also up next, battleground iowa, cnn's rosa flores is there. hi, rosa. >> good morning, carol. this state went from blue to being dead heat to now the polls showing it in donald trump's favor. but take a look, all these ladies are keeping the lines very short here because this is another one of those battleground states. the latest coming up. i just saved thousands on my loan at lendingtree.com. in less than a minute, i found out how much home i could afford. i like how you shop for loans the same way you shop for flights online. i didn't realize at lendingtree you can save money on almost any sort of loan. i consolidated my credit card debt with a personal loan. i found a new credit card with 0% interest for 15 months. you just shop, compare, and save. and it's all free. go to lendingtree right now and start saving. >>> democracy at work. people are out casting their votes in one of the most men ra memorable and wildest races in u.s. history. donald trump will cast his own vote in new york. we're covering our race with reporters across the united states. cnn's rosa fluoresce i

rosa flores tonight reports. >> reporter: since election day, omar cruz says that walking in downtownaboutings painful emotions. the trump tower, he says, a tall symbol of his fear of deportation. >> that fear is constant. and the trump tower is a reminder that could happen at any moment. >> cruz is a college student, studying neurosciences, but he was 8 years old when he was brought to the united states illegally, settling in chicago. he lived in the shadows until president obama granted him and hundreds of thousands of other dreamers or young undocumented people brought to the u.s. as children temporary work permits through executive action. >> i look very much forward to being your president. >> reporter: but now, under president-elect donald trump, all cruz can think about is trump's promise to deport all undocumented immigrants, and the divisive rhetoric he used during the campaign. and he points to this moment in particular on the first day of trump's campaign. >> they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. >> reporter: why are you afraid? >> i am afraid, be

we get more from cnn's rosa flores. >> reporter: george and christine. revealing the final words that philando castile uttered that night. according to the complaint, they were quote i wasn't reaching for it. meaning his gun. the officer jeronimo yanez faces second degree manslaughter and two felony counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm. according to the court records, yanez stopped castile because of a failed tail late alight and h the description of a robbery suspect. according to the complaint, castile told yanez he had a gun. after that, yanez intererupted castile several times and then shot his gun seven times. one punctured the driver's seat hitting the backseat next to the little girl. castile's mother is still dealing with the death of her son, but she is pleased with the charges filed. >> i'm just glad that we have come to this chapter and this is the beginning to a different chapter. we all hope and pray that the right thing is done in this issue. >> reporter: officer yanez is expected to turn himself in and he is expected to face a judge

cnn's rosa flores has more about this from oklahoma city. >> i want him to have one day of the life thate. >> reporter: this immigrant mother challenges president-elect donald trump to feel her biggest fear. being ripped from her children because she could be deported. >> break families. would he want to leave his family? >> reporter: lily who is only sharing her first name has lived in oklahoma for 20 years. she was brought to the u.s. as a child and now has five u.s.-born children. >> you have a dream. when you buy a house, you want your grandchildren to come visit. bye, guys. have a good day. >> reporter: but in a trump america, she says that that dream may not come true. she is selling her home and preparing her children for her possible deportation. lily is not alone, says imththi immigration attorney. her clients have called wanting to know how they can survive a trump presidency. >> we have no idea what is going to come from the next administration. but there's a lot of scary rumors and the president completely has the control to take some pretty significant action. >> reporter: t

rosa flores, thank you in iowa. has been standing by in colorado and it's not necessarily in colorado who is on the ballot but what? tell me about the ballot initiatives that are getting voters out. >> some voters are focusing on the right of the die initiative. . some people who would consider to do assisted suicide. we have minimum wage increases on our ballot. that's generating the interest in voter turnout. i want to give you a sneak peek behind the scenes in jefferson county which is one of the bellwether counties the state. we are at election headquarters where a lot of votes have already been counted and we here in the vote-counting room. the ballots that have been taken out of the envelope, since it's a mail-in election, they've been brought here to the election county official site and they've been put in these boxes. each box holds about 1400 ballots, we're told. then they are sent through this machine. the vote counting is happening as we speak. you can see the machine working very quickly. the bottom she

let's go back to cnn's rosa flores live in columbus. >> reporter: good morning, carol. take a look behind me. you'll see students walking, cycling to classes. classes resumed here this morning. university trying to bring some normalcy to this campus but, of course, some of these students still trying to digest what happened here today. i talked to one witness who says -- they're asking themselves why and could i have done something differently. ohio state university police naming student abdul artan as the attacker. he was a legal permanent resident originally from somalia who came to the u.s. in 2014 via pakistan. authorities now looking into posts he made on his facebook page expressing grievances about crimes against muslims posted moments before the attack saying, quote, i am sick and tired of seeing my fellow muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured and i can't take it anymore. back in august osu's campus newspaper quoted him in a profile saying he was scared to pray in the open as a muslim. investigators are looking i

like the windy city, where rosa flores joins me. officials say they're worried about a health crisis. rosa, explain what's going on in chicago. >> reporter: you know, you're absolutely right, jake. leaders are calling the situation after the election a public health crisis because of the number of calls into crisis hot lines and suicide hot lines. they say they have increased by 200% since the election. so, they are very, very worried. so, they break it down like this. they say that they have found evidence that children have taken the rhetoric from the election as permission to bully immigrants, muslims, the lbgtq and other vulnerable communities. that's what medical experts here in chicago are very worried about because they are worried about the mental health effects of those communities. now, i should say that mayor rahm emanuel has come out and said chicago is a sanctuary city, it will remain a sanctuary city and a safe and secure place. >> mayors of other sanctuary cities coming out and declaring their status on these undocumen

let's bring in cnn's rosa flores, she's live in columbus, good morning. >> good morning, carol.earning more about those chain of events and also about the reactions of the people that were around the attacker. from talking to one of the witnesses, he says that it took them a few seconds to even process what was going on. the fact that an individual was ramming a vehicle into a crowd of people and then he said it took them another few seconds just to grapple with the fact that this individual got out of the car with a knife and started attacking everyone. now, we have 911 called that also tell us what happened. take a listen. >> the guy ran a car through a crowd of students. he did it purposely. i'm at ohio state, right outside of watts hall. there is a guy who crashed his car -- we need an ambulance here fast. >> now, we're also learning more from a facebook post that the attacker posted. according to authorities. at about the time of the attack. want to read you a part of this. it says, quote, my brothers and sisters, i am sick and tired of seeing my fellow muslim brothers and

. >> rosa flores joins us now from chicago.nderstand some of the dreamers you talked are worried because they provided addresses when they got their work permits. >> reporter: absolutely, anderson. they provided their names, their addresses, other personal information to the federal government. and so the fear now is, is that a president-elect donald trump, who has promised to deport all undocumented people, will simply take those files and start a deportation spree. now, i should add that i have talked to dreamers across the country and some of them are taking these fears and putting them into action. you're seeing them on the streets across the country protesting, because many say they're ready to put up a fight to stay in this country, because this is only country they know. now, i should also add that we did reach out to president-elect donald trump's press office for the story, anderson, and did not receive a response. >> rosa flores, thanks. up next, more items on trump's to-do list. what he can actually check off and get

let's begin with rosa flores, live in columbus, with the latest on the campus stabbing. >> reporter:ent not ruling out terrorism, but they haven't established a motive just yet. they are interviewing witnesses, talking to family, and scouring through surveillance video, some of that video taken here at university before that attack. perhaps the biggest clue is coming from a facebook message posted around the time of the attack. ohio state university police naming student

rosa flores is tracking all the developments. hi, rosa. >> good morning.sey county attorney being very, very confident that he can prosecute for a second degree manslaughter charges and also two secondary charges. and he says that one of the key pieces of evidence not that viral video that actually started recording 40 seconds after the seventh shot was fired but the dash cam video of the police officer that captured everything. the before, the during and the after of that traffic stop. >> i told him not to reach for it! >> reporter: philandro castile's final words, i wasn't reaching for it. meaning his gun. >> he let the officer know that he was -- he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallt and the officer just shot him in his arm. >> reporter: his girlfriend live streamed the tense traffic stop this summer. her 4-year-old daughter sitting in the back seat. >> oh, my god. please don't tell me he's dead. >> reporter: castile's death sparking protests in minnesota and across the country. demonstrators asking for justice. >> i will, sir. no worries.

rosa flores is on this one for us today. y attorney noted that no reasonable officer would have used deadly force under the circumstances. rosa? >> you're absolutely right, brooke. we're also learning from the criminal complaint just how close the bullets came to both philando castile's girlfriend and also her daughter. you probably remember this very clearly that little girl that was sitting in the backseat. according to the criminal complaint, brooke, one of the gunshots went through the driver's seat and hit the rear seat. now that little girl was sitting on the passenger side so that bullet very close to her and then from that criminal complaint as well one of the bullets hit the arm wrest that was between philando castile and his girlfriend. now, like you mentioned, we're learning that three charges were filed against the officer jer r -- jeronimo yanez, two felony counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm. we're learning where these two charges come from as well. now, from the county attorney, he says testifies grabbli

rose is rosa flores is live. >> reporter: well, good morning, alisyn. take a look behind me and you'll see that students are walking around, riding their bikes as they're heading to classes this morning. classes resuming. trying to bring back some normalcy. one eye witness, not only are students asking why but could they have done anything differently? ohio state university police naming student abdul ali artan as the attacker. u.s. official saying arten was a legal permanent resident originally from somalia who came to the u.s. in 2014 from pakistan. authorities looking at posts he made on his facebook page expressing grievances posted moments before the attack saying, quote, i am sick and tired of seeing my fellow muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured and i can't take it anymore. back in august they quoted him in a profile saying he was scared to pray in the open as a muslim. investigators are looking into possible motives for the attack and say they cannot rule out terrorism. >> we're always aware that that's the potential. we're goin

now his grieving family is speaking out and cnn's rosa flores is tracking all of the latest developmentswas such a terrible story, rosa. what is the latest? >> you know, alisyn, we're learning a lot more from the criminal complaint including the timing. hear this, according to this complaint it took one minute for this officer to stop philando castile and then to fire seven shots. 40 seconds after that, that's when the world started watching. they started watching this. take a look. >> i told him not to reach for it! >> reporter: philando castile's final words according to court records, i wasn't reaching for it. meaning his gun. >> he let the officer know that he was -- he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm. >> reporter: his girlfriend diamond reynolds live streamed the tense traffic stop this summer, her 4-year-old daughter sitting in the back seat. >> oh, my god. please don't tell me he's dead. >> reporter: castile's death sparking protests in minnesota and across the country. demonstrators asking for justice. >> i will, sir. no w

let's begin with rosa flores, live in columbus, with the latest on the campus stabbing. >> reporter: chris, good morning. law enforcement not ruling out terrorism, but they haven't established a motive just yet. they are interviewing witnesses, talking to family, and scouring through surveillance video, some of that video taken here at university before that attack. perhaps the biggest clue is coming from a facebook message posted around the time of the attack. ohio state university police naming student abdul razak ali artan as the attacker. a u.s. official telling cnn artan was a legal permanent resident originally from somalia who came to the u.s. via pakistan. authorities now look into posts he made on his facebook page, expressing grievances about crimes against muslims, posted moments before the attack, saying, quote, i'm sick and tired of seeing my fellow muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured, and uh can't take it anymore. back in august, osu's campus newspaper quoted artan in a profile, saying he was scared to pray in the open as a muslim. investigators are lo

rosa flores is live in columbus. this is a piece perhaps of his men cal state going into this.im and his family? >> brooke, i've been talking to somali community leaders here, one in particular who has been meeting with the family since this event and he tells me that the mother is, of course, very sad and grieving because of her son but is also worried about the somali community and what this could mean for this community. as you were saying, police are trying to figure out the motive so i asked him ant that. what could drive this young man to do this. he said the suspect's mom describes the day yesterday as something very normal. he woke up, helped the family and came here to school, it was a very normal day until there was a door knock on the mother's door and that's how she found out about her son being the attacker. take a listen. >> the mother was very shocked and crying for her son and also crying for the somalis, the backlash. she was saying my son is gone but what i'm worried about is the rest of the somali community because there could be a collective blame where the

>> rosa flores, thank you so much. >> bringing back our panel now.joining the discuss, alex burns, a cnn politicalen strategist and what does this all mean? tomorrow will be easier to assess, but we'll make it harder today. for you, covering it from the beginning, what's the one thing you've learned from the election? >> john, where this differs from 2012 and the 2008 election, monument until its own way, the degree to which this was almost entirely fought on these really broad and deep questions about national identity. this is not really a narrow policy election. in the way we saw four years ago. the degree to which voters out there were actually less ideological than we thought they would be in the conventional sense wanting somebody who checked all conservative boxes and so intensely wanted this fight over just national character and what it means to be american and america's place in the world. i think that has surprised a lot of us and i think it says a lot about just the shape of the two parties in the political debate in washington going forw

rosa flores what are you learning?what we're learning from the ramsey county attorney out of minnesota, that those charges have indeed been filed and that this police officer will be facing a judge tomorrow -- excuse me, friday at 1:30. go over some of those charges. they are second-degree manslaughter in the death of orlando castille and two felony counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm. the big question here, of course, was deadly force justified? here is how the county attorney put it. take a listen. >> it is my conclusion that the use of deadly force by officer yanez was not justified in that sufficient facts exist to prove this to be true. accordingly, we filed a criminal complaint this morning in ramsey county district court charges officer yanez with second-degree manslaughter in the death of philando castile and two felonious shots that endangered the two passengers in the car. >> reporter: now, let's just recap what this story was about, because it got a lot of attention when it actually happened and shoul

we have cnn's rosa flores live if columbus, ohio. what have you learned? >> reporter: good morning. one of the big questions this morning is why. law enforcement not ruling out terrorism just yet, but they say they don't have a motive today for us. one of the biggest clues, perhaps, is from a post to facebook around the time of the attack. ohio state university police naming student abdul razak ali artan as the attacker. a u.s. official telling cnn artan was a legal permanent resident originally from somalia who came to the u.s. via pakistan. authorities now look into posts he made on his facebook page, expressing grievances about crimes against muslims, posted moments before the attack, saying, quote, i'm sick and tired of seeing my fellow muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured, and uh can't take it anymore. back in august, osu's campus newspaper quoted artan in a profile, saying he was scared to pray in the open as a muslim. investigators are looking into possible motives for the attack and say they cannot rule out terrorism. >> we're always aware that's a potential