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This is 49.9% for conor lamb, 49.5% for rick saccone. only 918 votes separate these two candidates. jake and dana, this is a -- people thought it was going to be close, but this is really, really close. >> and for those wondering at home, we should point out, there is no automatic recount in pennsylvania on the congressional district level. there is on the statewide level, but on the congressional district level, if it becomes that close, a kacandidate will have to petition. >> thats right. we s...

Manchin democrat. but were going back to steve kornacki at this point. >> i havent added enough wrinkles. im going to add one more there is two x factors. one is the remaining outstanding vote. no change in that since the last time i came on. two, then, the absentee situation. now let me give you three. state law in pennsylvania calls for a recount if the final margin in a race is within half a percentage point. 0.5. well, these are not the exact numbers. the exact numbers right now are conor la...

Determine how far along we are in the epidemic. hospitalizations per 100,000 still rising to 49.9 people per 100,000 last week. the numbers are continuing to go up. you want to make sure you with watching the folks in your household who might be at risk. very young people, kids under 5. especially at risk. elderly and also pregnant ladies as well as risk. its the h3 virus here, particularly virulent and causing so many problems, sandra. as we know the vaccine not working that well. also a second...

Gop was not united. you will see mister jones will have a nice couple years in the senate, he will not be reelected and alabama will turn red again. the benefit is without roy moore even though i care about the presidents agenda and what has many republicans as possible it means at the midterms they have a better chance increasing the lead in the senate. >> doug jones up against a candidate with a clean background, a normal typical republican candidate he would probably lose. >> didnt have repub...

Race, opponent roy moore still refusing to concede. here to react is former congressman matt gates. i saw you one special report last night. it reminds you of 2016 last november with hillary clinton losing the invisible race and refusing to concede. what do you make of it? >> iraq of the presidents congratulations for doug jones, my district in florida, the board with alabama, it wasnt the policies of the republican party or donald trump that were rejected but roy moore was rejected. the long-te...

Would trigger a recount. >> when the vote is this close it is not over. and we still have to go by the rules about the recount provision, weight on god and let this process play out. it is not over. it will take some time. thank you. >> reporter: with jones having 49.9% of the vote to run fors 28.4 a recount appears highly unlikely the alabama gop issued a statement saying we are deeply disappointed in the extremely close election results with our candidates judge roy moore we respect devoting p...

>> but roy moore who rode to the polls on horseback has yet to concede the race. his campaign hoping moores vote count would come within half a percentage point of jones, which would trigger a recount. >> what we have got to do is wait on god, and let this process play out. i know its late. we cant wait and have everybody wait until after 11:00. but the votes are still coming in and we are looking at that. >> but with jones coming in at 49.9% of the vote to moores 48.4, a 1.5 point difference. a...

Up am. >> i just had no idea how that race was going to go. >> i was stunned to read the results. 2:00 a.m. in the center of the political universe which is alabama this morning. doug jones turning deep red alabama blue with a stunning win over republican roy moore in last nights high stakes senate race. jones taking 49.9% of the vote, 1.5 votes ahead of moore who could not overcome sexual misconduct allegations that plagued him from the outset. >> alabama has been at cross roads. we have been a...

I have been waiting all my life and now i just dont know what the hell to say. >> for the first time in 25 years a democrat win a senate seat in deep red alabama. doug jones with a major episet over roy moore. how is the president handling the defeat and can democrats carry this momentum into 2018? this is big international news, folks. good morning, it isp front page news in the u.k., france, spain, in germany. thanks for beginning your early start with us. >> democrat doug jones turning deep r...

Hes got 49.9%, 48.4%, thats more than .5% so its not going to be an automatic recount. >> not an automatic recount at all. they seem to be subjecting the secretary of state was about to offer them a lifeline, some path to recount and jake just pressed him there with the exact right questions and the secretary of state was quite candid saying i dont see this happening, given our state history, success of running elections in the past, i dont see this happening. the question is, lets respect the p...