tonight the blue wave continues as anher democrat declares victory in a tight congressional race. as well as term ooil and tear gas on the boarder. rvivors of the camp fire are trying to pull their lives together after losing everything in the state's deadliest wieltd fire. and missions dist.ct in the '8 a look at -- we begin with with politics. one of the last house races is in central valley. this week hobs declared victory in that race.

if the victory is certified, he will give democrats. and nancy pelosi won her party's nomination for house speaker. and after u.s. boarder guards fire tear gas on sunday, california governor elect visited the u.s./mexico boarder. joining me to discuss all of oth this. nice r to have all of you. the blue wave was a stunning clean sweep across california. all the targeted swing districts democrats. >>mpwe can thank president t for lot of it. the republican party in california is on life support in part because they clung to president trump like -- and then after that, you had a whole

bunch of issues that brought out al voters, suburban women, wum younger voters allame out for the democrats in all of of these districts. that made the dference. at least get out the voor the democratic party is especially strong. >> they took advantage off a new la that allows campaign workers to pick up ballots and deliver them. >> they have that going on. it was called ballot harvesting. the democrats saw it as a get out the vte and a way to deliver those ballots. you've got 2/3 are voting by mail. and they figured how to efficiently deliver those ballot republicans are saying that and maybe oter techniques like same-day registration, like

long -- early voting. the fact is isalked to the retary of state. he said they may call it cheating. we democracy re in california. >> and house speaker paul ryan is calling it bazar. he made point of nationally republicans are down a whole lot more. what happened? >> and questionably i think some of these changes of the law and to accentuate the numb of ballots that make it in, those are in thes republicans will express concerns about. what we saw is trends getting worse for republicans in a lot of ways. where president trump did well riu look at indiana, miss those trends got better.re and in california it got a whole lot worse. this effect and backsh particularly in southern california we saw this in spayeds.

so this elekds wction about furthering the trends we saw. >> so how can the republican party repair itself? or is it salvageable in its current form? >> it's very challenging in suburban areas. soutrn california starters. but there's also an infrastructure party. it hasn't been focussed on message more brdly or the bigger question of how to compete state wide. i thing those a the sorts of things that take time and ultimate may be it it hepossible in the trump era. >> chairman of the democratic california party now says he plans to resign in the wake of sexual misconduct claims against him. >> the allegations include things like unwanted touching

andl comments that were sex nature. and these are allegations that are coming at him from party staffers on the order of about 10 people. see thing immediate response from key members of the stcbe's democraarty. i was covering the governor elect when this all blew up and there were no quals about making it clear he was one of the first peop make it clear and from o of the democrats who is coming into congress and said look, we ha to make it clear that they cannot get away awith his. >> i still think democrats on the #me too have had a number of headlines this year. they're in the super majority in both houses. i think there has to be an issue where they addresshis and

drinking was a part of the problem other legislatures are acing the same charges. democrats have got to see if they can get a handle on this. >> and you do esee when that's the first thing i need to go to. i need to get help. >> i have an alcohol>> problem. nd makes you wuntd wither is heo trying tave the path to come back or just fade into the sunset? >> i thinknly he knows the answer. 32 democrats publicly opposed nancy pelosi. >> i thing it's noto goingbe much of a challenge.

35 altogether, including those abstained. but that's less than she had a allenger in 2016. it was 55 votes. fact is she in very good ape. catsnows how to herd those up and down in capitol hill and she is somebody who ise formidad has no opposition. >> it's interesting how peopl repeatedly underestimate nancy pelosi. she was a very l skilledder several years ago when the democrats had can control of the house. the question going forward is what's tlr succession goin forward. they're trying to have a forward message with nancy as head of the party. >> and republicans have kevin mccarthy.ot they'refrom california. >> being the minority party at a

time like this for republicans is going to be a challenge because they haven't had to deal with t the era of trump. democrats are going to be aggressive in seeking out highlight ssues to from the trump administration. there won't be a lot of opportunities to work together. >> he essentially asked his members to walk the plank on somany issues. these were all repeal of the affordable care act. that's why many of these members went down to defeat. it's interesting that while pelosi is being criticized, mccarthy is not and his caucus is down to seven members. they haven't had numbers that low since 1970s republicans. >> was the right decision to pin wayth with trump that he hethe republicans do.

and i remember this image where you ahad devyn nunes, jeff denim who are now gone and standing behind trump as he was signie an executmorandum. so two of those fiveeople have now been voted out. >> you have a situationhere mccarthy earned his stripes and boosted his stok by being so yal to him. but did he alsoay bet his fellow democrats in california by convincing them to vote yes on these issues? and likela c said they lost the election? >> i don't know that he had much of a choice, to be honest with you. even if republicans and some did try to distance them selves on the tax vote. the democrats were going to do everything they dood paint a picture of republicans as being one of the same of donald trump. there's not much more he could

have done in that sense and to have a good woing with lationship with with donald trump, he wasn't going to be able to do anything anyway. >> i meant did he leave his fellow republicans astray because i don't think he wants to hear me saying that, leading he democrats astray. let's talk about immigration as well. earlier this week u.s. border agents launched tear gas at the u.s./mexico boarder. those images captured everyone's nationally and interally. you were there when governor newsome was there. what were the concerns he express said a h does he plan to handle this? >> there is the humanitarian issue and that's what he is grappling with,heayor of tijuana especially is grappling with and there's also the issue of econoc impact. when you have the boarder close down sunday of black friday weekend, that was a $5.3 million

economy of sane seed row. when i was walkingthrough that community for several days through that mall right at the boarder ghost town.side, a people don't want to getk st and the community of tijuana a very important constituency terms of patronage for those businesses. this is a hit he's aware of. he wants to be talking about thc omic impact and be sure people are thinking about what's hapening on this side for asylum seekers that have made it across and going through that process. they're ending up on the streets oaf san diego not a whole lot of support. >> we're going to have to leave this discussion here. but thank you. moving on to butte county where they're trying to pick up the pieces in their lives in th

aftermath oe state's deadliest and ost destructive wild fire. the camp fire destroyed 14,000 homes in and around paradise. so far 19,000 have applied for assistance. with with rents in the nearbies of chico and norvill high, it's a daunting taskor survivors of e fire. pally striker assignmen editor of the california report and andre, a report wr the chico enterprise record. thank you to you both. andre, it' birn threeen three w since the camp fire bro out and 1 of thousands have had to flee for their lives. >> when the fire rips through paradise, it left, it's fair to say thousands homess. now most have ftind

accommo with with friends, family and other means but we still have 600 people in red crosshe shelters inegion and another 150 independent shelters. >> what about that tent city on the walmart lot. is that still up? becausan it's wet it's been raining and cold. >> the tent city istill up on a grassy lot next to a walmart. i was up there today and can could count dozens of tentsz. they can avoid the rainywe weatr ve been having here. >> and what effect will rainyhe weatr have in what authorities were saying some people could go back? >> we're waiting to find out. we did have heavy rain in the burn area an round it which caused flooding. the sherifff said workers were

delayed a little bit in getting back to work and clear thing area so people could come back to parts of paradis it's definitely a concern and could delay things. >> i want to bring in you at this point. homes thatome mobile there being provided by fema. whas the update on that? >> i spoke to fema's spokesman, brad pierce, and have been more than 80 trailers sitting there and more on their way to california. >> why are they just sitting there? >> that's good question. fema has to find lots to put them and they have to figure out a bunch of stuff. so after the fire, peoplefe ed churches and ranches and mobile home parksll offered space but more than to have hook ups for utilities, sege and water and schools and medical facilities have to be nearby.

and they say it takes time and it could literally take anywhere from a week to four months to assess sites and actually get people in trailers. >> and they're planning to bring in how many total? >> femassesses they need about 2,000. they say that number could n gedut right now there's a little over 2,000 on their way but body is in trailer or an rv yet. >> it's got to be so frustrating i know for people who really need aome right now. is there any type of short term recovery housing plan or are people pretty much left to fend for themselves? nd> they are fng for themselves but there is assistance available to add on the fema aspec it's urging people to register with them to see if they're eligible to be put up in hotels. akesan told me 2400 households are eligible to ve

rechat type of assistance and only 450 have taken advantage so far. they're urging people to go to the old sears building where they can sgn up and get help. >> and this has really created a full-blown housing cris. 10s off thousands that have been displaced. a situation where nearly 14,000 homes were lost.ut that's a13% of the housing stock. it's huge. so when people do go to fema and theyegister forhelp, they get housing vouchers, are there enou places where they can spend those voucher snz >> the rental vacancy was hovering around 2% in chico and oroville before the vire fires. . i went to the searser disa store myself and one comsaid we had to check. looking ney and we're as far south as sacramento and as far north as oregon.

because the vacancy rate has gone down to zero. >> and andre, what about long-term>> recovery. hat are you hearing as you talk to them? do they want to even me back at this point? >> long-term recovery. people want toreome back and ild. but really people haven't been able to see what's left of their homes yet. thousands of people are still unable to reach paradise and what i'm hearing is people just want to start snathat pr before they think about what they're going to do nex ppt >> and we have the problem of climate change which is contributing to making them more destructive. and that's whether these neighborhoods, ese wild land urban and nonurban communities, should they een be rebuilt?

nd well wit, i guess the realit they exist they exist all over california where they have their own piece of paradise, i'm sorry to say, in amongst the trees. i would say it's a question for urban plannovrsg forward but these kind of communities will be rebuilt. i think one of the questions is what materials for the home snz they have to be upgraded, i would imagine to be more fire resistant it's going to be happening as the new legislative session begins. an ongoing question of where can we build? >> and what are you hearing as you talk to them. a, are there some a who s it's been too much for me and my family? and b, if they do come back, are they willing to come back to a different kind of town in terms of different infrastructure, building with more

fire-resistant materials? >> raerl >> it's a mixed bag. they're thinking about how they want to d,rebu that's for sursure if anything needs to be changed for infrastructure. the rebuilding process could be one.gthy >> one fais there's a ceptic system. but wt they told me is they want to go back and try and re-create paradise. >> and andre, as we head to the weekens whathe mood like? this is base clicallyk w three dealing with the aftermath of this? >> they want to stars srt the process of looking at what remains of their property. we were givenmeope parts of

paradise can could reopen soon. we're expectingatore rainy r. so frustration is the main mood. >> all right. well with, we appreciate your time. the ch iesico enterprise record. thank you to you both. >> thank you. >> now look back at san francisco's mission district in the 1980s. candid imag during the regan era were captured by photographer janet delaney. her photographs offer a poignant perspective on how that reflects where we are today as a society. her new book, publicmatters, contains pictures that have never been published until this year. nice to have you here. you have been living south of market neighborhood in your 20s decided to move there in 1981.

what did thedi missiorict provie provide you weren't finding elsewhere? >> i think i was ver excited to have a place with such an in-tact sense of community. grocery a stores laundry mats and just a sense of daly life. ho neighborhood to be. coming from south of mark was light industrial buildings and a quiet narkd tha didn't have quite the sense off cohesion. zpl >> there was a lot of urbulence. >> iink i was able to be there during a very vibrant time when immigrants wering in. a 10-year in during period of the 1980s ppt and perhaps because i had sent time in central america on my own in the '70s i had studied and was very much aware of the

conflicts. i was able to be cognizant of their situation. >> and there water lot of protests. >> the protes were often in response to regan's plannedar on nicaragua and his very blatant, illegal activity of supporting the contras by selling arms to iran. >> and you had these photos all these years. why did you destood publish them asw? >> i in the process of archiving some older work south of market i had not yet looked procesin -- during that i dis covered these slides and thought them and knew right after trump was elected and all of the issues on the muslim band was in the news. i started to look at these photographs with a different perspective. >> were you seeing paraleg lel snz. it

>> defy seeing parallels. >> and i had ju been to t women's march with my family in washington d.c. and i really want to make a latement about the importance of mublice in response to a government i felt was taking a wrong turn. by looking back, we were dining it again. >> and many of the pictures are of public gatherings. the beauty contests, street parties. the men playing dominos. i like the one of the two young women in their catholic school uniforms.re hey spontaneous shots as you walk through the neighborhood or were you trying to weave more of a narrative, more deliberate >> no, i think what i was really doing, what i would cagal huntig anering. i was on the street responding to what i saw. i'm very much inamerred with the

unexpected moment and the interaction with strangers. >> and you had quite a unique perspective. you first arrived during the summer o love butou didn't move to the mission until the 1980s. u were a relative outsider to the neighborhood and an insider as well. you live there had, worked there. how did that dual role influence your work? >> that's a good question. i thing it's reallyo the point of how anybody comes into somebody else's home and neighborhood and how they interact and get to know where they are. either they assu because they own property that they own the place or they come in and pay attention to what already exists in an effort to not supercede what it was that drew them there. and for me personally i thin having grown up in los angeles

that the latin culture was something i w already very comfortable with and as i said i spoke spanish and understood a bit of the issues. >> did that make you veryou cons of the wait of the kind of tention you were give thing to snigz. >> i think i was reecording the mission as an act ovof love. i was still very young in my e artistic care so i made photographs of beauty the sheer need to photograph. >> and over the past decade the mission has changed dramatically to a place now with expensionive homes, trendy restaurants. but amid all that is still homelessness on the streets. if you were to photograph the neighborhood now, what do you hink it would train your lens on? >> i think the contradictions, as you outlined them. i would definitely think that we

need to pay particular atte hion to thoe a long history in the mission. i think it's fascinatincoto see who'ng. areas always change. citi cities are influx. that's what is exciting about them. and i think the work i'm bringing out nowly hopef helps to inform the new residents of the mission on who is here today as well as who was there before. >> how do you see the mission district? is what e're witnessing now signal the end off a o neighborho is this part of a longer story for the mission district? >> well, there are many people inkithe mission w very hard to keep the mission culture alive and i think anything the city can to support, at my exhibition, we had an event last

night who had been born and raised a they could see their own photographs on the wall. >> that's wonderful and the exhibit is at the ukinom galler in san francisco's mission district. your new book is titled public matters.a that will do it for us as always you can find more of our coverage at kqed.com. thank you for joining us. ♪

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