political life in nevada where polls have just closed. the tea party is about to celebrate. it s election night on cbs. change doesn t come from the top, it comes from the bottom. if you re tired of the takeovers and bailouts, that s what elections are for. we are not going back. restore america to her honor. we need all of you fired up. couric: and good evening, everyone. we are witnessing a major shift in political power in the nation s capital. cbs news is projecting that, when all the votes are counted in this mid-term election, the republicans will have won control of the house of representatives. after making history as the first woman speaker four years ago, nancy pelosi of california will be turning over the gavel to john boehner of ohio. and we will be looking at all the implication of this over the next hour beginning with our congressional corspontent nancy cordes. we re projecting a net gain for the republicans in the house of 45 seats. how were they
that s what she s hearing and we re waiting for the information to come from the board of elections, her people are down there. reporter: pat jessamy and burns says the votes could make a significant different. again as reported, one hundred percent of the precincts have been counted and the margins haven t changed that much. thank you. campaign coverage continues with the latest reaction from berstein s campaign. reporter: what the we re told is that there s about 2500 abs tee ballots that need to be counted that will be returned. it is still possible for pat jessamy to pull it out here. however, it s hard to tell. berstein will have his moment, he has not did any statements today. he waits for the tallies to be the city s top prosecutor. one of his biggest supporter brown sounds victorious. i ve spoken to a number of prosecutors who are looking forward to a change in leadership and new blood from the top 3600 were requested and 2000 have come back. elections direc
country, every official and individual that s involved in this process. reporter: she spoke just moments after her release and boarded a plane to neighboring oman where her mother was waiting. i know how much effort has gone into this and i m extremely grateful. reporter: shourd was arrested with two others, hiking near the border of iran- iraq. her fiance shane bauer and friend josh fattal were all charged with spying. initially short s family said they couldn t pay, but it s still not clear who did pay shourd s bail since the u.s. has no diplomatic relations with aran. the swiss diplomates handled. if the question was did the united states government pay anything for this release, the answer is no. the white house put out a statement saying president obama was pleased with shourd s release but that bauer and fatal were still in jail although they had committed no crime. no one saying when or if they will get a trial. there s no indication the iranian government is
they were unarmed when they were executed allowing only their muslim driver to go free it cannot be rationized. the u.s. authorities are questioning the lone survivor in hopes to lead them to the gunmen. the taliban claims they were killed because they were trying to convert muslims to christianity. no so says the people who organized the mission. they don t try to convert, they only try to help them. many of the dead spent years in afghanistan and five will be returned there for burying including the team s leader, tom little he gave his life in afghanistan and that s where he will be buried the aide group says the death of their colleague will not stop them from trying to help people in afghanistan. afghanistan hear reaction at 6:00 firefighters rush to a burning home. live in the news room, more on the daring rescue at hand a local man was walking by a local home when he realized two women were trapped inside. flames broke out . the firefighter broke one to s
exit made a little statement about he would like to get his life back. he meant he wanted everybody to get their life back and he s just one of them. many are angry about his multimillion dollars compensation package he should donate it back to the people of louisiana and mississippi and then he can apologize. reporter: thousands have lost their jobs because of the spill. kim was laid off from hollywood casinos. tourists are not coming any more it was shock, then i was really scare. i m a single mom reporter: it s hard to feel sympathetic for hayward. tony hayward faced backlash after the spill when he competed with a yacht race. now parts of the area still recovering from storms. deck derek has more. the storms swept through quickly but left a lasting mark on the state knocking out trees and power lines for thousands of customers and killing one woman. a strong freak storm swept through maryland in a hurry sun afternoon leaving damage and killing one wo