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Democrats made incredible gains in metro areas and suburbs this election, including remarkably, tarrant county in texas, which was one of the last reliably red large metro areas in the country. that's until democrat beto o'rourke flipped it on tuesday. but rural white america, democrats are losing new ground to republicans. take for example claire mccaskill who lost her seat on tuesday. in 2012, mccaskill won rural saline county by 22.5 points. in 2018, she lost it by 21.4 points. and lost her reelection bid due to similar rural swings around the state. the problem for democrats headed into 20...

Now to the low tide. that should be the red dotted line. it's all the way up here. that's because the winds are out of the south and the water levels are already running about two feet higher than they're supposed to. right now is supposed to be the low tide. the next six hours we head toward this high tide which they had predicted at 6.8. i've got a funny feeling this is going to be much higher than this because the winds are still out of the south. that will be one of the things to watch, to see if the next high tide is worse than what we had at midnight. this river forecast, this is the nor...

Case i could come before me. blumenthal moved on. >> bret: we should point on that judge kavanaugh had a hat tip at the end of that sound bite. thank you. technology and consumer focused companies declined today, facebook shed 2%, twitter fell 6, as top executives of the social media trying to testify before congress today. the dow was up overall, 22.5. the s&p 500 lost 8. the nasdaq slipped 96. congress did get a chance to grow social media executives over russia election meddling and bias, and two hearings did not disappoint. correspondent peter doocy has a story from capitol hill. >> allega...

I mentioned it's a campaign event for dean heller in nevada. what are you expecting to hear from the president of the united states? >> reporter: the political juxtaposition is quite telling. you're in nevada. 25% of the electorate is a latino. this is a state donald trump lost by 22.5 percentage points in 2016. dean heller is up for re-election. he's the senator, he's the incumbent and he's trying to hold onto his seat. three years ago dean heller gave up a campaign contribution that donald trump made to him. the spokesman at the time said it was over donald trump's position on immigration. e...

200,000 jobs in january. wages growing 2.9% compared to last year. rachel: what does this all mean for your wallet? here to weigh in managing partner at bench mark kevin kelly. welcome, kevin, coming to us from arizona, right? >> yes, exactly. i'm just steps away from our alma mater. rachel: right on. tell us why are wages growing now after 8 years of obama and everyone wanting to see wages go up. >> it's really no secret. it's the change in policy, right? so the difference between a year ago and today is that you have seen the regulatory cap has been removed. deregulation environment as well ...