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Tried to put impeachment on the ballot in kentucky. and for the democrat to even make the race this close, we would be talking about it even if the democrat was coming in second. >> i think there are a couples things that happen. i think when you're a democrat and win a governor's race in kentucky a lot of things have to go right for you. there are two thing tuesday draw your attention to. one i've been talking about tonight is in the suburbs, on the other side of the ohio river there is cincinnati. these are suburbs of cincinnati, these three counties that jut out here. population-wise, they ...

I've noted from the start of this campaign that you often see so many people who are that interested in the race. iowa is a fairly small state population-wise. are all of those people just interested in local trenresiden interested in this campaign? >> reporter: in fact, something like this at the fish fry. right? or last night, the 10,000 folks in that arena. by and large these are very much of your traditional activists that are very much engaged in a very big way. coming in from places across the state. we're in cedar rapids now and i'm visiting with folks from towns across the greater nort...

Geographically, covering over a dozen states. pop-wise, this is over -- population-wise, this is over 1/3-thi of the population the u.s. these people are under excessive heat watches, warnings, advisories. some cities are going to be so hot, they're looking at record high temperatures. over 20 cities over the course of the weekend. you have to keep in mind, this isn't just the temperature itself. it's also the humidity. when you combine the two, you get what's called the heat index or feels-like temperature. it look at today. 105 will be the feels-like temperature for chicago. detroit, even sy...

You believe the federal government will need to give north of $100 billion? >> in the overall equation, the cost of this, if i understand it correctly, to rebuild katrina was over $120 billion. when you consider the magnitude of the size of this storm, it's far larger than could tria. both geographically and population-wise. when you look at the number of homes mowed down and destroyed, damaged, this is a huge catastrophe. this will take years to overcome in challenge. >> the waters are receding in texas, people are returning to their homes that have been devastated. only 15% of houses in harr...

And they want to have this extra spending that is actually greater than the amount they are willing to cut. it was not a serious proposal. so right now we are almost nowhere. >>reporter: the risk, the day after the election, speaker boehner put tax revenues on the table and he thought the president in exchange would come up with a lot more in terms of spending cuts to help speaker boehner sell this plan with his republicans who want the spending cuts at the end the news conference he said flatly, we are at a stalemate. that seems to be true. >>shepard: thank you, ed. the country that is suppos...