jeff greenfield is our senior political correspondent. he joins frus boston tonight. jeff, how does this rally, how does glenn beck potentially affect the november midterm elections? >> with intensity. midterm elections have a much lower turnout than presidential elections, and i think for the whole last year and a half, when weather you call it the tea party movements, or folks who don't like obama, the intensity has been, broadly speaking, on the political right. and even though it's hard to get exactly what glenn beck is about-- is he about restoring morhonor, supporting the milita, leading us out of the darkness-- the people who follow him have a very strong sense of grievance, and i believe they're going to bring that to the polls in november and that is a danger for the democrats if they can't gin out the same kind of intensity. >> glor: jeff, speaking about that photographyance, glenn beck has said himself she "out to reclaim the civil rights movement." you were at the martin luther king speech 47 years ago. any comparisons to be made here? >> reporter: in one s

jeff greenfield is our senior political correspondent. good evening to you. let's talk about alaska more. sarah palin the key there? >> it was a key because even though her resignation as governor hurt her standing in alaska, she is popular among republicans. there's also a family feud aspect here. palin defeated murkowski's father for governor four years ago. but there was another key. there was a proposal on the ballot to require parents to be notified if a teenage daughter of theirs sought an abortion. that brought out a lot of social conservatives who have long had problems with murkowski's abortion views. >> glor: also this fascinating case in florida, the senate race there. >> i think this is the most intriguing race in the whole country. it's a three-way contest. republican governor charlie crist, facing certain defeat in the republican primary, decided to run as an independent. he faces republican marco rubio, former speaker of the statehouse, and congressman kendrick meek the democrat. it's very possible that control of the u.s. senate could depend o

jeff greenfield, thanks. i want to turn our attention to iowa where heavy flooding has turned deadly. the body of a 16-year-old girl swept away overnight was found this afternoon near des moines. meantime, officials in ames, population 55,000 closed the city's water supply after a main broke beneath a flooded stream. floodwaters have been rising since the weekend when thunderstorms hit the area. the floods in pakistan are the worst that country has seen in 80 years. today the u.s. military ordered more helicopters to help. help of any kind can't come soon enough to pakistan and also to china where celia hatton shows us a disaster unfolding. >> reporter: he was pulled out feet first but breathing, after being buried in a mammoth landslide in north western china's gansu province for 58 hours. but it's likely this man will be the last to be found alive. more than 600 are missing in a sea of mud that slid down the mountain and crashed over the valley town below. an army of workers are digging through the mud in a

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