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Electability calculus in their head. that being said, i feel like lauren made a good point about the new generation of leaders, especially african-american, who say they want some type of moral purity from the candidates. they want a candidate who can speak to them in the year 2019 and have a little bit less baggage perhaps than the vice-president. >> i want to look at some of the numbers. i know the two of you, as journalists, love to watch the numbers as well. it's the data we're going to look at based on our story lines. this coming up. it looks at the favorability and unfavorability number...

Week. the little goat trying to befriend that giant pig, the water skiing baby or the treadmill dancer. >> we asked which v was your favorite. michelle said my favorite was the baby goat trying to get the hog to play. >> albert said i like the baby water skiing video. looks very funny and the baby seems to be saying, yeah, this is mitre -- my territory. don't tread on me. >> albert says the treadmill dancer. i don't know how he didn't fall down. really. the winner according to our web page poll is the pig and goat getting 56.2% of the vote. the baby water skier came in second with 26%. the tre...

Likely to lose everything. here is the situation right now. thousands of people are on the run from the rising floodwaters in south central louisiana. now, the army corps of engineers made this tough call over the weekend. we were talking about that on friday, and opening several gates of the morganza spillway. so they did it to save new orleans and baton rouge, but it means that people living in the low-lying areas just to west and south may lose their homes and everything they cannot pack, pack in a bag and leave with. in fact, in vicksburg, mississippi, the national weather service tells us...

It's vicksburg, mississippi. that's where dan springer joins us live now. has it gotten better today? >> reporter: no, it's not gotten better but we are still waiting for the crest which is expected next thursday. we are at 56.2 feet, just above the all-time record set back in 1927. but for the most part, unless the levees fail in this region, the damage that has been done is all the damage we're going to see. but as any natural disaster, luck plays a part of it and a few feet to make a big difference. let me show you what i'm talking about here. on this side of the railroad tracks, we have ho...

You have all the towns up and down that great river, but so, too, many other places forgotten about, because the water is so large and so backed up it's hitting these towns and affecting areas on the outside of that river. vicksburg, mississippi, we've talked about this, 56.2 feet expected to crest. they have not seen water at that level since 1927. further south, the town of nachez, mississippi, they expect it to rise 4 feet before the record that was set in 1937 in the town of nachez, and the damage from all this is starting to add up. arkansas expects $500 million in damages. memphis, the t...