>> jamie rodriguez known here as el bronco, who is laced with profanity and country wisdom and straighttalk he wouldn't by a big number, went in double digits against his closest competitor and for our viewers all over the world understand that this man might be a harbinger of things ocome as people continue to get disgusted with politics as usual here in mexico. trying to look for people who label themselves as independent work outside the system was a member of the ruling pri fork more than 30 years it literally made hik sick with its corruption so he had to leave it. one of his young children was kidnapped, he had survived two assassination attempts. >> adam rainey from mexico city, thank you. >>> six people have now died from middle east respiratory syndrome in south korea and 23 new cases have been identified. the president has vowed to take all necessary action to contain the spread of mers. >> translator: the core of current preventative measures is working out the infection clearly severing the link and working out the contact poop prompt decision is needed for this so an immedi

guerrero state burned ballot box block access to polling station and threw rocks, independent jamie rodriguez won a resounding victory for governor of the northern state. adam raney is in mexico city. >> reporter: according to exit polls an independent candidate for governor in the northern rich industrial state has won that race, winning with what appears to be nearly 50% of the vote. more than 45 at this time compared to an apparent second place winner who just has a little you remembered 30% of the vote. that is of course exit polling and we can't confirm that result as of yet. but what it does show is perhaps a ground breaking result in that northern state because this is the first time ever that an independent candidate in mexico has beat a major party candidate for office such as governor, at the same time, there is this pressure in the north of the country. in the south we saw protest vote burning by leftist teachers trying to disrupt voting in four southern states. they weren't that successful, though although there were precincts and polling stations closed in certain areas of those

. >> despite the perry prie pri winning the story is the independent candidate jamie rodriguez a he bellwetherstate this man who is known as el bronco, known for tough straight talk and profanity in his speeches, is considered an outsider insider mayor of a town outside monterey this business hub in orleons state. independent nonaffiliated candidate and that's important mainly because we're just three years out there a presidential election in which people who are operatives in these political parties are going to look at this man's victory and be a worried that an independent could register and have a strong showing and b that he's also going to be this model that whether you're inside or outside, the party's where instead of cronyistic way of doing politics in mexico he has breathe fresh air into the party. >> is it a sign that mexican democracy is healthy? >> well, it's kind of a sign that there is positive evolution happening in mexican democracy. but at the same time he created this political earthquake that we called in the center of the country, protests that were extremely violent and

if in the jami rodriguez beats the candidate for governor as expected it could lead to a weakening of pin yet toe's coalition. jam if elections are going to give pointers in what we can expect for the second half. >> campaigning has not been without violence. several candidates across the country have been killed, dozens of others attacked and there is a growing movement led by teachers calling for a boy cut of the election. if the government is unable to hold the election in parents of the country it will be seen as a major failure a failure that pena nieto and his party can do without. >> you also have on going raging drug violence. on saturday night in acapulco, which isn't far from here, lease said vigilante groups engaged with suspected criminals and perhaps up to 17 people were killed in that confrontation. this is according to local reports. we haven't been able to confirm that. that just shows you that this region is really a tinder box where violence has kicked off political unrest and frustration. that's here in the south. we have security forces here and in the north of the