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Fewer people to vote? voter fraud issue over and over you have been covering this for a listening time has proved to be a red herring. >> absolutely has and according to the secretary of state's office they're trying to get more people to register to vote and he said the office has registered more people than any other time and finding more people than ever also rejected. so again, some people say there's a racial opponent. aclu will ask the court for remedy and people rejected by mail ballots, nobody tells them. >> you think you voted. >> exactly. they're saying the court should force the cou...

That the second largest county in georgia where more than 60% of the residents are minorities, nearly 1 in 10 of those mail-in ballots rejected and that's almost 12 times the reject rate of anywhere else in the state. people are coming to the assumption they said we think that this is voter suppression. >> right. >> and people said to me they call it racial discrimination. >> right. we have a complicating factor in georgia is that a person running for governor is the person running the elections. >> he is. if abrams were elected she would be a first female black governor in the country. stacy ...

60-65% left, but a lot of people who did stay. there were tens of thousands of people who did evacuated, and that meant long lines of cars and trucks at gas stations, a lot of pumps frequently running out of gas. there was certainly a heavier outbound traffic heading north, east, and west from the coastline last night at 7:00. in florida state university up in tallahassee, there is no class all the way until next week. a lot of parents came in, bringing their students out of there. empty store shelves. that is the norm at every grocery store and hardware store all the way from pensacola right ...

They have senile a lot of hurricanes and flooding but everyone is really fearing that this one is going to be a really bad one, probably not as bad since hurricane ivan 14 years ago. long lines of cars getting gas. gas stations running out again. and long lines for people to get cash at banks because, after the hurricane, there is no power. cash is king. shep? >> shepard: governor has been all over the panhandle today, phil. >> he has. pretty much starting this morning at 8:00 in the morning. he has been going county by county by county. every hour having another press conference. speaking dir...

And inland and to the northeast including tallahassee and beyond. mark bowen is with us. he is the chief of emergency services for the bay county board of county commissioners, bay county includes panama city and ban that city beach. sir, good to talk to you. thank you. >> yes, sir. good to talk with you. >> shepard: you guys getting ready? >> we are. and i tell you how you can help us, shepard. but really be a great help. we asked a great many of our population to evacuate. >> wwe did so with plenty of time for them to get out of here. we have not gotten the response that we need to see for t...