World News (ABC) - Election Night 2006 (Western)

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[0:02] From ABC News, this is a vote 2006

[0:05] update.

[0:07] >> Good evening. I'm Charles Gibson at ABC

[0:09] News election headquarters in New York.

[0:11] It is now just a few seconds after 9:00

[0:13] on the East Coast and polls in 40 states

[0:15] now, as well as the District of Columbia

[0:18] have closed. And as I will often

[0:19] tonight, I want to begin by reminding

[0:21] you of a key number, six, the number of

[0:24] seats that Democrats will need to gain

[0:26] in order to take control of the Senate.

[0:29] And we are now ready to project that in

[0:31] the state of Ohio, Sherid Brown has

[0:33] defeated Mike DeWine. Mike DeWine has

[0:35] served in the Senate for 12 years. But

[0:38] it has not been a good year in Ohio to

[0:40] run as a Republican. And Sherid Brown,

[0:42] who served seven terms in the House of

[0:44] Representatives, has been elected, and

[0:46] that is a switch Republican to Democrat.

[0:50] Pennsylvania,

[0:52] we can project that Bob Casey has

[0:55] defeated Rick Santorum, the Republican.

[0:57] This is also a switch. Santorum is the

[1:00] third ranking Republican in the Senate.

[1:02] He has been defeated by Bob Casey, the

[1:04] son of the very popular former governor.

[1:07] Casey will be the next senator from the

[1:09] state of Pennsylvania. That gives the

[1:11] Democrats a pickup of two in the state

[1:14] of New Jersey, a state that the

[1:16] Democrats have to defend even though the

[1:19] raw vote total with just 14% of the

[1:21] precincts reporting shows Tom Kaine in

[1:23] the lead. We are projecting that Bob

[1:25] Mendez, appointed to this seat by

[1:27] Governor John Cororsine, will hold the

[1:29] seat for the Democrats. And in New York,

[1:32] no surprise,

[1:34] Hillary Clinton has been elected senator

[1:36] from the state of New York, giving the

[1:38] Democrats, as we said, a pickup of two.

[1:41] And in the House, things also looking

[1:43] very good for the Democrats. That's

[1:45] where things stand right now. You can

[1:47] stay tuned for a 90-minute election

[1:49] special at 9:30 Eastern. But for many of

[1:51] you in the West, World News continues.

[1:53] I'm Charles Gibson.

[1:56] >> From ABC News, this has been a vote 2006

[1:59] update.

[2:06] >> From ABC News election headquarters,

[2:09] this is World News with Charles Gibson

[2:14] >> and we welcome you back. We're juggling

[2:15] time zones here between world news and

[2:17] special election reports on the entire

[2:20] network. And so this is world news we're

[2:22] picking up in the show and we already

[2:24] showed you that the Democrats have had a

[2:25] net gain now so far of two seats in the

[2:28] Senate. There's a couple of other Senate

[2:30] races that I want to show you that have

[2:31] been very closely watched. First in the

[2:34] state of Virginia and we do have

[2:36] significant results in the state of

[2:37] Virginia. Um

[2:40] 65% of the precincts are reporting

[2:42] George Allen the incumbent there with a

[2:44] very narrow lead of 6,000 votes over Jim

[2:46] Webb the Democrat. Democrats are still

[2:49] very hopeful about this race. 35% of the

[2:52] vote still to be counted. And in

[2:54] Tennessee, we can't yet project this

[2:56] one, but Bob Corker and Harold Ford Jr.

[2:59] Ford trying to be the first

[3:00] African-American to be elected to the

[3:02] Senate from the South since the

[3:03] reconstruction. It looks like Bob Corker

[3:06] has a very significant lead there, but

[3:07] just 9% of the precincts reporting, and

[3:09] this one is not yet ready for a

[3:12] projection. George Stephanopoulos,

[3:13] >> Charlie, we're going to have to keep an

[3:14] eye on Virginia all night long. If you

[3:16] look at that race, Jim Webb versus

[3:18] George Allen, the Democrats are not

[3:20] going to be able to pick up the Senate

[3:21] unless Jim Webb wins that race in

[3:24] Virginia. The other significant thing I

[3:25] saw on what you just pointed out, we

[3:26] have to focus on Ohio just a bit. Four

[3:29] years ago, Ohio gave the presidency to

[3:32] George W. Bush. Tonight, Republicans are

[3:35] being rejected in Ohio. The Republican

[3:37] governor, Bob Tass, retiring. Ted

[3:39] Strickland, the Democrat, came in. He's

[3:41] the new governor of Ohio. We just saw

[3:43] Sherid Brown defeating the incumbent

[3:44] Mike Dwine. Even though Mike DeWine over

[3:46] the last year had started to move away

[3:48] from the president, uh, Ohio's had a

[3:50] tough economy this year and like

[3:51] everywhere else, uh, they're very sour

[3:53] on the war.

[3:54] >> George, we have one more projection that

[3:56] we can make in the Senate right now and

[3:57] that is in the state of Connecticut.

[3:59] You'll recall there Joe Lieberman is the

[4:01] incumbent Democrat. Ran in the primary

[4:04] and lost to Ned Lamont basically over

[4:07] the issue of the war. Lieberman, a

[4:09] Democrat, had voted in favor of the war,

[4:10] supported the president on the war.

[4:12] Lamont beat him in the August primary 52

[4:14] to 48, but Lieberman decided he would

[4:17] run as an independent and on the basis

[4:19] of just a few votes, but key precincts

[4:21] and the exit polls, we can project that

[4:23] Joe Lieberman is going to be elected as

[4:26] an independent in the state of

[4:28] Connecticut. He will caucus with the

[4:30] Democrats. And so, actually, we've

[4:33] already projected Bernie Sanders winning

[4:34] a Senate seat in Vermont. There'll

[4:35] actually be two independents uh

[4:37] caucusing with the Democrats. two polls

[4:39] of the Democratic Party, the two polls

[4:41] of the Independent Party. You can't be

[4:42] as far apart on issues and still be in

[4:44] the same party as Bernie Sanders and Joe

[4:46] Lieberman. Joe Lieberman also bucking a

[4:48] trend tonight. We've seen all night long

[4:50] the war in Iraq and is a huge issue. Joe

[4:53] Lieberman probably the most pro-war

[4:55] Democrat in the Senate, but he was able

[4:57] to put to put together a coalition of

[4:59] Democrats, independents, and a lot of

[5:01] Republicans in the state of Connecticut.

[5:02] Yes, there was basically a non the

[5:04] Republican Alan Slesinger was a

[5:06] non-factor in this race and many

[5:07] Republicans actually turned around and

[5:09] voted for Lieberman. So Lieberman wins

[5:11] with Republican support, but we'll

[5:12] caucus with the Democrats.

[5:14] >> And but the White House made a key

[5:15] decision here. The White House and the

[5:16] Republican party decided really not to

[5:18] back their candidate Alan Slesinger.

[5:21] They preferred to have the message, the

[5:22] pro-war message coming from Joe

[5:24] Lieberman rather than the seat, which

[5:25] they really didn't think they had a good

[5:26] chance at anyway. So, we now stand with

[5:28] two pickups for the Democratic Party in

[5:30] the Senate in the states of Ohio and

[5:32] Pennsylvania. Those were races really,

[5:34] George, that we expected would go from

[5:37] Republican to Democrat.

[5:38] >> Absolutely. All year long, Ohio and

[5:40] Pennsylvania have been prime targets of

[5:41] the Democrats both in the House and the

[5:43] Senate. No surprises there. No, no real

[5:46] surprise yet. We have to keep an eye on

[5:48] Virginia, Missouri, Rhode Island.

[5:50] >> All right, some House races we want to

[5:52] talk about, illustrative House races

[5:53] here. One call we have already made. We

[5:56] have to mention that the Republicans are

[5:58] defending if they lose 15 seats to the

[6:00] Democrats, the Democrats will gain

[6:02] control of the House. And we've already

[6:04] made one projection that is in the

[6:05] eighth district of Indiana where Brad

[6:07] Ellsworth uh is going to defeat John

[6:10] Hostettler. Hostetler has served six

[6:12] terms in the house, but he's always

[6:14] vulnerable. This is a district that

[6:16] voted has always voted very close in

[6:19] southern Indiana. And Brad Ellsworth,

[6:21] who as I say is a sheriff in Vandenberg

[6:23] County, uh is going to be elected there.

[6:25] That is net one for the Democrats in the

[6:27] House. But there's a couple of other

[6:28] races. You mentioned this race, George,

[6:30] in the third district of Kentucky. And

[6:33] Northrup, the incumbent, uh, five terms,

[6:35] but she always has tight races. Uh, and

[6:38] she has been very independent on the

[6:40] war, calling for Don Rumsfeld to resign.

[6:42] John Yarmouth is a newspaper editor

[6:44] there, has tried to tie her to Bush. And

[6:46] this is a race everybody's watching

[6:48] closely.

[6:48] >> Oh, no question about it, Charlie. If

[6:50] Northup loses there, that is a huge blow

[6:52] to the Republican party. the chairman of

[6:54] the Republican Congressional Campaign

[6:55] Committee told me two months ago that's

[6:57] the race he's going to be watching early

[6:59] in the night if Anne Northup loses we

[7:01] are going to lose the house right now

[7:03] she's behind

[7:03] >> and and I want to go back if I could to

[7:05] that board with Northrup and Yarmouth uh

[7:08] if you still have that because I think

[7:09] it's very illustrative here we now have

[7:12] 96%

[7:13] 96% of the precincts reporting and

[7:15] Yarmouth has a 7,000 vote lead so that

[7:19] one that could be a well could cause

[7:21] major jubilation in the Democratic party

[7:23] if they win that. And one other race I

[7:25] want to mention, this is in the state of

[7:26] New Hampshire. Uh Charlie Bass, six

[7:29] terms in the House and it would appear

[7:31] that he's going down to defeat tonight

[7:34] uh to Paul to Paul Code Hodess, I should

[7:36] say. Paul Hodess is an attorney in that

[7:38] district and he he's been beating up on

[7:41] Bass on the issue of Iraq.

[7:43] >> Beating up on Bass all through the

[7:45] Northeast, President Bush and the war in

[7:47] Iraq are very unpopular. Charlie, the

[7:49] Republicans were hoping to hold on to

[7:51] that seat. Charlie Bash is a good

[7:52] politician, but he in the last couple of

[7:54] weeks they started to see that one slip

[7:56] away.

[7:56] >> All right. One of the things that

[7:57] obviously has been on everybody's mind,

[8:00] uh has been is my vote going to be

[8:02] counted? Uh we've had a lot of people

[8:04] out uh watching polling places, watching

[8:07] how these new machines that everybody's

[8:08] using are being employed and whether

[8:11] they're giving a fair count on the vote.

[8:12] Jake Tapper is out in Ohio, has been

[8:14] following this. We'll be following it

[8:16] all night. Jake,

[8:18] Charlie, there were some voting problems

[8:20] today, but no apparent catastrophes. As

[8:22] one election expert put it to us, there

[8:24] were some fender benders, but no major

[8:26] tie-ups.

[8:29] Jen Nelson of Columbus, Ohio, found the

[8:31] time to vote after a fivemile run.

[8:33] >> These machines were really great.

[8:35] >> But not every polling place ran as well

[8:37] as she did.

[8:38] >> This is Tina calling. Hi. Um, we need a

[8:42] technician out to Grove City 3E.

[8:45] >> Electronic voting machines in Ohio and

[8:47] elsewhere malfunctioned. In Cleveland,

[8:50] glitches forced voters to go back to

[8:51] paper ballots. Machine problems in

[8:53] Democratic precincts in Tennessee

[8:55] clearly worried the Democratic Senate

[8:57] candidate.

[8:58] >> Uh, the polling machines, or should say

[8:59] the DBO machines are not working.

[9:02] >> In Indianapolis, thousands of voters

[9:04] were prevented from casting their

[9:05] ballots because of technical glitches

[9:07] and poll workers who didn't know how to

[9:09] operate the new machines. Long lines in

[9:12] Denver were caused by power failures.

[9:14] Democrats said they would sue to keep

[9:16] polling stations open late. Long lines

[9:19] in the rain in the Cincinnati suburb

[9:21] Loveland. That's where Ohio Republican

[9:23] Congresswoman Jean Schmidt was the first

[9:25] to vote, but was the first of many to

[9:27] have trouble with the machine meant to

[9:28] scan her ballot.

[9:30] >> Turn ballot over and try again.

[9:32] >> Which was set aside with others to be

[9:34] scanned later. Schmidt wasn't the only

[9:36] politician who had troubles today. South

[9:38] Carolina Governor Mark Sanford got

[9:40] tripped up by his state's voter

[9:42] identification requirements. He showed

[9:44] up to vote without the proper ID and had

[9:46] to go back to the governor's mansion to

[9:48] get it. That was also a problem for Ohio

[9:50] Congressman Steve Shabet, who said being

[9:52] turned away showed that pole workers

[9:54] were doing their jobs. But not everyone

[9:56] agrees.

[9:57] >> I think the pole workers are um

[10:00] illprepared. They are uncertain what

[10:03] kind of ideas necessary.

[10:05] >> Most of the 1.2 2 million pole workers

[10:07] nationwide are volunteers. Their average

[10:09] age 72.

[10:11] >> We had an election official in Illinois

[10:13] who said the average age of her pole

[10:16] workers was deceased.

[10:19] >> That's an overstatement. Of course,

[10:20] Charlie, most election workers seem to

[10:22] have done a pretty good job. After all,

[10:23] it's no small thing to have 80 million

[10:26] people vote.

[10:27] >> Jake, there's a couple of things that

[10:28] that occur to me with this electronic

[10:30] voting. would think uh that simply since

[10:33] you have to send totals by computer to

[10:34] the state secretaries of state's office

[10:36] uh that the vote would be reported

[10:38] faster than normal and yet I don't see

[10:40] it coming in tonight with any abnormal

[10:42] speed.

[10:44] Well, that's because first of all, a lot

[10:45] of these machines are malfunctioning.

[10:46] There are several precincts here in Ohio

[10:48] that are being kept open past the 7:30

[10:50] deadline until 9:00. And also, of

[10:53] course, there are legions of lawyers

[10:55] spread throughout the country making

[10:56] sure that everything for their party is

[10:58] uh on is on the upright and uh so that's

[11:01] one of the reasons for the major delays.

[11:03] >> All right, Jake Tapper, thanks very

[11:04] much. We'll be checking you through the

[11:05] night and we are going to be here

[11:07] through the night and into the early

[11:08] morning until we have determined control

[11:10] of the House and the Senate. And our

[11:12] special election coverage begins at 9:30

[11:15] Eastern time. Now, still ahead on this

[11:16] broadcast, the chilling new al-Qaeda

[11:18] tape. The terrorists casing US targets

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[11:33] have to start the 2008 race so soon?

[11:39] >> This is World News with Charles Gibson,

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[15:09] The surveillance tape centering on New

[15:11] York's Wall Street area was made by an

[15:13] al-Qaeda operative posing as a tourist

[15:15] from London. Five months before the 9/11

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[15:26] At a nearby home for the elderly, the

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[15:43] The man authorities say made the tape

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[15:54] >> The case is that he could easily have

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[15:59] the court and has been accepted by the

[16:01] judge.

[16:02] >> Security in Wall Street has vastly

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[16:08] watched it outside the stock exchange

[16:09] today. It makes me feel nervous. I'm

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[16:15] >> Barro also prepared elaborate blueprints

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[16:38] quote, "Each piece of glass becomes a

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[16:46] limousines, preferably black, not white,

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[17:16] >> our chief investigative correspondent,

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[20:16] An investigation is underway into a

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[20:38] tonight to help deal with record

[20:39] flooding caused by days of heavy rain.

[20:42] The hardest hit areas of Washington

[20:44] State and Oregon have been pounded by 10

[20:46] ines of rain, triggering mudslides,

[20:49] closing roads, and forcing evacuations.

[20:51] And it's not over yet. ABC's Neil

[20:53] Carlinsky is in Snowomish, Washington.

[20:57] The rain started 4 days ago and hasn't

[20:59] stopped.

[21:01] Solid, steady downpour the likes of

[21:03] which even people in this rainprone part

[21:05] of the world have never seen.

[21:07] >> I'm very surprised. it. I was here

[21:09] yesterday and it it was coming up very

[21:11] rapidly. I I didn't expect that at all.

[21:14] >> Cities and towns from Washington to

[21:16] Oregon have been drenched as more than a

[21:18] halfozen rivers smash old flood wrecks

[21:20] and continue to rise. Dozens of cars and

[21:23] homes were left deep underwater.

[21:26] Emergency crews are out in force

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[21:32] by helicopter.

[21:34] Michael Oswalt and his family left their

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[21:38] >> I got my wife and four kids, so I

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[21:42] they're telling us it's under 4 ft of

[21:43] water.

[21:44] >> Entire towns and neighborhoods are cut

[21:46] off and it's no longer just the flood

[21:47] waters, but all the debris, tables,

[21:50] pieces of trees, even cars that are now

[21:53] floating down these rivers. Forecasters

[21:55] say the storm is the result of what's

[21:56] called the Pineapple Express, a pattern

[21:59] of warm, wet air blowing in from Hawaii.

[22:01] It's carried with it more than 7 and 12

[22:04] ines of rain to the Seattle area

[22:05] already. That's nearly 2 in more than

[22:08] the normal monthly total this time of

[22:10] year, and more is on the way. They get a

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[22:21] Thursday night and Friday.

[22:22] >> With the threat of mudslides and more

[22:24] rain on the horizon, the rain soaked

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[22:29] yet. Y Carlinsky, ABC News, Snomish,

[22:33] Washington.

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[25:15] >> I'm Steve Dunn. Next on Northwest Only,

[25:17] all local newscast. From the valley to

[25:19] the mountains, how rescuers saved people

[25:21] trapped by raging flood waters. Plus, as

[25:23] voters head to the polls, what campaigns

[25:25] are doing to try and get their votes

[25:27] tonight at 6:30.

[25:32] Finally, the voters will have the last

[25:34] word tonight, but the campaigning will

[25:36] not end. After all the attack ads,

[25:38] political spin, and candidates

[25:40] relentlessly on message, you'd like to

[25:42] think America will get time out from

[25:44] politics. Not a chance for the 2008

[25:47] presidential race is getting underway

[25:49] already. Here's ABC's Kate Snow.

[25:53] >> Thank you.

[25:54] >> Early this morning at the train station

[25:56] in Chapaqua, New York, Senator Hillary

[25:58] Clinton was thanking commuters for their

[26:00] support.

[26:01] >> Hi, good morning.

[26:03] >> Support in 2006 and possibly in 2008.

[26:07] Even her closest adviserss say they

[26:09] don't know if Senator Clinton will run

[26:11] for president.

[26:12] >> I can't make a decision now. I have made

[26:14] no decision. But the signs are there.

[26:16] The $15 million war chest, the staffers,

[26:20] the constant travel. The race for

[26:22] president unofficially is on and has

[26:25] been for months.

[26:26] >> American politics today, the reality is

[26:29] that the campaign for the next

[26:30] presidential cycle begins the day after

[26:32] one is elected.

[26:33] >> There are a dozen Democrats who may run.

[26:36] >> Day after the election, Democrats are

[26:38] going on a shopping spree. They're

[26:39] looking for a candidate who can take

[26:41] advantage of the new political

[26:42] environment for Democrats.

[26:44] >> Potentially one dozen Republican

[26:47] candidates could run as well. And maybe

[26:49] even one independent billionaire, most

[26:52] of whom have been crisscrossing the

[26:54] country for months, testing the waters.

[26:56] Just look at Republican front runner

[26:58] Senator John McCain's flight plan for

[27:00] the past month. 21 states in 30 days.

[27:05] Democrat John Edwards, who was on the

[27:07] losing ticket last time around, and

[27:09] Republican Governor of Massachusetts

[27:11] Mitt Romney topped the list for the

[27:13] number of visits to Iowa, home of the

[27:15] first presidential caucus.

[27:17] >> How are you?

[27:18] >> And then there are the wild cards. Mr.

[27:21] >> Former Vice President Al Gore keeps

[27:23] saying he can't imagine running, but

[27:25] he's not shutting the door completely.

[27:27] >> I don't believe that there's a

[27:28] politician alive that doesn't actually

[27:30] have an interest in being president.

[27:31] Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani

[27:34] draws huge crowds. So does Illinois

[27:37] Senator Barack Obama, who's taken on

[27:39] rockstar status.

[27:42] Those around Obama say he'd have no

[27:44] trouble quickly raising money. But the

[27:46] lesserk known potential candidates will

[27:48] need to act quickly to lock in donors.

[27:50] Strategists on both sides expect a flood

[27:53] of announcements around the new year,

[27:55] the official start to campaign 2008.

[27:59] Kate Snow, ABC News, New York.

[28:02] >> That is world news for this election

[28:03] day. We'll be reporting on the midterm

[28:05] elections into the night and into the

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[28:11] coming up at 9:30. Night Line will pick

[28:14] up after that. And Good Morning America

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[28:50] Live at 6:30. K2 News. The spirit of the

[28:54] Northwest.

[28:56] >> K2 News covering two big stories

[28:58] tonight. The candidates have had their

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[29:03] >> Thank you, sir.

[29:04] >> Plus, the heavy rain turns into a flood

[29:06] emergency. It's a rush to rescue people

[29:09] trapped by rising water.

[29:10] >> My wife came back and now she's stuck.

[29:13] >> The images as powerful as the storm that

[29:15] created them.

[29:16] >> The worst like 15 in higher than 96.

[29:20] Tonight, a break in the storm, but not

[29:22] before leaving a mess behind.

[29:24] >> Good evening. Thanks a lot for being

[29:25] with us, everybody. I'm Steve Dunn

[29:27] >> and I'm Deborah Knap. From the coast of

[29:28] the mountains, the rising flood waters

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