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Broward county recount subject of the process continues around-the-clock. today, finished recounting all three and a thousand early votes and broward says its now ahead of schedule. no problem with the deadline. one of the recount races in palm beaches and state house race there appeared republican mike caruso leads democrat jim bonfiglio by 37 votes. the leon county judge, democrat, ruled for jim bonfiglio, giving palm beach county an extra five days to complete their recount races, decision gu...

>> the machines overheated. they didnt properly reconcile the ballot count. and so, we had to pull the early voting ballot count out and recount them. >> this blows my mind. amid all of this, rick scott, hes actually in d.c. right now, forging ahead, where he attended an orientation on capitol hill this morning for freshman senators, even though he has not been declared the winner of his race against democrat, bill nelson. nbcs ali vitali joins me now in tallahassee. okay, before i get to whats ...

Sorry for what your family has been through. please send your regards to your father this morning. >> thank you. i will do that. >> for ways you can help those affected by the california wildfires go to cnn.com/impact. we will continue to keep a focus on those developments in california. we do also want to bring you up to date on politics this morning. arizona with a new senator elect, kyrsten sinema defeating martha mcsally. mcsally conceded monday. meantime, in florida no concessions there, ...

Afternoon. as the machines churn, the politicians are playing a public relations game. attempting to convince their supporters they will be victorious. >> what bill nelson needs to do now is what he would be asking me to do if i had lost the election, is say, look, you know, the election happened. lets go forward. but hes not. >> reporter: governor rick scott, who is leading by just about 12,000 votes, believes he has won. a senior campaign official says he will travel to washington this week an...

Election, is say, look, the election happened. lets go forward. but hes not. >> reporter: governor rick scott, whos leading by just about 12,000 votes, believes he has won. a senior campaign official says he will travel to washington this week and play the role of senator-elect by attending a photo op on capitol hill and participating in leadership elections. hes filed several lawsuits and as governor hes called on law enforcement and attorney general pam bondi to keep watch on the recount. bond...

Whats been happening in florida and where do we stand today, monday afternoon? >> reporter: two things to mention aside from that emergency injunction that you mentioned in broward county which was denied. rick scott is saying hes still going to washington for new member orientation. thats notable even though hes not the senator-elect. now, the legal thing that i want to draw your attention to is the new suit filed here in northern district federal court here in tallahassee. thats by vote vets a...

Governor scott. >> otherwise youre ahead a touch down in the fourth quarter. if youre afraid that were going to score two touchdowns because the votes havent been counted, you start saying fraud, fraud, which the judge found no fraud. >> speaking for myself, not the official party, i would say governor scott was elected senator on election night. if the law is followed, he will remain the new senator-elect even after that. the question is, the undervotes. theres about 24,000. brenda snipes is no...

Senator-elect. >> which is understandable. if you were to take all of the under votes in the race and assume that as many people wanted to vote in the senate race as voted in the gubernatorial race in broward county, and if you were to apportion the share of vote that nelson and scott got in the senate race to the new total more than 700,000 ballots, nelson would still be behind statewide. broward is not the magical elixir to bring him back to life. its florida. anything can happen. if you look ...

Later, plus, that were in a position, where they are still dumping ballots. they never report on time. they are not allowing the people to observe as is protocol. how is that possible? >> weve gone to court. weve asked the florida department of law enforcement to investigate. but they have come up, in broward, broward by itself, election night they came up with 78,000 more votes. we still dont have the information on it. thats why weve gone to court. another 15,000 in palm beach county. no idea,...

Have any problems and the problems all exist in these two counties? and at what point, where is law enforcement, fact that they would allow three full days to have zero supervision. they should have gone in there and shut this place down because again, they are just violating laws left and right, which shes been found to do. so it seems now, god only knows what they have done in the 72 hours, and, by the way, she express -- she didnt appear to like you very much. seems like she has a strong opin...