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Lets go to john king. we have about 12 states to go, john, where we have not yet been able to make projections. >> so what i do sometimes when you walk away is to try to have a little just looking ahead. this is maines second congressional district, north of my little squiggly line. thats not exact, but see this is the house district here, a republican house district, maine splits its electoral votes by congressional district. that doesnt mean it goes republican for president but thats the way w...

Arms length but he did say he was going to vote for donald trump and he tried to challenge his democratic opponent, do you think hillary clinton is trustworthy. do you support her and apparently his argument won the day. >> and co-i point out one bit of irony. marco rubios presidential race trounced in florida by donald trump. and now winning in -- >> originally said he wasnt going to run for reelection. lets take a look at the state of florida right. now hillary clinton was ahead. donald trump ...

Underneath it, 48.9. 30 homes and businesses were destroyed by the flooding but anytime you have day after day of high water the amount of pressure poses a problem. in cairo, this is interesting because 56.1 feet, there are going to be and already have seen breaches of levees. in that cairo area, even though they eat hit 56, theyll be around 55 sfr five days. its a slow flow of massive water. then it gets interesting. from memphis just moderate flooding but notice on the arkansas river, little r...

Borger is in washington. i know we are waiting on returns as they come in. but this is something that a 36-year incumbent in the state of mississippi is in jeopardy of losing his seat it an upstart tea party-backed candidate. >> it certainly is. and it is neck and neck. they have good reason to be concerned. theres about 40% of the vote thats come in. and right now, thad cochran, has 48.9% and mcdaniel has 48.6%, only about 1100 votes apart. number one, as you said, thad cochran is in a fight fo...

Chief correspondent joins us from jackson mississippi and gloria borger is in washington. i know we are waiting on returns as they come in. but this is something that a 36-year incumbent in the state of mississippi is in jeopardy of losing his seat it an upstart tea party-backed candidate. >> it certainly is. and it is neck and neck. they have good reason to be concerned. theres about 40% of the vote thats come in. and right now, thad cochran, has 48.9% and mcdaniel has 48.6%, only about 1100 vo...

Government worked to push tenman square out of peoples minds? good morning, its wednesday, june 6 pt at this hour, chris mcdaniel has 49.6% of the vote. cochran shows with 48.9%. a third candidate, thomas carey, has less than 2%. that means no within has the majority of the vote needed to avoid that runoff in three weeks. campaign officials said it might take until thursday given absentee and contested ballots. but last night mcdaniel was

Put that state in play for them for the first time in more than 30 years. with 99% of the precincts reporting mcdaniel is lead iing thad cochran, the second longest serving republican in the senate by less than one point. mcdaniel has 49% of the vote to 48.9% of cochran. only 2,000 of the more than 300,000 cast separate the two candidates. if it goes to the runoff as appears likely, the already expensive and the personal duel will extend for another three weeks. msnbcs kasie hunt is in jackson, ...

Worst fear is that the balloon deflates inside the stomach. when it does deflate, it will pass through right down the toilet. >> reporter: costing 3 to $4,000 at the clinic, rodusco says the balloon is one part of her fight to get fit. >> wow. >> thats interesting. and the researchers who have looked at this said the participants lost on average a little more than 8% of their total body weight. 48.9% of their excess body weight over a 12-week treatment period. >> were just sitting here reacting ...

Recent polls. even without the candidates this has been, there has been a lot going on here. $70 million of tv ads spent here. there is a heavy, heavy ground game here, including hundreds of people from nearby southern states that have come in here to work for both campaigns. a lot of surrogates. even if we dont have the candidates here, friday, for example, jill biden is coming. the day before the election, michelle obama is coming in here. so we are having a tremendous amount of campaigning go...

Im not having this. he never says it. i was never so proud of a candidate as john mccain last time when he stood up to that woman who said to his face that obama was an arab. but he was a prisoner all of those years in hanoi. romney has never served his country. the only prisoner hes been captive of are the right wing haters that are smelling up the republican campaign. and thats "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >> thanks, chris, a...