A look at Mississippi election facility as the race leans Democratic
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[0:02] Welcome back to CBS News 247. I'm
[0:04] Elizabeth Cook. The Senate midterm race
[0:07] in deep red Mississippi is leaning
[0:09] toward Democrat Scott Column. And as of
[0:12] right now, 99% of the vote is in. Column
[0:16] is the lead against is in the lead
[0:17] against Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde
[0:19] Smith by less than 5,000 votes. But the
[0:22] timer is on to get those votes counted
[0:24] as all of Mississippi's 82 counties need
[0:27] to submit their certified election
[0:29] results by Friday. Let's go live now to
[0:32] CBS News senior national correspondent
[0:33] Mark Stman who is live at an election
[0:36] facility in Hines County, Mississippi.
[0:38] Mark, Mississippi looks like it could
[0:40] elect its first Democrat to the Senate
[0:43] since 1992.
[0:45] Why has this race been so tight?
[0:48] >> Yeah, it's certainly trending that way.
[0:50] Uh Liz, uh you know, Lyn Manuel Miranda
[0:52] wrote a song called for Hamilton called
[0:54] In the Room Where It Happened. And in
[0:55] Heis County, this is the room where it
[0:57] happened. These are voting machines.
[0:59] O