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It's moved west, so honolulu dodged a bullet. but down on the big island, checking the rainfall totals, four weather stations down there are reporting more than 40 inches of rain, the highest at 44.8. this is the sixth wettest storm ever to hit the united states, and there is more rain forecast for the big island today. and you know, that ground is just saturated. so, rain that falls, just that's an immediate flash flood. there's also still a flash flood warning further north on maui, where we've also seen three brush fires. obviously not started by this. we don't know what those fires were st...

Cn this's nick watt is in honolulu. what are you experiencing right now? >> reporter: well, honolulu as the mayor has said has dodged the bullet. the storm has moved west out ought ocean away from the major population center. nearly a million people live here. all these hotels, apartment blocks next to the beach. there was a storm surge, a lot of rain, that could cause major problems. we just heard the flash flood warning on maui has been listed. it's the bigger island further south that bore the prunt of this storm. one weather station reported 44.8 inches of rain. you mentioned the sixth wes...

Winds in hawaii. the effects of tropical storm lane. the biggest storm to swamp the state in decades. it is weakening which is good news. its impact is still very strong, very dangerous. >> that's because the pain is not coming from the wind, it is coming from this, the water, torrents of rain and flash flooding. they're the main concern. more than 40 inches of rain have already fallen in some areas. cnn's nick watt is in honolulu. what is happening now, nick? >> reporter: well, oahu dodged a bullet. the eye of the storm is 150 miles southwest of here and moving westward, out into the pacific,...

Combined with the most wifi hotspots. it's a new kind of network. xfinity mobile. we're back now with our breaking news. votes are being counted right now in montana's special election tonight. my panel is back. i want to put them up before we discuss this and other things. gianforte opening up a wider lead there. 49.4% to rob quist's 44.8%. that is 56% of the votes counted. and the votes that are in. so we'll continue to follow this breaking news story. let's get back to the other breaking news story, that is russia. david rohde, we were talking about jared kushner and the fbi and his inv...

Election. there they are. 49.4% for greg gianforte, and 44.8% for rob quist. greg gianforte, when we got this, was very close. let's discuss now. cnn political commentators, peter beinart, symone, sanders, jeff kingston, and kevin madden. jack, let's start with greg gianforte. although he lost three newspaper endorsements, rerosponse from t gop, far more per missive. where's the outrage in this for someone who's accused of committing a misdemeanor assault? >> well, don, let met say this. we weren't there, we don't know everything there is to know about it. i think the voters of montana have we...