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A Republican Party headquarters North Carolina is hit by flammable material overnight, leaving the inside of the building and its canvassing materials charred. Gavino Garay reports.
CNN projects that South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has held on to his Senate seat. Graham will return to the Senate for a fourth term after defeating Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison. South Carolina is a conservative state that hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1998. CNN has also projected that President Donald Trump will win the state's 9 electoral votes. Graham serves as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Graham pushed through Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation just days before the election. Graham had said previously that he would not appoint a Supreme Court judge during an election year.
The family of George Floyd arrives in Raeford, North Carolina, to attend a public viewing and a memorial in his honor in the town where he was born. IMAGES
George Floyd's coffins is carried into the venue where his memorial service is being held in Raeford, North Carolina, the town where he was born, following an initial ceremony in Minneapolis that was held Thursday. IMAGES
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory says an individual was fatally shot by a trooper on Monday night, in what he says were "were difficult circumstances" in Lumberton, one of the worst hit areas in the flood-stricken state. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).