mcginn shapiro and mcginn are the only co-authors and they write about people defending and i think it is a particularly moving and very strong essay about something most people will realize the told that it takes on the clients, the clients' families and the lawyers themselves because you have to take apart the life and understand how a person is born into this world to do something so horrible that it seems to prompt the very worst punishment of all, death by execution. he runs the project and teaches at all ole miss and tells a wonderful story about his representation of a woman who he tried to and mail to take a plea but it was just complete scheerer craziness to go to a trial and she was looking at so much time the jury finds her not guilty and it's a wonderful story that i don't want to give away the punch line to. are there others that come to mind? friedman writes about his experience representing people and the role his jewish faith plays. david singleton a former public tender in new york and washington, d.c. now runs a criminal justice litigation oriented organization called

and in seattle, mike mcginn is in a very tight rays against ed murray, and whoever takes city hall inetroit is going to have to be dealing with that city's bankruptcy problems. bill deblah you is expected to win in new york in a landslide. >> reporter: joe lhota is trying to keep leadership of new york city in republican hands. >> it will keep the city safe and financially sound. >> bill de blasio. >> reporter: his opponent running a unionist campaign. >> a small group of new yorkers are doing very well, and more and more every day nighers are falling behind. >> reporter: several polls showed de blasio with a commanding lead. the last time a democrat had that kind of lead going into an election was in 1985. the 52-year-old has a master's degree in international affairs and a long history of activism. he entered politics working for the city's last democratic mayor. >> i would like to introduce to you the next first lady of the city of new york! [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: he staged a come from behind victory over eight candidates thanks in part to a political ad featuring his

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karen mcginns joining us. karen, this is terrible. >> this is devastating. we saw this weather shape up on thursday, last week. but we started this morning out with a high risk for damaging winds. large hail and possibility of isolated damaging tornadoes. and that's what we've seen this afternoon. now, we're looking at 76 reports of tornadoes. a lot of those from chicago to the east of st. louis into the western regions of kentucky and now spreading over towards ohio, into northwestern, kentucky and into parts of tennessee. some may be the same tornado touching down multiple times. i want to point out, we have a number of watches out, tornado watches. please listen to the weather radio. and if a warning is issued, take cover immediately. especially if you are in a mobile home. i want to point out what we have heard out of washington county, illinois. not the city of washington. where we just heard mr. monken speak. but there is about an hour outside of st. louis in washington county. an ef-4 tornado. that is the assessment of the damage that occurred there f

the incumbent, mike mcginn, has really become the neighborhood candidate.n as an insurgent four years ago, knocked out the incumbent, greg nichols, and now he looks like he niece trouble this time around. >> been tough for incumbents in seattle it seems. >> yes. >> finicky northwesterners. >> two mayors in a row have gotten the boot. this could be number three. >> reid wilson, our tour across big city america, well done, my friend. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> trivia time. four of the nation's 50 governors were all born in the swing state of pennsylvania. they include colorado's john hickenlooper, ohio's john kasich, virginia's bob mcdonnell, and tom korbut. congratulations to craig shipman. before i go to break, the white house soup of the day. look at the election soup. coconut red lentil. they couldn't find blue lentil today in the democrat-held white house? this is the quicksilver cash back card from capital one. it's not the "limit the cash i earn every month" card. it's not the "i only earn decent rewards at the gas station" card. it's the no-game

seattle's mike mcginn is in a tight race against senator he had murray. have limited powers. in new york city, a landslide win expected by the democratic. we have more. >> among the political battles coming to a head, new yorkers will pick a new mayor. according to the latest polls, the heavily democratic city might have its first democratic mayor in 20 years. >> i say thank you. >> democratic bill deblazio leads the polls. it could bring an end to the stop and frisk policy, that critics say amount to racial profiling. in neighboring new jersey, the governor's race there could be a precursor for the presidential hopes in 2016. governor chris christie is leading barbara bono in the polls. the republican governor has garnered support from officials in the heavily democratic state. >> we need to show the republican party in america that we can win again, and guess where they're going to be watching on tuesday night to see where we win? right here in new jersey, everybody, they're going to be watching us. >> will the next governor of the great commonwealth of