back to our top story tonight, ten senate races are too close to call as the polls open in hours. who will control the senate? it's a crucial question and we have reporters in the key states. the first results come in at this hour tomorrow night. our coverage, election night our coverage, election night 2014 starts tomorrow. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we're at the election center in dc and welcome to a special edition of election 2014. the stakes include the control of senate who gets on the supreme court and more. the outcome may not be known for days and weeks. so many races so close at this hour tonight. so many surprises in store. the possibility of a republican defeat in kansas or gop victory in massachusetts, a former bay state senator could become the

next senator from another state new hampshire. red state democrats running for their lives and away from president obama. a big night. let's start off with john king. walk us through some of these races. >> let's go through key races. i've assigned montana, south dakota and west virginia to republica republicans. most think that will happen tomorrow night f. that happens, anderson, and everything else in the states we know will happen, 45-45. there is your tie, right? ten states left on the board. what matters most? the polls close in kentucky, mitch mcconnell and georgia at 7:00. georgia is a big question mark tonight. democrats say they will make a late rush in kentucky, we'll see. more importantly, 7:30 the polls close in north carolina. kay hagan trying to hold on. the democrat versus republican scott brown. if these states go red, let me

take this off, this tells you if jean and kay hagan loses, if we're saying early in the night, those states are going republican, forget about it. that's if not a wave a rug ripple. let's assume the democrats hold the blues, new hampshire, president obama won it twice. north carolina he won it once. iowa and colorado both states were republicans ahead. let's assume the democrats can hold on to that. that's when the night gets interesting as we go later and later because that would put us at 49-45 and then here with these states left, all of them red states, all of them president obama lost twice. the democrats would not be out. they need one more but have to get it. >> let's look closer. >> that's the question, that's the big question, you mentioned this race. let's say this is where we're are. they are saying we'll win colorado, we'll win iowa. let's say they split and

republicans get iowa and not new hampshire and north carolina. then you're at 47-47. this race we could be counting this race to thursday and friday because of remote areas of alaska. republicans think they will get it and democrats say they will surprise us. they are confident about winning in the state of arkansas. they are confident here in winning in kentucky. watch african american turnout. you could have a scenario for the independent wins here. it doesn't change the math if greg orman wins. you can have a run off here in louisiana and georgia not until january. >> wow, we may not know until next year. >> if democrats won in both, they would be in 49. greg orman at 50. democrats need 50 because of joe biden, republicans need 51. we could be waiting in this race is settled on january 6th to find out. >> it will be a long night indeed tomorrow night. john king, thanks very much.

>> more on president obama's role in tomorrow's outcome or lack of a roll. he only campaigned for a few candidates and many others distanced themselves from him. some democrats shying away to say if they voted for him. he's a midterm, second-term president with not exactly a winning package. that said, is this president any more politically toxic than any others? we'll talk to the panel ahead but first, background from dana bash. >> reporter: from kentucky. >> a new phase to vote for barack obama. >> reporter: to kansas to colorado. >> he voted 99% of the time for president obama. >> reporter: republicans are trying to take control of the senate to tie democrats to an unpopular president. new hampshire's gop candidate barely speaks a sentence saying he votes with the president 99% of the time. >> the president said a couple weeks ago, he's not running but

all of his policies are on the ballot. i agree with him. he also said -- >> reporter: i bet you do. >> i absolutely do. >> reporter: he gives the 2014 democratic response. is the president a drag on you here? >> this race is not between the president and scott brown. this race is between me and scott brown. >> reporter: still even democratic strategists admit obama's negatives make new hampshires senate race neck and neck, one of a dozen dramatic too close to call contests from coast to coast. north carolina, georgia, kentucky, louisiana, arkansas, kansas, iowa, colorado, alaska. and this year's battle grounds are in swing states or red states where the president is not or never was popular like kentucky. >> mitch mcconnell wants you to think i'm barack obama. >> reporter: kentucky's democratic candidate went so far to refuse to admit she voted for him. >> do you vote for president obama in 2008 and 2012? >> you know, this election isn't

about the president. it's about -- >> i know but did you vote for him? >> we want to put kentucky people back to work. >> reporter: there are pockets, blue states where the president has gone to help like trips this weekend to connecticut and michigan. >> we got to let them know their vote matters. >> reporter: and he's doing targeted interviews in red states like black radio. in louisiana democrat mary landrieu is counting on black votes to win and says the president is having a hard time because of his race. >> the south is not the friendliest place for african americans. it's been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a positive light. >> reporter: it's a fine line for democrats when turnout is everything. distance yourself from the president but don't go so far voters that like the president stay home. >> dana bash joins us. now are some democrats going to rethink the idea that the fact that president obama wasn't out there, they weren't asking president obama to get out

there? >> no, you're hearing some democrats, some obama democrats, some loyalest on 1600 pennsylvania avenue saying maybe it was a mistake to be at such arm's length with the president at red states and purple states because you need the african american base to turn out. your need other loyal democrats that like the president to do it. i was just talking to a democratic strategists defending the idea of not campaigning saying the data is undeniablund. it hurts remarkably. he sent me a little bit of a statistic, 300,000 broadcast tv spots across 28 senate races this cycle have used president obama and criticized him. i think that's pretty telling. >> a lot saying it's a referendum. thanks very much. i want to bring in the panel, we're bringing back the band. gloria borger, alex, democratic

strategists and gloria, you've spoken to sources, how worried are they tonight? >> they are worried. they are realistic. they understand this is a tight rope these candidates had to rock but go out of their way to say this is not a referendum on the president. this is administration, people. what they are saying is that this is a really bad map for them, and they do have a point there. >> they are blaming the map. >> they are blaming the map. they say these people are in red states, 80% of the states mitt romney. one, this will be a good year for republicans. yeah, we have some problems, but you know what? this is going to turn against us, perhaps, but in two years by the way -- >> alex, is this a referendum? >> it's ran mcelder's fault. barack obama has been out there. he's the one who said my policies are on the ballot, so

as a republican, i think you should have been out there more, but it's about him. it's a rejection of president obama. but let's not, one senator, imagine what happened if one democratic senator voted against obamacare, just one. democrats wouldn't be facing the thumping they may get tomorrow night. >> i think this narrative is way over played. it's a lazy narrative. i think it's a narrative that's not helpful, of course you want the president out there because you want to nationalize the election. when bush was running, we wanted that. it would be bad to drop president obama in the red states where no natural democrat does well, then we play in republicans hands because -- >> you think the problem is the pa map? >> absolutely.

we have three senate classes here. this is the only one the president has not won most of the states. this say horrible map but given the map, the history, you know, president second term is supposed to lose seats and given sort of the demographics, look, midterms are older, less diverse. this is a map set for republicans to run up the score. >> no question. >> they aren't running up the question. >> if they can't win in this map, they have to find another country to win it. >> right. >> imagine if it were the other way and democrats needed a hand full of other seats and it came down to delaware, rhode island and california, we couldn't close a deal. this is a lay down deal for the republicans because of the map and the president. sit a referendum on him and places where they hate him. >> one of the reasons you're not talking about the so-called wave is because republicans are just as unpopular as democrats. so this is anti incumbent. >> you know mitch mcconnell saying this is the beginning of rolling back the things the

president has been able to achieve thus far. >> i hope that the just talk as a republican. this is the old may west line. the lesser picking between two evils, i'll take the one i haven't tried recently. republicans are the evil the country hasn't tried recently. republicans are being given a chance here, they are not being given a mandate. if we start off being the pessimistic cranky, as opposed to get this country back on track. >> isn't ted cruz. >> ted cruz says this is about investigation, which is absolutely a nightmare for republicans across the board. but here is the thing, here is the thing, what are you going to rollback? the 5% growth? the growth is, they would love to have it. you going to rollback

unemployment rate back to prerecession? are you going to rollback the stock market, rollback -- >> since you asked, since you asked, we'll rollback -- >> 90 -- >> we'll rollback stagnant wages -- >> you going to raise the minimum wage -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> but here -- >> republican haves to agree on things on repealing, obamacare, they are not going to do that. mitch mcconnell was asked in a debate, yes, but how about -- >> by the way -- >> working in kentucky. >> exactly. >> by the way, republicans don't have a great record on tamping down the fire in the middle east, do they? >> one of the problems we've had is very weak leadership. americans lost a lot of respect in the world, and it turns out that american strength is the glue that holds it together. >> there is an intervention

ring -- >> you're going to see two republican agendas for the next two years. one is hold barack obama and democrats accountable for failures. the other agenda is republicans saying health care, we can do better than october. let's have an open health care system instead of closed. let's have a health care system where dr.s and patients make choices as opposed to politicians and burro cats. if republicans offer alternatives like that -- >> so you really believe that obamacare is still on the table for something that can be rolled back? >> i believe, yes, a lot of it can be rolled back. look, president obama is not going to sign anything that decimates -- >> here is the problem -- >> if republicans, if republicans -- >> you asked a question. president obama, if he gets -- if the republicans senate in the republican house put concrete legislation on the table, barack obama would be willing to sign something, i think. tax cuts -- >> here is some senior administration official, and i

quote, we're not going to sign a bunch of their bills. >> they are not going to appeal obamacare. >> cruz is talking about it. >> ted cruz is talking about something else. we'll investigate. joni ernst said she's for impeaching the president. she called him a dictator. i remember how to win an impeachment fight. >> we'll be back with special coverage. set your dvr to watch 360. breaking news, a navy seal reportedly steps forward saying he's the one that killed osama bin laden and my interview with kaci hickox and took on the governor of two states. she got a new deal from the state of maine today. hear from her next.

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kaci hickox, the nurse in the se center of the debate cut a deal. she can travel freely in public and monitor her health quickly and run through the 10th of this month. it's an improvement to the tent she was confined to after she landed from volunteering in west africa. she's been critical of chris christie and the governor of maine. so, kaci, you reached an agreement with the state even though you're allowed to go where you want, you say you

won't go into town and crowded places. explain that, why did you make that decision? >> the truth is i completely understand that this town has been through a lot and there is still a lot of fears and misinformation out there. i think we need to started a dressing the issues but it's true i moved here to fort kent maine in august, so, you know, there are a lot of people that don't know me. i'm still an outsider and i want to respect their wishes, but i really hope one day in the near future, i could come back from an ebola assignment and walk into the grocery store and people would smile and say hi. >> can you explain why you fought the way you did because there are a lot of people and i got tweets from a lot of people saying for an abun dense of caution, people are afraid. you should stay in your house. why did you fight?

>> coming back to the newark airport and seeing complete chaos and disorganization was a frustrating sight to see and when policies are put in place and sort of the policies aren't organized well and staff aren't trained well, it's just a scary situation. but of course, the biggest reason that i fought is because i, you know, felt so much fear and confusion and i imagined what my fellow aid workers were going to feel if they came back to this same situation, and the more i thought about the fact these policies are being made by politicians, not really the experts in the field, the more i felt like i had no choice but to fight back. >> when governor christie says it's an abundance of caution motivating him, you don't buy that? >> i don't. whenever we're making policies, especially something as extreme as quarantine in the history of using quarantine and public

health, this is something that has to be really considered. it is an extreme policy. there is no science behind it with this disease. we know that ebola has not transmitted as easily as many other diseases, and that self-monitoring and even an enhanced version, which is what most states in the u.s. are going to now, this direct active monitoring where the health department is more involved, this will work. >> the thing i don't understand, your partner, your boyfriend is a nursing student at the university of maine, and i understand he's still staying away from his school's campus. the university is saying it's voluntary. is that, in fact, the case? i think all the places that would understand, first of all, you're not sick, you're not contagious, so he's certainly not sick and he's certainly not contagious so why does he have to stay away from a nursing school?

of all the people that would understand that, i think nursing students would understand that. >> this is a deeper issue the quarantine policies will not only affect the aid worker returning but end up affecting their entire family. what if i had children and my, you know, child's elementary school decided we don't want your kid coming back because they will have contact with you? again, it's not based on any science or evidence, but it's scary. i can't comment too much directly about my partner specifically, but the dean of academic affairs of the school went on national tv and said that ted wasn't going to be allowed to go to school, and this is the exact example of how when we flame the fear instead of really facing it, we all lose and again, you know, i think we have to be very careful about allowing our rights to be taken away, really based on hysteria instead of science.

>> what effect do you hope your fight will have for other aid workers when they come back through how they are treated at the airport or politicians or decide how to react for quarantine? >> yeah, i mean, i think the fight is not over, even in the state of maine, you know, my court's ruling is just for my case. the state of maine policy that was written on the 28th of this month -- of last month, sorry, still says that anyone who has had contact with a patient in west africa will be put under in home quarantine. the battle is not over and all of the states, and i would like to see more leadership at the national level, as well. we really need evidence-based policies and these knee jerk reactions are not being well thought out. >> kaci, i appreciate all you've done for many years for people overseas and around the world.

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welcome back. we have breaking news in kwae that was supposed to remain unanswered forever, which maybe of seal team six killed osama bin laden in pakistan. a new member is standing out in a community where taking individual credit for anything is frowned upon. barbara starr joins us with more. what do we know about this? >> anderson, you know, as you say, who shot bin laden, we may never know. we have a claim, a navy seal who the navy believes is the man that is about to go on fox news and claim credit for having killed osama bin laden and an "esquire" magazine from a guy who says he's the shooter. do we know if that's one and the same? we don't at this point. there is also the book by a man

named matt bissonnet or mark mark owen, depending on which name he uses, claiming he killed bin laden. they are members of navy seal team six but that night they crept up a dark staircase, no light, knowing bin laden was at the top of the stairs, very dangerous, they moved very quickly and quietly and when they burst through the door, the bullets started flying. several men and seals shot the rifles and aimed at bin laden. the seals say, the navy says they may never know who fired the actual kill shot and they don't really need to know because bin laden is dead and that's what they were going after. >> and it really was a team effort. reaction is swept and tough from the pentagon. >> you're right and because it's a team effort, the head of the navy special war fair command,

wrote letter saying quote, any real credit to be rendered is about the incredible focus, commitment and team work of this diverse network and the years of hard work under taken with little individual public credit. it is the nature of our profession. admiral losey says put a zipper on it and stop talking about what you're doing, the vast majority of navy seals, commandos, these are men who operate right on the edge risking their lives, the overwhelming majority of them never talk about what they do. this is a true code of silence and i talked to some in the navy community tonight behind the scenes, there is a great deal of anger about the other seals claiming credit. you get to the target and get home, because they are a team. >> i want to bring in peter burgen who wrote probably the

definitive book on this "manhunt, the search for bin laden." this goes against the whole rule of the seals, not to discuss, not to go into the details of an operation like this. >> sure, but the counter argument is senior officials is to talk about this and write about this and panetta was who critical to the planning in this, in which he gets into some of this. i'm not trying to defend what happened here but if a defense was to be made, it would be hey, other people have talked about this. now, of course, as you say, anderson, in the community, seal team six group, you know, there is great unhappiness about anybody coming forward and talking about it in any detail. >> and you talked to people, i understand, in the seal community that cast doubt about what this guy is saying. >> yeah, i mean, there is, you know, as barbara said, you know,

we're never going to know what happen that night. the compound is demoll accomplished. it was a very, very difficult night. there was no moon, no electricity. people were wearing night vision goggles. there was a fire fight. the whole thing took about 15 minutes. there was a helicopter crash. it was a deeply confusing situation. certainly, the kind of consensus is there a point man that shot the kill shot. that person is by all accounts not going to identify himself. there have been two people who have identified themselves, another that's supposedly going to come out on fox and out himself with the real name and i think there is a lot of happiness about this new person. his account is heroic. it doesn't match with what we know happened that night, which there was a shot and that it wasn't one person taking bin laden down as he reached for his

weapons as this new person seems to be suggesting. >> i understand that some of your sources inside the seals said this person has been bragging about this in local bars. >> he was sort of, you know, because he was being too public rather early on. so, you know, there is quite a lot of unhappiness. as this story develops, i think you're going to see a lot of push back on this guy's account of what happened that night. >> do we know why he's coming forward? i mean -- >> i really don't, anderson, because i think he's putting himself in a great deal of legal jeopardy. >> he doesn't have a book. >> it's puzzling. i don't want to impute motive here. it's puzzling because he is putting himself in a fair amount of legal jeopardy to be part of a documentary in fox where he

takes credit. >> right, they all signed c confidential agreements? >> they did. name thing guy, his actual identity is supposed to be covert. so, you me, there is supposed to be a code of silence and, you know, he seems to have decided to outside it. >> with president obama's low approval rating, some democratic candidates distance themselves from him trying to get the african american support the president has held but it's a delicate dance for some candidates. what that is looking like. she's still the one for you.

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approvals, it's tricky ex democrats distancing themselves from president obama. in the latest poll, 45% said they approve of how the president is handling his job, 53% said they disapprove. now when the president himself was running for office, he got massive support from african americans and still has it. an abc washington poll from september showed an 87% approval rating. some democrats attempt to hold on to that support are under fire. >> reporter: with their biggest weapon in president obama mostly sidelined, some democrats went for the strings in a bid to get blacks in southern states to the polls. >> he made it hard for communities of color to vote. >> invoking the shooting death of trayvon martin in florida as a reason to vote in carolina. a radio ad generated by harry reid's back to maintain control of the senate and the controversial state statute made

infamous in the martin state putting race at the center of the senate race. >> led the effort to pass the stand your ground laws and cause the shooting death of trayvon martin. >> reporter: there was a tough raid owe ad calling out the democrats. >> you heard this kay hagan ad. >> reporter: encouraging african americans to vote i'm vote images from ferguson, missouri where michael brown was shot to death by a police officer. republican tara wall sees it as an attempt to inflame voters. >> race is a very real issue for us as black people. we should be able to talk about it, but it's disappointing when democrats number one take the issue of race and use it to insight without any fact or basis. >> reporter: democrats deny the tactics are about inciting the racial anger and making it more about judges, prosecutors and

others that allocate justice. though the tactics are not embraced but all african american politicians but one says it's valid to talk about in the midterms. >> i would not use these in a campaign, if it were my personal campaign, but i would want to make sure that we have dialogue and that we bring all parties to the table. >> reporter: still, dialogue over rates is tricky. louisiana incumbent democrat mary landrieu got tough criticism after she said this in an interview about the south and the president. >> in the south is not always been the friendliest place for african americans. it's been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader. >> reporter: the question is whether racial appeals, especially advertising could backfire revving up black voters who polls show overwhelmingly support the president while turning out light voters, the same polls do not. >> these appeals are very

targeted. they are, you know, flyers or mail in predominantly african american neighborhoods or radio ads on predominantly african american radio, and so it's sort of slicing and dicing the electric. >> reporter: tough choices for democrats and only hours before we'll know whether they pulled the right strings to get one of the most critical voting blocks to the polls in a tough election cycle. back with our political commentator, donna brazil, republican consultant alex and cornell belcehr. what do you think about invoking trayvon martin? >> i'll go in a different direction because i got to call out and do some truth telling. one of the top issues against african american women is gun violence and one issue not being talked enough about is rolling back stand your ground laws that the african american community

disapprove of. so why is it that in this country we can talk about women's equity, we can talk about gay andless b lesbian issd when you have a conversation that targets african americans, can you believe they are doing that? it's a double standard and we should talk about it. >> is invoking a particular case in one state involving a young -- >> it is about gun violence and stand your ground laws. we all understand what the trayvon martin case meant. it was about these outrageous gun laws that african americans and just parents in urban areas overall are paying a high price for. democrats should talk more about it. >> donna brazil showing photographs from ferguson. is there a double standard here or is this crossing a line? >> no, i don't think it's crossing a line. remember, anderson, we had to endure years of ads, everything from the so-called, you know,

black man that was let out of prison by michael decauccus only to go out and rape a woman and a white individual worker tearing up a piece of paper saying i can't apply for a job because i'm white. we had to deal with the ads. race is part of the american political culture since the beginning of our country. here is to cornell's point. this is a concern of aftrican americans. we talked about trayvon martin and michael brown and the situation in ferguson. we talked about the situation here in new york with sean bell. there is no reason to lead this conversation off the table. i think democrats are smart to not only focus about violence in our communities, but we also talk about jobs, education, the same issues that i think not just african americans, but all voters care about. we want a strong economy and

that's why we're talking about that issue, as well. >> i guess the question is in a campaign commercial is that the appropriate place to talk about it? isn't the objective there getting out the vote? >> anderson, if you're in ferguson, missouri right now and you want to, you know, of course, bring officer wilson to justice, if you want justice for mike brown, if you want to serve in the jury, get out there and participate. the jurors are selected from the voter poll. so we have to make the connection. we got to make sure -- this is not the only issue. there are many other commercials, i know, because i cut a few. i cut a couple robo calls, thank you cornell. we're trying to motivate voters that tend to drop off to get to the polls and let them know what is at stake and what is at stake, we're voting for governors, not just the united states congress. >> alex, does it cross the line? >> the republican ads that these campaigns are targeting, the republican candidates, they

aren't running in ferguson, missouri. they are running in georgia and iowa and north carolina. >> tharry reid ad -- >> we all know what is going on. politicians targeting high-turnout groups to get a vote and voters are smart whether you're brown, white, black, it doesn't matter. what they see are politicians appealing to the worst instincts, not the best to intensify. voters see through that which is why at this point really almost have zero impact. >> you don't think they work. >> you know what would work better? it would work better and i made some ads now and then over the years -- >> come on. >> a couple. >> if it wasn't singling out one group, this group against that group, at the end of a race like this, you got to remind folks that there is something bigger in the country -- >> don't republicans do that all the time. >> welfare, we can name the republican ads but the point is

that alex, we're trying to get people motivated to let them know what is at striake and we' talking about what is going on in washington dc. >> usually the side that is losing, donna, usually the side that's losing -- >> alex, many of these candidates have a narrow path to victory. not just in georgia but iowa and my home state of louisiana and north carolina, no, these ads are being run, i think in places to galvanize people and understand what is at stake and on the ballot and we're not just talking about this issue. we're talking about education, things that all voters care about. >> these ads are not talking about that at all. >> it's just one of -- alex, we spend $4 billion in this election season. let's not target the ads that we spent $150,000 or less. this is not the ad you would be involved with because we're not spending millions of dollars. this is just a very targeted ad. >> all right. we're going to obviously, spend

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a 29-year-old who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer made the choice herself on saturday. brittany maynard moved to oregon where doctor-assisted suicide is legal after doctors gave her a prognose of six months to live. after months of research she and her family decided the treatment would destroy the time she had left and she got the doctor-prescribed medication that would end her life on her terms. here's what she said back in october. >> i don't want to die. if anyone wants to hand me like a magical cure and save my life so that i can have children with my husband, you know, i will take them up on it. cancer is ending my life. i'm choosing to end it a little sooner and in a lot less pain and suffering. >> in her final message that was part of her obituary she wrote, if we change our thoughts, we

change our world. love and peace to you all. maynard's death came on a weekend when another young woman with terminal brain cancer got her wish to play the season opener for a college basketball team. there were nine other players when lauren hill took the court on sunday and 10,000 people in the stands there to cheer her on. rachel nichols reports. >> at 5'11" freshman forward from greendale, indiana, number 22, lauren hill! >> reporter: this was the moment that should have been just the beginning for 19-year-old lauren hill, the start of her college basketball career. but instead sunday's game at cincinnati's mt. st. joseph university marked the end of a mission that lauren had been on for more than a year, getting to step on to this court before she died. it was while playing during her senior year in high school that lauren started to experience

headaches, dizziness. an mri revealed an inoperable brain tumor. but even through radiation and chemotherapy, lauren remained strong. >> never give up. motto's never give up. not that she ever did before. so i don't imagine that it would change now. >> it doesn't change much. >> but she's still never giving up. >> i never gave up for a second even when they told me that i have a terminal diagnosis and i never for a second thought about sitting down and like just not living life any more. >> reporter: to lauren that made keeping her commitment to the college team she'd signed with before her diagnosis. she still wanted to try to play, but this summer crushing news. her tumor was advancing quickly. doctors didn't expect her to live past this december. >> because i can't do anything. >> reporter: but while her cancer was incurable, basketball was a different story. the school petitioned the ncaa

to move its first game up by two weeks so lauren would still be in good enough health to play. tickets were in such high demand officials moved the game from a 2,000-seat arena to one that holds 10,000 and the game still sold out in less than an hour. finally, sunday, lauren took the court. and as she scored the game's first basket, the entire building erupted. >> number 22. we will remember that layup forever. >> reporter: at halftime lauren received an award for her courage from women's basketball legend pat summitt. >> this is a very big surprise. i'm just happy that everyone's here and supporting this and funding research for cancer. we're going to fight this and we're going to find a cure. >> reporter: after it was all over, gratitude and renewed strength for the fight ahead. >> today has been the best day

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and good evening from the cnn election center in washington, d.c. you're watching a special edition of "360," america's choice 2014. the shape of president obama's final two years in office, potentially who gets on the supreme court and a whole lot more. the ultimate outcome on the senate might not be known until january. there are so many races that have tightened in the last 48 hours. a big night ahead. let's start things off with john king. >> let's just remember the senate is the key battle tomorrow. 55-45. if we look at the races we're going to watch, let's get three out of the way.

republicans will likely pick up montana, south dakota and west virginia. that would leave you with 45-45 which underscores the stakes here. republicans have late momentum but we'll get early clues as to whether they can deliver on that. number one, kentucky and georgia close at 7:00. can mcconnell keep his job and are african-americans voting in states where the democratic nominee has pushed the president away? allison grimes won't even say in kentucky if she voted for the president. then 7:30 north carolina closing. again the same dynamic. a democratic incumbent in play. 8:00, new hampshire. how are independents voting in this election? in new hampshire independents outnumber democrats and republicans. jeanne shaheen and scott brown are the candidates there. this early race will give us a clue. to keep their marjts democrats have to, what i say, hold the blues. the president won new hampshire twice, north carolina once, iowa and colorado twice. if the democrats are to hold

their majority they have to win the blue states. the problem for the democrats, at the moment, if i give you this scenario, they're losing in colorado. most polls show them losing in iowa. these two states in this scenario eye given them for the democrats. but the polls that close at the end. if that played out like that in those first four states i gave you, you are still at 47-47, then we have some fun. >> this is really all about control of congress and how does that shape up? >> control of the senate. the democrats need 50, joe biden would break the tie if they can get to 50. republicans need 51. if if this scenario played out, if these four states were split and at 47-47, then the last half dozen races. alaska we could be counting until wednesday or thursday. republicans think they'll win this state. let's see if democrats can turn out in the rural areas. kentucky, i'm going to give it to mcconnell. if african-americans turn out in high numbers maybe. this is a race democrats, we'll see you on election day. tom coughlin has led by a narrow

margin. now three on the board. we're at 50-47. that means republicans would need one more. if they can hold their own in kansas, that would do it. but the republicans thing the independent, greg orman might win. he hasn't said which party he'll side with. look at this potential scenario, 50 republicans, 47 democrats. two red states, president obama's under water in these states. if democrats could win them both, then at 50-49, greg orman decides who controls in the senate by making his choice. do we get an answer in georgia tomorrow night? we might. somebody has to get 50% plus one. those are the state laws in georgia and louisiana. but if conceivably michelle nunn could win there, excuse me, and then we come out to here, louisiana could decide control of the united states senate although republicans thing they're going to get one there. the most likely scenario is a republican majority, the

democrats still have a very narrow window to hold it. eight or ten races right now in single digits. >> possible we might not know until the beginning of the year. >> possibly 49-48, 49-49. a december runoff in louisiana and january 6th in george ya. and if orman wins he could be sitting there holding his cards as the most powerful man in america for two months. >> as john mentioned there's a good reason we might be up all night tomorrow. a lot of the country may wake up on wednesday not knowing who controls the senate. more now from jim sciutto. >> william jefferson clinton. >> reporter: tomorrow's election may seem all about democrats and republicans, but control of the senate may come down to an independent and two libertarians. here in kansas, millionaire businessman greg orman is an independent running neck and neck with republican pat roberts, a 34-year gop capitol hill veteran.

no democrat is competing here. orman has coyly avoided which party he'll caucus with if he wins, but he does have a message resonating with voters from both parties. >> washington's broken, we all know it. i believe we can have another american century if we elect problem solvers not extreme partisans. >> reporter: he may sound like this woman in georgia. >> republicans and democrats have failed us with the same old broken promises for decades. >> reporter: despite big names on both sides there, democrat michelle nunn daughter of senator sam nunn and david perdue cousin of a former governor and amanda swofford shaking up this race where democrats have a shot at picking up a republican seat. she's only polling in the single digits, but that could be enough to force a runoff in a state requiring 50% to win. the runoff means this race and the question of senate control may not be settled until january.

then there's north carolina, another race too close to call. libertarian sean haw is a political novice, a pizza deliveryman who has made a name with himself with folksy ads recorded in his campaign manager's basement. >> i'm sean hall. we need to stop all war and stop spending more money than we have. >> reporter: his stand on legalizing marijuana has lit up the unusual campaign slogan, get haugh, get high. >> get haugh, get high. >> reporter: like swofford in georgia, haugh is polling in the single digits but enough to steal support from the major party candidates. does he steal more from thom tillis or democrat incumbent kay hagan? >> at this point quite a slogan there, get haugh, get high. seems like for some of these third party candidates, their popularity comes really out of frustration with the republicans and the democrats? >> no question, frustration,

even anger at dysfunction in washington. it makes sense. all of us have felt it at some time. these races are dominated by the major party candidates. the ultimate math is about nine out of ten incumbents will still win. you speak to the candidates here in kansas city and you see both sides seeing something in their favor. orman's favor on the independent side, they're seeing voters energized by that frustration, people who wouldn't normally vote in midterm elections coming out for an independent. but you speak to the republican campaign for pat roberts, and they say they're seeing strength from republicans at their frustration and their anger at president obama, two very powerful forces in this particular election year. and those about evening out right now, this is a dead heat. >> jim sciutto, thanks a lot. a lot to watch. let's bring in paul begala, gloria borger, alex castellanos. are there any surprises tomorrow

night? >> certainly. no, it's guarantee. this is what's great about this business is that stuff happens. we were not on basic cable, i'd use a different phrase. i can't predict it. they used to pay me a lot of money to run these campaigns, but to predict them, i don't have a good crystal ball at all. we could be here all night tomorrow. >> what are you watching in particular? >> i think there are going to be surprises because people want to flee from the democratic party but they don't want to go to a republican party. that's a lot of tension. so yes, there are going to be surprises. the race i'm watching is colorado because there's a different kind of republican, a new republican, cory gardner. it turns out it's legal for republicans to run and smile. >> he does smile. >> he's an optimist. he's got a vision for the future. we may be seeing the next generation of republican come into being this election. colorado's the one i'm watching. >> how about you? >> i'm watching the vote turnouts, in the early vote democrats have done an

outstanding, 180 some million voter contacts 60% better than 2010 so democrats have actually sort of got the idea that we can't have 2010 again so we got to pull our voters out. you see it in north carolina and georgia where 20% of the voters are dropout voters, voters that hadn't been participating in the midterm elections before. in colorado a larger expanded elect tore at. that's what i'm watching. >> is there an issue for those voters? >> i worked for a guy named howard dean who said half the job is showing up. in 2010 we didn't do a good job of reaching out and touching our voters. republicans do a good job of touching the base. >> in the age of ebola, are you allowed to touch? >> i look at these races and the democrats are rerunning 2010. >> that's pretty good. >> no, but they're going after the constituencies without obama, right? so they're going after women. women's issues have been, you

know, women's health issues have been a huge campaign issue to the point where they're calling senator udall senator uterus. >> single issue. >> and it's backfired. it's really backfired. >> that will be a key thing to watch tomorrow night because who would have thought with the economy stagnate, the world on fire, all these huge problems, that it would be democrats saying, little women, don't worry your pretty heads about anything other than gender issues. making just that narrow and that small an appeal when our problems are so large, i think can be demeaning and insulting. it may come back to bite them. >> issues are important. going back to colorado, they said the same thing about bennett. and that bennett wouldn't win. >> i think they're a little more nervous. >> you talked recently to vice president biden. >> i did. >> no matter who wins, the white house still has to deal with

them. >> first of all, he's saying the democrats are going to win. the eternal optimist, and that's what he has to say. i did ask him, let's take that scenario you don't want to think about that republicans win control of the congress. what then would the white house do? so take a look. what if that were to be the case? >> well, i don't think it would change anything in terms of what we're about. we know we have to get done the last two years, and quite frankly, going into 2016, the republicans have to make a decision whether they're in control or not in control or they're going to begin to allow things to happen or are they going to continue to be obstructionists? i think they're going to choose to get things done. >> i think that's being a little optimistic, but what he's trying to do -- >> i want a case of what he's drinking. >> but what he's trying to do is say we're the ones who are going to compromise, we'll put out that olive branch. i think the republicans --

>> if the senate does go to republicans, who gets the blame? >> the president will. it's his presidency. >> not harry reid? president obama. >> two years ago president obama got 53%. today he's at 45 in our poll but that includes places like new york and california which really don't have senate races this year, right? so in the contested seats he's lucky to hit 40 which means roughly one out of four people who voted for him are now disenchanted. i love to rail about the tea party and they're horrible people and what not, that's not what's killing them. the democratic party is economically depressed. >> what is the disappointment based on? >> i'm not in complete agreement with my friend here. it's a pox on all their houses. you can't take this outside the context of the reality we live in where -- you know who the most unpopular people right now are? republicans in congress. even less popular than democrats. the context here. the context here also when you

look back at reagan and look back at clinton, there wasn't a 20-point gap differential between their disapproval and that of congress. you have that now. so although the president's numbers aren't great but a pox on all their houses right now. >> but the guy in charge, the guy who lifted the country's hopes up, the guy everyone invested in, millennials are walking away from the president. that's barack obama. those people on cnn wearing thos haz-mat suits some are medical professionals protecting us from ebola. but a lot are democratic candidates that -- >> well -- >> the president. the guy is a political hazard. >> president obama was the reason why we held these seats. you can't have it both ways. he can have all the blame but if we hold these well then is it president obama's fault that we withheld these seats? >> things are going great. 60% of the country thinks we're

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here's a question that might leave you feeling cynical about the candidates you have a choice of tomorrow. what do an alleged fraudster and felon have in common? they all want to be members of congress. what's more, almost all of them have a shot at getting elected tomorrow. more on who those characters are -- >> reporter: the candidates may be a better fit for a soap opera than a ballot. there's the house candidate from california who is accused of sexually harassing a campaign staffer. and the new york congressman federally indicted on tax fraud. and then there's the duo from the bayou, the kissing congressman and an exgovernor turned ex-con. 2014 is a great year for bad boys of congress. it's unusual in the sense that we've rarely seen this many members who were in trouble

personally or legally with strong chances to win re-elections. >> welcome to south louisiana. >> reporter: after serving almost nine years in prison after an extortion conviction, edwin edwards is back in louisiana. he was elected to four terms as a democratic governor using such colorful campaign slogans as, vote for the crook. it's important. >> my god is not finished with me. >> reporter: but this time around he has a tougher race as a democrat running in a district romney won 2-1 in the 2012 presidential race. also in louisiana, vance mcallister better known as the kissing congressman. after getting caught on tape making out with his scheduler, mcallister dropped his re-election bid only to jump back into the race a few months later with his wife by his side. >> i'm blessed to have a husband who owns up to his mistakes. >> reporter: in california candidate dimaio faces serious

charges of sexual harassment. >> he reached over into my lap and grabbed my crotch. and i flipped out. >> reporter: demayo denies the allegations saying his accuser broke into his campaign office after he was fired, though no charges were filed. after week os bad headlines, the race is still neck and neck. >> we'll fight tooth and nail until i'm finally exonerated. >> reporter: michael grimm to face charges of criminal justice and tax evasion is pulling slightly ahead of his opponent despite a serious lack of interpersonal skills. despite that, he won rudy giuliani's endorsement. political experts say increased partisanship means that candidates' baggage often matters less than whether they have a d or an r after their name. >> as long as you're wearing the

right-colored jersey in your district, it doesn't matter if you will be wearing a jumpsuit in a couple months, you still have a shot at winning. >> that's just the congressional candidates. in rhode island a two-time exconvict is running for mayor of providence. actually, he's running to become mayor again. he left office twice. first time after pleading no contest to assault charges. the second on a federal racketeering conviction. to talk about the appeal of colorful political figures is paul begala and alex castellanos. >> why us? >> two altar boys here. >> clearly being a thief or a sexual harasser is a step up from being a congressman so -- >> is it unusual crop or -- >> it seems like it. we should take it seriously and all that, but this goes back to the founding -- mark twain said that this was no distinctly native class of criminal america except for the congress of the united states. it is kind of amazing, it really is. but people always say, i live in

washington, raising my children here, what's such a terrible place. actually it's a great place. but the people that live here that sucks. the people i have a problem with. >> the problem with democracy, we elect people just like us. very representative. it actually work. scandal doesn't usually beat politicians. >> it does not. >> wilbur mills fell into the tidal pool with a stripper, was re-elected after that. huey long was caught selling state land to fund the lsu football team. he said i'm the official thief of lsu. scandal, lie, because it's not about me the voter at all. >> is it how somebody handles the scandal in terms of whether they survive it? >> people don't have very high standards for politicians these days. they're worried more about their money than money politicians may be putting in their pocket. that's just been the history. scandal usually doesn't beat politicians. >> you look in louisiana, which, you know, i love the state of

louisiana, you got -- >> it's the state art. >> you got two very colorful candidates right there. >> but that's part of the culture. i think in louisiana, you can be liberal, you can be conservative, you cannot be boring. edwin edwards, he'll make a runoff certainly for that congressional seat. but he's out of prison now. if he were running in wisconsin, minnesota, no chance. a different political culture there. god bless louisiana. >> they've always had colorful figures. part of it is you have to be big enough to gather that public attention. so they figure you're not entirely perfect, but in louisiana wasn't it edwin edwards who said the only thing i have in common with david duke, i'm also a wizard but without the sheets? they have a high tolerance for colorful characters. >> the so-called kissing congressman who dropped out then decided to come back in the race. >> here's the secret. politicians don't run for office. they run against each other. one of them has to win.

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welcome back. keeping them honest tonight with what could be called a new example of congress for sale. drew griffin has done extensive reporting on this. the legal, the kind of quishy symbiosis between lobbyists and members of congress. sometimes they go on fancy golf vacations together, sometimes on luxe weekend retreats, but they don't even have to leave washington for this potent mix of money and politics. tonight we go to a private fund-raiser that shows how there are many congressional offices that are revolving doors for lobbies. >> you can come to this town just about any day of the week, morning, noon or night, and find these fund-raisers everywhere, which is what we decided to do

tonight, literally killing time. we found a doozy of a fund-raiser for somebody you might know but played hard to get. here's the fund-raiser's invite for none other than nancy pelosi, former speaker of the house and now its democratic leader. and there were quite a few people, a dozen, listed as sponsors. remember that. it's going to get interesting. just like the interesting way the restaurant and pelosi's staff would try to keep us from seeing what was going on. it would take place at the very public rosa mexicana restaurant in d.c., a cocktail reception. but this would not be a public event. a $500 donation is needed to get you in the door. and as we stood out front, waiters began covering up those glass doors with table cloths, preventing us from peeking inside. and though the donors and lobbyists and some politicians would all be arriving through the very public front door, it

was our intrepid intern with an iphone who caught nancy pelosi surrounded by staff and security slipping into a side entrance heading down a long hallway of an office building and entering the restaurant through a kitchen. why all the secrecy? let's do a little fact check on those 12 names of people serving as nancy pelosi's hosts for the evening. all of them are former staffers, advisers or aides to nancy pelosi. and all but one of them now work as a lobbyist. a few examples, mikaela fernandez, now the chief d.c. lobbyist for walmart. howard moon lobbyist for the drug company amgen and cindy jimenez who lobbies for united technologies. we reached out to all for comment. nobody responded. >> it used to be that a position as a senior staffer on capitol hill or in a congressional

committee would be the pinnacle of one's career. now it's more typical that a staffer will come in, do their stint in a member's office or on a committee and hightail it to k street where they can collect a much, much bigger paycheck at a really young age. >> reporter: the center for responsive politics keeps track of all these revolving door lobbyists, people who work on capitol hill, learn the trade so to speak, and graduate to the more lucrative field of lobbying their former bosses. and this lobbying university is churning out lots and lots of graduates. the center for responsive politics lists nancy pelosi's office as having launched the careers of 29 lobbyists. >> that's exactly why they're hired by k street, to convert that expertise on an issue to legislative influence for a particular company or organization. >> reporter: according to the

center, pelosi doesn't even rank in the top ten of politicians who have revolving doors with the lobbying business. the all-time leader is former senator ted kennedy with 61 people who bounce between lobbying and being part of his staff. former senator hillary clinton ranks second at 51. the rest of the top ten all from the senate and five are democrats, five are republicans. so if everybody does it and it's perfectly legal, why hide it? that's what we wanted to ask congresswoman pelosi on this now rainy tuesday night outside rosa mexicana. so we waited until she came out that back way through the kitchen, down that hallway, for a rather brief interview. >> how are you? >> good. >> interesting fund-raiser tonight. >> it was great. >> all your alumni from the staff seemed to be hosting it for you. >> a family affair.

>> reporter: critics of too much money in politics couldn't have said it better themselves. >> it's a family affair. it really seems to be. so it's $500 to get into the door of that event. where does that money go, exactly, do we know? >> this money goes to the democratic congressional campaign committee of which pelosi has taken charge of. and really her main job in washington is for raising money for her democratic party. republicans do this, too. but just today, anderson, nancy pelosi and the democratic congressional campaign committee released this statement touting her ability to raise money. $100 million. more than $100 million in this election cycle. she's gone to 750 fund-raising or campaigning events since 1992 she's raised i think -- 2002 i should say, she's raised $460 million. clear from all reporting that the main job of these people in congress is to raise money for

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for going public. the account is said to put a name and a face to an earlier telling of it to "esquire" magazine where the s.e.a.l. team remained anonymous. what happened inside the compound including who specifically took the shot that killed bin laden. more on the account from brian todd. >> reporter: they spent 40 minutes on the ground but what happened in a crucial few seconds that is now among

dispute among the s.e.a.l.s that killed so sam ma bosama bin lad. one said he was the man who fired the kill shots. three s.e.a.l.s move up to the third floor of the compound in abad da bag, pakistan. the shooter moves into a bedroom. by his account, there's a gun within bin laden's reach. as he tells phil bronstein in esquire, he fired two shots at bin laden. he shot him once in the forehead and another time when he was going down and at the foot of the bed when he was probably already dead. >> reporter: but another s.e.a.l. part of the team that executed the rate now tells security analyst peter bergen this. >> the piece in esquire magazine is inaccurate. it was not that person who fired the shot. it was the point man who fired the shot at bin laden and hit him in the head. >> reporter: this animation

tells that version. the point man fires from the area of the stairs as bin laden is peering out the door of the bedroom. that's the first shot that hits him. bin laden's gravely wounded. the point man bundles the two women aside. >> two s.e.a.l.s came in, one to shooter and finished him off on the floor. >> reporter: that's consistent with the account of the former s.e.a.l. who wrote the book "no easy day" under the pseudonym mark owen. he was one of the s.e.a.l.s on the floor. here's what he told "60 minutes." >> after bin laden is wounded, he's still moving. you shot him twice? >> a handful of times. >> a handful of times and the s.e.a.l. in the stack behind you also shot bin laden and at that point his body was still? >> yes. >> reporter: why should we believe the s.e.a.l. that spoke to you and not the one who spoke to esquire who was also right there? >> i did a little bit of digging

around with former s.e.a.l. team six members. they said on balance they found bizzenette to be a more credible person than the one in esquire. >> peter bergen is the author of the book man hunt, the search for osama bin laden. this goes against the whole ethos of the s.e.a.l.s, not to go into the detail of an operation like this. >> sure, but i guess the counterargument is that quite a lot of senior officials have talked about this or have written books about it and we just had a book from cia director leon panetta who, of course, was critical to the planning of this in which he gets into some of this. so i think that -- i'm not trying to defend what has happened here, but i think if a defense was to be made, it would be, hey, other people have talked about this. of course, as you said, anderson, in the community, particularly in the seal team six group, which is great

unhappiness about anybody coming forward and talking about it in any detail. >> and you talked to people, i understand, in the s.e.a.l. community who cast doubt about what this guy is saying? >> we're never going to know what happened that night. the compound is now demolished. it was a very, very difficult night to know what was going on. there was no moon, there was no electricity. people were wearing night vision goggles. there was a fire fight. the whole thing took about at most 15 minutes. there was a helicopter crash. it was a deeply confusing situation. certainly the consensus is there was a point man who shot the kill shot for bin laden. that person is, by all accounts, not going to identify himself. being two now people who have identified themselves, one with a pseudonym, the other who is supposedly going to come on fox and out himself with his real name. and i think that there was quite a lot of unhappiness particularly about this new person, his account is very heroic. it doesn't really match with

what we do know what happened that night, which is that there was a shot and that it wasn't one person taking bin laden down as he reached for his weapons as this new person seems to be suggesting. >> i understand that some of your sources inside the s.e.a.l.s told you that this person had been sort of bragging about this in local bars. >> yeah, and apparently he was demoted from the red squadron which was the squadron that did the raid. he was sort of -- because he was being too public rather early on. so there's quite a lot of unhappiness. i think that as this story develops, i think you're going to see a lot of push back on this guy's account of what happened that night. >> do we know why he's coming forward? >> i really don't, anderson. because i think he's putting himself in a great deal of legal jeopardy. thing of what happened to matt

bissonette. >> he doesn't have a book. >> he is putting himself in a fair amount of legal jeopardy to be part of a documentary on fox where he takes credit for the kill of bin laden. >> they all site confidentiality. >> they all sign agreements. the mere naming this guy, his actual identity is supposed to be covert. forget about any details of the raid that he might produce. so there is supposed to be a cone of silence. he seems to have decided to go outside it. >> we'll see what happens with that. coming up next, a nurse who does not have ebola was also determined enough to take on two governors who wanted to confip her to quarantine.

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welcome back. so many unlikely issues have made an impact on the 2014 campaign including what to do about the ebola virus whether to quarantine anyone who comes home after caring for patients in west africa. today kaci hickox, the nurse who is the central figure in the debate, cut a deal with authorities in her home state of maine. it permits her to travel freely in public and requires her to

monitor her health closely and runs through the 10th of this month. quite an improvement over the tent she was confined to after volunteering in west africa. since then she's been sharply critical of chris christie and paul lepage, the governor of maine. i spoke to kaci earlier this evening. you've now reached an agreement with the state. even though you're allowed to go wherever you want, you say you won't go into town and you won't go into crowded public places. why did you make that decision? >> you know, the truth is i completely understand that this town has been through a lot, and there's still a lot of fears and misinformation out there. i think we need to start addressing those issues. but it's also true that i only moved here to ft. kent, maine, in august. so there ar lot of people who don't know me. i'm still an outsider. i just want to respect their wishes. but i hope in one day in the near future i can come back from an ebola assignment and walk

into the grocery store and people would smile and say hi. >> can you explain why you -- why you fought the way you did? because there are a lot of people -- and i got tweets from a lot of people saying look, out of an overabundance of caution, people are afraid, you should just stay in your house, just agree the be quarantined. coming back to the newark airport and seeing complete chaos and disorganization and no leadership was a really frustrating sight to see. and when policies are put in place and sort of the policies aren't organized well and staff aren't trained well, it's just a scary situation. but of course the biggest reason that i thought is because i, you know, felt so much fear and confusion and i imagined what my fellow aid workers were going to feel if they came back to this same situation. and the more i thought about the fact that these policies are

being made by politicians, really not the experts in the field, the more i felt like i had no choice but to fight back. >> when governor christie says that it was an abuntance of caution that was motivating him you don't buy that? >> i don't buy that at all. again, whenever we're making policies, especially something as extreme as quarantine, in the history of using quarantine in public health, you know, this is something that has to be really consider considered. it is an extreme policy. and there is no science behind it with this disease. we know that ebola has not transmitted as easily as many other diseases. and that self-monitoring and even an enhanced version, which is what most states in the u.s. are going to now, this direct active monitoring where the health department is more involved, this will work. >> the thing i don't understand, your partner, your boyfriend is a nursing student at the university of maine.

and i understand he's still staying away from his school's campus. the university is saying it's voluntary. is that in fact the case? because i would think of all the places that would understand that -- i mean, first of all, you're not sick. you're not contagious. so he's certainly not sick and certainly not contagious. so why does he have to stay away from a nursing school? i would think of all the people that would understand that, the people at a nursing school would understand that. >> yeah. i mean, i think this is, you know, an even deeper level of this issue, that these quarantine policies are not only going to affect the aid work er returning but it's going to end up affecting their entire families. what if i had children and my, you know, child's elementary school decided to say, well, we don't want your kid coming back because they're going to have contact with you. again, it's not based on any science or evidence, but it's scary. i can't comment too much directly about my partner specifically. but the dean of academic affairs

of the school, you know, went on national tv and said ted wasn't going to be allowed to go to school. and this is the exact example of how when we flame the fear instead of really facing it we all lose. and again, i think we have to be very careful about allowing our rights to be taken away really based on hysteria instead of science. >> what effect do you hope your fight will have for other aid workers when they come back, either through how they're treated at the airport or by politicians or how they decide to react to demands for quarantine? >> yeah, i think the fight is not over. even in the state of maine, you know, my court's ruling is just for my case. the state of maine policy that was written on the 28th of this month -- of last month, sorry, still says that anyone who has had contact with a patient in west africa will be put under

in-home quarantine. so the battle is not over. and i think all of the states -- and i'd like to see more leadership at the national level as well. we really need evidence-based policies. and these knee-jerk reactions, you know, they're just not being well thought out. >> well, kaci, i really appreciate all you've done for many, many years for a lot of people overseas and all around the world. thank you so much for talking to us. >> thank you. >> coming up next, the clock ticking toward election day. i'll ask our political panel about the one thing they'll be looking for tomorrow night. next. i have the worst cold with this runny nose.

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back with our political panel for some final thoughts on election day eve. democratic strategist paul begala and cornel welch. what's the big thing you're going to look at? >> african-american turnout. a lot of people are betting african-americans won't turn out. a lot of states have put barriers into the vote that disadvantage minority communities. >> cornel? >> i know we're looking at something we're not covering here but it's really important in most of these states. the governor's races. and across the country from michigan to kansas you have republican governors on the ropes.

this is all about obama. why are there more republican governors in trouble than democratic -- >> why do you think that is? >> because they're doing a bad job of governing. >> charlie baker could be the next governor, a republican, in massachusetts, and if so he could become a national rock star. but also, do republicans think their ideas and principles are good for more than saying no to everything? colorado. there's an optimistic positive republican. could be the future of the republican party. >> so are you interested in governor races? >> terribly. the most important one to me, kansas. blood red state. romney won by 22 points. the republican governor there is on the ropes. he's had no major scandal. he's done what republicans say they want. he's cut taxes enormously and cut spending. turns out people in kansas don't like that very much because the spending is schools. and the taxes many people believe are being cut just for the rich folks. sam brownback, the governor of kansas, is on the ropes. that's unimaginable to me in a blood red state like that. >> a lot to watch for. paul begala, thanks. alex castellanos.

cornel belcher. be sure to join us tomorrow night for our special election night conk. kr "cnn tonight" starts now. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. this is america's choice. 2014. we are just hours away from the first polls opening on election day, and this could be one of those times when things change a lot. with senate races in 36 states across the country and republicans needing a net gain of just six seats to win a majority. the gop could almost taste a victory. but what's at stake? which are the key races? and is president obama really the elephant in the room? plus, why you should never, ever, ever mention a female candidate in the same breath as taylor swift. we're going to get to all of that tonight with cnn's political dream team. want to bring in cnn's michelle kosinski at the white house first and our chief congressional correspondent dana bash is with us as well. also our chief political analyst gloria borger. i do have a dream team. three really smart,