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Are? >> yeah, a big change from just two hours ago when these counties were experiencing, you know, moderate rain, the typical summer rains that people are used to. as you've been hearing the difference tonight is the torrential downpours that are overwhelming local and county systems, so we've heard about rescues in mercer and middlesex and closer to new york, around new york airport. up through trenton, up to new york and now into connecticut we're talking about some of the most populated areas in the united states. it is incredible that ida started in new orleans, started in grand aisle and...

And so, i think the voters of florida are entitled to hear what really happened, how far did it go, and were they able to access information in all those other 66 counties? >> and mark, you know, this was something that bill nelson warned about, because there are a lot of things that one could do if one could get into those rolls -- take people off the rolls, add people to the rolls. there are all sorts of things you could do once you're in there. bill nelson warned in 2018 that the people, that these county systems had been breached. he was mocked by rick scott, who wound up barely beating hi...

>> i think there's an ind intermediate step, we see it in florida, maryland, north carolina, where they've gone to county school boards, serving county systems. across the river from where we sit now, new jersey has about 600 school boards. and it's much -- it's just too many. and going to county operation, wouldn't take it away from the people but it might be more practical than what we have today. >> let's talk about, though, a little more about the flaws that you see in the system here. you think that things obviously could be done better. and that comes to electing board members that have ...

Poor district, and that is problem, ali, no federal system when it comes to education, and you have state systems and the county systems and then inner cities, so it is a different situation in connecticut from texas from illinois. so that is not all one. >> so, let's start with steve. let's look at a solution then. how do we deal with the fact that there are some schools working very well across the country, no question, performance rates have gone up, and some of them because the d kids are going the charter schools and some to magnet schools and some straight-up normally funded schools are ...