sometimes just the decision to vote can make a guy very, very, very, very suddenly popular. people, democratic party calling, everybody calling, coming to the door. on my way up here today, the cell phone is ringing off the hook. you wanted to go hiking. but then you went and voted and now everybody is calling. this is what is like right now in one part of virginia where the race is so close, and the rules about how to count the vote are changing while the counting is happening. individual voters are being plucked out of their normal lives and planned hiking trips to come back to the elections office and do work to try to make their vote count. there is a midnight deadline on this. the work is going on now. a weird, developing story. we have the latest in just a moment. vo: two years of grad school.
being better to each other, how we can better communicate with one another, how we can make the community better. reporter: and that was sanford police chief cecil smith reacting to yesterday s protests here in sanford, florida. again, everybody calling for peace, everybody calling for calm after this verdict came down. michaela? alina, i m curious, we see chief smith there talking about the need for the city and the community and the nation as a whole to go new directions. i m curious what community leaders there are doing specifically, what tangible programs or messages they are putting out to keep the peace there in sanford. well, they were working on this well before the verdict. they had several pastors from churches actually sitting in in the courtroom actually listening to the trial so they can go back and educate their congregations. now that the verdict has come down, they ve renewed their calls for peace and calm. and we also know that they re going to be there are se