is done, but just a few minutes ago the mueller team announced they have eight more witnesses left to call in this case before they rest. shannon? shannon: we will see how that goes over with the judge. peter doocy, thank you very much. up next we will tell you why one middle eastern nation is upset to our neighbors to the north. but first, what some are fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox to indent detroit. as ford motor company rolls off the assembly line its 10 millionth mustang, vehicles across the decades of gathered in the parking lot to coordinate a 10 million figure as seen from the sky. the iconic car has been around for 54 years. fox five in san diego had a blaze that prompted evacuation orders and to orange county community is and continues to scorch thousands of acres in the cleveland national forest. as of last night, the flames have burned about five and a half square miles. the to be 5% contained.
ahead but there are about 8,000 provisional votes that need to be counted. can you believe how close this is? [cheers and applause] we are in a tied a ball game. for democrat danny o connor to be in a race this tight in the district, no democrat has won this in 38 years and that had him delivering wet sure sounded like a victory speech last night. you believed in us in a race that the pond and said we had no chance even being in. you proved them wrong. by getting close won t be enough to help democrats retake the house this november. they have come close and for other special elections in reliably red districts, but they have only 11 of those. they are banking on a wave of energy. do you believe that president trump s support is the reason you wanted? i don t believe it s the full reason i want but it was deftly helpful.
republican ed gillespie by nine points. the numbers there 54 to 45. tying gillespie to president trump. he continued that message in his victory speech last night. virginia has told us to end the divisiveness that we will not condone hatred and bigotry and to end the politics that have torn this country apart. it s going to take a doctor to heal our differences. northam a physician by trade. interesting moment afterwards. trump supporters chanting his name trump turned protesters turning governor elect off the stage as the protesters were led out of the room. [chanting trump, trump, trump, trump] gillespie did not campaign with or embrace president trump dissing himself publicly while
runoff. donald trump deleting his recent tweets supporting luther strange who was backing against moore. and we go live in montgomery, alabama, with more. what is it like down there? reporter: good morning, chris. that s right. president trump took a gamble on this race and lost. he pitted himself against his own base, and many went for the outsider candidate in judge roy moore. in his victory speech last night judge moore said he did not resent the president and is a big supporter of the president and he told me he thinks the president is doing a good job and as long as its constitutional i will be on his team. here s more of what he had to say. there s so much overlap between his supporters and your supporters, and why do you think they ignored his endorsement of
gingrich won back in the late 70s and republicans have held would have been an unmitigated disaster for the republican party. but let s also recognize that there have been four runoffs. democrats have lost them all, republicans have won them all, but they ve all been solidly if had republicans districts. this was a plus-nine republican district. they won in another district last night in south carolina. that is a plus-nine or ten republican district and they won by a little more than three points. the question is what happens when you get into districts that are more competitive than these districts were. and we don t know the answer to that yet. so i mean democrats will do what democrats do and there will be a lot of finger pointing about messaging and so on. i think the democratic party ha is to gh out and recruit candidates and compete in districts which they can actually win which are districts, for example, where republicans are in office and hillary clinton won. those are the di