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hialeah, florida. live all day, polling stations across the country bringing you the very latest.this exciting day pe. election day in america. we'll be right back. @!@! >>> back where it all started right now. iowa. remember back to the caucuses there, ted cruz won on the republican side and hillary clinton won barely by, like, a handful of votes over brns. >> brernie sanders. >> a long time ago. what is the big issue you're hearing from voters? what are they voting on, rosa? rosa, can you hear us? >> reporter: john and kate, good afternoon. i'm in pot wanmy county here in western, iowa. the word here is, efficiency, because these poll workers, look behind me, working very, very hard to make sure that the lines are short. now, i've got to give you the lay of the land here, because iowa, of course, you will find the democratic stronghold to the east and you will find the republican stronghold to the west. now, i'm on the west here, and if you look at iowa historically, you'll see that six out of the last seven presidential elections have gone to the democrats. but this time around

hialeah to be exact.ote expected to be a major, if not the biggest factor there and if not the entire sunshine state. what are you seeing there, gabe? >> reporter: good morning, craig. so far today, we haven't been seeing huge lines here and that's because as kerry mentioned, so many voters here in florida have voted early or by absentee. we expect this to pick up through the lunch hour. kerry mentioned yesterday, the i-4 corridor so key but here in hialeah, a cuban american stronghold, long time cuban american stronghold and here with a columbian initiative with the initiative. what are you guys doing here? >> reporter: the liberty initiative is outside, not just in miami-dade but in tampa and orlando, no get a. the clinton campaign feels it's voting for them. you tend to lean conservative and endorsed marco rubio for this senate race. how critical is a latino vote for both parties at this point? >> definitely, not just in this election cycle but any year, it's important because our community is growing.

we're here in hialeah, a longtime cuban american stronghold. not many lines now, but we have seen a steady stream of voters throughout the morning. what we're expecting is not the massive lines we saw back in 2012 because of so many people voting early and absentee. as you mentioned, stephanie, the latino vote very key in the i-4 corridor especially. and the clinton campaign hopes it can make the difference in this critical battleground state. back to you. >> all of this down now with msnbc anchor and political correspondent steve kornacki. let's look at this map. i want to start thirst in florida. gabe was talking about this all important latino vote. we also forget, you have a huge amount of white senior citizens and they always get out there and vote. >> florida, look, it's a toss-up. sort of the ultimate toss-up because of the stakes here. 29 electoral votes. think of florida, we have it as a toss-up in terls of the path to 270. you see clinton sitting there on 268. if she were to get florida, with those 29, 297. what trump then needs to do

this has some s from emergency vehicles on hialeah road at alligator road west of u.s. 41. live to sky10 and checking out our morning commute cameras here. this is a live look at 275 through pinellas right at 38th avenue north. you can see that's the southbound lanes picking up a little bit here, and the accident along 38th street at 54th avenue has cleared. you're accident free in st. petersburg. let's go live to i-4 at city. along the i-4 corridor 15 minutes from polk parkway to 75. you can see you are picking up in this westbound direction. back to our maps in hillsborough county, i am also still on top of this crash. this happened over two hours ago through ruskin along u.s. 41. southbound lanes are now not totally blocked. you have two lanes blocked here right south of universal drive. you can take a detour if there is a delay. the detour would be old u.s. 41 or take i-75. ashley. >>> all ri we are off to a nice quiet start heading out the door this morning. nothing going on on stormtracker 10 and we don't expect to see much heading through the morning. into the aftern

bill keating live for from us hialeah with why florida is so crucial. good morning, phil. >> reporter: good morning, heather. record and historic early voter turnout here in florida over the past few weeks. 6.2 million votes already in the can, or in this case the ballot box. that is 48% of the total possible vote. on sunday steady lines and in some cases long lines of up to two hours as people participated in the very final day for early voting. and african-american church goers who went to sunday church services and then caravanned by vehicle or marched on their feet participated in souls to the polls. mike pence went to panama city. vice president joe biden campaigned in pennsylvania for hillary clinton. today he will be in the sunshine state. he'll be in tallahassee, a democratic oasis in the pan h l panhandle and st. petersburg. president obama in kissimmee urging them to get out and vote. the average shows clinton 47%, trump 46%. clinton with a 1-point lead, but the latest cbs poll shows clinton 45%, trump 45%. a tossup. a dead heat and, remember,

a musays is a must-win fp and a record number of people and a look at a crowded polling place in hialeah, florida. this is this morning. not as crowded in the shop but you see it there. kerry sanders joining me now from tampa, florida. so kerry, talk to us about the recognition and the importance always of florida but this time around in such a different way. >> reporter: you know, i mean, really where i'm standing in tampa and hillsborough county, 19 of the last 20 presidential elections have been called here. so if you're going to watch a county, it's here. i'm along what's known as the i-4 corridor. that's interstate 4 from tampa bay to the east coast at daytona. this is the real battleground. to the north, it's generally conservative. but along this i-4 corridor, population at about 15 counties is about 5 plus million people and the size of, say, virginia, if you really take it all into account here and this is where it's kind of 50/50 split. so people watch closely. now, i do want to report right now that there are seven schools here in hillsborough county that are on lockdown. but

let's go to gabe gutierrez in hialeah, florida. >> reporter: we've been traveling to several polling the lines here have been pretty much calm because there were so many early voters and absentee voters that we haven't seen a huge turnout, at least throughout the day here. that's because so many people voted early. as you know, morgan, in florida, and i'm joined by jose, anchor of telemundo as well as msnbc, the latino vote is really the story here in florida this time around. >> gabe, it's going to be the story around the country and florida is no exception. the fact is that when we look at the early vote by the latino community in the state of florida, 38% of the latinos that voted before today had never voted in an election before. 38%. >> reporter: that's particularly significant, here where we are in miami, it's not just the cuban-american vote anymore that had the huge influx of puerto rican voters in the i-4 corridor that clinton campaign is encouraged by the early voters. >> you and i spoke about this in the florida primaries when we were covering this state. the latino parti

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hialeah had the second largest voter turnout location.uster numbers in miami-dade and broward. two heavy democratic strongholds. african-americans churchgoers turned out to vote sunday part of the get out the vote event called souls to the polls. black voter turnout has been down. this year's early vote here historic. take a listen. >> we are not seeing as much. i don't think our numbers are being recorded in a timely manner. but we are seeing it and hearing it. many of our african-american community persons, you know, they are last-minute voters. a lot of people like going to the polls last minute. it's exciting. >> this will be an all-time record for early voter turnout in the sunshine state. 12.4 million votes already cast. in the end that will be more than half the total vote. >> what are we seeing with the florida hispanic vote. what do we know? >> we are seeing a huge spike in registrations as well as voter turnout. in early voting the numbers were up%. florida's hispanic population has grown 3%. many of those new arieflts from puer

lines were already long in places like charlotte, north carolina, and hialeah, florid and out in cincinnati, ohio as well. >> that's right. day is off to an early start for vice presidential candidate tim kaine who's already voted in his home state of virginia a little bit earlier this morning. very soon we expect to see hillary clinton do the same in chappaqua, new york. donald trump and mike pence set to vote a little bit later this morning. >>> in an election day tradition, precincts have already opened and closed in three small new hampshire towns. trump taking those three midnight votes, 33-25. >> our 2016 team is fanned out across the country again. let us start with nbc's national correspondent, peter alexander. >> reporter: good morning. can you believe it? we finally made it. we're here in new york city at the polling place where donald trump is expected to vote today. i just checked it out. even here the lines are long, they wrap around the block. trump last night wrapping up his campaign event. in fact, early this morning after 1:00 in the morning, not so much with to voters in t

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. >> polls are open across the country and lines in charlotte, hialeah, florida, near miami. >> and vice-presidential candidate, tim kaine has already voted in his home state of virginia early this morning. very soon we expect to see hillary clinton do the same in chappaqua, new york on election day this morning. >>> precincts have already opened and closed in three small new hampshire towns including dicksville notch. the votes are in trump taking 23-25. >>> and let us start with peter alexander, good morning to you. >> hey, savannah and matt, good morning to you. we finally made it here in new york city, a polling place where donald trump is expected to vote today. i just checked it out. even here the lines are long, they wraparound the block. trump, last night, wrapping up his campaign at 1:00 in the morning, not so much with a heartfelt appeal to vrs the crucial state of michigan but a return to the central message that have become those things that have become donald trump's greatest hits. last night a campaign trip to michigan. >> today, we are going to win the great state of michigan and we ar

phil keating live in hialeah, florida. breaking down why florida is so crucial for both candidates.hey, good morning everybody. once again, florida, the biggest prize of the battleground state. the largest of the swing toss-up states. again, just like four years ago, at this points, we headed to election day, an absolute dead heat. take a look at the latest cbs polling data. a 45% to 45% clinton and trump tie. meaning it's going to come down to in-person voter turnout on election day. on sunday in florida, the final day of early voting, on behalf of the clinton campaign, president obama rallied heavily in kissimmee, florida. meanwhile, mike pence visited panama city. >> this movement is coming together. florida is coming together. america is coming together. we'll make donald trump the next president of the united states of america. >> if we win florida, it's a wrap. we win florida, it's over. >> democratic strongholds, miami-dade county and broward county, the two most populous cities areas in florida. meanwhile, today we'll have an the trail in florida, vice president joe biden up