migrants in just four days with the coast guard. all of them with desperation in their eyes. for most, their search for a new life over at least for now. >> of the 80 migrants we saw, 29 cubans who were found on a u.s. territory were actually allowed to stay in the u.s. because of a longstanding policy that only applies to cubans. most migrants who are found at sea, regardless of their country of origin are usually sent back. cnn, miami beach. hello, again, i'm frederica whitfield, in less than 48 hours, americans head to the polls. the stage is set for a dramatic election night. republicans could become the majority party in the u.s. senate for the first time in nearly a decade.

they need just six seats to win a majority and three of those seats are considered sure wins. that leaves just three competitive races for the gop to win control of the u.s. senate. nbc's poll shows republicans making gains in three southern states. here's the picture in georgia, david purdue leading democrat michelle nun. in kentucky, senator mitch mcconnell is leading over alison will you understander -- lungeran griens. and in louisiana, senator mary landrieu and that's not enough for a run-off against bill cast sid did i. let's begin with you. early voting has been huge this campaign season. tens of millions of people have

already voted. is this good for democrats or republicans when it come to a u.s. senate? >> fred, republicans. here's why. democrats just have a slight edge overall. earlier in the week, republicans were actually head in some states, democrats have general pulled ahead. i want to talk about three key races. the first is iowa. democrats have a slight edge in early voting there but a new poll came out this morning from the des moines register showing the republican there, joni ernst with a 7 point lead over the democratic candidate. in colorado, republicans have an edge there and that is bad for democrats. then the last is in nok dynamic north carolina. democrats have a edge over

there. kay hagan and republican thom tillis. north carolina was one of last states called in 2008 and 2012 and that could be a real key for democrats to have any hope of keeping control of the senate. i would point out that cnn dana's bash has reported this weekend that mitch mcconnell has been briefing this week and the people briefing him saying he is likely to wake up as the new majority leader on wednesday, the day after the election. president obama has not campaigned in any of these tight senate race states. he's been campaigning for mostly gubernatorial candidates. he will have his seventh campaign rally at the end of today. his seventh rally overall this entire election psych. you see him there in connecticut campaigning for the governor who is in a much tighter race than expected with the election just two days away. >> thanks so much.

let's go to georgia now. the big focus there two very tight races, republicans have a 4 point lead in the race for u.s. senate according to a new poll and the race for governor is even closer. it sounds like politics was part of the sunday sermon at least in atlanta today. >> reporter: absolutely, fred. the big message here was voter outrage, be moelkization and while early voting ended friday, this church was instrumental in the souls to the polls to get people to early vote. bus loads took people to the polls last sunday. that mevling was -- message was delivered last sunday by the pastor. most analysts have nathan deal pulling away at this point, there are some others that show jason carter is gaining momentum. all eyes are on the senate race.

michelle nunn who is a democrat is fighting her way trying to get a voict here for the democrats. the implications are far beyond georgia. they implicate of what's going to happen in the washington over the next two years for president obama's administration. this senate seat up for grabs right now and michelle nunn victory over the republicans david purdue could mean that the senate stays in the hands of the democrats, fred. >> we talk about these races in georgia and we're talking about a lot of political family names with nunn, purdue and even carder, but what's interesting too, you got a former president, jimmy carter who has been campaigning really quietly for his grandson, jason carter? >> reporter: yeah. you know, interesting to point out, it's a great point, fred. he has been seen in very limited occasions. i saw him actually among the truly and accurately depict

trick or treaters in a suburb on halloween. that's one of the appearances he's made throughout this whole campaign for his grandson. yes, there is name recognition. yes knees voters here in georgia are familiar with these names of purdue, of deal, and of nuny. you see these candidates trying to be individuals. not carry the name of their relatives but stand in their own feet. that could hurt them, though. voters say they recognize the name but some are confused about what these candidates actually stand for, fred. >> all right. thanks so much. appreciate it. one of the closest senate battles is taking place in new hampshire. the state's democratic incumbent jean that that heen is fighting to keep her seat. >> fred, hillary clinton has been barn storming for vulnerable democrats. she was in louisiana and kentucky yesterday. she was in iowa earlier this week. in new hampshire today she urged

voters to cast a ballot for the democratic incumbent senator jean shaheen. she is facing off scott brown. hillary clinton urging voters not to cast a protest ballot against washington dysfunction. >> you know, it's really hard for me to express how grateful i am on behalf of my husband and myself to the people of new hampshire, starting way back in 1991, you opened your homes and your hearts to us. [ cheers and applause ] >> clinton emphasized issues that have been res nating with him. she talked about equal pay. polls show that although they

normally give democrats an edge, they have been tuning out politics during this mid term cycle and new hampshire is a state you really want to watch come tuesday night. president obama was initially elected here in 2008, won re-election in 2012. so if you start to see the ballots being counted and democrats are really under performing, that is a sign that they are facing a really tough environment across the country. fred. >> all right, thanks so much. don't forget anderson cooper, wolf blitzer will be hosting cnn's election night coverage on tuesday. four people are dead after their boat capsized during a crabbing expedition off the northern california coast. the sole survivor was found cling to go a rock. he told investigators a rogue wave crashed into his private boat and threw everyone overboard. thousands of bostonians are

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>> we now know the names of the deadly pilots in a plane crash that happened. the surviving pilot is 43 years old peter siebold. he's alert and talking with family members. his co-pilot was michael alsbury died on friday when the spaceship two disintegrated just two minutes after separating from the jet-powered aircraft. virgin group's founder richard branson says their bravely cannot be overstated. i want to bring in alexandria field, what more are you learning about the moments right

after the test flight took off and failed. >> we know that he was found with his parachute. it's amazing that he survived this. investigators were trying to learn what caused the flight to break up in air. they want to talk to siebold, the question is they will hold off until now. >> the question is have we interviewed the surviving pilot? we have not because doctors do not recommend to do an interview at this state. so we are in not going to interrupt the family. we don't want to interview him until he is ready. >> doctors say he's alert and active, investigators are to wait and see what doctors recommend about the appropriate time to speak to him. investigators have been out in the mow half vee desert.

they are going to be looking at all the pieces of wreckage that were involved. all the pieces of wreckage from space ship 2. they say it could take about a year to determine the cause of this accident, this flaw that they say they are going to be morning and looking at all the different data was recorded and because this was a test flight, all of those systems were being carefully monitored. there is an aone dance of data to look at. we know there were six different cameras on board. all of these could be helpful pieces as they try to figure out what went wrong here. >> thanks so much for the update. vice president joe biden may not be running for a seat in congress but a lot hangs in the balance for the vice president. we'll explain why.

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stephen colinson. good to see you. you wrote in a recent cnn.com article about a possible tie in the senate. do you really think that is likely to happen? >> you know, it's possible. it looks this weekend before the mid terms that the republicans have a momentum. they certainly think they are going to get a majority on tuesday. if you talk to them, they are quite bulish that it could be 52, 53, even 54 seats in the senate. democrats say they have this great turnout operation that help put barack obama in the white house twice. they say that's going to make things a lot closer than it seems right now. the best hope for democrats could end up being the circumstances in which they hang on to perhaps the state like iowa, colorado, do well in a couple of run-offs that might take place in louisiana and georgia and perhaps manage to squeeze it into a 50-50 tie and that's where joe biden would

come in. >> let's talk about that. this would really make an incredibly exciting evening on tuesday. let's talk about the role of the vice president and why his role is very crucial. >> well, the vice president doesn't have very many duties officially under the constitution. in fact, wielding a tie-breaking vote in the senate is one of the few real official offices of power the vice president has. so in the event of a 50-50 tie, joe biden, he spent 36 years in the senate, he snows the -- knows the place very well. he had a great melodramatic career. big speeches. always the center of attention. it be might be a fitting way for him to put the cap on his career. as vice president he was back there in the spotlight, he would be the first line of defense for the president's legacy in many ways. the republicans might come many and do stuff like defund

obamacare, pass the kind of conservative budgets that we've seen in the house. vice president joe biden would be right in pole position and ride the spotlight which he loves. >> let's talk about campaigning, a sitting president is usually very exciting to have a sitting president stumping for them, but instead there has been this remarkable strategy where the president has only gone primarily in places where democrats look pretty favorable in their races and then you have in the state of georgia where you've got the name sake of carter, jason carter who is running for office and his grand dad is campaigning for him but in a very quiet way. how do you make sense of these dynamics? the former president and a sitting president, but campaigning quietly? >> right. you would think if you are running for any statewide office anywhere, having a grandfather that was the president of the

united states, the most powerful man in the world would be an asset to have on your side. it shows you a little bit jimmy carter although he's very respected abroad for his human rights work and monitoring elections and so forth in his post presidency. his presidency is almost a symbol of a fail administration. you were talking the last hour about the iran hostage crisis which was the one thing really that ended his administration after one term and opened the way for ronald reagan. his domestic time was a time of economic blythe and malaise. he's not a powerful political figure anymore. that's -- for president obama, look at where he's spending the last few days of campaign, maine, rhode island, connecticut, are he is he was up in michigan. that's nowhere near the battle ground that are going to decide this case. the republicans have made him issue number one.

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bottom of the hour now. welcome back. several stories have crossed the cnn news desk right now. this week, we will know where the balance of power will lie in congress. maybe the senate seat in louisiana may be headed for a run-off after polls close on tuesday. republicans gains are being shown in kentucky, iowa.

>> there is another mass killing by isis militants. many boys and men were pulled from their middle of the bed in the middle of the night. it was feared they were executed by militants who were resisting isis fighters. the nurse who was put in quarantine in two states, now says she's sorry for what she put the community through. >> i understand the community has been through a lot for the past week. i do apologize to them for that. i will not go into town and a few public places. i've had a few friends visit me in my home and that's absolutely fantastic. venling after returning from aid work in sierra leone, she was placed into quarantine into a

newark, new jersey hospital. she was put in a tent after a port-a-potty and a sink. after she complained to the public, the governor changed his mind. a maine governor ordered her to be quarantined, but a judge overruled that. the world wide death toll from the ebola outbreak continues however to climb. the world health organization says almost 5,000 people have now died from the virus. that's out of more than 13,000 cases in eight countries. but now researchers in swits -- switzerland are beginning human clinical trials for a potential ebola vaccine. cnn's nic robertson has details on that. >> long awaited, finally here, an ebola vaccine arrives deep under ground beneath a swiss hospital. the potential cure for the

deadly virus stored way below freezing. this tiny pouch containing the world health organization largest clinical try -- trial of humans to date. up stairs, one of the 120 volunteers to test the vaccine prepares for the trial. >> i feel very safe about this, a lot of people told me there is so much risks. don't you feel like you can get sick because of the vaccine but this is not how i feel and there are a lot of people who could benefit from it. >> first, a blood sample taken to make sure she is in good health. trial confidentiality means we can't reveal her name, but we can show her on tv, and she can talk about the experience. checking for fever and rashes and blood tests. >> i'm not afraid of blood tests or anything like that, being a med school student. i think the hard part to me is

not knowing whether i'm getting the vaccine or a placebo. >> her blood rushed through this 1400 bed hospital to a state of the art lab. over the next few months thousands of volunteer samples will pass through here. tests in this phase one trial made for safety of the vaccine and doevenling dosage. >> we are measuring antibodies and asking the questions did this protein that we inject elicit an i am mew known logical reaction. doctors here hope to have the first results as early as december this year. their biggest surprise so far, way more volunteers than we needed. >> we the population for clinical research and also a sense of urgency, but there is still a sense of we can do something for africa. >> if these trials are successful, the w.h.o. plans to quickly scale up and test

vaccines on thousands of people in sierra leone and liberia as early as january next year. if those tests are successful, they could begin a wide scale vaccination campaign as early as next april. nick robertson, cnn, luzan, switzerland. >>. new details of the capture of eric frein. many of you have seen this picture. the marshall said when he and the other officers approached fre frein, he was facedown and he had looked at you. he had been on the run for 48 days after allegedly shooting

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senate democrats may be slightly obedge today. new polls showing republican candidates gaining momentum in several key states. cnn executive political editor mark preston joining us now from washington. mark, what do democrats need to do in these final hours to hold on to these vulnerable seats. >> they need to get the vote out. they need to get their democratic voters out there, coupled with a strong showing with independent voters. now republicans will tell you the same thing. they need to get their base out and they need to get a sizeable chunk of the independent vote but for democrats right now certainly in key states all across the country, leading all the way up to alaska, for democrats to hold on to the senate majority, they need a very strong showing of reliable democratic voters to show and up cast their ballots on tuesday. >> voter turnout is traditionally kind of low in mid term races. this one, will it be any

different, particularly since it seems people are very dissatisfied with the incumbents. they are going to the polls to send a message? >> they certainly are. in a mid term election, you do see the vote drop off in a mid term election. there's more excitement and coverage and engaged in a presidential election. during a mid term what's bad for democrats is you tend to see republican voters come out more than you do see democratic voters. that's working against democrats. you are right about anger. we talk here in washington, d.c. about anger at washington. there is also anger across the country at incumbents and certainly at governments. there are at least seven republican governors who could lose re-election on tuesday night. so the overall anger factor at government is certainly very strong and pervasive and we really shouldn't be surprised given the economic conditions that we're in.

>> and then what about the president? he has been campaigning, but particularly in states where the democrats are looking pretty good. what might the white house be considering in thinking and maybe even worrying about if the senate, you know, seats are picked up by republicans? >> certainly, with two years left, what can he get done legislationi legislationively. it's going to be a couple of years for president obama. the margin is going to be slim. can they get anything done? will there be gridlock here in washington. we're heading into a 2016 presidential race. a wide open race for republicans. could there be grand standing in congress? all of these things are going to muck things up in washington. it's no surprise that president

obama pushed health care in early on in this second term. thanks so much. good to see you. of course, we'll be seeing you and everybody else on the political team here at cnn tuesday night. anderson cooper and wolf blitzer leading cnn's elect night coverage tuesday evening beginning at 5 p.m. eastern time. you don't want to miss it. la have has left a path of destruction in hawaii. some students actually had an idea that has helped some power lines stay safe. we'll meet them in a moment. first, voting for this year's cnn hero has already begun at cnn hero's.com. we want you to meet one of the top finalist right now. ♪ >> i really hate when it hurts. it's a really sharp pain. i get all teary. the shots really scared me a lot and they still scare me now.

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in hawaii, the lava that has been threatening several homes has slowed to a trickle now, but authorities say it could start flowing again at any time. it's already left a path of destruction 100 yards wide in some places. our martin savidge is on the big island of hawaii and he explains how unrelenting the lava can be.

>> this is lava creeping slowly, relentlessly into pahoa. this is where it comes from, hawaii's kileua volcano. it's the volume can knows branch office. after that, it's all downhill. geologists can actually track the lava through an opening called the skylight. they measure how much and how fast. 100,000 cubic meters flows past this point every day. the lava dramatically slows on its 13 mile journey to the town. >> slowly it ooss across the ground and intense heat is consuming everything that he touches. >> now say hello to these advanced science and engineering teams at the hawaiian academy of arts and science in pahoa.

>> there was lava heading our way and the power poles would have just burned up. >> no power poles, no power, or vital communication lines, but they were up against one of nature's most powerful forces, lava. >> temperatures can be 2,000 degrees fahrenheit or higher, which will destroy most anything in its path. >> in just 90 minutes, they came up with a brilliant plan. >> the initial drawing is shown right here. >> they call it a power pole protection barrier and gave the idea to the local power company. >> we were expecting the standard good try, guys, but this is an adult matter, and we got more of a wow, you guys are actually good engineers. >> now the power company already had a plan to protect poles, but it uses the very same principles the teens came up. this video shows the theory works. now, in pahoa poles are being

protected and these teens can say we came up with the same idea. >> it's your work. it's your ideas. >> it was a lot of fun to do. >> martin savidge, cnn, pahoa, hawaii. and now i am joined by some of those incredibly smart teens and they have already come up with a new idea and i applaud you for the work you are doing for your town. let me explain something real quick. lava to the note -- native culture, it is a deeply respected thing. why not just take another road? >> the only other accessible route can add up to 4 hours on to the transit time so it's highly inefficient in both gasoline and people's time. >> right. it is. so the problem is you got to come up with a way to get over the lava and i'm going to reach right past you. >> yes. we came up with the idea of

having like a guide service to go across the dried part of the lava to keep it so it's respectful to palay, especially if there's an emergency and somebody can get to the hospital, they can be transported by ambulance in one side, brought over safely by a gurney, and once they are on the other side of the lava they can be brought up to the hospital. >> and thanks to mia, we have a graphic. what do we got depicted. i see the lava? >> yeah. so the lava is as you can see here, the lava has gone over the road and we're talking about dry lava, like cooled down, not the red hot flowing kind, so there would be the guides on either side who would be there 24-7 to transport people across the lava safely, and this means like

regular -- i just need to go to work, which is i live in the north side, i work on the south side, i need to go across. >> it works for the emergency or for the commuter. and good thing here is everybody is respected. the lava is still flowing deep under ground but you are not interfering with palae's plan. i think it's a great idea. you've come up with what is the culture and the science. i congratulate you. they are going to unveil that plan later in the week. >> that's fantastic. they are the future and they are thinking of the here and now. it's very useful. they are respecting this constant which is lava. it's a constant element there on the big island. how commendable. >> i taught them everything i know. >> oh, of course you did. of course. i'm glad you are the messager in this case and bringing the message because they are extraordinary. martin savidge and three incredible minds.

thank you so much. i should say four incredible minds. you included martin. that's really what i meant. >> thank you. >> on the the big island there. all right. let's talk about the mainland now here in the u.s. parts of the south, guess what they got snow this weekend and lots of it actually in some places. up next, we'll find out if the eastern part of the country will also get out of this cold snap this week. but first meet an artist that caught our eye. here is this week's ones to watch. >> i wouldn't call myself an artist. that doesn't fit what i'm doing. i'm depicting a human face. i can't really look for that long a time at somebody's face if i don't really love that face. i have to truly feel connected to it in order to spend eight months with it.

i simply randomly find people by encountering them absolutely by chance. it was an absolute chance encounter. we were in a museum and she was passing in front of me and it was like a bell ringing above my head. my god, this is a face, this is a face. >> eleana still frequents the nursing home down the road always searching for that magical face that drives her to pick up a pencil and draw. when she finds it, she takes a photograph and leaves. >> i used to have sitters, but lately it's a photograph. i just have these surface really that i work with. it's the surface of a face. it's a skin.

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canada for the cold weather for much of the east and it's led to early snow in the south. we have detail in the forecast. >> fred, we did have early season snow across much of the south yesterday and today we're dealing with a little bit of lingering snow across portions of maine. could see up to a foot of snow by the time the day is over with, also windy conditions, gusts up to 50 miles per hour and that windchill deepg below freezing once again for tonight. columbia, south carolina, had their earliest know on record. 22 inches recorded and then we also just outside of luck, north carolina, 18 inches. so a lot of snow for the south. it will be melting quickly though, we do warm up early part of the week. lows tonight will be dipping down tonight. not quite freezing. 36 in atlanta, 42 in significant

by -- in chicago by tomorrow morning. a freeze warning will remain in place in a lot of those southern states. atlanta under a freeze watch and places like charlotte under a freeze warning for monday morning. here's a workweek forecast. we do warm up quite nicely. here's d.c. close to 70 by wednesday. same story in atlanta. new york city, you'll be in the mid 60s by wednesday. fred. >> oh, my, thanks so much, jennifer. big chill indeed. the next hour of the "newsroom" begins right now. thanks and hello everyone, you are in the cnn "newsroom." i'm deborah feyerick in new york. we're two days away from a