college, secretary of state, then governor, then chair of the democratic party, then became mayor of oakland, then attorney general, and of course right now apparently he is going to be turning into the governor once again. of course jerry brown admitting throughout this campaign there is a lot of hard work to do because he knows that california is essentially right on the brink. a billion dollars deficits year after year, not going to be an easy thing to get out of, and here we have his wife that has just come out onto the stage. so why don't we take listen to what she has to say. quite likely she is going to be introducing him. >> glad to be here. let's give a big hand to the oakland school for the arts and the oakland military institute? these guys, fantastic, great job. and here we are in this beautiful fox theater that was renovated under the mayorship of my wonderful husband, jerry

brown. so ... [ cheering and applause ] . >> i want to thank all of you so much for being here tonight and we have had quite a long campaign, it's been a long struggle, but a lot of fun as well, and so many of you, i do want to say let's all give a big hand to the california democratic party that put on this great party tonight. [ cheering and applause ] >> john burden and angie and shone data, they did a great job, give a big hand. >> we're going to send it back the studio and come back when he comes out. >> all right simon. we'll just wait for that. simon perez in oakland thank you. >> let's go the other camp, meg whitman's campaign in california. that's where robert liles has been stationed in universal city all night long. robert you were telling me last time they are waiting this out, they haven't conceded anything. >> cautious optimism, that's

what they are calling it here. while that celebratory jubilation sweeps oakland here in universal city there seems to be this cautious optimism after pete wilson who is currently meg whitman's campaign chairperson took to the stage telling the crowd that meg whitman is unwilling to make any decision at this point. in fact he is saying that she will not come down to the ball room. why? he is saying because that is because the secretary of state web site is down, the web site is responsible for certifying the vote, we're going to go back to investor rebrown at this moment who has now taken the stage. let's hear what mr. brown has to say. >> thank you very much. thank you. so, thank you everyone who has helped in this campaign, there is a lot of people that labored, volunteers, a lot of people on the staff, it's just a marvelous, marvelous effort, and i have to thank the most important person of all, my wife ann who really ran the

whole show, kept me on track. and you know, i don't need a plan, when i have such a good planner at my side all the time. and, you know, i did this, i did this 36 years ago and i tried, during the campaign, never to mention the word "experience" or to tell too many old stories because, you know, after a while people are looking for something new. and -- but i'm a little something old. so that's why i wanted to be here at the fox theater, the home of the oakland school for the arts, because this is a -- [ cheering and applause ] -- this is something that was built in 1929, it was dark for 30 years, and now through the work and the contributions of a lot of people it's one of the most magnificent movie palaces in the whole country. take a look at that ceiling and all the crafts that went into it. [ applause ]

>> and i wanted to stand in front of the oakland military institute cadets, this is the 10th year of a school i started with a lot of struggle, it wasn't easy, it wasn't trouble- free, we made plenty of mistakes, but this june, of the graduates 0 of the oakland military school one out of four were accepted to the university of california and that is a heck of a record. [ cheering and applause ] . >> and then, of course, behind them are the really, a tremendous creative force, the kids from the oakland school for the arts, and i wanted, i wanted the military to represent my sense of honor and duty and leadership and comraderie and i wanted the arts school to exemplify creativity and imagination. because all that is what california needs over the next four years. [ cheering and applause ] and

i want everyone here tonight, and throughout california, to know this is why i'm doin' it. i built these schools because i want to build for the future and that's what it's all about. the kids in school, not just these two schools, but every single public school in california, we want to make sure they have what they need to create greatness. [ cheering and applause ] every kid, every kid, has so much potential, and we ought to make sure our society keeps that in the forefront of whatever we do. with this help, the next generation, that's going to be my watch word. okay. now they haven't got all the votes in yet, but hell, good enough for government work. and i think -- so looks like we're -- i'm goin' back again. now as you know, i've got the know how and the experience, and all those other things i

said. [ cheering and applause ] >> and this time, of course, we have a first lady which we didn't have last time and i think that's gonna be, that's gonna be the real difference. [ cheering and applause ] . >> now look, it's -- we -- i like the symbolism because it was dark and actually there were people camped in here and they were burning the ceiling and cooking their meals and now it's transformed into this beautiful venue for music, it's for the school, the schools upstairs, and i want people of california to know we might and we will have times that will be tough. how long they'll last, a year, maybe longer, but if we all pull together and if we operate in -- with honest, if i tell you that what i understand, i level with you, and we include everybody, and it's transparent, and here is the key point. we want to be fair.

in our society, if we're gonna hold together and meet the challenges that we have to, we've got to have a larger sense of agreement. and the only way we can get to where we are, which is polarization, division, hostility, and even this election, i mean 90% of the republicans voted for meg whitman, 90% of the democrats voted for me. now how do we get -- luckily the independents made the pretty big margin there in the middle. and also, there are more democrats than republicans. but, having said all that, these are real divisions and they are divisions tonight in california, there will be divisions in the state capital, there are the divisions in washington. so i take as my challenge a forging, a common purpose, but a common purpose based not just on compromise but a vision of what california can be. and i see a california once again leading in renewable energy and public education. [ cheering and applause ] and

an openness to every kind of person, whatever their color is. i mean we're all god's children and, while i'm really into this politics thing, i still carry with me my sense of kind of that missionary zeal to transform the world. and that's always been a part of what i do. so i understand the political part, but i also understand what all about, what it's all about, the vision. and i hope and pray that the breakdown that has gone on so many years in the state capital and watching it in washington, that the breakdown faiths the way for a breakthrough. that's the spirit i want to take back to sacramento 28 years later, full of energy, full of creativity, and ready to serve you the people of california. thank you very much for helping and getting us here. thank you.

[ cheering and applause ] >> thank you very much. thank you. [ cheering and applause ] . >> the projected winner, jerry brown. he talked about having a larger large sense of agreement and that sentiment alone separates california from the rest of the country in this election. because the rest of the country was about black and white and one person on this side and another on that side. here is a man whose career has come full circle from being the youngest governor in state to now the oldest governor. >> but you hit right on it. and he mentioned it himself in that speech. he said, hank plante, that 90% of the republicans voted for meg whitman, 90% voted for him, the difference was the independents, that's been the problem in sacramento by a lot of people's casualties, this division that we have, it goes straight up to washington. how is jerry brown going to overcome that. >> yeah, well he sold himself

as the insider in an age when insiders aren't very popular. his pitch was he knows how to get things done in sacramento. what an amazing story this is ken and dana as you were saying. there is jerry brown, 02 years old, he was i think the second youngest governor in the state's history, becomes the oldest, a former jesuit acceptable naturan who followed his father into politics, he got back into it, worked with mother teresa for a while taking care of the sick and the poor, took a break from politics became the head of the state democratic party for a while, ran for president and lost, ran for senate and lost, now he is back in the governor's office again. you know, i remember asking one of his staff members a few months ago how are you going to run his campaign and the staff person said "we're not gonna run his campaign, he is gonna run his campaign, who knows better how to run campaigns than jerry brown." >> i think you're absolutely right. what i know about soon to be, the projections hold up,

governor brown is that you cross him, you don't get one of his underlings, he'll pick up the phone and talk to you directly. >> yeah, he ran this himself. his wife ann also ran it, very much a kitchen table organization. uconn draft that to meg whitman, 66 staff members plus all those paint consultants, spent $170 million, he didn't spend a fraction of that. the unions did help, they spent $20 million op his behalf over the summer he will be a national figure because he is so interesting, he'll keep california in the national spotlight the way governor schwarzenegger did. you will see jerry brown on meet the press and face the nation with bob shaffer, he'll keep us in the spotlight for a while. dana and ken, everything old is new again. all right. now to a contest that has received national attention tonight. tonight jerry mcnerney is fighting to hold onto his seat. his challenger republican david harmer is in the lead. a tea party favorite t district they are battling for stretches from stockton through a bye

section of the east and south bay, allen is there with the dam pain, let's check in with a len. >> reporter: we saw jerry mcnerney in the room here here at the sheraton a few fours hours ago. these are the folks behind him, the mcinerney faithful. they are hanging in here. the food is all done but i'm told the bar is open and because this race is too close to call, the numbers are very tight, these folk aren't going anywhere. about 40% of the precinct have reported in this 11th congressional district, he is holding onto that 3% lead. it's not lost on the people in this district and political analyst that mcinerney road that democratic wave of popularity into office in 2006, that's when he upset the incumbent richard p0ombo and helped democrats take control of congress. he rode that waive again in 2008 but this time it looks

like the tide has shifted and david harmer is riding the wave of conservative utility. people are up sit with what's happening in ottawa, unemployment is high, foreclosures are high. much of this lies in the san wah dean valley where foreclosures have been front page news. we're watching the numbers, very close, right now david harmer with a 3 per percentage point lead. hank. >> stockton number 1 in the country for foreclosures and this election was very much about the economy coast to coast. nowhere else can d we see that more that in stockton and trayy. now from the harmer campaign, ann notarangelo is here. >> hank, actually we're listening to mr. harmer, he has just arrived here to talk to his supporters here in danville at the country club. i'm going to stand on this riser and see if we can listen to him. he has been talking about ronald reagan and his father was the lieutenant governor

under ronald reagan. >> he knocks on the door and she opens it and there she is, open now, because standing there is governor ronald reagan and he is at his prime. i mean he looks like a million bucks. he has got that sparkle in his eye, he is hollywood handsome. >> reporter: as you can hear he is would youing this crowd which of course loves ronald reagan, his father again served as lieutenant governor under ronald reagan. i spoke to him and asked him why he ran twice here in california and also in utes, he didn't necessarily want the job but he was called in to action. his supporters are here, a lot of them are tea party members. he says there is no distinguishing between hem. they are all fighting for a cause. that cause is reforming taxings, the health care, and he says it's going to be a very, very long night. hank, what, 3 percentage points

at this point? they don't expect to have results for a while. >> i'm sure you're right. ann, thank you very much. ken and dana that's the latest. >> thank you hank. we have been looking at the senate race and project three- term senator barbara boxer as the winner this time around. she leads republican challenger carly fiorina 49% to 45% with about 42% have the precinct checking in. boxer campaign is in los angeles, they are watching returns, and that is where thuy vu is as well. thuy, is the momentum picking autopsy little bit? [ inaudible ] . >> this crowd is revved up. >> let's put our hands together for diane fainstein. >> reporter: fiorina one more time. they are of course still waiting for boxer to come down. we can only ... >> well ladies and gentlemen,

let's start by saying that it is a great night to be a republican tonight. [ cheering and applause ] and we have a new majority leader, john, john boehner. we have had a fantastic sweep across the nation. many senate seats have already fallen and, as you all well know, we have a new majority leader, john boehner, just a wonderful wonderful night. yes, exactly. the message has been sent loud and clear now here in california, you know, california is always a little bit different, right? so here in california, here is where we are. 36% of the vote has been

counted. 36%. and we're in a dead-heat tie. [ cheering and applause ] baner and so the facts are it is too close to call, the facts are it's going to be a long night. we're going to be watching returns all night. but all those people who have already declared this race, maybe that was probably not a smart thing to do. [ cheering and applause ] >> on primary night, on primary night, i promised i would run a tireless, fearless, campaign. and i want to tell all of you that you have run a tireless,

fearless campaign as well. [ cheering and applause ] i want to thank the tens of thousands of volunteers who have given of their time, of their money, and particularly all of you out there who made phone calls, who knocked on doors, who left literature. because, you know what, with 36% of the vote in, and this race in a dead heat, guess what. every call you made mattered. [ cheering and applause ] every call you made mattered, every door you knocked on mattered, every friend, every colleague, every worker you said "hay, you got to get out there and vote, you got to vote for our future, for carly fiorina," every one of those mattered. thank you from the bottom of my heart for doin' that, you guys

are the best. [ cheering and applause ] >> and frank and i love you too. absolutely. so listen, this is going to be a long night, you know, we're gonna go up and look at data, crunch data, thank you for being here this evening, i hope you had a great party so far. stay as long as you like but just get prepared, we might not know for many many more hours. >> reporter: carly fiorina not conceding, she says it's going to be a long night, and she is going to wait for the numbers to continue to roll in. she is not saying good-bye as of yet. >> let's switch over to the other side there where barbara boxer has taken the podium as well and she is in los angeles. let's listen in. [ cheering and applause ] >> i think the best thing i can say now is fainstein 2012.

[ cheering and applause ] woo. . >> so, it took me a while to get down here, because hours ago we were called the winner by every single station, every single publication, and we're gonna win this race. [ cheering and applause ] for and we just pulled out to a several-point lead and that's before la is in. [ cheering and applause ] >> and that's before alameda county is in. [ cheering and applause ] so i am thrilled. i want you to listen up.

i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this victory. after the tougherest and roughest campaign of my life. this is my 11th straight election victory. [ cheering and applause ] and what a sweet one it is. [ cheering and applause ] and from the time i was elected to that first office way back, got to listen up -- [ laughter ] -- i only had one reason, one reason that i went into politics. and that was to make life better for the people i represent. that's who i am, that's all i'm about. there is no other agenda but the make life better for you and the people of california.

[ cheering and applause ] >> now listen, listen, listen. everything was thrown at us. including the kitchen sink. [ laughter ] >> and the stove and the oven and everything. millions of dollars of negative ads from known and unknown opponents. millions and millions of dollars. but, because of the people of california, we matched those secret undisclosed dollars from the special interests, dollar by dollar by dollar, because of tens of thousands of small donors, and i say to you 145,000 donors, we matched those special interests. [ cheering and applause ] >> we matched those special interests. [ cheering and applause ] when the people of california step

up and fight for their rights and their jobs and their freedoms, we will beat any money special interests that comes into our state. there were so many out of state special interests. you know, i was so excited when the san francisco giants beat the texas rangers. [ cheering and applause ] in the world series. and, guess what, guess what, we -- i knew that would get you excited but i didn't know we'd get to that -- but here is the deal. the giants beat the texas rangers and we beat the texas polluters tonight. [ cheering and applause ] now

this campaign was never about me, although i never saw so many horrible pictures of me on tv, and honestly, where did they find though those photos? i kept saying to my little grandkids, "don't watch television be" because my worry was at first they would say"that's not grandma," then they'd say "but what if it is." it was very frightening. umm, every time, every time i thought our voice would be drowned out you came forward with $5 and $10 and 20 and 30 and 40 and 50. just an extraordinary campaign. i have never seen anything quite like it and i've had some tough ones before. you came to me, to us, to this campaign, from all over our great state, young.

i have seen you out there tonight [ cheering and applause ] old, i have seen some of you out there tonight. [ cheering and applause ] middle-aged ♪ seen a lot of you out there tonight. men and women and gay and straight and african-americans and white and asians and pacific islands, all of us together, we are california. that's what our state's about, that's what we said tonight. [ cheering and applause ] and listen, listen, listen. i want to give special thanks to veterans for boxer. who stood with me and were proud of what i've accomplished

for our brave men and women who put everything on the line. and we need to bring them back from war. it's time. [ cheering and applause ] >> we need to rebuild america. [ applause ] and, tonight, we all came together, and we have a new governor, jerry brown. [ chanting "jerry" ] >> hi jerry. it's okay, it's okay, i'm not jealous, i love jerry brown. i wanted him to win so badly. listen, listen. i want to thank my beautiful family, my beautiful family,

they are here behind me tonight, and they are behind me every single day. in the darkest moment of this campaign and the brightest moments of this campaign, and i want to thank the most incredible campaign manager known to humankind, rose k ape lchinski. where is she? where is rose? rose, i ask you to come up on this stage. she has never ever coming up -- she is -- she won't come up on the stage. >> all right. u.s. senator barbara boxer addressing the crowd crowd at her campaign headquarters in los angeles. she is the projected winner tonight over carly fiorina although the margin is not as widespread as some would feel comfortable calling. >> right. >> but she is nonetheless being called the winner by a number of news agencies including the ap and the los angeles times.

>> clearly, she is in agreement with that. so we're going to move on as the votes still continue to come in. proposition 19, it looks as if california will not in fact be the first state in the country to legalize marijuana these are the numbers with 35% of the precinct reporting now. they haven't moved much, 55% saying no, 45% saying yes. this is one of the most talked- about propositions of the election. mike sugerman has been following it for a while now. he is in oakland. what's goin' on there? >> reporter: well i'll tell you it's kind of a dull pot party here on an oakland street corner, we're outside with prop 19 backers, it is dead dead dead dead dead. and that's what happens when you lose and you lose early in the evening. i'm standing with dale

gehriggear who is the president of california normal. you said this was a horrible idea. you shouldn't put a marijuana question on the ballot in 2010. >> yes. i must say i'm gratified by the turn out. i said at the time 45% would be a victory and it looks like we're gonna get around 45%. it is heart engineer to see the amount of turn out we can get on this really cutting-edge issue. but, i mean, this is not a liberal year on the turn out. this is not a great year for youth to come out and we see the general tied of conservatism as usual in an off- year election. >> reporter: you spent a lot of money to lose? >> well, not that much. this campaign was no more expensive than the prop 15 campaign and now we're 14 years later, and you know, it's amazing. it was 14 years ago that we

passed proposition 15 here in california and, you know, the federal government still has done nothing to try to adjust their archaic laws to recognize the fact that, even though prop 19 went down, marijuana is legal for medicine here in california and it's time for the federal government the deal with it rather than threatening people. >> reporter: i should mention that you were within of the could authors of prop 215. so 2012 it will be back on the ballot. what will be different then? why would it win then. >> i'm not sure it's going to be back on the ballot in 2012. it will be on some ballots in 2012. i think it -- but what we really theodore to do is develop a workable scheme for legalization and i think that's got to involve some cooperation from higher authorities in the government because as long as we have a situation where the feds have no response but to

threaten lawsuits and raids, you know, i think it really detracts from the climate that's necessary to actually take this to the next step. >> reporter: okay. thanks a lot. dale gathering gear who is with california normal and one of the co-those of proposition 015 as we shiver out on the street corner. >> you think it's warm? >> he is kidding, i'm just kidding. it is very cold. we weren't allowed inside. there is a party for the okay sister dam staff, the people who put on prop 15, but for the rest of us including the press we're outside and most people have left very disappointed after the campaign that they thought would be victorious turns no to quite a defeat. >> boy, interesting, a campaign that received millions of dollars in free publicity from the media and you can't even

get inside. >> reporter: well there are a couple of reasons, it is small, 50 people and they had dates, only holds 200 and extra people. the other problem was that there was a lot of smoking goin' on up there, some of it legal and some of it not, i don't think they wanted all the cameras up there showing that part of the campaign because you know it's only for medicinal marijuana that is legal and of course it wasn't all medicinal marijuana up there i'm sure. >> all right. thanks so much. mike sugerman. take a look at some of the other propositions we're following. prop 23, get you caught up, suspends part of california's greenhouse gas law until the economy recovers, that is losing 59% to 41%. prop 20 they want a 14 person commission to redraw distribution. that is winning right now.

>> prop 27 which would call for revocation of the redistricting commission. it goes throws back to the legislature redistributing is losing 60 to 40% and we'll be right back. ,,,,,,

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ruling now we're going to check in on the race for attorney general. steve cooley is out in front. his opponent san francisco district attorney kamala harris is trailing, 43-48% cooley. we're going to take a look again at the numbers for the state's lieutenant governor's race, the latest numbers show san francisco mayor gavin newsom with a lead 48% of the vote and his republican challenger abel maldonado with 42%. >> mayor gavin newsom has been leading the polls in the race for lieutenant governor before today's election, tonight he continues to hold that lead

over his republican challenger abel maldonado. we want to get an update from the meg whitman campaign. apparently she has come down now and that's a live picture of her at the podium. jerry brown has been, well, he has been projected as the winner for governor over meg whitman. there's about a 4 or 5-% margin i think at this hour with about half of the precinct checking in the state. she looks to be ready to address the crowd and there were some words earlier that the computer system that tallies up the votes and, i guess, the state attorney general's office -- secretary of state's office had been crashed earlier in the evening, and so several of these campaigns said they wanted to

wait, were the carly fiorina campaign before they wanted to make any statements. that's what we saw. "this site temporarily unavailable, please check back later," there was no explanation as to what happened. let's list technician in to meg whitman, republican candidate for governor. [ cheering and applause ] >> thank you. . >> thank you. well thank you very much and thank you for being part of this cause to fix california. [ cheering and applause ] . >> reporter: tonight has not turned out quite >> tonight has not turned out like we liked. we have come up short. but not certainly not with a lack of vision for making our

state better. [ cheering and applause ] . >> we over came great obstacles to get this far and i could not be any prouder of the race we have ran and i gave it my all and so did you. [ cheering and applause ] . >> so i have just called governor elect brown -- [ booing ] -- to wish him well. and it looks like the results are in and it is time, now, for californians to unite behind the common cause of turning around this state that we love. thank you, thank you, i appreciate that. in many ways this election was much bigger than governor brown

or me. it was about the struggles and dreams of millions of californians. our challenges are daunting and they won't be overcome by politics as usual. but we do need leaders in sacramento to rise to the occasion and work together. it is my hope that a new era of bipartisan problem-solving can begin tonight because the people of california deserve no less and, tomorrow, we are all californians. you know, when i began this campaign -- [ cheering and applause ] -- i asked californians to believe in a new vision for our state and to join me. i've never stopped being amazed over these many months by the breadth and enthusiasm of your response. your time and energy were critical to building this remarkable campaign.

[ cheering and applause ] [ cheering and applause ] . >> meg, you're amazing, i love you. >> thank you. thank you. [ cheering and applause ] . >> to all of you, and the millions of californians who cast their ballots for me, i thank you for your support. and to the tens of thousands of volunteers, hundreds oven doorsers, dozens of dedicated county chairs and could a litigation leaders, i can't tell you how much i appreciate your hard work, your enthusiasm, and your dedication. to me, to this campaign, to the rest of the republican ticket, and to california. [ cheering and applause ] . >> to my campaign team, especially the young people who worked so hard over the past

two years -- [ cheering and applause ] -- i will not forget what we have achieved together. and you were not long to be. but i am honored by the hard work you have put into our cause. hold your heads high tonight, you were part of something very important. [ cheering and applause ] . >> thank you. thank you. and to my husband griff, my husband of 30 years, thank you for standing beside me during every twist and turn of this difficult campaign. [ cheering and applause ] . >> i could not have done this without you. you were my pillar of strength. [ cheering and applause ] .

>> so the journey is ending but our mission is not. we did not achieve the victory we worked so hard for. but that is not a reason to give up on what is most important. we love california and we still believe our state can be a better place. [ cheering and applause ] . >> because you care about california's future, i have one more request of you. i believe if we all work together to demand change from sacramento, a new california will rise. let's never lose sight of what united us. the hope of good jobs, smarter government, and better schools for our kids and our grandkids. [ cheering and applause ] let's rise to this occasion, look to the future with

optimism, and pull ourselves up to a better tomorrow. [ cheering and applause ] thank you again for being part of this remarkable effort. god bless you, god bless california, and god bless america. thank you very much. the former ebay ceo meg whitman, her concession speech tonight in front of a crowd of supporters at universal city. she is telling the crowd that it didn't quite workout the way that she saw. she bombarded the state with over $140 million worth of advertising, and phone calling, and polling, and door knocking, and for some reason, we're gonna get some analysis why it didn't work, it didn't work. >> it's interesting, she did spend all that money and she was criticized for running a negative campaign, but in her concession speech, asking for

the people have the state to unify along with jerry brown. let's check in with hank. do you ever see we'll see meg whitman again. >> i think you might see her again and you'll see some other millionaire try it again next time. meg whitman now joins a long list of very wealthy people who thought they could write a check and thought they could be governor. al cseke, jane harmon, michael huff ton, spending tens of millions of dollars thinking they could go from the business world to higher office in california and the only thing that happened is they made a lot of consultants very, very wealthy. i'll submit to you one thing, dana and ken, and think about this as we deguest these numbers over the next few days. whitman now looks like she is losing by about 5 points, much closer than the polls had said. i think that last field poll said she was 10 points behind. i think this is going to be a close finish for meg whitman.

i will submit this is the latino vote that she did not get. she had made inroads, opened an office in east l.a., but that house keeper scandal really hurt her. you can look at this woman, worth $1.2 billion, brought down by an $18 an hour housekeeper and i think that's what the story is going to be over the next few days. >> you know with is amazing to me, hank, she had all the big consultants that money could buy and they did not see this coming? this would have been something that might have been able to diffuse had they worked on it a little closer as a team. it seems like they tried to sneak one by and didn't get it by. >> actually, she did tell her consultants about this early on, and they fumbled it, they just handled it very, very poorly. >> all right. >> all right. so that is the governor's race, the concession speech by meg whitman, we're gonna move on now to the lieutenant governor's race which has also been called. the the lay numbers show san

francisco mayor gavin newsom with a lead in the polls in this race since before today's election and tonight he continues that lead, obviously, and we're gonna go now to his headquarters at where she is with the man. >> reporter: i am. we're with mayor gavin newsome. the polls show you are ahead by at least 6%. >> i'd rather be in our position than our opponents but we still haven't gotten all the numbers in and still a little early for us. but i feel very good. >> reporter: the lead just wide episode a bit. have you heard from him at all? i know you say you're expecting a call. >> no, no, yeah, if i get a call then i feel like we can make a call. pundits can analyse these numbers and crunch them but we haven't yet so it's still -- look, i feel very good, i'm very humbled that we even made it this far, my first election state-wide and i'm running from a city that, you know, became a

running joke, right. san francisco, speaker, the whole thing. so it's a tough place to run state-wide. i'm very proud of my city but not everybody else fees the same way and so i'm nonetheless very humbled by the night. >> reporter: are you saying you regret some of the moves you made as a mayor? >> no, never. look, i mean i made mistakes, but i'm very proud of the things i fought for. one of the things to your question, you just made me think about this you know. how many folks four years ago said that guy will never get elected dog catcher outside of san francisco. he is unelectable with democrats not just republicans saying that, because we stood up on some of the things we believed like marriage equality. in many respects i hope this election if it holds undertake is a vindication you can stand up to what you believe in even if it's not politically the right thing to do at the right time but it's something you believe in heart of hearts is the right thing to do. and i hope other politicians, younger politicians, see that and stand up for what they believe in, even if the polls aren't with them. >> reporter: you famously said

at one point you didn't know what a lieutenant governor -- >> i did that with my tongue firmly in cheek. the irony, my first paid internship was working for lieutenant governor leo mccarthy. i not only abstract he knew what it was like, and i worked in there, that's when i was running for governor and people wanted to get me out of the office. i want to reinvest the office. i have no interest in it being the also ran office. i'm willing to take some risk, willing to be bold, fight for certain things. but with a partner like jerry brown who is gonna need that support particularly on the environment and in green college jobs i think the sky is the limit for california so i'm incredibly optimistic. >> reporter: thank you very much. i know the lead keeps changing back and forth but you'll come back to us and talk to us when we -- >> talk to me tomorrow during

the world series parade. >> i know you were looking for confetti. still looking for that orange confetti for tomorrow's parade. dana back to you. >> all right. thank you very much. we're going to check in the race for state attorney general. republican steve cooley is out in front, winning with 47% of the vote, he is currently the l.a. district attorney, his opponent san francisco district attorney kamala harris, she is trailing with 44% of the vote. it looks like harris is the only democrat to lose for tonight in state-wide office. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,

all right. get you caught up tonight in the race for mayor of oakland. so far it does not appear than any candidate has gotten the required 50% of the vote that is needed to win outright. don perata has right now about 37% of the vote with about 30% have the precinct checking in. jean quan has about 25%. rebecca kaplan, we don't have those numbers, but she is trailing the other two, and joe tuman is behind her. perata made an appearance, don perata, at his campaign headquarters and sherry hu is there. >> reporter: don pa pelosi rat a may be leading but he stopped short of declaring victory here at his party and he is instead going to wait for the results of ranked voting being used here in for the first time in the city of oakland. we may not have any choice until they are calculated on friday. right now the party is winding down. it was in full swing a couple

of hours ago. perata stayed here at his celebration for a couple of hours in downtown oakland, a couple of hundred supporters here as well. his speech lasted about 10 minutes, even though he has beep in the lead he talked like he is declaring victory like this office is going to be his because he talked p how he had to make changes and the people who were here were supposed to help him. i also asked him what he is going to do now that 80 police officers have been laid off and oakland voters aren't willing to pay any more in taxes to help pay for any more officers. . >> all right sherry hu at perata headquarters in oakland. thank you sherry. >> we're going to turn to joe vasquez, earlier he spoke with the other leading candidates, joe? >> you heard don perata is not declaring victory. none of the next three people this line are conceding either.

jean quan's headquarters, she is surrounded by a cadri of supporters, they are going box by box, wondering if they can still pull this off. her colleague on the city council, rebecca kaplan is also hanging on, as is joe tuman, a familiar face. remember he is the university professor and former political analyst here at cbs5. >> i felt really good with today's turn out, we're obviously a little concerned, absentees, don perata spent almost all of the money that he was -- that we thought we were gonna spend really early so that has had i think an impact on the absentees, we felt like we had a lot of momentum in the last few weeks have the race so we will see how the votes come in from today. >> we have had an amazing time this past few weeks, we have had an incredible surge of late support, and so obviously we're waiting and watching tonight but we're feeling very good

about it and i'm very proud of everyone's work. >> i got in this to fix the city. and i think the presence of an outsider changed the game. >> so we've got four candidates in double digits, jean quan hanging, hovering around 25%, to don perata's 37% for most of the night. but again it's ranked choice voting and what that means is the voters of oakland, they picked three of their top candidates, and so what will happen next is for the next few days they'll go over, the folks down at alameda county, will go over the ballots to make sure they are clear, then on friday they'll put this through a computer and see what the second and third-place votes will add up to. you know what, any of these next three people in line could be the next mayor of oakland, it's just not clear right now. >> yeah, it has to sift it out. an interesting way to have doing politics. the whole campaign season has been interesting. >> that's correct. >> all right joe.

thank you very much. >> you know, mid-term elections are interesting because sometimes you do get to see, i don't know, a referendum. if the voters are upset they are gonna let you know and sometimes that swings things for the presidential election two years later. hank, we saw an interesting campaign as dana mentioned, interesting was really the word. senate, congressional, gubinatorial, your take on what happened tonight? >> i think the headline tomorrow is california bucks the national republican trend by -- with these big democratic wins, that's what i think the he'd lines is. >> california is safely in the blue still. >> i think so. making those california republicans feel like the texas rangers. >> to coin a phrase. we could write a story alone just on the whitman/brown campaign and that whole story and how it played out and we saw a recurring theme. you can't buy your way into the governor's mansion. >> correct. there is no buy it now option on -- >> like on ebay. >> for the governor's mansion.

>> wow. >> it's interesting though, voters gavin coming governor jerry brown a message as well. as we look at it they said stead tee course. no to marijuana, no new taxes not even for state parks, they said they would let the legislature pass a budget anne simple majority but when it comes to raising taxes they still want those 2/3. they also said "eh, enough of lawmakers drawing their own congressional lines, we want to take that back." message to jerry brown and the new governors and gavin newsom and everybody else goin' in there, do it but do it with what you got. >> a very clear message. but the job, though, that they'll start when they take over is a very difficult one, we're in a state, the state is in a mess. >> as one budget analyst told me today, "and all the easy solutions are in the rear-view mirror now," as we go ahead to washington, tough choices for everyone. by the way, california might have missed the big blue wave but we're going to get the fall

out because nancy pelosi and the democrats means we're out in washington, the money that we came in, barbara boxer and diane fainstein will be, but a lot of the powerhouses from the bay area that were pete carroll who got things done and got things from silicon valley to san francisco to san rafael are going to be losing their power, we're going to feel that. >> you know what surprised me? i tell you 19. i knew the trend was going down, new it was heading that way, but six months ago i thought it was a done deal. >> it didn't go down, it went up in smoke. >> but everyone on the yes for 19 said looked if we still lose we win, because the image is out there. >> sure. >> there is a change i think that has been made in terms of the perception of the people behind the marijuana issue, and i -- you know, from what they say, they will be back. >> and the free pub alone. huh. >> and the tied, i think the tide is moving in that

direction. so many of these voter trends are generational as, you know, the younger people come into their own and vote more i mean the tide is clearly moving in that direction don't you think? >> it's interesting it made the ballot and it was legitimate leon the ballot. it wasn't 6 weeks ago, what were they smoking and what were they thinking. it's on its way to legitimacy. >> the whole movement. we have marijuana clubs, two years ago there weren't as many as there are now. that's legit missed for the bay area or at least our state. >> we have a little bit of time. any surprises? >> i think the one surprise may be that it looks like kamala harris is not going to win attorney general. i'm not calling it but she is clearlien hind and she will be the only democrat of the top tier who won't have won. but watch her come back and run for mayor of san francisco a year from now. >> we'll see if hank plante is right. thanks for joining us. eh, do not forget to watch the

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