together. and it was so close in florida, as i mentioned, six races had to be recounted. 8 and a half or 8.2 million floridians voted. in the senate race, scott wins by 10,000 vote and in the governors race, desantis wins by 32,000. jon: both of those squeakers. thank you very much. a fox news alert now on another big story we are following. the wildfires raging at both ends of california. they been burning for more than a week now. most devastating when the so-called camp fire in the northern part of the state which destroyed the town of paradise. here is a magnitude of the horror so far. the wildfires have claimed the lives of 79 people. staggering 1300 people are still listed as missing. more than 125,000 acres have burned. along with more than 1300 structures. we are going to malibu with
turnout in the midterm election is about six million voters. the high watermark in the presidential election is almost nine million. we had 8.2 million people show up and vote in the midterm election here in the state of florida and voted in the race for governor. i will tell you, we fought hard. i went to every single hard of this state. we left it all on the field, and that was my commitment to leave it all on the field. and what i think mr. desantis certainly should know coming out of this election is that basically the difference between us and an 8.2 million person is elect elect electorate is a rounding error. i hope that he takes that to mean that he s got to be willing and open to hearing from half of the state, half of the people in my state who had a different vision around where we wanted to go. i want to stay just for a moment with the results. you mentioned the polls, and
mueller s questions. the pathway narrowing for the democrats to win recounts in florida. a hand recount is ordered for governor rick scott and democrat bill nelson. republican ron desantis declared victory after a machine recount did not help andrew gillum narrow the gap. that race effectively over which leaves democrats hoping for a miracle in the senate race where governor scott leads by less than 13,000 votes out of 8.2 million cast. senator nelson dealt another blow by the court ruling in scott s favor. a federal judge ruling guidelines for voter intent are constitutional. most florida counties did file the recounts on time. a few did not. including one heavily democratic county. the county finished counting by two minutes after the deadline.
8.2 million votes cast. senator nelson dealt another blow by the court ruling in scott s favor. a federal judge ruling guidelines for voter intent are constitutional. most florida counties did file the recounts on time. a few did not. including one heavily democratic county. the county finished counting, but missed the deadline by mere minutes. cnn s jessica dean as more from florida. reporter: good morning, dave and christine, from palm beach where they hope to get started on the hand recount today. let s zoom out and give you the big picture across florida. they will go through a hand recount for the incredibly close .15% senate race which was triggered yesterday. in palm beach county, they were one of three counties that did not get the second recount numbers in. here in palm beach, they blamed
may be kicked out. we may see action on that soon. charging is one thing. extradition is another battle. hadas, thank you. the investigation is weighing on the president heavily this week. he met with his lawyers three times this week to talk about the responses to robert mueller. the trump legal team is wary of mueller s questions. rudy giuliani describing some of them as quote possible traps. the pathway is narrowing for the democrats to win recounts in florida. a hand recount is ordered for the senate race and the republican governor rick scott and democratic incumbent bill nelson. republican ron desantis declared victory after a machine recount did not help andrew gillum narrow that race. the race is effectively over which leaves democrats hoping for a miracle in the senate race where governor scott leads by less than 13,000 votes out of 8.2 million votes cast. senator nelson dealt another blow by the court ruling in scott s favor. a federal judge ruling