And i thing we have news frumt our joe friar. reporter: do you guys hear snee. whautsz tlr news you got there? again this is north of jacksonville. reporter: that s right. so jacksonville s obviously been getting hit earlier than other areas of the storm. keep in mind jacksonville is not right on the like many other places are. despite that we re still seeing strauj storm and despite that they re concerned with flooding because this is a community long the river and it s expected. it s going to be a lot of a rain for these people to handle.
Roots, and the state i.d., and may become the front-runner for the senate seat in 2016. and val demmings, currently running for mayor of orange county, there on the i-4 corridor. she was a social worker who joined the orlando police force, worked her way up to cheese. she ran for congress from florida s 10th district in 2012, lost a close race. so there you have it. three ds, three rs to look at. and with me to discuss these three rising stars is joy reed, and before she came to us, she was a columnist, i first started to get to know her had she was writing columns for the miami herald. they re our rising stars. break them down for us, joy. of the democrats, who do you think will make the biggest splash first? i think of the democrats, brown is interesting because of where he is. so jacksonville, where we ve had a lot of controversy over court cases, that is actually where
The prosecutor in the trayvon martin case came from, the special prosecutor, and it s also where we just had the jordan davis case. so jacksonville has been a lot in the news. it s an interesting mix of north florida and kind of the politics that are across that state. and brown won in he came in second in a six-man runoff, and he actually got that seat by appealing to republicans who didn t want to vote for the tea party alternative. so he s got a little bipartisan kred. he was in the clinton administration, so the backing of the clintonistas. and gwen graham is already. bob graham, beloved in the state. she s trading on the family name. and then val demmings, because there isn t a huge bench of african-american potential sort of candidates that could elevate to the statewide position, but orange county, you understand, right, through the i-4 corridor, orlando becoming very important in statewide elections. she s got an uphill battle. it s two women running, the
The big star we hear the most is alvin brown. he s the current mayor of jacksonville. he s a rare type of politician. north florida democrat. when brown was elected in 2011, he became jacksonville s first democratic mayor in 20 years, first african mayor in city history, and you did it by winning support from the republicans in the business community. warden getting a reputation for working across party lines. who knows? maybe he runs on charlie crist s ticket, or alone in 2018. next up, gwen graham, running for congress in florida s 2nd district, a north florida seat. for that reason, she ll have a tough time to win that seat. but if she does and then expect her as somebody with her own famous family name, of course, the daughter of former governor and florida senator bob graham. if she can win that seat, she ll have the best of both worlds, a seat in north florida, along with our dad s south florida
You notice the worst was definitely along the appalachians heading north up into west virginia. this morning there s no severe weather left. the cold front is pushing down through florida. so jacksonville, you re done with your rain. it looks like the showers are now heading down toward daytona beach. eventually they ll go through the i-4 corridor during the morning rush hour. orlando to tampa and the disney complex, universal studios, be prepared. you re going to get rain early this morning. the rest of the country as i mentioned, a quiet day. as the cold front passed off the coast behind it, we have high pressure from texas through the great lakes. it s definitely cooler this morning than yesterday. it s not cold. it s going to be an enjoyable typical beginning of march-type day. windchills, they re at 17 in minneapolis. 14 in chicago. it s chilly this morning around d.c., too. your windchill s at 25. it s going to be brisk and windy early. this afternoon, though, it will be about pe