For republicans. The gop has won enough seats to take control of the u. S. Senate. That means republicans will have control of both the house and senate when the new congress convenes in january. As it stands now, republicans have 52 seats after picking up seven from democrats. Now locally we have a team of ktvu reporters around the bay area and Northern California tonight. Theyre gathering reaction to the latest results including two big races for mayor to so detect measures and much more. The race for mayor in san jose. Two men vying to replace chuck reed. At this hour, sam licardo has 51 of the vote. Dave cortese has 48 . Azenith smith is in san jose where she caught up with both candidates and shes live now from corteses election headquarters. Reporter it may not be until tomorrow that we know who the new mayor will be. Its a good vibe with a lot of people optimistic. Earlier we were with licardo a few miles away. And that was the scene as the first results came in. Licardo is join
Win, and a significant loss for tom corbett who, according to the Associated Press, has a along among men, women, all income levels, all age groups and most regions of the state tonight. Decisive win for tom wolf. Action News Reporter dan cuellar is live at the correspondence bet campaign in pittsburgh and we will start with chad pradelli live in york with governor elect tom wolf and his supporters there, chad. Reporter yes, big party at the a arena here in york, pennsylvania. No surprise with this election. You know, tom wolf had double digit leads throughout this campaign, coming into this election day, wolf was, confident and calm. Now we are waiting for him to take the stage behind me to give his victory speech. You can see supporters, they are listening intently as governor corbett concedes this governorship. It was a tough campaign for him. He was getting hammered for much of it on education. Tom will wolf focused, his campaign and in the end it looks like that was the deciding f
Load or unload. When that happens it all collapses. Tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. With the talks canceled today, i am assuming there are no new talks scheduled . Reporter there are no new talks scheduled. This is getting to the point where really it makes almost no difference. When you get to the point where you dont have ships moving at all or few ships moving that it doesnt make sense to put together chains than you have to regroup and that would mean a port shut down anyway and doesnt matter who is responsibility. We are all going to pay for it. Tom vacar, thank you. President obama is coming back to the bay area tomorrow to host a summit on cyber security. It will bring together the biggest names. And the focus will be to help the government protect consumers better secure payment systems. And better secure payment systems. Ktvu channel 2 news the summit begins friday morning at 8 45 a. M. The president is expected to deliver a address around 11 15 a. M. And air force one will de
Drought. An area of the bay area has decided to ban green lawns in front of new homes. Good evening im ken wayne. And im heather holmes. Debora villalon live in American Canyon with that citys new ordinance and what it means for new homeowners, deb. Reporter if you have your lawn you can keep it although watering is restricted as it is in most places. But new construction here on American Canyon will have to forgo the grass. Its a sound we dont hear much anymore. Water keeping a lush green lawn alive. Its ours. Its ours. Reporter the homeowner put it in 20 years ago. We think its very precious to us. We have seen other lawns come up around here and we cherish what we have. Reporter in American Canyon and across the bay area. Front lawns are endangered. Torn out and tarped, stressed by too little water, too many weeds. Were not requiring anybody to do anything other than in new development. Reporter now comes the zero front lawn ordinance. The last new construction here before the marke
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