Can virginia voters help her stop a trump Super Tuesday sweep and keep her in this race . Tracking the protest vote. How the president s handling of the war in gaza could affect todays primary in minnesota. And big clues for a battleground. Why the race for governor in North Carolina could offer a preview of the president ial matchup. Our nbc News Reporters are fanned out across the country as millions head to the polls on the largest day of voting outside of the General Election. And we start in california where high stakes swing races could determine the Balance Of Power in congress. What are you hearing there . Reporter weve moved to downtown los angeles. Its a big, big day for california politics, but not so big when it comes to turnout. Something we were expecting on primary day. Its going to get very dark because this is, Black Box Theatre here, but come on in. This is where the Polling Location is. Most of the people weve seen today come in and drop off ballots. California does
hit the worst of ian. will tampa could be ground zero but we begin with chief meteorologist adam klotz weather center in new york with the latest track. good evening, adam. storm continuing to update in the models maybe moving just a little bit. a powerful storm currently a category 3 lifting up into the gulf of mexico, approaching florida and actually some of those outer bands as you said now stretching across all of the florida keys getting up into the sunshine state. that red polygon that is a toned warned storm typically see on the east side of the storm. tornado watch linger and lift its way up to the north see some of these more isolated tornadoes pop up. we have got plenty of advisories now stretching across the entire state and just in the last hour, the hurricane warnings have been updated now stretching all the way up into orlando as this track has slightly shifted maybe just a little bit to the south and little bit to the east. i will show you that here and we ar
carley: i m carley shimkus. it zeroes in on the midterms looking to boost democrat candidates for spending for the entire country. todd: after learning about this wholesale inflation notching a painfully high 8.5% in september and we are expecting some other numbers to come out and about four and a half hours. kevin corke live in washington with more. i love how excited you get when you get a chance to talk a little business, my friend. good morning to the both of you and sometimes you ve got to go to the golden state to pick up a little bit of gold and of course that means a well-timed trip to california with the midterms around the corner, it s pretty much what the doctor ordered. unfortunately for democrats and in particular the biden white house, this trip comes as a party is being blamed for border insecurity. take los angeles for example. homicide rates way up. robberies come of the same story. violent crime, are you kidding me? up 11.6%. add to that, how about wh
we question joe biden s utility to any candidate much less a democrat that struggling against the republican. but our voters in oregon, specifically in portland, finally waking up to the negative impact that far left policies have on crime, on homelessness and the like, and prepared to vote those people out of office in 26 days? i think you see the results in the polling. you ve never seen a republic in in, what is it, 40 years that has been this close to being able to win that seat, and, you know, we ve always been less fortunate here in linn county. we haven t had the ability to have much of a say when it comes to the governor s race. you have to have the people in portland and the bigger cities in the area who are tired of it too. todd: we thank you so much for your time. looking forward to seeing what happens in a couple of weeks.
forward. cnn s senior national correspondent miguel marquez following all of this from brooklyn, new york. so, miguel, in a time when democrats have in many races been tough on police and policing, he s setting really a much different tone. reporter: yeah, it is the vegan ex-cop against the founder of the guardian angels, who is a cat lover as well. typical new york politics. they are both going after the meat and potato political messages on crime, on housing, on homelessness, all the big issues facing new york. look, and for a democrat in new york not to win, that would be a stunning reversal from what everybody expects now. but i can tell you, at least in this one place, in downtown brooklyn, brooklyn borough hall, which should be a very, very busy voting precinct, it is not. there is very, very few voters who have been here so far today.