but you know this morning we ve got to start with the race to the finish line. just four days before the highly anticipated midterm elections, this is a positive. more than 24 million people have already cast their ballots. our great team of road warriors this morning is on the races and the voters that are going to decide this election. let s head straight to texas. that is where senator cruz and candidate o rourke are america in neck in the polls. nbc s garrett haake is in ft. wor worth, texas. we ll get the first chance to see what ted cruz is up to. ted cruz is campaigning around the dallas-ft. worth metroplex. he ll be on the other side of the city. then heading down to the college station area, home of texas a&m. might find some younger conservative voters down there.
policy in political press. not only did i not back down on a tax cut, i doubled down and added detail for rational. rubio s tweet suggesting the article was misleading as part of the senator s efforts to tone down his criticism of the new tax cuts from earlier this week. unfortunately, the move raised the eyebrow of a former intern in the process, one monica lewinsky who responded, blaming the intern is so 1990s. no word yet on how much ice was required for the senator s burn. let s get a check now on your weather with nbc meteorologist. a lot of fun news stories. fun, complicated. call what you may. exactly. storms this morning are erupt not guilty texas and in the dallas-ft. worth area. you have rain heading your way even heavy at times and the airport delays for takeoffs and landings. the big story today is the heat
emergency alert systems. tonight defense department can determine whether a real ballistic missile is inbounding. is there anything congress can do to fix this system? who knows what could happen if a blunder like this happens again? absolutely. this is very serious business. i m certain when we go back, that a panel will convene, that our committee will convene and look into what happened. it will be interesting to hear from the commanding generals and the commanding officers there in hawaii that exactly what happened and how we can stop it from happening again. when you think about the president of the united states saying things like rocket man and my button is bigger than yours, people are really concerned about what is happening in korea. i can tell you in 2001, i was a congressional staffer, working here for a member of congress in the dallas-ft. worth area.
quessenberry was drafted by the texans in 2013, but never played in a regular season game. he played in the preseason this year, but was cut and put on the practice squad, but now he s been activated by the texans and will be put on the field against the steelers on christmas day. dax prescott recently teamed up with a grocery chain to surprise a lucky customer with free groceries. and you almost guarantee that being in the dallas-ft. worth area the winner would be a cowboys fan, right? how you doing? oh, what are we doing?! . can i deliver your groceries? absolutely. you see there, her wearing a packers shirt. he was still glad he could put a smile on her face, and she was a true packers fan, she was still wearing that shirt and it wasn t even game day. it never gets old. never gets old. andy scholes, thank you very much for that smile. appreciate it, my friend. the house is set to revote soon on the big tax bill it is expected to pass. president trump has already
that must be to go through, but just one glimpse how people are doing in that part of beaumont, texas. dramatic video taking place with our anderson cooper. we ll get back to some of that throughout this hour. first, dire warnings from another part of texas. get out or die. that was one official s message to residents in tyler county, texas. we ll ask about that stark warning, and how his community is doing when we come back. first, every day heroes at work. a group of military veterans from the dallas-ft. worth area spent the past few days roving through flooded parts of point armer looking for people in need of being rescued. among countless volunteers answering the call during this difficult time. we ll be right back.