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Ballot workers. >> reporter: yeah, yasmin, we are at the beating heart of elections in philadelphia. we got a tour of this facility yesterday, saw the technology they will be using on election day, saw the security measures they'll be taking on election day. we have one of the ballot drop boxes, folks have been coming off and dropping off their ballots. philadelphia and pennsylvania, they don't have the sort of traditional early voting, but folks can bring their mail-in ballots here of about 150,000 ballots that have been sent out, about 80,000 of those have been returned. but the biggest diff...

At the new orleans superdome, that was super weird. about half of the stadium was lit. >> yeah. >> but then you actually say that was a good thing. why? >> yes. i mean, so basically, look, we're going to -- the security planning, i was down at the facility yesterday, the security planning is as it always s very serious, federal, state and local assets are deployed, they're looking at everything from cyber threats to obviously physical threats, vehicle threats, but they also have been doing a lot of planning around what would happen if something bad happened and that's what we have to think abo...

If i were president today, i would sign an executive order that would get rid of trump's zero tolerance policy, the remain in mexico policy, and the metering policy. this metering policy is basically what prompted oscar and valeria to make that risky swim across the river. >> i want to bring in emery sullivan and nick valencia who just went through the detention center in clint, texas. actually that foe o'of oscar and valeria ramirez and the situation in clint, texas, is the now. it's what's happening right now and what these candidates were asked about. before i go to anna maria about what sh...

Msnbc's jacob sobrov, he was there yesterday, and "new york times" miami bureau chief, patricia. we saw elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar visit the facility yesterday, as i said, bill deblasio is there right now. they didn't get into the immigration debate on stage so much. >> warren who visited yesterday, i was surprised she would not mention that. if you're going to go to the place the day of the debate it's so you can say earlier today i was at the center and this is what i saw. as you mentioned, they didn't go inside. lawmakers can set up a tour through hhs, which helps run the facility. ...

I'm being told right now it looks like the members of congress are just coming out of their tour. they were in there about an hour, which is about the time i got to spend in there, as well. sounds like a long time, but this is a massive facility. this campus is a former job force site, so we got to go into lots of rooms and see the dormitories, but it felt like we were rushed and briskly taken from room to room. i didn't talk to a single child in there, and i toured the centralized processing center in mcallen, texas, and i got to talk to people there. they didn't allow that here. now, marco r...