BROADCASTS.com

We take a deep dive into the state of play in the final days before voters finally head to the polls in Alabama for the U.S. Senate special election between the twice-removed-from-the-bench Republican, Judge Roy Moore, and the Democratic former US Attorney Doug Jones. Election Integrity advocates obtained a big win on Monday morning, receiving a court order that will require state election officials to retain digital ballot images created after computer scanners process the paper ballots used across much of the state. The anti-gay, anti-Muslim Moore claimed in 2011 he believed that Constitutional Amendments after the Bill of Rights -- including those that ended slavery and gave voting rights to African-Americans and woman -- somehow broke the intentions of the Founders. The entire race will come down to turnout, particularly in the African-American community, and whether they are allowed to vote and to have their votes counted as cast, given the state's Photo ID voting restrictions and other practices that Republican state lawmakers have been caught admitting are specifically designed to help suppress black and Latino voting, but a remarkable focus group led by Republican pollster Frank Luntz shows so-called "conservative" Alabamians explaining why they plan to vote for Moore. Also today: wildfires continue to rage out of control in California; a failed terror in the NYC subway near Times Square today got far more media coverage than the three white men now on trial plotting to bomb a community of Somali refugees in Kansas; and new details on the school shooting in New Mexico last week that barely registered in the national media.