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and did a roundtable with hispanic leaders yesterday. >> kacie hunt, thank you.ning now to the democrat bei fight to save senate seats in the south. chuck todd on the road with more from louisiana. >> we're at our last stop of our two week trek. eight states, ten days. it's louisiana. we made louisiana our last stop because it's likely not going to be an election that ends on november 4th. if anything, it may only just be beginning on november 4th. here's what to watch for. mary landrieu, the democrat here, she has the same problems a lot of other red state democrats have. but hers are more acute. where she stands on certain issues, particularly on energy issues, which are very important to louisiana, is in complete contrast to where the rest of the democratic party is in 2014. and that's been challenge number one for her. challenge number two, here she is, the chairwoman of the energy committee. perhaps if democrats hold the senate, she'll continue to keep it. but has harry reid allowed her to sort of flex her muscles and use that platform to help louisiana. i t

>> msnbc correspondent kacie hunt is live in louisville, kentucky, this morning. kacie, they've known grimes since she was 14 years old. good friends with her dad. last night, hillary clinton was there. how much can all of this help allison grimes in kentucky? >> well, she's hoping it can help her a lot. as we sort of discussed here, grimes, more than anything, wants to be viewed as a clinton democrat and not as an obama democrat. the landscape here is tough for allison grimes. the campaign committee isn't up on the air any more. that sends the message they're more focused on other states that they don't necessarily think they can win here. although they are investing in the ground game. if grimes is going to pull this out, she has to distance herself as much as possible from what's going on right now and hillary clinton helps her do that. >> grimes is not the only one reaching out to women. women should vote for him because he helped expel the senator back in the '90s, for folks who remember that. what were your takeaways from that? >> held an event appealing to w

kacie hunt is in colorado with the latest. >> are you ready to do democracy?n november 4th? >> reporter: can republicans win in blue states? next week, they'll get a trial run in colorado. it's been a decade since a republican won state-wide office here. congressman cory gardner is leading democratic senator mark udall and the republican is in a race closer than expected. >> let's make colorado a red state again. >> reporter: it's all a far cry from 2010. that was a great year for republicans but not in colorado. >> why should you vote for me? because i do not wear high heels. >> reporter: ken buck, dan maze and tom tancredo were all conservative favorites and general election leaders. this time, the gop picked candidates who will strike a different tone. >> we will make sure we restore a government we cab be proud of, a government that once again can accomplish big ideas with bold beliefs and courageous plans. >> reporter: that hasn't stopped democrats from trying to make them seem as scary as possible. >> his opponent is an attractive guy, says, i'm not for

kacie hunt, thank you very much rachel maddow starts now. >> thank you at home for joining us this hour. so a virus gets into your body. gets into your cells. once it gets into your cells, it convinces your cells to make more virus. essentially uses the healthy cells of your body as a xerox machine to make more replications of itself. once the virus inside your cell has convinced that cell to make a ton of new virus particles, those virus particles eventually burst out and they move on to other parts of your body to go cause more havoc. and if that virus is one of about 30 different known viruses that call something called viral hemorrhagic fever syndrome, then what that virus wants to do more than anything once it's gotten into your body and replicated itself sufficiently that it's ready to get to work hurting your body, what that virus most wants to do, if it's one of the viruses that causes viral hemorrhagic fever syndrome, what it wants to do is get into your veins, into your blood system, the whole vascular network in your body that moves blood around. the kind of virus that causes

kacie hunt, thank you very much rachel maddow starts now. >> thank you at home for joining us this hour. so a virus gets into your body. gets into your cells. once it gets into your cells, it convinces your cells to make more virus. essentially uses the healthy cells of your body as a xerox machine to make more replications of itself. once the virus inside your cell has convinced that cell to make a ton of new virus particles, those virus particles eventually

kacie hunt is on the ground live in little rock. this event falls at the end of bill clinton's two-day arkansas swing. and this one as important as any one of his visits there. >> absolutely, he mentioned as he was campaigning here that arkansas for him is a lot more than just coming back for politics. he has this clinton presidential library here. he is hosting this gathering of about 70 mayors and law enforcement officials and, as you said, it's centered around the 20th anniversary of this community policing initiative that clinton instituted when he was president and sometimes credited with driving down what were really high violent crime rates in the 1990s. the paper actually editorialized bill clinton helped have a national conversation about race and about violence and about how to help police forces become better integrated with their communities. and that's what they plan to talk about here today. >> also, want to follow up, quickly. made a little news yourself. your interview with mike pryor on ebola. the headline being wit

kacie hunt, thank you very much rachel maddow starts now. >> thank you at home for joining us this hour gets into your body. gets into your cells. once it gets into your cells, it convinces your cells to make more virus. essentially uses the healthy cells of your body as a xerox machine to make more replications of itself. once the virus inside your cell has convinced that cell to make a ton of new virus particles, those virus particles eventually burst out and they move on to other parts of your body to go cause more havoc. and if that virus is one of about 30 different known viruses that call something called viral hemorrhagic fever syndrome, then what that virus wants to do more than anything once it's gotten into your body and replicated itself sufficiently that it's ready to get to work hurting

. >> kacie hunt, north carolina. perry bacon at big picture with 13 days to go, perry, it seeps to me these races where there's incumbents are going to be these individual sort of just autonomous little fights. those open-ended races in south dakota, montana, west virginia. with the exception of georgia, it seems to be very difficult to predict these individual races trying to tie them to a national mood, if you will. >> that's the thing, there's no big trend. i mean, obama's not popular and that's hurting the democrats in the south. that's true in north carolina. that's true in arkansas. that's true in georgia. beyond that, these races are all very different. like, we're seeing michelle nunn, the democrat in georgia, gaining points the last couple of weeks. she's focused on outsourcing comments david perdue's made. in kansas pat roberts who was down for a while is really coming back. he's done a good job of appealing. he's brought cruz and dole. that could be a closer race than we thought. >> bt ros brought in the h

and interviewed yesterday with kacie hunt. >> we're good friends.s doing what candidates for president do. one thing i think is noteworthy, allison grimes doesn't have any trouble announcing she voted for hillary clinton, even though apparently she doesn't want to say she voted for barack obama. >> have national democrats given up on your opponent? >> i don't think hillary clinton would be coming in here a couple of days from now if they had given up. >> and in lass lass's first senate debate, republican congressman bill cassidy kept his focus trained on the president. democratic senator mary landrieu focused on her seniority in the senate. and both tried to avoid being linked with two less than popular political figures. >> i want you to rate on a scale of 1 to 10 two people, president obama and governor jindal. >> obama's a zero. he's going to go down as one of the worst presidents -- >> how about governor? >> he's taken some tough licks so i give him a 7. >> 0 and 5. >> i would give jindal barely a 3 and i would give president obama a 6 to 7. i t

hunt for terrorists. i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". those stories and more ahead >>> kaci hickox defying the quarantine order. >> i'm going to use the legal extent. >> i'm fighting for something more than myself. >> it's a very private, blunt memi memi memio. -- memo. >> taking exception with the obama strategy. >> this is a complicated issue. >> pope francis says that evolution and the big bang theory do not conflict. >> a 29-year-old therm nally ill cancer patient. >> they have enough joy that it time. >> four people are dead in a small plane crash in kansas. >> it's a slam into the time of the building. fire. >> we begin in main, where cassie hickox, a nurse that treated ebola patients openly defied the state order that she remain quarantined in her home, by going to a bike ride. >> there's no legal action against me, so i'm free to go on a bike ride. >> what is the status of the court order, kaci? >> i don't know, when you find out you tole me. >> the governor said he would use his full powers to report the quarantine. >> a poster put up on the website said droplets fr

hunt for terrorists. i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". those stories and more ahead >>> kacithe quarantine order. >> i'm going to use the legal

hunt for the gunman. >>> back at home, nurse kaci hickox vowing to fight state officials in maine seeking a court order her quarantined at home. she says she's not a risk to the public having tested ebola twice since returning home from treating infected patients in west africa. she's on record saying she won't follow the isolation order. >>> attorney general eric holder adding fuel to the fire in ferguson. he said the need for wholesale change in the city's police department is pretty clear. but he did not say what those changes would be. these comments come after reports surfaced of a possible shake-up at the ferguson police department, including the possible resignation of chief thomas jackson who has been under fire since the shooting of the unarmed teenager, michael brown. >>> it is molten hot, it can destroy anything in its path and it is now just yards away from homes this morning. the hawaiian national guard asking residents on the big island to get out as lava from the kilauea volcano inches closer to a major road, hundreds of frantic residents in pahoa. >>> this is quite a discovery, really,