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New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. He's been with me in the No Kid Hungry Campaign, as well as working closely with Charity Water. Sydney Gressel : Yeah. They dropped in there.