this stimulation at home. Many experts say it won’t harm babies in the long run. They say it’s hard to escape color in the world and even ceiling fans can provide babies with interesting contrast.

But applied environmental psychologist Sally Augustin doesn’t like the trend and she’s been keeping an eye on the rise of beige.

AUGUSTIN: People have a tendency to think that, you know, the absence of color is the fallback that they should use. I think that's really a waste, because color is one of the aspects of your environment that you can put to work for yourself. When you don't add color to your children's rooms, you miss the opportunity to use a tool that can help them experience life

She said that doesn’t mean parents have to reach for super bright colors that might clash with the rest of the home or stress them out.

AUGUSTIN: Colors that are less saturated and light, you know, say very light, smoky blue or very light, you know, very, very light, Sage green. Well, those colors are relaxing to look at, and, you know, they're great for children's rooms, for the walls and things like that. For the parents’ state if nothing else.

Trends in the material objects we associate with babies and children usually reveal something about American society as a whole.

DANIEL COOK: The children's clothing industry really sort of took off as an industry, you know, in the mid 1910s right just before World War 1.

Daniel Cook is a professor of childhood studies at Rutgers University. He believes it's important to keep a historical perspective in mind.

DANIEL COOK: In terms of colors, they stayed rather muted, generally for children's clothes, particularly because of the the lingering sense all the way into the 20s and 30s, and, you know, probably up to post post World War 2 that there would be too much attention placed on the child themselves, that they would become a little too self absorbed.

Cook noted that the market for brightly colored children’s toys and clothing really took off during the 1970 and 80s especially once the idea of the teenager entered American culture.

DANIEL COOK: A concern that children are growing up too fast, too soon. Sometimes it was the media, because it was starting to be all different kinds of TV shows. Part of the reaction to that was a whole segment that sort of made these sort of incredibly primary color-ish kind of child clothing….

Today, soft colors seem to be more about aesthetics and the influence of what parents see online.

Back in the nursery, Andria Fontenot is wrapping up her photoshoot.

SOUND: [Photoshoot]

Design trends aside, Fontenot said that part of her goal is to remind moms to find beauty in the small moments of the newborn stage, regardless of the color and chaos of their surroundings.

FONTENOT: My favorite thing is just being able to, like, capture that and document that love that you have for your family, and it's just really special.

For WORLD, with reporting from Addie Offereins, I’m Kristen Flavin.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Tuesday, October 21st. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

Supreme Court decisions often take time to settle into the lower courts, especially when rulings touch on political and cultural issues. Here’s WORLD Opinions contributor Daniel Suhr on one of those cases. 

DANIEL SUHR: Louisville, Kentucky is known for its race for the roses each year at Churchill Downs. But flowers of a different kind are currently getting greater attention. A local ordinance mandates that wedding service providers show up even if they have a religious objection to participating in the event.

The attorneys at the Alliance Defending Freedom sued to put a stop to that sort of coercion of conscience in 2023…when they won a nationwide victory with 303 Creative v. Elenis at the U.S. Supreme Court. But apparently that’s not good enough for the City of Louisville. It asked a federal district court to dismiss a lawsuit by a wedding photographer after the plaintiff moved out of state.

In a comprehensive ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Beaton rejected the city’s request and awarded nominal damages to the photographer. Beaton is a rising star in conservative legal circles nationally. He reminded Louisville that he had ruled in 2022 that the so-called “SOGI” ordinance barring discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity was unconstitutional, a ruling confirmed by the Supreme Court.

Judge Beaton explained that though the plaintiff had moved to Florida, she still maintained her business as a Kentucky company, advertised in Kentucky, and had client relationships in Kentucky leading to potential future business there. In other words, she faced a legitimate prospect of the ordinance’s enforcement against her in the future.

What’s most frustrating in the whole affair is Louisville’s inability to accept the reality that its ordinance is unconstitutional as applied to wedding service providers. Judge Beaton’s opinion notes that—in his words—“now, as then, Louisville maintains that the First Amendment allows it to enforce its law and continues to litigate vigorously against Nelson’s website and photography.” The ordinance “remains on the books,” and any aggrieved citizen can file a complaint under it, starting the machinery of the city’s “human rights” apparatchiks against them. Rather than just taking the loss and moving on, the city seems to have doubled down.

The case reflects deeper problems that remain to be resolved in the wake of 303 Creative. It is a fantastic achievement to protect Christians in the wedding services industry from being forced to celebrate same-sex marriages. However, SOGI laws remain a cudgel used against Christians in other industries and contexts, especially at a time when “gender identity” is a cultural hot button. For example, a SOGI ordinance still could be used to compel businesses to comply with the city’s rules on transgender bathrooms or transgender athletes.

It’s also frustrating to see that other artists have abandoned Christians in their defense of free speech for artistic expression. Last week, a group of over 500 artists, actors, and musicians led by Jane Fonda launched the Committee for the First Amendment to “stand together in defense of our constitutional rights.” Though the Hollywood elite are enthusiastic to show up in defense of late night host Jimmy Kimmel’s misconduct, they are nowhere to be found when it comes to protecting other artists who would be driven out of business by laws like Louisville’s SOGI ordinance.

Finally, Louisville’s recalcitrant attitude is reminiscent of too many U.S. district court judges who are using any tool available to avoid the clear import of U.S. Supreme Court precedent. While Judge Beaton is actually honoring and applying what the Supreme Court has said, many of his colleagues are damaging the rule of law by refusing to apply precedents they don’t like. Similarly, many litigants and attorneys like Louisville cannot acknowledge and accept certain Supreme Court rulings, and so the city tried every procedural maneuver to weasel out of the injunction.

It’s fair game to criticize, challenge, and seek to overturn bad court decisions, but it’s damaging to the rule of law when government officials try to undermine and evade those decisions while they are on the books.

I’m Daniel Suhr. 

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Tomorrow: the shutdown, a bail out for Argentina, and another protest…there’s a lot to talk about on Washington Wednesday with Hunter Baker. And, a medical scare turned one mom into an advocate for AEDs, Automated External Defibrillators. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Mary Reichard.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

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