and cnn polling shows warnock has a slight edge over herschel warn warnock. walker greeted supporters outside a college football game. more than 1 opinion 8 million people had cast their ballot by friday. many standing in long lines to take part in early voting. officials say there s a chance we may not know the outcome of the race on tuesday night. here s what one official told pamly brown. we re preparing for it being a very tight race. i anticipate we may not know on tuesday night. it really depends because it s up to the voters and they re showing up in droves. for the latest on this race, let s take you live to eva
trailer barrelling towards them, unable to stop. look at this. a quick thinking pickup driver manages to back up into the suv behind him. that move created enough extra space for the tractor trailer to maneuver around the bus and avoid hitting anyone. amazing. the pickup driver now hailed a hero. i look up and i realize there was a a tractor-trailer heading down my way head on. i had to do what i had to do to protect myself and the kids. it was one of those moments where you realize things can happen in an instant. the big rig driver was able to stop about a quarter mile down the road. later telling police his brakes had gone out. the next hour cnn newsroom starts right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. i m pamly brown in the washington.
pamly brown is part of the team that broke this story and joins me now. reporter: our team has learned that during the same time michael flynn was cooperating with robert mueller s investigators, he contacted at least one member of congress that we know of who had been publically critical of the probe. that s florida congressman matt gates. he sent a couple of direct messages to gates over twitter saying, quote, you stay on top of what you are doing. your leadership is so vital for our country right now. keep the pressure on! that message was sent april 2018. that s the same evening, anderson, that gates appeared on fox news sharply criticizing the mueller probe. congressman gates says he didn t respond to the messages from flynn and did not have a prior relationship with him, anderson. do we know i mean, at this point if gates was the only member of flynn that reached out to? reporter: we don t know that. it couldn t be learned if flynn reached out to other members of the cong