Breaking overnight a special election in georgia, now heading to a runoff. The live desk to explain why this race is making national news. Sam . Autria, this a blow to republicans. This race was seen as an early referendum on president trump. The gop has held this congressional seat for decades. Now its future is uncertain. This morning, democrats fell just short of winning georgias sixth congressional district. Jon ossoff had hoped for a knockout but came up short against a splintered gop field. The 30 year old first time candidate won less than 50 percent of the vote in the district. The race is now headed to a runoff against Republican Karen Handel that will be held in june. Democrats though say its still a victory and proves president trumps negative effect. Numbers overnight show karen handel had just under 20 percent of the vote. Ossoff had just over 48 percent. Thats more than the four leading republicans combined the gop has won this seat for the last 37 years. Breaking overnig
For mountain and specific. Pacific. Retta bronner is going to the news. Wall street journal reports that 35,000 to 50,000 protesters are expected in philadelphia. Yesterday on the evil the convention about 1000 protesters supporting Bernie Sanders went to the streets. Take a look at what they were chanting. Dnc, we wont vote for hillary. , dnc, we wont vote for hillary. Sanders also took over the official welcoming party by the Democratic National convention. This is what they were shouting at that gathering last night. Center supporters took this over. Sanders supporters took this over. Vote for bernie. Delegates of the dnc by the way. Roll call vote is with the protesters what the Bernie Sanders supporters had to say. They want a rollcall of the states to happen at the convention, all because of the fallout from those wikileaks emails. Complaints throughout the what they believe was favoritism. The chair of best Debbie Wasserman schultz is stepping down but she took the stage around.
Beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern with cspans the contenders series. Thats followed by archival video of his 1968 president ial campaign and push to get on the california ballot. Also, a tour of the George Wallace collection at the Alabama Department of archives and history, and the discussion of segregation and politics in the 1960s in alabama. Thats friday, beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan3. And now the contenders, our series on key political figures who ran for president and lost but who nevertheless changed political history. Over the next two hours, we feature former Vice President and minnesota senator Hubert Humphrey, who was the democratic candidate for president in 1968. This program was recorded at the Minnesota History center in st. Paul. This is American History tv on cspan3. Stay right there. [shouting] mr. Chairman, my fellow americans my fellow democrats, mr. Chairman, my fellow americans. My fellow democrats, i proudly accept the nomination of our party. This
Hampshire momentum going . Jumping into action. Incredible rescue caught on camera. A car with a woman and her baby inside plunges in the water. And more bad blood . Another kanye west taylor swift feud this morning over racy music. She says she gave her blessing. Her team says not true. It doesnt look like she is ready to shake it off. Today, saturday, february 13th, 2016. Because we got bad blood we used to be mad love from nbc news, this is today. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today. Im erica hill. And im craig melvin. This is a record. Not a person on the plaza. We have a bunch of hand warmers ready to hand out. And a bunch of airplanes. He needs to get somewhere quickly. We do have folks over here. We will see them in a bit. Look at the temperatures around the country. Minneapolis, 6 below zero right now. That is just the temperature. That is not how it feels outside. It is understandably chilly here. Dylan checked the temperature in new york.
It doesnt look like she is ready to shake it off. Today, saturday, february 13th, 2016. Because we got bad blood we used to be mad love from nbc news, this is today. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today. Im erica hill. And im craig melvin. This is a record. Not a person on the plaza. We have a bunch of hand warmers ready to hand out. And a bunch of airplanes. He needs to get somewhere quickly. We do have folks over here. We will see them in a bit. Look at the temperatures around the country. Minneapolis, 6 below zero right now. That is not how it feels outside. It is understandably chilly here. Dylan checked the temperature in new york. Its what . Its 21 with the windchill of 11. That is it. It will not warm up. It will get colder. We got our fire pit here. Ill hunt some rascaly rabbits here in a bit. This bitter air affecting 65 Million People. Sheinelle has more on that. It is the middle of winter and it is supposed to be cold, the ordinary. They a