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He work with the parkland kids religiously for their cause against stand your ground. bernie sanders came in, campaigned late. how did this happen? >> i think you hit it kpchlt right. you saw maybe a late surge but at the end of the day this was a big surprise. i think it happened for two reasons. progressives came out and voted, young progressives specifically and huge turnout in african-american communities in the state of florida. jacksonville, tallahassee, orlando, broward county, this is where gillum picked up major votes. you look at the early volt, graham was winning but when the electi...

Jacksonville, tallahassee, orlando, down to broward county. gillum picked up votes. when the election day vote came in you saw the big surge for gillum. >> is it true he won miami? did that offset the ratios? i think the state county over county is just about 30% african-american. he was playing to population centers not just the black vote. >> he was definitely playing to population centers. miami dade is another great example where if you look at the early vote the former mayor of miami beach won in the early vote. when election day vote came in gillam overtook him. >> this is that bernie sa...

Day. >> tremaine, describe the crowd that's out there today marching in solidarity in the memory of dr. martin luther king. >> from the very beginning early this morning, what began with a few hundred pretty quickly turned to a few thousand. i was at the american federation for state county municipal employees, union workers, proud union workers who all gathered in front of the headquarters, thousand of them. i want to bring in someone. how are you doing? >> good, how are you? >> i know came from los angeles. >> i thought it was important. it shows the close relationship between civil rights a...

Stuck in permanent gridlock it is falling on our state and local governments to try to pick up the slack. look at the potential 2016 pool, we have a lot of governors and former mayors on the list. managers across the nation are looking to each other for guidance to find out what others are doing to learn what works and doesn't work. enter route 50 that's a new website that connects local lessgs lors. the use of aerial drones and even uber these are all common challenges and with budgets being squeezed removing that learning curve is absolutely vital to making things work at the local level. mi...

The medical examiner conducted the autopsy there, a common procedure at the time. >> state county did not have a centralized morgue. and what they did have were contracts with various funeral homes that would act as morgues. >> the medical examiner concluded that frankie died of massive trauma, the result of the hit-and-run accident. >> there was nothing to show otherwise, that it was other than a hit-and-run, due to the nature of the injuries that were reported by the m.e. >> but despite the autopsy report, investigators were troubled. they thought some of the elements of the accident scene l...