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Department both on a county level and on a state level before that. and before we go to our correspondents on the ground in ridgecrest, i want to sum up what theyve been saying. it looks like first of all the best piece of news all day in this earthquake situation is there are no reported fatalities. nobody has died from this earthquake. a reminder, 7.1 magnitude earthquake felt shortly after 8:00 p.m. local time in california. it is now -- that was about four hours ago as it is now shortly afte...

Would win if the election were held today, not 18 months from now. theres a lot of economic script to be written between now and then, and things almost certainly will change. the models are only as good as of today. >> okay. so as not to repeat the mistake of pollsters in the last cycle, do you look at things nationally, ie popular vote or state by state? >> state by state. so state by state, and actually its quite interesting, i mean if you look at it, its intuitive, pennsylvania where i live,...

Polls. if you put all those together, is there a chance that would shift the margin? >> it still feels like it is too short. we dont have a comprehensive 67 county spreadsheet of all these numbers. florida, like most states, highly desensitized. everything is done at the county level and certified by the state later. i think that nelson has a glimmer of hope with this issue of the voter intent standard for disputed undervotes and overvotes, which will begin to become a bigger issue in the next c...

Jump to the conclusion or at least to worry that some of whats happening here is that the republican partys candidate for governor is also the republican secretary of state in kansas, whose office is responsible for administering the election. kris kobach is competing at the top of the ticket candidate. they have refused to talk to us about anything related to their electoral processes and decisions they have been making here and they have been referring us to the secretary of states office as i...

Electoral processes and decisions here, and theyve been referring us to the secretary of states office as if its the secretary of states office making these decisions. and the secretary of state office tells us this is happening at the county level, has nothing to do with us. do you have clarity in terms of whos making the decisions here? >> it should actually be the county clerk making these decisions. it has a whole lot of latitude and leeway to decide what happens. it would not be true the se...

>> bill nel on is not backing down from his claims that russians have penetrated florida election systems now. theyre in there now for this election cycle. his warnings come on the heels of the last indictment from the special counsels office which charge that russian military intelligence for some reason bombarded county level election officials in florida in the final seven days before the presidential election in 2016. the indictment describing a huge late attack mounted against local systems...

Completely protect against this type of cyberattack? >> both. part of the challenge of this is the vast majority of cyberattacks can be prevented with very basic technology steps. something like using two factor authentication. if john podesta had been using two factor authentication on his g-mail account, the russian gru would have never been able to access it. what we have seen is that campaigns are not moving as fast as they should be to adopting those very basic blocking and tackling cyber s...

Contributions from the nra -- contributions from the nra and more in terms of a part of his base rebelling that could be reflected in the numbers. >> thats why you saw in that tweet this morning stepping back a little bit, joe. >> i was going to say, that said, though, donald trump is looking at the electoral map. hes looking at whats been happening over the past six months, hes looking at one democrat after another winning state legislative races where they havent won in 40 years, like for inst...

Manchester, new hampshire, the mayor for the first time being a democrat in a decade, and seeing what is going on at the county level in pennsylvania, and winning the state senate in washington state, and this is one complete response on the year anniversary of trumps election to what happens in a 60/40 anti-trump nation when they go to vote. >> is there any way to connect what happened last night to 2018 or is there so much ground between last night and that day next year that its just way too ...

Heather: chief, you were prepared for anything to happen. you had something you called a burglary suppression teams deployed almost immediately? >> what we did as soon as they announced on a county level an evacuation of a certain sector of our city, basically the east side of our city we felt we had increased responsibility to protect those folks property that were ordered out of their homes. so we cancelled all leave and days off for officers to put more officers on the street. then we also ac...