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he was campaigning in the south for georgia candidate stacey abrams. we had a reporter who was with him and he has a way of electrifying the base. as you know, the democratic party is really looking for leaders now. because barack obama is a former president and he still really is the leader of the democratic party. he is one that can really turn out voters and if democrats turn out a lot, basically the more people to vote, the better news for democrats in the election. host: one note as you well know, tim kaine who is running for reelection, hillary clinton's running mate, was among the first senators to endorse barack obama when he was running back in 2007, 2008 before he got the nomination. >> that's right, that's right. obama mentioned that. they all remember who backed them early on, especially when it was brave to back politically speaking obama over hillary clinton, certainly as obama noted that tim kaine was probably advised you probably don't want to be one of the first to endorse obama. they go back a while and kaine is a heavy favorite to wi

[cheers and applause] south georgia was literally devastated. i have never been more proud of georgians than to see the response on the ground. we are very appreciative, from the federal, state, and local level. because of that we will rebuild stronger than ever. they are continuing to stand strong with georgia. we are appreciative of that. thank you. [applause] this race is a fight for our future. literally a battle, for the soul of our state and who we are. my opponent has run the most dishonest campaign that it georgians have ever seen. there is a reason why. she is trying to hide her extreme agenda. she wants higher taxes. she wants bigger government. she wants a radical government takeover of health care. these are her so-called moderate positions. she also wants to give taxpayer benefits, welfare, and free college to those that are here illegally. she has even been encouraging those that are here illegally to be part of the so-called blue-wave. not even california is that liberal. we love you, brother. with your vote, you can stop this cra

georgia. we know our fates are yoked together in the south. georgia does something, when mississippi does something, when alabama does something, when louisiana rises, we all rise together. to be able to lead georgia and have her support behind me is an extraordinary moment. i want to say thank you to mrs. evers for all you've done not only for mississippi but for all america. >> i thank you so much. >> ms. evers, i wanted to just ask you, a lot of people don't know that stacey abrams is originally from mississippi. it's the state that has captured the sort of lurid imagination of the united states, because of its really difficult history including you and your husband's fights for voting rights. is there something happening in the south that the rest of the country has missed, a change, a sense of urgency, a sort of a revival of the fannie lou hamer, medgar evers, myrlie evers tradition? >> i'm not sure it ever left. as i see our country move more toward what we fought for, eliminating the progress that we have made, that the south is coming

as we sit here, she's got a massive caravan of buses and surrogates going all across south georgia andorth georgia. she's trying to visit every county to ask them for their vote. >> edregistrations and the abily to vote as gotten a lot of coverage. a judge ruled that 3,000 people can vote. they can get registered that were on hold with the governor's office until today. how much of that is factoring in and what is your take away from what you're seeing with those voters? >> it's heightening scrutiny on brian kemp's role. they say she should not still be in that office. what he's said to us, the media and the public is he was elected to fulfill this duty. he will do it. he will do it if there's a recount that he has to direct. >> are there any voters who are uncomfortable with that? any republican voters uncomfortable with the man overseeing the lelections run ng in the same election? >> yeah. it showed about an even split. there's a threat of concern. >> that there been as much scrutiny? >> no. this was a long running feud long before this election. it exploded. >> what's that issue? >

[applause] south georgia was devastated and i haven inber proud as a georgian than to see the responsible on the ground, at the federal, state and local level and we well rebuild stronger than ever and they are continuing to stand strong with georgia and we're appreciative of that. so thank you so much. [applause] >> this is race is a fight for our future. literally a battle for the soul of our state, and who we are. my opponent has one the most dishonest campaign that georgians have ever seen and there's a reason why. she is trying to hide her extreme agenda. she wants higher taxes. she wants bigger government. and she wants a radical government takeover of health care. these are her so-called moderate positions. she also wants to give taxpayer benefits, welfare, and free college to those that are here illegally. she has even been encouraging those here illegally to vote for her in this election to be part of this so-called blue wave. i know it's going to be hard to believe this but not even california is that liberal. but just know this. we love you, brother. but know this, with your vo

. >> that raises the possibility, say the south, georgia, texas, arizona, but arizona with that senate they are going to get the house. they will get a bunch of seats in the house. they are thrilled with that. in the recount doesn't change anything, they will still lose florida in the governor's race and senate race. another race that jumped out at me in ohio, democratic expectations were high. they did win back a state like michigan in the senate race. i think this margin might have been closer than some democrats were expecting. in terms of the midwest states, the rust belt states, the trump country areas of the country, how should democrats look at that. they did wip background there. was it as much ground as they were thinking they would win back? >> i don't think so. you compare to 2006 when ted i strikland othe slippage in the midwest seems to be permanent. >> is there a bigger picture story of democrats making these gains in the sbuburbs. these sun bet suburbs. is there some tension with making gains and hanging onto that older democratic turf in places like michigan or ohio. >>

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talk but a black boy, jim crow south, athenss georgia at the beginning of the great depression. defy you to find very many miami had a land like that. i said why did you do he said i walked down the road, took whatever job i could get. he said he became a pullman porter own to train, the largest private employer of blacks and my dad was able to tragedy around the country, which is eye opening and came to california and it was sunny and people were smiling and my dad said, it seemed less racist so maybe i'll relocate to california. pearl harbor publication dad joined the marines. said why, he said that go where the action is and i love the uniform. my dad was a marine, the first black marines, 20,000 of them in 1942 to 1949. went to guam. became a staff sergeant, promoted four times and in carm of cooking. my dad could bake anything. he could oak look at it and tell what is in it. goes bag to the south where he met and married my woman. he went to restaurants, restaurants, to restaurant and they told him don't hire and they said n-word to his ford. he win to unemployment offers.

these are the clouds in the south bringing wea er to the south including georgia and south carolina,for us, it's just heading clear out of here, and we have a nice start, high of 57 degrees. sun early, and then clouds in the aft rnoon. like w saw today. but high pressure to the north driving cooler air down across our region, and that's why temperatures tomorrow are five to ten degrees colder than the day today, so coolno, but dry. a bad thursday. then we move into the day friday. cooler air moves in. so wein moves up as well, are 54 in the city, and some of you north and west, areas like martinsburg to charleston and frederick in the upper 40s. a chilly rain, and you folks up to the north andest could have heavier rain, .50 in d.c. and inch north and west. watch there. behind the system, 47 and breezy. 47, by the way, about 15 degrees below average. same deal on sunday. a very cold start, and 34 in the city and inside the beltway, the first freeze of the season, most of us buw a freezewould be the first in the beltway. monday, we have the winter outlook. rain tuesday. another orm, t

all rain coming up from the south through georgia, south carolina, north carolina and now all rain upnd. just got a report of some sleet in the washington, d.c. area. now we're going to watch some of that heavier snow beginning in northern virginia through pennsylvania in the morning hours. here's the additional snowfall. the red is eight inches of snow. that's from hagerstown to state college to binghamton to utica to the poconos. we get a little bit here through the berkshires. you notice the cutoff right near i-95. that's where we're going to transition pretty quickly from snow to sleet, then over to rain. here's the additional ice accumulations. western virginia, watch out around pittsburgh and still in areas of ohio. once again, it's a big, big travel impact day at the airports especially this afternoon from philly to new york all the way up through boston. the big cities on i-95, maybe a quick inch and then we're going to be over to rain this afternoon into this evening. >>> still ahead, an nbc news exclusive. what vice president mike pence has to say about president trump's rel

in the soul of america's deep south lies georgia.ical upsets here very often. its recent history, its heart, are a deep, sonorous red, but clinton was the last president to turn it blue — that was more than 25 years ago. yet this time round, there is a nailbiting race, the likes of which could determine notjust who gets to govern, but who is even allowed to vote. meet stacey abrams. if she wins here next week, she will be the first black female governor the country has ever seen. she has spent years fighting changes championed by georgia's secretary of state that have removed thousands of people from the electoral register. those changes appear to hit ethnic minority voters most who, guess what, tend to vote democrat. are you worried about voters being removed from the ballot in georgia? i'm concerned about voter suppression but the antidote is voter engagement. he's made it his mission to tilt the playing field. we can win by overwhelming the voting box with a number of eligible voters and he's concerned, and he's right. if everyone

georgia. marine one just lifting off from the south lawn of the white house. president trump did take time to speak with reporters before he heads out on these campaign trips stopping in both georgia and tennessee. what we heard from the president was a degree of expectations setting. the president talking about what he hopes will happen on election day and of course how that impacts his role in all of this. the president seems pretty bullish about what will happen and he feels a lot of energy, that same level of energy he felt during his own victorious campaign in 2016, but he did offer up the caveat that he is more focussed on the senate than he is in the house of representatives where many analysts view that the democratic chances for gains are taking back the house of representatives are much better. the president even offered up a qualification in harts to the house of representatives saying there is only so much campaigning he can do between now and election day and it's impossible to visit every one of the house districts, but he can have more of an impa

russia claim to be supporting south assented independence but sided with georgia holding a vote on joining nato a clear challenge to russian power. this is one of the villages that is closest to. the divide between south so said georgia proper i feel that i have to be very cautious because i have heard many stories. of people being picked up by the russian military just because to go too close to the barbed wires . i just like of all the other georgians the thing. it's part of our country so it's a little strange. being kept out of their territory. to cross into georgia but very few georgians the way at least. twins of with tool available to go with us about. the reason for it will be tommy love. so he says. he needs. the approval of his boss to lead us through for security reasons the car is going to escort us to and from so that we're safe. the feeling that you get is so mixed off anger and fear that you're approaching a hostile place but it's actually your own country. there are blacks. i was only allowed a couple of minutes at the border and your presence here soon draws attention. to

we jump to 7:00, south carolina, georgia, florida, they all start to close their polls and of course we will start to see results coming in. some of these races are very, very important and we talk about approximate them in georgia and in florida. of course by 7:30, ohio & west virginia. the last polls close in alaska at 1:00 a.m. we will be here talking about that and doing all the results through the night. >> democrats hoping for early pick ups in the northeast in the state of pennsylvania where there is redistricting. we will have early indicators. walk us through each party's agenda and priorities, if they win or maintain control. >> let's focus on the house of representatives. assume the republicans maintain control. immigration and the border wall, two big issues that president trump spent his first two years talking about and certainly the last two weeks of this election. middle class tax cuts is something that surprised us when president trump said he would guarantee a middle class tax cut of 10% to the middle class. many thought it was an election ploy and it was. they will

congressional districts in the south and help us win these districts and north carolina, south carolina, georgia. so that's the discussion after the election. >> neil: you think she should lead democrats? >> my position hasn't changed on that. it's the same. again, we need people that can go into those congressional districts. we have to get to economic message and healthcare. the job numbers are good. the reality is, inflation is still outpacing the wage increase. so people are still feeling squeezed. i ran into a woman at the grocery store outside of youngstown, ohio. it's the same argument. the president is getting out ahead of his skis here. yeah, if you have the jobs numbers, it's a political problem. >> the wage gains are the best they have been in almost a decade. >> yeah. if your food is doing up, the gas is going up and healthcare costs are going up, you're not breathing a sigh of relief. you're not comfortable. that is really where the anxiety still is. even though you may have a job that you may get a little bump in wages but you're still not keeping up. >> neil: there's many in your

georgia. because we know that our fates are yoked together in the south. when georgia does something.ippi, alabama, louisiana rises we all rice together. to lead georgia and to have her support behind me is an extraordinary moment and i just want to say thank you to mrs. evers for all you've done not only for mississippi but for america. >> well i thank you. i thank you so much. i'm sorry. >> and ms. evers. i wanted to talk to you because a lot of people don't know that stacey brarms is mississippi. it's the state that captured the sort of lur i had imagination of the united states because of its really difficult history including you and your husband's fights for voting rights. is there something happening in the south that the rest of the country missed? a change of a sense of urgency, a revival of the fanny lou hammer, myrlie evers tradition? is that come back? >> i'm not sure it's ever left. but as we see our country move more toward what we fought for of eliminating the progress that we have made that the south is coming together again. and with the state of the nation, the racis

has been busy crisscrossing the country, yesterday's rally schedule saw him sweep across the south from georgiao tennessee including an absolutely incredible scene as a crowd of around 12,000 came out to hear the president speak. he called tomorrow's election the most consequential midterm in history. >> it will decide whether we build on the extraordinary prosperity we've achieved for our nation or whether we let the radical democrats take control of congress. and take a giant wrecking ball to our economy and to our futur future. >> the president back on the road again, he's got ohio, indiana, and missouri and cape girardeau expected to be a raucous event, the last rally before the midterm elections. i had a chance to speak with a white house official a little earlier today, he said don't expect much different in today's remarks in ohio, pretty much what we've seen on the campaign trail thus far but he will localize it just a bit and in particular we expect the president to talk a great deal about manufacturing and bringing jobs back here to the beautiful state of ohio. for now, back back to y

it starts before when i was growing up in the south in georgia. my father was a civil rights attorney and i greatly admired him. and my mother was a stay-at-home mom and she seems quite frustrated because she had been a writer for newspapers before she married. she felt she could not continue that is a married woman. her sadness gave me the feeling that maybe i could be what was then called a career woman. [laughter] the problem was that my family had a huge circle of friends but not a single woman was a career woman. so the only possible thing i could make of that was that that would not be possible. i would have to resign myself to being a wife and a mother and a volunteer as best i could. then, when i was a teenager, someone gave me the biography of jane adams. her parents, like mine had only one objective for her. get married to a rich man. she nevertheless created something no one had ever heard of. hull house in chicago. she changed the world in that way. she did all sorts of things but did it with her own style and in her own way. i thought

texas, south carolina, georgia have transformed their societies and criminal justice systems through common sense evidence-based practices. that is what this is based on. in texas, in the past 10 years, eight prisons saved over 4 billion tax -- over $4 billion in taxpayer money and they have a crime rate that is not been this low since the 1960's. that is what we want at the federal level. this is rehabilitation based on evidence-based practices. the idea is that people come out of prison better than they went in. we have 45,000 people coming in and out of the federal system every year. we have 700,000 people returning to society. 95% of criminal justice system at state and federal level, are coming out. it is in our interests they are rehabilitated. they had drug therapy, they are not as traumatized, they get skills, educational courses, vocational training courses. there was a study a few years ago, 2013 by the doj and the rand corporation that showed for every dollar spent on prison education programs, it to phrase four dollars of future cost, and reduces the rate of recidivism by

georgia. more than 60% of registered voters casting ballots. dana. >> dana: thank you, jonathan. moving south georgia to florida. peter doocy, you're live in naples. is this really going to happen again, a recount? >> reporter: we'll see. bill nelson has not conceded, but has hired an election lawyer and released a very short statement that says just this. we are proceeding to a recount. i'm told nelson never called the republican governor rick scott, who leads by more than 30,000 ballots to concede because the nelson campaign said they think he would win the areas where more than 100,000 ballots are said to be counted. it's up to the republican's secretary of state whether or not to initiate a recount. that happens saturday when his office receives the ballot. the scott team thinks this is just for show. this was sepb to me. this race is over. sad way for bill nelson to end his career. he is desperately trying to hold on to something that no longer exists. the scott campaign thought they shut the bill on bill nelson's fourth term early in the night last night. they were confused why the race

he may have boosted the margins in south georgia in rural areas by tieing himself to donald trump but that were republican flipped to the democrats because republicans rejected him in the metro areas, or i shouldn't say republicans, general only voters. >> karen handle is not going to be a member of congress. >> karen handle was one of the ones hurt by that. they said the protrump bit of the republican party really did her in with republicans in the subur suburbs. >> kewe got to let you go. what are you looking for on the mueller saga? >> no one would be surprised if indictments came down but we thought we were bracing ourselves on friday. nothing happened. we don't know. people reported he started writing his final report. that's not news. what is news is when he'll finish that report and that could be a long way off. >> you'll have a lot of news coming your way in the next couple weeks. >>> just ahead, one set of election results and interpretations for democrats and republicans alike in congress as 2020 approaches. we're back after this. 7. >>> some decided let's stay away. carlos,

level of the ballot in this race but in a few hours i'm going to try just an hour or two south to macon georgia where trump is having a rally with and there are undoubtedly going to be hundreds if not thousands of white women there standing behind the president so i think you have to look at the geographical divide across this country so it is what are the difference in issues that. a white female voter cares about as opposed to a female voter of color something's overlap obviously but but those are two very distinct types of voters. in a sense i come back at the what's actually more interesting is that the issues that are there actually should unite and should be a white versus bloc issue when you talk about the key issue of health care for example when you talk about the issue of education when you talk about the economy which in fact the trump campaign is really only continuing the progress under obama and where it goes next year with the future of the tax cut. in the federal debt that's going to huge those are issues which tend to unite what i find more interesting is the way that the divis

now let's head south to georgia where brian kemp and stacey abrams are pulling out all the stops in onee nation's closest governors races. jonathan? >> reporter: hi, dana. brian kemp is doing a fly around tour of the state visiting rallies at airports and small towns throughout georgia. he's trying to keep up the energy among his base of rural conservatives. kemp receives elections and his office announced it's launched an investigation into the democratic party of georgia after a failed attempt to breach the state's voter registration system. kemp's opponent stacey abrams told cbs this morning the allegations run founded. >> brian kemp was informed of this flaw in his security system on friday. he failed to act and instead on sunday, without any evidence, decided to try to cast dispersians on democrats. we have nothing to do with it. >> reporter: abrams accuses kemp of using his office to supress and intimidate voters. kemp denies this. both his campaign and the secretary of state's office say they were unaware of the alleged hacking attempt until saturday. kemp said his office respond

georgia that's the thing. said tax part of our country so it is a little strange. being kept out of your territory. southof said to cross into georgia but very few georgians screw the way at least. my. twins have with us. but i go with a. reason to worry tommy love. so he says. he needs. the approval of his boss to let us through for security reasons the car is going to escort us to and from. where. the feeling that you get is so mixed off anger and fear that the you're approaching a hostile place but it's actually your own country. there are books. i was only allowed a couple of minutes at the border and your presence here soon draws attention. to weeks after the war russia recognized south a certain independence. twenty percent of our land was occupied annexed by russia. barbed wire started appearing in villages that border the breakaway regions the villages split into the residents about how this house might be related if a person dies on the other side these residents have to spend weeks to get permits and go over there. so it makes people's lives very different. controlled by the soviet union or con

host: there was talk about a democratic wave and we did see in the south places like texas and georgia and florida where candidates like beto o'rourke and stacey abrams and andrew gillum did better than expected. what is going on in the south? guest: i think long-term, we have demographic change. we know if we are talking decades long change, we are going from a majority white country to a majority nonwhite country. that is a fact. specifically with these midterms , it is only natural to have the party out of power, the democrats, getting more energized than republicans. in part, it was a function of that, that the democratic base was more energized. historic average for a party out of power is 33 seats and they are performing a little bit better. i would couch it or frame it that way. selection in these off term elections is very important, and these were very energizing, attractive candidates that wraps were able to push the needle even more. i do not believe the democrats performed much better than we thought they were going to come and we always have to be careful when we talk abou

at 7:00 voting ends in georgia, indiana, south carolina, kentucky.ntucky are closing right now, and votes from those districts could start coming in at any moment. this is the hurdle democrats face tonight in the house. they need to win 23 republican-held seats to reclaim the majority and keep the seats they have now. in the senate, democrats have to win two seats now held by republicans and hold on to their existing number of seats. jake, we expect to get the first results in seconds. >> in seconds, and, wolf, this will be the earliest test of how democrats are going to do tonight and whether control of the house is in the democrat's grasp. we will get important clues when the first results come in from kentucky. democrat amy manage gragt has a chance of defeating republican incumbent andy barr who rode the trump wave to a big victory two years ago. in the fight for the senate, democrats on defensive in indiana. joe donnelly has embraced key aspects of the trump agenda to try to hold on to his senate seat in this state where the president won by dou

if in the new south states and florida and georgia, if they are running that way and you had side groupslls and the whole complement and it worked and does that mean there is no more new south, it is just this. >> i think it will be this for the foreseeable future. one of the things prompting this is the demographic changes that people know that these states have increasing black and brown population. >> people are moving from the south -- from the north back down south. >> and the way you get around that is the two kind of prong approach. one, they have doubled down on trying to attract those white voters who feel besieged and circle the wagons mentality about the changing demo graphs in their state and in the broader sense in the country. and then disenfranchised and you could see the racial appeals that is one part of it. but that is likely to drive black and brown people to the polls, seeing that egregious racism. so you have to get those people out of contention. so i think we're likely to see much more of both of those things. >> we saw after president obama was re-elected with ron

let's go back down south to georgia. brian kemp, 258,000 vote lead at this point. 61 %, and you have stacey abrams here. going through history here in georgia. 32 % reporting right now. and we're going to hand you over to wolf. >>> wee have a projection in the house of representativities in kentucky. the sixth district. the winner andy barr. he's the republican. he was challenged by amy mcgrath. andy barr reelected in the lexington, kentucky area. in florida, spano is winner. this is along the i-4 corridor. spano gets elected in florida. right now in the house of representatives democrats must pick up 21 republican seats. it stays the same as a result of this. 21 republican seats and not lose any of their own. jake, let's talk about this. 21 seats they still have to pick up, the democrats. >> it's possible the democrats will regain control of the house. but when you look at what's going on here tonight, this is not a blue wave. this is not a wave that is knocking out all sorts of republican incumbents. you called the ken

south. of course, this is very red georgia. typically it's been very conservative.nd president trump only won this state by five percentage points in 2016. that's a lot closer of a margin than we saw in ohio, which is of course typically considered much more of a swing state. so things appear to be changing here in georgia. somebody like a stacey abrams, a progressive democrat, could actually pull it off. as you said, this is a very, very tight race. pretty much within the margin of error. president trump really has sort of put a lot of stock into brian kemp. this is not one of those, you know, races where you've got a competitive senate situation in georgia. most of the states he's going to, it's about balance of power. this is simply about this georgia governor's race. brian kemp very much in the trumpian mold on issues like immigration. he's the secretary of state and has been criticized for using the power of his office to purge minorities off the ballot. so it's the south, david. issues of race, immigration never far from the surface. unfortunately, a robocall

we've seen such different strategies by african american candidates in the south in florida and georgia governor's races and now in this senate race because there has been a feeling in georgia and florida that an african american candidate can win a statewide race by appealing to african american voters, not trying to appeal to moderate whites in the middle, which has been the traditional prescription. so this will be a test about whether anything is really changed. >> block voters were very excited about andrew gillum, stacy abrams. hey came closer than a lot of people thought, but they ended up losing, so this is that last one. >> the decision that mike espy will have to take the large blan and a large and growing population of liberal, educated whites. you can brick those vote, along. mississippi doesn't have that. and, in fact, it has a very inelastic white population that votes routinely for republican candidates. so i think it's a population around 40%, 45%. but even that elasticity in the white vote makes espy's odds really hard even if the gap between a loss and a win is like ve

years ago i was a newspaper reporter in marietta, georgia where oprah win free will be campaigning on behalf of stacy abrams. when we talk about the southnging demographics and georgia as an example, that's a conversation piece. 20 years ago you wouldn't see oprah winfrey rallying the troops for stacy a drams. certainly in the south as you see from a lot of influx of northerners who moved on from low taxes. the companies moved down there. you get folks move moving in who don't have social conservative values. that's a changing of the new south. you look at stacy a drbrams anda talks about knife fights. this will be a knife fight because she know how to engage in this fighting as does kemp. the secretary of state of georg georgia. it will be an ugly one to the wire. >> you could see some of that fighting in the final debate. he pulled out of the final debate. he wants to appear with donald trump at the same time. what does that say about where he thinks we need to win. >> i think they both need the base to turn out. the reason brian kemp is in this race in the general election is because of donald trump. donald trump endorsed him. he nee

the fastest growing latino communities today, north dakota, alabama, georgia, pennsylvania, louisiana, southdakota and utah. there is a reason why montana mexicans live there, too. it's really went on you. mexicans are here to say 33 million latinos have been born in the u.s. it will only keep us in. not keep us out. i just want to conclude, by sharing with you, that as we look to the future, and open it up to questions, 80% of the doctor that are mexican, they are mexican. of the three richest people in the world, two of them are latino. last thing i want to point out, economic component relates to our future and mexicans live abroad within the u.s. also are been more than $30 billion. it is about economic development and immigration from mexico. it has gone in reverse. more people, americans are moving. then are moving from mexico to hear. want to think everyone for your faith and your optimism. today is election day. we need to go out to vote. thank you very much. [applause] >> i've got a question for you. we're short on time. auto straight to the question from the audience. are there any

trailing her opponent by a long shot but to be sure that an issue of voter suppression in georgia and in the south in general which i've covered that story many many times is something that isn't going to go away we just had felons rights restored here in florida but at the same time in georgie the accusations that a man running for that state's governor is actually in his current role actively suppress the votes of more than fifty thousand people many of whom are minority so that issue is not going to go away in the state of georgia that race is still being watched very closely and so on lots of issues rising up there between these two states between georgia and florida but i think again it's important to note this because for years i've been covering this story about how felons convicted felons in the state do not have the right to vote now one point five million of them actually do have the right to vote that was overwhelmingly voted by floridians by about sixty percent so that is a clear victory the civil rights activists absolutely and i mean of course that wasn't stacy abrams talking because

by changing georgia we changed the south. we are now a purple state.small as to be in terms of the 2020 contest, in terms of the next elections inconsequential. they are going to have to fight to stay in power and i'm going to make certain it's a fair fight by making sure our electoral system works. that's why we're filing a lawsuit and that's why we're going to work across the aisle and across party divisions to make sure no matter who wins the next election, it is a fair fight. >> i have cheryl eichel of the naacp defense council standing by. you're filing a lawsuit. please tell us the grounds of that lawsuit and what you hope to accomplish. >> fair fight georgia is designed to say we have to have strong legal remedies to what has been a broken system. that means votes have to be counted no matter who they're cast by if they're eligible voters. that we have to have uniformity in our system of absentee ballots. that we have to fix our broken machines and that we have to have enough of them. there's been systemic disinvestment and there's a pending cas

in georgia, if stacey abrams wins, she would be the nation's first african-american female governor. a progressive candidate in the south up against a conservative, georgia secretary of state brian kemp, who now accuses democrats there of trying to hack the voter ridegistration system on e eve of the election. abc's steve osunsami and so many of our teams out across the country tonight. steve has the state of the race in georgia. >> reporter: democrat stacey abrams' final pitch to become the nation's first black female governor has her getting out the vote in rural georgia tonight. >> if every eligible georgian in the state votes, then we will win this election. >> reporter: if she wins tomorrow, democrats everywhere will be studying her campaign, because abrams has been preaching to the progressive choir, talking gun control and subsidized health care, not at all trying to convince hard conservatives. and she has no worries bringing in out of towners like oprah winfrey -- >> oh! >> reporter: -- to knock on doors. >> they said, "i have her cell number." i go, "give it to me." i'm going to call her up right now. so i cal

of washington state, or again florida and now more recently of course in the south, with georgia andalabama and other places including louisiana with increasing mexican populations. let's talk about or at least for now put the total demographic profile was similar in what's different among mexican immigrants compared to other immigrants in the united states. the first thing is mexicans are more likely to be male than others. 40% of mexican immigrants are female compared to 52% of all immigrants a minute days. mexicans tend to be younger than all immigrants. 43 as the median age for mexicans compared to 45% for all immigrants. and then there's also in terms of the proficiency, doing very well, mexicans or about 63% identified as proficient compared to 48% of the population. 86% of mexicans are within the working age range, which we here call it 18 to 64 compared to 79%. the next point is labor participation for mexicans is 69%. that is compared to 66% of all immigrants who are more likely to be in the forest and compared to 62% of the nativeborn population. both mexicans and all immig

>> well, it looks like a lot of this rides, unfortunately, on one senator, tim scott of georgia -- south carolina, excuse me, who was convinced at the very last minute to vote on the procedural motion who has not committed as to how he'll vote tomorrow. as you mentioned this is the author of north carolina's law to keep african-americans from voting. but it's also -- this is also the guy who sat with jesse helms to come up with a plan to send out postcards to african-american voters telling them that they might be arrested if they showed up to vote in one of senator helm's elections. he has a long, long history of essentially leading efforts to try to keep african-americans from the polls. i would hope that he does not have the votes tomorrow to actually get to final passage, even if he just limped across the procedural finish line today. >> it's still an open question? >> i think it's absolutely an open question. again, probably sits on the shoulders of tim scott. i wish it wasn't his burden to bear. but he's got a tough decision to make tonight. >> i should note that two black women we

was commonwealth & southern servicing alabama, tennessee, parts of south carolina, parts of georgia,nd mississippi. his job was to build dams and supply power. why not cohabit -- collaborate? so they went at the university club in a new york and like each other. roosevelt and wilkie saw this man as a visionary. saw wilkie as a holding company president with values. they agreed they would collaborate. they would work out the details later of borderlines between tba and commonwealth & southern. cost of the of the electricity, how it would be determined. yardsticka mysterious concept that fdr liked. he said, the yardstick is the solution to public power, affordable, reliable. firmemed to mean that a would have to make a profit from selling its product to retail at the lowest price and still be constant with profit. that was the definition. tba being able to undercut private power. that was to be later determined. as variousbegan officials of commonwealth & southern were less trusting of the cohabitation then wilkie. sued and went to court and it resulted in ash wander versus tba. alabam

by the 1940s over 50% of black adults in louisiana, georgia, alabama, south carolina and mississippi have less than five years of formal jim crow education. i will throw a constitutional passage at them that a harvard jd would have trouble getting through and say interpret it. by the time the us is getting ready to fight the nazis only 3% of african-americans were registered to vote. that is how powerful the mississippi plan was. and then have these mechanisms, and the poll tax and literacy test, they did not violate the 15th amendment. these are powerful. when you think about where we are today with voter ids that use societally imposed conditions dealing with poverty, lack of mobility and lack of transportation and access to a department of motor vehicles, that is how you begin to build in and stay on this side of the 15th amendment, history may not repeat itself but yes. >> i'm going to skip around on questions a little bit. you raise good points about current trends, what is happening with voter id and even with birth certificates and all the id that would be acceptable, birth ce

referendum on his first two years in office now the states where polls have just closed clude georgia indiana south carolina virginia for mont and kentucky one race to watch is for the senate in indiana where the democrats are trying to hold on to their seat there is a key senate race in indiana and we'll be watching that very closely as the night goes on and in georgia is the site of one of this year's most closely watched governor's governor races stacey abrams's bidding to be the first female black governor in a contest that's been marred by allegations of voter suppression also closing in less than half an hour are several key states with close races including ohio west virginia and north carolina. here's no reminder of what we'll be watching as the night unfolds all four hundred thirty five seats in the house of representatives are up for grabs the republicans have got one so far both parties still have a long way to go to reach that magic number of two hundred nineteen the democrats need a net gain of twenty three seats to take control of the chamber while in the senate it's a different story

candidates of color to be the nominee, the viable nominees candidates to be the governor of georgia and south carolina and maryland it's something we haven't seen in quite some time. >> you raise a very interesting point because as you recall the aftermath of the campaign they revolted in a whole bunch being elected in ways we haven't seen and the wilder of virginia and norm in seattle on. so perhaps what we are seeingo s a staple to what we saw in that period added some of whom are seeing cut from the obama cloth if you go and have taken the baton in new directions we hadn't previously seen. >> are we seeing more asian american or latino voters and one thing not to mention there's an intersectional connection and have issues regarding women in politics which is also a response to the presidency of donald trump and the marches so we are seeing women of color also emerge in your town of boston there was a breakthrough. democratic incumbents, any thoughts on that releasing the future or is it sort of temporary. before this panel of men in the senate judiciary with a lot of women to congress inc

down through virginia, richmond further south into atlanta, georgia, and the carolinas. this area of yellow you see here during the day on election day could include some stronger thunderstorms along that line right there. so you can see east of the rockies, the weather includes snow showers in minneapolis. the threat of thunderstorms there on the east coast and rain in the pacific northwest, which maybe makes you appreciate the weather we'll be seeing here on election day. bay area temperatures comfortably in the upper 60s to upper 70s. a full look at the rest of the workweek forecast coming up in ten minutes. >> thanks a lot. still to come, court-ordered family bonding that costs tens of thousands of dollars. >> up next, we investigate a bay area program that claims to help children of divorce. proposition 11 solves two issues. first, it continues to pay paramedics while we're on break. second, it ensures the closest ambulance can respond if you call 9-1-1. vote yes on 11. proposition 11 "a common sense solution" to protect public safety. it ensures the closest ambulan

knox and other bases in georgia, south carolina, colorado, washington state and beyond.y are sending aviation brigades, medical companies, logistics teams, even public affairs. the primary focus appears to be the aircraft and the engineers who will be moving border protection agents and moving equipment to help with the fencing and the barriers and the temporary housing. they're not building temporary housing for migrants, but for those tasked with keeping them out. >> i'd just like to say it is a big honor that the army has chosen us to come here and spear head this whole operation. i'm very excited. just another way to support my country and do what needs to be done. as a combat engineer, we are highly trained. >> reporter: dana, these are rapid deployment teams. it's what they do. they just usually don't do it here in the u.s. >> dana: are these troops going to be armed? >> reporter: well, we're told some of them will be. the ones who normally carry weapons will, in fact, carry weapons. as we've been reporting, they won't be here to do any law will be allowed to prote