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Lead over trump's 61.4%-36.6%. in iowa right now, 19% of the vote is in, biden's lead is 85,000. 61%- 61%-36.9%. we got more states right now. let's take a look at other states coming in. michigan a third of the vote is now in. trump say head by some 210,000 votes. 54.7%-43.4%. in pennsylvania almost a third of the vote is in. trump is ahead by 179,000 votes. 53.4%-45.2%. wisconsin a third of the vote is in. it's very, very close. trump is ahead by some 20,000 votes. 50%-48.3%. in georgia right now, more than half of the vote is in. trump has a pretty comfortable lead in georgia of 348,000 vot...

Smoke marijuana? for that, we go to jessica dean. what do we know? >> hi, chris. let's answer that question for you right off the bat. we go to michigan where voters there overwhelmingly said that they will vote to allow recreational marijuana, 56% of voters there saying that's going to be what they want. so 82% reporting right there. there's also a marijuana initiative on the ballot in utah. this is medical marijuana. that's the differentiation here. again, voters approving that measure 53.2% to 46.8%. so those are the two marijuana initiatives we were following tonight. the others -- expandi...

And our leadership getting on the ground to really see the damage and bringing that sense of confidence and optimism to the area is really important. >> bill: talk about the numbers. they're astounding. the cape fear river cresting in fayetteville, north carolina inland three hours from the atlantic ocean at 25 feet above flood stage. 61.4 feet, which is just hard to get your mind around a river that can rise that high and when it overspills the banks and where that water goes. water has a mind of its own. matthew hit that area just two years ago. many people are dealing with this twice in two...

And north carolina's tremendous innovation of allowing registration during the early voting period. all of those mechanisms were used more heavily by african-american voters and in fact president obama carried north carolina in 2008 not on election day, but during the early voting period. >> well, let me look at this, jean, the only good news here, is in the 2012 election, for the first time in census history, black voters passed on whites -- 66.2 of eligible black voters cast ballots, up from 64.7 in 2008. 61.4% -- down from 1996. at least in a presidential year, when there is an african-amer...

Voter turnout in past and future elections. it shows the differences in turnout between black and white men in 2012. so according to census data, around $61.4% of black men turned out to vote. that's fairly high. but, and this is the important part, when you account for the hundreds of thousands of black men who are not in prison, but have been stripped of their right to vote as punishment for the crimes, the percentage of eligible black men who voted shoots up to 68%, a 6% jump. a rate that, interestingly, is much, much higher than white men. disenfranchisement is not something we are used to...