the book "talking to strangers" is out now. news continues right now. i want to hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> it is an exciting time and tonight matters, my friend. we should get our best look by for the state of play for the 202010 election by seeing what happens in north carolina's special elections for congress tonight. you have to look at these elections in light of the two polls that just came out, abc and cnn, both out today showing that the president has slipped in support, the economy a concern. confidence in him flagging. so the vote that is being counted right now will show what does that translate into in a district that should be a layup for republicans, north carolina's 9th district. we got all the big shots here. john king working the magic wall, our top team here to make look smarter and tell us what is at stake in this tally. plus tonight alyssa milano is here to talk about her face-to-face meeting with ted cruz on gun violence that ended

just hours ago. what do you think? can the celebrity and senator put politics aside and find any common ground? it's a turbulent tuesday. let's go after it. all right. the voters in north carolina's 9th district have just had their say at the polls. again, the gop should win the seat. trump won it by a dozen points. so did romney, but doubts about this president gave democrats, if you look at the numbers, about a 12-point swing in midterm races in some red districts. will we see more slippage tonight? this is important enough that the president was down there last night rallying the maga troops. so to campaign for dan bishop, he is the republican running. but let's be honest. it's not about him. this is about a proxy for the president, dan mccready, as you see on your screen, is the democrat. it is very close.

it is getting closer. it should not be a surprise if the republican wins but we want to see by how much. what could happen here in light of what happened in that 2018 earlier midterm wave. now, in that district, remember why the 9th district matters right now, why we have to have a special election. there were allegations of voter fraud. mccready lost by hundreds of votes or something. very small the last time. the person he was running against is out, they needed a new election. so let's bring in john king to give us the state of play. what is the latest, my friend? >> the latest is dan mccready, the democrat, continuing to lead in this race. i want to emphasize we're still counting. 38% reporting in the 9th district. as you noted, we shouldn't be having this conversation tonight. this should be a rock solid republican district. they've held it since 1963. president trump carried it by 12 points. but will 2018 carry over? will the republican party's problems in the suburbs carry over? will presidential visits not have the juice?

the president's visit was last night. let's take a look at some of the districts here. this is mecklenburg county. hillary clinton carried mecklenburg county in 2016. but donald trump carried this part. i want to go back in time. look, president trump, then candidate trump carried this part of the district, the part of mecklenburg district that is in north carolina 9. not by a lot, but the president carried it. what are we seeing tonight so far, dan mccready, the democrat, winning it a lot at the moment. only 4% in mecklenburg county. as we go lew the other counties, so far it looks like this number when it goes up, can mccready hold the lead, anything like that in the biggest part of the district? that is the defining question of the moment as we move through the rest of the race. union county is the second largest county. we're up to 67%. whoa, dan bishop doing what he needs to do, he is winning a republican county by 20 points. that's not bad, but margins matter in politics. can't compare a presidential race and a house race, but you can say president trump won this county by 30 points.

republicans need these more rural counties. this is a test. the president was right there telling his people, we need you, come out. at the moment, dan bishop is winning, but maybe not by the margin he needs. third largest county is right here, robeson county. dan mccready winning by a healthy margin. the early vote tends to come in for the democrats and then we watch the day of the election voting, see if the republican catches up. you're comparing this in a district republicans have held forever. president trump con this county by about five points. the republican won by four or five points in the presidential election. the democrat is winning it right now by 20 points. if you're in republican headquarters, that concerns you. and lastly, we talked about the suburbs. mecklenburg county, the charlotte areas, they've been moving away from the republican party. president trump has put that on steroids. will it happen here in the fayetteville mccready winning.

president trump carried this part of the district, just barely. margins matter in close races. if you're look agent this map as it fills in right now, 38%. so we've got about 40% of the vote in. the democrat is ahead. if the democrats are even close, republicans are going to have jitters. if this holds up, if dan mccreed city the next congressman from north carolina 9, the president is going to be questioning can i get my voters out and you're going see a lot more republican retirements. >> margins matter. wins matter even more. is there any population center that would be responsible for any movement? >> two. i'm going start again over here. you look where the people are, right? this is the largest part of the district, again, mecklenburg county. that's where charlotte is not in the district. uncounted votes are right here in the battleground part of this new battleground. never before, but now battles ground district. again, republicans have held this district since 1963.

i'm calling it a dalt ground tonight tells you everything you need to know about the climate. this is the largest unknown at the moment. as this vote number goes up, they left some polls open because of some people in line. i suspect that's why the number is low and the counting is slow. this is the one to watch here. and to come to the other end of the district you look here. this was republican. in the presidential race. if dan mccready can hold on by that kind of margin, it's not just in the suburbs, it's starting to stretch out into the rural areas as well. what does that tell you? it tells you even though the vice president went and donald trump jr. went, if this county over here, now at 26%, if that stays blue, the trump campaign is going to be thinking what do we need to do to do a better job getting our people out. >> all right. anything you see that swings your interest, let me know and i'll come right back. let's bring in the experts. we have david chalian and dana bash.

mccready is running the same race he ran the last time. he was very close. they had to rerun the race. dan bishop seems to be a solid candidate for the gop. all the buzz is about what this means for the president. that fair? >> they had to rerun the race because the north carolina border election refused to certify it because of those fraud issues that occurred there. you are right. bishop is running the same race. he is running on health care. he is putting his bioforward, his veteran status forward. he's not doing the trump bashing thing, right this is a really red district. so he's running like all those democrats that ran in 2018 that delivered the house majority to speaker pelosi. so they're following that playbook. you are right to note bishop, the republican, doesn't have the stink of the fraud issue on him the way mark harris did, the previous guy that was there. so bishop is a republican that perhaps fits this district better. i will tell you one thing, though. he does have the bathroom bill. remember that famous bill? >> yeah.

where john is talking about the suburbs and independents, that has the potential the turn some voters off that perhaps bishop needs tonight. >> i was looking for an indication, dana, that this really isn't about the president, the voters there are upset that there seemed to be something fraudulent going on there. >> there was a reason it wasn't certified. >> right. >> but again, dan bishop is seen as a different person. he is seen as a high character person. he does have that culture war mark on his side. you look at registration in north carolina, there are more democrats but those are blue dog democrats. so if it's two points, they need some recounting, the republican wins, is it a win is a win is a win or is it something else? >> look, a win is a win is a win. the fact that we are talking about this is a big deal. i mean, you asked david if there are the expectation games, if they're playing it. they're playing it big time in washington.

steve scalise, the majority whip today said the is a swing district. this is not a swing district. if this is a swing district, i want him to show us. 1963. 1963. that's kind of a joke. you know how this goes in polit. if the republicans win, as they should based on the history of this district, they're going to breathe a sigh of relief and they should still look into the numbers and to the voters and the messages and what this does mean going forward for 2020. if the democrats win, forget it. i mean, this is going to be a five-alarm fire looking at 2020 because, yes, this is one -- potentially one of several as you mentioned at the top of the show suburban districts that trump won that could potentially go to the democrats, but this is as ruby and as red as we've seen even on real election day in 2018.

>> chris, remember, north carolina, that's going to be a big battleground state in 2020. i know this is just one district. never mind to try to extrapolate fully for president trump, he needs north carolina. if we're starting to see some erosion tonight, that's going to be a big problem just in the map to 270. >> especially on the same day they're trying to convince themselves that the two separate polls that came out aren't true, you get a result that goes against you, it's a problem. let me take a quick break. stay with me. harry with spell out for us the wizard of odds about what's going on in the polling and why we're looking at it in tandem with this election. the wizard of odds will tell us who is not as enthusiastic about this president, what does it mean tonight and what does it mean for 2020? the whiz, nice shirt, next. welcome to fowler, indiana. one of the windiest places in america.

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a better job than i'm doing as president. now, why would he say something that screams of such insecurity? i'll tell you why. a new cnn poll, special election in north carolina is a big deal because it will be a test of what we see in the numbers that show a slippage of support at the wrong time. what does the wizard of odds harry entin see here? >> okay, here is the perspective and i will give it to you. we see president trump's approval rating at 39%. back to april, 43, 43, 43, 49. he's dropped four points from april to september. now, you might say to yourself that's one poll. but take a look at this. i think this is really important. we have an abc news/"washington post" poll. take a look at this. from late june, early july, he was at 44% back then. take a look now. late august, early september, he's dropped six points cnn, the

same point drop during that period. we're seeing that across the board that the president is dropping by mid single digits, and of course the president had a pretty steady approval rating. so a five-point drop is a big deal. is that translating to the ballot test? well, as a matter of fact it is. take a look at this. does donald trump deserve reelection? only 36% of americans say yes at this point. 60% say no. and i think this is rather important, too. take a look here. this was an earlier poll done by quinnipiac university. we're seeing the same thing going on here. president trump's number 38% to 48% versus all the potential democratic nominees who are all up at least 9 points over him. let's translate this over to north carolina's 9th district court. because i think this is rather important. remember in north carolina's 9th district. what did we say? we saw in 2016 donald trump winning that district by 12 points. the same thing. mitt romney won that district by 12 points in 2012. but of course, remember, what did we say back in 2017 to 2018

in the special elections? we saw the average democrat outperform that 2016 margin by 12 points, and if that of course happens tonight, we're going to have a very, very tight race on our hands. >> harry, that was excellent and thank you. those are all the numbers. let's bring back dana and david here. the why becomes very important. my suggestion is looking at the cross tabs as available in some of these early polls, the president's mouth is getting in his way. the economy, depending on how you want to look at it, it hard to look at it and say it bad. it's pretty easy to look to say it's good, it's the best ever, until you look at it versus the president saying it's the best ever, it's the best for everybody. china, trade, the tariffs putting pressures on him, fighting with powell, creating recessionary concerns in the markets. these are all on his mouth, not the metrics. >> or what's not on his mouth is the fact that he's maybe just talking about those issues, not talking about the good news.

there are bruises on the heads of so many trump campaign people from banging it against the wall because their boss, the president, doesn't use this incredible tool that he has, twitter, to talk exclusively about the economy. and instead picking fights with, you know, reporters and people in hollywood and all kinds of other things that gets in the way of the message and now that the economy is showing signs of weakness, his opponents are jumping on it and they are being relentless in talking about the negative signs in the economy. and that is maybe one of the biggest telltale signs. there are lots of them, warning signs for the president in this poll that he's not yet totally underwater on his approval on the economy, but he's pretty close and it's as bad as it's been in seven months, right? >> yeah, yeah. we haven't seen it dip below 50%. his approval on the economy in seven months.

that's where he is now. he took what is an advantage, right, and it now an even shot for him on the economy. it used to be the strong suit and now it's a your right to know trade as well. those numbers are down. every issue other than the economy, he doesn't crack 40% approval on any issue except the economy and now that's an even play. the one thing that is really intriguing to me, chris, this reelect number, 60% saying he doesn't deserve reelection, we tested that a couple years ago. it is about the same result. that is what is astonishing to me. we are two and a half years in and he hasn't added a voter in many ways. you see it across the board. 80% of the country says donald trump has changed the country and of those more say changed for the bad than changed for the good and that has been on the rise specifically with independents, who say change for the bad. these are the kinds of signs when i'm constantly looking for seeing since his first day in office where is he adding and i think these numbers show he's not adding at all. >> i'll tell you what, this

should be good news for democrats, but here's what it also means. if he's not growing his tent, and he isn't, that means that whoever is the nominee for the democrats is going to be getting their butt whooped from day one. it will be a relentless bashing to bring down the opponent. so whoever it is better be ready for that kind of fight. so that's why we're looking at north carolina. how much of these polls size up with the reality and actual voting. john king, the man, has new numbers ahead. at t-mobile, we can't give you unlimited summer, but we can give you unlimited talk, text and data for just $30 a line for 4 lines. and that comes on our newest signal. no signal reaches farther or is more reliable. so you can... share more sunsets. stream more videos. and stay connected with friends while you slide into fall. all for just $30/line. and for a limited time, you can get free smartphones too! come to t-mobile now and get new 4 lines of unlimited

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all right. new numbers. take a look at this. the democrat dan mccready just slipped in his lead. all right? you have dan bishop up now half a percentage point. okay, fine. you can say it's too close to call. you have to look at a race like this in terms of where the votes remain. i'll open up to dana and david. we're looking at a laptop here of where the votes remain and we see there's not a lot of vote in yet in a couple of places that >> we should note while you were

talking the votes updated and bishop is a point ahead now. so he may be taking a lead here. in mecklenburg county, this is cumberland county, on the bookends as john king has been pointing out tonight, this is mccready's stronghold areas, and they're big population centers. and that is where most of the vote is out right now. if he could hold big margins -- >> here's what we do know. we still have about a third of the vote to come in. this is a district that should have never been a question. what will the ultimate selection be, we'll take you through it and what it means. but right now let's get to what this whole narrative is about and what the reality is going into this next election cycle. we have w we. dave, let's look at it this way.

you guys should win this one, 9th district tonight. i think it's going to go that way but it should have never been close. what does it mean to you that it is? >> as dana talked earlier, it's people banging their head and having some bruises from talking to the president. >> how you looking there? >> smooth and pretty. >> some big bruise there's from beiging on what we should continue to harp on is a great economic message and not lose sight of that. that's what is going to win and carry these very close districts. look, the president is still very popular in north carolina. he is still 51%. i wouldn't read too much into this either way. mccready's an incredibly great candidate, very attractive young guy who is a marine corps veteran, duke, harvard b. school, mckenzie consultant, entrepreneur, very appealing to folks in the suburban areas. an his opponent, as dana points out, the author of the very controversial bathroom bill, which is very polarizing to the state. you have two very different candidates running. at the end of this day, donald

trump isn't on the ticket here, no matter what we say. he'll be on the ticket in 2020, and we really won't know until then. >> but obviously, waj, the president went down there. he sent his vice president down there. he sent his son down there. i don't know if it was good or bad thing, but they put a lot of attention into this for a reason. how do you read it? >> david, i don't got any bumps on my smooth head because i'm not supporting trump. a republican does not have to die on the orange decrepit hill. he can see the signs. a republican has held the seat since 1963. let's remind the viewers the only reason we're having a special election is because of alleged ballot fraud. commit bade gop operative. mccready only lost by a thousand. by the way, he still might eek this out. >> he is a great candidate. >> and you should be afraid because there has been about a dozen republicans who say they're going to retire, which includes will hurd, which means only one african american congressman left. so if you look at the 2018 midterms, donald trump himself said that was going to be a referendum on trump.

what happened, cuomo? 40 seats were picked up in a blue tsunami. he lost to clinton by 3 million votes. in is not a good sign for republicans. >> i think you got to look at it in context of the polls. what's the chance this president listens to someone like you or someone around him -- i know i said i only follow my own advice. if you talk more about the economy doing well, what we want to do with the health care plan to make it more consumer friendly and you stop running your mouth about all these fights, our poll numbers will go up because he's creating his on problems. >> i don't disagree. obviously, use know, i like to see the president talk about all the positive things, talk about things that unify voters. politics is about addition and not subtraction. so when you talk about things like, that you end up adding to our vote total, not subtracting from it. but as waj pointed out, this is going to be a close election tonight, a close election in 2020, decided by a handful of states and a handful of counties.

to suspect -- to look at this one district as a predictor of what's going to happen in 2020 -- >> no, no, it's just a snapshot in light of the polls. just a snapshot. let's flip the challenge, waj. here's what we know, okay? i don't care what happens tonight in this 9th district, it closer than it should have been. that's going to make them start talking about what are we doing here message-wise, just went down there, thought we had a great rally, didn't come out the way we wanted, why? it's going to wind up being that they have figured out the president can't add to his tent and that's going to lead to his one option, and it's his favorite one anyways, waj. that is whoever you put up, he's going to attack that man or woman from day one. what does that make you think about who you have to put in the position? because they're not going to argue about single payor plans. he's going to be going at whoever it is as a bum from day one. >> republicans have always done that. every single democrat is a flaming socialist.

remember our muslim brother, barack hussein obama, that radical who was going to make you pray towards mecca. you're comparing yourself to trump. compared to trump, every single democratic candidate is a flaming moderate. in that poll you showed all seven are head to head beating trump right now. be bold with your agenda, your policies, your economic policies, your health care policies, your climate change policies are far more popular than donald trump's policies, attack, attack, attack. quit bringing a fork to a gun fight, democrats. fight donald trump. this is what i think donald trump should do. he should go to mar-a-lago and not do anything for an entire year. don't tweet, don't do anything, just golf. because then he would improve the republicans' chances of maybe winning. >> chris, listen, i love waj, but he's way off the mark on this. i went to detroit, i was there with you in detroit and i listened to the parade of folks trying to run to the left. decriminalizing the border, allowing felons to vote from prison, things that just aren't

popular among a wide swath. governor bullock got up there and said to people we're not going to win with this message, folks, let's go real. >> here's what we know for sure. and i hope i'm really wrong about this, but i don't think we're going to see in the election what we are able to do here on this show at night, which is you guys don't check a lot of boxes that you agree with, but you do agree with being decent, and i don't think that's going to happen. i think this is going to be an ugly battle of attrition because the president is going to need that to win. i hope i'm wrong, but we'll see. >> i don't got any bumps on my head. >> nice new haircut, though. don't think i didn't see it. you've got one of the most beautiful heads in the business. >> hair just like me, cuomo. >> neither you have can do this. >> that's the game ender right there. all right. we're going get right back to this razor-close race in north carolina and what should be a ruby red district. when we get the numbers, we'll give them to you. but there was some realtime democracy in action. did you see this?

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the race in the 9th congressional district in north carolina is razor close. the republican is in the lead right now, but remember, trump won it by a dozen points. this should have been a no-brainer for the republicans, a layup. all right. that's politics. what about policy? in an era when opposition is what gets rewarded, we saw something noteworthy. a die-hard conservative senator, ted cruz, and a hollywood liberal activist sat together and discussed the idea of limiting access to weapons. here's our discussion with alyssa milano. >> i look at my children and i'm terrified. i don't know how to keep my children safe. for many people in this country, your stance has made you almost

like this caricature of a villain and that's why this meeting was so important for me because i wanted to be able to look at you in the eye and know that you're really a human with a heartbeat. >> alyssa milano, thank you for being on primetime as always. >> thank you for the opportunity, as always. >> what an interesting day you had. tell us everything, tell us everything. >> well, i was here for the last two days in d.c. on the hill advocating with peter morley, who is a patient advocate, and today i had a meeting with senator cruz on gun violence in america. >> did you think it was going to happen? when you started the twitter back and forth with him and the opportunity of a meeting came up almost as a suggestion of like to put up or shut up, did you think it would ever really happen? >> i didn't and i didn't think it would happen this quickly because usually when this stuff happens, you say, yes, i can meet you and then it becomes a back and forth between

scheduling and, you know, trying to find the time and if they don't want to meet with you, they usually can't find the time. but luckily, they came back and said we have a time for you, it's tuesday at 4:15. i woke up this morning with such an incredible pit in my stomach. i was so nervous. >> why? >> not because of senator cruz but i think the weight of what was possible was weighing on me. you know, look, we have a major, major gun violence problem in this country, and like 90% of americans i go to bed every night and i worry that i can't keep my children safe. and i don't know how to keep my children safe. and there's not a worse feeling as a parent. and so i felt like this meeting was important obviously to reach across the aisle to have a civil discussion on this matter, to look at him in the eye and say you're on the wrong side of this.

so i think i just felt the weight of the possibility really. go ahead. >> so what did you take away on two levels? first, on a human level, what did you see when you looked at senator ted cruz? >> i think that he understands the magnitude of the issue right now, especially in regards to mass shootings in this country and the apparent weapon of choice, which is usually the ar-15 assault rifle in which these killers kill people. i think he understands. i said to him no 17-month-old baby should ever have shrapnel in her chest in this country. i think he gets it. now, to understand it and then to have the courage and the fortitude to do something about it are two very, very different things.

so i'm cautiously optimistic that he knows the issue and hopeful, i guess, that he's willing to do something about it. you know, he takes a lot of money from the nra. we all know this. he has been on the wrong side of this issue, but i do understand how fossilized we are as far as parties. and the most important thing i think in this -- on this issue is that this is not even a bipartisan issue, this is a nonpartisan issue. children are dying in this country from gun violence. 40,000 people a year are dying in this country from gun violence. >> you know what the other side says. yeah, then automobiles are a much bigger threat for us because they kill a lot more people, and there's a whole list of things that do worse things than weapons. when you look at ted cruz, not to damn the man, but he did push legislation about enhancing the

procedures of information sharing and how things can get done from agency to agency when it comes to a background check, but it's never been about his intelligence. it's been about his political desires. what makes you think he'll do something? >> he's not for background checks and his bill is basically trying to close the loophole between agencies. >> right. >> so that's very different than background checks. >> yes. >> and he is very concerned that it will lead to lawful gunowners losing their guns. and i made it very clear we don't want the take all guns from all people. we want to take certain guns away from certain people. we want to reduce the lives lost from this epidemic in this country. >> you just have two different sides of thinking about how to be safe. one side is less guns, the other side is more guns. and he's on the side of more guns. i tell you what i liked. this was billed today as like an mma match.

people were tuning into this facebook live because it was going to be like oh, man, milano and cruz are going to go at it. this is going to be something. i love that it wasn't. i love that people looking for a fight were disappointed. i like that it was somebody with serious concerns and heart and him having the gumption to sit down with you and to put it on live, you know, media, and to listen and to respond. it was disagreement but it was decent and we need more of that to be sure. >> i was very appreciative for the opportunity for that reason alone, but i have to tell you, we have to stop -- our politicians have to stop patting themselves on the back when they pass bipartisan bills. like you're supposed to work together. that's the point. and this obstructionist behavior that we've seen now from both sides i think is harming the country in a very severe way. and there are no talking points in the world that can justify the amount of mass shootings and deaths that we've seen at the

hands of one assault rifle. >> what was the biggest thing that he promised you to do going forward? >> he didn't really make any promises. i told him that i would look at this bipartisan bill that would close the data bank loophole, and he didn't make promises but he did agree that there is a serious problem, and i think that that's a good first step. look, we need to talk to each other. we need to have these conversations. they're awkward. they're uncomfortable. we fumble, we can't find the right words, but if we all speak from the heart and lead through service, service not to our political party but to our country and to each other, then maybe we can get something done here. maybe we could fix the problems that we're having right now. >> it's not about finding consensus because you can't find a percentage of the country that

believes more united in fashion than when it comes to background checks and even red flag laws so you've got consensus on your side but consensus among people and consensus among power are two different things. i think it was a brave thing and it was a helpful thing for everybody listening no matter where they are. and i thank you for that. >> thank you, and thank you for the opportunity to come on your show and vent. i appreciate it so much, chris. thank you. >> she does a lot more than vent. that was a big step today and something i never thought would happen. nour, in that category, what's going to happen tonight? the polls are one thing, the votes are another. we're watching the results in a special election that the republicans should have run away with. the president won it by 12 points. that's not happening now. john king is back next.

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the vote that is outstanding is going to decide whether dan bishop has a 2500 vote lead. can he hold on? 58.5 to 48.9. this shouldn't be close, but it will be close. the question is, can dan bishop hold on. so what do you do? you look at the map. you see what vote is still out, and you see is this possible. so let's start in the biggest pool of votes in this district. that's mecklenburg county. let me bring it up. it's the edge of charlotte. it's the suburbs to the southeast of charlotte. if you here, dan mccready up bay very healthy margin, 16 points counted so far in mecklenburg county. so if this margin holds up, or something close, only 54% of the votes in, there are more than enough votes just right here in mecklenburg county for dan mccready to catch up. but that's a big if. if the margins stay something like this as the rest of the votes come in. no guarantee of that. we have to watch as the votes come in. or are they from the areas farther out? or are they from up here, more democrat? we watch as this plays out. let's go across the district.

100% in here, in a very republican county. dan bishop winning by a big margin there. that is critical to his catching up. remember, dan mccready was ahead early on. but 100% in. so bishop can't count for any more here. richmond, 100% in. eastern part of the district, scotland county, 100% in. robeson county is the third largest county. first mecklenburg. then union county. union is all the way in. we're still waiting on mecklenburg. in robeson county, normally a republican county, a slight lead for dan mccready. 92% in. watch this one. if this one stays blue, it's a good sign for the democrat. if dan bishop can change that, you'll see how this race is going to end. then here, fayetteville, cumberland county and the fayetteville suburbs, only 55% in. so in the two areas with suburbs, fayetteville in the east, the charlotte area in the western part of this district, still a lot of votes out.

you've got about half the vote, a little less than half the vote here in mecklenburg county. and about the same percentage, 45% still to be counted out here in fayetteville. so you map it out right now, we're at 81. the republican has a lead. 2,600 votes, 2558. that's hard to overcome late in a special congressional election. hard to overcome but not impossible. if dan mccready can hold on to his margin here and here, it is doable. we're going to be counting for a while. >> we're going to hear different stories told off the same result tomorrow morning. it's good to be with you, john king. thank you for taking us through it. all right. almost over but not quite enough. all right. tomorrow, most of us should take time to remember the fallen of september 11th, 2001. today is also a day we should remember, and it's about saving lives. how? what about? that's the argument, and i hope we all agree on it, next. too many people in pain settle for

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what takes the lives of more firefighters than fire? what kills more police than criminals, more soldiers than combat? the answer for all three is suicide. here's another take. in a large corporation, say 100,000 employees, every single day an employee or family member will die by suicide. i'm telling you this because today is world suicide prevention day. more numbers. 800,000 people a year take their lives in the united states. 800,000 a year. that's up 33% since 1999. it's the leading cause of death for men under 50. i'm not ignoring women. suicide just isn't a threat for women the way it is for men for a host of reasons, but it is real, and there was a spike for the rate in women in 2018. today is called prevention day because unlike so many other major maladies, suicide is

preventable. the idea that those who are severely depressed or having suicidal thoughts are beyond help or in hiding, not true. half of the people who die by suicide see their primary care doctor the month before they die. we just don't ask about mental health the way we do blood pressure or vision, but we should. we can do something. drug therapy, talk therapy, reducing access to lethal means, they all help. but there is something that is very effective that is in your power alone, and it could be the most effective tool -- connection. studies show that showing you care enough to connect can save a life. asking people that you know where you live, work, work out, hang out, whatever. it may sound simple, but checking in with someone, asking them how they are, it hits at something severe -- loneliness. we know loneliness is more lethal than obesity or

hypertension, and if you couple loneliness with the stigma about mental illness, which is seen as a reason that 75% of people don't get treated, you have the picture of desperation. someone who is hurting and desperate for help but afraid to reach out. you need more proof of the urgency? fine. we all care so much about gun violence, right? nearly two-thirds of gun deaths are suicide, not homicide, suicide. for all the talk of keeping weapons out of the hands of killers, most often the killer and the victim are one and the same. now, the challenge is, okay, i care. what am i supposed to say? i'm not a therapist. you don't have to be. you just have to be someone who cares enough to check in. there are questions you can ask. it's called the columbia protocol. it's been proven to reduce the number of suicides. it's potent and helps us find people who need help before they write the note or buy the gun.

as i said, this is world suicide prevention day, emphasis on prevention, and that is on awesome prospect. we can prevent something that is killing us like almost nothing else. the cure is connection, caring, remembering that we are not just our differences. another way to see it, it's the same impulse that made this simple hello so special. the two toddlers, maxwell and finnegan, so happy to see each other, they run and embrace. it makes us -- it gives us all the feels. right? you can make it about how we are essentially colorblind, nature versus nurture, place in society. but at its core, the feeling that you get when you see this, the warmth, the relief, it is proof of the power of human connection, that caring makes us human. compassion is compelling, and it can change someone's condition.

remember that. please go to the site for the columbia protocol. get the card. you can have it at your desk or in your car. they're simple questions. connection makes us human, and it can make you a life saver. thank you for watching tonight and our special coverage. "cnn tonight" with d. lemon starts right now. >> you know how i love you and i love that video, and i love what you're doing with suicide and just checking in on friends because we all go through tough times now and again, right? and it means the most. you may think you're bothering someone. even if you are bothering them, who cares? bother them. check in on them. love them and tell them -- smack them on the head like you, or you tell me, get your fat butt out of bed and let's go to lunch. i mean you have to do those things, right? you've got to do it. >> it can make all the difference. now, look, we're blessed. we've got a friend in each other and we know it. we check in all the time. there's sometimes people -- i don't know about you, but in my