here. now, the hard work begins. i may not know all of you, some of you are new, but i hope one thing is clear after this week: i never give up. pete: that s the truth. it happened just after midnight last night after 15 rounds of voting, the house elects california republican kevin mccarthy as the speaker of the house. emily: mccarthy taking the gavel in a late night session as the gop looks to get to work. will: alexandria hoff is live in washington with more. good morning, alexandria. reporter: good morning. it took 14 failed votes flipping more than a dozen holdouts and a final tally taking place just after midnight but speaker mccarthy has the gavel and we have the 118th congress sworn in early this morning. that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter so help you god. i do. congratulations, you are now mcellroy members members of the 118th congress. reporter: it is conclusion of drama-filled four days of vo
what they think came in the house after 4:00 a.m. through a sliding glass door right there. pete: second floor here, right here. will: second floor with a ground entrance. pete: possibly entering here and you ve got kernodle and her boyfriend, ethan, killed here. a staircase here up to the third floor and here s dm s room. could it have been up the staircase tragically to the third floor where k kaylee and madison were in the same room? will: he goes from ethan and xana s room to the third floor and we believe kaylee and madison killed on the third floor. comes back down the stairs, to your point, pete, where dm s room in this area sees a masked man, bushy eyebrows, 5 10, slim build. pete: middle of the night and rudimentary diagram and it s a long hallway, you don t know what s going on and stairs between the second and third. what are you hearing on the third floor in a dog or cry for
again, this happening right after the lunch hour. so a lot of people would have been out and about in that area. that just adds to the sense of urgency in getting to those who may need help. kaylee, thank you for that reporting. i know you re continuing to work on getting additional information, as are we. we ll take another quick break and will be right back, continuing to follow this breaking news coverage out of miami, florida, a pedestrian bridge that has collapsed with multiple fatalities on the campus of florida international university. don t go anywhere. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember.
k kaylee, they ve been working to fix a portion of that bridge so that there will immediately be questions about what happened and whether there was some kind of engineering failure here or construction failure as they were reopening this bridge that had been under construction very, very recently. right now, of course, the main focus will be to get to those who may still be on scene, who may be injured, trying to identify those injured and those who may have died. kaylee, we now know there were multiple fatalities in this scene. that s right. and we re now learning, anna, from wsvn, one of our affiliates in that area, that their helicopter pilot was asked by police to move away from that scene so that emergency crews on the ground could hear if there were survivors calling for help, crushed beneath that bridge. chopper pilots in that area, like our affiliate, wsvn, being asked to leave the area so that even the faintest sound could be heard where help is needed.
talking to this weekend, kaylee, canvassers and voters, what more are they saying about this election that the entire nation is now watching so closely, especially, i m curious how the moore supporters are making their case in light of those sexual misconduct accusations. reporter: well, ana, because the roy moore volunteers who are going door to door are going to homes where they anticipate a friendly audience, the questions haven t been too difficult. in this neighborhood, for example, just spoke with some canvassers who estimated they knocked on a hundred doors and didn t meet a single antagonistic homeowner among them. so, when they re speaking to the friendly voters, they re able to carry that message you re hearing from president trump, carry the message we ve heard time and time again for roy moore, that he wants to bring the values of alabama to washington. those being not just conservative values, but also christian values in a state where about half of the people here ident