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Today in the midterms. today the democratic party is up to i believe 36 pickups in the house of representatives. they appear to have flipped 36 republican seats and counting. that is exactly the kind of democratic wave that democrats were hoping for and republicans were saying would never happen in this midterm election. there are about a half dozen more seats that are yet to be called. but democrats are already up to 36 confirmed flips. in the florida recount, the senator and governors races, that went legally crazy. the state refusing to accept the vote totals from one big county's recount b...

Jury, and we do not yet know what it is. there is obviously a lot going on right now in the news, right? another couple of races called today in the midterms today. the democratic party is up to i now believe 36 pickups in the house of representatives. they appear to have flipped 36 republican seats and counting. that's exactly the kind of democratic wave that democrats were hoping for and republicans were saying would never happen in this midterm election. there are about a half dozen more seats that are yet to be called, but democrats are already up to 36 confirmed flips. in the florida reco...

The deadline by two minutes. reportedly the person from broward who was submitting the county's data was unfamiliar with the state's website. it took an extra couple of minutes. palm beach county missed the deadline because of their machines overheating. hillsboro county decided ton submit new results at all after the power went out and the recount showed a drop of 846 votes from the first time through. alligator ate your ballot. what does that mean? the state instead is going to use whatever those counties submitted to the state on saturday alongside recounted totals from all the other counti...

Are more votes to count. in the florida senate race we are going it looks like to a second recount. there was the machine recount that almost all the counties finished today, but rick scott, after that recount -- after that machine recount, he appears to lead democratic incumbent bill nelson by less than 13,000 votes and that is definitely close enough for there to be yet another statewide recount. this time not a machine recount. this time it will be ballots being counted by hand. so elections officials will be looking for ballots that the machines might have had trouble reading because a vot...

Recount all votes. one crucial county started counting just a few minutes ago. cnn's rosa flores is in broward county, joining me now. rosa, the question all along has been can they meet the deadline? what is the latest you're hearing right now? >> you know, kate, if what i'm about to tell you sounds as clear as mud, it's because it is as clear as mud. as you mentioned, broward county just started recounting, but they stopped sorting to start recounting, but they're not saying exactly when they're going to go back to sorting because they have to finish the sorting before they can finish the re...