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>> reporter: in a brand-new plant in michigan, the future of ford is already rolling out. the all electric version of the f-150, the best selling vehicle in america with 150,000 orders now ford tells nbc news exclusively it is going all-in on electric, pledging that within nine years 40% of its fleet will be battery powered. 113 years after the model t first hit the road -- >> they're going to love it. >> reporter: -- henry ford's great grandson, chairman bill ford, says this is ford's new model t moment. >> because everything is changing. my great grandfather saw our industry five years ago, ...

Mississippi does not have a lot of these sort of big metropolitan suburban areas. you see a hint of it here. what you're seeing more broadly across the rest of the south, when i say desoto county, this is one of the biggest counties in the state. look at that jump for espy here. mississippi is just more rural than a lot of other states. desoto, what you saw in this county, you see it outside atlanta. you see it outside houston. you see it outside dallas. that could be the future for democrats in the south. not necessarily mississippi. that's always going to be a stretch. but the desoto countie...

Tonight's runoff. you see 54-46 right now. still a little bit of a vote coming in. this might even get a touch closer. mike espy the democrat here. democratic areas, heavily black areas along the miss miss river still coming in late. eight points, maybe a little bit less, will be the final margin in this thing. look, from the democratic standpoint they'll say this is the closest senate election in mississippi in at least 30 years. you've got to go back at least to 1988 to find when a democrat was even this close in mississippi. they were missing what democrats needed to get them over the top. ...

We look next door in alabama, those are the kinds of places where roy moore had slippage. none for cindy hyde-smith. it's enough for her to win, a high single digit for her in the red state. >> it continues the trend we've seen in gaga, alabama, now mississippi. democrats really closing the gap, really movie back into competitive postures there for the first time in many decades. >> that's the thing. mississippi does not have a lot of these sort of big metropolitan suburban areas. you see a hint of it here. what you're seeing more broadly across the rest of the south, when i say desoto county,...

Since the 1940s. outside memphis, they were racing to remove a car that poked out of the shrinking waters and was blocking river traffic. it had been quietly sitting on the river bottom for years. there its a lot at stake here. this river is the nation's artery of commerce. and the goods on these barges alone could fill more than 700 semi trucks and they're just sitting here. more than 500 tons of grain, coal and other goods move across the river every year. which means that every day products could soon cost families more. each day traffic stops, the u.s. economy loses $300 million. so they'r...