>> NOW, ELECTION DAY COVERAGE FROM KMBC 9 NEWS.
LARA: THE FIRST RESULTS ARE COMING IN FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN CHANCES.
WE HAVE 32% OF THE VOTES COUNTED AT THIS POINT.
WE SHOULD CAUTION YOU THAT IT IS EARLY ON IN THE VOTE COUNT.
GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.
KRIS: VOTES RE IN AND ACCOUNTING IS UNDERWAY.
LET US GO TO KMBC 9’S LEN JENNINGS.
LEN: FOUR YEARS AGO, STANDING IN THIS SPOT AFTER THE POLLS CLOSED, 10,000 VOTERS WENT THROUGH THE NORTHLAND CATHEDRAL FOUR YEARS AGO.
4500 VOTERS MOMENTS AFTER 7:00.
ELECTION WORKERS SAY THAT THINGS WENT VERY SMOOTHLY.
THEY WERE PREPARED FOR 10,000 VOTERS AND MADE 10,000 COOKIES AND THEY HAVE QUITE A FEW LEFT OVER.
REPORTING LIVE FROM NORTHLAND CATHEDRAL.
KRIS: WE SHOULD EXPECT THE FIRST RESULTS FROM JOHNSON COUNTY, KANSAS IN LESS THAN AN HOUR.
LARA: KMBC 9’S BRIAN JOHNSON HAS MORE FROM OLATHE.
BRIAN: OFFICIALS JUST PULLED THE FINAL BALLOT HERE FROM THE BOXES.
THEY BROUGHT THOSE IN AND ARE STARTING TO COUNT VERY QUICKLY.
IN PERSON TURNOUT WAS REALLY LOW THIS YEAR IN JOHNSON COUNTY BECAUSE THE MANY PEOPLE DID ADVANCE VOTING.
ROUGHLY 65,000 PEOPLE VOTED IN THE POLLS WHEREAS 265,000 PEOPLE VOTED IN ADVANCE.
THOSE RESULTS WILL BE POSTED ONLINE IN THE NEXT 10-15 MINUTES SO THAT WILL BE A BULK OF THE VOTES IN JOHNSON COUNTY.
MORE VOTES BY 8:00 AND FINAL RESULTS BY 10:00 SO STAY TUNED FOR THAT.
LARA: WILL BE WATCHING THOSE RESULTS CLOSELY.
KRIS: KMBC 9’S MICHEAL MAHONEY -- MICHEAL: SAME THINGS ARE LIKELY TO HAPPEN IN CLAY COUNTY, MISSOURI.
THERE WILL BE SOME INDICATORS FROM THE FIRST PRESENT BECAUSE THERE WAS SO MUCH ADVANCE VOTING.
FOR EXAMPLE, 60% OF JOHNSON COUNTY VOTED BEFORE TODAY AND SO THAT WILL GIVE US AN INDICATOR ON THE CONGRESSIONAL RACE.
60% OF THAT WILL BE IN PROBABLY BY 8:00 OR EARLIER.
AND THE ROGER MARSHALL CAMPAIGN IS EXPECTED RING THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE TO HAVE A BIG LEAD.
AND THE MARSHALL CAMPAIGN HOPES TO CHIP AWAY AT THAT AS THE NIGHT GOES ON.
CLAY COUNTY MAY HAVE A GOOD IDEA EARLY IF THE PROPOSED NEW CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT RADICALLY CHANGING THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT IS PASSING OR NOT.
EARLY BIG NUMBERS.
THEY MAY HAVE SOME SIGNIFICANCE.
KRIS: IN MISSOURI, THE BIGGEST RACE IS FOR GOVERNOR.
LARA: KMBC 9’S KELLY ECKERMAN HAS MORE FROM SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI.
REPORTER: THE WATCH PARTY IS ON HERE.
I JUST SPOKE TO THE GOVERNOR’S CAMPAIGN MANAGER ABOUT EXPECTATIONS.
>> WE ARE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THE MOMENTUM AND THE VOTER TURNOUT WE ARE SEEING SO WE ARE CLOSELY WATCHING AS THE ELECTIONS CLOSE AND THE POLLS CLOSE AND THE NUMBERS COME IN.
I DON’T WANT TO GIVE ANYTHING AWAY BUT WE ARE CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC.
KELLY: WE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING YOU LIVE REPORTS AS THE RESULTS COME IN.
KRIS: PARSONS CHALLENGER IS NICOLE GALLOWAY.
LARA: AND SHE IS IN COLUMBIA RIGHT NOW AND THAT IS WHERE WE FIND BIANCA BELTRAN.
REPORTER: IT IS JUST A MATTER OF WAITING TO SEE THE RESULTS.
NICOLE GALLOWAY IS THE ONLY DEMOCRAT IN A STATEWIDE OFFICE RIGHT NOW.
SHE DID RECEIVE BIG ENDORSEMENTS FROM JOE BIDEN, BARACK OBAMA AND SOME LOCAL NAMES AS WELL INCLUDING MAYOR QUINTON LUCAS.
THE QUESTION IS WHETHER THAT WILL BE ENOUGH TO A LECTURE THE FIRST FEMALE GOVERNOR IN MISSOURI.
KRIS: WE WILL BE WATCHING THAT RACE.
AS WELL AS THE KANSAS SENATE RACE.
THE BIG ONE BETWEEN MARSH