Things santa frowns on, in the United States senate. [ laughter ] but it didnt happen. The special election actually turned out to be a very special election after all. Last night doug jones beat roy moore to become the first [ cheers and applause ] democratic senator from alabama since 1992. It was a major upset. A republican losing to a democrat in alabama is like a grizzly bear losing to a fish. [ laughter ] it just doesnt happen. Unless the republican happens to be so creepy around young girls, he was banned from the local mall. If the republican youre running against is not allowed inside forever 21, your odds of winning increase significantly. [ laughter ] it is kind of depressing that in 2017, barely not electing an alleged pedophile to the senate is something to celebrate. [ laughter ] but well take what we can get at this point. Team jones, of course, doug jones squad was fired up. This is the scene at jones headquarters when they called it. Pay special attention to the very e
United states senate. [ laughter ] but it didnt happen. The special election actually turned out to be a very special election after all. Last night doug jones beat roy moore to become the first [ cheers and applause ] democratic senator from alabama since 1992. It was a major upset. A republican losing to a democrat in alabama is like a grizzly bear losing to a fish. [ laughter ] it just doesnt happen. Unless the republican happens to be so creepy around young girls, he was banned from the local mall. If the republican youre running against is not allowed inside forever 21, your odds of winning increase significantly. [ laughter ] it is kind of depressing that in 2017, barely not electing an alleged pedophile to the senate is something to celebrate. [ laughter ] but well take what we can get at this point. Team jones, of course, doug jones squad was fired up. This is the scene at jones headquarters when they called it. Pay special attention to the very enthusiastic gentleman in the mi
Markets in the green as well at the close. The nikkei average in japan closed for holiday this morning with the others higher across the board. Hong kong up one and a quarter . Two Police Officers in oklahoma shot while serving a search warrant. The very latest on their conditions coming out. This is the quota key to the questions over the possible russian meddling in the election . They know more than that is plaguing on. Plus tinseltown targeting trump again as tvs because stars use the emmy stage last to target the commanderinchief. A familiar face joined in on the bashing. Is there anyone who could say how big the audience is . Sean, do you know . [laughter] [applause] this will be the largest audience to witness an enemy. Highlight similar to the 2017 and the awards coming up this morning. Sean spicer making an appearance there. Talk about extra sharp. They open their new stadium in a big way, thrashing the Green Bay Packers and working with the gain coming up. This monday morning
Eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. So we have more money now for the border than weve gotten in ten years. The democrats didnt tell you that. They forgot. President trump says the government needs a good shutdown. Trump got rolled so bad it was unbelievable. I think the president is frustrated that he negotiated in good faith and the democrats went out to try and spike the football and make him look bad. Even if the budget looks like we had a president obama, so long as he comes out thinking he won, i think well be fine. Hillary clinton says there is plenty of blame to go around for her stunning defeat. Did we make mistakes . Of course we did. But the reason why i believe we lost were the intervening events in the last ten days. Another round of heavy rain is on the way from missouri. It looks like a lake. Its actually a road. One night after he was verbally attacked with racial slurs, the orioles adam jones got a standing ovation in his first atbat at fenway. Appreciative that acti
Or nothing blocking this morning just volume slowly filling in. And, yeah, its moving along just fine as you can see. Drive times look great, too. Westbound 80, highway 4ed to maze in 17 minutes, and southbound 101, San Francisco to sfo in the green at nine minutes. We will check on the toll plaza coming up next. We are tracking a house fire in the east bay that injured two firefighters. Now the people that live there could be facing criminal charges. For more lets get to abc7 news reporter, amy hollyfield, who is live in antioch. Reporter you can see some damage on the outside of the home from this fire, and some of the blackened facade and the real problem was inside the walls. Fire investigators showed us the wiring here at this home, and they call it illegal saying the homeowner was stealing electricity from the neighborhood because they could not afford to pay for their own, and they found out about it the hard way and two firefighters were hurt because of this. Firefighters respo