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Patients are dead. 115 others evacuated. They suffered for days with no air conditioning in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Why a criminal investigation is now under way. Well get to those stories in a moment. We start with the 2016 campaign that almost was. Bernie sanders and President Donald Trump one hour from now both are scheduled to appear from the cameras. Both trying to build coalitions for legacybuilding projects. For sanders its universal health care. For the president its a tax reform package. While sanders is delivering red meat to the base of the Democratic Party, the president may be making his own base a bit nervous with more outrage to democrats. Lets start this hour with our nbc reporters Peter Alexander at the white house, kasie hunt over on ....
Michigan, trump only won by four points. reichert, clinton actually won this district, republicans were praying he d stay in that seat because this is already pretty close to being a democratic district, take him out of there huge opportunity for democrats. so those kinds of retirements, again, the magic number it s 24. democrats need to flip 24 seats to get the house. republicans with these retirements in the last week just put three more up there, already had a couple others here, ross slayton down in florida, that s a huge clinton district, take her out of there, a big one for democrats too. this is the thing they re keeping an eye on. how many more of these retirements are going to come. 24, that s the magic number, right? yep. 24 for democrats to take control of the house. steve kornacki at the big board. always enjoy seeing you there. thank you. thanks, craig. coming up, a tale of two sanders. on the left, sarah huckabee sanders, the white house press secretary standing ....