reporter: to say the campaign is cautious about too much optimism is an understatement. they have been hitting the pavement all day doing get out the vote at seven different stops in addition to the one you saw him at. you talk to political watchers here and everybody thinks it s very, very close. he could get just over 50% of the vote but his number two opponents in his race haran an aggressive campaign after this residency issue was resolved. once the supreme court put that to rest, the campaign has largely turned on rahm emanuel s character and is he what his opponent calls a pathological evader of the truth. his washington ties, et cetera. they stepped up negative attacks. emanuel is focused on a plan to close this debt and his plans for the city. so he s still polling well ahead but no one thinks this one is a certainty. he s expected to come out on top
talked to all said the same thing. it wasn t the sheer amount of water, it was the speed in which the water came into their homes, rushed down their streets, came into these neighborhoods. i m on a block here, i can tell you, i ve talked to eight different homeowners. none of the homes in this particular block right now are salvageable. everyone has had to leave the homes. they ve taken all their valuables with them. the insurance adjustors are coming. they re going to try to rebuild here. that s the scene across much of columbia, south carolina. i want to give you a look right now, high above the devastation. this is not far from where i m standing in the same neighborhood near gil s creek, one of the many creeks and tributaries here that overflowed. and you can see what a lot of folks have spent much of their day doing, pulling furniture and clothes and valuables outside of the house for the trash trucks to come along and take them away, so they can get in there and start to try, and