shawna thomas, you've been looking at the 25th district in california. why?e been following katie hill around since february to track how a conditional campaign works. but what's interesting, this is one of those districts that went for hillary clinton in 2016 and elected a republican congressman. it's an incredibly tight race. it's gotten tighter in the last causigration or race-baiting. it seems like iec a g tepeal he0 miles from l.a. proper. they vote on their pocketbooks. it's kind of standard politics, which i have to admit, i was happy to see. >> dickerson: sure, regular old politics. >> their pocketbook and gas. >> dickerson: exactly. nancy, what are you going to be looking for on tuesday night? >> well, i'm watching for a couple things. first of all, women, i think that's going to be really fascinating. anecdotally we see that women particularly educated women have been turned off by some of the things that president trump has to say. they were turned off by the kavanaugh nomination spectacle. are they really moving toward the democratic party, or do

the problem has been the winds, and for that, we want to bring in meteorologist shawna me d how it concerns the fire die down. first alert radar network tracking the fire. >> and you see the fire burning in ventura and l.a. counties. 8,000 acres burning, several thousand homes evacuated. meteorologist kari hall has been tracking the situation there and also we have a fire burning north of us, and the winds aren't helping the situation at all. >> not at all. the winds have been fanning these flames and we still have the red flag warning in effect that continues through the next three hours at least. they may extend that, but we are waking up and looking out the window and seeing a lot of smoke this morning, and we do have a advisory in effect especially for the north bay, east bay, and the peninsula, where air quality will be unhealthy today, and we can already see and smell that. it's a nauseating smoke smell we have lingering over the bay area thising. the south bay will still have the moderate air quality, and so you d time mask, make sure you stay hydrated and do not leave your pets outs

. >> shawna, we love you. your fight is our fight. >> keep fighting.lways here. we love you. >> reporter: she has families sharing the hope that the girls will grow up with cancer a distant memory and a friendship that lasts forever. all -- >> never ever give up. >> friendship will be a powerful medicine. i hope lauren gets well soon.fallout from a fight court. the punishment handed down to draymond green after his verba >>> right now at 6:00, fallout from a fight on the courts. the punishment handed down to draymond green after a verbal altercation with kevin durant. >>> also, could the fire be prevented by pg&e. the moments before the flames erupted. >>> we're awaiting fire crews to give an update any minute now. n: good evening and thanks for joining us. i )m jessica aguirre >> the news at 6:00 starts right now. good evening, and thanks for joining us, i'm jessica aguirre. >> i'm raj mathai. the search and rescue, the investigation and the containment of the flames. we are expecting updates i ma crews on foot and in bulldozers south of paradise tryi

and our two wonderful daughters , shawna and rachel, for all their love, support, and patience with meplanning tonight's event. please join me in applauding all of their efforts. [applause] it's been a tradition for the dinner chair to offer a toast to congress. so, please raise your glass with me. so, here's mine. to the outgoing congress and the incoming one, on behalf of the nearly 4,000 radio and television journalists and 455 news organizations credentialed to cover capitol hill, continue, continue to work with us to maintain access to you, the lawmakers, in an effort to keep our government accountable to the public. cheers. all: cheers. craig: now, i have the honor of introducing our dinner host for the evening. he's a reserve city of miami police officer and the chairman and cco of i-heart latino and syndicated morning radio show host, enrique santos. [applause] enrique: thank you. good evening, everybody. i just flew in from florida. miami-dade county, the 305 to be exact. yes. it worked out great because on the flight up it allowed me some extra time to finish voting. [laughte

feeling happy about it just look at the irony there limited that or the supreme court has you know shawna jongleurs teacher someone who ordered low gear did a blasphemous act get their own number of factors here why and why you know that the fact that the blasphemy law shouldn't just been there in the first place since there is no mention of blasphemy and yet is not blind to the finest men thought of not only in the koran school and as the actual in that school last line is that not a single i had of the koran saves dead a blasphemer or again be punished one do you not be happy for i don't become islam does not just not in the camp you got islam is not indeed yes indeed esther i was out of there and try to do have to interrupt you i think we got the general gist of your point of view and thank you very much for your time here on al-jazeera sri lanka's ousted prime minister has spoken to our desire about why she has refused or he has refused to accept his dismissal by the president really on what from a singer told us that he still holds a majority in parliament and government should never

of feeling happy about it just look at the irony their limited left or disapprove god has you know shawna jongleurs teacher someone who ordered logo did a blasphemous act that there are no number of factors here why and why you know that the fact that the blasphemy laws should tell been there in the first place since there is no mention of blasphemy and there is not blindly vanishment for blasphemy in the koran scholars the actual one that scholars line is that not a single i had of the will and saves dead a blasphemer again be punished one do you not to have become islam does not just not in the camp you go to some is not indeed and in estoril i was out of there and try to have to interrupt there we got the general gist of your point of view and thank you very much for your time here on out so. sri lanka's ousted prime minister has spoken to al-jazeera about why she has refused or why he has refused to accept his dismissal by the president really will work from a single told us that he still holds a majority in parliament and government should never have been dissolved president sort of

here's what i'm looking at shawna.e have at the moment at least 29 races that we think are pure toss-ups. but in pennsylvania with the contours in new jersey, we have eight different races that we think are in play. red is leaning republican, blue liens democrat and the yellow ones are pure toss-ups. it's my hunch, and i don't know if you agree or disagree, but i think democrats could win net three house seats in pennsylvania. but yet they went redistricting back in january. i think if they do better than three they could be in for a good night for the democrats. >> sean: if it's a big change though, when they gerrymandered again, that was a big deal. and you are right, they redid the districts for the very purpose that they could pick up these seats. >> if it's higher than that ty could be off to a good night, if it's at three or less that could be a better time for the g.o.p. conversely for republicans, always come back here to florida because i keep driving myself down the interstate for core door in my mind. tampa,

shawna thomas is the d.c. bury chief at vice news and danny savalis is an msnbc legal and i -- analyst. >> there were problems in polling in 2016. we're trying to read the tea leaves in early voting. what are you watching for? >> i think what i'm watching for with early voting is, one, the amount of states where you're seeing the amount of states that surpass the amount of states that just voted in 2016. you're starting to see that in count oos counties of texas and other places. we've had a correspondent who has been in arizona for a few days that the early vote turnout is surpassing what happened in 2014 there, but what republican strategists were also saying is that for different demographic groups, that your all inching up. it's hard a little bit to tell if, you know, is there an explosion of hispanic vote going on in arizona? well, there are a lot of hispanics voting early in arizona, according to some numbers, however, there's a lot of everybody voting early. >> charlie, i want to ask you about what we s

shawna, tip of the iceberg on one hand. what we see in front of us, in many ways you could sit here and say it's probably more public evidence than the public knew was staring at nixon, than the public knew was staring at clinton. we go through the different things people probably have memories of. again, we don't know what we don't know yet. >> yeah, and what we don't actually know yet is exactly if there is a crime that president trump committed. that's one of the things. i mean, one of the things i thought was interesting was earlier this week we had the entire manafort situation go down. which was, apparently he isn't actually cooperating with the people he said he would cooperate with. that was actually kind of good for president trump, because that meant the one guy who was in that trump tower meeting with the russians wasn't actually giving up any information, or at least he was caught in some kind of lie, and possibly by next week we will find out what those lies looked like. then we came back to this michael cohen

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>> leslie: wouldn't be the political win that shawna's talk about. for admitting it's applicable in overcoming here. the money he's proposing, $5 billion, that's just for the wall. it's not for any troops to have any security. remember, there be people climbing over that wall. to take the money that chuck schumer and -- the democrats and the republicans agreed upon, it could be a full -- >> melissa: victor is victory. >> leslie: but it would avoid a shut down let me tell you, i disagree with the president, i disagree with the republicans who think this would be on democrats and the democrats to be blamed. we see that the party in power is blamed -- >> lisa: leslie, it's not just politics, though. it's a necessity paid we need that deterrent at the southern border. we are having a real problem i know is illegal activity on the southern border. we just over a thousand people try and rush the southern border and got engaged with the u.s. border patrol producing 110% increase in the past year -- >> leslie: don't think that the troops could handle it? >>

we've been checking in with meteorologist shawna mendiola, wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour at times and that can push some of the embers which can start spot fires a good one to three miles in the air. so anyone really within one to three miles of these locations of these cities here, you need to be careful. mandatory evacuations are in effect for oak park as well as west lake village. >> firefighters going to make a stand at the 101, they're worried about the flames jumping the 101 freeway, which would be the natural barrier there, but as we continue to watch, john cadisk klemack's shot, at least five homes going up in flames and firefighters making a big stand there and on the right, west lake village just over an hour ago, maybe more now, mandatory evacuation orders for some areas and we see the homes in flames there. >> five homes in that area that have burned. minimally the count is 20 right now, but that information was given to us a couple hours ago. firefighters are trying to knock out embers they don't have time to count and assess the damage but a number of 20 homes burnin

. >> shawna putting her final touches on the freestyle.ing on the show? >> well, i had no dancing experience and most people watching have no dance experience, and i hope that i'm acting how they feel they woul and professionalism around. >> how was the freestyle? >> the freestyle is fun. >> what do you think is the best part about it? >> i think the ending is the best part. alexis ending. >> just, like -- >> there is so much about it. we have got to do that. >> we have got to do that. >> we'll do it tomorrow. we'll do it tomorrow. >> and then they ask why everyone is asking about the chemistry. >> one of the highlights for me watching you go through the season is your relationship with your mom. >> i'm realizing how much she does for me, and i have always been grateful for her, but this is like a whole new level. i'm just overwhelmingly grateful for her. >> that's a good son right there. good son. >> i try. i try. >> good job. >> watching that first episode -- >> okay. oh. >> the quintessential rock star moment when you, you know, just ju

shawna thomas?, but it is on the ballot in idaho, nebraska and utah, i was in idaho last week, i think they're going to expand medicaid in idaho. they'll still vote republican for everything else, don't worry. >> i think that we're seeing a fundamental shift in the electoral map. the midwest is looking more like the south and the south is looking more like the midwest. i would encourage everyone to start looking at the outvote. the youth vote is the one that doesn't get poll-tested. >> i've been saying that it seemed more like a blue splash, but then a smart republican strategist today compared what's happening to a blue tornado, meaning that you know, the trump effect when people don't like him, they really don't like him, when it hits down. you don't know how big it's going to be and how far it's going to spread. i'm watching for the pockets of tornadoes across the country and how big it's going to be. >> i'm watching for women voters. and i want to give a shout out to phil rucker who has won the