so far because folks in florida love mail-in balloting, 125,000 votes have been cast absentee and early voting. so far it looks like in terms of the ballots that have been returned, advantage to the republicans. the question, will that be enough to push david jolly over the top? what we re seeing in ground on election day is very low turnout. in fact the supervisor of elections in pinellas county says only 2.6% of registered voters have shown up today so far. that was as of 10:00 this morning. also unknown, among those early and absentee ballots how many will crossover for the other party and how many votes the libertarian candidate, lucas overby grab from either side? it will be a very, very tight race. we should know soon after 7:00 tonight who wins. we should point out in this particular precinct which is split evenly between republican, democrat and no party affiliation, only 35 people have shown up so far today. jon? jon: wow. 35. that is off year election.
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is now history, dead from cancer. we look back on the career of joe pa. anchorman, veteran newsman, dan rather talks politics and the media. this is all a part of the dance of democracy, america style. sex surrogate. a 67-year-old grandmother says she is paid to have sex with men as therapy. you are getting paid for sex. i m not getting paid for sex. her story inspiring a controversial movie. that and more right here right now on cnn. i m daon lemon. severe weather taking aim at a large part of the u.s. the worst of it might come in the overnight hours. who is at risk? we are looking at parts of arkansas right now. in the last three hours we have had about four reports of tornadoes. at this hour we have a confirmed tornado on the ground with this cell. storm spotters have confirmed that this is a large violent tornado causing damage. very dangerous situation unfolding. we have this line, this whole area surrounding the i 40 corridor between little rock and mem
jackie. you can see where the severe storms are hitting the united states. there have been a couple watches in places. even yesterday as i was in south carolina, watches all over that state. this is a new storm system. it s a vigorous one. something with this much energy for nighttime tornadoes is somewhat unusual. this is a rare event. it s particularly dangerous. we call it a pds watch. a lot of that because of the storm risk we have. there s a high level of certainty to have multiple tornadoes. some could be large and stay on the ground for a long period of time. the other thing that makes this dangerous is that this is happening at night. people are going to bed. you can t see what s going on. so you could be sleeping when the storms come on through. there you can see the watch area. eastern parts of arkansas and western tennessee. northern parts of alabama and even into the boot heel of missouri. the thunderstorms are initiating just to the west of little rock. the who