the lawsuit says it took a defibrillator to start his heart followed by surgery. now he s suing numerous state agencies and this comes days after the inspector general recommended significant changes to the emergency alert system in light of that mistake in hawaii. shepard: trace gallagher reporting live from l.a. mississippi just elected a woman to congress for the first time. the republican senator cindy hyde-smith defeated mike espy in a run-off. the new number is 53-47 in the congress. peter doocy has more. shep, with the hyde-smith win, the gop majority is beefed up. so now some of the republican moderates in washington d.c. that take a long time to make up their mind ahead of key votes have less leverage.
hyde-smith thanked the president for his help. she took the first flight from jackson to d.c. she said she s not concerned about mississippi residents that said she don t think she will represent them. wait and see. they know me. this is not my first race, this is the sixth race i have won. i ve been on the ballot five times before this. mississippians know me. other people turn it to something that it s not. they don t believe it. they know who i am. i ve been around awhile and i have a long, very good history. but the democratic candidate, mike espy thinks there s some scar tissue in this state because everybody has strong opinions about whether hyde-smith was joking about public hangings. she has my prayers as she goes to washington to unite a divided mississippi. the governor that appointed hyde-smith says he thinks the bad press about her helped