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Well, sam is in the house somewhere. let me give you the final results. the threshold for victory was 218 votes, 435 members were total in voting including proxies. the results are 235 for mr. perez and 200 for mr. ellison. [cheers and applause] order. it is my great honor -- [applause] it is, it is now my honor, it is my honor now to present the gavel to the next chair of the democratic national committee to

Here we go. >> okay. let me give you the final results. the threshold of victory was 218 vote votes and -- let me give you the final results. the threshold for victory was 218 votes. 435 members. we were total in voting including the prox sis, ties ar for mr. perez and 200 for mr. ellison.

Must they do this by a certain amount of time or simply whoever gets the majority no matter how many ballots, phases are cast? >> reporter: thats exactly right, fred rericfrederica. theyll keep voting until they find a candidate over the 50% threshold but in terms of the full fleet of five candidates. if they dont meet a bare minimum percentage, they actually come off of the roster and it goes to the next group of voters. so we should strengthen the bottom three candidates to make up a small por...

Chairman of the dnc. lets get to ryan nobles. tom perez being the new chairman. tell us what happened here. >> reporter: this was a pretty dramatic day here in atlanta on this second ballot, tom perez comes in with a victory. perez collected 235 votes on that second ballot to keep ellisons 200 but on the first ballot, brianna, where tom perez collected 213.5 votes falling short of the threshold needed to win the election but on the second ballot, perez was able to bring together the coalition ne...

>> future once so bright will soon face much darker days. martin savidge, cnn, manchester, ohio. >> thank you so much, martin. back to atlanta now and the vote for a new chairperson for the democratic national committee. lets check in with ryan nobles because the first round of balloting has taken place but is there a final count, a new chairperson? >> reporter: collected 213.5 votes. the threshold to win was 214 votes. so he falls basically a half a vote short. keith ellison collected 200 votes...

Dhs to kind of tell us what the threat situation is. i think thats completely legitimate. i didnt see that as a fishing expedition, clearly they have a goal in mind but i think its completely legitimate for the white house to ask entities with within the federal government to supply whatever is needed but i think that well find that the evidentiary base is going to be subject to a lot of criticism. if the threshold was real terrorist attacks real terrorist plots from these travel ban countries w...

Not eligible for medical benefits? >> there is a category that our veterans that were not service-connected and make more money than minimum threshold that we do serve. but we use our resources as wisely as we can to try to serve in that order. and somebody like scott may be falling out of that. and so what were trying to do is design an efficient system so were able to spread the resources that we have to as many veterans as possible. pete: interesting. okay. shannon asked this question. said i...

Just to their neighbors but to the united states? >> well, at present north korea has three missiles that can reach the lower 48 states. they have not been able to make a nuclear weapon to them yet, but thats just a matter of three, four, maybe five years. because they already are able to mate a nuke to their intermediate-range missiles. north korea has identified the u.s. as its primary adversary. im not so sure thats what they really believe but their propaganda says that. we see all these vid...

Or urine test i need to travel 180 miles to the v.a. hospital in minnesota. my question is are you planning to fix v.a. so vets like me can go to our local doctors and hospitals? >> glad to hear from thomas and thomas thank you for your service. we do need to do better. and asking people to drive 140 miles to get simple tests isnt a system thats designed to meet the veterans needs. so, yes, thomas, we are looking at different ways to expand the types of options and choice to be able to use care ...