kansas. ksnt are live from the studios. you can follow the debate on social media using the #ksndeb ate. ksn in wichita, ksnt covering topeka. we are also being seen on ksci the spot. i want to introduce the three candidates tonight. they were invited to participate because they met the criteria. we begin with greg gorman. instarted his first business 1992. that she is married with -- he is married with two daughters. he has worked as an advisor to president donald trump. he is married and has five daughters. also joining us is laura kelly. she is a state senator elected in 2004. she is married and has two daughters. my colleagues. a political analyst for ksnt tv in topeka. before we begin, let's go over the rules. there will be no opening statements. candidates will be given 60 seconds to answer each question. belle end, we will ring a -- [bell rings] when time is up. follow-up will be limited to 30 seconds. receive 30ate will seconds for a closing statement. the questions you are about to h

kansas. >> do you agree with the statement the kansas state government is corrupt? . >> i do. as a set at the beginning of my campaign i will address the culture of corruption one is the no-bid contract the other there are votes taken in kansas committee that is not recorded so the senator can vote and not have anyone know how she voted is only a voice vote and usually tell if you are there and the committee. we also need term limits. the idea there are only 125 people in our state qualified to serve in the house is ridiculous we need new blood into the system i would support not only term limits for the legislature but all executive official the secretary of state and attorney general eight year limits to bring new blood into kansas to help stop the culture of corruption and makes it hard for those buddy buddy relationships to persist. >> do you agree? . >> i am not sure i would use the term corrupt i do think there are things that need to be changed even like those no-bid contracts there ar

there are stations covering kansas. ksm and across western kansas and topeka and southeast kansas. broadcasting to the kansas city region. i want to introduce the three candidates tonight but will participate in the debate because they are set forth by the corporate ownership next to the group and you can find that criteria on the website. >> , common sense coalition for change in 1992 after graduating he married and has two daughters. a graduate of harvard, oxford and yale worked as an adviser to the campaign and is married and has five daughters. our colleagues from our sister stations, anchor and k. sms and doctor bob a political analyst in topeka. co- moderating the debate tonight. before we begin let's go over the rules. there will be no opening statement and candidates will be 60 seconds to answer and at the end we will ring a bell, the sound when time is up. at the moderator's discretion, follow-ups and rebuttals will be allowed. determined with a random draw for each candidate and each will receive 30 seconds for closing statement and they will go in order of the first ques

kansas?t include as far as civil war campaign istory not so much because there were not major vicksburg, shiloh battles. if we put kansas with the west, yes, there is pretty much the most the west is important of the theaters. in 1963, 100 here so i don't year subscribe this as opinion but i heard people make the argument in terms of atrocity and vilness that the back forthed a border war made .issouri and kansas equal they would make the argument in missouri that it was an equal battle where nobody could say they were the victims or the that was more or less merciless. make sense what i'm getting at? >> yes. i think you are asking which bears the greatest responsibility for the violence that took place here. done f the reading i have is if we have to give an edge of inflicted perhaps the most violence, i think we would have ruffians the border from missouri crossing over. answer. >> i know where i'm. lau [laughter] simply the t is proximity. f perhaps new england and abolitionist societies w

we arrive at kansas. -- bleeding kansas. 1856, there were two territorial governments in place in kansas. one was a free state government in topeka, and a pro-state -- proslavery government. in which theontext six days i mentioned earlier come about. i'm sure much of the history i just described, most of you know far better than i do, having been here for a couple of years now. the first of the six days that i on may 19.tion came for this event, we have to go back to washington. on may 19 in washington, in the senate chambers, a senator from aroseate of massachusetts to give a speech. charles sumner. thoses sumner was one of leading political figures, not quite as powerful as stephen douglas but one of the leaders nonetheless. a rabidsumner was antislavery advocate. an abolitionist. entitled kansas in the name of the south harlot, slavery. in his speech, he railed against southerners. he railed against southern political leaders. he railed against slaveowners. he railed against the slave on ocracy, who slave were not only trying to control the south but now the west and indeed, sumner ar

in kansas. where you basically can't fit a penny between the two candidates of the two major parties. but that race has been a little crowded, because that guy, greg orman, is also running for governor of kansas as an independent. in those same polls that show a one or two-point race, there's greg orman, polling at eight or nine points. greg orman from eight or nine points in the polls, he appears to have no chance at all to win or get anywhere close to winning. but he's definitely polling more than enough votes to change the outcome of this race. and because greg orman is running as a moderate, the candidate orman seems to be pulling votes from is the other moderate in the race, democrat laura kelly. and to win in kansas, she'll need every last vote she can wrangle. now, greg orman says he has no intention of bowing out of this governor's race, even though he's only polling at 8%, he has no intention of quitting. but now, someone on his campaign definitely thinks he should. yesterday, the treas

in kansas. now to understand why i'm going to make this argument that the civil war began in 1856 five years early by most people's accounts and in different locations, we have to really set the context for what happened in those six days. let's back up just a little bit. two years to may of 1854. at that point, the united states was in a very good place. the mexican war ended a few years earlier. the united states had gain. ed a huge chunk of territory. the whole southwestern corner of the u.s. gained in that territory. the issue of slavery that had been so contentious for so long had somewhat boiled down. because o most of that seemingly had been resolved. so the country was really focused on building itself. expand iing the economy. becoming more politically stable as far as the world community goes. and one element of that, a dream that the country's leadership had had for years. was a transcontinental railroad. that rail line that was going to connect the atlantic to the pacific, the east t

they did not work in kansas. if the politics of division don't work in kansas, there's a good sign for hope in this country. we won seven seats. i heard the president crowing that this was a really good night for him. listen, when you flip seven seats, the biggest, in some sense, rejection of the president's party in 36 years, there's a message there which is that people want to have commonsense measures. and my state has stood up against some of the lack of common sense. we have stood up against the president's decision to separate children fromer that parents. and we've, in some sense, backed them down though we're not done with that battle yet. we stood up against him on the muslim ban and will continue to stand up for measures. we need the u.s. congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. we need congress to pass the dream act. i've got dreamers on my college campuses languishing because donald trump holds them hostage still. the congress needs to get with it and have meaningful immigration. they will h

they did not work in kansas. if the politics of division don't work in kansas, there's a good sign for hope in this country. we 17 seats. i heard the president saying this was a really night -- nice night for him. the biggest rejection of the president's party in 36 years -- there's a message there. people want to have commonsense measures. my state has stood up against some of the lack of common sense , we have stood up against the president's decision to separate children from their parents. have backed him down, the we are not done on that battle yet. we stood up against him on his muslim been. we will continue to stand up for commonsense measures. we need congress to pass immigration reform. we need congress to pass the dream act. i have dream on my college campuses who are like wishing because while donald trump hold them hostage. the congress needs to get with it and have meaningful immigration. they will have security on the border. that's something most parties can embrace. we have to get with fairness on

>> no, not by any means. >> wilson is a businessman who owns real estate in kansas and colorado. since 2004, he's made the drive back and forth across state lines. he maintains that he never voted twice on a presidential or national ballot. but believed he had the right to vote in local elections. >> why did you think you could vote on two different ballots in two different states? >> because the state of colorado law says that if you meet certain requirements, you are allowed to vote for those local issues in the county that you own those taxes on. >> but the state of kansas didn't see it that way. >> the state of kansas does not see it that way. >> that misunderstanding he says shattered his reputation. >> if i was robbing banks, i know at some point they're going to show up. this was a total surprise, an absolute surprise. >> wilson spent 18 months fighting kovach's charges. >> what were all the penalties you faced? >> years of prison time. and hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> what was it like for you to hear that? >> it's hard to hear that an it's hard to see him go throu

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i talked about my relationship to kansas in lawrence and the broader context of kansas but lawrence specifically it has a special place in my heart as i was pondering this on my way here some of you may feel this way to that in this town that lawrence and i have particular things in common. i've always been someone who's interested in history so it's a story about my family. there was a lot of research some of that was piecing together and with that chaos and to be aware of those legacies to which i was born. and even dangerous. and then to embrace but to the whole country. but to my journalism but to defy that cultural and political expectation of the red state. [applause] while heartland is not a political book or the way that i see it anyway, it is a challenge to readers who may stereotype our place and our people as a cultural or political monolith to consider the complexity and nuances of the people on the ground and i don't have to convince you all of that because you know, that. i also recall that you do like beer a lot. [laughter] so it's about class and place and where i'm from right no

kevin yoder losing that seat in kansas is, first of all, a republican losing a seat in kansas.n a real question whether crishris cokobak's candidacy -- sherisse edwards winning that seat, she's a native american, openly gay. she's run an incredibly powerful campaign against him. her taking that seat speaks much bigger than that district. it will be fascinating to see what happens at the top of the ticket in kansas. there is another dual headed role where chris kobak is running the election. concerns in kansas. he is trumpier than trump in terms of the gubernatorial race. sam brown back had a difficult time, fiscally destroying the state. that's a huge turn. >> sherisse davids just became the first native american woman to serve in the house of representatives, i believe she did, which is an amazing thing. >> yeah. >> it's also -- it's amazing -- how old is this country? you know, the people who were here before it was a country? but that's a really important first. >> yeah. >> we have another pickup, steve? >> yes, we do. i can tell you now the 11th district of new jersey has b

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context of kansas. lawrence specifically -- i'm from south central kansas, as i said, and lawrence actually has a special place in my heart for having -- i was pondering this on my way here in my travels. i bet some of you might feel this way, too, and that's why you're here probably in this town. i kind of feel like, or hope, that lawrence and my work or lawrence and i have some particular things in common. so, i've always been someone who is interested in history and reverent to the past, and that is a theme in this book. they're calling it a memoir but it's really a story but my family. i work on it for 15 years. a lot of research and some was just piecing together the story of my family from the chaos that poverty tends to beget, and i was a kid that was aware of the legacies into which i was born, many of which are negative and dangerous even. i feel like lawrence is a place that embraces and is always aware of its history in which is so crucial not just to kansas but to the whole country. also a p

. >>> next, a visit to the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city. there we learn about one of the key architectural features of the site. >>> united states entered world war i a century ago on april 6th, 1917. when congress voted to declare war on germany. the conflict was already in its third year. more than 4 million american men and women would eventually serve in uniform and the influx of manpower changed the tide of the war, bringing it to a close in 18 months. next, we travel to kansas city to learn about the national world war i museum and memorial built to preserve the history of what was then called the great war. and to honor the americans who served. >> i'm matt nailor, president and c.e.o. here at the world war i museum and memorial. this memorial and museum is such a striking image on the kansas city skyline and what a great story goes with that. it was in 1919 that a group of business leaders gathered and said let's do something to honor the war debt of kansas city and create a tribute for peace. what you see behind me is the outcome o

whiteout conditions prompted a state of emergency in kansas. hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed long before snow started falling at chicago's o'hare international. jacob weikopf is tracking the severe weather at wbez. jacob? >> we have blizzards stretching from metro chicago to the kansas city area. pretty impressive swath of blizzard warnings. we need specific criteria for a blizzard to occur. visibility less than a quarter of a mile, blowing snow and also wind gusting over 35 miles per hour. we've seen wind gusts up to 50 to 60 miles per hour with this system. last time metro k.c. had a blizzard warning was back in 2011. we're going to add some additional snow. six to twelve inches along the interstate 70 corridor. whiteout conditions there. 12-plus inches out toward moline, illinois. this will be impactful as it lifts and moves on out of here. this is paused at 8:00 this evening. then you start to see that rain move through pittsburgh, columbus, into cleveland. the i-95 corridor tomorrow afternoon getting in on some of that rain. a

she won in kansas and a woman won as governor in kansas too. think there was -- the one i'm most excited about, though, jimmy, is actually a proposition on the ballot in hillsboro county, which is kind of tampa in florida. that's $300 million a year for 30 years to fix the damn roads, to get some public transportation built, because as washington has this kind of charade about what politics really is, i think real people want actual things to pass and the mayor of tampa, amazing guy and a huge coalition past that, that's $9 billion. >> jimmy: i wouldn't be rooting -- if i was you, i'd want traffic in every other city to be worse than l.a. because there seems to be no way to make it better here, but if it was worse every where else, no one would complain. >> well, l.a. voters did that a couple years ago and we're building 15 new lines here. i think americans are sick of just the partisan politics. they want to see people who are actually getting something done. >> jimmy: mayors have to get things done, right? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> jimmy:

to have a republican stronghold that flipped back to the blue. >> that kansas city, kansas, area really came up big. what about the makeup of the candidates? what's the story line there? >> such a big night for women. >> absolutely. a historic night for women any way you shake it. for the first time ever there will be more than 100 women in the u.s. congress, in the house specifically. unbelievable. possible with all the house races still to be projected it could be closer to 130 and just a lot of firsts. a lot of historic firsts. two muslim women that will be going to congress, two native american women. those are firsts in the nation's history. so we're going to have a lot of people waking up feeling like they have a real new sense of representation going to washington. >> the first ever 20 something women elected to congress as well. historically young, diverse, the military background. i also think there's probably a superstar in there. we just don't know who he or she right now. the biggest names on the democratic ticket overnight are people that fell short. look in texas, beto o'r

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kansas, you don't think kansas is suburban. right outside kansas city, kansas city, kansas, and the bedroom communities of johnson county, little yellow splotch there in the corner. again, look at this, republican incumbent, clinton won the district, and now that republican incumbent, it seems like the voters in that district are saying that they view the republican incumbent in the district as a proxy for trump and they're voting that way. >> i always say this. so many companies test products in oletha, kansas, and the suburbs around kansas city. it's considered so robustly centrally american. >> yeah, and this was the kind of district republicans -- the bedroom communities outside kansas city, republicans dominated. and you've got trump -- you've also got in kansas that statewide factor chris kobach, not necessarily resonating there. kobach in kansas. culturally moderate pocketbook republicans if you want to call them that in these bedroom communities -- in these polls, certainly, not for me. >> proving, again, the phrase aro

. >> we do have blizzard warnings from metro chicago down to the kansas city area.retty impressive swath of blizzard warnings. we need a specific criteria for a blizzard. blowing know, wind gusting over 35 miles per hour. we have seen wind gusts up to 50 to 60 miles per hour with this system. last time metro kc had a blizzard warnings was back in 2011. so we will add some additional snow, 6 to 12 inches along the interstate 70 corridor. white out conditions there. 12 plus inches out towards molene, illinois it will be impactful as it moves out of here. this is paused at 8:00 this evening. then you start to see that rain move through, pittsburgh, columbus, into cleveland, the i-9 a-- i-95 tomorrow getting in on some of that rain and this will be impressive rain totals. another one to two inches of rain, solidifying the fact that this has been one of the rainiest autumns in new england recorded history. on the north side of this system, white gold to all those ski resorts in northern new england adding 6 to 12 plus inches of snow late monday and into tuesday. we're ta

kansas. it is a tight contest, between republican crisco -- v kovac and lauren kelly. mollie with more for us. reporter: remain red is the catch phrase that touting in kansas, one of most vulner seats they are defending is governor seat here in in topeka. chris kovac known as advocate of strict voting requirementing again kelly, gained momentum after gaining support from every living former governor in the state. >> they feel like i am the leader who can get us to where we need to go, back to our roots, as a great state to live in. to work in. reporter: co-- kobach is backedded by trump. welcomed president to kansas last month for a big rally in topeka. >> president is well, liked in kansas, it helped in primary. a lot of the gubernatorial races of some way a referendum to the president. reporter: there is a third party candidate, multimillion air greg orman . >> never getting state of kansas where we want it to be if we vote out of fear. reporter: orman is drawing enough support to be fake o

this is kansas. this is kansas city. the kansas city suburbs, democrats think can we get yoder again? the democrat pulls out to an early lead. in this district here, we'll see how it plays out. paul davis, one of the many democrats who said under no circumstances will i vote for pelosi. doesn't matter. won't happen. 32% of the vote coming in. paul davis winning over the republican. that's early in the count there. if you're looking at the map y. the democrats did leave some seats on the table over this way. it looks like the midwest is being nicer to the democrats than other parts in the country. again, we'll come down here. this to me, this is will hurts district. again, these are leading. they're not called. they're leading. this is a race, hillary clinton carried this district. hurd has been running scared from the beginning, running a smart campaign. the question is, number one, is there this a place where the president's immigration focus hurt? there were places it helped, but is this a place where it hurt? number o

de-icing planes at the airport in kansas city, missouri. and the crowds backing up at chicago's o'hare airport. some 1,000 flights already canceled across the country. the storm headed east tonight. abc's alex perez is at o'hare right now. >> reporter: tonight, a dangerous winter storm bringing heavy snow from kansas into the great lakes, forcing airlines to cancel nearly a thousand flights on the busiest travel day of the year. blizzard conditions shutting down parts of interstate 70. the kansas governor declaring a state of disaster emergency. >> it's bad out here. the visibility is probably less than a couple of car lengths in front of us. >> reporter: blowing snow and high winds causing whiteout conditions, making it nearly impossible to see. in nebraska, motorists stranded along the highway, pushing their cars, trying to get out. numerous accidents on interstate 80 closing down the highway for part of the day. in kansas city, missouri at the airport there crews working to de-ice planes. the visibility forcing them to shut down incoming

in that kansas primary to decide who the republican party's candidate would be for governor in kansas, the president decided he would exert his political genius and weigh in. this was in august, he announced his full and total endorsement in that primary for kris kobach. kobach won that primary, presumably in part on the strength of the president's endorsement. kris kobach went onto the general election last night as the republican candidate for governor in kansas, and he is the republican candidate for governor who lost the kansas governorship to a democrat named laura kelly. and it wasn't even that close. and kris kobach's dead weight at the top of the ticket in kansas may have also been enough to cost kansas republican congressman kevin yoder his seat, as well. kris kobach lost to a democrat, congressman kevin yoder lost his congressional seat to a democrat, as well. to a gay native american female mma fighter named sharice davids, who is a democrat. because the president's political genius knows no bounds. republican congressman dave brat of virginia, remember when he complained d

kansas city airport closed down at one point yesterday. it is a system pushing across the midwest and northeast. snowfall is not in the picture. get to the higher elevations and interior portion of the new england and it is all about wintry weather. disruption to be had here and a lot of disruption on the monday in the ohio valley and tennessee valley as well. this is part of the frontal boundary which kicks up winds up to 50 miles per hour. look at the temperatures getting to the freezing mark in kansas city and indianapolis and places in minneapolis with highs of 21 degrees. >> thank you for that. >>> after two and a half weeks of historic destruction, the camp fire in northern california is finally 100% contained. it is the state's deadliest fire by far. at least 85 people killed. the fire has destroyed nearly 14,000 homes and nearly 5,000 other structures. it has burned more than 153,000 acres. 249 people are reported missing. that number is down from more than 1,000 a few days ago. search for remains was halted temporarily friday beca

both my parents grew up poor in kansas.from my point of view, the recent the democrat party is not more successful in that part of the country is social issues, particularly abortion issue. do you see any hope or any reason for the democratic party that distanced themselves in this issue to gain more traction? >> i do see a tight ship. what you're speaking of is really fairly recent phenomenon that we're talking about a lot of things that are just kind of, they're on the heels of history but also in some ways happen very quickly. i was raised in the roman catholic church and your little girl perish and nobody ever told me how to vote and it didn't have any particular political association with my then faith. things have changed quite dramatically and it's really the religious right has been very artful and successful at tapping into the spaces in some strategic ways that we see succeeding at the polls. i do think we're at a tipping point where whether they're going to the right or left, a lot of people are breaking away fro

next, we tour the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city. >>> the collection is the most comprehensive collection of world war i and the world. we deal with all nations involved in the war. not just centric to the country we are located. in the museum you see about 10 % of the collection at any one time. the rest is research, preferences, loans to other institutions and to make sure that we have an encyclopedic collection of the war. we are teaching the history, we want to cover everything from a- z. when i am standing here is in front of a wall that depicts the insignia warm by the expeditionary forces in world war i and these were used to identify the units and also to create a feeling of belonging to a particular unit. the visitors a fascinating with the insignia but they were not really worn until after the war. anytime you see insignia on a uniform from the war on the american uniforms, they are post 1918 but these are developed by the units and by the american expeditionary forces to represent the great variety of americans the served in the war. about 4,800,00

more than 1,000 flights got cancelled between chicago o'hare and can kansas yesterday. major airlines like united, delta and spirit are waving change fees for those willing to travel later this week. >> reporter: good morning. in just the last few hours that winter storm warning was switched to a blizzard warning for a lot of folks in chicago. that's a signal the worst is yet to come. the massive storm hit as more than gift million americans are heading home after the thanksgiving holiday. wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour. huge buses stuck on the road. >> reporter: overwhelming cars and canceling and delaying flietsz. kansas declared a state of emergency. >> in my 19 years off a trooper this might be the top five across kansas in this area. >> reporter: they shared their view of whiteout conditions on twitter. >> this is so scary. >> this is ridiculous. >> reporter: they sought shelter in this gas station until the storm passed. >> you couldn't see anything, not eeven a foot in front of you. it felt like you were in a hurricane with snow. >> reporter: they put chic

guest: why -- host: by kansas city? -- why kansas city? caller: from what i have learned there are -- there were memorials going up and they happened to raise the $2.1 million. guest: that is the official -- of -- originally was called the liberty memorial. officialthe original one. , the missouri legislature appropriated to make the ship running and a hollow the bluff from the backside and that is where the museum -- thet: it probably helped harry truman had fought in the war and was from kansas city. it doesn't need more advertising, but it's one of the best history museums in the united states, i think. the war doesn't get much respect, i think, and it's a very fine museum. the: the planning -- guest: planning there was from some the -- some of the same folks who did the holocaust museum. the president, about 10 minutes ago, with this tweet on this veterans day as he prepares to deliver remarks in paris or outside of paris on this the 100thay, anniversary of world war i, honoring brave heroes who fought andamerica in the great war every

i traveled to conservative districts in kansas where democrats have a shot at picking up a seat.mocrat candidate told me bluntly he will not support pelosi as he goes up against a republican candidate who has tried to link him to pelosi. the big question is are all these republican attacks on pelosi working? it has been a decade since a democrat won a house seat in this conservative eastern kansas district that overwhelmingly supported donald trump in 2016. but in yet another major warning sign for republicans ahead of next weeks midterms, paul davis would pick up this seat as he pitches himself as a middle of the road candidate. if democrats like paul davis do win, that could flip the house and effectively make nancy pelosi the next speaker. there is one problem. >> there isn't a circumstance in which i am going to support pelosi. there are times when you just need some new blood. i think this is the time. >> democrats could face their own leadership struggle as democrats stand a real chance of winning next week say they won't support her for the job. >> that's why i won't suppo

chamber of commerce trying to take out a kansas congressman. often tell folks at home if one man can't make a difference why were they so worried about one man but i played a role in john boehner retiring early, so train me up for john boehner retiring at probably a good trade and minds of most conservatives and libertarians. >> how did you feel at the time and how do you feel about it today? >> i was disappointed there's big money plays a big role in politics because it is huge power in washington, d.c. always disappointed in that. but i was member of the house freedom caucus they thought establishment thought if they could take out the camp and others that somehow the the house freedom caucus and jim jour den and mark meadows would go away and that, obviously, didn't happen and they're big player in washington promoting i think what qerntive and libertarians are looking for out of our -- federal government. and they made great progress. >> now congress when was the patriot tool put out how many editions been out for quite a while. >> i think

have a republican stronghold that flipped back to the blue. >> that kansas city, kansas, area reallyup of the candidates? what's the story line there? >> such a big night for women. >> absolutely. a historic night for women any way you shake it. for the first time ever there will be more than 100 women in the u.s. congress, in the house specifically. unbelievable. possible with all the house races still to be projected it could be closer to 130 and just a lot of firsts. a lot of historic firsts. two muslim women that will be going to congress, two native american women. those are firsts in the nation's history. so we're going to have a lot of people waking up feeling like they have a real new sense of representation going to washington. >> the first ever 20 something women elected to congress as well. historically young, diverse, the military background. i also think there's probably a superstar in there. we just don't know who he or she right now. the biggest names on the democratic ticket overnight are people that fell short. look in texas, beto o'rourke didn't win. we know what ha

we're seeing it in places like georgia, in north dakota, in kansas, in ohio. not in one state that keeps me up at night. it's all of these states that are keeping me up at night, and really wondering, is everyone who wants to vote going to be able to participate. that's what i'm most concerned about. >> how will you know the answer to that question? if you're looking at the results on tuesday night or wednesday morning, what will you be looking for? >> we might not know everything on tuesday night or wednesday morning. but i think we're going to be looking at very close races, whether it's a governor's race in georgia or in kansas or whether it's a senate race in north dakota. if these races are really close, and if there are new restrictions on voting and also reports of problems at the polls, we're going to be asking the question as journalists, did these restrictions on voting have an impact, were people who tried to vote, were they not able to vote, and were other people dissuaded from showing up in the first place. that's what we saw in wisconsin in 2016.

look at kansas city about 5:00 p.m. kansas city, you're right on the border of the 6 to 12 inches of snow. chicagoland in that zone, as well. anything south of kansas city is going to be a lot less. you get into jefferson city, you're probably going to get around 1 to 4. same thing around chicago, detroit, the city lines are anything north of that is where the heavier snow will fall. this is monday at 7:00 a.m. this continues to move. it also moves into the northeast, because we have milder air, it's mostly rain. back to you guys. >> all right, thank, sam. >>> and that snow causing an absolute mess on the roads. as well as delays and cancellations at the airport. all as millions are trying to make their way home after the holiday weekend. >> alex perez is at o'hare international airport where the snow is expected to really pile up this afternoon. alex, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dan. good morning, eva. take a look. it's already busy here at o'hare. these passengers are bracing for those words no one wants

in kansas, the international airport was closed.ate of kansas issuing a state of emergency declaring the roads treacherous. where is all of this crazy winter weather going? let's go to meteorologist pedram javaheri with the forecast. >> christine and polo, good morning. we are watching what is happening across the great lakes. not only are we getting significant snow, but some thunder snow to be had across the region. really speaks to the significance of the storms. blizzard warnings in place through mid-morning in central illinois and areas of eastern missouri with the action. heavy snow in place and gusty winds and reduced visibility. the kansas city airport was shutdown at one point yesterday. you notice the system pushing across the great lakes and eventually across the northeast. now snowfall for the major cities in the northeast is not in the picture. it is way too warm. get into the higher elevations and interior new england and it is all about the wintry weather the next 24 hours. some disruption to be had there and a lot of

with kansas city losing to the rams the other night, only a game apart.y night in kansas city down the stretch. that's next week. mee,while, our final score h 24-17. we'll pack up. t everything packed up a ready to go. it's on the steel city with ed and drew and you are entire gang fohtnext week on "sunday nig football." ngs win a big one tonigh 24-17. al michaels, cris collinsworth, michele foya. good night from minneapolis. >>> nbc sports thanks you for watching this special presentation of the national football league. >>> breaking tonight on news4. te gas unleashed on migrants at the u.s./mexico border. children left screaming and coughing. the busiest land crossing in the world reopened as the migrant crisis takes an ugly turn. >>> an e lire metroe shutting down were to two weeks. what you need to know to get around the closure. >>> and things are finallyo startingeturn to normal after a traffic nightmare at one of the nal on most chaotic travel days of the year. "news4 at 11" begins with breaking news. >> breaking tonight, the border mexico isear ti

kris kobach is backed by president trump, who won kansas in 2016.lly and said they share issues like immigration and voter fraud. a third-party candidate, greg orman. they touched on a lot of issues candidates touched on on the trail, immigration, taxes and sam brownback. much of the race, people talking about what he did for tax policy and what these candidate may do differently. kris kobach says he and the president agree on a lot of things, we'll see if that helps or hurts today. shep. >> shepard: reporting live. in new jersey, democrats have launched last-minute rescue for menendez after his trial on charges of corruption ended last year in a mistrial. wealthy republican pharmaceutical executive named bob hugin is running to unseat him. david lee miller is live in mountainside. >> we are at a restaurant in mountainside, new jersey, the republican, bob hugin will be holding a watch party he hopes will become a victory party. just a short time ago, president trump sent out a tweet about hugin, it said, quoting now, bob hugin, successful all his li

kansas city has a pretty good quarterback.e to see a jampacked coliseum for the first time in 33 years that there has been a monday night game. six touchdown passes, 478 yards. here is tyree hill looking great and putting them down. in the fourth quarter kansas city is up in here is a clutch and flipped to gerald everett and it is 47-44 with the rams taking the lead. that isn't going to last. the chiefs come back. here is mahone and 51-47 chiefs with 58 seconds -- but 58 seconds later look. here is a throw again and is one held up. there were two late interceptions. the rams are 10-1. kansas city could have given as a preview for the super bowl. they are 9-2. >>> st. mary's loss to utah state shooting only 29% and back east in brooklyn, mitch richmond, chris mullen are waving. his son actually plays for cal and you have darius mcneil. the bears against st. john's. they are leading cal it was a close ballgame. take note of this freshman they called the dunking dutchman. he is seven foot and just a freshman. they do have another