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Something happens causing the bomb squad truck to blowup, the explosion smashing windows of homes nearby even flipping a car. officials say everyone should survive. the lapd seizing fireworks and improvised explosives from the 27-year-old man. he is under arrest and taking charge. todd: eric adams remains ahead in the new york city democratic mayoral primary, numbers show him leading by 14,000 votes against former sanitation commissioner katherine garcia. all this after the board of elections ad...

This came morning eric adams holds a narrow lead for the new york citys mayor. new york city board of elections issuing a new preliminary talley of votes after mistakenly counting 100,000 test ballots. give me a sense in this latest round how has the race shift snooped were doing a rank election. look eric adams still ahead 32% of the vote, maya wiley 22%, kathryn garcia at 19%. we have rank choice voting system. peoples fist, second, third choices. lets jump ahead to round seven. that was round...

Ballots. athena jones explains it all. >> reporter: good morning. new york city afford of elections published an updated set of the rank choice voting results one day after retractioning its previous release after it accidentally counted some 135,000 test ballots that had not been cleared from the computer system. eric adams narrowly led. and katherincath gar cia advance final round against adams in these preliminary results. tuesday july 6 is the first day that some of the more than # 25 125,00...

New york city mayoral candidate eric adams. the board of election threw out 135,000 test ballots after mistaking them for real votes. david lee miller is live in new york with the latest. david. >> dana, there is at least one thing that all the candidates in new yorks democratic mayoral primary agree on, the citys board of elections is a mess. the board botched the citys first effort at rank choice voting. last night released corrected results and apology. new numbers are not final. they do not ...

Going and the scrutiny strangely isnt there, not like for red states, maybe because its a blue state so they get a pass but my goodness, that my finally change. >> shannon: guy, you mention georgia, the department of justice says its going to sue georgia because it isnt like its state election laws. the rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel tweeting and saying new york city admits to counting over 100,000 test ballots, retracting vote totals week after primary election day yet the dojs suing georgia? wa...

We maybe have an idea, maybe, of who leads the new york city democratic mayoral primary. maybe. the new york city board of elections pushing an updated set of ranked choice voting results after -- publishing, i should say, after retracting numbers posted last night that included about 135,000 erroneous test ballots and no absentee ballots. the updated results show brooklyn borough president eric adams narrowly leading former sanitation commissioner kathryn garcia. but i want you to keep in mind ...

Of elections, served on the voter advisory commission in the past and throwing up his hands as we talk about this. really three key points when we talk about this. number one as you were saying to me in the break we want to figure out how this happened including how test files were left in there but you said youre not even convinced thats actually what happened. what do you mean >> theres absolutely no reason to take the board of elections at its word because i question whether they are organize...

Test ballots in the democratic primary. now, this started when the board of elections released new numbers yesterday suggesting that brooklyn borough president eric adams lead in the primary had narrowed. but the adams campaign and others questioned those numbers, and the board later had to admit it had mistakenly included those test ballots in the initial count. cnns senior political analyst john avlon is here to explain this. so you worked with the board of elections. >> when i worked in new y...

Incompetence. and this is the time to rip it up and restart and have a nonpartisan system put in place. >> but in the meantime, whats going to happen with the mayors race? >> allegedly we were going to get the revised numbers without the 135,000 test ballots as soon as later today. we will see if they show what yesterdays numbers show. the adams campaign was very much ahead in the first round. everything is questioned now. in addition to 124,000 outstanding absentee ballots. but it looks like er...

Fact that based on the 2018 report, we know that the columns of the garage were deteriorating and due to saltwater as well as salt in the air. there were corrosion in the rebar. potentially there was some weak points in the columns as well that together this building after slabs and columns led to collapse. >> prove so, we appreciate your insight on this. it does lend some credence to the suspicion that it all began at the bottom and offer some new insight as to the sequencing. thank you very mu...