>> that's enough.n >> par me, ma'am. >> excuse me, that's enough. you are a rude, terrible person. sit down. i didn't cal i didn't call you. just a racist question. >> reporter: president trump boasting- >> we saw the candidates i suorted achieve tremendous success la night. >> a brawling with the media. >> just sit down, please. >> reporter: as voters democrats control of the house. >> we'll break down the pink wave in virginia. >> how a split congress will change theuture of washington. >> plus, we get to the bottom of problems at maryland polls. >> and breaking news, what happens next as jeff sessions resigns as attorney general? president trump has been foreshadowing the move for months, and he wasted no time make hise territory in post midterm landscape. >> the forced resignation raises concerns about the future of the russia resignation and the unort

do approach to the line of succession there raises questions. >> we have the team coverage, scott? >> rorter: it's typical for an administration to make high revel changes after a midterm election, and thedent made the announcement in a way that's typical f hi via twitter. it's unusual for a parting cabinet secretary to note it's coming at the president's it's aunusual the president oquest. tweeted sessions will be replaced by his chief of staff, ma matthew whitaker rosenstein is no longer overseeing the russian investigation. there are questions about whether whitaker will protect the he was a conservative analyst for cnn, hired as sessions' chief of staff last year writing an opinion column stating mueller's investigation was going too far. democrats are sounding alarms. >> any attorney general, whether this one or another one, should

not be abl to interfere with the mueller investigation in any >> reporter: another potential concern, matthew whitaker publicly argued againsthe appointment of a special counsel. that's the live desk, back to you. >> all right, scott, still the president has the authority to make thisap intment, and nbc justice correspondent pete williams plain the law tha helped him make this interim apointment and a look what's next for the russian investigation. >> reporter: under the federal vacancies act the president can make anyone who had a senior position at the justi department acting attorney general. what this means is that rosenstein will no longer behe person in charge of overseeing the robert mueller investigation. this new acting attorney general can doth ag the attorney general does, has the authorities of an attorney neral so that means that bert mueller now reports to the attorney general who won't be rescued.

rosenstein n hands the authority over to the special counsel back to, in this case, the acting attorney general. f>> pete williamm nbc news, again, this move is drawing sharp criticism from democrats and silence from republipins on l hill. we'll cover the legal questions and politics of this move ahead on nightly news a7:00. parties are trying to map their best wayforward, and president trump already chose his path. >> in a rare news conference pin thehe tried to night as a total victory despite losing the house. >> he issued an ultimatum to the house democrats who have the power to investigate him. >> i keep hearing about investigations. if they do that, then it's just all it is is a war-likeposture. they can play that game, but we can play it better. called we have a thing the united states senate.

they can look at us, and we can look at them, and i could see it being extremely good.we i thinre better at the game than they are, actually. >> the president also took the opportunity to slam republicans who lost after failing to ful embrace him. his targets included virginiare cowoman barbara comstock. >> and barbara comstock was another one. she could have won that race, but she didn't want to have any embrace. for that, i don't blame her. >> the president had a lot more to say in that news conference, blaylexander has more on that part of the say, doreen, fact, speaking l for 90 minutes longest conference to date. he went back and forth with reporters for aood portion of it, but focused on the midterms, claiming victory. keep in mind, o tcourse, makeup of the house will look a

lot different, but president trump seest to at l express optimism that he can work with both sides, calling it possibly a beautiful bipartisan situation. after an election, where his party lost control of the house, prident trump still calli the night a win. >> i thought it was a very close to complete victory. >> reporter: republicans increasing their control over the senate, picking up three seats. the president atricking that to the aggressive campaign schedule. >> history really will see what a good job we did in the final couple of weeks. >> reporter: but as for the house flipping from red to blue, that is on outgoing republicans, the president says, ticking down a list of ose who did not embrace his agenda and lost. >> mia love gave meve no and she lost. too bad. t >> reporte president sparring with reporters during a lengthy, at times, contentious news conference. >> you are a rude, terrible

person. >> reporter: saying he is optimist working with the divided congress, suggesting he only needs to negotiate with house democrats to get a deal, and then send legislation over to the gop controlled senate for a slam dunk.t >> really could be a beautiful bipartisan situation. >> reporter: extending this olive branch to the likely speaker, nancy pelosi. >> i give her a great deal of credit. >> reporter: considering it a war-like posture if democrats n use their house majority to investigate him. pelosi responding -- >> if we see a need to go forward, we will. >> reporter:aying democrats will not go looking for a fight. nbc news, washington. there's frustration tonight in prince george's county as voters spent six hours in linee becalling places ran out of ballots. we are live in lao looking at the problems with the polls and how it could have been avoided,

tracee? >> reporter: in the 2014 midterms, 38% of those registered to vote many prince george's county participated. yesterday? it was some 58% who participated. even with the high early voting, numbhe county was not prepared for this kind of turnout. >> been a long day, long time. >> reporter: long lines and hundreds of frustrated voters in prince george as county last gh news 4 confirmed more than a dozen polling places in the county ran out ofaperballots, leaving people with no way to vote. >> been here t since 7:0s morning, get here, get out soon, but then ty ran out o ballots. >> i've been a chief elections judge here since 2004, and the last time we saw turnout anything like this wasn 2008 when obama was first ecelted. >> reporter: at the elementary school, rebecca wilson is the election judge and called for help seeing ballots running low, but no help came until it was

too late. >> they said, well, you might try conta other polling places near you that use the same ballot style, b't they diell us who uses theyl same st or how to contact them. >> reporter: eventually, wilson received additional ballots as did other polling ran out, but voter had to wait. >> it's been about, what, four hours? >> reporter: some question if the ballot shortage was in effort touppress maryland's voting block. >> here in prince geor's county, there is no voter suppression. it was just human error. >> reporter: the director for prince george's county board of elections says last night's turnout for the midterm was unprecedented and exceeded all expectations and planning. >> we did use the allocations based on a presidential election, but, unfortunately, we did fl short. >> reporter: now, the director sang that even though they were treating this like they would a, ey dntsi p iadel nec s

ballots. she says they'llh change the m on how they do this to eure that this never happens again. reporting live in largo, back to you in the studio. >> thank you. doreen? >> to the direct now, the mayor bowser hopes democrats' newon power iness leads to a sange in d.c.'s marijuana laws. this is ary that's all new at 6:00. >> reporter: recreational marijuana has been legal in the dieerict for more than thr years now.'s itnly legal to have it, smoke it, grow it, and give it away. it's illegal to sell >> we have an unattainable situation in the district that i believe makes us unsafe. >> reporter: when district voters approved initiative 71 in 2014 legalizing pot, district leaders hoped for millions in tax revenues, but congress d blocke. from regulating marijuana sales.

with democrats taking back the house in the election, bowser sees that astunity to change the law. >> we will prepa a tax and regulation scheme to present to the council in the beginning of the year. >> reporter: paul zuckerberg, a local attorney, agrees, control of the house could be good news for d.c. getting marijuana saled legalihis time around. >> i think it is an opportunity, some of the dinosr republicans have moved out of the way. moving in this direction. the people want it. >> reporter: while it's likely the d.c. counc approves legalizing marijuana sales, it still is up to ,congre which has the power to overturn d.c.'s local laws. then, ain, zuckerberg thinks the country is trending green. >> the smart states are the ones getting in early, getting the businesses up,etting the tax dollars, and the laggards are going to eventually be there, but the profit and the money and the tax revenue will be gone. >> reporter: while the mayor plans to introdu new legislation early next year, the

current congressional restrictions are in place until 2020. in the district, mark seagraves, news 4. >> coverage of decision 2018 is just getting started. ahead, a night of firsts, voters shake up the norm here and across the country. >> breaking news, fallout after a football player's death at the university of maryland. what we know about the new university boa of regions chairman. two years after a man was shot and killed inside his home, questions remain, tll case s iosolved, and tonight, his family has an emal plea. >> an aching absence and constant reminder of ade , deep loss. we got one more pretty nice day tomorrow, followed by rain on your friday, and just plain cold weather for the weekend. cold weather for the weekend. we'll talk about

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tonight, we share a plea from the family of a beloved granurather. he wasred in his home in lorton, and more than two years later, his family is asking for your help. here's northern virginia bureau rerter david culver. >> it won't ever be the same. >> reporter: lives forever changed. tonight, the family determined to find their loved one's killer. >> and we'lllways stay active advocates for justice for johan.

>> reporter: originally from the netherlandso movedthe states in the '70s, lived an active life, living in their dream home. march 11th,20 , the dream turning to a nightmare. >> bleeding from the window broken open. >> reporter: the 83-year-old was ching tv late w in the evening, a nightly routine. someone shot through the window, hitting him multiple times. >> down here is the home where the event occurred. >> reporter: the fairfax county ve walked us through a clue, a truck seen in the area the night of the crime. >> the vehicle was seen traveling up mallard road at a high rate of speed, and it did not have its lights on. it was black in color or dark gray colored. >> reporter: detectives believe he was targtd eted, but the ran and motive and suspects are a mystery. two years later, leads in the case are dry. the detectives are now asking

for help, and the family is offering a reward. >> somebody, somewhere knows something. please, help us gsw s. >> reporter: sitting in on the emotional press conference, johan's widow, today, would have been the 59th wedding anniversary. >> for our family, there will always be an empty chair at the dinner table, and an aching absence and a constant reminder of a deep, deep loss. >> reporter: in lorton virginia, david culver, news 4. >> thaty fams offered a $25,000 reward fornswers if you know anything to help them, call the police. back now to the decision 18 you know the expression, everyone vote counts, well, when you see how close some of the local races are around here, you realize just how powerful that vote can be. the following races are too close to call at this point, in winchester virginia, the race is basically a tie, judy leading g taylor this, by just three

votes. no in maryland the council race there, people could vote for two candidates, but taking a lookdi here, three ctes there basically tied. ph they all have about 23% of the vote. fret strict 1 race in th rick counsel extremely close. kevin grub and jerryonald are separated by 50 votes. grub currently in the lead for the moment right now. fresh off the re-election win, maryland governor larry hogan looks to the future, easily winning r night despite the fact he's a republican in a blue state. ws 4 has what the governor said today about improving life in maryland during his nex term. [ applause ] >> reporter: the maryland governor hogan jokes he was reelecd by surfing maryland's

democratic big blue wave. n, iesterday aftern thought about finding a purple surf board to take up there. >> reporter: hog no fan of president trump, did not get a call from the president on being the first republican re-elected governor of maryland since the 1950s. >> my feelings are not hurt. >> reporter: the democratic u.s. senators and members of congress who called themselves team maryland say they look forward to working with republican governor hogan for the benefit of the state. >> governor hogan and i plan to talk and we'll plan the strategy to help the people of maryland. >> reporter: i asked the governor what advice would he share with president trump about the president working withew a democratic majority in the house of representatives? >> finding a way to work with people regardless of party affiliation, finding a way to reach compromise to sit down and talk with people,igou not always agree with, but to find mmon sense solutions.

>> reporter: the senate president mike miller says the general assembly sometimes has to use a heavy democratic majority to reign in governor hogan. >> especially on,like, education. we had to override his vetoes teand man he fund education. >> reporter: as he bs his second term in office, governor hogan's top priorities will be to draft a budgetnd come up with his legislative priorities. for the general assembly session that begins here in january, reporting from napolis, chris gordon, news 4. suburbanommunities show power turning out for democrats and helping to flip the house. nowhereru more than here in our area. erica gonzalez has a closer look at a changing virginia. >> reporter: the power of the suburban vote foremts pocol dls closed last night, in fact, it was the first race that nbc called. jennifer wexton with a big win over barbara comstock, and senator tim caine also won.

as to where t votes came from? look here on the left hand side, that's the 2016 presidential election, and then on the right hand side, that's 2018. it's not surprising that the suburbs werblue, but it's an expanding amount of the major city suburbs thaurd blue in 2018. specifically? let's circle a few for u. talking about areas like stafford county, westmoreland county, near charlottesville. we got nelson county andthers at turned blue, and if you go further down, southeast, we' talking chesapeake bay and virginia beach county that turned blue as well. so, this is just a continued trend of suburbsn virginia turning blue and making virgini a more reliably blue state. some of that is due to female the impact of women in oovirginia. that's ahead at > taking a clos

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well, we got all rained out on election day, but today was nice. >> comfortable. emperatures got to 66 degrees, by around the noontime hour, and lunch pretty good, got out for lunch, yeah, yeah, i don't know. after dinner this evening, hey, that's not bad either, walking the dog, to matter d what w outside today is good. not the case over the next couple days, though, tomorrow, one more pretty nice day. out there currently, at 60 degrees right now, and windshw sot at 6 miles per hour. we're staying mild tonight, right now, wehe got cloud cover, as, again, i told you many times, the clouds a as a blanket keeping warm air in. 61 degrees in annapolis, 55 in fredericksburg, and 54 in leesburg. showers there's been and sprinkles north, but not much mountain way of hitting the ground. it's from a storm system well down to the south. this system brings severe weather in middle georgia and

tornado warning in may co georgia, that is moving into the carolinas. may see shower activity in southern virginia, b that's it. behind it? well, not much going on cloud-wise now. i think w see sunshine early and the clouds move in. how about the temperatur? look at chicago. it's at 38. 75 in new orleans. we got a big temperature difference. where are we? the warm or cold side l tle bit of both over the last couple days, and that trend may continue. first off, though, cool tomorrow, starting off with 49 in the city, but many of y in the upper 30s and low 40s in the suburbs. 54t noon and clouds increase late in the afternoon. not a bad thursday, but cooler, a bit below average. moving into friday, 100% chancen of 54 degrees, rain moves back, some of you to the north and west may stay in the 40s all day, and that's where the heavier rain is. fredericks, leesburg, and winchester. 47 saturday. 47 as well on sunday.

a cold start. this is breezy saturday, we could see wind chills in the upper 30 and low 40s saturday. that'sdold. 47, a cstart, down to 34 sunday morning. this could be the first time many of us see a freeze in the city inside the bebeltway, m our first freeze, i got 34. we could be below that. definitely seeing that on wednesday. the coldest air of the season, temperatures will be some 20 degrees below average. that is way below average thi time of year, of course, monday, winter outlook coming in at 4:00, 5:00, and big reveal at 6:00. how much snow this year? we got the forecast. how much cold air? well, including this? a lot of cold weair. l talk about that on monday. >> thank you, doug. we're staying on tf breaking news. jeff sessions forced out as attorney general. at happens next women for wexton, driving force behind the campaign, credited for flipping this seat to democrat, and for the first

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control of the house. the president has been upset with sessions over the recusal in the russi probe, acting attorney general matthew whitaker will now oversee the special counsel investigation. president trump held a rare solo conference at the white house today. it was his longest o clocking in at 87 minutes. they were combative with the president targeting most, but not all the fire at a favorite target, jim accosta of cnn. >> i have a question, are you worried -- >> that's enough,s thaenough. >> mr. president -- >> that's enough. >> pardon me, ma'am -- >> excuse me, that's enoioh. >> one que if i may ask -- >> you are a rude, terrible person, you should not be cnn.ing for go ahead. sit down. i didn't call you. you.dn't call i didn't call you. i'll give you voter suppression, look at the cnn polls, how inaccurate they were. sit down, please.

excuse me, you- you are not -- you are not called on. >> reporter:nd purple virginia shifting to blue. three house seats in the commonwealth flipped last night for the first in decades, democrats pulling more of c virginia'sgressional seats than republicans. at the center of the blue wave? congresswoman elect jennifer wexton. >> winning a seat democrats have not held in four decades. now, suburban women got a lot of credit forelping elect female candidates yesterday. >> bureau chief looking at the winning formula powered by women. >> reporter: you can tell kathy is immersed in the midterms, focused on getting jennifer congress.ected to on the mantle, other candidates e's helped. last night, the victory, the payoff for the hard work ofre hu of doors kathy knocked on to turn out voters. >> i believe that women are the

reason that this happened. i believe that we will continue to be that reaso to change all of this in the united states. >> reporter: wexton crediting women and groups they are aligned with like indy visible, moms demand action. >> joining women's roups h been -- was huge in my race. i mean, it was one of the top things i think that set my race apart from a lot of others. >> reporter: the mom demand members relaxing today, but determined to s flip morets. >> we've been teaching moms how to canvas. >> reporter: political activism is new to some, but after president trump's election, cindy wanted to do more. >> it's not enough to be upset and yell and cry, you have to do something, and so i realized i needed to get on my feet and do a lot more. >> reporter: they've quickly beme convinced door-to-door caassing, meeting voters face-to-face, yields results at

polls. >> revealing oassion and interests and making sure we protect our kids, you know, for thefuture. reporter: celebrating last night's victory, some women refocusing already on next year's election for the county board of supervisors and gener assembly. a we're forming this group of women and peopl joining us every day. we're all going to keep going. it's not over yet, by far. >> reporter: in louden county,w 4. well, also in virginia, for the first time in four years, corey stuart is off the trail. he lost a bid for senator tim caine's seat, but chairman of the board of supervisors in prince william county. what's next? >> i ran for re-election in 2015, t chaired themp campaign in 2016, ran for governor last ran fote this year. seyear. i'm campaigned out. i think we got a great eesident, and i hop that in some way i can serve him. >> stuart would not commit to running for re-election as board chairman, a job he had for 1ye

s now. there will be a lot of new faces on capitol hill nextyear. erica gonzalez reports there was a diverse class of lawmakers elected. >> reporter: last night, a night of firsts for countless candidates elected. he's the big firsts we wated last night. two women, one in michigan, one in minnesota, the first muslim woct emeusede.le to also, deborah holland in new mexico and davids in kansas become the first native american women elected to the house. how about the? younge we saw that in alexandria. cortez became the youngest coresswoman ever elected. congressman polisirs the openly gay male governor in the country. he's from the state of colorado. locally here, we had a lot of firsts, angela brooks is the first female county executive ir

ce george's county, and bowser is the first woman to wim a second t in the district of columbia as mayor. scrolling down to talk bigger pictoe of the women elected congress. at least 111 women werenclus el female senator from tennessee. marsha blackburn on the list. first female governors of south dakota and maine, and overall here, 40 wom of color who are now headed to the house. >> and trere a even more firsts. we have a full rundown of the history made last night on our nbc washington app. search "political pioneers." t>> a late development in the breaking news t we've been following out of the university of maryland. linda gooden has been elected as the new chair for the university of nd's board of regions. she'll take over for james who stepped down last week. that news is on the same day two trainers were fired from the football team aer the deathcnai

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th i she had calle and taken sick leave. her plans were already in the making before she had done wha she wang to do. she had begun to lay out her plan. >> reporter: steve says his wife wrote a suicidee as she plotted her final moments in tht woods at national park. >> it was very clear that she was there to hurt herself. it was very clear cuthat that would be her last letter to anybody. that would be her last form of communication. >> reporter: steve strgled emotionally after his wife's funeral and thoughts of suicide crossed his mind too. >> say the next after the funeral, after everyone had left, really became very, very hard for me,and, you know, i never thought about taking my life before, but i just wanted to be with my wife.

you know, i wanted to be with her. but the difference between nicole and i was that i could see in my mind all of my faly, all of my friends, i could see my niece a nephew, and i could see how by me taking my life was going to have an effect on them. i could see the effects firsthand how nicole's suicide had affected us all. >> steve has been very private about his personal pain until now. his storytu one of f featured in a shown at police rollls c to seek help before

it's too late >> our bodies and minds are no built withstand and hold all that we see ond endure a daily basis in our careers. after tawhile, t begins to build up. >> reporter: as things began to build up forhim, steve reached out for help. >> i bowled my eyes out when ii re i needed to go get help. you know, like anybody worried about how is this going to affect me at work, what do i have to disclose, what do i not have to ditelose. >> rep out of the heart ache came hope. thanks to therapy. >> i don regret the decision of going and seeing a counselor. you know, i joke that it's the one hour every other week where someone sits and listens to me. >> reporter: and by sharing his story, he shows all of us that bravery comes in many rms. >> and, you know, i just hope it saves some lives. he know, not everyone can go out and get help that they need, and it's notg sign of weak.

some people just don't know where to go get it. >> reporter: steve is a virginia state police sergeant and says he decided to share his story to help others who may be suffering in silence. a recent study found suicide claimed more police and firefighter lives thanf any the dangers they face on the job every day. if you or someone you knos depressed or dealing with thoughts of suicide, there is help available to you. we have a list of local resources on our website, search "changing minds", and, of course, there's a suicide hotline that is available th24/ you can call. >> changing minds and saving lives. >> yes. >> very powerful. now let's talk about the weather now. you say we gotomad stuffg in here, just in time for the weekend, just going to get chilly, and we ve rain coming again? >> well, i mean -- >> it's a cycle. we are tired of the cycle here. >> you mean the friday rain that we continue to have that makes saturday and sunday damp? >> yes, exactly. >> yeah, yea exactly the problem. >> we had that since, you know,

since, january. >> january. >> that's about right. >> we have sn a lot of fridays, last three fridays had rain associast in time for the weekend to see cooler weather, and, again, that's what we have out there. my daughter's soccer team was supposed to stop playing soccer in august. we're still playingnow, a it's november. >> make up games. >> esmakeup g so the makeup games get made up again. out there right now, looking at pretty nice conditions, a lot of cloud cover, 60 degrees, temperatures dropping through the 50s, a nice night tonight, skies. once we go clear, after about 9:00 or 10:00, we see the temperatures fall for folks in the suburbs. right now, 53 degrees in resson, and till goes to60 degrees in annapolis. really nice night in the region. no rain to talk about, really, it's showing up on radar, but this is just sprinkle,f it's hitting the ground, fairly dry

the clouds are fairly high in the atmosphere too. we're not seeing a lot in the way of rain coming through. these are the clouds in the south bringing wea er to the south including georgia and south carolina, but for us, it's just heading clear out of here, and we have a nice start, high of 57 degrees. sun early, and then clouds in the aft rnoon. like w saw today. but high pressure to the north driving cooler air down across our region, and that's why temperatures tomorrow are five to ten degrees colder than the day today, so coolno, but dry. a bad thursday. then we move into the day friday. cooler air moves in. so wein moves up as well, are 54 in the city, and some of you north and west, areas like martinsburg to charleston and frederick in the upper 40s. a chilly rain, and you folks up to the north andest could have heavier rain, .50 in d.c. and inch north and west. watch there. behind the system, 47 and breezy. 47, by the way, about 15 degrees

below average. same deal on sunday. a very cold start, and 34 in the city and inside the beltway, the first freeze of the season, most of us buw a freezewould be the first in the beltway. monday, we have the winter outlook. rain tuesday. another orm, this is a big storm. this storm is a game changer because it brings in a warm air ahead of this, i got 56 here, but that's possibly 65 or frederick at 45. that's the storm it is. driving in warm air and cold air behind thi system. we get a lot colder. breezy and cold too. we get the stream around our area, but the cold really comes in and really allows this to sink down towards the south. this will be the coldest aire o eason for sure, and making its way in, 20 below average. first freeze i think in the happens wednesday, and if not on sunday, it happens wednesday. wind chills atimes in the 20s. cold air for sure. look at next thursday and frida

andsaturday, we're on the chilly side. temperatures well belove average so prepe, guys, get out the coats, you'll need them. >> thank you, doug. >> sure. coming up, devastating ju es, the redskins tell us how they expect to dominate ay su sports up next. first, lester holt has what's next on "nightly news." sessions out of a job, how the firing impacts the mueller/russian investigation, and boeing's message about the latest passenger plane after new findings aut a deadly crash

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tonight's matchup at capital one with exact same records. it's aig b night for backstrom. he reached the 600 goal a great a moment as it is for him, he's focussing on the hatfo penns, losin straight, but anything goes when these two teams hit the ice. >> different, ihink there's a certain level of hate. there's a level of respect, and when you mix it in, that makes for a nasty fun hockey game. >> every time we play, doesn't matter if it's regular season or playoffs, i mean, it always ends up bei very emotional games, and, i mean, tight games, and, i mean, i feel like maybe both of us have played our best so it's a good tes tonight. >> reporter: and during the 50/50 raffle in the game, the colts and caps nate half of the proceeds to the tree of life

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breaking news gh t, jeff sessions fired as attorney general. forced out by president trump, rod rosenstein no longer in charge of mueller, and democrats already sounding alarms about the new acting attorney general whose been openly critical of the russia lanvestigation. we havte details and what it all means and wh's next. also, the president lashing out and defiant as democrats seize the house. >> i thought it was a very close to complete victory. >> tonight, the new faces headed to congress, a record number of women in power. an emergency alert about hundreds of boeing airplanes, what pilots boare being warned about a fatal crash that remains a history. af>> a husband's call to actter losing his wife's life. she pleaded to help from 911 before