of how these companies have really kind of boosted the economy, bringing in so many jobs last year. 60% to 75%. >> 5% of the companies in america really creating jobs. 60%, 65%, that's really huge. thank you guys, everybody, thank you. are you going to be in michigan this year? all right. i thought so, i thought so. where you from? >> charlotte, north carolina. >> all right, very good. you going to class today? >> yes, sir. >> just about a half hour -- >> i can play video games all day. if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." stick around, it's time for "the daily rundown." thank you, guys. less than a week to go until the big midterm vote. president obama makes another rare appearance on the campaign trail but he's not the only heavy hitter making news out

there. also this morning, questions about why an unmanned nasa rocket exploded just seconds after takeoff last night. we'll have the very latest live from the crash site. and out of isolation, nurse casey hick ox speaking out about why she fighting an order to stay isolated at home in maine. good morning. it's six days until election day. it is wednesday, october 29th. 2014. and this is the "daily rundown." no state better represents fight between the two parties to rev up their bases than colorado. where former governor, former florida governor jeb bush will headline a rally tonight at the dalts county fairgrounds for republican congressman dave garner. republican businessman beauprez. it will be bush's first

appearance on the trail since his son said sunday he is giving serious thought to a presidential run. yesterday, bush said he will decide by the end of the year, quote, if it's a yes, i guess you're going to the bat cave. if i was to run it would be with joy in my heart and to express the joy of this country. the need to fix a few things. and describe the leadership that's needed. i have a blessed life. social issues have been at the center of the colorado campaign so far. udall out with a new ad. in a competing ad, garner uses his endorsement from "the denver post" to attack udall for running a, quote, obnoxious, one-issue campaign. former president clinton defended udall yesterday at a rally in that state. msnbc's rachel maddow asked u a udall such a hard time as coming

across approachable. >> she says, in person, when she talks to you one on one, her experience with covering you all these years, is that you're fun to be with, you enjoy life, you are a conversationalist. and in your ads and in your campaign, you are already on mt. rushmore. you are carved in stone, dour and serious. she feels like stylistically that may be a problem for your campaign. >> when you look at this race and you look at the case i've been making, this is a serious choice coloradans have. we move the state forward or go backwards. >> new jersey governor chris christie will be in colorado thursday. surrogates are also flooding into kentucky. where last night, borrowing a line from the 2012 presidential campaign telling kentucky democrats that despite their differences, she and grimes both believe corporations are not

people. >> you've got this gutsy gal who is taking on the number one republican in the united states senate. the question is, can she beat him? >> grimes opponent, senator mitch mcconnell, acknowledged that even if republicans win this senate, it does not mean a full repeal of obamacare is on the agenda. >> obviously, he's not going to sign a full repeal, but there are pieces of it that are extremely unpopular with the american public, that the senate ought to have a chance to vote on. it would take 60 votes in the senate. and it would take a presidential signature. no one thinks we're going to get that. >> mcconnell will share a stage tonight with louisiana governor bobby jindal in louisville. speaking of louisiana, it looks more and more like this race is

heading into overtime. as democratic senator mary landrieu and her republican challengers meet in their final televised debate tonight. joining me for the latest on all these race, msnbc coren from louisville, kentucky, "denver post," ron frank, and "usa today" washington bureau chief susan beige just back from the buyu, just back from louisiana. you interviewed alison grimes last night i understand. what were your takeaways? did you get the sense she still believes she can win this thing? >> craig, this is a candidate who is relentlessly on message. her number one target is mitch mcconnell. you can't blame her because he's incredibly unpopular in the state. we were just in coal country with the grimes campaign people are looking for a viable candidate who can beat him and she's recognized that. whenn ei asked her, people have accused you of focusing too much on attack mcconnell, she said

that's washington beltway-speak and then she attacked mcconnell again. there's a good feeling here though. because mcconnell just lent his campaign $1.8 million. as you heard, just now, he's kind of equivocating a little bit on the promises he can make to the conservative base. so i think it's going to be tight but i think they're feeling good about it. >> mcconnell, he struggled a bit to have his national message on obamacare match the message in his state where connect, as obamacare's known in kentucky, connect is popular there. has grimes been able to capitalize on that? >> i spent a couple days with her following her around and i didn't hear her talk about it too much. she did say mcconnell was going to be -- was wanting to repeal it, root and branch. of course, mcconnell knows it's popular to the extent that kentucky can keep its website. what is on that website remains to be known because he wants to repeal everything you can get through the website. i think, you know, she has said, i will not rip health care away.

that's what she told me. i will not rip health care away from a half million people who just got insurance for the first time. >> john, let's go to colorado here. two parties there, trying to energize their bases. the wild card, though, in colorado, is the fact that every registered colorado voter gets a ballot in the mail this year. what's the importance of vote by mail there? do you believe that polls could be misreading turnout as a result of that? >> it's true, 2.8 million ballots out there and not all these people typically vote in midterms. but they made it pretty easy for him. two stamps and you send it back in the mail. plenty of sites around denver today. it is the wild card in this race. when you have this flux in turnout, you don't know what the models might show. yes, the polls are a little unpredictable. we'll see some new numbers from "the denver post" later this week. again, whether they're capturing all the young people, all the latino voters and all those folks who have registered since

2010 when colorado late had a competitive senate race, it's unclear whether they're in the poll here. >> are you seeing a backlash against udall's focus on social issues as well? do you think his attacks will be the thing that may end up driving democratic turnout? >> if you ask democrats, they defend these attacks. of course. and they say at least about a third of the people who are expected to vote don't know gardner's position on abortion. if they did, this could be a huge asset for democrats. because democrats are making the case that gardner's extreme, that he's still a sponsor of a federal bill that is essentially personhood. if they could make that case that could drive a wedge and push enough women to udall. he knee needs a huge gap in wo win here. udall is a lot closer to ten so that number needs to increase. i wouldn't be surprised if you see democrats keep hammering this message to drive home the point. >> susan page, you were one of

the question eers at the debate. challenging him on how much president obama has hurt her in this race. what does she need to do tonight? >> big debate, because bill cassidy, generally considered to have an edge in this race, especially because in a runoff she'll be face-to-face with him as well as the third party candidate or the third candidate in this race who's taking some of the votes away. she needs to get him on the defensive because he has declined to debate her several times. because he thinks the momentum is with him. he needs to get him on the run because the moment she is not getting to that 50%, she needs to get to next tuesday to avoid a runoff. if it goes to a runoff, that's to her disadvantage because that third candidate is appealing to tea party voters. if they lose their candidate, they're much more likely to go to cassidy in the runoff. >> if she doesn't win outright in a few days, there's a good

chance she loses entirely. when it comes to southern democrats, who has handled the challenge of distancing himself or herself from the president without alienating his or her voters best? >> you have had these candidates on the run in arkansas for instance. in north carolina, i'd say maybe kay hagan has done a pretty good job. that race is very close. she's in a better position than democrats running for re-election in the senate. they watch to see if they can survive. if they can survive the serious challenges they're seeing next tuesday. >> big thanks to all of you. susan mentioned arkansas. perhaps no state represents the challenge more. democrats have holding office in the rural south burn than the state where bill clinton was elected.

he first met clinton at age 11, narrowly trailing in this poll. the democrats are also struggling to hold on to the governor's mansion. the state is also chuck todd's latest stop on his trip. chuck talked to democrat michelle nunn and republican chuck perdue, neither enthusiastic about backing their candidate in the senate. >> you dodged a little bit. should he be the majority? >> i said i'll vote for the person who best represents the democratic party in our capacity to break through that gridlock. >> mitch mcconnell, during the primary, you said you're not voting for. where are we on this? >> well, yes or no, was one

word, right, by the way there are only two of us on the stage that gave a yes or no answer. i honored the request and gave a one word answer with no context. >> you're confident of him being the republican leader? >> i have no idea. again, i've never done this before. i've been to washington just a couple times. i have no idea how that process works in terms of the nomination and voting. >> i have no idea. chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press," joins us from the road where he is on the way to jonesboro, arkansas, to talk to senator pryor. perdue and nunn, very careful answers for you yesterday. what are your takeaways after talking to both the candidates? >> they were careful answers and they have different reasons to be. i think there's this anger at washington. they both want to take advantage of it. i heard you asking which democrat is handled, sort of

distancing themselves in the south best from president obama. in many ways, you'd have to say michelle nunn. simply because she's got a last name that allowed her to talk to older georgia voters and say you know sam nunn, you know what a nunn democrat is. so david perdue who has been trying to use president obama against michelle nunn, the same way we've seen it with cotton in arkansas or even tillis in north carolina. it hasn't worked as well. now, part of that is, again, i think the fact that both of them are not of washington, both of them don't have voting records. it is why they both are so close to winning. it's why david perdue won. because he was the nonwashington guy. i think michelle nunn has more credibility as a challenger because she's a nonwashington person and because she's a

democrat and she's able to talk about herself as a georgia type of democrat, a sam nunn conservative type of democrat. >> how much does the clinton legacy still matter in arkansas? >> well, he's incredibly popular. republicans, for instance, they don't even think about attacking bill clinton in arkansas. easily the most popular politician in arkansas, republican or democrat. the question is, does that translate to democrats? it certainly has helped, when he shows up in the state and does these rallies, people show up. there's this nostalgia for him in arkansas. i can tell you something about bill clinton, he's obsessed with at least getting one victory out of arkansas. i hear that, you know, every other day he's making a phone call to them, saying, what's it going to take, tell me what i

have to do. i think he'll spend a couple of days in arkansas, that it's personal for him, whether he can drag mark pryor across the finish line, i don't know. it is interesting. i think if this were a wave year for the republicans, this race would be put away. cotton hasn't put the race away. >> all right, we just lost -- i think we just lost chuck. chuck's just fine but obviously when you take a live signal from a bus on the way to jonesboro, arkansas, there's a chance you're going to have a problem from time to time. chuck todd there talking about his conversation there coming up with senator pryor. coming up, nasa's $200 million fiery disaster. has investigators trying to figure out what went wrong. also this morning, new details on the stepped-up security at thousands of u.s. government buildings across the country. we're just learning a little bit more about cyber attack, at the white house. those stories and much more.

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food, equipment, science experiments as well. the mission was run by orbital sciences. one of two commercial companies that nasa uses to resupply the space station since it retired the space shuttle in 2011. no one hurt in the explosion but there was substantial damage to the launch pad. nbc's tom costello is live at wallops island where the explosion happened. >> they're talking about days just to start recovering all of the debris that is out on the ground near the launch pad, on the water, that's going to be a major effort to regather all of that material. then they begin a forensics investigation to determine exactly what may have gone wrong in this case. an important point here, this rocket was lifting off when it suddenly started coming apart. nasa controllers themselves decided they had to hit the

self-destruct button out of an abundance of caution, so they blew this rocket up, with a massive fireball, as you saw. we've seen different videos capturing this moment. the investigation likely to take some time. as it relates to the resupply mission, there already is another russian spacecraft that took off this morning, early this morning, from kazakhstan, to resupply the space station, and another one from space x is planned for september. so the space station crew is in no jeopardy what sore. they're not in any jeopardy. they've got food on board, clothing on board what have you, some science experiments here were also sacrificed. but the crew is in no danger. >> commercial companies like this, have theyer had ever had disaster like this? >> this is the first one involving orbital sciences which, as you mentioned, is one of the two companies that has been competing to actually get

the cargo up to the space station. since both orbital sciences and space x began lifting cargo to the space station, this is the first time that a vehicle has exploded. there were other incidents during test runs or test missions. this is the first time an actual cargo mission to the station has exploded on the pad. >> tom costello for us, thanks, as always. the department of homeland security is stepping up security at thousands of u.s. government buildings across the country this morning. citing the recent shooting at the canadian parliament as the reason for adding more security. saying there has been no specific threat. the enhanced security will affect more than 9,500 federal facili facilities. 1.4 million visitors and employees pass through these facilities every day. nbc justice correspondent pete williams joins us now with the latest on these new security measures. pete, what can you tell us? >> well, federal officials

insist this is not in response to some new threat. instead, they say it's a build-up of isis threats and overt attacks. all of them in full public view. partly, they say, it's the steady drum beat from isis urging attacks on police and government officials. calls on propaganda videos. and partly it's a reaction to last week's shooting in canada's capital with the gunman shooting up the inside of canada's parliament. giving these events, the department of homeland security is protecting u.s. government buildings and personnel. so security will be tighter. it's not going to be all 9,500 federal building. that's the number of buildings that the federal protection services is responsible for. it will be probably several hundred of these, but the government is not saying which one. in some, it will mean closer inspection of briefcases and purses and others it may mean more armed officers. questions this morning about a hack at the white house.

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response. he'll also be meeting with health care workers. then, he'll hold a news conference on the effort this afternoon. tuesday, the president praised health care workers and called on governors in a handful of states to reconsider their restrictive quarantine policies. >> i want to make sure that every policy we put in place is supportive of their efforts. because if they are successful, then we're not going to have to worry about ebola here. >> meanwhile, new jersey governor chris christie continues to defend his decision to isolation casey hickox over the weekend. she's now at her home in maine. maine officials say they will pursue legal authority to force hickox to isolate but she told the "today" show she won't comply. >> i don't plan on sticking to the guidelines. i remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me. even though i am in perfectly good health. truly believe that this policy

is not scientifically, nor constitutionally just. and so i am not going to sit around and be bullied by politicians and forced to stay in my home when i am not a risk to the american public. >> meanwhile, dallas nurse amber vinson is waking up for the first time, out of isolation. and at home. vinson left the hospital yesterday after thanking the medical team. she reflected on the fight against ebola overseas. >> i ask that we not lose focus on the thousands of families who continue to labor under the burden of this disease in west africa. >> the number of worldwide ebola cases has now surpassed 10,000. the number of deaths is inching closer to 5,000. u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha powers visiting countries devastating by the outbreak. she has said she will comply with quarantine procedures when she gets home. nbc's senior white house correspondent chris jansing is

traveling with the ambassador and she has this update from liberia. >> good morning, craig, today, she will meet with military officials at one of their base of operations where they send out planes and supplies for the three countries that have been hit so hard by liberia, including liberia. yesterday, i sat down with liberia's president. >> you need to get past your fears. you need to work with us and partner with us. this is a disease that if not true partnership is properly contained, you will be more at risk. >> throughout this week, including her meeting with president sirleaf, powers has been on a fact-finding mission. she will take a lot of what she's learned and bring it to brussels in a major speech calling on the international community to get more involved in the fight against ebola. >> chris jansing, thank you. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker

joins us now with more on president obama's plans today. kristen, what do we know? >> hey, craig, good morning. we know president obama will meet with health care workers here at the white house. he'll get an update on those who have returned from west africa. those are heading to west africa. then he's going to make remarks here from the white house. he'll be introduced by dr. brantly. he is a health care worker who was infected with ebola while in west africa and recovered in the united states and is doing just fine. the goal of these remarks is to reassure the public. we heard from president obama about this yesterday. so i think today's remarks will echo some of what we heard yesterday. president obama will likely reiterate his opposition to the mandatory quarantines. making the argument it will disincentivize health care workers from going to west africa to treat it at its source. you are seeing this patchwork of

different policies for dealing with people returning from west africa and also because the so-called ebola czar ron klain has been largely invisible. we know he is working behind the scenes to try to get everyone on the same page in terms of dealing with the issue here in this country. still, a lot of people are asking where is he and why haven't we heard more from him, craig. >> before you get out of here, quick turn, a bizarre twist to the colombia prostitution scandal that rocked the secret service two years ago. what's happened? >> to be very clear, this does not involve the secret service. this involves the lead government investigator who was looking into the prostitution scandal in colombia two years ago. that person works with the department of homeland security office of the inspector general. he was looking into the scandal. meanwhile, sheriff's deputies in broward county, florida, say this, according to "the new york times," they say that, quote, they saw him entering and

leaving a building they had under surveillance as part of a pros prostitution investigation. now, mr. neland, who resigned in august, did not respond to our requests for comment, but he told "the new york times" that those allegations are not true. this is interesting, craig, because mr. neland had essentially accused the obama administration trying to cover up white house involvement in the prostitution scandal. he had said a white house per diem staffer had solicited a prostitute. that's something the staffer, the white house, the department of homeland security, all denied. so this just adds to really the bizarre nature of this scandal. and the office of inspector general didn't respond to our request for comment either. >> thank you. up next, it's all about the 2014 campaign. in less than 150 hours, many of those campaign surrogates of today could shift into campaign

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to improve the image of the republican brand nationwide? >> when, kelly, when? because when we win, we get a chance to govern. we blow away all of the predispossessions folks may have about our party. we show them we're a group who can get things done. >> other potential candidates have also been out and about. former governor jeb bush was at vanderbilt taking jabs at the current commander in chief over his policy saying the president is spending his second term with the fact he didn't have a set of guiding principles in his first term. it's been an unmitigated disaster in that regard. and he's paying the price. kentucky senator rand paul was also on the trail, hitting events for kansas governor sam brownback and senator pat roberts, who's in a dead heat with his independent rival greg orman. on the democratic side, hillary clinton is using her star power to stump for congressional candidates in at leetch foast f states. that includes two events in iowa

today to stump for bruce braley. over the weekend, she'll campaign for three women in tight senate race, louisiana's mary lap drndrieu. grimes also getting a boost from her husband, bill clinton, who's scheduled to campaign for her tomorrow. joining me now to break it all down, nbc's political editor mark murray, nbc's political editor carrie dann. kentucky has become the marquee senate race. has it become a proxy battle for the biggest heavyweights? >> i think that's a good position to have. the reason why kentucky has received so much attention from us, from surrogates, particularly also from donors, is because mitch mcconnell is on the ticket. if you're a republican and a republican surrogate, you want to help the person who might be the next senate majority leader. if you're democrat, you want to be able to take him down. so that's why we've seen democrat after democrat go to

kentucky, as well as we've seen republicans and republicans go. and why it's such a high-profile race. >> carrie, chris christie, not letting this ebola flap slow him down at all. does it dim his star power a bit? >> i don't think so. on this particular trip. because he's going to go rile up the republican base in these races. if anything, maybe some of the candidates he's stumping for wish a little bit less attention was paid to christie and ebola and more to their campaigns. these are voters who are going to these rallies because they want to get out the vote for republican candidates. i think seeing chris christie taking aim at the president is something they like to see. i think there's plenty of observers who say christie is misguided on this ebola issue but yet he's an alternative, leading in a different kind of way, his signature style, sort of a stick it to 'em style, and voters, the kind of people going to these rallies, the kind of people who want to go out and

vote for these candidates, they don't mind that. >> mitt romney also out there quite a bit. he is talking about the midterms. this is what he said on "morning joe." take a listen. >> everything is about 2014 right now. all right. everything is about getting more senators elected from my party so we can have a house and a senate that can pass bills. >> do you think that's going to happen? >> i do, i do, but it's very close, hard to predict. we'll pick up a lot of seats. do we get the majority or not, i don't know. but if we do, we will actually end gridlock. because we'll pass bills. and they will go to the president's desk and he'll either veto them or sign them and things will happen with regards to energy, education, immigration. these things will finally be dealt with and there will be a law passed and we'll end gridlock. >> that's an interesting argument. if the gop wins, they'll be able to end gridlock. two questions. is that an effective argument and is that accurate? >> you know, i think it's

effective for republicans who want to argue that they deserve to be in the senate majority. is it effective? you know, craig it does seem to be a little bit contradictory. on the one hand, the messages that we want to stop president obama. every republican has had president obama in the cross hairs. on the other hand, when they say we also want to stop the gridlock, it's hard to be able to do both. and when you end up campaigning so heavily and aggressively against the president, is it -- can you cut deals with him to avoid that presidential veto? remember, overriding a veto, it takes two-thirds of the house, two-thirds of the senate. and can republicans be able to cut deals with someone who they've been talking about on the campaign trial, that remains to be seen. >> up next, the slow moving red river of lava reaches the first home on the big island of hawaii. new developments straight ahead from the volcano zone.

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