reporter: breaking news. wisconsin election officials will not be forced to count more than 3 million votes by hand. reporter: a judge county clerks get to decide how they will recounts those ballots. reporter: george and carole. the counties wants to use optical machines in the recounts. a judge heard testimony from a they said a hand count is need in wisconsin to insure the vote was counted correctly. the evidence would come from inspecting the ballots. the berkeley professor said the election was so close that even a smallerror, less than 1% in the machines would change the vote. does that mean if it s 99% accurate it c enough to affect the outcome of the election? the ballots are randomly tested for errors and so far they didn t find any in these election. the voting equipment accurately counted all the ballots. proof of tampering. the experts have said there is a chance that the machines could have been hacked or there are problems with the machines that th
mid 40s for today. we will become mostly cloudy by this afternoon with an isolated sprinkle possible. flurries and sprinkles are possible overnight and into thursday morning with lows in the low to mid 30s. incident freedry roadslight trafficspeeds at or above posteddrive times are on time a re-count of the november 8th election votes here in wisconsin will move forward. green party candidate jill stein - who asked for the recount - has raised 3.5-million dollars to pay for it.but the recount won t be done by hand - as stein s attorneys requested. pete zervakis is live with what happens now. green party attorneys wanted all 72 wisconsin counties to re-count their ballots by forward three academics who testified about the vulnerabilities of voting machines to tampering. the state argued there is no evidence of such tampering. and eventually. the judge denied the request. saying the green party attorneys did not show any mistakes or irregularities that would put a machine recou
now. in a word, my reaction is relief, and i suppose gratitude. brendan dassey could soon be a free man. but what about the victim? i m concerned about the family, the family of teresa halbach. now the ruling from the federal judge has many people talking tonight. it came down late this afternoon. brendan dassey was only 17 at the time he was ic uncle steven avery in the teresa halbach murder case. the 25 yald-year-old was one of five siblings and an aspiring photographer. she went missing after going to avery s auto shop to take pictures of a car. interrogation of dassey and his confession: why did you not tell us the truth from the beginning? reporter: in 2006, dassey was interviewed four times over 48 hours. he was an attorney at the time, and he had no adult and no attorney present. why didn t you tell me that? were you scared? reporter: detectives repeatedly told dassey he had nothing to worry about as long as he told the truth. that tactic attorne
who sees people of color only as voters. and what voters think of it. rotten eggs. skunk. garbage. joining me this sunday morning are andrea mitchell, nbc news s chief foreign affairs correspondent. hugh hewitt and joy reid. welcome to sundayit the press . announcer: from nbc news in washington this is meet the press with chuck todd. good sunday morning and we re happy to be back after a break for the olympics. how about team usa? worth the break to watch them dominate. let s state the obvious. it hasn t been a good week for either presidential candidate frankly or for the institution of american politics. a week that reagan with donald stating immigration and another and back on. the evolving do deport, don t deport statements confused the public and left his staff tongue tied at times. at the same time, the fbi discovered some 15,000 new clinton state department e-mails that will be released starting next month guaranteeing that issue will follow hillary cli
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