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I'm Hugh Hewitt in Relief Factor Studio East inside the Beltway.

It's cold and boy, did we have, we had win last night that I actually kind of almost thought

may have to go to the basement.

Didn't quite sound like a train.

That's what we were trained in Ohio all those years.

If it sounds like a train, go to the basement.

It wasn't quite like a train, but there are trees down all over the place. Nobody that I know

was injured, so that's good news. A lot of people got injured, baddies, bad guys in Iran,

actually got killed yesterday. I'm reading from Iran International English right now.

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