tonight the blue wave continues as another democrat declares victory in a tight congressional race. oa> as well as term ooil and tear gas on the ber. survivors of the camp fire t areing to pull their lives together after losing everything in the state's deadliest wieltd fire. and missions district in the '80s. a look at -- n >> we with with politics. one of the last house races is in central valley. this week hobs declared victory in that race.

if the victory is certified, he will give democrats. and nancy pelosi won her party's nomination for house speaker. and after u.s. boarder guards fire tear gas onsunday, california governor elect .s visited themexico boarder. joining me to discuss all of oth this. nice r to have all of you. the blue wave was a stunning clean sweep across california. all the targeted swing districts democrats. >> we can thank president trump for lot of it. the republican party in california is on life support in part because they clung to president trump like -- and then after that, you had a whole

bunch of issues that brought out critical voters, suburban women, wum younger voters all came out for the de these districts.of that made the difference. at least get out the vote for the decratic party is specially strong. >> they took advantage off a new law that allows cwopaigners to pick up ballots and deliver them. >> they have that gog on. it was called ballot harvestinge democrats saw it as a get out the vote and a waosto deliver ballots. you've got 2/3 are voting by mail. and they figured how to efficiently deliver those ballots.r ublicans are saying that and maybe otherke techniques l same-day registration, like long -- early voting

the fact is i talked to the secretary of state. he said they may call it cheating. we democracy here in california. >> and house speaker paul ryan is calling it bazar. he made point of nationally republicans are down a whole lot more. what happened? >> and questionably i think some of these ofanges the law and to accentuate the number of ak ballots that it in, those are in thes republicans will express concerns about. what we saw is trends getting worse for republicans in a lot of ways. where president trump did well teu look at indiana, missouri. those trends got b and here in california it got a whole lotorse. this effect and back lash arly in southern california we saw this in spayeds. so th elekds wction about

furthering the trends we saw. >> so how can the republican party repair itself? or is it salvageable in its curent form? >> it's very challenging ins. suburban are southern california starters. but there's also an infrastructure party. it hasn't been focussed on message more broadly or the bigger question of how to compete state wide. i thing those are the sorts ofh things take time and ultimately may be itmp it sible in the trump era. >> the chairmanf the democratic california party now says he plans to resign in the wake of sexual misconduct claims against him. >> the allegations include things like unwanted touching and comments that were sexual in nature.

and these are allegations that are coming at him from party staffers on the order of about 10 people. see thing immediate response from key members of the state's democraticb party. i was covering the governor elect when this all blew and there were no quals about making it clar he was one of the first people to make it clear and from one of thedemocrats who is coming into congress and said look, we have to make it clear that they cannot get away awith this. >> i still think democrats on the #me too have had a number of headlines this year. i they' the super majority in both houses. i think there has to be an issue where they address this and drinking was a part of the

problem other legislatures are facing the same charges. democrats have got to see if they can get a handle on this. >> and you do esee when that's the first thing i need to goo. i need to get help. >> i have an alcohol problem. >> and makes you w wither is he trying to pave the path to come back or just fade into the sunset? >> i think only he knows the answer. 32 democtspublicly opposed nancy pelosi. >> i thing it's not going to be much of a challenge. 35 altogether, abstained. those

she had a less than challenger in 2016. it was 55 votes. fact is she's in very good shape. she knows how to her those cats up and down in capitol hill and she is somebody whos formidable and has no opposition. >> it's interesting how people repeatedlyerestimate nancy pelosi. she was a very skilled leader several years ago when the democrats had can control of the house. the question going forward is ss what's tlr sucn going forward. they're trying to have a forward message with nancy as head of the party. >> and republicans have kevin mccarthy. they're both from california. >> being the minority party at a

ti like this for the republicans is going to be a challenge because'they hav had to deal with this in the era of trump. democrats are going to be aggressive in seeking out potential issues to highlight from the trump administration. there won't be a lot of opportunities to worther. >> he essentially asked his members to walk the plank on somany issues. these were all repeal of the affordable carect. that's why many of these members went down to defeat. it's interesting that while pelosi is being ,criticiz mccarthy is not and his caucus is down to sevenmembers. they haven't had numbers that lowince 1970s republicans. >> was the right decision to ign with withrump pin way that he hethe republicans do. and i remember this image where

you ahad devyn nunes, jeff denim who are nownd gone standing behind trump as he was signing an executive memorandum. so two of t seve people have now been voted out. >> you have atu ion where mccarthy earned his stripes and boosted his stock by being so loyal to him. but did he also betray his fellooc dts in california by convincing them to vote yes on thesed issues? ike carla said they lost the election? >> i don't knowat he had much of a choice, to be honest with you. even if republicans and some did try to distance them selves on the tax vote. the democrats were going to do everything they dood paint a picture of republicans as being one of the same of donald trumps ther not much more he could have done in that sense and to

have a good working with relationship with with donald trump, he wasn't going to be able to do anything anyway. >> i meant did he leave his fellow republicans astray because i don't think he wants ing that, leading the democrats astray. let's talk about immigration as well. earlier this week border agents launched tear gas at the u.s./mexico boarder. those images captured everyone'a ention nationally and interally. you were there when govern tr newsome wre. what were the concerns he express said and how does he plan to handle this? >> there is the humanitarian 'ssue and tha what he is grappling with, the mayor of tijuana especially is grappling with and there's also the issue economic impact. when you ve the boarder close down sunday of black friday weekend, that was a $5.3 million

hit to just the economy of san seed row. when i was walking through that mmunity for several days through that mall right at the boarder on the u.s. side, a ghost town. people don't want to get stuck and the community of tijuana a very important itconncy in terms of patronage for those businesses. f.is is a hit he's aware he wants to be talking about the economic impact and be sure people are thinking about what's happening on this side for asylumekers that have made it across and going through that process. they' u ending on the streets oaf san diego not a whole lot of support. d we're going to have to leave thisscussion here. but thank you. moving on to butte county whre they'reng to pick up the pieces in their lives in the aftermath of the state'sd

dliest and most destructive wild fire. the camp fire destroyed 14,000 homes in and around paradise. so far 19,000 have applied for assistance. with with rents in the nearbies of chico and norvill high, it's a daunting task for survivors of the fire. pally striker assignment editor of the californ report and andre, a report wr the chico enterprise record. thank you to you both. ndre, it's birn threen three ws nce the camp fire broke out and 10s of thousands have had to flee for their lives. >> when the fire ri through paradise, it left, it's fair to say thousands homeless. now most have found accommodation with with friendsd

family other means but we still have 600 peoplein red cross shelters in the region and another 150 independent shelters. >> what about that tent city the walmart lot. is that still up? because it's wet and it's been raining and cold. >> the tent city is still up on a grassy lot next to a walmart. i was up there today and can tscould count dozens of t they can void the rainy weather we've been having here. >> and what effect will rainy weather have in what authorities were saying some people could go fck? >> we're waiting d out. we did have heavy rain in the burnarea and round it which caused flooding. the sherifff said workers were

delayed a little b intting back to work and clear thing area so people could come back to parts of paradise. it's definitely a concern and could delay things. >> i wt to bring in you at this point. themo have somele homes that there being provided by fema. what's the update on that? >> i spoke tofema's spokesman, brad pierce, and have been more than 80 trailersitting there d more on their way to california. >> why are they just sitting there? >that's good question. fema has to find lots to put them and they hutve to figure a bunch of stuff. so after the fire,op p offered churches and ranches and mobile home park all offered space but more than to have hook ups for utilities, sewage and water and schools a medical facilities have to be nearby.

and they say it takes time and it could literally take anywhere from a week to four months to assess sites and actually get people in trailers. >> and they're planning to bring in how many >> fema assesses they need about 2,000. they say that number cou gedown but right now there's a little over 2,000 on their way but nobody is in a trailer or an rv yet. >> it's got to be so frustrating i know for ople who really need a home right now. is there any type of short term recovery housing plan or are people pretty much left to fend for themselves? >> they are fending for themselves but there is assistance aavailable on the fema aspect. it's urging people to register with em to see if they're eligible to be put up in hotels. a spokesman told me 2400 households areeligible to receive that type of assistance

and only 450 havee aken advant far. they're urging people to go to the old sears building where they can sign up and get help. >> and this has really createoua full-blownng crisis. 10s off thousands that have been displaced. a situation where nearly 14,000 homes were lost. that's about 13% of the housing stock. it's huge. so whe people do go to fema and they register for help, they housing vouchers, are there enough places where they canh spende voucher snz >> the rental vacancy was hovering around 2% in chico and oroville before the vire fires. . i went to the sears disaster store myself and one comsaid we had to check. we had money and we're looking as far southas sacramento and as far north as oregon. because the vacancy rate has

gone down to zero. >> and andre, what about long-term recovery. >> what are you hearing as you talk to them? do theyev want to come back at this point? >> long-term recovery.op want to come back and rebuild. but really people haven't been able toe what's left of their homes yet. thousands of people are still unable to reach paradise and what i'm hearing is people just want to startsnthat process before they think about what they're going to do nex ppt >> and we have the problem of climate change which is c tributing to making them more destructive. andh that's wh these neighborhoods, these wild land urban and nonurban communities, should they even be reblt? >> well wit, i guess the realit

they exist and they exist all over california where they have their own piece of paradise, i'm sorry to say, in amongst the trees. i would say it's a question for urban planners moving forward but these kind of communities will be rebuilt. i think one of the questions is what materials for the home s they have to be upgraded, i would imagine to be more fire sistant. it's going to be happeninghe as ew legislative session begins. an ongoing question of where can we build? >> and what are you hearing as you talk to them. a, are there some who say it's been too much for me and my? fami and b, if they do come back, are they willing to come back to a different kind of town in terms ofdierent infrastructure, building with morees

firetant materials? >> raerl >> it's a mixed bag. they're thinking about how they want to rebuild, that's for sur asure ything needs to be changed for infrastructure. the rebuilding processe could a lengthy one. >> one fare's a ceptic system. but what they told me is they want to go back and try and re-create paradise. >> and andre, as we head weekend, what is the mood like? ehis is base clically week thre dealing with ftermath of this? >> they want to stars start the procs of lookingt what remains of their property. we were given hope some parts of paradisean could reopen soon.

we're expecting more rainy weather. so frustration is the main mood. >> all right. well with,yo we appreciat time. the ch iesico enterprise record. thank you to you both. >> thank you. >> now a look back at san francisco's mission district in the 1980s. candid images during the regan era were captured by photographer janet delaney. her photographs offer a poignant perspective on howle that rs where we are today as a society. her new book, public matters, contains pictures that have never been published until this year. nice to ha you here. you have been living south of market neighborhood in your 20s decided to move there in 1981.ha did the mission district

provie provide you weren't finding elsewhere? o> i think i was very excited have a place with such an in-tact sense of community. ocery stores and laundry mats and just a sense of daly life. how you would expect a neighborhood to be. coming from south of mark was lidht industrial buildings quiet narkd that didn't have quite the sense off cohesion. zpl >> there was a lot of turbulence. >> i think i was able to be there during a veryim vibrant when immigrants were pouring in. 500 came in duri a 10-year period of the 1980s ppt and perhaps because i had spent time in centraly america on own in the '70s i had studied and was very much aware of the conflicts.

i was able to be cognizant of their situation. >> and there water lot of protests. >> the protests were often in response to regan's planned war on nicaragua and his very bltant, illegal activity of supporting the contras b selling arms to iran. >> and you had these photos all theseears. why did you destood publish them w? >> i was in the process of archiving some olderut work s of market i had not yet looked at and in -- during that process i dis covered these slides and thought of them and knew right after trump was elected and all of the issues on the muslim band tos in the news. i starte look at these photographs with a different perspective.e >> w you seeing paraleg lel snz. >> definitely seeing parallels.

>> and i had just been to the it women's march my family in washington d.c. and i really want to make a statement about the importance of mublic life in response to a government i felt was taking a wrong turn. by looking back, we were dining it again. >> and many of the pictures are of public gatherings. the beauty contests, street parties.la the menng dominos. i like the on of the two young women in their catholic school uniforms. were they sponteous shotss you walk through the neighborhood or were you trying toeave more of a narrative, more deliberate? >> no, i think what i was really doing, what i would call hunting and gathering. i was on the street responding to what i saw. i'mvery much inamerred with the unexpected moment and the

interaction with stranrs. >> and you had quite a unique perspective. you first arrived during the summer of love but you dn't mo to the mission until the 1980s. so you were a relative outsider to the neighborhood and an insider as well. you live there had, worked there. how did that dual role influence your work? >> that's a good question. i thing it's really to the point of how anybody comes into somebody else's home and neighborhood and how they interact and g to know where hey are. either they assume because they o property that they own the place or they come in and pay attention to what already exists in an effort to note superc what it was that drew them there.or and me personally i think having grown up in los angeles that the latin culture was

something i was already very comfortable with and as i said i spoke spanish and undersheod a bit ofissues. >> did that make you very conscious of the wait othe kind of attention you were give thing to snigz. >> i think i was reecording the mission as an act ovof love. i was still y veryng in my artistic career. so i made photographs of beauty the need to photograph. >> and over the past decade the mission has changed dramatically to a place now with expensionive homes, trendy restaurant but amid all that is still homelessness on the streets. if you were to photograph the neighborhood now, what do you think it would train your lens on? >> i think the oncontradic as you outlined them. i would definitely think that we need to pay particular attention

to those have a long history in the mission. i think it's fascinating to see who's coming. a areays change. citi ties are influx. that's what is exciting about them. and i tnk the work i'm bringing out now hopefully helps to inform the new residents of t mission on who is here today as well as who was there before. >> how do you see the mission district? is what we're witnessing now signal the end off a neighborhood or is this part a longer story for the missiond trict? >> well, there are many people in the mission working very harp to the mission culture alive and i think anything the city can to support, m at exhibition, we had an event last night who had been born and

raised and they could see their own photographs on the wall. >> that'ser woul and the exhibit is at the ukinomallery in san francisco's mission district. your new book is titled public matters. and that will do it for us as always you can find more of our coverage at kqed.com. thank you for joining ♪

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