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President-elect donald trump promised to tackle illegal immigration, in part, by building a wall and tightening border security. nbc's gadi schwartz joins us from mcallen, texas. what are you hearing as you make your way along the border there with mexico? >> reporter: well, a lot of the people out here, they're waiting to see what's going to happen. we've been driving for two days. i want to give you a geographic look. this is a huge flood plane. that is not a border wall. that is a flood wall. if you walk this way, you've got this levee here and then all that brush. this is the rio grande. t...

45-44. earlier this month, we had her up by three. in north carolina though, this was the big -- would have been a big story this morning pre-fbi. north carolina, clinton up six, 47-41. north carolina is clinton's best shot at winning a state. president obama lost in 2012. what's interesting is i feel like it gives you a status of the race where we were going in. north carolina in particular, the early vote, everything, she may have already built up a flood wall. >> she's even with all this in pretty good shape. maybe it will tighten and help the down ballot republicans. the other thing people...

North carolina, clinton up six, 47-41. north carolina is clinton's best shot at winning a state. president obama lost in 2012. what's interesting is i feel like it gives you a status of the race where we were going in. north carolina in particular, the early vote, everything, she may have already built up a flood wall. >> she's even with all this in pretty good shape. maybe it will tighten and help the down ballot republicans. the other thing people are missing is early on she created what i call the 38 latitude lock. colorado over to virginia. put them away. now trump could win florida and oh...

7 million people in 15 states are under flood warnings, this as floodwaters are peaking near parts of illinois but are starting to approach some structures in memphis, tennessee. let's bring meteorologist tom satyr into the equation here. which areas downstream are going to be hit likely next? >> well, south of st. louis is cape girardeau in the boot he'll. from there southward things will get interesting because there are so many rivers that continue to feed the mighty mississippi and one of those in particular is of course the arkansas river, which is flooding a number of areas. so as far as...

A great relief to the travel evers. this is the meramec river which got up to 24 feet above flood stage. four feets higher thab it has ever been. you can see the front end loader there moving the water the around trying to get the sediment from sticking to the pavement. all of this water is heading down the mississippi river. and once it reaches there, it is going to be meet iing a swollen mississippi river, and it is a record crest along the mississippi river, and along the illinois and missouri border. and down at the town of cape girardeau, and near to a arkansas border, and the river there...