congressional seats held by republicans where hillary clinton won in 2016ment former congressman ellen tauscher, a democrat is leading a political action committee aimed at those seats. >> i think it is going well. i think we're going to pick up many of those seats. >> reporter: according to early voter data, so far we are not seeing big voter turn-out by younger people in those districts. that is a bad sign for democrats, but tauscher says young people will come through on election day. >> most of the younger voters want the experience of going to the polls. melissa cain, kpix 5. >> melissa is now waiting for the start of the get out the vote rally about to get underway here in san francisco. this is a live look at the event. you can see the stage there. garvin newsom, governor brown, and harris all planning to attend. newsome is hoping to succeed jerry brown as the next governor. >>> earlier news, republican opponent john cox was also in the bay area today. he spoke with employees in a berkeley auto shop about their hours-long commutes and high cost of housing. his message to them? help is on

this is our birthright this vote so i willformer east bay congresswoman ellen tauscher who now heads the super pac fight back california we will see the youth vote come out tomorrow. it's a shame that in a the bastion of democracy that we have latvia in european countries out balloting us with 97% of people voting we're down in the voteit's vitally important this election more than ever while the steady of vote by mail ballots being dropped no line.and while the state does not have any turnout numbers the city's elections says they've seen 24% of registered voters either drop off their vote by mail the polls early . which is a fairly strong turnout for a midterm election...considering it's only 6% less than the turnout at this same time during the presidential election of 2016...when the city had 83% of registrered voters cast a ballot. maureen kelly kron4 news (grant) (grant) if control of the u.s. house comes down to any of the competitive congressional races in washington state and california, it may take days to learn the outcome. washington allows ballots to be postmarked up to

former east bay congresswoman ellen tauscher who now heads the super pac fight back california is hopeful that we will see the youth vote come out tomorrow. (vicki) people to vote> frankly i just want people to vote>(vicki) the city's dept of elections says so far early turnout has been fairly strong. which means we could potentially see the highest voter turnout during a midterm election in the city since 1974. (grant) today california gubernatorial candidate john cox brought his help is on the way bus tour to the city of berkeley. he came to talk about the lack of affordable housing with the owner of housing with the owner of platinum auto collision and paint. some of the owner's employees commute all the way from the central valley to berkeley... simply because the rent is just too high in the bay.