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Until 2:00 a.m. now for the most part? >> thats right. a statewide 2:00 a.m. closing time, and so were just considering following the lead of 24 other states, including new york state, to give cities the opportunity to create new jobs, expand businesses, and increase tax revenues, through a community-driven process which would bring all stakeholders to the table should acity decide to take advantage of the opportunity temp the bill imposes nothing on anybody, and once a plan is created it would ...

♪ closing time last call for alcohol ♪ so finish your whiskey and beer ♪ >> love that song. ♪ closing time >> all right. so earlier today the staff gave you a sending off. a nice party. last night, with our rob here, a couple of old faces. couple of new faces. and the one face that we are never going to forget, yours, rob. there you are. >> special thank you to joanie, organized the party. many, many thanks. >> yes, awesome. awesome. really. >> joanie! >> 16 people have shared the anchor...

Heres whats happening. the man who was until recently britains highest ranking catholic leader now admits to unspecified sexual misbehavior. cardinal obrien resigned a week ago after newspaper reports alleging that priests had accused him of misconduct. and remembering the 1965 march from selma to montgomery. last tweak supreme court heard arguments on whether to cut key parts of the voting rights act. now back to "caught on camera." two thieves ambush a bar owner at closing time. >> i was m...

By that. >> i actually thought that that would happen. by the time we got to california, closing time we would know. >> i really thought it would be a much bigger mess, and i didnt think the president would be able to win without us having a debacle in florida, and thankfully we didnt. >> joy reed, what was the big surprise? >> the big surprise was that mitt romney chose paul ryan as his running mate. he is the right guy? but as a democrat, secretly, i was like oh please, pick paul ryan, i didnt...

Among dignitaries attending memorial service for daniel inouye in hawaii. the 88-year-old was a war hero and first japanese american elected to both house and congress. the president visited his grandfathers gravesite. a second storm in california bringing snow and rafe rains and winds. more news later. now back to "caught on camera." two thieves ambush a bar owner at closing time. >> i was mugged. i was stabbed. i was hit over the head with a pool cue. >> the robbery goes awry when the bart...

Ohio. the other two are north carolina and west virginia. i do want to show you quickly on the bottom of the screen, megyn, you talked about it, it is the ticker and the votes you are seeing in there now are the polls already closed in some of those states, new hampshire, indiana, some of them closed at 6:00 p.m. but the entire states dont close so thats why we had the 7:00 p.m. closing. >> that number sort of underneath me right there is the percentage of vote thats been counted so far and who ...

Is what you need to know right now. you are 23 minutes away from closing time here at 7:00 eastern time. keys to watch this hour. watch the margin in indiana. that was a state that the president won in 2008 by less than 30,000 votes. it was razor tight. republicans expected to take indiana back this year. well see if they do that, if they do that and what sort of margin. the big one here at 7:00, is virginia. 13 electoral votes. at 7:01 eastern time, literally, 22 minutes and 30 some odd seconds...

States, what do they have in common? 2008 they were blue. florida down here where barack obama beat john mccain by 2-1/2 and 3 points. in 2004, a different story. george bush beat john kerry by five points down there in florida. similar story in ohio where you heard steve brown reporting in franklin county in columbus. george bush won by 118,000 votes in 2004. look at the flip in 2008. president obama winning that state by five points. similar out here in iowa, too. it went blue as well. by nine...

State of ohio, obama at 281. if you gave that to romney, look at that, 275-263. thats why it is so key. what is the one state that could keep us up at night? lets look out west. weve been giving it to mitt romney colorado. watch what happens if we give romney florida, virginia, ohio. hes at 266. president obama, what does he need? new hampshire, wisconsin, iowa, all places hes favored and look at the one place thats keeping us up at night, western state, mountain time zone, late closing time, 26...

Ohio today, most of all. but in some scenarios, this whole election could come down to, colorado. joining me now is nbcs deputy political editor domenico montanaro. the ultimate wonk when it comes to doing all the numbers. lets stalk with this -- about this scenario. how do you see this? where is colorado playing into this? >> we obviously talk a lot about florida, ohio and virginia and we should because thats where most of the ad money is being spent. but lets take a look at where colorado coul...