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Donald trump with a lead over hillary clinton, 49.1% to 47.8%. 29 electoral votes are at stake in florida. in virginia almost 60% of the vote is now in. donald trump is ahead by 128,000 votes over hillary clinton. 50% to 44.8%. 13 electoral votes in virginia. two important battleground states where hillary clinton is ahead. in ohio, more than a third of the vote is in, hillary clinton has a lead of 36,000 votes over donald trump. 49% to 37.2 victor. and the in north carolina hillary clintons lea...

Rock were seeing moderate flooding expect ed for the capital of little rock, but major flooding north and south of the cities there. let me break this down. this is a little confusing. we have several areas of concern. heres downtown st. louis. yes, it can flood. city parks flood. into the illinois side, but north of st. louis in between the missouri and the mississippi is west alton. maybe 55,000 population. im not quite sure. thats under evacuation. they did not have a levee breach, but what t...

In the ethnos newspaper put the yes camp at 44.8% against 43.4% for the no vote. but 11.8% of the people run decided in this election is just a little over 24 hours away. another survey in the ogvi newspaper put the no vote at 43% to 42.5% for the yes. 9% undecided there, juan. >> so the key here politically is that the president, tsipras, is arguing for a no vote, doug. hes encouraging people to vote against any of the austerity measures being demanded by the german angela merkel or the e.u. pr...

Thad cochran with 52% of the vote with chris mcdaniels 44.8% of the vote. its early still we are also keeping a close eye on new yorks 13th district where charlie rangel is in a tough fight for his third term on capitol hill. did you know hes 84 years old? 84, and fighting to hold on to his job. the polls close jud just a mome ago, his challenger is adriaadriano adriano espaillat. the polls are closing in the west as well many in colorado, tom tancredo the incumbent is favored in that race. join...

Are 120,000 families for another -- another $500 billion tax cut over 10 years. >> martha: congressman? >> our entire premise of the tax reform plan is to grow the economy and create jobs. its a pln that is estimated to create 7 million jobs. now, we think that government taking 28% of a family and businesss income is enough. president obama thinks that the government ought to be able to take as much as 44.8% of a small businesss income. look, if you packed every person and successful small busi...

>> congressman? >> our entire premise of these tax reform plans is to grow the economy and create jobs. its a plan thats estimated to create 7 million jobs. now, we think that government taking 28% of a family and business income is enough. president obama thinks that the government ought to be able to take as much as 44.8% of a small business income. look, if you taxed every person in successful small business making over $250,000 at 100%, it would only run the government for 98 days. if everyb...

The last people who need help are 120,000 families for another, another $500 billion tax cut over the next ten years. >> congressman? >> our entire premise of these tax reform plans is to grow the economy and create jobs. its a plan thats estimated to create 7 million jobs. now, we think that government taking 28% of a family and business income is enough. president obama thinks that the government ought to be able to take as much as 44.8% of a small business income. look, if you taxed every per...

And, florida. obviously, those three states are critical to the -- any victory, either side. and we think we can win all three of those and win those three states plus ohio and, wisconsin and, missouri, which we won last time and we have over 270 electoral votes and theyve got to basically take something out of the mix and take north carolina, florida, ohio, out of the mix and it is hard to get to 270 but i think, we are well positioned at this point. >> bill: this is a battle ground state and a...

Of our debt, and obviously you say we need to cut more spending, why not some increase in taxes on the wealthy up to a level when the economy was booming in the 1990s? >>guest: two things revenues go up each year under our budget because we have economic growth and we close loopholes and the tax rates are set to go up higher than in the clinton years because of the new obamacare taxes. the top marginal tax rate goes to 44.8 percent in january and the reason we do not want did go back do that bec...

in fact, generally speaking they get back 4.8%. im going to put a few kernels into their pot because they are not paying taxes. lets look at another group. this bag represents people who earn between $30 and $100,000 a year. thats about 40% of households in the united states. this group represents a contribution of 18%. 18% of the total personal tax revenues come from here. im going to put about two handfuls of popcorn in the bowl to represent the taxes they pay. this bag represents pe...