during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. we will cue it. we re now really 13 days outside these mid-terms. control of congress clearly hangs in the balance. we re in the homestretch, people fighting for the votes and have this record breaking early turnout. what does it mean? we re going to go to one of the national experts who s been exactly in this position 13 days out. michael steele, look around left, right, center. he s here in one second. michael stands by. over 12 million people have now voted. that smashes the turnout totals at this point in 2018, which was the first election since trump became president. you remember how energized people were then. i can only tell you what s happening as it happens. i can t predict. but right now as of tonight we re seeing huge intensity in these mid-terms. we re also seeing reaction in isthese big debates, pennsylvania senate, new questions for fetterman and the democrats,
running for governor there. also new this weekend, for president obama is now set a campaign in three critical states later this month. control of the senate, the biggest prize as both parties try to break what is effectively a current 50/50 split. early voting begins tomorrow in multiple battleground states as well as numerous senate and gubernatorial debates in the coming days. both sides are sending messages to the voters earlier today. i think the good policy is good politics. we have been doing the right thing for the american people with proposals that are they are popular because they make sense. we are phenomenal candidates. we re going to win races in a lot of places that you haven t seen. they are furious with biden and pelosi s far-left socialist agenda which has led to increased spending, increased inflation. those two will not get the final word. our team of reporters and analysts we start with nbc s monica alba at the white house with a closer look at
he has taking out billboards, but he s not running for president. sure. thank you, chris, as always. and thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. hazmat suits, paramedics, firefighters at the ballot box. today authorities in adams county colorado right next to denver found investigating a ballot they received an envelope containing a suspicious, powdery substance. it is crazy on its face that we are at a point here were someone trying to harm election workers is even within the realm of possibility. but what makes this story truly remarkable is how the adams county clerk is handling all of this. back in may, he told abc news that threats he and his fellow election workers were facing were so bad that he was wearing a bulletproof vest to work. and he was not alone. election workers in multiple colorado counties underwent active shooter training, and started wearing their own bulletproof fasts because of the threats that have been pouring in as a result of the
well. we have our team here to help us figure it out and how voters might interpret all of these numbers. we have four days left and fresh polling underscoring the edge republicans have on enthusiasm ahead of the final messaging blitz from democrats. hitting the airwaves this morning with four days left until election day. thank goodness that the republicans are finally at the table wanting to talk about crime. it s not something that we should only talk about during political season. they want a common purpose, a common mission and that s what we re doing. we have a stark choice between somebody is here with a career who served pennsylvania, compared to somebody who is here to use pennsylvania. we ll get to all of that coming up. and it s the looming political earthquake many have been waiting for, anticipating. 2022 is not even over yet, but the former president s inner circle is eyeing a 2024 announcement in the coming days, more on that reporting in moments. m
for that baby. she wanted to be a mom. this wasn t somebody thinking about suicide. exactly. it made me wonder was he a murderer? you are trying to prove a murderer with pretty much no evidence. correct. is he kind of gloating he got away with it? he is thinking, well, catch me if you can. we are going to do her and her family justice. we are going to solve this murder. hello, and welcome to dateline . meg purk was a young mom to be, over the moon to be having her first child. then, just days before her due date, she died of an apparent suicide. her family struggled to understand why, but in a strange twist, a house fire set decades later would point to a possible answer and put investigators on a trail towards the truth. here is josh mankiewicz with secrets from the grave . wander through any graveyard, and you will find them, mysteries etched in stone. lives cut tragically short by war, disease, misfortune, and sometimes murder. many who arrested in