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Florida has nearly 2 million Black voters and they lean heavily Democratic, but they havent proved decisive in governors races.

Florida has nearly 2 million Black voters and they lean heavily Democratic, but they havent proved decisive in governors races.

Equal Ground Action campaign will contact 2.5 million Floridians asking them to implore their lawmakers to reject DeSantis’ redistricting plan.

Took two weeks for us to be able to admit that -- three weeks that we won. not only did we win, we won big. we won seats we werent expecting to win. we just needed republicans we werent expecting to defeat. that night it was just so nail biting that i think it took us a while to come around. were not accustomed to victory at that point, so were not great at it. >> no. youre really slow rolling your enthusiasm here, yes. thank you all. following breaking news. three u.s. service members have be...

Ground. look for intelligence sharing. as that ground action moves forward, moves further south to try at least to push isis out. again, if you look at the map, this is along the border. they want to push towards raqqa with this arab coalition, with the kurds. as that happens, the other u.s. special operations effort will be to continue to air drop ammunition and get splooiz supplies to these fighters. they need constant replenishment. this is only going to work if they have the ammunition, the ...

Correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, what is the defense secretary, ash carter, planning on doing? >> reporter: good evening, wolf. well, pentagon officials will tell you this carter plan begins with white house dissatisfaction with the campaign in syria and iraq. the white house wanting to see more action, so ash carters come up with a plan, which he pretty much presented today on capitol hill. more air strikes, but much more significant, perhaps, ground action, direct action. that means u.s....

Are within 20 miles of a russian jet. not that they think that the russians are going to aggressively shoot them down. but the russians are very unpredictable in their flying practices. and this is an effort the pentagon says to absolutely make sure u.s. pilots are kept safe. so russian pilots coming close to u.s. fighter jets. russian pilots also coming close to u.s. drones flying over syria. also another concern, obviously, those unmanned drones. all of this coming as russia also stepping up i...

Moved artillery and rocket launchers on the ground also into western syria. u.s. officials tell me that now they are beginning to see the russians fire those weapons in support of syrian ground action. so the russians and the syrians very much linked up in their ground campaign in western syria. where does this leave the united states? no indication of a change in u.s. military strategy. the u.s. still going after isis targets. but a lot of concern. you know, where does it go from here? because ...

Airstrikes against isis. but this comes as russia seems to be stepping up its combat action and its combat power almost every day. now today we are learning that the russians have begun naval strikes into syria. they moved four warships into the southern caspian sea to the east. that put them within range of syria and by all accounts, they are using some very high-tech missiles off those ships to strike targets. nobody at the pentagon can really recall the last time the russian navy was in comba...

Following the story. i understand russia is not just attacking from the air but from the water now as well. >> indeed ana. good morning. the defense secretary went on to say that the u.s. military would not be cooperating with the russian military because of what the russians are doing. carter wants to have a second round of technical talks with the russians about keeping that air space safe when they are bloet flying so there is no inadvertent accidents but not military cooperation. why is he s...