state of california at least five people have been killed in fayette wildfire as tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes high winds and low humidity a fueling the flames. police in australia say the man.

but if you go to the rural parts of shelby county, into fayette county, north mississippi, eastern arkansas, in september and october, you will see a lot of cotton being picked by machines. so, where it would take 50 people to pick a field, now it only takes one guy on a tractor with a cotton picker. so the industry has changed, in the sense that there are fewer memphians involved in the industry. but in terms of overall economics and how much money it brings into the city, either directly or by shipping it indirectly, it is still huge. millions of dollars flow through memphis because of the transportation hub, and that of course includes cotton. memphis is acy for two-edged sword. on the one hand, it is the reason in many ways that memphis grew beyond its small roots. have there been no cotton economy, there might not have been the need for a transportation hub at this location on the river, so it's quite possible that without cotton, memphis would not exist in the 21st century. thater, you can't forget that is being done on the backs of enslaved people. a foundations up of inequality, a f

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fayette county. this is lexington. this is university of kentucky. two counties in the state of kentucky that voted for hillary clinton in 2016. she won jefferson county and she won fayette county. she won nothing else. she got 51% of the vote here in 2016. mcgrath running at 59%. benchmark in my head is 60%. mcgrath wants to be on the north side of 60%. she's on the cusp of that. looks like absentee vote. see that she's going to sink or swim on that. go to outlying areas. you got very republican areas in the outlying parts of this district. see a lot of red there. you probably see blue around frankfo frankfort. getting the lead to go back to the big board here. one district getting action right now. in less than ten minutes that's going to change in a big way. all these districts in florida are going to start getting results. four competitive districts in virginia. going to start getting results two right here. small geographically big in terms of the stakes right outside of atlanta. sixth and seventh going start getting results. things are going to

fayette county, 40% of the district. this is basically the city of lexington, we've got now this is about accurate. we've got about 60% of the vote that is in from fayette county. she's running, the benchmark, 60% for her there. she's running at 60%. that translates as sort of imbalance here in terms of sdk vet i democratic vote in. crucial is franklin county. that's got to go democratic for her to be in the game here. that's the update there. we can show you quickly indiana. i want to again the republican continuing to lead. only now are we beginning to get votes in here from the big democratic areas. biggest county in the state. indianapol indianapolis. biggest county you can see. very low early vote percent, historically come out of marion county. a lot more same day. a lot more votes than this. democrats keeping their eye on marion county. keeping their eye on late county up here. second biggest county in the state. saint joseph county. was in this part of the state. they want to see that. we also want to see, i said

in fayette county, west virginia, local republican candidate austin halewood is getting ready for tomorrow'sald trump's republican party currently controls congress, everything is at stake now. if the democrats do well, austin fears they could kick out from or impeach him on charges many here say as bogus. they see this as the democrats in washington trying to ta ke the democrats in washington trying to take president trump out. how do you impeach somebody that's doing a great job, you impeach somebody that's doing a greatjob, that hasn't done anything wrong? our economy is good, how do you do it? when you have an outsider like president trump, they'rejust trying to take him out because they wa nt trying to take him out because they want power back because i think that's played a part in the russia allegations. this is the one road town of mindon. a quiet west virginia coalmining community. it's only a few hours' drive from washington but a world away from its frenzied politics. here, president trump is seen as the one person who could bring back america's glory days. if only washington's li

the fascinating thing to watch for here, about 40% of the population are in the lexington county, fayettebe surge democratic turnout here? also, rural areas, is the republican interest going to be down at all? are democrats able to make inroads at all in those rural see at 6:00. then at 7:00, that's when things are going to start to intensify. you are going to have in the 00 the second, virginia beach/norfolk, that area. the fifth, that includes charlottesville. ehe venth, that's dav the tenth district right outside of washington, d.c. four republican-held seats that democrats have a shot at picking off. we're going to start getting returns at 7:00 in those. also at 7:00, look at this in florida. all sorts of competitive, potentially competitive districts in florida. we're going to start getting numbers from there as well. and i'll give you one more, georgia. so much talk about the georgia governors race. the theory of the stacey abrams campaign, expand the electorate, bring first-time voters out. we're going to start getting a readout there as well, and whether it bleeds over to key cong

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here is a closer look at light showers, light to moderate moving across the bay into hayward, lay fayette, richmond, san ray moan. in the south bay, san jose had steady downpours earlier but it is moving now into the mount hamilton area. here is a live view from the roof top camera at abc 7 looking at the embarcadero. we have 59 in san francisco. a view in emeryville and you see traffic seems to be moving ail long pretty well. the pavement looks damp but the showers have ended for now. 60 in santa rosa. 59 in napa and san rafael. one more live look at the golden gate where the pavement looks wet and i think it is raining there. we will see scattered showers with breezy conditions overnight. sunnier and dryer weather coming our way this weekend with a series of rainy days next week. right now we are looking at the current storm tapering off. it ranks one on the scale. we will see light to moderate showers overnight, maybe a couple of isolate it downpours. breezy with winds out of the southwest at 10 to 15 miles per hour. we will start the forecast animation at 7:00 this evening. notice lat

with college educated voters, sort of upper income, that's sort of fayette county, lexington, and the thing we're going to see in this district is this is a republican district, this is trump district which were overwhelmingly for trump, have the democrats made any inroads there? is the republican enthusiasm there a little lower relative to the democratic parts? if this race mcgrath versus barr is tight as those numbers come in, that's an early sign for democrats. and then 6:00 polling times, 7:00 eastern time, virginia -- virginia becomes ground zero for this thing, i think. give you a cup of examples here. this is the seventh district. think of the richmond suburbs. remember dave bratt caused a political earthquake several years ago. dave brat now fighting for his political life. if dave brat loses this race the richmond suburbs that could be a big sign-in virginia but also bigger nationally as well. >> the races steve just pointed to, which might be the earlier ones which get a call, wins for democrats in some of those seems to me would indicate a wave. >> craw, look, lawrence, if

outside of it, the fascinating thing to watch, about 40% of the population in the lexington county, fayettehey're going to be surge democratic turnout. also the rural areas. is the republican interesting going to be down at all and are the democrats able to make inroads in those rural trump areas? at 7:00 is when things will start to intensify and you will have in the 7:00 hour four key districts in virginia, the second, virginia beach/norfolk, the fifth including charlottesville and the tenth district right outside washington, d.c., four republican held seat, the democrats have a shot at picking up. we'll start getting returns at 7:00. also at 7:00 look at this in florida, all sorts of competitive potentially districts in florida and we'll start getting numbers from there and one more, georgia, so much talk about the georgia governor's race, the theory of the stacey abrams campaign, expand the electorate and bring first-time voters and getting a readout there and whether it bleeds over to key congressional districts. one to watch, if stacey abrams is having a big night, rob wo woodall coul

it's got urban fayette county, lexington. and the rest is fairly rural.o you've got a lot of different and diverse populations. the trick to winning is to get the rural vote energized and maximize it. that's why amy mcgrath brought joe biden into owingsville, trying to tamp down what andy is trying to do to run up the score. i think that -- and the president came and went to richmond, which is not in lexington, either. so both campaigns understand, the whole game is whether andy can run up the score in rural america. and i'll be honest, right now outside of lexington, what donald trump says is still what goes. and barr knows it. >> although who knows what the standard is in terms of the effect this will have. but the latest cnn poll finds the president approval rating is at 39%. which is a record low going back to president eisenhower. 7 in 10 voters say they will be sending a message to president trump in this election. 28% of likely voters said their vote would be a message of support, compared to 4 2% who said their vote would send opposition. 39% is s

of it the fascinating thing to watch for here about 40% of the population in the lexington county, fayettee surged democratic turnout here. are the democrats able to make inroads at all in those rural trump areas? so that's something we're going to see at 6:00. then at 7:00 that's when things are going to start to intensify. you are going to have in the 7:00 hour four key zrigts distr virginia, the seventh the richmond suburbs, and the tenth district right outside washington. we're going to start getting returns at 7:00 in those. also at 7:00, look at this in florida. all sorts of potentially competitive districts in florida. we're going to start getting numbers from there as well. and georgia, so much talk about the georgia's governor race. the theory of the stacey abrams campaign, expand the electorate, bring first time voters out. we'll start to get a read out there as well and whether it bleeds over to key congressional districts. >> steve kornacki at the big board and the answer is for those following at home, 6, 6:00 p.m. eastern time. >> how long do you have to stay up? >> you have

bernice robinson does when she gathers a group of black beauticians to support building a tent city in fayette county, tennessee. sharecroppers who were evicted off their land she wanted to -- for engaging and activism. she wanted to provide not just a home for them, but places where they and their family could get nutrition, where they could get health care, child care. very kind of nuts-and-bolts practical needs. or ruby parks blackburn of atlanta, who used her position as a beautician to advocate for getting bus service extended into black neighborhoods. was an early advocate of what we think about as combatting environmental racism. which is this practice of companies and corporations dumping chemicals in communities of color. and so she was an early advocate for that. so again just thinking about how these beauticians are working to deal with very nuts-and-bolts things. when we center their experiences, it disrupts the master narrative for us, because it's forcing us to think about the civil rights movement beyond the national. it's forcing us to think about not just the sympathetic gover

if mcgrath keeps the rural areas down and gets better than 53, 54 in fayette, she has a shot. >> andyr is 357 votes ahead. obviously it is still very early. polls just closed about 22 minutes ago. in terms of the state polls, also just in florida and the governor's race, that's also been a fascinating race. >> no doubt about it. i mean we talk about why governorship matters. think back to the election of 2000 in florida. whoever is a governor matters in the next presidential election, but one thing to watch tonight is the trump map from 2016. remember how he changed all of the midwestern states from iowa to wisconsin to michigan to pennsylvania, ohio, those states all have governorships tonight. so democrats in each one of those states are either within the grasp of winning or slightly ahead here. so that will also be a repudiation for, you know, just what happened in 2016. so it portends big things for 2020, which is right around the corner's edge here. the president already thinking about this. i was talking to one ally of his. i said, the rallies are finally over, right? they said,

if you go into the rural part of and fayette county and north mississippi and in september as, and octoberyou are going to pickedot of cotton being by machines. so, where it would take 50 a field, now it takes one guy on a tractor and picker. the industry has changed in the in e there are fewer people memphis involved but in terms of how much onomics and money it brings into the city directly or by shipping it it is still huge. flowed of tkhradollars are through memphis because it is a ransportation hub and that includes cotton. is an's legacy for memphis two-edge sword. is the reason in many ways memphis grew beyond roots.ll had there been no cotton economy might not have been the need for a transportation hub at this location on the river. without cottonle memphis wouldn't exist in the 21st century. however, we can't forget that is eing done on backs of enslaved people. o, it sets up a foundation of inequality, a foundation of discrimination that memphis is with for the rest of its history up until this point. legacy is strong and it emains an important part of memphis culture. >> i'm on

she is doing well in fayette remains ifquestion andy barr is strong enough.s a slight lead at 62%. then we head down to the suburbs of virginia, congressional district seven. abigail has made things interesting. now is suddenly portray the -- portrayed as a d.c. insider. it is pretty stunning this race is among the most competitive in the nation. >> that is what they need to win, the suburbs. >> i am watching educated suburbs like the 10th district. there is a smattering of districts we are watching closely with that demographic. if democrats take this see, it will be the first time since 1971. you have to go back and punch numbers. i will have much more later. many thanks. we will check back with them throughout the evening. breaking news. greg pence,brother, won a congress seat in indiana. not a surprise. the vice president's brother has been victorious tonight. as we go to break, indiana's all-important senate race between joe donnelly and mike braun. to see where the tally is, 12% of the rethinks reporting and 55% for mike braun. that is way early going.