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      <div class="field field-name-field-free-html field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A man just drove his truck into a ravine in Beaumont, Texas and CNN&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewGriffinCNN">@DrewGriffinCNN</a> rescued him on live TV <a href="https://t.co/WT4qnHgFqd">https://t.co/WT4qnHgFqd</a></p>&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/902881999341346816">August 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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