african-american base of the democratic party. you cannot overstate the impact of the african-american voters right here. it s called the black belt in alabama because of the rich topsoil. whether in montgomery, tuscaloosa, up here in huntsville, that was the huge margin. selma, relatively small county. came in at just the right time, tow. 75 to 25. in dallas county where selma is, that put doug jones in the game. and look at this. i want to show you something. this is shelby county. these are the suburbs just outside. birmingham. roy moore won with 55%, 56% of the vote. let s go back in time when he last ran for chief justice. 63% of the vote here. so his support is down. obviously some crossed over to vote for doug jones. as we go for a recount here, the margin here, 21,300 write-in
instructions about write-in ballots. those people away from roy moore. those are people looking to use another name because they can t stomach, you know, voting for roy moore. then some roy moore defenders will come out. december 12th when there is nothing else on the ballot, expected to be low turnout, you can expect them to be motivated. there is a chance jones wins because the write-in votes take votes away from moore. but then again roy moore still has a very good shot. just very quickly, what donald trump said yesterday made it much, much more difficult as a republican to have a chance. there you go. chris cillizza, a.b. stoddard, thank you. we have video you must see. a north korean soldier is trying to escape into south korea. running for his life, getting shot at while doing so. north korean troops then violate the truce that ended the
playing out. maggie hassan is opening a sizable lead over kelly ayotte. you see here with the wmur poll. hassan with 46% of the vote. clinton has a double digit lead in that state. that has republicans worried about losing control of the senate. early voting is under way in many states. including utah where voters are clearly looking for other options to clinton and trump. take a look here. you see some of the write-in ballots in salt lake county. look at that. bernie sanders and the name mitt romney. those names keep popping up. both candidates want more things made in america. we re not going let our companies be raided by other companies where we lose our jobs and don t make our product anymore. it is very sad. we will pull the country together. we will have trade agreements we enforce. that is why i will have a trade
gripping a huge part of the country right now. hot and hotter. that s what the national weather service says that we can expect for the next several days, and you need it know this. at least 16 states under heat advisories or warnings today. adding to the misery, nearly 2 million people without electricity in the d.c. area and surrounding states. deadly storms battered that area over the weekend killing at least 16 people. our brian todd is outside in that heat in the d.c. suburb of wheaton, maryland. brian, what s the biggest problems you re seeing right now? reporter: right now the rush hour is officially over, but really it s not over. one of the biggest problems in this area is traffic snarl. hundreds of traffic lights are out. there s one over here on randolph road just a couple hundred yards up from us now where they are trying to get people through that light. people say treat this like a four-way stop. every stop around here treat it like a four-way stop. this one j
campaign carl cameron is at a ron paul rally in newton, iowa. one thing you can say is they love him deeply. reporter: arguably a third of the crowd was media. ron paul got the attention of the national press with his position in iowa. there are some polls that show he s in front, there are some polls that show mitt romney is in front. as you said, the idea really is to get people out of the polls. it s worth recognizing the 7:00 caucuses will last at least an hour of speeches there. then they dough write-in ballots. ron paul recognizes that, and this morning he made the argument or just a little while ago he made the argument with folks go with status quo the country will lose.