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Throughout the country. joining us now corporate development and community relations for wreaths across america. this is a huge undertaking. >> it really is. but it is one that we are very honored and humbled to be a part of. jon: how many national cemeteries are there that you're laying wreaths? >> so we have 1500 participating locations across the country, and they are in all 50 states. jon: 1500? >> 1500. jon: cemeteries? >> yes, sir. jon: and tens of thousands of graves? >> yes, at arlington alone there are 253,000 graves, and there's 25 funerals every single day. so that number grows ever...

Right now we still need 120,000 wreaths to finish that entire cemetery. and it is so important to us that we are able to honor and remember every one of our fallen veterans buried not only at arlington but at all 1500 participating locations. jon: 253,000 graves at arlington but you only have wreaths for roughly half of them? >> yes, we are at about half. if anyone wants to donate, each wreath is $15 or, you know, we have a couple different options on our website. we have a patriot pair where we're here in new york city, christmas is alive and well and buzzing in the city and across america, w...

Using it, you can throw it out or return it to where you bought it. jillian: they are voluntarily recalling several brands. heather: every year, reach across america on his heroes by laying 200 reefs across the country. with days until the deadline there is an urgent need for donations to make sure each servicemembers remembered. joining us to explain how we can help is community relations director bree king, thank you for taking time to join us. >> good to see you. >> reporter: tell us about the need as it stands right now. >> we are running a shortfall. 253,000 veterans at arlington national...

Arizona, 465,000 republicans who cast early ballots, 360,000, 253,000 independents. if you compare that to four years ago, but we republicans doing better than they did two years ago and democrats doing worse than they did two years ago, the republicans have a swing of 5.4%. remember, they won arizona by about 3.5% last time around, so if you now suddenly got a 5% better republican vote out of the early vote, that points to good night for governer ducey and potentially for martha mcsally. her issue is that she is doing extremely well amongst the base, she's got some softer republicans wonderin...

The primary. let's take a quick look. i'm going to look at the 10 biggest counties. we have a lot of counties in texas. 254. but the 10 most populace counties in 2014, 253,000 republican early voters and 184,000 democrats. this time around, it's 370,000 democrats, just over 100% increase, and 283,000 republican early voters, about 15%. if you get a look inside of the numbers however, they're concentrated in some counties. harris county, texas, that's houston, has three very competitive congressional races. for the democrats, there's an open seat, for the republicans there's an open seat and th...