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By democrats to try to push a vote on the successor to justice kennedy until after the midterm it is. obviously, that was the strange new standard set by senator mcconnell when justice scalia died and they didn't want president obama to name a successor and democrats are going to try to insist that the same standard will be followed and not hearings or a vote on this new nominee until after the midterm elections and could put the senate in democratic's hands. >> you nail it had in the beginning, you said this is a power problem. democratsen don't control the sthaet or t-- senate or the judicia...

Going to try to insist that that same standard be followed and that there not be hearings or a vote on this new nominee until after the midterm election wiz could conceivably, conceivably put the senate in democratic hands. what do you make of that as a strategy? >> i mean you nailed it in the beginning, rachel, when you said this is a power problem. democrats don't control the senate, they don't control the judiciary committee. so i think that you're right and senator murphy is right to say that this is not going to be something that senate democrats can do on their own. they are going to nee...

You have to imagine how many people are still wondering when and where they're going to get to their destination. besides the power problem now we're dealing with a fog issue in atlanta and throughout the south. 39 million people. one of the foggiest mornings i ever remember from dallas, san antonio. shreveport, quarter mile, san antonio, quarter mile. careful. give yourself extra time driving. this will have airport implications, too. not a lot of cold on the map. no one is complaining about that. highs are 10 to 20 degrees above average. much of the country is dealing with rainy weather, dri...

Hill. how complaints are made and how settlements are made, and who knows about them, most importantly, clear in this reporting done by buzzfeed and it opens new questions about how the settlements are paid out once they are reached. and this reporting coming from buzzfeed opens up a new area, a fact that that $27,000 worth of settlements reached with conyers office was paid out of his office's budget and not the u.s. treasury, and that opens up many more questions. we have reached out to conyers office and pelosi's office and have not heard back. >> thank you. puerto rico's power problem ha...

Let me see if we can walk over and quickly look at that. there's quite a few of them here. you can see the lights going there. but what's important about where we are, this is one of the staging areas for the linemen and those who trim the trees so that people who are wut power can have their power come back on. we've already seen some transformers blowing here. we've also seen the lights go off and on in the streets. but there are dozens of linemen here ready to go out as soon as the winds die down and start taking care of that power problem that is across florida. don? >> sara, be safe, than...