question: Melissa Lee was born in a region on Long Island, New York, that had what population at the 2010 census?
answer: 9,989
context: Title: Long Island Association
  Passage: The Long Island Association (LIA) is the leading business organization in the Long Island region.  The LIA's members are small and large businesses, technology and manufacturing companies, universities, financial service firms, banks, credit unions, hospitals, media companies and sole proprietors, which together employ two thirds of Long Island's workforce.The LIA is the largest and oldest group within the business lobby of Long Island, New York.  Four archived "New York Times" stories from the 1920s preserve the LIA’s rhapsodic early efforts to promote business relocation from New York City.  The LIA website’s history section states: Incorporated on July 26, 1926 as the Long Island Chamber of Commerce, the LIA still today takes its mission very seriously: "To support growth, economic development and infrastructure investments on Long Island and to advocate for tax reforms and regulatory relief to improve the local economy and strengthen our business community."  The LIA’s own headquarters remained in Manhattan until 1949.  It is now based in Melville.
  Title: Great Neck, New York
  Passage: Great Neck is a region on Long Island, New York, that covers a peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, which includes the villages of Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza, and others, as well as an area south of the peninsula near Lake Success and the border territory of Queens.  The incorporated village of Great Neck had a population of 9,989 at the 2010 census, while the larger Great Neck area comprises a residential community of some 40,000 people in nine villages and hamlets in the town of North Hempstead, of which Great Neck is the northwestern quadrant.  Great Neck has five ZIP Codes (11020–11024), and one school district.
  Title: Long Island AVA
  Passage: The Long Island AVA is an American Viticultural Area encompassing Nassau and Suffolk counties of New York, including the smaller offshore islands in those counties.  The AVA was established in 2001, over 15 years after two smaller AVAs were created at the eastern end of Long Island.  The Long Island AVA designation was promoted as a benefit for some wineries located just outside the two smaller AVAs and for wineries that wanted to create wines that use blends from vineyards in different parts of the island.  It was also developed and promoted as a consumer protection of the Long Island name; AVAs require that a minimum of 85% of the fruit used in the designated wine is grown within the borders of the region.  The "Long Island" AVA was authored by veteran Long Island winemaker Richard Olsen-Harbich who also authored the "The Hamptons, Long Island" and "North Fork of Long Island" AVAs in the mid-1980s.
  Title: DigNet
  Passage: DigNet of New York City & Long Island, formerly known as the New York City & Long Island One Call Center, is a non-profit organization that acts as a communications link between utility companies and individuals planning any mechanized digging activity in the five boroughs of New York City and Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island.  By law, excavators and contractors working in the five boroughs of New York City and Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island must contact DigNet, 1-800-272-4480 or 811, at least 48 hours but no more than 10 working days (excluding weekends and legal holidays) prior to beginning any mechanized digging or excavation work to ensure underground lines are marked.  Excavators and contractors can also submit locate requests online, through [ITIC].  DigNet will then relay the notice of proposed excavation work to its member companies that own and operate underground facilities, including the vital utilities used to power neighborhoods and communities throughout New York City and Long Island.  Representatives from these member companies will then come out and mark their lines, free of charge.
  Title: Jericho, New York
  Passage: Jericho is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island.  As of the United States 2010 Census, the CDP population was 13,567.  The area is served by the Jericho Union Free School District and the Syosset Central School District, the boundaries of which differ somewhat from those of the hamlet.  The boundaries of the Jericho Post Office vary from both the hamlet and the school district boundaries, notably the inclusion of a portion of Jericho in the Westbury zip code, and the inclusion of a portion of Syosset in the Jericho zip code.  Also, Jericho is located approximately 29 miles (47 km) east of Midtown Manhattan.  Direct service is available by driving west on the Long Island Expressway or one can take the Long Island Rail Road from nearby Hicksville or Syosset train station.
  Title: Outer barrier
  Passage: The outer barrier, also known as the Long Island and New York City barrier islands, refers to the string of barrier islands that divide the lagoons south of Long Island, New York from the Atlantic Ocean.  These islands include Coney Island, Long Beach Barrier Island, Island Park, Jones Beach Island, Fire Island and Westhampton Island.  The outer barrier extends 75 mi along the South Shore of Long Island, from Rockaway Beach on the New York City/Nassau County border from Long Beach Barrier Islands' western edge, to Suffolk County's east end of Shinnecock Bay.
  Title: Oak Beach–Captree, New York
  Passage: Oak Beach–Captree is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Babylon in Suffolk County, New York, United States.  The population was 286 at the 2010 census.  Prior to the 2010 census the area was part of a larger CDP called Gilgo-Oak Beach-Captree, New York.  The Oak Beach–Captree CDP consists of some small beach communities on the barrier island along the southern edge of Long Island, including Oak Beach, Oak Island, and Captree Island.
  Title: Melissa Lee (journalist)
  Passage: Melissa Lee (born November 4, 1974 in Great Neck, New York) is a reporter and news anchor for CNBC.  Since January 2009, she has occasionally hosted "Closing Bell" when the anchor is unavailable.  She has also hosted "Options Action", and is now the host of CNBC's 5pm ET daily show "Fast Money" and "".
  Title: North Fork of Long Island AVA
  Passage: The North Fork of Long Island AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in eastern Suffolk County, New York.  Authored by winemaker Richard Olsen-Harbich in 1985, it includes the entire North Fork of Long Island and the townships of Riverhead, Shelter Island, and Southold.  The North Fork of Long Island is home to 38 wineries and 3000 acre of planted vineyards.  The local climate is heavily influenced by the presence of Long Island Sound, Peconic Bay, and the Atlantic Ocean.  The maritime influences of these bodies of water help to moderate temperature fluctuations and extend the growing season up to a month longer than other regions in New York.  The most planted grape varieties in the region are Merlot, Chardonnay, and Cabernet Franc.  The hardiness zone is 7a.
  Title: Spinney Hills, East Quogue
  Passage: Spinney Hills is in East Quogue, New York on the eastern end of the Long Island Central Pine Barrens region.  It is often used as a hiking, hunting, and off-roading area for dirt bikers, quadders, paintballers, and four-wheelers that includes miles of trails with near beach sand consistency.  Spinney hills gets its name because of Spinney Road, which used to connect the East Quogue side of the hills to Sears Bellows County Park and Flanders (home of the Big Duck) to the north prior to the construction of the Sunrise Highway New York State Route 27.  This region was created by glacial deposits of rock and sand during the last ice age.  The sandy soil also absorbs most rainfall so there are few ponds or rivers in the area.  There is a shallow glacial well in Spinney Hills known as an aquifer, which is where most of the rainfall in the region is stored.  These hills are the continuation of a long east west ridge of hills known as the Ronkonkoma Moraine, which form the 'backbone' of Long Island.  Much of this region is undeveloped other than a sand mine to the west and Southampton Pines to the east.  There have been large scale legal battles between private real estate companies and the Town of Southampton over the future of the area, being it is one of the last expanses of wilderness left on Long Island.  There is a very large native population of white-tailed deer in the region due to lack of natural predators.  In the higher elevations small sections of the hills have an almost alpine-desert look, with sandy open plateaus and extremely dwarfed vegetation .  The Dwarf Pitch Pine which dominate the region grow not much taller than twenty feet in height due to dry, nutrient-poor soil.  There is a desert effect in the Pine Barrens, with relatively higher daytime temperatures and cooler nighttime temperatures than the coast, only a few miles away.  There are spectacular views of the Atlantic Ocean and Peconic Bay from certain peaks in this region if one knows where to hike.  The consistent ocean breeze at the higher elevations passing through the long brushy needles of the Dwarf Pitch Pines creates a gentle whisping sound, or white noise, adding a peaceful ambience to the big skies and expansiveness one feels in this region.
citations: Melissa Lee (journalist) Great Neck, New York