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>> greta: alaska is on pins and needles not knowing who is the republican nominee for the senate. is it sarah palin-backed joe miller or sitting senator lisa murkowski? it's still neck and neck. state officials are starting to count the 23,000 absentee and provisional ballots. joining us joe miller who is inches ahead of lisa murkowski for the republican nomination. good evening, sir. >> good evening, greta. thank you for having me. >> greta: thank you for joining us. give me an update in terms of what the numbers are. i assume you're following them closely. >> we are. we have 1700 votes now. ...

>> greta: alaska is on pins and needles not knowing who is the republican nominee for the senate. is it sarah palin-backed joe miller or sitting senator lisa murkowski? it's still neck and neck. state officials are starting to count the 23,000 absentee and provisional ballots. joining us joe miller who is inches ahead of lisa murkowski for the republican nomination. good evening, sir. >> good evening, greta. thank you for having me. >> greta: thank you for joining us. give me an update in terms of what the numbers are. i assume you're following them closely. >> we are. we have 1700 votes now. ...

One is close. i think you saw the tally counts, put those back up again, you see 93,000 votes were cast in this race and right now, joe miller, the challenger to the incumbent lisa murkowski, is up about 1500 votes. there are 23,000 outstanding votes right now, and joe miller is hoping to protect his lead, even though his campaign didn't do a lot of the advanced work for absentee ballots that more established incumbents often do. of the 23,000 votes, 16,000 of the absentee ballots and 11,000 have come insofar. the thinking goes this could benefit murkowski because she had a more established ca...

We'll continue to update the story throughout the morning. deadly 72 hours for u.s. troops in afghanistan. 11 more are dead in addition to the seven killed last weekend. overnight, a roadside bombing in eastern afghanistan left four soldiers dead and another seven died in separate attacks late yesterday near kandahar. nato warning of higher casualty rates as troops push into more taliban-controlled territory. starting today, alaska election officials will count more than 15,000 absentee ballots and nearly 10,000 question ballots in the republican senate race between senator lisa murkowski and ...