we want to make sure people can continue inhabiting south florida for many years to come. that includes me and my children. i do have a bit of a personal stake in this. is there a legislative effort going on to address the solutions? what is the response on capitol hill? guest: certainly there is. the market choice act is a bill that would price carbon, recognize a cost to carbon dioxide emissions. it would put american consumers in control. it would trust american consumers to make the best choices and it comes to clean energy and energy efficiency. and the revenues this carbon when allould generate go to fund infrastructure in our country, something there is pretty barred -- broad bipartisan consensus on. we need to invest in infrastructure -- which means roads and bridges, but also seawalls, elevating roads, things we're already doing in parts of the country like south florida. recently this week, a bipartisan group of members introduced carbon and dividend plans. this would price carbon, but instead of investing the revenues in infrastructure, it would turn around and

the levels are rising and especially in south florida most of us live near sea level so this is a real issue. it's not a debate in theory about what could be or not. it's the challenges with the keys, miami beach and others. what we are interested in his solutions. we want to make this better so s if people can continue inhabiting south florida for many years to come and that includes me and my children so i do have a personal stake in this. >> host: is there a legislative effort going on to address the solutions and what is the response on capitolre hi? >> guest: i filed the market of choice act that would price carbon essentially recognizing there is a cost to the emissions and with the american consumer is in control and trust them to make the best choices when it comes to clean energy and energy efficiency. the revenue that this would generate would also go to fund infrastructure in the country, that is pretty broad bipartisan consensus on the fact we need to invest more american infrastructure on the roads, bridges and transit system but also sea walls, elevating roads, things we

conversation with a look at florida with susan mcmanus, political analyst at the university of south florida, joining us from tampa. with how the florida voters breakdown by party. explain the breakdown and what impact that could have. guest: to put it mildly, we are pretty much a tight state. we have the closest cap between democrats and republicans in state history. 35%registered democrats, registered republicans, 37% no very affiliation -- divided state. host: who could make the difference in some of these key senate and house races, and also the gubernatorial race? guest: we are closely watching the group that has no party affiliation. a sizable portion has the three youngest generations, generation x, the millennials, and z.eration they have the clout to affect a lot of these races. will be theiron turnout. millions have been spent in this state to register young voters and hire people on the ground to try to get them to the polls. so we shall see. the most competitive state in the country, the purple list of purple states. host: take a look at the registration of young voters. generati

was always conservative with all the new immigrants coming into south florida expect a change to expect the hispanic electorate to be a little more blue or bluish actually you know what i can see this is really breaking in our direction if we can be effective if we can effectively articulate our message to them right because the hispanic community especially the non cubans i lived in miami as well for about twenty years right so. they're all fleeing socialism they're awfully in the left are all fleeing misery corruption chaos you know they're all fleeing that and then they come to united states and they jump in bed with the party that promotes that so it doesn't oh it doesn't go down and so no doesn't like a lot of fair democrats are communist and well i'm not the same guy i mean if they're openly embracing social again when it's not true not that i'm not sure they don't care what you say and done this sort of thing you have a. hold on all those guys just say that people who come from socialist communist countries come here and then get a bed with the same kind of people i think you're

for at least the next few days he's here in south florida. likely to play golf. a beautiful day again. he heads to mississippi on monday for a campaign rally and then back to washington. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >>> for democrats taking control of the house in january, as we were talking about, president trump's financial ties to saudi arabia is near the top of the agenda. contributor to the "washington post" and cnn here with us, wesley lowery, god to see you. adam schiff has promised they're going to investigate the president and connections with financials, with business. is this their way to get to the president's tax returns? >> yes and no. the democrats, in fact, have steps and means of getting hold of president trump's tax returns now that they control the house as is. there are other steps. broadly it is a way to ask and answer additional questions about what the president's relationship is with saudi arabia, what additional financial ties he might have. and more crucially, i think, perhaps equally crucially, is what -- how is what

none of those categories are that simple. >> south florida is basically a caribbean city, right? olks from georgia and south carolina. we have people from the caribbean. the black vote and asian vote, even some folks who are white, folks don't fall into neat little boxes on the ballot. so this is something that voters have to be cognizant of. they elected those who are running for office have to be cognizant of. and the families that came here on cistern boulevard were -- >> bohemians. >> are you addressing that? >> we are. when you're running in florida, you have to address the fact florida is like six states. north florida is nothing like south florida. the i-4 corridor where i'm at is different. you have to address that. that's why you come down and spend a lot of time down here and speak to people. you've mentioned an issue. everyone cares about health care, i don't care if you're in the panhandle, key west, anywhere in between. people do not want to be discriminated against. >> are you finding -- we're out of time, but even voters who would not be predisposed to vote for a de

the president should come back to south florida.onversation with him last time he was down in key west, in my district, where you can see the real life effects of climate change. this is a report, as you indicated that was put together by members of his administration. scientists that have no agenda, except to tell us the truth. they did not even prescribe solutions in this report. they just told us what the facts are. what's happening. and what could happen if we don't act soon. >> let me ask you a question -- >> i think you always get a solution -- yeah. >> you've interacted with the president. you showed him the effects. it your impression that the president just doesn't believe it? or doesn't want to believe it, and to be politically inconvenient to address these issues? >> i think he doesn't want to believe it. he's dug in. he's on the record saying that climate change is a hoax invented by the chinese, something that's absurd. and i think it's going to take him swallowing his pride to just accept the reality of this and do wha

we begin with reporting on breaking news in south florida. an emergency hearing is about to start at any moment now. the state's senate race possibly headed for a recount. at least check, the republican governor, rick scott, was leading the democratic senator bill nelson in that senate race by less than half of a percentage point. under florida law, a half a point triggers an all recount. in the race for governor, officials say the republican ron desantis lead over andrew gillum is now below a half a percentage point. with gillum's campaign point says they're getting ready for the possible recount. florida is not the only state with races up for grabs. team fox coverage to start the hour. dan springer on the neck and neck battle in arizona. steve harrigan reporting on the georgia governor's race. first to phil keating in south florida. phil? >> this 3:00 p.m. hearing aiming to resolve and deal with the fraud alleging laud filed last night but governor rick scott who happens to be the republican senate candidate in this razor tight race. a sim

then, susan macmanus from the university of south florida talks about the political dynamics of florida ahead of next week's midterm elections. trump: at this very moment, large, unorganized caravans of migrants are marching toward our southern border. some people call it an invasion. it is like an invasion. ♪ host: good morning, everyone. with the midterm election days away, the new york times and washington post are calling the president's immigration rhetoric his closing argument to voters. is it working? if you agree with the president's immigration stance, dial-in 202-748-8000. if you oppose, 202-748-8001. immigrants only this morning, we want to hear from you, 202-748-8002. that is your line. you can join us on twitter @cspanwj or go to facebook.com/cspan. we will get to your calls in just a minute. do you support or oppose the president's rhetoric and that third line for immigrants. a little bit more from president trump at the white house yesterday talking about what he wants to do with the central americans headed toward america in that caravan when it comes to those who want t

in florida you have all of these different pockets of the state that are very deep blue, deep south floridaof central florida. tampa, orlando. florida is a fascinating state where turnout reflects a lot of things. it reflects the population that is there, it reflects democrats' ability to get voters to show up. andrew gillum talked about how he is scam paintiis campaigning county because he can't take any votes for granted. but florida is one of these states that just makes no sense. it could go -- >> like the whole country. >> this is why florida is so fascinating. because depending on which county in florida has a certain issue that captivates people's attention. people in tallahassee are talking about the shooting at a yoga parlor where this guy was spewing hateful rhetoric. people in south florida are still talking about what happened in parkland. different floridians care about different things. and depending on enough people caring about enough things and showing up on election day or beforehand, that is what drives the election. >> so we'll get to arizona. jeff fwllake's seat is up f

my constituent voted correctly, they followed the law, i will be damned if violation of law in south floridaill dilute legal votes of my constituent, all of florida should not be painted with same brush, we're frustrated with incompetent or corrupt people in other parts of state erode integrity of a process my constituent have a right to be able to rely on. lou: republicans are learningal ple--learning almost daily towad 2020. add congress managing matt gaetz suggested from the beginning, good luck, we appreciate it about thank you. lou: on wall street stocks low lower. volume on big board picking up, 4.4 billion shares, the results not improving. a reminder to listen to my reports three times a day, coast-to-coast on salem network. >> we take up latest in legal battle with former federal prosecutor sydney powell, stay with us, we'll be right back. i am a family man. i am a techie dad. i believe the best technology should feel effortless. like magic. at comcast, it's my job to develop, apps and tools that simplify your experience. my name is mike, i'm in product development at comcast. we're

south florida. sowell florida has a young everybody -- south florida has a younger population, particularly the minority populations are young. a lot oftila aggressive registrn drives going on there. so, certainly, they can affect these very competitive congressional districts, but they're also going to affect governor's race and the senate if they turn out as we're thinking they might, at least we are expecting their turnout to be a bit higher. but they need to have a pretty high turnout to tip the direction of the election. it is true that they're most drawn interest wise to our extremely interesting governor's race, much more so than the u.s. senate race. after all, two candidates for governor, one is 40 years old and the other is 39. so it's just really fascinating. you cannot refuse or ignore this younger demographic particularly in these swing and very competitive areas. >> host: well, in that race what are the issues that are playing out? is and how, how to these younger people view those issu

courses have confirmed to us a criminal investigation into election mid conduct in south florida is nowngoing. just a short time ago florida attorney general released a letter stating they will work with the attorney general bundy on any criminal investigation and subsequent prosecution of brenda snipes and anyone else that may have committed voter fraud. rick scott is now sounding the alarm. you don't just magically find 93,000 votes laying around, unless you need smoke or cover. that's why this is problem problematic. >> he's a sore loser. he can't stand the fact he won't be elected for the first time in decades. he's here to steal the election. his lawyer said i'm here to win the election i'm not here to get a free and fair election. he wants to win the election. that's his only purpose. >> make no mistake, rick scott will take his place as senator. on friday lawyers from the gillman-nelson campaign they actually objected to a judge to non-citizen votes being denied they want votes from non-citizens to now count. where is their integrity in all of this this stuff. that means they onl

bahamians figured heavily in the early development of south florida, which began in earnest with theis guy. henry morrison flagger, the industrialist and tycoon largely credited with big the father of modern florida. his dream was the florida east coast railway, which would run from jacksonville to key west connecting the ports of miami to the rail system of the rest of the united states, creating along its route new towns, new cities, new edens where america's rising middle class could frolic and play. he also agreed to lay a foundation for the city on both sides of the miami river. as more and more whites moved in, segregation took hold and much of the bahamian community was forced into black neighborhoods like overtown and liberty city. so if you're looking for old miami, original miami, you're looking to a great extent for black miami. ♪ these days liberty city is mostly ignored by developers, but back in the day it was the epicenter of the black community. a lot has happened since then. >> cook: corn beef, pancakes, smoked sausage, boiled eggs. >> anthony: what do you usually ge

we saw this in 2016 and discontinued earlier this week but particularly in south florida and broward county they have reason to be suspicious. the election supervisor was reprimanded by judges for destroying ballots, illegally counting the ballots in secret of the question is whether the democrats going down there right now are there because of ballot integrity or to change the outcome of the election, republicans are right to be skeptical. >> i want to get you to weigh in on this so i will ask you, brad, mark elias, attorney representing a number of democrats and a household name to a lot of people in these races. he says is provisional ballots are counted and counties canvas, the margin in the florida senate race has fallen under 15,000 which i expected to tighten further in advance of the deadline and as i said before, this is a jump ball going into the recount which could be triggered as soon as 3:00 tomorrow. >> there's something very suspicious that 67 counties in florida whenever there's a problem it comes down to democratic strongholds of broward and palm beach county. the go

>> what's on the truck >> sean: we are seeing in south florida is a national disgrace disgrace and it's much more than that. palm beach palm beach county violated any chance of there beg any real integrity in the vote n florida. we will never have any chance of knowing what the accurate vote tallies were from this past election in the state of florida. that has been ruled. that's off the table. tonight, all we really know for certain is that the "newly counted ballots" have drastically tightened the election and subsequently triggering statewide recounts. all because of what is gross incompetence, corruption, at the broward county supervisor of election board and brenda snipes. she has a history of this. late last week, we have a judge ruling that brenda snipes actually violated state election law. what is more outrageous is this is not new for ms. snipes. her track record is literally atrocious. why she's in this position is beyond any understanding. how she's been allowed to be in this powerful position is beyond comprehension. we learned that snipes "accidentally mixed in provisional

. >> reporter: dave and kaylee, the president will wake up here in south florida. the president was criticizing a federal appeals court judge in california for blocking the president's asylum order. >> they file in the ninth circuit. this was an obama judge. i tell you what, it's not going to happen like this anymore. everybody who wants to sue the united states, they file their case in the ninth circuit. it means an automatic loss. >> reporter: that led to chief justice weighing in on a political matter. he said there are no obama judges. no bush judges. no clinton judges. there are members of the judiciary. the president remarked back on twitter saying yes, there are obama judges. he brought the judiciary into the ongoing fight with the border. it is unclear if the president is keeping that fight up today as he celebrates thanksgiving at mar-a-lago. the president has had words before with john roberts. that was before he took office. never have we seen something like this. the president of the united states and the chief justice of the supreme court. no word if j

. >> that's cold for south florida.lly cold. that one did you know of the largest holiday light displays on the east coast is right here in our area? >> we are talking about the light up festival in loudoun county. it features 1 million lights. that's where our lette green is this morning with details on this beautiful event and the charitys benefitting t holiday season. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. we are being dazzled by these acrobats, age 14 to ey26. re from china. just part of the live action here at the light up festival. f course, ares, the big story. 1 million lights. we're delighted to have chopper 4 fly over and show you the scope of what you wl see. images of the capitol to the eiffel tower toau din and of course chinese culture, all mixed in.f the arc loudoun is the charity that benefits from some of the proceeds. i want to bring on lisa campbell. isn't this fantastic? talk about how this really helps the pgrams and services. a lot of people may not know what the arc of loudoun is. >> abso

that's what i'm trying to do here in our corner of the world in south florida. we need more members of congress who will do the same. it's no surprise if every poll one of the few issues most republicans, democrats, and independents agree on is that they want the politicians to work together to heal the country's politics, and that means compromising. and this tone that the president is using certainly isn't conducive to that and all these rallies, republican and democrat, by the way, i don't think contribute much to this either. we need fewer rallies and more conversations and more dialogue in this country. >> your opponent, the democratic opponent, powell spoke to ana cabrera yesterday and had this to say about you. i want to give you a chance to respond. listen to this. >> i want to remind something. curbelo is no moderate. he's been voting with trump 85% of the time. he votes straight with the most extreme republicans, especially on immigration. he's caved into his party. he voted for a tax bill that gives $1.9 trillion cuts to the wealthest americans, not h

in south florida.broward county, palm beach county, nelson is tracking pretty much what hillary clinton did. the problem here, we have 98% precincts reporting in south florida, overall in the state, 90 recording, it's dead even. the problem for nelson right now, there's a couple of the very small counties that are very red that could help rick scott, we'll have to wait and see. one good sign, duval county, jacksonville, nelson's on top there, that's a bell weather. republicans tend to do better there. >> what are we seeing in the governor's race? >> let's take a look. jump over there. of course, andrew gillum -- let's see here. back in the governor's race. zoom in here. really close, too, desantis barely on top, 90% reporting, but again, basically seeing the same map. we thought there would be a lot of connection between gillum and nelson. duval county, where desantis is from, gillum is on top. south florida, as well. the same thing. one good sign for democrats that i'm seeing, they are picking up some

. >> president trump is spending the long holiday weekend at his estate in south florida, grappling with the real hate democrats are soon going to have control of the house of representatives. the president continues to push his legislative agenda, calling on congress to strike a bipartisan deal on border security. >> democrats have set their own agenda. on their to-do list, investigating saudi arabia and looking into the president's financial ties to the kingdom. meanwhile, a new government report details the devastating effect of unchecked climate change, warning of premature deaths and extreme economic consequences if global warming is not addressed. >>> we want to begin with the dire warning about the effects of climate change in america. renee marsh outlines stark realities laid out in this report. >> reporter: if you weren't paying attention to the climate change issue, this report could change that. it is frightening, and it screams serious action has to be taken now. it is the work of federal agencies and the scientific community. the report makes it clear that we are already exp

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lives crowd offering a platform that offers them a lot of job options. >> bret: peter doocy in south florida. peter, thank you. to the other side in the country for the fight for the house. jonathan hunt is an seal beach california looking at some of the congressional races democrats are targeting out there in effort to control the chamber and shut down the trump legislative agenda. >> good evening, bret. there are five potentially critical races here in california. one is a state central valley or but four partly here or horribly here in orange county. all of those are republican held but all of them districts that voted for hillary clinton over president trump in the 2016 election and that is giving democrats hope they can flip all five. among the republican incumbents most at risk is dan aurora becker, taking hard-line stance on immigration this election cycle and getting a strong endorsement from present in trump, the democrat whom the president is referring there is holly ruda, a real estate investor and republican of until just a couple of years ago. previously called for president tru

fdle to go down to those south florida counties to investigate. the reality is, the secretary of state, our elections are supervised in the state of florida, they're supervised by the secretary of state. the right move for rick scott would be to recuse himself from oversight, allow the secretary of state at the state level to handle oversight. that is the easiest way to do this, because where this is going, and adam alluded to it, when we get into a hand recount, and this is why i think bill nelson's camp is feeling a little confidence today, they get to look at the anomalies. in the counties we're looking at, the u.s. senate race was undervoted significantly, more than any other county from that of the governor's race. and it is a high propensity democratic county. so if we're in that very close margin of error, those anomalies of undervotes now get a human set of eyes to see if it's enough to turn this race to the blue column. >> which means it could be quite a while before we have finality here. i really appreciate it. thanks so much. we'll be d

i'm here in south florida to ask you for the only thing in life my mother ever told me to ask for, andhat is change. -- chance. i want a chance. [cheers] i want a chance to be your next governor. i want a chance to get to tallahassee as your next governor so we can work to pay teachers what they are worth for the most difficult jobs. [cheers] we are talking about teachers, who i have to admit i would not be standing before you. not as the mayor of tallahassee, florida, and certainly not as the democratic nominee for governor of the state of florida. those individuals who work overtime on my behalf. they encourage me, they inspired me to do the work that i thought i couldn't get done by myself. they encouraged me to reach beyond my limitations. they poured into may, just as they pour into our young people every day of the week. in the absence of our parents, these are the people who are responsible for the molding and inspiring of the minds of our most precious gifts, our children. that's why we have to pay them a wage they can live on. along with all of our support staff who make this

he doesn't come to south florida, where there are congressional races like carlos curbelo or illeana ros-lehtinen's old district where he would be an anchor. they take him to places like pensacola, florida, where he fills up rallies and every time he says, build the wall, and the martians are going to come down to a spaceship and kill us all, the people go crazy. >> how do you follow -- >> and the wall won't stop the martians. that's the problem with the wall. >> here's the problem. this thing about building a wall when you live in a peninsula surrounded by water on three sides is a little -- gets a little difficult. >> as a democrat, we saw leader pelosi on colbert last night, looking into the camera saying, we will win. will you win? >> yes! again, you're not supposed to say that. >> i love how he says, yes! well, we don't really know. >> give you the answer and then weasel out. it certainly looks that way. if you look at how the president is conducting himself, nia's right, he's speaking to fear. he can't play a song in the key of hope, he only knows the key of fear. and he should

just when you talk to people just on the ground, we were in south florida yesterday, we were in fort lauderdale. people talk about gillum. there is not a lot of proactive talk about nelson. but what people are saying is they'll vote the slate. people are excited about voting for andrew gillum and willing to vote democratic down the ticket. and ironically enough, down the ticket means the united states senator. >> right. what do you think, as we head into tomorrow, what is your thinking about how to think about what's going to happen tomorrow? >> you know, there are a lot of x factors in florida. it is an eight-page ballot, eight pages. florida is notorious for these lengthy wordy amendments. there is one significant to progressive amendment 4, which would restore voting rights to millions of people who served their time for felonies. that's the one that african-american activist, civil rights groups are focusing on and wanting people to laser focus on. there are other convoluted ballot issues in that ballot as well. there is concern the size of the ballot discourage down ticket votin

on the contrary, in my district in south florida, that was a winning issue.ing to stay very active on because quite frankly, if people like me want to keep living in south florida, in miami, we need to take care of this issue. we put together a solution that i think is going to be very useful for the next congress. we have good republicans like congressman francis rooney who is in southwest florida, who i think is going to take a leadership role in the bipartisan climate solutions caucus. this is one of the big issues where this new congress can show republicans and democrats can actually work together and get something big done for the country. >> can and will, two very different words and two very different actions. before you go, let me ask you this. in your current role, you know, while you're still serving the american people in the state of florida, you're going to have to vote on funding the government. in a matter of weeks here. are you willing to join democrats and some fellow republicans in voting against the government spending bill if it does not

jeff zeleny is in south florida tonight where the president is spending the weekend at mar-a-lago resortadd schiff plans to investigate this when he becomes chairman of the house intelligence committee, yet another investigation for the president. >> reporter: indeed, jim. good evening. even as the president is embracing the saudi leadership moran more, moran -- more and more, he is learning that other it are criticizing. the president is trying to get a break here this weekend, spending time on the golf course. as he is doing that, he is getting a fresh taste of what is to come in the new world order when democrats take over in january. tonight the white house could be contending with another investigation, this time over president trump's cozy relationship with saudi arabia. >> i will say very strongly it is a very important ally, and if we go by a certain standard we won't be able to have allies with almost any country. >> reporter: after the president contradicted the cia assessment that mohammad bin salman ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi -- >> they did not come to a conclusio

she has another place in south florida eshe flies her plane to. >> how can we get invited?judge judy is about to get competition. >> jerry springer will get ms. own legal show called judge jerry. it will feature real cases just like judge judy. the jerry springer show stopped gist last year. he said he's excited to put his degree to yies. >> he's been a politician, has a degree from northwestern. retired from a mayor of cincinnati after writing a check to a prostitute. for the first time in my life i feel to be called honorable. >> is it because the check bounce snd. >> something bounced. >>> as we know kanye west is even flying like a president'. >> his wife posted this of them on their very own jummo jet. this is what they call the yeezy floetding office. >> so this is what a private 747 is like, you guys. i've never been on one before. so i'm like oh, my god there's bedrooms everywhere. no big deal just like a chill room. a double decker. how cute. there's even a dining room table. >> kim even brought her trainer along so they could workouten the long flight. that's real

bush and al gore boiled down to south florida. on friday, protesters stormed the supervisor of elections office in broward county. house democratic leader nancy pelosi tells our margaret brennan there is no fraud, just an honest count of the votes. >> everybody who has-- is eligible to vote should be able counted as cast.a theire that's what this is about. >> reporter: in the governor's race, republican ron desantis has a lead of less than half a percent over democrat andrew gillum. >> with the election behind us, it's now time to come together as a state. >> reporter: desantis is pressing on and building his transition team. ( applause ) gillum conceded tuesday night, but the tallahassee mayor could still be within the margin of a win, and the results are narrowing. >> let me say clearly, i am replacing my words of concession with an uncompromised and unapologetic call that we count every single vote. >> reporter: while a machine recount is relatively straightforward, a manual recount is a tedious process. people checking the bal

. >> reporter: the caribbean cr c annd saturday, with the royal princess back in south florida and vacationers no closer to answers surrounding the tragic death of their fellow passenger. >> i'm shocked, yes, that it happened on the ship i was on. you felt bad for the-- the victim, obviously. >> reporter: the 52-year-old american woman died tuesday morning after reportedly plunging from the upper deck on to a life boat below. it happened while the boat was out at sea. the princess cruiseeft fort lauderdale on november 9 for a seven-day journey that include a stop in aruba. passengers say a security announcement was broadcast directly into cabins regarding a serious incident, and later they saw aruban authorities make their way aboard the ship. >> it was a rude awakening at 4:00. it bothered me a lot. i never got back it sleep that night. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the prosecutor in aruba, says an autopsy was performed there as investigators combed the ship before it returned to sea. >> we feel bad for the family. it's a human life lost. >> reporter: authorities also told us the victim's h

that's within -- for a recount, that's the range there, but scott is suing election officials in south florida accusing them of mishandling ballots. >>> meanwhile, in the arizona senate race democrat kyrsten sinema has moved into a slight lead over republican martha mcsally. about 400,000 votes still have to be counted. a judge is expected to rule today on a lawsuit over mail-in votes. >>> it does appear that video released by the white house to justify suspending the cnn correspondent may have been doctored. the press secretary sarah sanders tweeted this video showing jim acosta repeatedly questioning the president when an intern tried to take the microphone. their arms briefly touching. sanders accused acosta of placing his hands on the intern. she called the behavior unacceptable, but an independent video expert tells the associated press it appears sanders' video was altered to speed up acosta's arm movement. sanders has not revealed the source of that video. >>> time now though for our check of our weather for this friday morning. >> good morning. fire danger continues out west. high gust

he was allergic. ( laughter ) it's not just the democrats in south florida that are messing up. it's the entire state including the republicans. >> ness tonight that about 150 panhandle residents, hurricane victims voted by email which is illegal. >> the county supervisor of elections telling nbc news anywhown challenges the use of email ought to be ashamed to take votes away from people who went through this disaster. >> trevor: i sympathize with people displaced by the hurricane but that doesn't mean one guy can make up new ways to vote. where do we draw a line? somebody says, hey, i was out of town because to have the hurricane but left a thumbs up emoji on instagram. that counts. in florida, everything is chaos. not just the election commissioners. turns out the recount machines are old and falling apart. >> monday morning, one of the tabulators stopped counting ballots. staff moved the ballots to the emergency backup machine. an hour into that process, that machine also stopped working properly. >> certainly some hiccups here today. basically one to have the buttons on one

. >> a man dressed as a pirate is accused of shooting his gun on the seven mile bridge in south floridasout my flint lock. >> oh. >> to shoot at the sun, now mind you there were no prodiswrect aisles simply gun powder. >> why do you defend what you did? >> well, i defend my second amendment right. >> your second amendment right to shoot a gun into the sun? >> yeah, why not? >> how exactly did you become a florida man? >> to become a florida man you must first be a florida boy. and experience the life that it gives you as a boy. too hone your skills to be, in my case, a florida pirate man. >> have you always been a florida man? >> no, originally i hailed from chicago. >> so you are a transplanlt. >> i was then but since then i have lived my entire life here in the keys. >> what do you think is behind every florida man? >> must be in the water that we are drinking down here, that drives us to what we do. >> a water conspiracy. >> and women. >> women. >> yeah. >> they are the ones that drive you crazy. >> and while i was running away from these unusual men, i was heading towards a new idea,

. >> the group of friends from south florida traveled to costa rica for a bachelor party.ir rafting trip followed heavy rain in the area and a flooding alert was posted but the group wasn't aware of it. four men who were with them died along with the river guide. luis beltran was the groom. he talked about losing his brother, who he saw trying to cling to a raft. >> i was like -- mark was held under for a good 20, 30 seconds. when i finally came up for air, i remember seeing my brother off to the distance and he was hanging on to a raft. and they were able to get him up, but as soon as they got him up, he was really, really out of breath and that raft ending up flipping right away. so i don't think he got a chance to recover, catch his breath. >> that's got to be so tough. the group says it was greed on the part of the rafting company that led to them being allowed on to the river that day. you can see more of what they have to say this morning on "good morning america." >> that groom says that their wedding has actually been postponed. >> understandable. >> they all knew

. >> reporter: the caribbean cruise came to an end saturday with the royal princess back in south florida, and vacationers no closer to answers surrounding the tragic death of their fellow passenger. >> i'm shocked, yes, that it happened on the ship i was on. we felt bad for the victim obviously. >> reporter: the 52-year-old american woman died tuesday morning after reportedly plunging from the upper deck onto a lifeboat below. it happened while the boat was out at sea. the princess cruise's ship left fort lauderdale on november 9th for a seven-day journey that included a stop in aruba. passengers say a security announcement was broadcast directly into cabins regarding a serious incident, and later they saw aruban authorities make their way aboard the ship. >> it was a rude awakening at 6:00. it bothered me a lot. i never got back to sleep that night. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the prosecutor in aruba says an autopsy was performed as investigators combed the ship before it returned to sea. >> we feel bad for the family. it's a human life lost. >> reporter: the victims husband also st

we want to make sure people can continue inhabiting south florida for many years to come.t includes me and my children. i do have a bit of a personal stake in this. is there a legislative effort going on to address the solutions? what is the response on capitol hill? guest: certainly there is. the market choice act is a bill that would price carbon, recognize a cost to carbon dioxide emissions. it would put american consumers in control. it would trust american consumers to make the best choices and it comes to clean energy and energy efficiency. and the revenues this carbon when allould generate go to fund infrastructure in our country, something there is pretty barred -- broad bipartisan consensus on. we need to invest in infrastructure -- which means roads and bridges, but also seawalls, elevating roads, things we're already doing in parts of the country like south florida. recently this week, a bipartisan group of members introduced carbon and dividend plans. this would price carbon, but instead of investing the revenues in infrastructure, it would turn around and deli

the greou shows rain and storms that will be pushing through the south. floridawill beok . western extreme, pensacola, panama city areas will have to deal wit rain and thunderstorms. there's some of that snowy weather in mont mobt frana from missoula. cold and almost like winter. >> expect that around those parts. bill, thank you. still to come, one of e most popular musical groups in the world is getting back together. we'll tell you wlho when we com back on "early today." ck yeah i! it's concentrated detergent plus stain fighters plus odor flighers that fight for clean. boom! even this entire bottle can't beat tide pods. and now a word from future gronk: ugh... tide pods. if it's clean, it's got to be tide. for you, it's always now over later. and pause. not even in your vocabulary. so when a cold sore tingle strikes. you act on it. only abreva can get rid of a cold sore in as little as 2 1/2 days when used at the first sign. it start to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. nothing gets rid of a cold sore faster. and because abreva act

the ship is headed back here now to south florida. david? >> victor, thank you. >>> from california tonight, the desperate search under way for family members still missing after the wildfires. abc's will carr tonight, where family members have pinned images of their loved ones on a public wall. they are holding out hope. >> reporter: they're more than just names and faces stuck on a board. they're sons and daughters, parents grletillnaountte every day, there are names posted on boards like this. joseph wilson, judy burgess. these are the faces of the missing. >> this is me, matthew flanagan. >> reporter: one man on the list showing up looking for his family. many others now living with their kids in tents surrounded by smothering smoke in a walmart parking lot. how long are you planning on being here for? >> until they tell us we can't be. >> reporter: residents displaced across california. the woolsey fire charring nearly 100,000 acres in los angeles county. actor pierce brosnan, his home saved, making an emotional plea. >> my wife and i a

applause]d south florida was literally devastated. more proud ofeen georgians than to see the response on the ground. appreciative, from the federal, state, and local level. we will rebuild stronger than ever. they are continuing to stand strong with georgia. we are appreciative of that. thank you. [applause] this race is a fight for our future. literally a battle, for the soul of our state and who we are. my opponent has run the most dishonest campaign that it georgians have ever seen. there is a reason why. she is trying to hide her extreme agenda. she wants higher taxes. bigger government. she wants a radical government takeover of health care. these are her so-called moderate positions. give taxpayer to freeits, welfare, and college to those that are here illegally. she has even been encouraging those that are here illegally to be part of the so-called blue-wave. not even california is that liberal. you, brother. vote, you can stop this craziness. i will invest in public education as your governor. we will give teachers a well-des

>> reporter: in broward county in south florida, angry protesters stormed past truck g rricades and accusedction officials of trying to steal >>tes for the democrats. >> this is invalid. the others are valid. >> reporter: inside, those same officials tediously counted ballots. vetgoing republican governor rick scott is clinging to a barely 15,000-vote lead against incumbent democrat bill nelson in the nation's most expensive u.s. senate contest. in the governor's race, about 36,000 votes separate republican ron desantis from democrat andrew gillum. last night, scott raised the stakes, accusing broward and palm beach county elections of withholding voting information. >> no rag-tag group of liberal btivists or lawyers from d.c. will be allowed to steal this election from the voters in this seat state. >> reporter: nelson, whose campaign is pushing for a recount, responded today. >> clearly, rick scott is trying to stop all the votes from being counted, and he's impeding the democratic process. >> reporter: as the ballot count continued, legal challenges played out in broward and palm beach c